krayj
@krayj@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Is it disrespectful to call someone instead of answering their email? 11 months ago:
If answering the email requires writing a book to anticipate all the possible questions or options or complications that might come up, then no it’s not disrespectful to call someone instead.
- Comment on A guide to a longer lasting Smartphone. 11 months ago:
I tried a similar scenario: The phone has a rfid reader built in, so I put the rfid tag on the charger and tried letting the phone read it, but quickly discovered that android can’t/wont read rfid tags unless the phone is unlocked, which defeated the elegance of the solution. I hadn’t considered buying a standalone reader and attaching the tag to the phones, that sounds a lot more complicated.
- Comment on A guide to a longer lasting Smartphone. 11 months ago:
Using an Automation APP like Tasker to turn off a Home Assistant-controlled smart plug when the battery exceeds a reprogramming threshold, might be a more reliable method & works for any device.
This is the method I have been using for years and it works great. I use Home Assistant to manage the automation, the Home Assistant client app for Android to collect the device telemetry to send to Home Assistant (how I know when the batter hits 85% or drops below 70%.
I do want to point out there is one small downside to this method: your device charger (and I’m using an Anker wireless phone charging stand as my charger) only works for one device. Example, say my personal phone is charged up to 85%, so I take it off the charger, but my work-issued phone needs to be charged, but when I put my work phone on the charger nothing happens and it doesn’t charge because the charger is connected to a smart plug that’s turned off because my personal phone is charged up.
- Comment on Right-wing influencers pledge to bail out Elon Musk after Apple, Disney, others suspend advertising on X 11 months ago:
As much as I would LOVE to see them waste their money on this, we know they are all talk and no action and won’t actually contribute anything.
- Comment on SanDisk Refutes Claim That Faulty Hardware is to Blame for SSD Failures | PetaPixel 11 months ago:
Not only did they NOT do a recall, they also did NOT executec any kind of customer outreach program to advise about the very real possibility of data loss. And then to just shit all over everyone, they put all the affected products on sale with deep discounts - presumably to sell them as fast as possible before the bad bress became more widely heard.
- Comment on How does dog pee ownership work? 11 months ago:
I have always thought of it as how graffiti taggers work. They are always tagging over each other’s work. The last one to paint gets the most exposure but you can still see remnants of more recent taggers the lay under the topmost. Eventually the oldest stuff just gets covered completely. They don’t necessarily pick their canvas because there is other work they try to cover up, they pick their canvas for the location and exposure.
- Comment on Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff 1 year ago:
Yeah, this was predicted by everyone, long in advance. The surprising thing here is how long they’ve managed to cling to life. I expected them to be deceased by now. I didn’t think they’d last another three years, let along five.
- Comment on Artists lose first copyright battle in the fight against AI-generated images 1 year ago:
In the US, copyright is implicit. All work is instantly protected by copyright the moment it is created. Registering with copyright office is optional/voluntary. I think the judge’s comments that you are referring to was probably referring to the works where copyright protections were waived by the artists for works placed into public domain (which, on Deviant Art, covers a vast amount).
- Comment on Petition Calls on Microsoft to Extend Windows 10 Support | PCMag 1 year ago:
My system significantly exceeds all the performance requirements for Win11, but it doesn’t have the Trusted Platform Module 2.0…and therefore cannot run Windows 11. It’s disappointing that my system can run circles around a lot of newer devices but can’t upgrade because it’s running on an older motherboard. It’s dumb that Microsoft made TPM 2.0 a deal-breaking requirement for Win11.
- Comment on Around 76 locations were raided in India as part of a crackdown on phony tech support scam calls 1 year ago:
76 down, ten thousand more to go.
- Comment on The CEO of Dropbox has a 90/10 rule for remote work 1 year ago:
I have a designated-remote job, but I’m also in a role that’s periodically customer-facing. For accounting purposes, the time I spend working from home in my home office is considered ‘remote’ and my time on-site at customer premises is considered an off-site event. Not sure how they do it at Dropbox, but that gives you an idea of how the time categorization goes.
