Buelldozer
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- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 1 day ago:
And for a lot of people I would still recommend Windows.
Eh, only if someone needs it.
For instance my 75 year old father is happily using Linux Mint on his laptop. Why? Because all he’s doing with it is web surfing, watching youtube, and checking his email. At home that’s all most people are doing, especially older people. I set his up so that it backs up his stuff and auto-updates. It just works and if it does get broken I can recover it with minimal effort.
It’s the same for me at home. My main PC is Linux Mint where I do almost everything. For the occasions I need Windows I have an Intel NUC attached to my KVM. For work I’ve got LM installed on my work laptop and when I need Win11 I have a VM setup in QEMU/KVM with it.
Are there people who have workloads, or gameloads, that only run on Windows? Sure there. We all know that.
But there are a lot of people, especially home users, who could easily run Linux and don’t.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 4 days ago:
If you can buy a Tesla cheap enough the usable parts, such as batteries and motors, can be moved to a different frame or vehicle. Even an ICE vehicle that you’d like to electrify. It’s all just parts.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 5 days ago:
That sucks. If I can’t control the ads with settings, dns fuckery, or firewalling then I guess I’ll leave their ecosystem.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
Some TVs already have the ability to connect to sidewalk. More worrying is that every newer “Smart” TV has the ability to cast to it so if anyone ever does that using an internet connected device like a SmartPhone then bam…your TV just got an internet connection and can now send out stored data and potentially grab a firmware update.
Surprise!
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
It gets its internet connection from the PC; both HDMI and DisplayPort allow this.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
but now that Roku has pop up ads for simply moving around the app menu
Huh? I have 3 Roku Ultras, a Roku Stick, and a Roku TV and none of them do that. Have you gone into the Roku settings menu recently and turned off all the ad stuff?
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 1 week ago:
Does “US gov funded” immediately make me suspicious of it happening? Yes.
As it should. Frankly NO Government should have sway over the CVE program, they are all shady AF and every one them would absolutely do what you are describing if they felt it was in their interest.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 1 week ago:
Good. Despite the fact that my Government is currently being run by baboons the US Government shouldn’t have been the sole carrier of such a globally important program. Companies, The CVE program is central to how security companies, Qualys being an example, make absolute shedloads of money.
These companies shouldn’t be getting a free ride; it’s only right that they contribute to maintaining the resource.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 week ago:
These people are all fucking idiots. No business can plan anything when costs are whipsawing back and our trading partners are already tired of reacting to these near daily changes.
I just don’t have language strong enough to convey my utter exasperation and the depth of my content for these people.
- Comment on Windows Defender Anti-vitus Bypassed Using Direct Syscalls & XOR Encryption 1 week ago:
Saw this attack in the wild this week. Huntress MDR detected and shut it down.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 week ago:
It’s pretty easy in both places actually, just don’t talk about politics.
Turns out our Grandparents were pretty damn smart with that “Don’t talk about Religion and Politics” rule.
- Comment on Sensitive financial data feared stolen from US bank watchdog: OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago. 2 weeks ago:
Attack began in May of 2023. That ain’t Musk.
- Comment on Sensitive financial data feared stolen from US bank watchdog: OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago. 2 weeks ago:
Attack has been ongoing since May of 2023. That ain’t Musk.
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing Copilot Vision update that can “see” your screen and apps 2 weeks ago:
This is why I started “testing” Linux Mint on all my personal machines 6 months ago.
With that said the training data that Copilot Vision could generate may begin a sea change in both AI and the PC industry.
- Comment on JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Trump tariffs will boost inflation, slow an already weakening U.S. economy 2 weeks ago:
Three months ago Jamie Dimon was telling people to “Get over it” in regards to their fears with the Trumpican Tariffs. Fuck this guy.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 2 weeks ago:
Markets will still consider it a win if Trump does not else good in the next 4 years except for extend the “tax cuts and jobs” billionaire and corporate handouts.
Of the Top 10 most profitable companies in the world 8 of them are American. Those 8 companies lost enough Market Capitalization in the last 24 hours to fund a mid-sized Country. “The Markets” are not fucking happy at all.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 2 weeks ago:
Inflation from the Fed helicoptering money around was probably the most predicted thing that’s happened in the last 50 years. It should have surprised literally no one.
It’s also no surprise that it hasn’t gone away. That’s called deflation and every central banker on the planet would rather be eviscerated with a rusty spoon than allow deflation to happen.
- Comment on How to easily add a backup internet connection to your home office - and why you should, A failover internet connection is a good idea if you work from home - and it's not complicated to set up. 2 weeks ago:
Setting up a dual wan edge device with fail-over isn’t difficult, it’s the paying for two ISPs part that most people don’t want to do.
