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- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 12 hours ago:
According to whom? Distros like omv are incredibly easy and once setup basically 100% hands off and will last you for years without any proprietary shit that might break at any point after 1 year warranty expires.
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 14 hours ago:
So we should just throw away the entire concept of specialization and do every single thing ourselves? Pretty dumb take my dude.
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 23 hours ago:
Not sure if proprietary NAS tools are any easier tbh
I think the IT consumer culture is just lazy. If you don’t know how to fix your sink you’d call in a plumber but if your home server breaks ppl just sit and whine how tech is too hard rather than you know paying someone to do the job for them.
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 1 day ago:
Consumer NAS is a lost ploit point already. Buy a 2nd hand thinkpad or a gaming PC for basically the same price as synology tray and you’ll have not only a NAS but a full home server that’ll last you a decade.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer 1 day ago:
Got the weekend booked for this. Excited just roam around and see how things have changed. Seems like it runs flawlessly on Linux too!
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 days ago:
You can pay someone to do that for you tho it’s not any different form paying someone to verify you ina centralized way. Its really not that hard.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 days ago:
Their docs are pretty good: docs.kdenlive.org/en/
Otherwise youtube is full of tutorials tho the software gets a lot of updates so often the best new way is on the docs or stackexchange
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 4 days ago:
Remember when it was all the hype when things just started - crazy to see it actually happen
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 4 days ago:
Inkscape is really good and I prefer it over Adobe Illustrator. It’s a bit worse in some regards but its really stable and does everything very reliably and can be molded into svg production machine.
Kdenlive is the best simple video editor out there. Sure other editors are better but kdenlive really hits that sweet spot of being simple but powerful.
Digikam is the best photo management suite I know off. Everything else seems to be missing one thing or another and Digikam just does everything and does it pretty well.
Ansel (fork of Darktable) is often better than Adobe Lightroom for casual photography as it comes with very strong opinionated defaults. I generall just follow the default pipeline and have amazing shots. Light room could probably get me a bit further but Ansels hits the sweet spot between too basic and too clunky.
Then as a developer foss libraries are basically uncontested to the point where proprietary libraries and programming languages are basically do not exist anymore.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 4 days ago:
Not same as “all tech starts out”. You’re literally typing on tech stack that didn’t start out like that. Then there’s Masotodon, fediverse, gnome, kde, linux etc. Etc. - literally almost no good software comes out of VC world statically speaking.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 4 days ago:
Nah it was not good. Domain names already do that and are accessible to all at all times. Bluesky is literally regressing.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case 4 days ago:
Honestly i doubt he’s even capable of active sex.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case 4 days ago:
Why not? Can’t it lead to Meta breakup?
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 5 days ago:
Again “unsolvable” through sheer amount of positions is a cop out because thats boring as fuck. It’s not an interesting game where computational power is the only challenge.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 6 days ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_tablebase#Lomonos…
The only argument for “chess is not solved” is because of sheer math number but its a flawed argument as any game with sufficient amount of positions would be considered unsolved.
So for all practical intents and purposes - chess is a solved game but people are too attached to admit it.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 6 days ago:
Thats not what solved means in this context but chess people are so offended that’s its impossible to ever discuss this so sure whatever.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 6 days ago:
Nah in game terms chess is absolutely a solved game. Some meme edge cases do not invalidate that.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 6 days ago:
Chess is a solved game which is not a fit tool for evaluating intelligence.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 6 days ago:
Miss the world of wildstar the most - its was a really creative theme park
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Its a vc funded for profit. They have no choice.
This has been a major red flag that everyone on bsky is just ignoring.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 1 week ago:
And cultural impact. Americans are super patriotic about Apple and don’t even notice it.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 1 week ago:
Because it’s the top American company. US protects Apple and allies can’t work against that. Now that US and EU relationship is deteriorating we’ll see loads of lawsuits against Apple pop up in Europe.
- Comment on UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s 1 week ago:
Lmao maybe they should wait and see how Australian ban later this year turns out to be because it’s looking like an absolute clown show rn.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 1 week ago:
Steamdeck already has this experience for free 🙈
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Good. I don’t like them but clearly IP law is a net negative on our society and peoppe have been argueing against it forever now.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
Currently I’m staying in Thailand the road culture here is fascinating. There are very few actual rules that people follow but its all about speed and projecting what are you doing so signals and everything is a big part of road culture here despite many drivers don’t really knowing road theory.
For example if you drive up a curvy mountain road you horn on the turn slowly to project that you’re driving there.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
Yeah man operating machinery is awesome. Doing it respectful and responsible way is extra satisfying. People really look down on cars but it’s an awesome tech!
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
I use it even in my drive way. Good habbit is a good practice that makes operating any system easier.
- Comment on Everyone is watching me 1 week ago:
I wished someone cared about me this much 💀
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 2 weeks ago:
I hate tiktok as much as anyone else but this is not the way to do this.
They just banned it using “think of the kids” and without establishing any laws to actually protect the kids. You see how unserious and corrupt this appears? Populist drivel like this should not be applauded.