TonyOstrich
@TonyOstrich@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you recognize this PC case? 5 minutes ago:
Oh snap, I found the user manual and it has a much better image
- Comment on Do you recognize this PC case? 18 minutes ago:
I know it’s super low resolution, but the Acer B300 desktop I found on their website in the Wayback Machine looks really close to your render.
web.archive.org/web/20030625223227/…/index.htm
I can’t seem to find any other images of it though.
- Comment on Do you recognize this PC case? 35 minutes ago:
Not an answer but another idea for jogging your memory. I don’t know what PC magazines were popular in Germany, uhh well ever, but it’s not too hard to find archived copies of popular magazines here in the US from that time.
Here is a random copy of PC Magazine from some month in 2006.I didn’t see any PCs that matched your rendering, but there was an Acer Aspire that I had completely forgotten about.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 14 hours ago:
Your second point is specifically the reason I don’t pay for Premium. I would actually really like to but unless there is some kind of guarantee they won’t be double dipping, I’m not going to.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 week ago:
Really? Because I just got whipped with a switch or a belt when I had my little boy autistic meltdowns.
- Comment on England to sell eight times more council homes than it built last year, report finds 1 week ago:
Is it? Wouldn’t a bunch of homeless people in tents be worse?
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 month ago:
I could be completely wrong as it’s outside of my areas of competency, but my understanding is that the functionality was harder to achieve because of some technical reason due in part to Google/Alphabet fuckery. So another day ending in “y”.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 month ago:
Unattended updates for everyone, 1.19 is here f-droid.org/2024/02/01/twif.html
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 months ago:
For whatever it’s worth I have been using a Fairphone 5 in the US for over a year on T-Mobile.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 2 months ago:
Indeed. I usually use 7-zip’s built in tool to do it when I need to.
- Comment on Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content" 2 months ago:
You are allowed to record content like a broadcast though, which makes me wonder if that means that ripping is illegal, but piping it through a capture card isn’t?
- Comment on Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content" 2 months ago:
Technically I’m half right and half wrong (I think). It’s not illegal to backup media that one owns, but it is illegal to break DRM/copy protection which is required to rip most physical media these days.
Suffice to say the legality of it is a cluster fuck, but the morality, in my opinion, is pretty clear. Fuck the corpos.
- Comment on Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content" 2 months ago:
But it is legal in the country he lives in as well as the country YouTube is headquartered in.
- Comment on We have to solve the money problem! 2 months ago:
You don’t sound like a very pleasant person to try and have a constructive conversation with.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 3 months ago:
I know it can last longer than that, but I think there is a benefit to doing so even if it doesn’t need changed that often. It’s the same reason I have my mechanic do my oil changes instead of doing them myself. It’s so that they can look at the rest of the car and let me know about problems before they become a much more expensive fix. Kinda like going to a doctor for a yearly checkup and blood work.
I can fix almost anything on a car if I know what the issue is and have the shop manual, but I don’t work on cars enough to know all warning signs or quickly diagnose things.
However, I do realize how difficult it can be to find a mechanic that is trustworthy, competent, and reasonably priced. I’m generally not a fan of dealership mechanics or the places that are dedicated to cheap oil changes. Not saying none of them have good mechanics, but it can be hit or miss.
- 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. 3 months ago:
Patreon and Wikipedia are things people pay for that they can get for free. I have long wanted a way to directly find Firefox development and sustainability.
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 3 months ago:
Come on man, let people like what they like. I literally couldn’t care less about sports, and have many issues with the amount of money that goes towards them, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to shit on someone just for enjoying them.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 3 months ago:
My alternate take. This is a prime example of why housing shouldn’t be viewed as an investment. If the value of a home outstrips the rate that wages increase then isn’t this story always the logical conclusion?
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 3 months ago:
Samsung Messages is just a slightly modified Google Messages and as far as I am aware Google has not allowed anyone else to even do that. Plus last I knew Samsung more or less stopped doing much with it and has opted to just use the standard Messages on all of their new phones.
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 3 months ago:
… if we are lucky
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 3 months ago:
Once a month like clockwork -_-
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 3 months ago:
What other messaging apps support RCS and can be used to replace Messages? How are they doing it? Last I knew Google did not male the RCS API open to app developers.
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 3 months ago:
I doubt they would be that benevolent.
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 3 months ago:
That’s great Google. Since you made such a big stink about Apple supporting RCS that means you will let other apps on Android to use RCS, right?
Right!?!??
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- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 3 months ago:
That’s great, but if they want to make that the goal then they should structure it in a way that is more conducive to that goal. When failure without dire consequences isn’t an option, then they have fucked up.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 3 months ago:
That’s always been my issue. I worked full time and went to school full time when I was in college and still had to take out some loans. I did have some scholarship money that covered about half of it, but they only covered four years. My degree path didn’t have any free electives meaning in every assignment, test, and class I only had a single shot. Failing would likely mean having to retake a class and push graduating out to a year which would have doubled the amount of debt I came out with. All just to get a piece of paper that would allow me to do the job that I knew I would be good at and enjoy.
The entire course of my life was at the mercy of some bad teachers and worse bureaucracy. I get that my profession shouldn’t just hire people without any kind of training and hope for the best, and there were things I learned that had value, but the stakes and imbalance of power is so high I can’t really be mad at some one “cheating” when they themselves are getting royally fucked.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 4 months ago:
I assume they will. The problem right now is how volatile and abrupt these policies are. If they make an adjustment now, sell a laptop at that price, and then tomorrow additional tariffs are implemented they may well end up with a loss on that sale to you. The pause is likely just to see where things will stabilize to.
- What would be the best Fediverse sub/community/place for questions about probability and statistics?Submitted 9 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Half as Hot 10 months ago:
All I can say is that in my professional career where I have to write technical reports and summarize technical information I would never represent it that way, and I would be concerned if a colleague, customer, or supplier did it even if they were communicating it to a non technical audience. I would also call out my employer or management if they ever tried to change the representation of the data to something like this.
That could say more about me than anything else, but that’s where I am at.
