BeardedGingerWonder
@BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 16 hours ago:
Assuming you’re not joking here, if your computers are any way modern they almost certainly have a backdoor.
- Comment on Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India 17 hours ago:
Coke back where? China?
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 18 hours ago:
You are making a lot of assumptions there but setting that aside, I’m not sure I’m in favour of turfing a pensioner out of their home to pay tax because they lucked out. Surely it’d be better to settle up after they die. It’s not like he’s preventing a needy young family moving in - presumably anyone buying this house would need to be pretty wealthy!
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 day ago:
Which means he’s paying $12k in property taxes a year. That does sound quite substantial. Assuming that’s somewhat equivalent to rates in the UK, I pay around £1400.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 day ago:
Lol, my server goes by “nas”
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 day ago:
Lol, it’s 20x easier when you’re looking at a dump from nmap.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 1 day ago:
You update your TV more than your phone? I don’t feel that’s the regular way of things.
- Comment on Self-hosting minecraft 1 day ago:
Can I make my Linux Minecraft talk to my Xbox Minecraft?
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 4 days ago:
Self hosting movement is hosting stuff yourself, so kinda, assuming you’re not putting some kind of advertising on your own services, but most commonly I’d see things like jellyfin, nextcloud, navidrome, immich and then a bunch of other stuff, there’s foss alternatives to most commercial offerings.
Is a great place to start.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 4 days ago:
I wouldn’t mind a little faster paced fwiw, the conversation can stagnate a bit sometimes, but it is what it is.
- Comment on It's a-me! 1 week ago:
I don’t go beyond the most cursory of checks on a bottle of milk. 3L doesn’t last 2 days in my house and I can’t remember the last time I saw milk with a date that short in a supermarket.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
May you be blessed for your generosity on this day! I would love to receive your cat, however in my village there is a small fee for the postage of the animals. I am, of course, willing to cover the fee - however it must be sent to the village post centre by Western Union transfer by the sender. If you send the $3500 I will reimburse you.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Dear brother in Christ I appreciate your generosity, is it a Siamese cat? I have allergies and my graphics card and the graphics card helps to clear the hair.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
My cat just died chewing through the power cable on my graphics card so I need a new 5090, please help brother
- Comment on I just think skibidibi sounds neat. 1 week ago:
Yeah sus isn’t gen z speak.
- Comment on I just think skibidibi sounds neat. 1 week ago:
Yeet those bagels my direction
- Comment on Swastikcar showing a roman rust pattern in Lower Manhattan 2 weeks ago:
Fuck me Lemmy, you are tickling me this night.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 2 weeks ago:
It does harken back to the original HL mod scene though - some high quality stuff came out of that (and valve picked up the Devs too)
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 2 weeks ago:
Thinking back, HL had a ridiculous quantity of high quality mods and TCs back in the day. Hell, Valve have even allowed HL to be remade and sold on steam.
- Comment on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Spotted with Missing ROPs, Performance Loss Confirmed, Multiple Vendors Affected 2 weeks ago:
What NVIDIA have told AIBs is completely unknown, but NVIDIA certainly hold all the power, if NVIDIA say ship them, they ship them.
Note there have been reports of FE cards, MSI, Zotac, Gigabyte and Manli all impacted.
- Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content 2 weeks ago:
I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything, for some reason some people just want to ignore the meaning of words. I’m not saying anyone feels super inconvenienced either, like I said they’re minor inconveniences, but they’re there and they grow.
Frankly I couldn’t care less about sticking it to the man, I’ve been around the scene for 30 odd years at this point and I don’t think that’s ever been a motivator for me. I do like things that make it more convenient, more reliable and increase selection - I don’t like things that make it more difficult, no matter how small.
- Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content 2 weeks ago:
In the nicest possible way, what you’re both describing are minor inconveniences.
- Comment on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Spotted with Missing ROPs, Performance Loss Confirmed, Multiple Vendors Affected 2 weeks ago:
Zotac and PNY don’t make the chips, NVIDIA at fault here. Some people care because they don’t actually have a ton of money, but gaming is their hobby and they’ve saved up 2-3 years so they can afford a high end card because it’s worth it to them the extra $50 or $100 represents the difference between being able to afford the card and not, or maybe having a couple of extra games to play on it.
- Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content 2 weeks ago:
Having to find a way around is an inconvenience.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 3 weeks ago:
A physical (or physical-ish) button is pretty much my main driver. I also like the little bit more freedom I’d have with a kobo.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 3 weeks ago:
I felt the same about my Voyage, but I’ve resolved to move to kobo once it bites the dust.
- Comment on Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps 3 weeks ago:
There’s a pun in there to be had…
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 4 weeks ago:
Or, alternatively, my phone needs replaced and I buy a flagship because they have much better cameras, I take a lot of photos and don’t want to carry a second device. I also intend to keep it until it’s unusable. Sent from my 5 year old flagship absolutely nobody thinks is a fancy phone and I doubt ever did.
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 2 months ago:
Ooh gnu/Hurd, I heard that was coming out soon.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 2 months ago:
Playing devil’s advocate here - we know voice information is being sent back to both Google and Apple, if the analysis were done server side dissembling apps isn’t going to show us anything we don’t already know.