Buelldozer
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- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 17 hours ago:
I’m cautiously optimistic. This looks like a reasonable use of tech that doesn’t seem to have so many of the spyware elements that other glasses (like Meta) have. There’s no external camera, no screens (only lenses), and no mention needing an app or internet connection.
As someone in their target demographic I’m interested to find out what is actually released and would consider purchasing a pair.
- Comment on Colorado right-to-repair law covering consumer electronics now in effect 17 hours ago:
Motors used to be BOLTED together, now they are GLUED together.
50 years ago you were working on brushed motors with relatively sloppy tolerances, less torque, and more electrical consumption. Today’s motors are faster, stronger, lighter, more efficient, and designed to higher tolerances.
It used to take me a half hour to change the clutch slave cylinder on my truck. Now (newer truck) I have to PULL the transmission to do that.
Very few vehicles in the U.S. have a manual transmission and the prevalence of them is decreasing quickly in all western countries. No matter how much we may prefer manuals it’s inarguable that modern automatics get better fuel economy, are easier to operate and are often stronger than their manual equivalent.
My point here is that often the same advances that make things better make them more difficult to service.
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 17 hours ago:
Thank you for the feedback!
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 5 days ago:
I actually don’t know. I’ll have to try it.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 6 days ago:
Just need a way to admin Active Directory from Linux and I’m set…
What’s wrong with Active Directory Web Services? It’s installed on every DC by default since WS2008R2.
You could also install PowerShell on your Penguin box and do tasks via command line.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Installing Collabra Office on a Windows PC requires the use of the Microsoft Store. Ick.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
IIRC this happened in January of 2025. The rebrand obviously failed because I don’t know a single person who calls it anything other than “Office” or “Microsoft Office”.
- Comment on Taiwan chipmaker TSMC begins 2nm chip volume production 1 week ago:
Maybe the marketing language is technically deficient but the result of the technology speaks for itself; devices keep getting faster AND more power efficient.
Meanwhile it’s so damn hard to do that there’s only one company making the machines that can pull it off and only one company that can successfully execute the process.
This stuff is ultra pimpin now matter what the marketing department calls it.
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 1 week ago:
Creality K1
See this is one of the things that confuses me. ASA supposedly requires a bed temperature of 120 but the K1 supposedly only goes to 100. Did you modify yours to get hotter or did it just work?
Thanks for the warning about the fumes. This machine will go out in the garage and be externally vented.
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 1 week ago:
The Centauri Carbon is surprisingly inexpensive, almost suspiciously so. I don’t need multi-color so that won’t be a problem. I’ll look into this one more.
The Snapmaker U1 looks interesting and it’s currently on sale for $849 so it’s in my budget -but- were back to the “I want a guarantee the thing will print ASA without 100 hours of frustration and faffing about.” thing.
BUT: please, for the love of god,the spaghetti monster and everyone else…
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I appreciate your warning about ASA and its toxic fumes. The machine will live in my 3 car garage where I can put an externally vented hood over it or enclose it completely.
And stay away from Bambu,imho.
That’s a bummer to hear as they’re one of the few manufacturer names that I actually recognize!
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 1 week ago:
I know that BL has some controversy regarding lock in but I can’t even figure out which of their models would do I want in order to buy it!
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- Comment on (Technology Connections) I made my whole-home humidifier slightly less terrifying [34:38] 1 week ago:
I’ve been strongly considering adding a whole home humidifier and after watching I’m going to buy an Aprilaire 700 like his and do the same upgrade to it!
- Comment on MIT just made aluminum 5x stronger with 3D printing 1 week ago:
ALON is aluminum oxynitride. It’s aluminum. If you don’t like that then you are not going to like Saphire, Al2O3, as an answer either.
BTW I’m old enough that I watched that movie in the Theater and I’m pretty sure sure that Scotty doesn’t refer to “metallic aluminum”, he simply says “transparent aluminum” and we have two different materials that fit the description.
- Comment on MIT just made aluminum 5x stronger with 3D printing 2 weeks ago:
Transparent aluminum already exists. Lookup ALON.
