AlecSadler
@AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
Reading this thread that does appear to be the case, that’s insane. Fuck Elon again.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 days ago:
Rear doors have manual overrides too.
Not simping for Elon, fuck him.
- Comment on Capsaicin 2 weeks ago:
This might be the best comment I’ve read all night.
- Comment on The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair: The farm equipment giant has fought against letting farmers repair their own equipment for years 4 weeks ago:
I hate myself for buying a John Deere tractor, but it was up to $5000 less than any comparable competitor at the time, included a 5 year service contract, and was 0.9% financing.
I’m in a better place financially now, so when I can and need to, I’m absolutely getting something different.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
Seems right. I have a friend who works for Amazon and lives in Portland, OR. They’re asking them to relocate to Seattle to RTO. Now they’re debating if they even want to stay at the company. Supposedly they have until EOY to decide.
- Comment on CNN will start locking some articles behind a paywall 1 month ago:
lol RIP
- Comment on Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first 1 month ago:
I agree this is amazing and huge, but for my own sanity, what stops someone from engineering cells that do bad?
- Comment on Dollar General warns poorer US consumers are running out of money 2 months ago:
No and most didn’t build up savings during the pandemic…we all went into debt or spent savings just to scrape by.
- Comment on Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits 2 months ago:
I agree.
I also wish Deloitte would stop winning contracts to build their shitty, cobbled together tech solutions for pennies (to the contractors) on the dollar. Their track record for such activity is actually kinda garbage in the industry.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Any good books or other articles on this? I’d be legitimately interested.
The more money I make or the better off I am, I actually just end up feeling more guilty and giving more away. Frankly, one only needs so much, after that if you can improve the quality of life of those around you it makes everything better.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 2 months ago:
Seriously. I won’t buy Nothing-anything at this point over this move. Carl Pei can fuck right off.
- Comment on What is the better game...The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Final Fantasy VII? 2 months ago:
I found an Android version but the reviews are really hit or miss…I might give it a try.
- Comment on What is the better game...The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Final Fantasy VII? 2 months ago:
Any reasons why? Seriously asking because I had a hell of a time getting into FF9 for some reason, to the point where I actually never finished it.
I’m leagues older now and, hey, maybe I can go back and appreciate it differently…who knows.
- Comment on What is the better game...The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Final Fantasy VII? 2 months ago:
Damn you. Nostalgia just hit me hard and I now need to figure out how to play this again.
- Comment on Scoop: Yelp's lack of transparency around API charges angers developers 3 months ago:
I’m trying to think what the API would even be for? I don’t think I’ve ever seen Yelp extensions…or integrations…?
- Comment on Stinky Overflow. Plug it? 3 months ago:
I just want to say this interaction made me happy and I’m glad to have witnessed it. It’s been a shit day and this cheered me up (a little).
- Comment on Does anyone know what happened to the Surface Duo? 3 months ago:
Call me crazy, but I loved mine (near the end). No crease, could still multitask fine. The fact it folded shut kept me from opening and doom scrolling as much. Could throw a video on one screen and “tent” the phone easily.
But yeah, the software took awhile to get even “okay” out the gate and that really hurt the user experience. I felt I was always wrestling with mine over something for the first 6mos even.
- Comment on Security Firm Discovers Remote Worker Is Really a North Korean Hacker 3 months ago:
Seems weird…but I have totally done two different job interviews where nobody has their camera on.
- Comment on CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed 3 months ago:
Oh, wow.
- Comment on CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed 3 months ago:
But it sounds like this added files / drivers or something, not just antivirus rules?
- Comment on CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed 3 months ago:
Serious question, can you not? There isn’t an option to…like…set a review system first?
- Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. 3 months ago:
The last time I flew they did this, but there was a huge sign that said photos are immediately deleted after verification…is this not true?
- Comment on So is the global IT crash fixed yet? 3 months ago:
At my primary day job, no, they’ve already announced weekend hours to all employees to resolve issues one by one. I feel for IT/Helpdesk.
At two of my friends day jobs, yes. Everything was fixed by late afternoon.
At another friend’s day job, no, and things aren’t looking great as their disaster recovery plans, staffing, etc. were not prepared for this. It’s sounding like it could extend into next week for them.
For another friend of mine…he got turned away at Starbucks this morning because their computers weren’t working. I guess we’ll see if he gets turned away tomorrow? Haha.
- Comment on Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility 3 months ago:
Do you have astigmatism? I’m beginning to realize this might be why it’s uncomfortable for me.
- Comment on Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility 3 months ago:
I prefer light mode because dark mode gives me a raging headache in under 10 minutes, not enough contrast or something, I’m not sure. It’s bad enough that if I’m pairing with someone and they use dark mode I’ve gotta frequently look away or do something like a shared follow mode where I use a light theme on my end - it sucks.
And maybe the science is old now, but in HS I did a report on eye strain and light backgrounds are typically better across the board. But who knows now.
- Comment on How do Texas residents afford electricity? 4 months ago:
I presume he couldn’t pay it? What happens after that? Do you get blacklisted from power companies?
- Comment on How do Texas residents afford electricity? 4 months ago:
$0.058 / kWh here in rural Oregon, it’s pretty awesome.
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 4 months ago:
I hadn’t really heard of the TPU chips until a couple weeks ago when my boss told me about how he uses USB versions for at-home ML processing of his closed network camera feeds. At first I thought he was using NVIDIA GPUs in some sort of desktop unit and just burning energy…but I looked the USB things up and they’re wildly efficient and he says they work just fine for his applications. I was impressed.
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 4 months ago:
As a buzzword or whatever this is leagues worse than “agile”, which I already loathed the overuse/integration of.
- Comment on TeamViewer got hacked 4 months ago:
Rustdesk is great. I’ve also used AnyDesk.
Recently I’ve used Parsec on a couple systems and it’s zippy, but I can’t get keyboard shortcuts to work for some reason.