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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musical self-promotion on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a artist myself, I think a community dedicated to artists that allows for self promotion would make more sense rather than in already established communities if it doesn’t fit into that communities theme or purpose. So a gaming focused community with a day for game Devs to post about their game makes sense, or a music community where self promo is allowed for an account every few months etc.

  As much as I love looking at other peoples work, appreciating their art, and sharing my own, I’m also very mindful that not everyone wants to have that kind of thing in a community dedicated to something else like this one. Self promo stuff can be awesome when someone is passionate about their work but it also can be very spammy type of stuff where someone is a bit too enthusiastic about posting about their album EVERY month.

  Thats just my opinion. Nothing wrong with your post asking about it,l just to be clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off-grid hosting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TL:DR, yes you can. But its not nearly as reliable as wired internet and is dependant on where you are.

  I’m currently living in a place where only DSL is available for wired internet and its 1.5 mbps down at maximum so this is essentially my situation. I dont self host anything currently as I’m kind of in between projects but I could in theory self host something and access it remotely.

  What I’m currently using for internet is a load balanced connection between starlink and lte. I’d recommend just using lte if possible. Starlink is good but it can be very spotty.

  I’m surrounded by trees and the towers near me are old and go down more often that I would like or get bogged down so I need starlink but due to the trees it goes down frequently. Every minute or so. Sometimes I get 5 minutes of internet through it and thats fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, the more self hostable options we have for services, the better. This sounds like a good idea to me.

  Good luck with your project and thank you for taking the time to contribute to the free and open source community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to easily add a backup internet connection to your home office - and why you should, A failover internet connection is a good idea if you work from home - and it's not complicated to set up.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea opensense is the less polished than pfsense, but its decent from what I’ve heard.

  I’m not familiar with Idirectord of shorewall. Do you run all that locally? Tbh peplink is ok for the most part but because starlink goes on and off so often, it can get stuck sometimes and because I can’t have a lot of granular control with its load balancing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to easily add a backup internet connection to your home office - and why you should, A failover internet connection is a good idea if you work from home - and it's not complicated to set up.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not using that specifically but I have to load balance my internet between starlink and 4g due to the area I live in where the only other option is suffer with 1.5 DSL. Even what I’m doing now is only mostly ok but I’m surrounded by trees.

  Due to the restrictions of a lot of providers for mobile data, I use the 5g store with Verizon network, and had to use one of their routers, went with a peplink as at the time, it was the cheapest option.

  Peplink does a pretty good job of load balancing between the different connections but i wouldnt use them unless you really have to.

  You could use pfsense or opensense to load balance between two connections if thats what your after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way. My brother printer is a hl2040, came out sometime in the early 2000s. It still prints. I’ve replaced the toner cartridge once since my Dad gave it to me back in 2016.

  The other day I needed to print something out and this was after I had reinstalled linux.

  Just fired right up, instantly recognized. Its one of the best pieces of hardware I own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨work related: is this something only an autistic would ask?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely agreed, I get where your coming from. My point being is that a neurotypical would at least have put some emotion into their response or maybe try to deescalate.

  That said, reading through the other comments, it looks like there was more to the interaction. Either way, I dont think the other person handled it well. You didn’t do anything wrong in your response to her yelling at you. Hanging up the phone and walking away is perfectly reasonable.

  I myself would have probably been very anxious in the moment and furious after.

  Everyone is different though, its a spectrum for a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨work related: is this something only an autistic would ask?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most folks would get mad or say something if someone yelled at them. When you have autism or other neurodivergence of some kind, you tend to respond to things differently.

  Since you just said “ok” without explanation or complaint, and then hung up, thats very matter of fact, straight to the point, and lacks the more emotional response most neurotypical people would have.

  This is of course just my opinion based on what you have mentioned and my own personal experiences. Not everyone presents Autsim in the same way and I’m not a classic example of ADHD, so take all that with a grain of salt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨work related: is this something only an autistic would ask?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not neurotypical, but I have ADHD so some of the same stuff you may experience being autistic applies. Not one for one, but I also know a few autistic people and my partner is autistic.

  To start, nothing needs to be “wrong” with you to have autism. Its just a different way of thinking and processing. I often tell myself the same thing, I’m not bad or wrong for having ADHD, I’m just different. Just wanted to throw that out there, its very easy to get caught up in that thinking and I’m guilty of it as well.

  As for what you experienced, some people just blow up when they’ve had a bad day or are stressed. Your question doesn’t really seem off or unreasonable, I think the way that person handled it was in the wrong if anything. You shouldn’t yell at anyone like that under normal circumstances, certainly not at work.

  The way you responded was more indicative of being autistic to an extent.

  IMO, nothing wrong with you my friend, seems they had an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I like Lemmy, never knew canvas blocker was a thing. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just reading the title, sounded like a great way to automate racism.

  And then I read:

  This is just AI Phrenology, a continuation of the “scientific racism” movement that was invented to provide a justification for colonialism, slavery, genocide and eugenics

  So uh yea, doesn’t seem like a great idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do I buy computer parts nowdays?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I typically buy parts and peripherals from Amazon. Newegg can be good for the mail in rebates or discounts that you can get.

  I typically don’t shop at bestbuy unless I have to but I also live 20 minutes outside of town where I am so thats 40 minutes of driving that I don’t wanna do typically.

  Keychron was my last keyboard purchase, very happy with it. Full size mechanical keyboard, replaceable switches, so heavy I could probably kill someone with it, good keyboard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for some (re-)use cases for older Android smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only real use ive found for an old android phone was using it as a backup alarm clock. Surprisingly kind of hard to find alarm clocks that are as good as ones on a phone.

  Another good use could be gaming handheld for emulators.

  Emergency backup phone thats charged up in your car? Idk dude with the way phones are locked down and the difference across them, hard to really have any use afted security updates end uness you wanna patch your own kernal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rate it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If taken out, it would be CATastrophic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1440p at 144hz is the ideal imo.