njordomir

@njordomir@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No mention of safety in the article. Does a manufacturer of this size have to do crash tests?

  Also, this sounds like the Spirit/Ryanair of cars. Everything costs extra.

  For years, I drove ~10-20 minutes to and from work. Mostly stroads and freeway. I could never justify buying an extra nice car because I didn’t use it that much. Same for a nice car stereo. I’d just listen to NPR and talk radio for news, traffic reports, and maybe a quirky story about some cultural oddity or eclectic artist. If I spend thousands on a sound system it goes in my house, where I live and vibe. Now I work from home, ride my bike everywhere, and a tank of gas can easily last me a month. My current car was purchased for about $20k. If my car died for some reason, I don’t even know if I’d be willing to part with 20k to replace it. I appreciate that these guys are building something for ordinary people and not another faux luxury lifted minivan the size of a garbage truck.

  I can see a lot of retired people buying one of these to drive to their once a week bridge tournament or bingo night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Milk :D Build a heat pasteurization plant next to your data center and you can use the server heat for something productive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was wondering about this. Why wouldn’t it be closed loop? My buddies and I allegedly built a moonshine still in high school and the coiled pipe or hose coming out the top recondenses the liquid that boils off. Why not do something similar and pump the hot water under snow covered sidewalks to melt them and then send it back to the data center to get heated again once it has lost enough heat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, it’s a bit of a weird take especially when we’re talking about robots in a marathon, not in a textile factory or flipping McBurgers.

  I guess I was thinking: why give up the efficiency of wheels/tracks/propellers for walking (a less simple movement) and why only one set of arms? Why would you want a robot to look human at the cost of being as multitasking and movement challenged as it’s owner? I kept imagining Angry Bender from Futurama where he has 3 very maneuverable metal tentacle arms on each side. (Though normally he’s pretty humanoid in shape too). I still think we’re overly anthropomorphizing them and it’s a bit creepy. It seems like we’re building the tech based on Hollywood as much as anything else. I hear you when you say the shape is a good “fit” for our built environment, but I think we can do even better so it’s interesting that we decided our bodies were the pinnacle of biology and technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do these people miss slavery so much they have to build humanoid robots so they can own them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a few more people “get it” every time the cycle repeats, but also, a sucker is born every minute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a good way to import/export/migrate music playlists between platforms?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tidal recommended this one when I moved from Spotify a few years ago. It worked, but I don’t know anything else about it: tidal.com/transfer-music

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MapQuest Lets You Name The Gulf of Mexico Whatever You Want⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gulf of… your mom! 😎😛

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, don’t forget to donate if you can. Their liberapay says they’re getting ~120€/week in donations. I think freeing our wearable devices is worth a whole lot more than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If gadget bridge paired with a fully featured local analysis tool, I would love that and probably put them on my FOSS donation list too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, even if we didn’t reuse, we could at least recycle. We got so into the craze of shoving computers in everything we stopped considering if we might be better off sticking to easily fixable tech for some things. My appliances are old as dirt, but parts are very affordable, there are 100s of youtube videos on how to fix them, and there are very few things that can break to begin with. That’s a far cry from the landfill of bricked smart fridges next to a factory somewhere.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, if you want to have more than one war at a time you’ll need to purchase add on slots for $4.99ea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with a lot of time spent in Europe and the US over the last 30-40 years, it seems like Europe is often happy to jump on the bandwagon of America, they just want someone else to go first. I also think American music and cultural exports are spreading our cultural degeneracy around the world for a long time and Germans slurp it up. I really hope the better education system will immunize them against the worst of it, but the rise of the AfD makes me doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is yours under the surface? I tried using one, but didn’t like the clutter of the pad on my desk. I’m a special kind of neat freak in my immediate work space though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what every company/organization I’ve ever worked for has done. Oh, this intranet tool works okay and no one is complaining. Lets redo it in a “modern” style… (adds whitespace and truncates every meaningful text field so you have to mouseover and scroll for miles to read any of them even on a 4k display).

