cole
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I started lemdro.id. Pretty cool domain name, right?
- Comment on Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll 7 hours 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 2 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 2 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/ 2 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/ 2 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” 2 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 3 weeks ago:
not even arguable, you’re right
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 5 weeks 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago:
Gnome is very good at this
- Comment on WIRED Database Leaked: 40 Million Record Threat Looms for Condé Nast 2 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 2 months ago:
space engineers does
- Comment on Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode 3 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 3 months ago:
EULAs are not legally enforceable anyways
- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 3 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? 5 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? 5 months ago:
unfortunately definitely not.
my team has a strong emphasis on working with hardware. remote work doesn’t really make sense
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 5 months ago:
Hit me up if you want a job where you’ll be forced to learn about inter-satellite laser links (free space optics)!
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 5 months ago:
This is SO true. I’m hiring for a software engineer position right now. We’ve been looking for MONTHS. Recently, we’ve finally managed to fill the first head.
So many applicants just can’t even code. My company is not a place where you learn how to code, it’s a place where you learn all the stuff which you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.
We still have a qualified applicants shortage.
- Comment on What is the easiest way to have a self hosted git server? 5 months ago:
I mean, that entirely applies for self hosted git as well
- Comment on Is there is any easy GUI for SQLite/ embedded databases for Android? 6 months ago:
you could potentially run a Linux application like DBeaver via Termux or the new integrated Terminal
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 6 months ago:
Starlink is definitely faster than all but the most expensive GEO services (and those require specialized hardware)
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 6 months ago:
there’s no fundamental physics limitation that makes this true
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 7 months ago:
Microsoft can’t stop you from signing images with your own keys.
That’s what I do, and it’s almost entirely automated on Linux these days.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 7 months ago:
right but unless you sign a contributor licensing agreement when you contribute then the copyright owner can’t relicense code you contributed.
so if you contribute to a GPL codebase it’s pretty legally perilous to try to unilaterally relicense code that isn’t “yours”.
this is pretty nebulous territory anyways, but I’d argue it’s pretty unethical to relicense to a more restrictive license essentially “taking” the GPL code from contributors