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I started lemdro.id. Pretty cool domain name, right?
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, fair. Where fiber can be run fiber should be run.
Just scarred from all the times where we spend x billion to expand fiber, it doesn’t happen, somehow nobody gets held accountable.
I mean damn, at least Starlink is providing a service
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been using Projectivy. It’s really simple and great!
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
Not like these ones. I’m almost tired of having this discussion y’all are blinded by hatred.
First full flow staged combustion engine, dramatically lower launch prices than competitors (cheaper for the government and has enabled more interesting things to go to space), dramatically more access (SpaceX flies multiple times a week!), booster recovery & rocket reuse.
And again I know everyone really is blinded by their seething rage but starship is going to change the whole landscape again.
You can hate the man as much as you want, I’m not saying I don’t. But you discredit yourself by not knowing what SpaceX is actually doing.
I mean, we still wouldn’t have US access to space without SpaceX (Boeing fiasco…).
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
SpaceX has developed laundry list of new technology to enable Starlink and other endeavors. It’s silly to discount that as worthless.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
even less for Starlink
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
it’s such a game changer when you’re actually using it. night and day, completely different experience.
also, GEO is in many regards more at risk for Kessler syndrome because stuff up there doesn’t deorbit
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you’ve ever used Starlink if you think clouds make it fail.
…you do realize it started in Seattle, right?
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 2 weeks ago:
you can change the home screen. I did that on my android tv. android tv kinda rocks actually
- Comment on Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll 3 weeks ago:
probably not a realistic take, even if I agree with it.
Whatsapp is so popular that if you’re outside of the US the expectation is not weird
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 5 weeks ago:
MDM on MacOS still kinda sucks compared to Linux or Windows. I mean, it’s fine. But they genuinely have work to do there
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 5 weeks ago:
this MacBook is going to have 10x the battery life of your used laptop, and weigh less.
plus, it’s brand new so it has a warranty and doesn’t require people to spend time searching for a good deal.
this is an excellent product launch at a good price and it is gonna sell like hotcakes
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 5 weeks ago:
this has been well covered by now. just cause it works in product x, doesn’t mean it was implemented correctly in product y
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 5 weeks ago:
There were stability issues with the video out. People love to assume malice but most of the time there was actually good reasons
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 5 weeks ago:
nice to have that sort of freedom, since the majority of companies use some Microsoft products
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 month ago:
not even arguable, you’re right
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 1 month ago:
it is open source github.com/stoatchat/
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 3 months ago:
fair point!
I do agree. I even call the macrotransactions in star citizen.
I’m hopeful for squadron 42 but at this point I no longer have much free time to put into star citizen anyways
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 3 months ago:
nah it’s not pay to win. it’s not hard to earn in-game money and buy ships with that
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 3 months ago:
Gnome is very good at this
- Comment on WIRED Database Leaked: 40 Million Record Threat Looms for Condé Nast 3 months ago:
have I been pwned has the details for this.
I got the email of doom from them. if you aren’t showing up on there then you’re probably good
- Comment on GitHub - scallyw4g/bonsai: The procedural generation voxel engine 3 months ago:
space engineers does
- Comment on Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode 4 months ago:
distro barely matters beyond how you get the packages.
there’s a reason arch is popular, it can be whatever you want it to be.
tbh, it sounds like you don’t have a great understanding of Linux (not an attack!) so I would definitely stay away from Kali, and other distros like that.
stick with Arch if you’re confident you can maintain it, or if you want to have a system which you don’t have to poke at Fedora is a great option
- Comment on Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense 4 months ago:
EULAs are not legally enforceable anyways
- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 4 months ago:
yeah
- Comment on To what extent dœs mass-overwriting files with random data wear out NAND storage ? 4 months ago:
so true
- Comment on To what extent dœs mass-overwriting files with random data wear out NAND storage ? 4 months ago:
lol
- Comment on To what extent dœs mass-overwriting files with random data wear out NAND storage ? 4 months ago:
what are you doing it for then
- Comment on To what extent dœs mass-overwriting files with random data wear out NAND storage ? 4 months ago:
people do stuff like this to “poison” AI training data. I agree, it’s dumb
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 6 months ago:
You can probably guess, but the US
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 6 months ago:
unfortunately definitely not.
my team has a strong emphasis on working with hardware. remote work doesn’t really make sense