- Comment on meet project primrose, adobe’s real-life interactive dress that changes design every second 1 year ago:
This article desperately needs video.
Here’s the official video from Adobe. Bump to 45s into the vid to see the dress in action:
- Comment on My CO2 / Smoke Detector Scared a Year off my life today, and I have questions. Long. 1 year ago:
I assume you mean “CO” detector. CO2 is Carbon Dioxide and I don’t think you went out and purchased and installed a detector for that.
High humidity levels can absolutely cause a false alarm on a CO detector. Example: safeinhomeair.com/carbon-monoxide-humidity/
I’ll also point out that not all CO detectors are created equal. There was a lot of news about this earlier this year where a number of CO detectors sold on Amazon simply did not work, or did not meet published safety and detection standards. Here’s an example of some of the serious warnings that were published: cpsc.gov/…/CPSC-Warns-Consumers-to-Immediately-St… . Following that announcement, there were several other brands and models that were flagged as being non-compliant. If you haven’t done so already, find your make/model and verify that it’s not one of the sub-standard units that were pawned on Amazon for years.
CO detectors also need to be replaced (they don’t last forever). Most use chemistry to detect CO levels, and that chemistry begins degrading as soon as the unit is built. Some last just a couple years, some are designed to last up to 10 years, but the point is - they all go bad eventually. How old is your detector?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
If you think the only topics of conversation we need are Politics, World News, & Technology, then we don’t need more people here.
Personally, I don’t like having to keep going back to Reddit for everything else. For other communities to be successful on Lemmy, we need about 2 orders of magnitude more users.
Are you content to have meaningful activity in just a small handful of generic topics? I’m not.
So, yes, we really do need more people here. A LOT more.
- Comment on Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk 1 year ago:
That’s the entire point of the comment you are replying to. The fines are neither a deterrent nor an inconvenience to those wealthy enough to cover the cost. They use their money, power, and influence to continue to violate law without any other consequences.
- Comment on Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras 1 year ago:
No, you’re not paranoid. I’d call it diligent.
The premise of the statement you quoted is faulty to the core. A device internal to your home network knows a lot about the design of your home network and it knows a lot about the other devices on your network, and it can be used to facilitate/relay malicious access to your other devices if it becomes compromised.
Wyze has always struggled with security problems…and I’ll admit that I do have several wyze cameras…but long ago decided their security was not trustworthy and created an entirely new virtual lan to run just my IOT stuff from. That, at least, reduces the exposure for some of their security issues. I certainly would never have interior cameras built by wyze - that’s too risky even with robust network security on my side of it.
- Comment on You can now control the visibility of your lists on the Fediseer 1 year ago:
I can understand part of the motivation for doing this, but does this not immediately make it significantly harder for users to evaluate an instance and make decisions about whether or not to join an instance based on what other instances it allows/blocks?
If I’m understanding this change correctly, it would hinder user’s ability to find an instance that’s well-aligned to them because those will no longer be able to see one of the most important metrics governing how an instance chooses to operate (what it federates and defederates with).
- Comment on Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’ 1 year ago:
Let me install my own third party apps w/o the App store (I know altstore exists, but needing to renew apps every few days is super janky). If I spend my money on a device, I should be allowed to put whatever I want on it, however I want. Let me, the consumer accept the risks of doing so.
This is THE reason I switched from Apple to Android in 2017 and never looked back.
- Comment on France bans iPhone 12 after finding radiation levels are too high 1 year ago:
It would also affect already sold units. They are giving apple 2 weeks to come up with a software fix to remediate already sold units and if apple fails to comply, they will force apple to recall all the iPhone 12s still in use.
- Comment on France bans iPhone 12 after finding radiation levels are too high 1 year ago:
The article says:
The French agency that regulates radio frequencies, the ANFR, has notified Apple of its decision to ban iPhone 12 sales after tests showed the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) was above the allowed limit.
Followed by this quote:
The ANFR said it would verify that the iPhone 12 models were no longer being offered for sale in France starting today.
That sounds a lot like “banned” to me.
