Magister
@Magister@lemmy.world
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 17 hours ago:
Reagan, he is the starting point of everything: the tax cut from 73% to 28%. USA never got back on track after this.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 2 days ago:
True, for instance in Québec, Canada, it is illegal for a woman to take her husband name.
- Comment on Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes 3 weeks ago:
the development/testing is done on Windows under VMs rather than a sample of real world hardware
I highly doubt it, seriously, I don’t think they test update some VMs and say “that’s good”, there’s thousands and thousands people working at MS, I don’t know how many on win11 but certainly a few hundreds, I doubt none of them install the upgrade on real hardware to test.
- Comment on Where can I find the highest quality Star Trek: The Original Series? 3 weeks ago:
Netflix in Canada has the 1080p remaster ones, pretty good!
- Comment on FBI finds hundreds of weapons at home of suspect in Arizona Democratic Party office shooting 4 weeks ago:
The cops feared him? or maybe he was one of their friend?
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
I know it’s not a hardware compatibility problem. People just don’t want ads/tracking/AI bullshit, a removed control panel, settings that are hard to find/hidden, etc.
All intel processor 8th gen+ (and even some 7th gen IIRC) are win11 compatible, motherboard have TPM2 for years, even my intel 6th gen MB have TPM2.0.
Next year the intel 8th gen will have 8 years, people have PC/laptop more recent than that. Problem is that win10 will not get security updates and all.
I’m using MX Linux BTW.
- Comment on I know what I got. No low balls 1 month ago:
Oh shit I have to try this
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
my 5680 has absolutely nothing. Checking online I found that the right one is a usb-c 3.2 and the 2 left ones are TB4. IIRC they all support DisplayPort and all support being used as the power input (165W charger), not sure for PD and fast charging a cell/tablet…
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
True, my latest Dell laptop has 3 “usb-c shaped ports”, there is 0 symbol anywhere close to them or the underside cover, you’re on your own as to what it supports, you have to find the doc online somewhere I guess.
- Comment on Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now? 2 months ago:
Well, less and less people post stuff like their vacation pic or food pic etc. Then more and more companies pay to be in your feed, so now your feed is only non-sense stuff like yours, or mine, it does not make sense, I often see posts from stuff not in my country or sometimes not in my language.
I only use FB for Marketplace (really big here), and for some FB hobby groups that replace good old forums. I never publish anything, and only one of my friend still post pictures of their journey, that’s it.
In Canada it is way worst, because every sources deemed news media cannot post/share articles, imagine in the USA if your feed had no news like cnn, abc, nbc, cbs, npr, nyt, etc. but in your feed you see all the alternatives news (read: far-right, conspiracy, pro-russian, pro-musk, anti-ev, etc).
This is our reality in Canada, our facebook feed looks like twitter, full of hate and fake news. I always block them, but there are certainly thousands and thousands of bots posting those kind of thing.
FB is dead.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Wtf? My company just gave me a Dell laptop, i7 13800H, 32GB ram, 1tb nvme, etc
- Comment on Disney knew 2 months ago:
It’s been a long time I saw a reference to goatse!
- Comment on If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite? 2 months ago:
Something like 1% of internet traffic is by satellite…
- Comment on (Win 10) Move all windows of a single programme to a different screen? 2 months ago:
I use something called “TAN Windows Manager” to save windows position and restore them, it may be what you want
github.com/Todd1561/TANWindowMgr
Check also this one github.com/kangyu-california/PersistentWindows
Also I never tried it but windows powertoys fancy zones may help you, you can edit layout and all
- Comment on Microsoft is enabling BitLocker device encryption by default on Windows 11 2 months ago:
volume encrypted with veracrypt, it asks for a password to be mounted
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 3 months ago:
the AKSHUALLY is quite strong
lol, yeah true, same as the linux community here is pretty much Arch BTW, but it’s good-natured
- Comment on Microsoft is enabling BitLocker device encryption by default on Windows 11 3 months ago:
It’s good, for privacy and all of course, but I remember here a Dell BIOS upgrade that basically wiped the TPM2.0 and so windows was asking for the recovery bitlocker key at boot. I have them on a encrypted USB key and anyway I can access my MS account from another device to find the key and type it.
But I’m sure a lot of people will basically say “well, fuck, I don’t have the key”, guaranteed.
- Comment on Current best lemmy clients 3 months ago:
Same, used Sync for 13 years on Reddit, bought it, then bought the Lemmy version a few hours after it appears.
It’s the best client
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
I did that in June last year, after 13 years of reddit and thousands of comments, all “gone”
- Comment on JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip 3 months ago:
Nobody remember JPEG2000 ?!?
- Comment on Tech CEOs are backtracking on RTO mandates—now, just 3% want workers in the office full-time 3 months ago:
The trick is to find a job quite far away, current one is 1h30 away, previous was 6h away, pre-previous was 2h30 away, etc. The local employees of those companies have to come 2 or 3 days a week, but me being too far, I can work 100% remote.
- Comment on Intel was once a Silicon Valley leader. How did it fall so far? 3 months ago:
Greed?
- Comment on Out of curiosity why is BeeHaw defederated from shitjustworks? 3 months ago:
When Reddit announced their API thing, I moved to beehaw (LW didn’t exist) and it was cool! Then they defederated from instance one by one… So I opened an account on LW.
Beehaw is about dead, 70 users per day…
- Comment on Intel's stock drops 30% overnight —company sheds $39 billion in market cap | As of now, Intel's market value is a fraction of Nvidia's worth and less than half of AMD's 3 months ago:
I got an AMD 386sx33, dx4-100, Duron 1000, Athlon xp2200, (some Intel here, P4, Atom), then a 5600H now in a mini PC.
- Comment on [Adam Savage's Tested] Epic Star Trek Studio Scale Model Builds! 3 months ago:
15k$, lol 😂
- Comment on All junk 3 months ago:
Only stuff I like in some thrift store is power supply/adapter. Say I need for a project or to replace faulty one, a 8.4V 300mA wallwart? a 15VAC one? etc, just go in the bin at the thrift store, some are 1$ or 2$ It’s dull I know.
- Comment on Kitchen (done): upload for requests 4 months ago:
Put all the cabinets and drawers handles golden/brass, as long as the faucet, it will be beautiful!
- Comment on Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag 4 months ago:
30? Sometimes very less, 2 or 3. It’s incredible that some piece of software used by milions/billions of people, have been written and sometimes maintained by 2 or 3 guys.
- Comment on Temu has finally gone too far. 4 months ago:
I remember seeing Hellraiser in theater, love this movie and the sequels too were not bad IIRC
- Comment on Good morning I choose creative forms of transportation. 4 months ago:
Standard Walmart parking lot