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- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 4 days ago:
There is no gray. Only black and white!
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 4 weeks ago:
Fuck their data, what about my own? That pest of an app is not getting onto my device. And neither is anything else that gives an employer any control over my device.
- Comment on PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug 1 month ago:
Don’t you hate it when there is a bug in your code that magically attracts ads? They just appear without warning or reason.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Those are just dns lookups.
- Comment on Very thankful 1 month ago:
Also not one of those people who comment on porn.
- Comment on Ukraine Bans Telegram Use For State, Military Officials. 1 month ago:
It is. But it is open source and the encryption is solid. All communication data is end-to-end encrypted. They have been subpoenaed before and all they could provide was when the account was first registered and when it was last used. The signal protocol is well documented and open source. The foundation and LLC behind it are registered in California and are run by reputable people.
Telegram is run by shady people, supposedly out of Dubai, while it is registered in the British Virgin Islands. Its clients are also open source, however the encryption, if enabled, is of the home cooked variety, although it was improved over time. Unfortunately it is not enabled by default, you need to enter a „secure chat“ for that, which only works with single contacts, not with groups. Despite having access to everything else, and working like a social media-messenger-hybrid, telegram is very reluctant to get rid of clearly illegal content.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto Online Reportedly Broken On Steam Deck 2 months ago:
Well, GTA online is a cash grab and destroyed the single player DLC. So, good. Break it on all platforms for all I care.
- Comment on Recommend a KVM or Switch 2 months ago:
I have a similar setup and in the end just went for a cheap chinese („ESKEVE“) 4x HDMI 2.0 KVM switch that supports 4K60. No problems except HDR does not work properly, which is not useful on my monitor anyway. Laptops are on USB-C docks with HDMI 2.0 out, PC uses a passive DP to HDMI cable.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 2 months ago:
Just fyi, the sedation is usually not medically necessary. I have had it (as well as a colonoscopy) done without, just got a spray to numb the throat for a short while. It’s not pleasant, but I found it bearable and it’s much nicer to just walk out and drive home on your own. If necessary I could still have told/signaled that I want sedation after all during the procedure. Propofol works within less than a minute. In that case they would have called someone to pick me up.
That said, I do live in Germany, so money does not play as big a role as in the US when it comes to healthcare. And the doctors and their staff were exceedingly nice and caring.
Maybe, if you believe you can bear it, and if acid reflux does not make it painful, ask to do it without sedation next time.
- Comment on Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models 2 months ago:
7 years of increasing amount of ads more like
- Comment on Data HDD with SSD catch drive 2 months ago:
Any HDD should be able to get at least 100MB/s sequential write speed. Unfortunately torrent writes are usually very random, which just kills hdd performance. Multiple parallel downloads or concurrent playback from the same disk will only make it worse.
Using a SSD for temporary files will absolutely help. It should be big enough to hold all the files you are downloading at any one time.
You could also try to find a write cache setting that works for you. That way what would usually be many small writes can be combined to bigger chunks in memory before sending them to storage. Depending on how much ram is available I would start at 1GB or so and if it is still bottlenecking try in- or decreasing until it improves. Of course always stay in the range of free ram.
Back when I was torrenting (ages ago) write cache helped a lot. It should be somewhere in the settings menu.
- Comment on Data HDD with SSD catch drive 2 months ago:
l2arc is a read cache. Slog only is for synchronous writes.
- Comment on How the fuck do you meet new people? 2 months ago:
Fuck Community College. Let’s get drunk and eat chicken fingers.
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’ 3 months ago:
Just sign up for a Disney+ trial once, so they can’t sue anymore and are forced into arbitration forever.
not legal advice it’s probably not a good idea to anger Mr. Mouse
- Comment on Almost all Windows 10 systems can be upgraded to the new version — so why are businesses holding back? 3 months ago:
Funny that it also works like it was made by mostly IT illiterate folk.
- Comment on Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor 3 months ago:
Telegram is shady as fuck and also afaik only uses end to end encryption in „secret“ one on one chats.
- Comment on Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor 3 months ago:
Details or continued news of Ukraines special military operation to denazify Russia?
- Comment on The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for - The Verge 3 months ago:
Sure, the twelfth time‘s the charm.
If you bought an Apple TV in 2015 you will still get at least this years tvOS update, if not more. How many devices has google announced and buried since then?
- Comment on What are some things you can do to maintain your teeth when you don't have health insurance and can't afford dental care? 3 months ago:
The same as you do if you can afford dental care:
Most importantly: Brush at least once, better twice a day. No exceptions ever. Make it part of your daily morning or evening rituals. It takes about a day for plaque to harden and then you can no longer brush it away. Don’t ever let it get to that.
If you can afford one, get an electric toothbrush.
Be gentle with the brush. All you need is a very soft scrubbing. Pressure can damage your teeth and gums.
Chewing gum can reduce acids and help remineralize your enamel after eating. Sugar free is better, but afaik even gum with sugar has a net positive effect if you chew it long enough after the sugar has dissolved.
Try to avoid getting into a routine that leaves out spots when brushing. Personally, I switch hands every day and once or twice a week I use a non-electric brush.
If you want to optimize this: those tablets that the dentist uses to stain plaque to check where you missed a spot are cheap, you don’t necessarily need a dentist for that if you can’t afford one.
Floss and use interdental brushes regularly. Use mouthwash every now and then, and at the first sign of gum inflammation. Preferably one without alcohol, because that seems to increase the risk of cancer.
If you can’t afford professional tooth cleaning, try asking for calculus removal, if you have any. Here in Germany that’s ~15€ instead of ~100€. Once it’s gone prevent it from building up again (see above).
If you have cavities, try to get rid of them as early as possible. Maybe there are some charity or teaching clinics. Cavities only ever get more expensive in the long run. And it is much easier to maintain an infection free mouth than to constantly fight to keep the decay from spreading.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
„Tread on them“ aka the Tiananmen solution. Sounds like another stable genius
- Comment on Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines) 4 months ago:
So … they do ask for tips, right?
- Comment on Loyalty 4 months ago:
It could be the very same product. It could also be made at the same factory but to aldis specifications.
- Comment on Dyson job cuts: One third of vacuum company's UK workforce to go 4 months ago:
Enjoy that Brexit „freedom of spirit“.
- Comment on Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan accused of being 'serial tax evaders' over online businesses including OnlyFans 4 months ago:
Why does the streetwalker not ditch her pimp? Usually it’s social isolation, emotional manipulation, drugs and violence.
- Comment on Server for a boat 4 months ago:
I would get a laptop as well in that situation. Just make sure it is one that supports setting the charging threshold. Having it on all the time will kill the battery quickly if it keeps charging from 95 to 100%. It’s much better to keep it below 80%, which should still give enough “UPS time”.
The battery will also not electrically protect the motherboard from voltage swings. So get a good power adapter that can handle the voltages.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 4 months ago:
If they had more content on offer than the big legal streaming services combined, should that not tell us something about the quality of legal offers?
- Comment on Viewer and Import Enhancements for Microsoft Photos on Windows 11 4 months ago:
So, does it „import“ the photos to the cloud immediately?
- Comment on Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI 6 months ago:
Proper search is for people who know what they are doing. Translation is probably there to get more traffic from google
- Comment on The AMOC is based on the difference in the percentage of salt in the northern and southern hemispheres' ocean water which is based on the stream's circulation 6 months ago:
You’r
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- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
It was pretty bad in the beginning. I suppose they have improved it.