blitzen
@blitzen@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 2 days ago:
The touch version is higher res and OLED.
- Comment on AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations 2 days ago:
Finally, AI I can get behind.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 2 days ago:
Looks promising. If I can buy it with Linux, that’s a plus. And turn off the touchscreen.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 2 days ago:
Why not install Linux on your MacBook?
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 2 days ago:
The pessimist sees the notch as wasted space, the optimist sees it as extra screen.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 2 days ago:
You don’t use macOS do you? Any apps that have that many items on the menu bar are simply pushed to the right of the notch. There is 2” of blank menu bar in 99% of all use cases.
And if you still don’t like it, you bump the uninterrupted menu bar under the notch fully and everything above it (to the left and right of the notch) black as if there’s a bezel.
- Comment on I have no respect for people whose only motivation for refraining from drunk driving is because of the law 6 days ago:
So you have the same amount of respect for people who don’t refrain from drinking and driving as you do for those who refrain solely because of the law?
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 1 week ago:
I have the p1s, and don’t find the “lock in”problematic personally.
Really, it’s the Honda Accord of printers. It just works.
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 1 week ago:
You’re gonna get some pushback from the open source people (and to some degree, I am one of them), but frankly the Bambu Labs printers are so goddamned easy and reliable you’d be a fool not to consider them.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 1 week ago:
That includes great, great grandparents.
Two of my great, great grandparents (my grandfather’s grandparents) were born in Canada. Reading through the law, I’m having trouble identifying exactly where this makes me eligible. Can I ask for a bit of help pointed in the right direction?
I have my birth certificate linking to my father, his birth certificate linking him to my grandfather. Then US census records linking my grandfather to my great grandmother, and US census records linking her to her (Canadian born) parents. I guess I need to find proof of their Canadian births…
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 1 week ago:
Opus is what I’m encoding my working library to. I like ripping to flac (and archiving them as such), but the advantages to smaller file sizes for the working library are worth it for me. So far, I’m really liking the format.
I keep the archive on spinning hard drives, but the opus library on ssd (which makes browsing much quicker, and no unnecessary spinning up the hard drives.)
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 1 week ago:
As far as I’ve read, the database is largely low bitrate files, and some AI. The value here is metadata and preservation of “rare” music.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 week ago:
I agree the “harm” is small. But when the benefit is zero and the harm non-zero, the author is wasting our collective time.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 week ago:
I’ll never not downvote comments that unnecessarily use characters like “Þ” instead of actual words.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand how the two are interchangeable. It’s like saying you substitute mint when something calls for a tomato.
- Comment on Selfhosting with a seven year old 3 weeks ago:
Minecraft server.
- Comment on Password managers... 3 weeks ago:
I remember learning about Shamir’s secret sharing, and indeed the concept is fascinating. I’m not sure passwords is the best use case of something like that, but I’m not against it in theory. On the other hand, I have thought about breaking my master passphrase into several parts (word 1 + word 2, word 2 + word 3, word 3 + word 4, etc.) and giving each two word segment to my siblings. If all my siblings minus one got together, say in the event of my death, they would have my full master passphrase to get into all the things I have protected behind it.
- Comment on Password managers... 3 weeks ago:
So your solution to password theft is to make sure other people have them?
- Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns 4 weeks ago:
Surely you mean 2A?
- Comment on If you look over Wally's shoulder you will see the Munster house on Paramount back lot 1 month ago:
Universal lot.
- Comment on Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search 1 month ago:
Incapable of expressing your option?
- Comment on Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search 1 month ago:
What do you get out of judging people for spending their own money?
- Comment on Hilary can't catch a break 1 month ago:
That Trump sucking Clinton’s dick (both the homosexuality and the fact that it’s a Clinton) is more damaging to his base than raping children is really disturbing.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 1 month ago:
It is a perfectly placed ad.
- Comment on iPhone Pocket: $229.95 1 month ago:
“Bag” is charitable.
- Comment on iPhone Pocket: $229.95 1 month ago:
There is a certain type of person who fanboys out toward Apple, and a certain type of person who buys things to show off as status symbols. I don’t think those types overlap much these days, which is why we’re seeing the iPhone Air fail.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 2 months ago:
It’s an optional service, not baked into the core product.
I’m the “anti-ai” person in my group of friends. Which isn’t strictly true, I’m bearish on AI, not wholly anti. I find Kagi’s separation appropriate, and actually finds some use (and better results than ChatGPT) with their AI assistant. It’s particularly useful for me debugging simple scripts and excel formulas.
It isn’t perfect overall, but well worth the few bucks each month. It’s one of the only subscriptions I’m not actively trying to get rid of.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 months ago:
That’s a banger, I like it. Had not heard of him, but I’ll seek more out. Thanks.
- Comment on Pronouns history 2 months ago:
How young do you think boomers are?
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 months ago:
I have some hope we’ll see it in young progressive “traditional country” artists.