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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Two em-dashes and emojis. I’m just sayin.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 week ago:
I found a setting to switch the key functions, but it still doesn’t help with the other differences. I just have to learn to mentally change gears when using a Mac.
Moving the cursor by words, for example, is ctrl-cursor on PC, but option-cursor on Mac. So switching Ctrl/Fn doesn’t help with that.
Not to mention tapping on the screen to select something does not go well on the Mac…
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 week ago:
The immediate regret will be when they discover that Ctrl isn’t where they expect it to be, followed by the discovery that it doesn’t get used for copy and paste anyway.
- Comment on The history of soup 2 weeks ago:
Which came first, the chicken or the soup?
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 2 weeks ago:
+R.
If you’d asked me, I’d have said that I always bought -R, but I guess I was different person back then.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 2 weeks ago:
I made some DVDs for someone recently. First I had to dig out my old laptop that has a drive. Then install authoring and burning software.
All the help forum posts that I found were at least 15 years old, I’m amazed that any of the recommended software still existed.
- Comment on Yacht Trouble? 7 Common Problems & Fixes 2 weeks ago:
No, I think that those are those ring things with a hole in them.
- Comment on These are your only alternatives. 2 weeks ago:
It’s cool to have ID’d one of them, regardless.
- Comment on These are your only alternatives. 2 weeks ago:
Oh yes, 3 does look like that! But 4 looks like the moomin.
- Comment on I think lemmy should have sponsored posts 3 weeks ago:
Ideally labelled “[Megathread]” despite allowing no comments.
- Comment on See ya. 3 weeks ago:
Baal-zebub: Baal is “lord” or “master”, zebub means “fly”.
- Comment on International Shitpost Wednesday! 3 weeks ago:
You have to ask yourself:
Which came first, the chicken or the soup?
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 4 weeks ago:
Assuming a spherical owl…
- Comment on Briar - secure p2p group communications 4 weeks ago:
I tested some more and can’t get it to work any more. I found a post saying it worked in 1.5.2 so maybe something broke in newer versions.
- Comment on Briar - secure p2p group communications 4 weeks ago:
You need to enable Bluetooth as a method of connection in the app settings (and can turn off wifi and data there).
The phones can be in airplane mode but with Bluetooth turned back on (as you would to use earbuds).
I don’t recall pairing the phones, but there is a “connect via Bluetooth” option on each chat that might be doing that automatically.
You link accounts to each other by scanning qr codes.
It does have a group chat but I haven’t used it, so I don’t know if that works with Bluetooth alone.
I just tried testing this with an old phone of mine, but can’t get it to work right now (maybe because it has Graphene os?), but I have actually used it on flights in the past.
- Comment on Briar - secure p2p group communications 5 weeks ago:
I’ve used it to message someone while on a flight.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I have it add a backup suffix based on the date. It moves changed and deleted files to another directory adding the date to the filename.
It can also do hard-link copied so that you can have multiple full directory trees to avoid all that duplication.
No file deltas or compression, but it does mean that you can access the backups directly.
- Comment on Surviving the Night Shift: How to Master the Art of Store (Survival) Management in Games Like Five Nights At Freddy's 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry if I offend, but… Is this the output of an LLM?
While it doesn’t have many of the tells, the overall tone and structure of it plus the “polished” feel give me that AI vibe.
- Comment on Security camera recommendations? 5 weeks ago:
I’m referring to Amcrest Pro cameras, btw. They are the ones that let you configure them to be independent of their cloud service, write to a NAS, etc.
- Comment on Security camera recommendations? 5 weeks ago:
I’m just testing out thingino, but it’s currently lacking features compared to amcrest.
There’s no option to only save video when events trigger, so it fills the card quickly.
And I can’t get the tinyCam app to access recorded files, so I have to use the web-based file browser.
But then Amcrest’s apps (both old and new) have do many faults and glitchy behavior.
- Comment on A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side 5 weeks ago:
“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”-ed.
- Comment on Animal guessing game!!! 5 weeks ago:
That doesn’t have a large black square head, though.
- Comment on Animal guessing game!!! 5 weeks ago:
It can, but only downwards.
- Comment on Recommendations for Note taking app with simple needs 5 weeks ago:
Lots of features, but not simple and a big learning curve is you don’t already is emacs.
- Comment on #freepenisman 5 weeks ago:
He could have used his powers for good…
- Comment on booming 1 month ago:
Facebook.com
- Comment on DO IT! 1 month ago:
Have you seen the Saturday Morning Watchmen fan trailer?
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 1 month ago:
I’ve run small models (a few Gb in size) on my steam deck. It gives reasonably fast responses (faster than a person would type).
I know that they’re far from state-of-the art, but they do work and I know that the Steam Deck is not going to be using much power.
- Comment on Which open alternative apps list is the best? 1 month ago:
There are some good comments in this discussion
- Comment on Backing up easily 1 month ago:
Rsync can rename/move target changed or gone from the source.
I use those options so that I get a separate ‘archive’ dir next to my backup target, with old versions of files.
It’s useful for loose collections such as photos.