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- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 1 week ago:
Done! I’ve been selfhosting for over 20 years now.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 1 week ago:
I would argue that it adds a new failure point, and a catastrophic one at that.
Yes, many hunans don’t monitor their oil properly. I’ve seen some destroy engines because they thought the low oil light could be ignored for a week.
Even if you still had the dipstick, owners would become reliant on the sensor and grenade the engine when it gets it wrong. Remember how Teslas had hoods that flew open while driving? The problem wasn’t the latch. The problem was owners relying on a crappy sensor.
- Comment on Floods in Australia 1 week ago:
It’s funny because any Aussie would read that and know exactly what he means.
- Comment on What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server? 2 weeks ago:
My current server is just my previous desktop PC hardware. $0 when you repurpose while upgrading your desktop.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 2 weeks ago:
It’s the “Plex Remote Watch Pass”. A new charge for something that used to be free. www.plex.tv/plans/
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 2 weeks ago:
And after you install your monthy server update, things break because Grandma’s client is suck in the Obama era.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 2 weeks ago:
They won’t even get to the login screen.
All my relatives seem to have Hisense VIDAA TVs. There’s a plex app on the store. Jellyfin would require an external device like a Chromecast or HTPC to use it.
- Comment on Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud 2 weeks ago:
So, all the family phones that are using this feature for handset backups. They’re just gonna stop backing up?
Thanks, Google. Thanks for protecting me from free software that scans files on my own phone and transmits it across my own network to my own server. Such a privacy nightmare. /s
- Comment on Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud 2 weeks ago:
Android without Google services is basically taking the capitalism away.
Install LineageOS or GrapheneOS without installing Google Play.
Slap on F-Droid for apps and you have a phone that doesn’t talk to Google at all, and is completely beyone their control.
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 3 weeks ago:
I have a job, and the office is 35km away. I get a locker in my office.
I have two backup drives, and every month or so, I will rotate them by taking one into the office and bringing the other home. I do this immediately after running a backup.
The drives are LUKS encrypted btrfs. Btrfs allows snapshots and compression. LUKS enables me to securely password protect the drive.
- Comment on Far Out, Brussel Sprout 4 weeks ago:
I had both books as a kid and I have no idea where they went.
- Comment on Unfortunately happens too often I think 4 weeks ago:
My neighbours were like that. I saw them walk their dogs once in 10 years.
Their dogs are long gone and mine turns 18 in July.
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 5 weeks ago:
Almost all of selfhosting is editing config files, setting permissions and starting/stopping services.
Setting it up so you can administer a server by desktop is probably as hard as learning how to edit config files from a terminal. Maybe harder.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 5 weeks ago:
I stopped reading when it started suggesting VPNs. Your’re far more likely to be profiled by a VPN provider than your ISP.
- Comment on Digg's reboot homepage design 5 weeks ago:
I like it, but it’s a desktop layout and they’ll get no adoption until it’s available as a native mobile app
My work PC is so locked down these days that social media happens on my phone even when I’m at my desk.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 5 weeks ago:
I can be absolutely certain no apps can access my mic in the background. Even when in the foreground, there is a hot-mic indicator.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 5 weeks ago:
It’s such an easy fix too. Create a separate wall that only contains your friend’s OC (not reshared garbage).
It’s about 3 posts per day for someone with 200 friends, but I’d take it.
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 5 weeks ago:
You’d think they would make it increment every half mile instead of doing something stupid like this.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 5 weeks ago:
Not because of advancements in technology, but because of erosion of regulations.
- Comment on Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? 1 month ago:
Ray tracing at 24fps is not a big ask for a modern gaming PC.
- Comment on Swapping out red meat and creamy pasta sauce could significantly cut household emissions, Australian research finds 1 month ago:
So, the manufacturers can pollute as much as they want and push the guilt on us?
This is a regulatory problem on the supplier side, not a consumer problem.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 1 month ago:
It’s a reasonable assumption that someone in China is Chinese.
- Comment on The Web is Broken — Botnet Part 2 1 month ago:
Google has found exactly what you’re searching for. It’s just they can make more money by suggesting something else.
- Comment on Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile 1 month ago:
The first robot across the finish line, Tiangong Ultra – created by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center – finished the route in two hours and 40 minutes.
The winner of the men’s race on Saturday finished in 1 hour and 2 minutes.
What a misleading headline. This was a 13 mile race. The robots lost by about 8 miles.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 month ago:
I tested my car and the speedometer, trip meter and OBD give 3 completely different values. It’s kind of expected because all manufacturers make overreading speedometers.
I think comparing trip meter/odometer, OBD and GPS is the way to go. It would be amusing if Teslas are programmed to behave when something is monitoring it over OBD.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 month ago:
Just fit your own dashcam. Some models have GPS logging so you can track where it is every second of driving.
Another way would be to log OBDII metrics, and compare the vehicle speed, odometer and time. If you don’t get s=d/t then something is up.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 month ago:
It takes a bit of effort. A chromecast sideskirts your DNS and uses 8.8.8.8. I had to intercept the traffic and redirect it to my DNS server with easylist on it.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 month ago:
I have an open access point and my neighbour’s TV is on it. I’m not sure if it was deliberatel.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 month ago:
4chan is kill.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial 1 month ago:
Didn’t Musk and Zuck want to literally fight recently? I don’t think they are friends.
