BigDanishGuy
@BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 6 days ago:
That’s the reason I don’t drive a VW ID3. I wanted one, I really really wanted one. But during my test drive, I got a 10s timeout from the display, for apparently tapping too fast while trying to adjust the AC, WTF? And don’t get me started on the stupid mood lighting.
Too bad, it was in my price range, rear wheel drive, 236hp and a decent range. And there’s soo many of them on the roads in my country that spare parts wouldn’t be an issue.
Luckily it looks like some car manufactures have decided to ditch the ginormous look-at-me-I’m-just-like-a-tesla touch-screens. Kia, hyundai and VW at least according to slashgear.com/…/major-automakers-removing-touch-s…
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 6 days ago:
Different appliance, same experience.
First off, the “smart” part is just another thing that can break.
Secondly, why is it cheaper than the older/dumb device? Don’t try to tell me it’s because the manufacturer had to develop new electronics, with pricier components. Isn’t it far more plausible, that it’s because my personal data is part of the price, without my knowledge?
Thirdly, what happens when the manufacturer gets liquidated? and the new owner decides that I need a subscription to use the device effectively either bricking it or raping me. Like we saw with Futurehome …openhomefoundation.org/you-dont-own-it-if-they-c…
Or what about when the manufacturer decides that they don’t like you and decides to snuff your account? Like amazon did when a driver foxbusiness.com/…/amazon-customer-claims-company-… sure, if you’re abusive towards staff, then by all means act on it. But lockjng people out of their smart home, without giving them a chance to respond to the accusations first?
I swear I took my ADHD meds this morning, I don’t know why I get so riled up by this. But please understand that I have had to take conscious decision to stop ranting on.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 6 days ago:
We’re all different, I do realize that, but I don’t do just-in-time delivery for my household products. I’ll buy a couple of bottles of rinse aid, and once the last bottle is empty I put it on the grocery list.
I don’t need to know that the dishwasher has run out, I’ll deal with it when I see it.
And do not tell me where to jump or not 😀 I’ll jump in front/on top/behind of ridiculous conclusions if I please /s
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 6 days ago:
Because, and this may surprise you, some (most?) people don’t think about how their stuff works. They just see it has an app and goes “neat!”.
I don’t know why my dishwasher should be online. But I’ve been with people who’s smart watches twinkled to alert them that their dishwasher, located 30min away, was out of rinse aid. I no scenario is that relevant. Rant warning There’s a God damn light on the front of the unit, that tells you the same damn thing, and you can’t do anything about without being at the unit. What are you going to do? Drop whatever you’re doing at work and take an hour lunch break early to drive home and deal with it? Didn’t think so.
BUT the person had seen the dishwasher and thought it was neat, modern, and needed a new dishwasher. And that’s whywe end up with a lot of “smart” devices, which are just “ordinary devices with an cloud based remote control”
- Comment on Wow 1 week ago:
Shoulda done that with Vance
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 1 week ago:
And even if you sampled at 10 sps, and did 50 sensors at 10b, you would still only be looking 5000bps or 5.8x10^-7^ GBps, meaning that it would take roughly 26 years to fill up a 512GB SD card.
While I don’t know for how long the sub had been submerged, I doubt it was close to a quarter of a century. If that was the case, I believe that we would have been talking about that as well. Even if it was 500 sensors, at 100sps at 12b we’d be looking at 79days.
IMHO there’s only a few things a 512GB SD card would be used for. And I hope it was music, because I don’t think we should watch the final moments of these people’s lives.
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 1 week ago:
TBF if you’re still on reddit, heroin may be a healthier alternative
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 week ago:
I don’t block users by instance, just posts. Posts on your instance tends to get moderated heavily one-sided. I got reprimanded (I think it was a temp ban, but I can’t remember) for being skeptical about AI. I don’t want to spend time and energy engaging in a discussion under those conditions.
But that doesn’t mean every dbzer0 user is an AIvangelist. Same goes for .ml, they’re not all tankies … although I’ve found that not engaging with .ml users tends to give me a more pleasant experience in general.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 week ago:
Yes, blocking posts from .ml and dbzer0 helped. Same goes for just liberally blocking anybody, who starts screaming instead of participating nicely.
I’ve been considering blocking .world, as some of the mods are behaving like power tripping reddit mods. But it’s the biggest instance and without it I wouldn’t have any content.
