Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 1 day ago:
Email not in all caps. Clearly fake.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 2 days ago:
Burning it in a discarded toilet next to a truck stop is less disrespectful than this.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 2 days ago:
I’ve never had a flag out front of my house.
The day that orange fucker kicks the bucket, I’m putting in a flagpole and flying that bitch at full mast.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 3 days ago:
I think you are required to make deflation porn a thing now. It’s like a rule.
I’m imagining some dude getting sucked off so hard he turns into dust or a raisin.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 3 days ago:
Biggest reason why I started paying an extra 1k for housing per month… In 5 years, my crappy “luxury” apartment will cost more per month than my house. In 10 years, people will think it’s insane how cheap my house is per month.
Or the country could collapse and my property will be worthless, but at that point I got bigger problems.
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 3 days ago:
I’ve watched enough Lock Picking Lawyer never to want a consumer ‘smart lock.’
I’m gonna differ on this. The point of a lock is to control law-abiding access to your house. If someone wants in your house, they can attack your windows, doors, or even a wall if the lock is too strong. A smart lock let’s you open the door for a family member remotely, or set one time-access for your in-laws to come over and pickup a tool.
I wouldn’t use a smart lock for something hardened, like a bunker or a vault, but for a house and garage, it’s okay not to have the most bullet proof lock in the world.
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 3 days ago:
I feel like it’s missing that nifty FCC sticker…
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 3 days ago:
Yeah. You can unlock the phone, but it takes some work.
I the thing that upset me the most was that my phone was packed with an amazing array of sensors, and most of them are blocked from the user accessing. I got an app that gives me sensor data output. It really turns your phone from a device into a tool.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 4 days ago:
This.
Longtime computer “nerd” here. 8 years ago I wouldn’t have balked about spending more on a cellphone than my gaming PC, but I end up using my phone more hours per day than my desktop so I bit the bullet and bought a nice phone. Now my PC is basically a dedicated entertainment device, and my phone is my go-to for email, chat, music, videos, reading, documents, and even some work.
If I wasn’t an avid gamer, I probably wouldn’t have a desktop or laptop at all right now.
And I will be switching to Linux this year, mainly because of Windows 11 and the general direction the Microsoft is going. I’ve got a laptop to test with and when I have the hang of it, the big battle station is getting switched too.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Seems a little early for it.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 week ago:
Yeah. I have a car that has telemetry. Sucks for privacy, but if I was going to commit a crime, I would just ******************************************************************************, use the system to obfuscate the data.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 week ago:
Hahahah, fuse go brrrr.
Jokes aside, they probably shut off the car if it can’t phone home within a certain time period.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 week ago:
Once you have enough money, anything you do makes you money.
Elon blew 44 billion or Twitter, axed the servers, staff, and the name, and he was able to leverage that into a government job where he could kill investigations into his companies years later. You could say it’s intelligence, but I’d say it’s a combination of luck, and the resources to blow 44 billion and not have it affect you personally in any way.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 week ago:
Watch the RichRebuilds review of Chinese EVs. There is a lot of “make it look good” in their engineering, like massive painted brake calipers…that are a single piston. The cars probably aren’t as quality as other EVs, but the prices, specs, and niche features are very compelling. I’d definitely consider one in the US. Anything that isn’t a Tesla or a massive crossover would be great.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 week ago:
There are 2 types of libertarians.
One group is comprised of people who think the government should basically keep the military going, and handle foreign relations when that doesn’t impede private citizens.
The other group is just Republicans who don’t like being called Republicans.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 1 week ago:
Play with hot wheels and Transformers. Maybe take the afternoon and fold an entire ream of paper into airplanes, one design only, looking for small improvements on every crease, corner and pleat to create the perfect expression of that design.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 week ago:
That’s right. The platters are heavy, and the reader head is light, so we just whip the reader head around at 7200rpm
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 1 week ago:
Pretty much when the US was the only super power to survive WWII unscathed.
Also, having developed atomic hellfire, and the will to use it (twice), kinda makes you the big kid on the playground.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had about 9 boosters at this point, and my nuts are so swollen from spike proteins that when I go to Walmart, they accuse me of trying to steal basketballs.
