Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on idiot chess 1 week ago:
Props for having the chessboard setup correctly. Something most movies can’t manage with hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on consulting.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 1 week ago:
Long story short, logistics benefits from scale. The cost to ship a pallet of poptarts to a store is roughly the same as shipping half a pallet. Smaller stores can’t really undercut larger corporations because they don’t have the scale.
Also when your mom and pop store doesn’t make a profit for 3 months, they go under. When a Walmart doesn’t make a profit for 3 months, they stay open because they have those loses spread across hundreds of other Walmarts.
- Comment on Microsoft May Remove Windows 11 Online Login Requirement 1 week ago:
Thanks for checking, fuckwit.
- Comment on Microsoft May Remove Windows 11 Online Login Requirement 1 week ago:
Shift + F10 and running OOBE\BYPASSNRO still worked for me last month. Depends on what update of Win 11 is on the system (I think up to 24H2 is fine).
Otherwise, I’ve had success doing Shift+F10 and running ipconfig /release to break the network connection at the sign in screen.
- Comment on its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0 1 week ago:
More realistic option is 15 other Logitech wireless device receivers, and you don’t know which one goes to your current mouse and keyboard, so you just leave them all plugged in.
At least, that is my experience working in IT. Personal record was 6.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
Container garden. I even had one on my North facing balcony in Baltimore.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
I dunno, we grow huge amounts of corn for ethanol to replace 15% of the fuel for cars… And it would be multiple time more efficient (in terms of land use) to cover that area with solar panels and phase out ICEs for EVs.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 1 week ago:
looks a solar panels
Yep, magic right there.
Sees nuclear power plants
What sorcery is this?!
Observes EVs, heat pumps, biofuels…
Mysteries beyond the comprehension of man!
- Comment on Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies 1 week ago:
It’s more than just the hardware.
They screwed up by finally forcing everyone onto an objectively shitty OS. Every other time MSlop has dropped support for an OS, they’ve had at least two others to choose from, and one of them was passable.
They screwed up by letting AI vibe code updates, which were then vibe tested and vibe deployed. The last 3 “patch Tuesdays” have been absolute nightmares of system breaking bugs.
They screwed up by sloppily forcing AI in to every aspect of their OS, and then (allegedly) bragging about how the next one is just going to be an AI.
They screwed up by not recognizing that AI is not popular among the common user. There are like 3 people at my workplace who actually use it, and the main thing they use it for is to add fluff to a chat message to turn it into an email.
They screwed up by putting a “line go up” business moron in charge of the company, who then pup more “line go up” business morons in charge of the projects and departments. It’s no wonder that the new outlook sucks and is not fully featured, despite being the “default” outlook for year. It’s no wonder new teams is buggy, inconsistent, bloated, and always changing for the worse. It’s no wonder why all the perfectly functional menus and features of 10 have been hidden by slick and useless facsimiles in 11, while confusing and clunky elements of Win95 still lurk in the shadows.
If Microsoft wants to get back on top, they need new leadership. An apology changes nothing, action does. The current man in charge and his posse of yes-men flat out lack the character and understanding to make a good product that people and businesses want to use. They’ve been coasting on the momentum of being the top dog for 30 years, but that source of market force is not infinite.
- Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. 1 week ago:
Jokes aside. You can build you own solar charging station for a few grand.
Not a lot of people can build their own oil extraction and refinement system in their backyard.
On the flip side, might be a good time for everyone to learn about wood gasifiers.
- Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. 1 week ago:
The one thing you are forgetting… Is that Tesla lobbies the regulatory agencies.
For another comparison, the cyber truck is 17 times more likely to burn you to death than the Ford Pinto, a car that is practically synonymous with fire.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Robot/AI
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
It will still work in daylight, but the LEDs you’d use would have to be brighter than the sun.
Unless the camera has two separate sensors/lenses, one with an IR filter and one without.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
Problem is that’s human readable. Unless you are the nerdiest of nerds, you’re not reading QR code or even most plain old barcodes.
Related, a few years ago, I could read 3of9 barcode font by sight because I spent like 4 years programming Honeywell scanners for POS systems and created an inventory system to track 60,000 iOS devices where I added a serial number and inventory number barcode for each device.
- Comment on It is time to dispel all of the disinformation surrounding the life & death of Charlie Kirk. 2 weeks ago:
Dolphinoplasty, a surgery on the bleeding edge of medical science and terminal ballistics.
- Comment on There are people in first world countries with only 1 hard drive 2 weeks ago:
Oh jeez.
Um…
2TB nvme for my desktop.
256GB nvme “test drive” that formerly contained my Linux Mint environment.
128GB SATA SSD for my old Windows 10 data.
512GB drive in my rescued HP Elite x2.
Couple of “scrap” 1 TB HDDs that are donating parts to a drive revival project that has probably failed at this point.
Another 1 TB in a rescued Lenovo laptop that I’m refurbing to give away.
16x 2TB SSDs in a supermicro server I’m playing around with, 2x 1TB nvme in there as well.
Oh, another drive of unknown size in another laptop 2-in-1 that may get refurbed and given away.
Maybe 27 or so drives, and that’s not counting my work computer, or my partner’s computer.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
That’s why American Airlines had the “cheat line” livery. Bare hulls saved them enough weight to carry like an extra 2 passengers.
Plus, polished metal on airframes looks sweet IMHO. Real “DC3 golden era of aviation” vibes.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t say owned.
And trust me, plenty of non-electric cars will be sold today and tomorrow, same for laptops without soldered RAM.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much every machine I’ve had open has upgradable ram. Unless the machine is the absolute thinnest of ultrabooks, the Ram has been easily removed, replaced and upgraded.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 2 weeks ago:
(And good luck getting your IT people at work letting you put Linux on your laptop.)
What am I gonna do? Stop myself?
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 2 weeks ago:
I mainly just turn mine on. Not a lot of work.
I mean, it’s been a lot of work lately because I’m learning a new OS and mucking about with shuffling some data around on a couple different drives, but for the last 5 years or so, the “work” involved in keeping my desktop running was mainly plugging it in again after moving to a new apartment.
- Comment on That's the feeling. 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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.