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- Comment on Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025 6 hours ago:
Ok I used to feel sorry for streaming box users, but this is in “one born every minute” territory. Thanks.
- Comment on Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025 11 hours ago:
What the heck is this thing? Should many of us care?
- Comment on What is class field theory? 1 day ago:
I found the wikipedia article mostly incomprehensible but it says a few things. You are probably better off asking on MSE or Reddit, sorry to say.
- Comment on Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive? 1 day ago:
Oh I see. Yeah DVD drives generally use the same SATA interface as hard drives.
- Comment on Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive? 1 day ago:
If you mean a 2.5" drive (laptop sized) then yes you can generally do that. 3.5" drives are usually 1" thick and won’t fit in a slim DVD drive slot.
- Comment on Disappointed in Plebbit : I Really Believed in the Vision, But It Was All Just Talk 2 days ago:
So, I’m sticking with Lemmy. It’s not perfect, but at least it’s real. Maybe we’ll get the true decentralization we’ve been promised one day
I thought we had Usenet since the 1970s.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 3 days ago:
If you have a hard drive, replace it with an SSD? And, can you add more memory?
- Comment on Why does it seem like every other post on here is deleted shortly after being posted? 6 days ago:
People deleting their own posts, it looks like. There are not that many deletions by mods.
- Comment on I (M32) gained 140lbs in a year from bad choices, almost all in my belly (now 69-inches) due to rare genetics. With my unique proportions, I’ve outgrown most off-the-rack clothing options. Advice? 1 week ago:
A friend of mine used Wegovy to lose 100+ lb. You might talk to your Dr about it.
- Comment on What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called? 1 week ago:
Lem-bin pie?
- Comment on Sriracha - Imageboard and forum 1 week ago:
This looks kind of cool. It’s written in Go. License is LGPL3, kind of a weird choice, but whatever. I’m not crazy about the name “Sriracha” but I guess you’ve got call it something. I might give it a try. I haven’t understood why so many forums are written in PHP.
- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I’m happy with say 3 hz, fast enough to not be too annoying when flipping pages while reading. It’s fine to not be good for video. What I really want is a 16 inch or so e-reader though.
- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
What is the refresh time? They carefully avoid mentioning that. There’s a comparable Pimoroni monitor whose refresh takes 14 seconds so I’d call it a static display rather than a computer monitor.
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 1 week ago:
governments
Be careful what you ask for :(.
- Comment on Do you know any software development philosophy books? 1 week ago:
Maybe “The Hacker Ethic” by Pekka Himanen, though I looked at it and didn’t see much new.
- Comment on What are some of the impacts of a power outage that isn't that obvious / isn't talked about a lot? And What happens to restaurant bills? Do Buses still work? (since card payments wouldn't work) 1 week ago:
Card payment terminals use the network for card authorization, but depending on the merchant agreement with its card processor, authorization (at least back in my day) was typically only needed for charges above say $50. Otherwise the bank would pay up and eat the loss if something went wrong. If you’re old enough to remember cards with raised numbers on them, those existed so the merchant could make an imprint of the card number on carbonless paper using a hand operated gizmo with rollers and carbonless forms. That used no electricity at all. You’d sign the piece of paper and the merchant would turn it in to the bank. That was simply how credit cards worked for quite a long time. Electronic terminals, and especially portable electronic terminals came along later.
- Comment on Content moderators are organizing against Big Tech 1 week ago:
Do any of them even get paid? Reddit (cough).
- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 2 weeks ago:
p2p solution for opensource projects
That’s called Git and it’s been around longer than GitHub. There is also Usenet which by now is mostly dead. People fell for centralized alternatives. Oops :)
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 2 weeks ago:
Call the sender and ask what to do.
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 weeks ago:
The difficult part is not the software or even the hosting. It’s more about the network effects and the ability to let users monetize uploads, which in turn creates vast potential for abuse and fraud, which in turn has to be addressed by burning stupendous resources. At a certain point people stop wanting exposure or “making a difference” for their own sake, and instead want to get paid in genuine coin of the realm.
- Comment on How do I decrease acne after shaving my face? 2 weeks ago:
See a dermatologist, there are multiple causes of acne and you may need to treat it with diet or medication.
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 weeks ago:
The main value of youtube for many of us is the enormous video collection, which is impractical for anyone else to duplicate. Need to fix an old washing machine (I did, recently)? Type in the make and model and there’s an instructional vid. It’s unfortunate that Google has exclusive control over such a resource, but here we are.
- Comment on Pico Pixel Player - Offline-first PWA Music player with transcoding & folder listing support 2 weeks ago:
50GB of flac = maybe 20GB of Vorbis amirite? Is that 450GB of flac in your screen shot? It would fit on a 256gb phone even without an SD card. A 512GB card is quite affordable these days. Just make sure to buy a phone with a slot, and think of it as next level degoogling ;).
Yeah I know there’s lots of music in the world but who wants to listen to all of it on a moment’s notice anyway?
- Comment on Pico Pixel Player - Offline-first PWA Music player with transcoding & folder listing support 2 weeks ago:
Can’t understand why this is interesting, as phones now have a lot of storage space, even the ones that don’t have SD card slots. Just store the music that interests you directly on the phone.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 2 weeks ago:
Article is from 2018. Someone must have pasted the url from hacker news where the same story was dug up recently.
- Comment on A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech 2 weeks ago:
I guess 4chan is still down?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t looked in a few years but 20TB is probably plenty. I agree that Wikipedia lost its way once it got all that attention online and all that search traffic. Everyone should have their own copy of Wikipedia. I used to download the daily incremental data dumps but got tired of it. I still have a few TB of them around that I’ve been wanting to merge.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The text is in not-exactly-convenient database dumps (see other commenter’s link) and there are daily diffs (mostly bot noise), but then there are the images and other media, which are way up in the terabytes by now. There are some docs, maybe out of date, about how to run the software yourself. It’s written in PHP and it’s big and complicated.
- Comment on Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed 2 weeks ago:
They’ve done that on and off for ages, and the ones being offered with Ubuntu here are mostly pretty expensive or else not so interesting. I’ve been content to buy older Thinkpads and self-install Debian for my past several laptops. I was somewhat tempted by recent Ideapad Yogas but resisted, and since then, prices have gone up, whether due to tariffs or whatever else.
- Comment on Traveling Salesman is NP-Hard, yet Uber Eats delivery route optimization algorithms exist 2 weeks ago:
Actual difficult instances of TSP are pretty rare, and for something like Uber Eats, it’s fine if your route is 2% worse than the mathematical optimum. Traffic fluctuations probably matter more than having the shortest route.
There are many good heuristics for TSP that might not give you the optimal solution, but that will generally come pretty close. The Wikipedia article probably describes some of these.