- Comment on Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux? 3 weeks ago:
Drop autodesk. I’ve got access to autodesk products as an educator, and I’ve used inventor for years, but I have only had FreeCAD on my system for months. I have not found myself being enable to do anything I could do in Inventor.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 3 weeks ago:
Yes, it certainly bears semblance to my first 9 months in solitary confinement, before the hag dragged me out from her wretched womb. Curse you vile woman!
- Comment on Say it slowly. 4 weeks ago:
7 if you only stress one word, but if you stress two words it gets even better.
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 Causing Circuit Breaker to Trip (Even when PSU is flipped off!) 5 weeks ago:
It’s been a week, did you figure it out?
The switch on the printer, does it switch on the AC side or DC? Because if it’s on the AC side of the PSU (which it really ought to be) that narrows possible culprits down quite a lot.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 1 month ago:
I’m not well endowed, at best I’m average… at best. But while I don’t touch the water, I hit the front of the bowl. It’s disgusting to feel the cold porcelain.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 1 month ago:
Chaotic neutral spotted
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 1 month ago:
And it was converted to lower case before being printed and includes those stupid unicode 🅃🄷🄰🅃 🄾🄽🄻🅈 🅂🄿🄰🄼🄼🄴🅁🅂 🅄🅂🄴 ʇou ɹo IIƆS∀ sı ɥɔıɥʍ llǝʇ ʇ’uɐɔ noʎ ʇnq
Sorry 'bout that, had to include an example
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill 1 month ago:
Chatgpt create a script to run random AI prompts every 20seconds.
- Comment on ISO 26300 1 month ago:
roff? Ha poser! I use CTSS /s
Nah, I hand code my postscript on magnetic core memory with a geomag stud.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 month ago:
I want to believe, I really do. But I fear that the crypto apps people have grown dependent on will make it harder than the desktop battle. And IDK but I seem to recall every year since at least 2001 being proclaimed to be the year of the Linux desktop.
I rely on my banking apps (plural), governmental email app, government authentificator app and the governmental LMS app for public schools to make my everyday function.
- Comment on Just reheating my pizza 1 month ago:
All the people saying to use x thing. This is clearly in a hotel room, otherwise OP would have had other options.
And OP? You monster! The next person to use that iron is bound to be some broke graduate, who have spent their last money traveling for a job interview, and now you’ve destroyed their only decent button down shirt.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 2 months ago:
An astroid the mass of the meat half of a giraffe and the volume of 5kg of somewhat dry duck feathers…
I’m beginning to think that it would more relatable if it was just stated in kg or m^3 instead
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 2 months ago:
And is it half the volume, mass or a dimension? Because I’ve never tried neither blending or carrying a giraffe before (I never got invited tonthose parties in uni) so I have no grasp on volume or mass.
- Comment on How can I easily convert rs-232 serial to TTL levels ? 2 months ago:
Is the terminal emulator set up correctly in regards to baudrate and stopbits? I would try playing around with these settings. Maybe even go as far as to RTFM.
I haven’t used Dell gear before, but you are sure that it’s not some proprietary protocol that’s running over serial? As in it requires some special software instead of a console?
I’m not sure what you mean by the signals being dirty. If it’s the slope after the initial fast rise you mean, I guess it could be remedied with an opamp, a push-pull pair, an optocoupler, or some other switching circuit with a suitable power capacity. But as long as it gets above the hysteresis threshold for long enough it should be fine. Whether that’s happens you should be able to tell from the scope (which I can’t see while writing in my client)
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 2 months ago:
Indeed, feeling the need to check, I can tell you that we’re not in the onion anymore…
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 2 months ago:
You forgot about going to Walmart while open carrying 4 pistols and a suppressed riffle
- Comment on It all makes sense now. 2 months ago:
What’s up with the ‘u’? I get that the second character advances one position in the alphabet, that pattern holds until ‘q’ which is “qu”
- Comment on Le Penguini 2 months ago:
Ok, but what’s the chance of being hatched on each continent? I believe that it’s a statistical insignificant amount penguins being born anyway
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 2 months ago:
I wanted to point out that you left put Washington DC… But then I noticed that it was covered under “swamp racists”
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 2 months ago:
POV: Be a software developer. It’s 2025. You’re maintaining dialer software for an ISP. The software is written in Delphi or Visual Basic. It’s all you’ve done since 1995. You’ve got 5 years to retirement. Corporate announces end of life for dial up services.
- Comment on New idea 2 months ago:
Milk delivery was widespread into the 1970s in Europe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_delivery