njordomir

@njordomir@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrueNAS build system going closed source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Uggh, I just got to the point where I’m as familiar with TrueNAS as my old Synology, but I want to move towards more freedom. TrueNAS beats Synology, but where is this going?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The personification of AI is increasing. They’ll probably announce their holy grail of AGI prematurely and with all the robot personification the masses will just buy the lie. It’s too easy to view this tech as human and capable just because it mimics our language patterns. We want to assign intentionality and motivation to its actions. This thing will do what it was programmed to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ride the trails at night and follow the potent smell of skunk you will find either:

  A. a skunk B. Some dudes named Jellyfish and Willy, parked a bit off the trail smoking a J on a park bench talking about metaphysics and fried food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hobbies. I struggled with this after college also because I left the church and my old social life had dried up. I was conditioned to just show up and my friends would be there and the nonreligious outside world doesn’t always work that way.

  I would join a club or a group, preferably one with an even gender split or even a skew towards whoever you’re interested in dating. I found dancing in 2006. I never would have expected to get into it and probably spent most of the 90s calling it “gay”. I was tricked into going by a friend who said we were going bowling. I trusted her and she drove, so I had no escape. Many dances are “social” dances which means anyone can ask anyone to dance and you aren’t expected to bring a partner, most people don’t. I kept doing it and eventually started going without my friends. 20 years later, I have been in charge of running dances, I’ve been on the committee of large events, I’ve made some money teaching lessons, but most importantly of all, I’ve collected a circle of awesome supportive people, some acquaintances, some friends, and a handful that I’ve dated. Don’t go in with the intention of dating though because it counter intuitively guarantees you won’t find a date. Instead, just have fun. Ask the people who aren’t getting asked to dance, make friends, enjoy the music, etc. People notice when someone is capable of having fun on their own and they want to be a part of that. They appreciate someone who will dance with the sweet little old lady who shows up every week and not just the 10/10 blonde with the double D’s. My goal was always to dance with every woman in the room once, then go back for seconds with the people I most enjoyed dancing with. It can cost a few bucks to get in, but almost all of them will let you in free if you volunteer for a half hour to collect admissions or help set up/ tear down. It’s harder for guys (if you dance the lead role) to get started, but don’t be discouraged because we’re outnumbered and always in demand.

  Biking is another good activity to meet people. You can join a club in many cities for a few bucks and they’ll basically send upcoming rides to your inbox all year round. If you’re not exercise inclined, there are also PEV (personal electric vehicle) rides in many cities that give you all of the fun and exploration with only a fraction of the workout.

  Other good ideas: Frisbee golf league, ultimate Frisbee, hot springing (hot spring hippies are cool and very welcoming), poetry slams, board game parlours (these seem to be popping up everywhere) etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I find myself using this all the time. I search for something in interested in, start reading the post, then realize I wrote it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, ASCII schlongs begone! Now there are pictures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Cars, but also,my TPMS has always been me running around the car with a gauge before a roadtrip. Imagine my surprise when I find that my car has TPMPs, it just doesn’t show pressures, just the tire icon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love an SD card again. At home, I can just use SMB to access remote file systems on my phone. I can do it while mobile, but despite the gig connection, it’s a bit too slow for my taste. Works for files, but it won’t ever let me watch a downloaded movie on a plane or a podcast while driving across Kansas. I’d rather be able to dump 128GB on an SD card via my laptop (much faster I/O) then stick it in the phone.

  I’ve gotten used to BT headphones, but I’d love to be able to plug in to a stereo again without a flakey Bluetooth dongle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is everything suddenly $800.85? :-P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like that here. I drove 15 minutes to school . My alternator died and I had to ride the bus for a week. It took over an hour, not counting the lovely walk across a 6 lane expressway and through a WalMart parking lot to reach the bus stop! I think we need a gradient. In rural areas, we have individual vehicles, cars, bikes, motorcycles, etc. In suburban areas, we offer coupled trains where cars link together into trains and drive in sync on a guideway until they break apart for last mile connectivity. In urban areas, we ban all cars, build out public transit, bike lanes, etc. Small electric cars could be permitted for special needs and for tradesmen who carry tools. This future can’t happen in the US because they would just forget about us stuck poor’s and we’d lose all mobility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked at their latest phone on their website. The specs look better than some of the other Linux manufacturers. They finally ditched the 720p display that was holding back the Pine, Jolla, and similar Linux devices for an FHD panel. I appreciate that they are differentiating on user-benefitting hardware features like swappable batteries, SD cards, and headphone jacks seems like a smart strategy as these are things mainstream manufacturers largely refuse to implement but are popular among a good chunk of users. Sure, there will be a mainstream phone with a brighter screen, faster processor, better “features”, but it looks like the hardware is finally on par with the rest of the market. I’m really happy to see this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know if any organizations are coming out against it? I’ve been looking for a place to plug in. These people aren’t my representatives, but I know people in their districts and I’m curious why now? Who asked them to do this? Why did they think during the unprecedented expansion of the surveillance state was an appropriate time to propose something like this. There are only two sponsors. I looked through other legislation they cosponsored and some of it was good, some of it was garbage, but this was among the worst. I’ll try calling their numbers and send an email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used KDE because that’s what I use on desktop. I hear some of the others are further along. Flashing was easy. I could not set up my SMB shares in dolphin and if it wont talk to my NAS, it’s not terribly useful to me. I will play around some more with it sooner or later. I believe I used Android- tools on Linux to send the partitions via fastboot commands. It was a 2 gen old phone for me (had the OP9 after it) so I wasn’t worried about anything going wrong. Feel free to shoot me a DM if you get stuck and have a specific question. I will try to help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember my original Moto G. It was a good phone for the time. I will follow Graphene wherever they go until a Linux phone is ready.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you catch a wild pig? (i dont remember the source)