- Comment on Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense 2 weeks ago:
My Galaxy S22+ is over 3 years old and I expect to get at least two more years out of it. I can afford to get a new smartphone every year if I want but there’s no longer any compelling reason to do so.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 4 weeks ago:
This is why many of the expensive Dock options from HP / Dell / Lenovo, etc come with a non-detachable USB-C cable. You can’t have the “wrong” cable because the one you need isn’t removable.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 4 weeks ago:
Nah, I don’t blame you. The list of crap that I had to allow under “required” to read the article was preposterous.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 4 weeks ago:
But why does the HDMI forum not want a open source 2.1-compliant implementation?
To my knowledge they’ve never officially said but you can be sure that it has to do with Content Protection and that means DRM. An Open Source HDMI 2.1+ driver would make pirating much simpler, probably trivial, using Linux based PCs.
It’s possible anyway of course but there are a couple of hardware hoops to jump through and that’s enough to keep most people from doing it.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 4 weeks ago:
Odd, I have three screens active on my Mint desktop right now. I’ll have to try this on my Mint laptop and see what happens.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung 5 weeks ago:
A couple of them have been built and they’re just sitting there unpowered
Most of them in California because that State simply cannot get its shitty power grid sorted out. The damn thing barely works at the best of times.
The utility company promised Digital Realty and Stack Infrastructure that they’d have the power ready for them by the time their DCs were built but…SURPRISE…they lied.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung 5 weeks ago:
Power availability is actually a primary consideration when choosing a location for a Data Center. Sometimes they’ll site a DC even if there isn’t enough power and then build out the power generation that they need.
An example are the two DCs that Microsoft is building in Cheyenne, Wyoming and the absolutely massive 1.2 Million panel solar farm being built to power them. cowboystatedaily.com/…/massive-1-2-billion-1-2-mi…
This is at least the second time that Microsoft has done this in Cheyenne. In 2016 they contracted for 237 MW of Wind Energy, which led to the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind farms being built / expanded. …microsoft.com/…/latest-energy-deal-microsofts-ch…
No matter what you think of AI the folks that engineer these DCs aren’t stupid. They are well aware of their extreme power requirements.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 month ago:
Didn’t GIMP release an entire UI overhaul earlier this year?
- Comment on People using Cloudflare, are you still happy with it? Would you consider any self-hosted alternative? 1 month ago:
Same here.
- Comment on We have one at home 1 month ago:
I really liked The Duke. It was one of the first controllers that actually fit well in my large adult size hands!
- Comment on Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog 1 month ago:
Sure but as @ApeNo1@lemmy.world noted MS is ending support for EWS in M365 in less than 12 months! So it took them 18 years to release something that still doesn’t fully work (no Calendaring support, WTF?) and won’t even be usable by this time next year.
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If it only supported outdated Exchange servers that would be one thing
The only Exchange server that ISN’T outdated at this point is the brand Exchange Server Subscription Edition. All other versions are now EoL and have no support. So unless you have a very particular need to keep your EX environment On-Prem then you may as well migrate to EXO.
If you are already using EXO then Thunderbird’s new EWS support will stop working next October.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
I have a Win11 PC sitting here with a Core i5 8500t, 16G of RAM, 1T M.2 SATA NVME, attached to a three position KVM. Hooked to that KVM are three monitors (2 x DP, 1 x HDMI), wireless keyboard & mouse, Creative USB T60 speakers, and a USB WebCam (logi 970e). Since it’s a PC I use for work it’s Entra joined and InTune managed running Managed AV, MDR, and a DNS Filtering Agent. Oh, and the drive is encrypted with BitLocker.
So I basically have as much USB attached crap as you do, sans hard drives, and it’s going through the USB Hub that’s built into my KVM.
Time from power off to usable desktop for that machine is under 40 seconds.
Your external hard drives are a likely culprit. I’d guess that they are either on an older interface or your PC is set to do a full AV scan of attached drives at boot.
Don’t get it twisted, Microsoft and their products piss me off on a daily basis. I’m not defending them.
- Comment on Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog 1 month ago:
I’m glad they have it but adding EWS support at the end of 2025 is nothing to brag about. EWS came with Exchange 2007, almost 20 years ago!