RubberElectrons
@RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
Just a shiny male toy…
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 4 days ago:
If they’re ok with the resulting technical shortfalls, cool. Another company degrades back into the mire of mediocrity.
- Comment on Google Pay alternative? 4 days ago:
I think key to my privacy model is that I run microG, so most info isn’t going to Google anyway. Firefox+add-ons takes care of enough so that I feel comfortable.
This particular search is my attempt to regain a bit of the convenience I’ve lost in the process of gaining a lot of privacy; I’m ok with doing things the ‘slow’ way, but curious to see if there’s a way to get some modern nicities without losing much (ideally any) privacy.
Thanks for your response, I’ve gotten great feedback from everyone so far, unfortunately looks like the anti-pattern is particularly & purposefully strong here in the payment and NFC interaction realm.
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- Comment on pooch/repkord made a printer lift itself 1 week ago:
I mean… Cool?
- Comment on 3D-Printed USB Dead Man Switch (Prototype Demo) 1 week ago:
Word.
- Comment on A conversation with my wife 1 week ago:
Honestly, missing a bit of dickskin is a lot less troubling to me then how hard we all work and have no real protection from the hurdles life sometimes throws at us.
Who’s taking care of my elderly family, spread out across the states? My nephews have to choose between affording a home by both going to work, or actually raising their young kids. Where is our eldercare, our universal healthcare, our pre-k benefits?
I have my reasons to gripe about society, and crazy as mutilating a baby under the pretense of health is, I don’t think it’s as deadly or dangerous to us all long term, as these oligarchs and their sycophants robbing us of our dues, enabled by an unregulated economy.
The clock keeps ticking on the detonator.
- Comment on A conversation with my wife 1 week ago:
I don’t hate my doctor or my parents for doing what they thought was a good idea at the time.
I’m fine and I love both my parents just the same. Hopefully you can find peace as well.
- Comment on Never forget... 2 weeks ago:
I never will. All time favorite horror movie, bar none.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
A bit dark humor-wise lol… Heady, the defanged headcrab 😬
- Comment on Qualcomm benchmarking controversy: What's happening? 2 weeks ago:
Spot on. What a terrible thing our company incentives have devolved into.
- Comment on Qualcomm benchmarking controversy: What's happening? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it sounds like Qualcomm is driving straight at a cliff’s edge in terms of their reputation…
- Comment on Qualcomm benchmarking controversy: What's happening? 2 weeks ago:
I really can’t imagine this going well for Qualcomm, if the article is true.
It smells like there’s a lot of smoke around their implementation of the benchmarks, and consumers will immediately discover the fire when the time arrives and devices are in-hand.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 2 weeks ago:
Not knocking your choices, just to be clear. I do in fact like keeping up with entertainment and arts, can’t really get concerts, symphonies and plays out in the hills. For me and many others, cities are great. There are places that are still nestled in the how with small town vibes in soCal, check out Silverado canyon as an example.
I camp when I want to reconnect to nature, and ride my bicycle all over the place. Cities can be very beautiful in their own right, though I admittedly have an engineer’s bias when viewing.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 2 weeks ago:
I’m very much not a desert person, but the scale of the inland valley, the quiet beauty of Joshua tree, etc… Moved from socal, but there was a lot of beauty that doesn’t call you to it loudly, you just suddenly notice and enjoy it.
Joshua tree looks like a bunch of rocky hills… Till you notice they’re all rounded and stacked perfectly. You notice how arid it is, and then notice green leaves in spite of that.
If you’re observant, there’s beauty everywhere natural.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 2 weeks ago:
I’m enjoying the hell out of just my commute, on a motorcycle in the rain. Rainier is unbelievable, the way it looms.
- Comment on Who is seeing the real America? - "For Chinese people in North America, the truth is rapidly submerged by the deluge of misinformation in simplified Chinese" 4 weeks ago:
Ugh, despicable.
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 5 weeks ago:
Same. Been watching a lot of film noir actually. The third man, double indemnity, strangers on a train. What happened to story telling?
- Comment on Academic Titles 1 month ago:
Meh, no.
- Comment on Swiss hydrogen-powered train sets 1741-mile record for nonstop travel 1 month ago:
Again, not a fan of how the h2 is sourced, how limited its surrounding infra is, etc etc. Just saying that at least for trains, it makes more sense than for a car.
I do like that it’s approximately an EV that isn’t lithium constrained, but plenty of serious downsides as well, see: intra-atomic escape.
- Comment on Swiss hydrogen-powered train sets 1741-mile record for nonstop travel 1 month ago:
I’m inclined to agree re: h2, though at least with trains it kinda could work, maybe. They tend to come back to similar yards all over the place.
Hydrogen cars is just… Don’t.
- Comment on Swiss hydrogen-powered train sets 1741-mile record for nonstop travel 1 month ago:
We can consider it a relatively straightforward upgrade to the system though. Definitely more expensive than upgrading individual trainsets to h2 or lithium, and nowhere near as quick… But it could be staged, or just the mainlines.
Imagine mainlines get electrified so EV or h2 trains use none of their onboard energy, until they start getting onto the unelectrified branches.
- Comment on Swiss hydrogen-powered train sets 1741-mile record for nonstop travel 1 month ago:
Not if you do it simultaneously… cost is higher than just rail, but rains wouldn’t have range limits at all, and would weigh less, meaning less energy used to accelerate (and better emergency brake response).
I’m very pro EV, but even more a fan of distributed power systems that aren’t chemical based.
- Comment on carpet 1 month ago:
Fucking same.
Why on earth you gotta grab your food, climb the side of the cage and look me dead in the eyes while crunching the pellets so crumbs shoot out to the side??
- Comment on Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. 2 months ago:
You’re welcome, low-capability product.
- Comment on Millennials are old now? 2 months ago:
Yep, and it’s fine. We’ll all get old, let’s just take care of each other and fix the planet.
- Comment on How to be a -10x Engineer 2 months ago:
No this shit is fucked
- Comment on Finally joined the "work was throwing it out" club 2 months ago:
If you’re comfortable with it, an analog (non-networked) kvm switch can have its button connected to a single input Pikvm. You visit the PiKVM’s webpage, hit a button and you’re now connected to a different machine.
If you have a raspberry pi 1 or 2, this isn’t very expensive.
- Comment on Finally joined the "work was throwing it out" club 2 months ago:
Roll your own 😎 lots of folks have a pi 2 that’s not doing much
- Comment on Finally joined the "work was throwing it out" club 2 months ago:
Maybe some enjoy the open-stack in terms of network security… I’d personally use this in front of a port multiplier, so you can have 8x machines going to a switch, the front of the switch toggled by one of the Pi’s GPIO pins.
Part of it is that the prices for the Pi’s themselves have dramatically increased lately.
- Comment on Finally joined the "work was throwing it out" club 2 months ago:
PiKVM for open source networked KVMs: pikvm.org