- Comment on Gulf states refuse to be launching pad for any US attacks against Iran 3 weeks ago:
If the chatter is to be believed the gathering B-2s are headed to Yemen to rain GBU-57s on the Houthi rebels underground bunkers. This would clearly demonstrate to Iran that their bunkers wouldn’t be reliable in a conflict with the United States.
Trump is an idiot though so who knows.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 3 weeks ago:
This pen / pencil thing has been corrected so many times for so many decades that it’s ludicrous people are still bringing it up.
scientificamerican.com/…/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spe…
Random bits of pencil lead floating around in a high tech environment is such a poor idea that even the Soviet’s quit using pencils once Fisher’s Space Pen was available. A pen which Fisher itself paid to develop and then sold to both NASA and the Soviet Space Program.
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 4 weeks ago:
Syncthing
That is a very cool project that I’d never heard of. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 4 weeks ago:
So I’m cruising through the rules surrounding Canada’s iZEV program and I can’t find any requirement that the vehicle be “delivered”, which is contrary to all of the media coverage. It’s even described on the official Transport Canada website as a “Point of Sale” program. Delivery at the time of sale doesn’t seem to be a requirement.
Further if you look at the process, another place this is referenced as a “Point of Sale or Lease” program, and the e-forms the end purchaser IS involved with this. A dealership can’t file a re-imbursement claim without the end purchaser being involved.
The number of vehicles does seem high but only in the context of individuals however the iZEV program allows for Fleet Sales and some entities could claim up to 50 vehicles under the program. Now all of a sudden what would need to be 8,000 individual sales could theoretically be as low as 160.
Add it all together and it seems believable that Tesla slammed a bunch of legitimate sales into the system at the last minute. After reviewing the process and the forms it seems a LESS believable that Tesla made up all of these sales as the documentation requirements mean they’d certainly be caught the minute anyone checked.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 4 weeks ago:
I believe it’s a pump-n-dump ahead of the earnings call on April 23rd. Those results are not going to be good and I expect that that the big investors who are driving this will start selling off next week to cash in.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 4 weeks ago:
Not gonna lie, I don’t get the hate.
TEAMs was terrible going into the pandemic but it’s steadily gotten better, especially over the past 18 months. Reading down the comment chain though I’m in awe at the amount of problems that people are apparently still having with it!
TEAMs via app or browser on my Windows 10 box at work? Fine. TEAMs via app or browser on my Windows 11 Surface? Fine. TEAMs via app or browser on my wheezy HP laptop with Windows 11? Fine. TEAMs via browser (Firefox even!) on all three of my Linux systems? Also completely fine!
Hell I’ve got Creative T-60 USB-C speakers, a logi webcam, and Turtle Beach headphones hooked to a USB sharing KVM for two of those linux boxes and it still just works.
I must be the luckiest dumb-ass alive when it comes to MS TEAMs because at least for the last two years it just works.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 4 weeks ago:
in-transparent
As a helpful FYI the word you were looking for there was “opaque”.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 4 weeks ago:
Multiple countries in Europe are already working overtime to rat-fuck DNS. I’d prefer if euro-leadership remained blissfully unaware of the root DNS servers.
- Comment on I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud | Jeff Geerling 4 weeks ago:
Jeff runs a Home Assistant setup which means he really should have known better. All of the major appliance companies are doing this and it started years ago.
- Comment on US retailers haggle with suppliers after Trump tariffs 4 weeks ago:
I would love to be able to buy directly from suppliers instead of being forced to shop at Walmart or Target (or Amazon).
You can. Nearly all of the “off brand” China produced stuff that’s sold at Walmart / Target / Amazon can be purchased online from Ebay, Aliexpress, Temu, etc. The “Name Brand” stuff can often be purchased at the manufacturers website for nearly the same cost as buying it from Amazon or Walmart.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
To use an extreme example, if I saw someone just spamming the hard-R I would want their comment immediately removed.
In the forum days those users would get attacked and / or blocked by other users. If they caused enough havoc for long enough then the mods / admins would step in. The expectation NOW is that the mods / admins will actively monitor every post and comment in order to remove disagreeable content before it can be seen. That’s quite the change over the last 20 years!
The funniest part is that this mirrors real life. If someone did that IRL, I would just leave.
“Mirror” is probably more apt than you realize. IRL you would leave but on the internet you want them to leave. I’m not blaming you or saying that you’re wrong, I’m just pointing out the difference.
I agree that all forums require some level of moderation in order to keep from turning into total troll-fests however there’s a wide chasm between moderating someone because they won’t stop posting racial slurs and moderating someone because they’re going against the grain / hivemind.