- Comment on no way right 2 weeks ago:
There are 1.765 million registered voters in Utah. Trump got 883k votes. Kamala could have carried the state by 200k people if they bothered to vote.
Unlikely, but still possible. If people in deep red states decided it was worth it to still got out and vote blue, even if they were going to lose.
- Comment on Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering' 2 weeks ago:
Let’s put it this way.
Pretend I’m some semi-adversarial nation, like Saudi Arabia. I want trump to let off some sanctions, or tariffs, or in general give me preferential treatment compared to other nations. I want to give trump a big sum of money to do this, just writing him a check would be obvious corruption. So instead, I just book whole floors of his hotels during off-peak hours, and at a premium pricing. I don’t even bother having anyone stay in the rooms, so trump can even book those rooms again for additional money. I just “legitimately” sent trump a bunch of money, and now he is paying it forward by stopping investigations into my goons sawing journalists into tiny pieces.
If this sounds to far-fetched for you, keep in mind that it literally happened.
apnews.com/…/travel-business-saudi-arabia-malaysi…
This phone company trump has made really only exists as a bit of paper and some software. It has no infrastructure, no brick and mortar store fronts, nor any assets. It’s mostly an agreement with a large carriers to lease time on their networks, charged per usage amount. For this scenario, let’s pretend I’m Vladimir Putin trying to pay trump for leaving Ukraine high and dry. I simply put in orders for Trump’s phone service, and then never even use the phones. Hell, a physical phone is probably never sent. On paper, it looks like 100,000 people signed up for the service, but they never use any of the lines, so trump collects nearly 100% of the money, with just a little bit lost to keep a small server up to handle transactions and accounts.
If none of this makes sense to you as an obvious vector for trump to receive money from foreign agents, then I’d guess that you’re the kind of person who thinks that the mob ran legitimate protection services.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 2 weeks ago:
Gonna go out on a limb here, and guess that people living in a cabin where the electricity only works a few hours a week aren’t going to by an electric car.
As for access to public chargers… I just spent the weekend in a rural area and had no problem finding a charger within 20 miles of me.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 2 weeks ago:
If you screw up, you can usually get to a charger a few blocks away and snag 50% of your battery in 20 minutes.
I charge entirely off of a standard 120 outlet, and it easily handles my daily and weekly travel needs, along with my partner’s numerous errands and extra trips throughout the week.
- Comment on How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran? 3 weeks ago:
That’s glossing over the many times he tells people to kill each other.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 weeks ago:
“Does is keep better time than my 15 dollar digital Casio? Is it sturdier? Will it last longer? Is it more comfortable? No? So you spent a ridiculous amount of money to buy a less functional watch made out of precious essential materials just to try to impress people like me?”
Honestly though, if you want to piss watch people off, just say “Oh, it looks just like a regular watch, thanks for pointing it out”.
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, after watching his Jubilee session, Jordan’s debate strategy boils down to…“I’d like to nitpick the definition of every word and supplant it with my own”.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 4 weeks ago:
They do keep records, but rarely share them.
If your prospective employer says that they didn’t hire you because of what a previous employer said about you, and that previous employer doesn’t have rock solid evidence, then you can sue for lost wages, defamation, and get a nice chunk of policy.
When people called the store I was managing to get info on past employees, the only thing we would confirm was the time range they worked for us,
- Comment on This fell off my car, can I just rip it off and not care? 4 weeks ago:
Zipties, thread, scrap wire… I would try to put it back on, even badly if necessary.
No it is not necessary for your car to work. However…
It helps improve the fuel economy of your vehicle, which will save you money. It will reduce rust and wear on your vehicle, which will save you money. It costs a ridiculous amount of money to replace that piece of plastic. Typically, those pieces are layered on, and the the piece behind it may rely on the one in front to stay attached correctly.
If you plan to have the car for more than a year or two, I would recommend finding a way to remove it properly, or re-fasten it to the car.
- Comment on So close! 4 weeks ago:
My momma used to say “The broccoli is done when it can run through a colander”
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 4 weeks ago:
Get a Bluetooth AUX receiver.
