Tilgare

@Tilgare@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, you’re well out of the loop on this one, boss. Sideloading has been common practice for thousands? millions? of users since the beginning of android. There are plenty of apps not listed on Google Play - the ones that come top mind are Fortnight for a time and now the Epic Games Store app, and some VPN apps that couldn’t offer features like ad/malware blocking in their Play store versions. Sideloading means downloading an executable install file (an .APK file in this case) rather than installing from Google Play. And they are SEVERELY limiting this ability next year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like all the responses you’re getting are probably generally correct in the context of wind at/near ground level. But I feel like sticking a bunch of these in a JET STREAM is (maybe?) an entirely different matter. Or at least it could be, and I too am curious what the potential ramifications are.

  Jet stream winds are not just wind like any other, are they? Various jet streams have serious impacts on weather. If they harnessed and substantively bled off the Pacific jet stream, are there potentially grave consequences on the already variable El Niño and La Niña oscillation? If it could cause serious shifts in the weather, that would affect the livability of areas, create more dangerous weather conditions, and impact farming way around the globe from their wind farm installation.

  Maybe none of these are genuine scientific concerns, but frankly I don’t trust China to do the science for the rest of us. Pretending these are genuine concerns, say they screw something up - it probably doesn’t too seriously impact Chinese weather as they harness the jet stream winds right at the point where it leaves their airspace. But the ramifications for the rest of the world could then be dire, and I’m not sure that is remotely a concern for them. Could be an economic advantage even. Two birds, one stone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a good question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up Mormon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a good question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point was living by his teachings and remembering his sacrifice, but without glorifying or worshiping the object of his torture and death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a good question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You would be correct. My church growing up did NOT use crosses, instead remembering his life and not his death. That always made more sense to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah - I was pretty sure that was the case, but didn’t want to speak out of turn. So the data is entering the house on copper regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And your pc is connected by fiber directly to the modem? It sounds like not, which was the point of of the parent comment. But you can’t tell me that you think this is a normal and typical use case, to install PCI-E fiber optic network card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’re making a bit of a joke here. It’s just progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think “most” have fiber to the home, first of all. Cable companies in the US do multigig speeds via fiber to a relay and coax cable to the home. Fiber is great when it’s underground or in a data center and safe, but it is delicate and easy to break the cables so not a great home solution. Fiber terminations are difficult and more expensive. The power efficiency payoff on a 1m cable from your router to your pc is probably going to be measured decades, more if you factor in the higher cost of the cable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android updates: thanks I hate it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Update: the nagging is incessant with auto update disabled. But if I click download, it fails, and doesn’t bother for 24 hours. My solution still going strong. 😂👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android updates: thanks I hate it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It actually wasn’t a joke. I went from SGN20U back to a Pixel for a few years, before getting my current Fold6. My prior experience with Samsung was that you could not disable updates and you couldn’t even delay updates because it’ll only let you snooze it for a day or two before it forces the update down your throat no matter what. Had it happen once while I was driving in unfamiliar territory and lost navigation for 15 minutes. Had it happen overnight once and my alarm didn’t go off in the morning. Infuriating.

  I did go ahead and turn off auto download just now - if it actually works without constant nagging, I’ll be thrilled. Cheers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android updates: thanks I hate it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I filled up my storage and now I just get download failed notifications every morning. Happy accident, but now I won’t ever empty my storage again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern day Exodia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow this really got me. Top tier shit post my dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Circle of iLife⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, precisely. That’s what this would be, built into your headphone case. You never have one without the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Circle of iLife⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, this wouldn’t be all that stupid imo. Add some Apple watch functionality like fitness detection and easy syncing between phone and iPod Nano Buds, this would be a solid addition to a runner’s arsenal leaving no need to carry your $1000 phone on a run. Suppose you could use your watch for that and leave the case at home though. But more options aren’t a bad thing, not everyone has or wants a watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our old friends eventually die⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely, at least with this Dell laptop circa 2007 - I didn’t want to cause a fire and iirc, the battery was already trashed at its EOL. Pulling the battery at least let me power on the laptop without any risk from having the battery inserted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our old friends eventually die⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m moving soon and was packing up my office closet. Found my old college laptop and figured I better make sure nothing was stored on it before I tossed it. Pulled the removable battery (‼️⁉️) out and plugged in the power adapter. I couldn’t believe that it started Windows XP off of spinning rust faster than any modern device I own. They really don’t make them like they used to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spooky⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They missed the good times. No rush now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I wish I lived under the rock you apparently do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I considered it when they warned about the increase and offered it at $75, but I just didn’t have the money to spend back then. Felt pretty stupid for not doing it, but I don’t even know what paid features they offer, and I’m clearly not missing them.

