FireWire400
@FireWire400@lemmy.world
well, how did i get here?
- Comment on [deleted] 28 minutes ago:
Yamaha is just one of those companies that does everything and everything well…
- Comment on [deleted] 9 hours ago:
I haven’t used it much since getting my “new” (1980s) harmon/kardon HIFI stack together. I’ve actually tried to sell it for a good while now… do you want it?
- Comment on [deleted] 12 hours ago:
Thanks! I already scoured eBay to see if I can find one or even something similar but nothing…
It would be so cool to see another one of them.
- Comment on Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech 3 days ago:
Nice. Real fucking nice.
- Comment on [Satire] Not enough stories about mushroom trial, Australians complain 4 days ago:
Is there even enough to this case to fill entire podcasts? I heard about the whole thing on the news while being in Australia, and yeah it’s interesting but not that interesting…
- Comment on Meta and Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries partner to build EagleEye, a new AI-powered weapons system, including rugged helmets, glasses, and other wearables 5 days ago:
Because they wanna seem quirky and nerdy
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 1 week ago:
Good. Finally they’re facing some actual consequences for their actions.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 1 week ago:
I mean, yeah, most people probably don’t know what they’re doing but does that mean that no one should be able to fix their own stuff any more?
- Comment on Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive 1 week ago:
Yes, but it doesn’t even install properly. There’s a custom for of Wine specifically for Affinity Photo and it works somewhat but it’s very slow and crashes a lot.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 1 week ago:
This proactive approach helps to avert potential engine damage
Ah yes, the old “you’re too stupid to do anything by yourself, so we kindly prevent you from trying”
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
Pocket was always among the first things I disabled when setting up Firefox and apparently, I wasn’t the only one doing that… Never even heard of Fakespot, though.
- Comment on Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive 1 week ago:
We need Affinity Photo for Linux asap… Even on a VM both Affinity Photo and Affinity Photo 2 keep crashing for some reason…
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 2 weeks ago:
Of course it’s up to you whether you want to use something that, according to Microsoft, you’re not supposed to use, but the only “pirate-code” I had to run was to activate it. The upgrade itself was pretty straightforward.
IMO it’s a better option than to buy a new computer to run Windows 11. I’m not including Linux because I specifically wanted to keep Windows on the Laptop to run apps that don’t work on Linux.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 2 weeks ago:
I did an in-place upgrade as well. I was surprised how easy it was; it’s just one Registry key and from there you can just do a normal upgrade.
Way easier than installing Windows 11, which wouldn’t even officially run on my ThinkPad T540p…
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 2 weeks ago:
I upgraded my Win 10 laptop to IoT Enterprise LTSC recently which is stupidly easy and grants you support till 2032.
Aside from some weird app incompatibilities it’s been working fine.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 2 weeks ago:
I’d fucking love to have a DeLorean; they’re bad cars but that’s where the similarities to the Cybertruck end. They’re just cool.
- Comment on A few sunsets in Queensland. 3 weeks ago:
NSW; near Corrowa
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 3 weeks ago:
That’s another thing I was wondering about; Google used to make their own Chromebooks, but those always were the premium options and way too expensive for school use.
- Comment on A few sunsets in Queensland. 3 weeks ago:
Spent a night there in a swag; it was a pretty cool experience
- Comment on A few sunsets in Queensland. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 3 weeks ago:
Oh man, first planking, then breaking into cars and now this. What’s next; just shooting yourself with a rifle and who survives wins? Darwinism is real.
Google didn’t respond to Ars Technica’s request for comment.
To be fair, I don’t really see why they should. Chances are they didn’t factor in that level of stupidity when designing those things.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 3 weeks ago:
Wow, this is super distasteful and manipulative.
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 4 weeks ago:
Another great alternative to Acrobat is Okular; it’s free, open source and runs on Linux, Windows and macOS.
It’s been my go-to PDF reader since switching to Linux since it already came pre-installed with Manjaro KDE.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 month ago:
Someone once said on here that NEC made TVs like that but I couldn’t find anything
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 month ago:
You could always go for /e/os though
- Comment on Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones 1 month ago:
Eh, I’d rather sell old flagship phones on and have them be used as a phone for a while longer…
- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 1 month ago:
“computer CPUs” is great as well.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 1 month ago:
“I’m sorry, we predicted that, if we release you now, you’ll murder someone.”
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 1 month ago:
Reminder to watch Minority Report again… I don’t even remember whether that movie was any good or not
- Comment on “It Wouldn’t Be Surprising If, in Two Years’ Time, There Was a Film Made Completely Through AI”: Says Hayao Miyazaki’s Own Son 1 month ago:
Yes, it’s even worse than that; it’s worse²