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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve only been in a Tesla with an Uber driver, so not paid attention to it… but no indicator or wiper control?

  Jeez.

  I’ve had a couple of cars with automatic wipers and they’re not that great… Having no controls would do my head in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Floorp?

  No User Tracking

  We don’t collect personal information from users. We don’t track users. We don’t sell user data. We have no affiliation with any advertising companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure what to make of this, they’ve got the potential to put a million qubits on a chip, but there’s only 8…

  And others have had quantum computers for a while now… so… 🤷🏼‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, totally agree - it’s just getting awareness up.

  When I start explaining this to friends & family they give me the same blank look that I gave them when they talk about nutrition & exercise…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Presuming you can put OpenWRT on it, it’ll be fine as a single box

  IMHO, I just prefer having it all as separates and then fix / change / upgrade parts as I go - but I soon run out of places to hide them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the ISP supplied box also your wifi?

  If not, IMHO I’d use the ISP equipment as a pass-through modem (if possible on that model?) and have a separate OpenWRT / pfSense firewall do all the heavy lifting for DHCP, DNS, ad blocking, etc

  Depends if you’d then need another WAP, of course

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are already multiple cases of Russian trawlers breaking cables¸ gas pipelines, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I was following this thread and wanted to say the same thing

  I’ve kept updating shops that change, new houses, parking, etc… it’s great. I even used it on vacation (when the SO wasn’t looking)

  My global rank is #1554 and ~#130ish in my local country, but #12 in another country I barely visit, so it shows where more people should complain less support more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t point at the HQs, point at their mansions / golf courses / private islands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the same boat: can’t hear any difference.

  But, I have GBs of 320k MP3s… is it worth converting to Ogg ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your self-hosting setup for home thermostat?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Feel free to ask over at !homeassistant@lemmy.world too.

  But to echo some other comments here, whatever you do, keep it simple and ensure a botched HA update doesn’t freeze / cook you by using standard components as a backup / failsafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone knows your location⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also consider outside your home too - either permantly VPNing back through your home network, or (ie for Android) Tracker Control, which will block most ad / sdk / geo trackers that it knows about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’m definitely not using any delivery service - we live ~25 mins drive from the nearest town, so it’s just not an option.

  I’ve lived most of my life in the countryside and just think that getting someone else to go get my food is a weird concept anyway… I’d go as far as saying that I’m no-one special, so why ask someone else to get my food - just get it myself (lazy, etc.)

  Plus, I like driving, so I’m happy to get out of the house for a while (and drive like a delivery driver to get the food home whilst it’s still hot)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Information is free, it’s the transmission medium (paper printing or webservers) and the journalist’s wages that you should pay for.

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Easier“, no. Not for the average person on the street.

  Don’t get me wrong, I’ve built several NAS over the years (dropped OMV for just Arch and the packages I want) and loaded OpenWRT (etc) on routers

  But, building my own NAS, servicing my own car, repairing my own house, felling my own trees, at some point I’ll just lack knowledge and buy something simple / pay someone to do it… and that’s where cheap consumer electronics fits (unfortunately)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love to see professionals in action.

  That’s craft(wo)manship right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your setup. no matter how uggo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, good call on using the power to get the tablet to respond… I don’t have that problem (tablet freezing), but it does drop off the wifi sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just not quite yellow enough, esp. on 1 side where’s it’s been too close to a window… otherwise, yeah, bring back beige

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a casual bystander with no clue what’s going on… why’s change.org a problem?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your setup. no matter how uggo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done similar with an old Android tablet. Installed Fully Kiosk Browser to display the dashboard AND read the battery level - above 75%, switch off power…

  But… automations only trigger when going past the threshold once, so if there’s a random issue where HA doesn’t see the battery drop below 10%, (had that happen a few times in the past), then I also have multiple triggers for 5% and 2%… to turn the power back on again 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TTeck (Proxmox Helper Scripts) has passed away. R.I.P.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so sad when we all find these critical components are maintained by someone we’d just pass in the street… and then they’re gone.

  Lovely to see the contributions on ko-fi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never even had an account…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Options for "iPlayer will stop working on this device"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point about the default video source. I had to use “hotel mode” on 1 TV to get that to work… I’ll check what this one does

  thanks

• Options for "iPlayer will stop working on this device"
  Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨7⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how can i self host my music?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wha?! I didn’t know this was happening… Damn, that was my solution to multiple applications

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Follow up on supporting Immich announcement - change of wording⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they should consider the word “wages” instead.

  Let’s be honest, this is compensation for skilled labour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Application like Simple Booth⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What kinda thing are you thinking of? An actual photobooth kinda box?

  You could usr an Android tablet, install Open Camera (from F-Droid) and that has the ability to take (for example) 4 photos with a 10 sec delay… videos too…

  Then use syncthing to copy those photos to something else (your phone, a NAS, etc) before it gets trashed / accidentally wiped, etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monolithic setup vs dedicated devices⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way.

  There’s nothing worse than finding your DNS/DHCP has gone down and it’s a VM / container running inside a server that can’t start because it doesn’t have an IP address and you can’t resolve names to get the thing started.

  Break things down into chunks that make sense - to you.

  I have dedicated (low power) hardware for the interweb firewall / DHCP / core network stuff.

  I have a NAS for storage with all the backups / reinstall images on (so I can rebuild the firewall if there’s no internet, for example)

  Then I have everything else in a single server.

  Sources: a house fire, water leak & many hardware failures & borked upgrades over many decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, because the CLI command is poweroff, so I do agree with you 🙂

  (Please Wait… comments about alternative CLI commands will arrive soon…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Backblaze a reliable provider?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that was me a couple years ago… I’d read some blogs, watched some yoochoobz and had data going from my NAS to Backblaze… encrypted…so… ok… is it restorable? No idea.