  99% of my usage is at home as well, so this is unlikely to affect me - until that random 1% anyhow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for that - I wasn’t aware of the relay service, but completely agree that this is what they should be charging for and not the remote play feature in its entirety. I’ll probably drag it out for a while by refusing to update the app and server… Might be able to make it work with Tailscale as others have suggested.

  In the past I’ve paid for a month or two when I wanted to download to my devices remotely (and I think that’s the singular feature that I’ve ever cared about in the Plex pass). But to take features away and then try and charge me for them is a bridge too far, I can’t support that bad behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But what infrastructure does this feature require? I’m direct connecting to my own personal server with perhaps credential handling and a handshake handled by Plex servers to connect. None of the media is passing through their servers - or it shouldn’t be if it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It took me a moment when I saw the pic to come to terms with the fact that, for as many times as I’ve seen kcal previously, I somehow never realized it was was short hand for kilocalories. 🤯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Treyarch co-founder pleads guilty to grounding firefighting plane with drone during LA wildfires⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow - our legal system CAN react this quickly. That’s good to know, as we watch Washington burn to a crisp while federal judges and congresspeople do… uh…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who stole all the pies? Michelin-starred chef 'gutted' at theft of 2,500 pies.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope their appeal to the thieves to at least DONATE the pies doesn’t fall on deaf ears.

  I used to work in a grocery store and despised it when I found product in the wrong temperature zone - such as a milk jug in the freezer, a hot roasted chicken on the shelf next to the cereal, or a nice steak just sitting on an an endcap display. I was less concerned about the financial impact to the mega Corp, but I sure hated the fact that perfectly good food is now trash because some dipshit couldn’t be bothered to put it back where it belongs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a former player, but played continuously from release for 11 years. This is undoubtedly ridiculously expensive, but the convenience of having your mail and auction house anywhere in the world - the value to certain players is immense. I think if I played still today, it would probably be a struggle deciding whether this limited time offering was worth jumping on - I certainly don’t need it even a little bit, but when I want it, this thing would be incredibly convenient to have. Maybe that would just be the addiction talking. But when you spend all your free time with one game, you do feel a sense of good value relative to things like drinks at the bar or a movie or buying 1 or 2 full priced games a month.

  But truly, the utility this provides for you and your guild is immense and impossible to replicate. They definitely shouldn’t be selling mounts on the shop for $90. That’s fucked. But compared to some of the video game devs selling weapon or character skins for as much or more, there IS at least a unique value proposition to the player. I guarantee there will be people with it the second it releases, for better or worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was pretty sure manifest v3 had already happened - but when I knew it was coming, I went ahead and switched ahead of time. Came with the extra bonus that now I’m ad free on mobile too! Mobile websites are absolutely filthy with popovers and 2 sentence paragraphs with an ad between every paragraph. I’m sick of it. And unfortunately I spend so much more time browsing the web from my phone these days than my desktop - so when I swapped on pc to Firefox, it was such a relief to have browser extensions on my phone now too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did people get bitchy on the internet when they released the PS One, the PS2 slim, 5 generations of PS3, or the PS4 Pro? Or the Xbox One X, Xbox 360 E, the Switch OLED, 2DS, DS lite, Gameboy Advance SP, Sega Genesis 2, Sega Genesis 3, Sega Saturn 2? I certainly don’t remember this much discourse back then. It’s like every gamer on the internet has collective amnesia about mid generation refreshes and how they have existed since the dawn of console gaming.

  Just as always - it’s probably not meant for you if you’re perfectly happy with your base model.

  And just like all those multitude of prior examples - no, they certainly will not release games that ONLY work on the mid cycle refresh device. Because that would be a really poor financial decision. And can you imagine the discourse if you had to buy a $700 console to replace your $500 console so you could play all the newest first party titles? On a device that has likely 4 years max before it is subplanted by the PS6? That would be a far more justified upset in my opinion.