Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on That's the feeling. 13 hours ago:
Don’t have what? A Steam deck, a PC, or a USB?
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 1 day ago:
Not of age, I got through the “draft period” during GWB. The US probably won’t have a draft, mainly because we have a sizeable “volunteer” military.
However, if I was drafted, I would talk to my recruiter about how I’ve read books about fragging, and how all I can think about is how powerful that is, for one man with one weapon on the inside to destroy or disrupt the chain of command. Then do your best Private Pyle “Seven Six Two millimeter. Full Metal jacket!” imitation. The military doesn’t care about sending untrained and unqualified conscripts into an active war, but I doubt they will take someone who seems to have uncontrollable fantasies about shooting their own officer.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
Best I can do is Google it and read it to you. I’m a little knowledgeable about how the pihole works since I have my Net+, and I’ve set up a few Pi-hole’s (or the same one a few times tbh), but I’m definitely not a networking expert.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
Your Pi-hole can only block the things that query DNS. Try this, ping a website you don’t normally go to, and you should see that show up in Pihole log. Next, ping an IP, I usually pick on 8.8.8.8, and see if that shows up in your Pi-hole’s logs. I’m fairly confident it won’t.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
Pi-hole blocks the name resolution. TV wants to go to Hisense.com, asks your Pi-hole where that site is. Your Pi-hole sees that Hisense is on a block list, so it says back to your TV “sorry, no idea how to get to that site, it must be offline.”
If the manufacturer wants to get around this, they program a public DNS in, like 8.8.8.8, or they hardcore the static IP for their website into the TV. Now when it wants to go to Hisense, it never has to ask your Pi-Hole where that site is, and it doesn’t get blocked. Heck, it probably won’t even show up on your Pi-hole’s logs.
If you black hole the site, then any traffic going out there gets dropped, and the hard-coded addresses on the TV don’t matter for shit.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
Why wait? Streaming services are only getting worse, and we can only really fight back one way. Yo ho!
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
I bought my last TV about 7 years ago. I got a “small” 38" TV. As I was checking out, the cashier asked me if I’d rather upgrade to a larger model from the same brand with smart features for 10 dollars less. I flat out told him ‘no’ and that was probably the best decision I made that year.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 1 day ago:
AI is an assistant, not a replacement. It amazes me that Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and all these “tech leader” companies are going to make the same tech fuckup multiple times.
- Comment on They're calling it the Trump Laptop. Highest quality. So affordable. We're making technology great again, folks. 6 days ago:
Right… trumptop would be a 35lb lead slab moulded around a 2016 Acer Aspire, spray pained gold, and comes with cheetos and pubes in the KB already.
- 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." 6 days ago:
I had one tell me that I needed a CVT flush. Which was news to me since my car was a 6spd manual. He was confused about the computer being wrong. I was confused about how they got the car up on the lift without using the 3rd pedal.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
I’ve heard it so many times, and it’s probably the dumbest thing I’ve heard about electric cars other than the guy who wanted to know how you would drive your EV at night if it charged from solar panels.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
Plus, have you seen all the iron and other metals that have to be mined shipped, refined, shipped, and then made in to parts, shipped again, and then assembled, and finally shipped to the dealer for a single ICE car?
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
MachE has a sound effect. Frankly, it’s kinda sad.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
Typically, you just get a tow to an EV charger (or even a residential outlet) and charge there.
I keep a spare charger and extension cord in the frunk when traveling a long distance. I can literally pull up to any place with an outlet and charge in an emergency. By the time a tow truck would show up, or by the time it would take to walk to the nearest gas station and walk back, the car would probably get enough charge to make it to a fast charger.
A word of caution to anyone charging an EV on and extension cord… You need to fucking watch it the whole time, and check the temp of your outlet and cord. Mine got uncomfortably warm, but not hot enough to burn. If the cord gets too hot to hold, then you need to stop, and get a better (usually thicker) extension cord.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 1 week ago:
If road salt is getting into your tires, and then into the sealed battery in your TPMS… you got other bigger issues. Maybe make sure you have all your valve cap isn’t broken or missing?
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 week ago:
I’m using ModOrganizer 2, and it seems to work fine, but you need a separate installation for every game.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 week ago:
I went from 10 to Mint back in January.
Pretty easy switchover. Very few issues. As a lifelong Windows user, installing apps, keeping everything updated and backed up could not be easier. Only issue I ran into during install was my WiFi device would not show up. Had to turn off fast boot and then power cycle the system and literally pull the plug to completely reset the adapter. Other than that, everything worked perfectly “out of the box”. No fucked up driver install process. No hour long updates. It literally worked perfectly within minutes. All the shit I went through with every single Windows install honestly feels like a cruel fucking joke right now when I type it out.
- Comment on A product of his environment 1 week ago:
Hypothetically, near instantly. Realistically, I don’t think someone is going to bother to triangulate a random burst in the 2.4 and 5ghz bands, but someone logging radio traffic for shits and giggles would certainly notice 5-10 minutes bursts of noise early in the mornings saturating the band (you’d need to do the whole band as modern WiFi will channel hop for the best signal).
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 1 week ago:
Brutal. I guess you can always swap the tires yourself and then stop by a tire shop and ask them to reprogram it. I feel for you.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 week ago:
Same. Switched my personal machine to Mint instead of “upgrading” to 11. I have to use 11 for my work device, and it’s not hyperbole to say that it gets worse every single week.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 week ago:
AI isn’t the future, the IoT of this decade.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 week ago:
No, windows 11 has been out for like 5 years now.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 1 week ago:
You can transmit without a modem.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 1 week ago:
Wonder what kind of car you have, because my last 2 cars had a procedure to train/program a new TPMS, and some cars (according to Google) will automatically learn new sensors after about 20 minutes of driving.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 1 week ago:
Survivorship bias
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 1 week ago:
The batteries last about 10 years.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 week ago:
Sure, but if you genuinely believe this, then you need to be in the streets, breaking the law, and overthrowing the establishment. I’ve got mad respect for people who are willing to do that. I’ve got respect for people who are willing to vote to keep trump and other far right fascists out of power. I’ve got no respect for someone who doesn’t vote, or votes 3rd party when literally everything is on the line, and then grandstands about it on the internet like they are fucking hero. Those morons risked everything for a chance to gain nothing, and the rest of us are stuck with the results of their 20 IQ bet.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 week ago:
My guy, that is the meaning of the meme in the post.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 week ago:
Real quick…
How many votes did Bernie get in the 2016 primary, and how many did Clinton get?
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 week ago:
In case you forgot 9/11 happened during Bush’s (a Republican) presidency, and his administration used it to get into Afghanistan and Iran, even though most of the hijackers were Saudi, and the whole operation was Saudi funded.
If you want, you can try to guess another manufacturered crisis that dragged a Democratic administration into a war?