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- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 59 minutes ago:
My phone book is smaller than a novel and only has yellow pages these days.
- Comment on iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original 1 day ago:
2 hour battery time
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 days ago:
Watch your card on file. I had the whole enchalada once and loved using the music app and no ads. Card expired for one payment, sub cancelled, and I fixed it immediately. They wouldn’t give it back to me, and refused to refund the larger payment for just Youtube.
- Comment on *fliiiinnnnnggg*. 4 days ago:
Lemmy feeling a bit too local now…
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 6 days ago:
So kids can prank call during lunchbreak and call 900 numbers… and call the parents to say they got in trouble for inappropriate calls…
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s protégés: a common thread runs through Trump’s tech team 1 week ago:
I don’t see Yarvin on here… this needs expansion.
- Comment on A.I. Companies Believe They're Making God with Karen Hao [1:14:07] 1 week ago:
I’ll probably watch this later, but the growth of AI cults is creepy as fuck. The rationalists have a subsect group called Zizians that believe that doing anything against AI will mean their AI god will punish them, and have weird beliefs they should do crazy unpredictable things in life now to alter the AI’s power of predictability. Like a weird violent charged form of Calvinism.
- Comment on Trump calls US program helping boost internet access 'racist' 2 weeks ago:
“massive broadband rollout” but they fail to mention that that rollout cost $200 billion and was thirty fucking years ago.
If it wasn’t for the grants given I’d still be on Comcast paying $80/mo for 325Mbps on a 400 plan that was recently “upgraded” for an additional $10/mo without my consent (the upgrade was replacing 300+mi of lines that were destroyed in a winter storm, lines that were installed in the 90s). Now I have fiber for $50/mo, and Comcast can fuck off on their monopoly. Also, funny thing - their save attempt was to drop my speed to 300 and still have me pay $80/mo.
Also, kudos to the reporter for calling him Mr. Trump as accolades are for those who earn them.
- Comment on My First Homelab 2 weeks ago:
Worst part was after we stripped the carpet and bleached the shit out of it (dog urine). Saw a tiny bug scirry across the floor. Little did I know it wasthe beginning of a war against german cockroaches. It ended with gel bait on every wall, and 10 fog bombs (for my home size it whould have been 5) to nuke the bastards into oblivion. 4 damn months with those fuckers.
- Comment on My First Homelab 2 weeks ago:
And yeah, it was a HDD on its side. No issues really.
- Comment on My First Homelab 2 weeks ago:
A mobile home doesn’t really mean mobile always. In this case, just moved from one area to another. A trailer home. Wasn’t bad either, 16x60, insulation sucked though. I had industrial laminate from an old shoe store, copper pipes, landlord let me keep a 20x20 yard and 400x20 garden, for $100/month (8 yrs ago). Paid $3k to buy it preowned, 2k to move, and about $500 in cleaning and repairs (floor and various things were free sourced mostly), sold it after 6 years for $3k with no cost to move it again.
- Comment on Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark 2 weeks ago:
It was an eyedrop that used a protein or something from jellyfish, that affected human eyes to temporarily see better in low light. Been years since I’ve heard anything about it. Another sensationalized “breakthrough” I guess.
- Comment on Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark 2 weeks ago:
Whatever happened to the jellyfish eyedrops?
- Comment on My First Homelab 2 weeks ago:
Hid a pc into a bar of my mobile home this way. All parts were either screwed into plywood or strapped with zip ties. I hated the wasted space. It had a 2x28" space with no door (Fixed with a scroll saw, magnetic close, and some hinges). I added a very small plywood shelf for DVDroms and usb drives, and just attached the board to the inner wall. Used a hole saw on the tabletop for I think 2" (just big enough for a VGA connector, and ran all the cords into the cabinet. Worked well, then I moved into an actual house. Still loved it more than apartment life. Coolest part was no one ever saw the door unless I showed them (which was great cause that cut was waaaaavy)
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 2 weeks ago:
Yet somehow ISPs are expected to police piracy.
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if you add an antenna and a small radio tower if OTARD would keep you protected? Gotta get power to it, so solar would make sense… hell, even a tv antenna with a booster would need power.
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 3 weeks ago:
I conveniently was given a Synology ds412 by Amazon many years ago (and being as I had just been fired from the phone job with them due to a “mistake” in hiring me, I figured I’d keep it. Also learned that when you work security, don’t piss off secretaries while doing the job, even as a contractor). I still use it. Not powerful, but it serves up most video alright, and is ok as a download space.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 3 weeks ago:
Save a profile in tts server, then go into read > tts settings and change voice to profile you saved. I don’t remember but you may need readera premium.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 3 weeks ago:
Download TTS Server, and change the engine in Readera to use it. Use the Microsoft Azure settings in TTS, much more realistic. Little slow though is my only complaint as it sends/receives a paragraph at time, resulting in a pause now and again.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 4 weeks ago:
We just pulled stupid pranks, like setting a repeating function with sound at the highest frequency in BASIC and locking the machines… on all the computers.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 4 weeks ago:
I searched and the first time ever received a message about tiktok protection, etc. They are censoring apparently.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 4 weeks ago:
Know anyone with invites to acid lounge? I let my account lapse for like 5 years, and cannot get back in, bo matter how many attempts at requesting.
- Comment on Starbucks' new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant's first 3D printed store in the US 4 weeks ago:
I have an old Ender 3, that rarely turns on, then my Bambu P1s decided to fight dirty one day and the whole damn hotend broke off. Like they glue it up in there or something and I had to buy a replacement… 3 days of torture waiting on that damn thing. But the thing rarely fucks up a print (when pieces don’t fall off), even if I do weird shit like leave supports off and bridge a gap like 4 inches (ok, so inside was thready as fuck, but outside was great, and at 4mm thick and it was for my DWV pipe converted chicken feeder I don’t give af)
- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
For a work machine with a lot of text and little graphics, this is great. Less eye strain for long periods.
- Comment on Starbucks' new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant's first 3D printed store in the US 5 weeks ago:
Generally they lay steel plates at certain preprogrammed intervals to place in windows. A worker sits on standby while it pauses a few seconds to just place the part. Not a difficult feat. Just laziness or frugalness on the construction.
- Comment on Starbucks' new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant's first 3D printed store in the US 5 weeks ago:
From a 3d print perspective - holy shit the extrusion is way off. Extra splooge on the corners, layer lines are shit. I’d trash it and recalibrate. Even concrete prints can look better.
- Comment on Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to 5 weeks ago:
I almost beat Sewer Shark. I was made for this!
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 1 month ago:
I think, therefore I am.
- Comment on 4chan’s ‘cesspool of the internet’ is down after apparently being hacked 1 month ago:
Twitter and Fox News are just a click away!
- Comment on AI slop farms are churning out fake heartwarming videos about Trump figures. 1 month ago:
Someone really needs to do clips from Hogan Knows Best but with a superimposed MTG in response.