  1. Day one: leave some rotten apples on the ground.
  2. Day two: Lay some fencing on one side and leave some rotton apples out.
  3. Day three, four and five: add more fencing everyday, but just leave it lying on the ground, keep leaving out apples.
  4. Day six, seven, and eight: leave out apples and stand up the fences one side per day until only the gate is left.
  5. Day 9: Install the gate, when the pig walks in, slam it shut.
  6. Day 10: Eat schnitzel.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m looking for orgs fighting the Colorado one. I got “replaced” by AI recently, so I have all the time in the world to right letters, make calls, and go to town halls. I just don’t want to do it alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the reality check. While this a good development, I share your concern and we should not stop,or even slow, developing any fully free as in freedom OS. I tried PostmarketOS on an old Oneplus 6T recently and I estimate we have one or two more phone replacement cycles until I think it’ll be ready for me to switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice Online, a self-hostable libre office environment, is coming back!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that was odd too. Including the MS Office formats with everything else OnlyOffice can open is fine, perhaps even fantastic, but it’s weird as hell to make it the default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where advertising does exist, for example a phone book, it should be factual and pertinent to the product, not a big titty model or sad puppy dog trying to tap into people’s caveman brain. I imagine more of a product registry, maybe even with a model of every registered device made available at a library of things so you can try before you buy. What do we as consumers benefit from having our product research obscured by catchy tunes and manipulation tactics?

  On a similar note, I think we should end all loyalty programs. In addition to privacy concerns, they obscure the actual cost of a good by making it dependent on previous purchases and sometimes by giving prices in points rather than currency. How can I know whether my Kroger or Walgreen’s points will result in better long term deals. It’s intentionally complicated so I as the consumer can’t make an informed decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The day they offer an ad free experience with chronological feeds, all us Millenials will be saying we were born in 2010. :-D That’s all I want from my social media. I agree on the advertising point; getting at kids to get the parents to spend money is evil. If we don’t already have them, every school should now have a class on recognizing AI, social media vs. reality, and advertising tactics. Kids should know the playbook so they don’t get sucked in like a boomer watching QVC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Colorado really the state of choice for VPN users? I know we’re awesome, but I thought there were a lot of states that don’t have restrictions on the books yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I vandalized my own Ring cameras. It didn’t feel right to resell them just so they can spy on me from someone else’s front porch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve ordered an Uber from the mobile site when I got a flat on a long bike ride. It worked fine and I haven’t had the app installed since. I only use it 2-3 times a year. I would have preferred to use Lyft, but it didn’t tell me I couldn’t use the mobile site until after I had already jumped through their hoops reinstated my account. Fuck you Lyft!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of roles do they have for people who don’t know how to code? I’ve considered helping translate things before, but my languages are among the most popular, so it’s almost always already translated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are probably right that low quality clickbait, or ultra long-form content couldn’t survive under that model. Also, the recodes and regional hosting for sites with a global reach adds cost.

  With that said, I wonder if the economics work out better for a group of people who share an interest and want to cultivate a community around it. All 10k channels don’t need to go on one server. For me, I think being decentralized is a key part of the benefit. I see the folks on urbanists.video doing the peertube thing very well. I talked to them a while back because I couldn’t find a way to pitch in for server costs and it sounded like they were self-funding while they figured out their open collective. We’re limited on what we can learn from them because the viewcounts aren’t in YouTube’s ballpark and the creators post both places and probably owe a lot of their exposure to the YouTube algorithm rather than Peertube. Nevertheless, the Urbanism folks have sown the seeds to get out from under YouTube’s thumb and Google themselves will water that seed by enshittifying their own product. I’m curious to see it continue to develop.

  Does anyone around here run a Peertube?

  The real cost of a centralized platform like YouTube also includes giving up the freedom of communities to set their own standards, and while it isn’t a monetary cost, I think it’s worth careful consideration.

  It could be a good thing to have an internet with less slop and more high quality content produced by people and for people. How we decide that will likely be contentious. I’m sure there’s some very rich people out there who would be thrilled if poor people couldn’t afford to be heard outside their own communities.

  Not everything is worth the disk space it’s saved on (and 3 backups of course). YouTube has become increasingly filled with such content. That AI generated listical video of the 10 best ways to painlessly pluck nose hairs probably won’t make the cut. If users have some skin in the game, if it feels like their space and their communities again, perhaps things will improve.

  Some sort of torrent tube that let’s you seed what you star react could be a useful way of giving videos wider reach as they gain popularity within an organic community. Upvotes would mean something if every upvote stored a 1MB video fragment on your device for seeding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My bank has a mobile site that is more functional than their app. I guess that’s not the case for every bank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For #3, how much would it actually cost to host a medium sized YouTube channel on peertube? I top off my prepaid hosting costs every few years to cover my website’s remarkably high traffic (just me and a few other people :P). Consequently I have no idea how much it would cost to self host a site with actual visitors and video content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad bought me an ifixit repair kit for my birthday or Christmas or something and it is absolutely up there with the best, most frequently used presents of the last decade. It had the weird Ring doorbell bit when I tore down Amazon’s spy doorbell. It has an odd bit for my ebike, it has all the computer and phone repair tools to crack open modern devices. This was more of a phone/tablet/computer kit. Maybe Ifixit or someone else will make a repair kit specifically for vehicles with anti-consumer “features”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still hurts like hell though… from someone who once accidentally rolled up the window BEFORE pulling my head in. :-D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too, I added more than I could use because today’s gaming rig is tomorrow’s server. Now I’m debating if I should sell a few sticks but who knows when, if ever, I’ll be able to replace them.