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- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 10 hours ago:
I’m curious how. Maybe a different region? I don’t have Pihole anymore but it didn’t use to do anything for me for YouTube. Luckily we have uBlock.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 19 hours ago:
I thought so too, but maybe I missed something new with Pihole/YT Ads.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 day ago:
pihole hasn’t worked for years to block youtube ads, no?
- Comment on Onionphone - E2EE PTT Voice and Chat 1 day ago:
Buys closed eco system phone. Shocked it’s a closed eco system. Cue shocked Pikachu face?
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 2 days ago:
I love it for using klipper. But when I started doing it the klipper pkgs did give me some troubles. You can work around them, but know you might find some issues on the way. Maybe it’s better now, I haven’t really updated that part of my config much recently.
Do know that not all arm devices are equally supported. rpi 3 and 4 are, the rest is community based (see: nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM). Personally I run klipper on a x86_64 thin client for this reason and because raspberry pi’s were scarce and expensive back then.
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 2 days ago:
I have to be honest and say it was a journey. Nix in itself isn’t really difficult I find. But everything together and finding the right documentation and figure out how NixOS comes together can be a bit daunting.
But a simple straight forward config is pretty doable. My advice is to start small and build up. You can reuse your old dotfiles and include them in the configuration directly, so you don’t have to convert everything to nix (right away). Also don’t scare away from using flakes, they are the way to go in my opinion.
You can define multiple hosts/systems in one configuration with each their own
nixosSystemcall. - Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 2 days ago:
I’ve converted everything to NixOS (Desktop, laptop, nas and 3d printer) only my router is still pfSense (and thus BSD). It just makes configuration and updating so much easier from one central configuration. And I don’t have to remember what and how I installed something. It’s just there in my flake.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 1 week ago:
And yet most politicians here still use it. Any that’s still using it I consider a child rapist and fascist/nazi enabler. Sadly that leaves very few left to vote for.
- Comment on After US-Israel Operation Kills 180 Girls in Iran, Melania Trump Chairs UN Session on Children in Conflict 1 week ago:
Can we just start calling it what it is, a bought trophy wife is just a prostitute on retainer. So I propose we call her the First Prostitute of the US from now on.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
Because you didn’t know it was called 480p or knew of better options doesn’t mean you can’t see that it wasn’t great or improvable. You knew colour existed before getting a colour, TV so you knew it could be better…
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
People did have problems, there just wasn’t an (affordable) alternative. If you would go back to the 70/80’s and offered anyone the choice between 480p and 1080p, all else being equal. Would anyone pick 480? I know I wouldn’t
It’s not because we learned to live with it or didn’t know better, that it was the best option.
- Comment on Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' 2 weeks ago:
This guy is going to be next TempleOS incident, is he not?
- Comment on Why is amperage more "obscure" than voltage (or watts)? 3 weeks ago:
It is confusing, but it is what they do. I’m not sure why they do it. Probably marketing reasons, seeing as a lot of people think bigger number == bigger better. Of course if you know the nominal voltage of the battery pack it’s not a big issue. But yeah Wh or Joule would be better.
- Comment on Why is amperage more "obscure" than voltage (or watts)? 3 weeks ago:
Many batteries these days are rated in Ah, so that’s something.
One reason is because most power supplies are voltage supplies and not current supplies. Though they do report the max current they can supply. Also voltage is in those cases is (arguably) more important. The wrong voltage and it probably won’t work at all or even breaks. Whereas to little current, it probably still does something, though at reduced power or it cuts off at some point.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 3 weeks ago:
When companies like Google, Microsoft, etc. are starting to squirm and whimper. You know you are on the right path. So I take this as a sign that the EU is heading in the right direction.
- Comment on 1200 Ubisoft staff go on strike against Assassin's Creed company's massive cutbacks 4 weeks ago:
So how long till Tencent buys Ubisoft completely, takes the IP’s it wants and just closes/sell everything else? I give it a year max
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 5 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to thank the majority of US voters too. Couldn’t have done it without them.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure Montreal is one of those places not in France indeed.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 5 weeks ago:
It’s not like the stock price can get much lower anyway! Best to brawl when you’re at rock bottom already anyway. That said, I don’t think there will be an Ubisoft in 2 years, or only in name.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 5 weeks ago:
I highly doubt 12% of the pc market got a new laptop for Christmas. But maybe a lot of corporations got new pc’s for the 2026 budget to phase out windows 10? I still I find a 12% jump huge, especially in the current RAM shortage climate.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 5 weeks ago:
Why write this article in January when it’s main source shows an increase of 12% again in that month?? If anything this article should be about how statscounter is a very unreliable metric. Honest journalism really is dead huh.
- Comment on EU explores €93B Trump tariff retaliation over Greenland threats 1 month ago:
Most of those companies should already have been banned long time ago. In my opinion, seeing how often those companies have been fined already by the EU or others, they should be marked as organized crime by now.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 1 month ago:
Jesus this guy really always finds a way to dig deeper in the abyss doesn’t he? Why does anyone even listen to him anymore?
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 2 months ago:
It was 3.2GB and afaik it wasn’t a bug, but 800MB was reserved for hardware IO
- Comment on World's Video Game Companies 2 months ago:
On a list of non publicly listed companies I would imagine
- Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality 2 months ago:
The article doesn’t state they can’t reach that temperature down on earth, and many processes do. It’s really not the jist of the article. Space manufacturing is interesting for the micro-gravity and better vacuum/less contamination. .
- Comment on Israel ranks lowest in global brand index 2 months ago:
Those same people voted them in, and don’t seem to protest his policy of genocide at large. So why would they not be at least partly responsible?
- Comment on Doctor ‘Strangled’ by Police Officer Until She Passed Out at Hunger Strike Protest 2 months ago:
I think as long as medical staff are refused access to the prisoner, all medical professionals should refuse to help any cop in medical need. I wonder how long they will refuse staff then?
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 2 months ago:
Like Russia cares what age you are. As long as you can buffer a few bullets, you’re good to go!
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 2 months ago:
I’m not being aggressive, but your statement just makes no sense?
Either people pick the default and it’s mostly edge/safari, which as per your own statcounter source is clearly not the case. Or people are not as dumb as you make them out to be and pick the one that suits them.
The prompt was “I had chances to peek into some of my friends’ laptop and was surprised how many of them are using Edge”. Not “I did a survey of the entire world and Edge dominated”
How is this even relevant? If you’re make a statement about people in general, it doesn’t matter which people specifically are mentioned.
But thanks for the humoring!