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- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 13 hours ago:
Oh, you think its the bugs that are the main culprit? I have a CoPilot to sell you
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 5 days ago:
The themes and tech support are totally fine to charge for (as long as they’re original themes that the zorinOS developers made or contracted someone to make).
Brave browser as default is borderline as bad as just sticking to windows if the point of you getting away from windows is to dodge the shady stuff Microsoft has started doing.
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 1 week ago:
He really wasn’t at first, and it was extremely clear that he allowed it in as an olive branch to the Rust community. A “let’s see if I’m wrong by giving it a chance” moment.
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 1 week ago:
I think my biggest gripe with the Culture of Rust is that they keep trying to force it into the Linux kernel and utilities, but even worse than that, they keep trying to replace things WITH DIFFERENT LICENSES.
- Comment on Is Android really the next big desktop operating system? 1 week ago:
No but I could see SteamOS taking this crown in the long run
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
They still support the original steam controller and the steam link though.
- Comment on Air Tag Alternative 2 weeks ago:
Why would you call closed source client apps “open”?
- Comment on Air Tag Alternative 2 weeks ago:
Do note though that MeshCore is proprietary and has a licensing cost to unlock all of its features whereas Meshtastic is open source and free as in freedom.
- Comment on Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft 3 weeks ago:
I mean you can drain someone else’s bank account via the internet.
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 4 weeks ago:
Your point was addressed in the thing they said immediately after the part you quoted
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 1 month ago:
So the radio mesh range depends on a couple factors but the short answer is “yes, easily.”
The long answer is that the world record for longest meshtastic/LoRa message is 90km, but you can easily get 1/10th that with some buildings and whatnot blocking the way. Getting really good antennas and sticking a node way up high like in your attic, on your roof, or in a tree and using a personal device closer to the ground that bounces off of it is the most “ideal” scenario for a home setup. I currently talk with people three cities over regularly.
Because there are no cellphone towers, you’re kind of responsible for getting your node high up if nobody else has set up a
ROUTERnode on a nearby mountain (by the way the router role is not the same as your home router, its supposed to be like a cellphone tower but way up on a mountain, not a rooftop of a tall building).And if you’re the first person in your area, Heltec often sells their chipsets in 2 pack bundles with cases and batteries. Give one to a friend and ask them to pay it forward if they like it!
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 month ago:
Weird… You don’t have a .ml domain…
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 month ago:
We could just… You know… Stop using smartphones
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 1 month ago:
Oh meshtastic is really cool but even without GPS broadcasting, it is FAR from private. There are some serious flaws with its encryption apparently that the devs don’t want to address.
That being said, meshtastic is awesome and everyone should try it. Its a lot of fun and you can “meet” cool people in your community who are kind of maketspace-adjacent.
Also don’t listen to the meshcore grifters, meshcore is proprietary and requires you to pay for licenses to use its full feature set. They’re like reverse Linux users who just show up whenever meshtastic is mentioned to try to convince you to give your freedoms away
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 1 month ago:
Those tech giants operate in the EU and have EU customers. 4Chan does neither and stores no user data. At that point the onus is on the user and the UK/EU should be going after their own citizens that use it if they have a problem with it being used. Ideally, they wouldn’t go after anyone but here we are.
- Comment on End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody 1 month ago:
I dunno if you know this but SMS support got removed from Signal a few years ago
- Comment on End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody 1 month ago:
Its still better than any new chat protocol thats been made in the last decade. You’ll have to pry my family XMPP server out of my cold dead hands.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 1 month ago:
Well, death makes exceptions for no one, so
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 1 month ago:
They’re retiring or dying of old age soon, they think now’s the time to shit all over the floor and trash the place.
- Comment on New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs 1 month ago:
I use it at work when im having a hard time getting started on a project, because I’ll want to yell at it and tell it how its wrong, and how i can do it better.
- Comment on PinePods Release v0.8.0 - "Mobile apps and massive perfomance bumps" 1 month ago:
Great! Now I can listen to my PinePods on my PineBuds which I store in my PinePod that they came with.
- Comment on Apparently the Liberux nexx crowdfunding campaign has closed 1 month ago:
Honestly they would have made it a lot farther if they had just shown a fully functional device that could make calls and receive them from deep sleep.
They are fighting an uphill battle against the frustration that was the PinePhone. Nobody wants to buy a flagship-priced brick thats a neat trick for a hobby project.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 months ago:
They’re not exempt from marketing. I am. I only use proof-of-use from those around me.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 months ago:
I don’t think it is. I know a few people like this, and im heading in that direction myself. The only kinds of “ads” that work on me are when a number of equally nerdy people I know find a new thing, and they’ve demonstrated that it has helped them with something or they are genuinely enjoying using it. Like 3D printing. Its semi-pointless most of the time but it is a genuinely fun hobby, which when combined with 3D modeling and post-processing skills becomes an actual craft. I didn’t get into it until a good number of people around me did.
- Comment on Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” 2 months ago:
Wrong. This is operational security warfare. China, Russia, and every adversary should be holding the same attitude towards us if they’re worth their salt at protecting their internal national assets.
It doesn’t matter that its Chinese people by blood, its Team-U vs Team-C.
Now, the shitbags crying about this probably are doing it from ill-intentioned positions and are most definitely racist, but while their broad intentions are evil, this is one of those cliché “broken clock right twice a day” moments.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 months ago:
They support web browsers
- Comment on Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration. 3 months ago:
I wish we would all start switching over to JSON for configuration files. It’s so much easier to parse, and you can’t screw it up with too many spaces or not enough.
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 3 months ago:
You are allowed to charge money for open source.
Its the recipe that makes the food you’re eating that would need to be publicly available and free to redistribute.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 3 months ago:
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 3 months ago:
Why are we not calling the CEOs and other MBA/c-suite goblins directly?
