AlecSadler
@AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on TeamViewer got hacked 3 days 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.
- Comment on Credit card debt is soaring, especially in these cities 1 week ago:
Okay, now let’s all simultaneously just straight up stop paying.
- Comment on Men over 30, what do you keep in your bedside nightstand? 1 month ago:
Honest:
- Taco Bell hot sauce packets (may be expired, who knows)
- McDonald’s Hot Mustard cups or whatever you call them
- Depleted weed batteries
- Old remotes that I don’t even know what they go to
- Random mail from like 2+ years ago
- Sunflower seeds (fresh!)
- Nail clippers
- A couple books I haven’t read yet
- Extra socks
- Extra charging cables
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 1 month ago:
$350k TC seems low for a job of that magnitude at Google.
- Comment on Eken fixes “terrible” video doorbell issue that could let someone spy on you 2 months ago:
It’s like the Wish of video doorbells.
- Comment on Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband 2 months ago:
I grew up on a 2400bps modem, those were the days.
- Comment on Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet 2 months ago:
Unsubstantiated guess, but based on a cursory search for flights on Delta, it seems like 90% are Boeing.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
Code code code
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
I mean it’s my personal machine but I am a software engineer consultant/contractor so I use it for work, too.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
Hmm, getting server stuff off sounds fun! I have a couple laptops sitting around so it might be fun to even just use those to offload some processes.
I’d love to get my own little server rack or something, not the best timing financially, but that’d be awesome.
I’ll have to look into the RPi thing. Thanks for the ideas!
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
You do you.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
Hahaha, it stressed me out so I hide all the icons and changed the background to just black.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
Interesting to know for sure! I guess I can’t speak to what they’re doing for optimizations first hand, but at the same time…my 128GB cost me like $300 on sale so, I dunno, a wash? Haha.
I’ve tried to become a Mac convert a few times, mostly peer pressure, but I just haven’t been able to do it successfully yet.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
I just said I’m not doing graphic design or movie editing. I typically have 10 different browser profiles open to separate data / bookmarks, maybe 8 email accounts in tabs and Outlook (if not on Linux), 4-8 VS code windows, a mix of jetbrains rider or visual studio instances, a smattering mix of postman/SQL server/azure data studio/thunder client, among other things like PDFs and documents. And then multiple docker containers and other local running servers.
The swap usually comes in when I’m parsing a data file or something.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 2 months ago:
I’ll admit I don’t use Macs, so maybe they are more efficient than the Linux and windows machines I work off…
…but I typically use machines with 64GB and recently upgraded my personal machine to 128GB. I still swap about 50GB to my SSD from time to time.
And I’m not doing heavy graphic design or movie editing stuff.
I cannot fathom for the life of me how 8GB would ever be feasible.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
shittily
- Comment on This is what peak performance looks like 2 months ago:
I knew a guy in college who had to do this, he had a degenerative eye disease or something that no amount of glasses, hard contacts, or whatever could fix. It seemed like it royally sucked, but he always seemed in good spirits.
Except I vaguely recall he impaled his own leg on a sharp branch while jogging because he couldn’t see it. That would suck.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 2 months ago:
Based on what I’m seeing in the small business community around me…
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Small businesses see less foot traffic, take out loans to survive, realize things aren’t picking back up due to a drop in general spending, a drop that businesses like this can’t weather but mega corps can
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Small businesses close, go bankrupt, etc.
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Eventually only mega corps left, it’ll become the only option to do or buy anything, and we’re all fucked
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- Comment on We don't really work 9 to 5 but still call our job 9-to-5 2 months ago:
I’d love to work 9-5, I’m more like…6:45am to 9pm :|
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 2 months ago:
I have soft soles slippers for bedroom / office parts of the house.
Hard soled slippers for those short trips to the garage or trash or to get the mail.
And for everything else, an actual pair of shoes (yeah yeah I only have one).
I actually always wear some sort of slipper inside though because 1) my feet get cold 2) I don’t want to get my socks or feet extra dirty and 3) I feel weird having my feet “unprotected”, I know slippers add nothing but it somehow brings me peace of mind.
- Comment on I fixed my dad's angle grinder with a ball bearing I salvaged from my gerbil's old excercise wheel a few years back. 2 months ago:
Comments like these are why I periodically still love the internet.
- Comment on Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears 3 months ago:
I hate him so much.
- Comment on She did her best ok? 3 months ago:
I love this comment because I recently learned bay leaves are hilariously divisive.
There are some pretty heated / humorous articles out there about them. I love it.
- Comment on Internet providers have left rural Americans behind. One county is fighting back 3 months ago:
I tried Starlink, had high hopes, but unfortunately due to living sort of in a valley and being surrounded by numerous 100+ foot trees, service would cut out every 10-15 minutes. Wasn’t viable for video conferencing or large downloads.
Cellular was OK, but the speeds could vary wildly and really only peaked at maybe 100/30.
Ultimately, I ended up paying a local provider to bury a line directly to my house for me (well into the 5 figure cost). Worth it.
- Comment on Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes 4 months ago:
Oh damn, guess I know what I’m doing this week…
- Comment on Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes 4 months ago:
Do you mean that Wyze has a self-hosted NVR option? If so, that’d be awesome for me…
- Comment on Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax 5 months ago:
I, briefly, participated in a journalism camp for a large state newspaper where I live and the guiding advice was to, “write targeting a 6th grade education”.
That was 15 years ago, I can only imagine it’s lower now.
- Comment on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees 5 months ago:
Absolutely. For some crazy-ass reason my job transitioned away from Teams (I get it) and Slack and to Discord.
Discord is garbage for this type of work environment. Maybe it works for some? But it just doesn’t make sense.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 5 months ago:
I mean…sort of? It doesn’t really have a voice though it’s more like…just an understanding. I don’t know, this entire post has been fascinating.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals 5 months ago:
When I drive roundabouts I keep my hands on the wheel in the same spots so in relation to my thumb, the turn signals are in the same spot?
I think if the wheel wasn’t a yoke shape, it’d be different because I might just put one hand on top, but in this case it works OK.