cole
@cole@lemdro.id
I started lemdro.id. Pretty cool domain name, right?
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 1 month ago:
wtf is that bullshit. interning is basically required experience in some fields (engineering especially). companies will usually pay for your housing and food even
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 1 month ago:
hol up what kind of intern can afford to buy a Model 3?
- Comment on How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves? 2 months ago:
love fly.io
fun fact, lemdro.id is hosted entirely on fly.io
- Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good 3 months ago:
also, instances can change their default UI. lemdro.id defaults to photon for example
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 4 months ago:
Seattle’s minimum wage is $16.28, but most restaurants seem to pay a fair bit more than that. Tipping is still rampant and has not been reduced. I don’t think this solution would work
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
that’s a fair opinion, but for some people they feel the same way about KDE (me). Gnome’s workflow is killer for me, and I love the consistency in design and intent with everything.
I suppose not everybody just wanted customizability
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
r2modman has a native Linux client as well and handles pretty much all unity games
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 4 months ago:
you don’t even need to root to spoof gps, you can just do that on android
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 4 months ago:
and what you just described is the difference between a computer scientist and a computer engineer!
- Comment on HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly 5 months ago:
that’s not true, there’s been adapters for Tesla drivers to visit other charging stations for a long time now
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 5 months ago:
I started an entire instance - lemdro.id - to provide a home to Reddit subreddits such as r/Android and r/Google Pixel (and other technical stuff)
- Comment on What Would You Like To See Improved in GNU/Linux? 6 months ago:
support in desktop environments for managing dual backlights when provided by the kernel. I was working on this for a bit but got too busy
- Comment on I knew it all along! 6 months ago:
this is definitely not true. Computer Engineering is a relatively common major even
- Comment on Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich 6 months ago:
fair, my apologies, thought you were the original commentator
- Comment on Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich 6 months ago:
Alright, this doesn’t support your argument. That is a counter example that SpaceX ISN’T receiving subsidies. Anything else? I do appreciate the discourse though
- Comment on Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich 6 months ago:
It seems Starlink A) isn’t getting subsidies and SpaceX is B) providing services in exchange for payment rather than just getting free money.
On top of this, SpaceX is reportedly still profitable. I just don’t understand your argument here. No sources, no actual hard data just conjecture.
- Comment on Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich 6 months ago:
The problem is you say this with certainty but have no numbers or evidence to back it up. How do you know the revenue from subscribers can’t cover rocket launches?
- Comment on Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich 6 months ago:
can I get a source on the math for this? I haven’t heard that before
- Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant 6 months ago:
SpaceX is doing just fine
- Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant 6 months ago:
but you don’t pay attention to the actual impacts the companies have. SpaceX gets bashed a lot which is hilarious. There is no argument that SpaceX is bad. Like what, ULA was better? Throwing boosters in the ocean and charging $500 million+ per flight? SpaceX is objectively an amazing achievement that we should all be proud of.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 6 months ago:
this assumption is only correct if EVERYBODY is using as blockers. They aren’t - so it makes sense to cut off the proverbial leeches
- Comment on You may want to sit down 6 months ago:
ah the ol lemmy rabbit-a-roo (we don’t have this here yet…)
- Comment on Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now? 7 months ago:
yeah and good luck getting a case with multiple USB-C front panel. I don’t even think I’ve EVER used the USB-A on the front of my case
- Comment on Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now? 7 months ago:
sure, but some people are already in a position where they already have only USB-C (me). I have adapters for the USB-A ports and it sucks. Just let me choose to get rid of the old shit that I don’t need please
- Comment on You can remove Edge and Bing Search on Windows 11 even if you don't live in Europe 7 months ago:
Well, first off I wasn’t presenting a “FOSS first” argument here. Onshape is a closed-source browser based CAD software but it works really well and I enjoy it. PrusaSlicer IS FOSS, but it is developed by the folks at Prusa who build the Prusa i3 printers - it is widely considered to be the “standard” for 3D printing slicers, better than CURA for sure.
Second off, this argument has an element of truth but kind of misses the plot. It is DEFINITELY possible for FOSS to be better and widely used and there are a couple of examples. I don’t have a ton of time right now but just for fun I’ll list a few. Blender is a great one, don’t really need to explain how good it is. Also, KiCAD is really good these days too, second only to Altium. There are many more as well!
- Comment on You can remove Edge and Bing Search on Windows 11 even if you don't live in Europe 7 months ago:
To be fair, PrusaSlicer and its derivatives do have native Linux support. And you can use Onshape from the browser on Linux just fine and it is honestly really good. I do a lot of this stuff too
- Comment on [Mental Outlaw] Apple May Soon Allow Sideloading Apps on iOS 7 months ago:
also lifting that stupid ban on other browser engines, and I’d like to see the ability to change more default app stuff
- Comment on Microsoft Can't Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive | They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device. 7 months ago:
Why don’t you program the curve in the BIOS?
- Comment on Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media 7 months ago:
this is why r/Android moved to !android@lemdro.id. We even made our own instance dedicated to technical content. The reason most people I’ve been around mod is because they want to either fix a perceived quality problem or maintain a community that they enjoy frequenting.
- Comment on Support PassKey Integration (Web Authentication API) in KeePassXC implemented 7 months ago:
good explanation, thank you! I’m very familiar with ssh key auth so that makes sense