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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still running spinny disks for my big-ish data. I can’t afford a 16TB SSD…

  I know that’s off topic, but HDDs are still a thing too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There exist people who will go through the effort of leaving their home, traveling to a movie theatre, paying for a ticket, and sitting for 2-3 hours for a movie they claim "nobody wants to see"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This.

  Some of my favorite movies are “bad” movies. I’ve got a friend who feels the same way and we SMS each other single line movie titles and just know the other will understand.

  A recent SMS was “poultrygeist night of the chicken dead” … It was fantastic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Went to a wedding shower that was nature themed awhile back and the attendance prize was a small jar of local honey with one of these attached. I’ve never used one so I am curious to give it a try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Biggest rock is best rock.

  I still use this joke any time rocks or size comes up in conversation but it’s so old that nobody ever gets it and they just look at me like I had a stroke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a suggestion but commenting so I’ll remember to follow. I’ve just been using the CLI but if there’s a nice management system I’m interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely know that feeling.

  Now that I’m at a keyboard, here’s the plugin I was referring to : github.com/caddy-dns/namecheap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Namecheap supports this according to docs. I just haven’t tested yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t caddy support that (name cheap txt mod) via a plug-in?

  I haven’t tried it yet, but the plugin made it sound possible. I’m planning to automate on next expiration… When I get to it ;)

  I did already compile caddy with the plugin, just haven’t generated my name cheap token and tested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix kills casting from phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine runs on my desktop that I built in 2016. So yes. I also tested it on a Lenovo tiny (similar to a NUC) that I’m using as a self host “server” and it seemed fine but I didn’t try any heavy transcoding yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what do you use to add weight?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re creating a time capsule that someone will later discover and say “o shit, remember pennies?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Grok here: computers are fine, humans were a mistake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First snake to be covered in vegan butter?!?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They got really REALLY good at a particular niche. They suck at everything else.

  I say this as a loving python parent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First snake to be covered in vegan butter?!?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This tracks with my experience. “get really high… Fall off”

  Lil goobers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First 30 seconds of every mission : “I’m going to be soooo sneaky”

  The rest of the mission: “Guess I have to kill everybody now”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still type ifconfig by habit. Some kid the other day told me that you can judge a person’s age and Linux experience by whether they expect ifconfig and netstat vs ip and ss.

  … I’m just glad they kept the parameters the same in ss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What went wrong with Pizza Hut?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a “deal” they always have, if you find it on their site, but any large 2 topping pizza for $9 doesn’t seem bad… As many as you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll never not upvote Veronica Explains. Excellent creator and excellent info on everything I’ve seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bonus points for no jailbreak required : D I didn’t even realize there was a jailbreak for it (or what benefits there are to jailbreaking it… I should do some research but I haven’t found anything I couldn’t do with the stock firmware and it sounds like you generally came to the same conclusion).

  Mine is using the stock firmware, wifi off unless using Overdrive, but I plug it into my computer to charge and load it with books. It just shows up as a mass storage device like a USB thumb drive and you can copy/paste books onto it (or use Calibre). After disconnecting it will scan for new/changed files and auto-import any recognized formats into the reader application.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also saying Kobo. I’ve got the Kobo Libra Colour and love it.

  It’s the only ereader I’ve ever owned but I used the spouse’s Nook and Kindle a couple of times in the past and the Kobo kills it. Granted, we’re talking about a nearly new release of the Kobo vs a 5+ year old Kindle so it’s not a fair comparison.

  Because of eInk and auto-sleep, the battery lasts me well over a month of casual reading (~30min before bed) with the occasional multi hour weekend session. Backlight is present and is totally readable in dark areas at <10% brightness; 100% brightness is like a supernova in your face. While the Libra Colour is not specifically a note-taking tablet like a reMarkable, it does just fine for quick notes/todo lists/etc but I did splurge on the ($60) stylus. There’s a “notes” application that comes pre-installed.
  eBook support for writing in margins (or over text), underline/circling, highlighting, etc is really nice but occasionally the highlight is flakey when trying to highlight the end of a paragraph. That seems to have been specific to certain epubs rather than an “always” thing, but it happens in around 20% of epubs I’ve used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I would know from experience, but I hear there are Calibre plugins that will allow a user to pull the DRM’d book (downloaded via Overdrive) to a computer and remove the DRM.

  I’ve read that it’s a polite thing to do because you’re able to return borrowed books much more quickly so other users can check them out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wobble wobble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I forget that there are large centrifuges (somebody posted about Stuxnet further down).

  Or, more accurately, I’m more familiar with the small ones (ThermoFisher calls them “Mini” and “Micro” centrifuges) for ~0.5mL samples and I had a hard time thinking that those would blow out a room. But the same link (ThermFisher) that I looked at to find the names also specifies 17,000g and 21,000g models which is just… fucking insane. I knew they spun fast, I didn’t know they spun 21,000g’s fast. Learn something new every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at the elitist over here that knows how to read : P

  I never learned and you can’t make me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wobble wobble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was the same thing in the first frame : D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wobble wobble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s awesome… And also funny that it had to be added. Thanks for the info!

  I still want to know what happens on an old one without vibration detection or if it was “broken”. I assume something like an unbalanced washing machine but on a smaller scale? It just going out for a stroll :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wobble wobble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First frame isa centrifuge that spins samples at high speed to separate the components in them (I think that’s the purpose, not a scientist).

  I hear that if it’s unbalanced, bad things happen, because you’re not spinning an unbalanced rotor at high speeds.

  I honestly was coming to check the comments to see if anyone had experience with it so I could ask how bad it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and it varies by station. I push all the buttons. Some times one works, some times not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who was it that said that the mark of a good leader is that everyone working under them is smarter than the leader?

  By that metric, the C level are the dumbest people in a company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a self-hosted project that does base64 url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Came to post this, glad to see it’s already here.

  Nice little utility tool box that does a ton of helpful stuff in a small package. Super easy to self host and container images easily available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about 15 bean soup.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t let the establishment tell you what to not eat. Follow your wanderlust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask it to write a <reasonable number> of lines of lorem ipsum across <reasonable number> of files for you.

  … Then think harder about how to obfuscate your compliance because 10m lines in 10 min probably won’t fly (or you’ll get promoted to CTO)