EpicFailGuy
@EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world
- Comment on HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules 14 hours ago:
Do yourselves a favor … lookup chipless firmware
- Comment on Simple, Stupid, and it always works 14 hours ago:
O U C H
- Comment on Microslop 🤮 2 days ago:
I love saying Microslop because Micro$oft doesn’t translate well into speech … I use this in formal conversation with customers as a support engineer on a fortune 500 European defense contractor.
- Comment on Finally, an optimal monitor configuration! 2 days ago:
oh dear jesus … this sent me on a spin
- Comment on Can't get better than this 3 days ago:
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 3 days ago:
Hey! That’s my town.
For anyone curious, here’s what the cooling channels look like. I always thought they looked like a car’s radiator from above.
- Comment on Netbird is king. 1 week ago:
Thats an interesting limitation, so netbird has to use the “site” as part of the URL for resources? can you pick the name? or is it dynamicaly generated?
- Comment on Netbird is king. 1 week ago:
I’ve been using Pangolin since it came out … to make my services available without opening ports, but I also use Netbird for VPN access.
Is their DNS forwarding “resources” stable? Last I heard it was in beta only … if I can eliminate one more piece of software that I have to admin and maintain, that’d be great.
- Comment on Are we about to see the WW3? 1 week ago:
our history books (Every country’s honestly) are choke full of propaganda. I only noticed because I got formal education from 3 different countries.
I found it very interesting for example … that Spain does not teach about the inquisition or the spanish american war.
Flip side, in the US there’s nothing in our books about any of Europe’s history at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This is why:
imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
In reality, every OEM wants you to buy an adapter from THEM and not a universal one because …
- Comment on Are we about to see the WW3? 1 week ago:
I would argue that we have been in WW3 for a while … since this whole “de-globalization” started.
World wars are hard to define … what started WW2? Is there a single moment in time? Was it Pearl Harbor? Was it the invasion of Poland? By the time the Germans Invaded the conditions for world war had already been around for a while.
I’d argue that we’re currently in the “appeasement” phase of WW3 … I just hope that it’s a cold and mostly economic war … and not one with global drafts and attrition (altho Russia and Ukraine already have broken that barrier)
- Comment on It's frankly stupid of me to get annoyed when people at work ask me tech questions, I'm getting paid to give 0-effort answers. 1 week ago:
10 year veteran, infrastructure engineer here. I’m basically a service desk for other engineers that don’t specialize in my product.
I get entry level questions EVERY day, not IT entry level, entry level computer literacy questions like “how do I attach a screenshot?” “I lost my password”
A) We have one of the best knowledge bases in the industry. No one uses it.
B) These are security engineers for fortune 500 financial institutions asking these questions.
It’s service desk all the way up my dude … I thought I would be free from that curse when I stooped supporting end users, nope, B2B it’s just as bad.
Anyways, the one trick that I’ve found works for me is to imagine I’m talking to my little nephew, that way you summon the patience, lower your expectations and probably end up treating the customer with a bit more delicacy.
- Comment on Selfhosted News Feed 1 week ago:
Woah! This is pretty neat, I think I just found my next “bathroom reading”
Thanks for sharing bud (and for hosting it)
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 1 week ago:
Depending on the charger, it may be exactly the same thing.
Go watch a video about the P.D (Power delivery) standard.
Macbook air and up use P.D2.0 (65W)
There is a newer version (PD3.0) that goes up to 100W, but it’s more expensive, rare and hasn’t really caught up as much.
- Comment on ZUTOMAYO - DARKEN video with Porter Robinson - Sad Machine as music fit so well even more interesting both are 4:18 long. 1 week ago:
no one?? Fine, I’ll do it myself
Don’t know ZUTOMAYO but the animation style reminds me a lot of one of my favorite songs.
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 2 weeks ago:
You sound upset, you should talk to someone about that.
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 2 weeks ago:
Thank you, that’s a very interesting perspective. I wasn’t aware of the plutonium thing.
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 2 weeks ago:
You’re not bothered by the plutonium stuff? Would you still defend it if the plutonium features were still there in the self hosted version?
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 2 weeks ago:
It’s a new project (as far as I can tell it just went public a few weeks ago) they have exploded in popularity in the last week and they are amid migrating their backed hosting provider ATM, they have been having service interruptions for the last couple of days
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 2 weeks ago:
What’s Lemmy’s opinion on Fluxer?
- Comment on We got more games and better games when there was less money being made in the industry. 2 weeks ago:
Private equity it’s a virus that kills everything it touches
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft’s 2027 Xbox could be a huge shift for the platform 4 weeks ago:
Protip: Every time you see an article with “Could” in the headline … skip it. Either report when it’s facts or don’t report at all.
- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 4 weeks ago:
la derecha oprime, la izquierda libera
- Comment on My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it? 2 months ago:
Most apartments with water included in the rent price (Sorry kids, there’s no such thing as “free water”) closely monitor their usage on a per building or floor basis. Whenever they detect irregularities they schedule inspections with the tenants to check for things like leaking toilet valves and such.
“free water” just means that they’ve calculated the cost of installing the meters and additional plumbing and determined that monitoring global usage and including it in the price of rent is cheaper.
Source: I have water included in my rent, I pay about $50 more a month than a similar apartment without.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 2 months ago:
Unfortunately soldered ram and non replaceable batteries are becoming more common on the ultralights … Thanks Apple
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 2 months ago:
I miss my clitmouse XD
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 2 months ago:
Replying to my own comment to give yall one more tidbit.
The latitude product nomenclature is still standard
- 2 first digits of the model number are the “class” the higher the laptop the more high end
- last 2 digits of the model number are the generation (we are current in 60)
So for example the Latitude 9460 is the very high end laptop that came out at the beginning of this year while the 3540 was the entry level economy latitude that came out in 2023
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 2 months ago:
Hijacking top comment to report that: This is true across the industry for (most) OEMs
The Secret is to buy “Enterprise level”
Check out the LATITUDE line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Latitude
Those are enterprise fleet laptops … the ones they have to support for 5-10 years.
You know which line they don’t discontinue parts for? You know which line has repair manuals and driver updates available? wanna take a wild guess which line is usually more modular and powerful at the expense of being less sleek looking and thin?
And the best part is that you can usually buy them fairly cheap if you find them used.
I prefer Dell Latitude to HP Elitebook, Thinkpads are OK too but they’ve gone down in quality a lot since they got bought by Lenovo
TL;DR = Buy an enterprise level laptop, consumer line laptops are all trash,
- Comment on Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland? 2 months ago:
Peter Zenyan has a really good breakdown of why they want it … it’s for geopolitical reasons (the northern passage)