  I think part of why Reddit succeeded initially was because it had some very KEY strengths/advantages. I would say that the old design and the URL scheme are part of that. It fit any screen nicely from phone though 4k TV, portrait displays, whatever. It was a simple design, but extensible by custom CSS and if you knew what you wanted, you could skip straight there by typing r/ or u/ in your URL. Enough reminiscing, if old reddit is gone,I don’t know if I’ll even be able to use reddit at all for anything. New reddit is one of those interfaces, like twitter, that never really made sense or worked for me. I’m just a Lemmy guy I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most airports do it like this, but I’ve been to places hat need a transit visa just to get to your next flight. Odds are you are correct for a US connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could go a lifetime without ever using OneNote again. That goes doubly for a web version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Foundation Calls on Tech Industry to Block ICE Contractor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Serious question: how do they avoid siphoning up data from states or countries with data protection regulations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m relieved that people are so into labeling even if they don’t understand it. You can’t become informed without information.

  Not surprised at the stupidity. People are dumb, selfish, and entitled. Americans are a great example, but it’s not only Americans. We just did the speed running version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure Storage That Won't Die With my Server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be a dumb question, but how does it have it’s own OS like a NAS, or is it basically a box attached to the host and everything is done via software? I encountered some confusion between enclosures, DAS, USB array and some of the other terms I was seeing.

• Secure Storage That Won't Die With my Server
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your bath mat situation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner bought a diatomaceous earth bathmat to replace the rug in front of the shower. It’s like stepping onto a piece of cardboard, so zero points for luxury. It does catch and re-evaporate the water well, so full marks there. Humidity is naturally low here, so no I have little to no worries about mold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day One alternative? (FOSS preferred)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can sync Obsidian with your own storage location. There are plugins to do a lot of what you’re asking for. Downside is that it’s not open source, though your content is all stored in plaintext so you won’t lose it due to lock-in. It also might be more than your asking for and a simpler, more tailored, solution may be out there. Paired with a self hosted Nextcloud server, you may solve a bunch of your PIM needs at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could your body adjust if you separated your macros into meals? Like all carbs for breakfast, all fat for lunch and all protein for dinner? What would happen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have an answer for you, but I do want to say: great question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing. As a frequent cyclist who loves cheese and doesn’t drink soda or eat many sweats, I feel like this will be an interesting read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The food has been impregnated with microplastics as well. This machine runs on sugar, but someone put oil in the tank. :-/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used a Palm Zire 31 and Later a Dell Axim 51v (Windows Mobile) in high school. People thought I was weird, but it kept me organized. I miss how simple and functional those programs were. This was largely pre-enshittification.

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

  I’m running Nextcloud and PaperlessNXG on my servers. Over the last few months I tested out my remote management. Now that I’m back home, I’ve been making a few adjustments based on my learnings. Firstly, Wireguard is slower than a turtle, while Tailscale has been a little bit faster. I’m guessing this is due to my upload speed and switching to fiber may fix this.

  I’d also like to add TubeArchivist back in since there’s some great videos that I don’t trust Google to preserve given the direction things are going.

  The folks on the “privacy” Lemmy gave me some good tips on app replacements and after making a big spreadsheet with all my apps, their licenses, etc., I cut down my remaining proprietary apps by at least 50% and I only have a few proprietary essentials that still depend on Google Play. I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time and I almost have a path towards completely removing all Google, Amazon, and Microsoft products from my life.

  Next, I’d like to set up Wander to eventually get rid of Garmin/Strava but I haven’t been able to figure it out and I’m still locked in to some degree because of my hardware (Garmin watch). The Ring doorbell has to be the next thing to go, but I’m exhausted and haven’t had the motivation to start a new project until the dust settles from the last one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Smartwatch That Was Too Good For This World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard great things about the Pebble from someone who had one.

  Personally, I had a few different smart watches and learned a bit about what I want over the years:

  • Mi Bands (Xiomi Devices) that had otherworldly battery life (like a month and a half in some cases) but had trash sensors and were junk without the unofficial apps that made them great
  • Some Android Wear/ WearOS smart watches
  • a cheap ass POS Temu-equivilant no-name junk watch
  • Multiple Garmin devices (touchscreen Venue and button controlled Fenix)

  This made me realize a few things:

  • I don’t want or need a super-smart watch
  • battery life and capable sensors are way more important than stupid flashy shit
  • the display tech I want indoors in my office is not the same display I want on a wear-everywhere watch (TFT looks stellar under bright sun)
  • buttons beat a touchscreen each and every day of the week and make the watch a convenience rather than a finnicky gadget

  To be fair, this is MY use case and yours may differ, but when it comes down to it, I’m sure that I’m not in the market for a wearOS or Apple Watch. I love the button operated TFT screen Garmin watch I’ve been using for a few years and if I don’t replace it with another Garmin watch, it’ll be something like Pine Time, Pebble, or something that works with gadgetbridge.