njordomir
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I’d like to think as a group, we are a healthier addiction than Reddit. :)
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 1 day ago:
Good for them. If it works, it works. I wouldn’t connect it to the internet though.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 4 days ago:
After that comes the part where the AI hallucinates a world where advertising guidelines don’t exist and gets the company sued for some very illegal advertising.
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 4 days ago:
Missing an important message like that is a fear of mine. I’ve also noticed a number of google products don’t function well while on VPN. I’ve decided to dump the problem, Google, rather than the scapegoat, my VPN. I’m about 70% degoogled right now, but every product counts.
I tried RCS when it was newer, but I didn’t see any benefit to me and it didn’t play well with how often I reset and redo my phone.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
At this point, we should all be very familiar with what it means to be a “Facebook friend”. Only someone with the emotional depth of a Lego mini figure would think this is a good idea.
Additionally, real friends don’t exploit your weak points to sell you shit, whether products or harmful ideologies.
- Comment on Satellite images reveal Huawei’s advanced chip production line in China 2 weeks ago:
“Them” in this case being the business owners, not the workers or the people their tech is used to oppress.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 2 weeks ago:
When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Gulf of… your mom! 😎😛
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 4 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 4 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 5 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. 1 month 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’ 1 month 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? 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
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- Comment on What is your bath mat situation? 2 months 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.