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- Comment on Oracle, Silver Lake consortium to control 80% stake in TikTok in US, WSJ reports 1 day ago:
May ticktok die a horrendous death.
Oracle: Old Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
Guaranteed Oracle will do its best to marginalize 100% of all contributions while maximizing its profits.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 5 days ago:
Linux: No ads, it’s free and easier than ever to install.
- Comment on Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads 5 days ago:
Thank you for this. I was setting up to buy an nvidia shield to replace my roku ultras.
FWIW, I have so far tried:
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Onn Google TV 4K: Returned it, freezes constantly.
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Jailbroken AMZ fire stick w/ LineageOS. Buffering issues and wireless issues in general. I still use it, but not my favorite.
So for now it seems my next purchase will be a TiVo Stream 4k android device and if that fails, I may just have to DIY an android Pi system lol.
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- Comment on 1 week ago:
Beyond the Sword with Leonard Nemoy narrating of course.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This. Fuck 2K Games, quit buying their shitty EA level titles and move on.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO 1 week ago:
Same thing happened after WW1 too btw. The strong anti-German sentiments across the US and Europe prompted multiple changes. William and Vilhelm became Bills or Ville; Müller became Miller; Schmidt became Smith.
I had a lot of Swedish family who did this from around 1915-1930 and as you said, again after WW2.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 2 weeks ago:
Do as I say, not as I do!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Circle Jerking to the left
- Comment on China cut itself off from the global internet on Wednesday 4 weeks ago:
No wonder there were so few Chinese sourced hack attempts in my corporate F5 firewall logs last night lol.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 weeks ago:
Paypal changed banks and cannot accept currencies from most countries, resulting in the failures Steam is seeing. Source:
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
At least they offer a fix for it:
Head to about:config in a new tab, accept the risk warning, and use the search bar to find the controls. To kill the AI chatbot feature, search for browser.ml.chat.enabled and set it to false. To stop smart tab grouping, search for browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled and set it to false.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 1 month ago:
Germany and a handful of other countries have been moving to Linux over the past decade. Betting the rate of uptick speeds up now though.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 1 month ago:
Does this also mean Microsoft would allow China to spy on the US if asked?
Reference: arstechnica.com/…/microsoft-to-stop-using-china-b…
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” 1 month ago:
So many people in Austin drive well BELOW the speed limit that you end up wishing you were on the West or East Coast again doing 20MPH over every time you drive.
It’s not even a Texan thing, it’s JUST a ridiculous Austin thing.
- Comment on Radio geeks say you can still get 'lost' DoD hurricane data 1 month ago:
Fun fact! I’m studying for my amateur radio technician license and learned that ham came from calling amateur telegraph operators’ sloppy work ‘ham-fisted’. The amateur radio community decided to lean into it, and thus the ham radio operator was born
I’ll assume FCC Technician license; it’s a fun hobby. I have had a General license since the 1990s when the FCC still required a proficiency in morris code. At a cost of $35 to renew and the ability to have a cellphone alternative while traveling long distance by car, it’s worth keeping.
Have fun, find your Ham niche and enjoy it for the rest of your life!
- Comment on Radio geeks say you can still get 'lost' DoD hurricane data 1 month ago:
They prefer the term Hams and love to remind people (in morris code of course) that not all heroes wear capes.
Hams are responsible for helping out in just about ever natural disaster, war, power outage and just about anything else where a cellphone signal cannot be had.
In truth though, hams are just a bunch of likeminded nerds with a love of the airwaves.
- Comment on 6G mobile could divide the world 1 month ago:
Welp, it was fun while it lasted…
Now all international travelers will have to go back to the early 00s method of buying burner phones and calling cards to be able to make a call.
- Comment on What are the most in-demand Tech Skills? (besides AI) 2 months ago:
IT Manager here. You’ll probably get a hundred different answers to this as it sincerely depends on the industry.
Generally speaking however, I currently see a lot of need for the following in SLED (State, Local, Education):
Python, SQL, PL/SQL, RUST, automation (ansible/chef/puppet), powershell, cyber security related and cloud related stuff.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Edge browser now loads sites even faster 2 months ago:
Great, now make it uninstall faster.
- Comment on AI Job Fears Hit Peak Hype While Reality Lags Behind 2 months ago:
AI : Actually India
- Comment on Microsoft Says Its New AI Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors 2 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Says Its New AI Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors 2 months ago:
People don’t realize how much doctors leverage opening old books, reading subscription articles and looking at case files to help their patients out.
Anything that can aide in the diagnosis and treatment of patients is a good thing, even if it’s AI.
Source: I am in IT and my wife’s two siblings are a general practitioner doctor and an otolaryngologist (Ear Nose Throat Specialist). There’s not much difference between being a systems administrator and a doctor in many ways.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 2 months ago:
Bill announces a collaboration between the two, starting with an open source implementation of BOB and Clippy AI for Linux…
- Comment on How to "Reformat" a Hardrive the American way 2 months ago:
This is also the officially supported US Government way. Not lying. I worked for a VAR with NASA and DHS contracts. Bad hard drives were bashed with a sledge like this before the top plate was sent to the manufacturer for RMA.
- Comment on Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50% 3 months ago:
Spectrum/Comcast: Wha? Us?
- Comment on Hands-On: EufyMake E1 UV Printer 3 months ago:
The ink costs for the E1 are already outrageously priced at $299 for a 600ml pack.
Not sure if tariffs on Chinese goods apply, but it can only go up from there.
Hard pass.
- Comment on China stages first-ever humanoid robot kickboxing match - Asia Times 3 months ago:
Battlebots, the new vision.
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 3 months ago:
Maybe it’s just that I am in IT and the problem isn’t that difficult fore to begin with.
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 3 months ago:
My solution: vmware fusion or vbox with windows installed and running winamp.
- Comment on The new AMERICAN pope doesn't even speak AMERICAN 4 months ago:
New Pope Robert Francis Prevost, the Pedophile Protector!
Yeah, great choice…