- Comment on France bans iPhone 12 after finding radiation levels are too high 1 year ago:
From the article:
The agency noted that tests measuring radiation absorption rates at a distance of 5cms (1.98 inches) showed that the iPhone 12 was in compliance with the limit of 2.0 watts per kilogram.
But it also says that:
The ANFR said accredited labs had measured absorption of electromagnetic energy by the body at 5.74 watts per kilogram during tests simulating when the phone was being held in the hand or kept in a pocket, writes France 24. That’s higher than the European standard absorption rate of 4.0 watts per kilogram.
That sounds like a different test that it is currently failing?
It makes it sound like the iPhone 12 was in compliance earlier, but is not in compliance now.
- Comment on France bans iPhone 12 after finding radiation levels are too high 1 year ago:
It’s not per kilogram of the device. It’s a measure of absorption per kilogram of body mass of the person using the device.
A good way to think about it is: throw a small piece of meat into the microwave and let it absorb some microwaves. It gets warm. Now imagine a much larger piece of meat. It can absorb a lot more microwaves before it starts getting warm. So when it comes to mobile device radiation levels, they focus on the watts of radiation absorbed per kilogram of body mass.
- Comment on France bans iPhone 12 after finding radiation levels are too high 1 year ago:
I thought the iPhone 12 hasn’t been sold since 2021, so why does it even matter if the iPhone 12 is not compliant with a more modern standard?
- Comment on California Just Became the Third State to Pass Electronics Right to Repair 1 year ago:
Headline is a bit misleading. It’s not part of California state law yet. The bill needs to go back to the senate for a procedural vote, then needs to be signed into law by the Governor. It’s probably a foregone conclusion that both those things will happen given the unanimous support for the bill, but I just wanted to point out that it’s technically not a done-deal yet.
iFixit obviously has some vested interest in seeing this pass, but at the end of the day they’ve accomplished something great for the country. I can’t wait to see how this actually impacts consumer products going forward.
- Comment on Apple Announces iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus With USB-C Port, Dynamic Island, Frosted Glass Design 1 year ago:
They must have done a cost/benefit analysis and came to the obvious conclusion that having to build multiple variants would be more costly than the profit they’d have earned by continuing to gouge all the non-EU consumers on proprietary cables and junk.
The world owes the EU a debt of gratitude for forcing apple compliance on this one.
- Comment on I have an apartment where the dumpster is a car's drive away, and taking trash down involves 4 staircases. What is the best way to ameliorate this situation? 1 year ago:
It usually means you reside in a multi-block sized apartment complex and that the dumpsters are on one end of the complex rather than being centrally located, and your apartment is on the other end… and those distances feel doubled if it is raining, or there is snow or ice on the ground.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I think you are missing a big piece of the bigger picture.
Much of the ‘utility’ of the lemmy alternatives is the significantly larger user base, which is what’s necessary for more niche communities to get off the ground and actually be viable. Without that userbase, lemmy is just another alternate place to discuss the basest comm9n topics, that can be discussed anywhere. I mean, technology and news are nice to have, but it’s the variety of the niche community that are what keep people still hooked on reddit.
So in the end, making a place popular for the sake of popularity actually does serve an important purpose.
- Comment on AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action 1 year ago:
One big problem is that it makes enforcement of real abuse impossible. If there is an explosion of that kind of ai generated content and it gets good enough to be confused for the real thing, then real abuse will slip under the radar. It would be impossible to sift through all that content if ai generated were ever allowed.
- Comment on Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes? 1 year ago:
Well, to keep up the analogy, it wouldn’t be the gun manufacturers advertising that…that’s more the realm of the ammunition manufacturers. For a given gun, some ammunition is designed to be lethal, and some ammunition is designed to be non-lethal.
- Comment on Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes? 1 year ago:
Because it sets a precedent that has ludicrous outcomes where the manufacturers of any product that are used for wrong are liable for the damages caused by their use and suddenly nobody wants to manufacture screwdrivers any more. PC manufacturers are now responsible for the actions of hackers and so no more pc manufacturing, etc, etc.