Dran_Arcana
@Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sophos XG Firewall Home Use 4 days ago:
Thank you for letting me know what software not to use; good bot
- Comment on Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users 6 days ago:
Crossfading and normalization would both independently be dealbreakers for me. I can’t go back
- Comment on Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users 6 days ago:
I would be genuinely surprised if fair use draws the line on format-shifted, legally purchased media, at “remote watch-together”, leaving format-shifting and local watch-together in-tact.
If it were up to the studio’s interpretation of the law, you’d need to purchase a license for each person during local watch-together.
- Comment on Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users 6 days ago:
agree in principal, but in practice:
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parents who live across the state
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plexamp for music
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- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 6 days ago:
They are indeed just that keen on our data.
They know they can’t get rid of it for all of their customers, but they do want to make it as hard as possible for random users to do so.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 6 days ago:
the problem with this is it doesn’t work for home users that want to pay for their software. Crazy… I know… but those people do exist.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 6 days ago:
For people with “that one game” there is a middle ground. Mine is Destiny 2 and they use a version of easy anticheat that refuses to run on Linux. My solution was to buy a $150 used Dell on eBay, a $180 GPU to be able to output to my 4 high-res displays, and install Debian + moonlight on it. I moved my gaming PC downstairs and a combination of wake-on-lan + sunshine means that I can game at functionally native performance, streaming from the basement. In my setup, windows only exists to play games on.
The added bonus here is now I can also stream games to my phone, or other ~thin clients~ in the house, saving me upgrade costs if I want to play something in the living room or upstairs. All you need is the bare minimum for native-framerate, native-res decoding, which you can find in just about anything made in the last 5-10 years.
- Comment on Flailing OpenAI Calls for Ban on Chinese AI 2 weeks ago:
“Open source” in ML is a really bad description for what it is. “Free binary with a bit of metadata” would be more accurate. The code used to create deepseek is not open source, nor is the training datasets. 99% of “open source” models are this way. The only interesting part of the open sourcing is the architecture used to run the models, as it lends a lot of insight into the training process, and allows for derivatives via post-training
- Comment on When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well? 4 weeks ago:
I think you’ve convinced me that it’s a slightly more complicated problem than I initially gave it credit for; thank you for that!
I think you could solve for the disparate community theme problem by also requiring title match for mergers. You could probably also solve for it by having a 2-way merger whitelist on links. E.g community A and B both maintain lists of “similar” communities and then if A’s list contains B and vice-versa they would merge.
Comment moderation I got nothing though. That’s a tough one.
- Comment on When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well? 4 weeks ago:
Oh weird, I would not have expected to be in the minority there
- Comment on When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well? 4 weeks ago:
It’s about halfway there I think, they still show up separately in clients and have separate comments threads.
- Comment on When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well? 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy needs some sort of built-in way to merge them. That’d be the best solution I think. Then you could just pick a list of relevant communities and it’d be pretty seamless
- Comment on Itch.io California Fire Relief Bundle - 422 items for $10 4 weeks ago:
Octodad is unironically worth $10
- Comment on Cable self clipper 1 month ago:
I don’t know of any off the top of my head, but a cheap digital caliper and tinkercad, I assume you’d be able to model one fairly trivially. You could friction-fit two halves around the cable, and secure it with some simple adhesive, or some kind of simple bolt/nut fastener mount if you wanted to get clever.
Never not learn a new skill!
- Comment on MSI and ASUS hike GeForce RTX 50 series prices in official stores, now up to $3,409 for RTX 5090 1 month ago:
I’ve always wondered why board partners didn’t just raise to scalper prices and take a $2200 profit per card sold.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 4 months ago:
Idk, this was kind of a rare combination of “write secure function; proceed to ignore secure function and rawdog strings instead” + “it can be exploited by entering a string with a semicolon”. Neither of those are anything near as egregious as a use after free or buffer overflow. I get programming is hard but like, yikes.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 4 months ago:
Because that bug was so egregious, it demonstrates a rare level of incompetence.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 5 months ago:
I don’t think anyone should expect a battery replacement to be free after 10 years, but it shouldn’t cost $100,000