rekabis

@rekabis@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Are PCL6 drivers considered “legacy”?

  I have a HP Laserjet 4N, a HP LaserJet 4050DTN, and a LaserJet 5000DTN, all of which work swimmingly on standard PCL6 drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel sorry that Queensland has to suffer such stupid, pro-genocide politicians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck. You.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is good remote desktop software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like RustDesk. If you’re worried about connectivity, you can even run your own relay server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You stopped a bit short on your delete spree I guess.

  No, that was just the first two steps. Just on the “rip shit out” category, I typically churn through at least three separate tools, usually in this order:

  • Win10Privacy
  • Win11Debloat
  • Winslop

  I mean, sure, Windows can take as little as a half hour to “install”. But on a personal rig (which also includes my own workflow software and personal data shoehorned back into place), I take another 24-48 hours to gleefully beat it into submission and install secondary programs that bypass the warts it has acquired over the years.

  And as a benchmark, XP needed only about 6-8hrs of extra work to reach the same threshold of data migration, workflow software, and improved usability (I was an NT fanboy, IMO the primary improvement of XP over 2000 was the start menu).

  If we add up the AI push, the spyware/telemetry explosion, the recent attempts to force the use of a Microsoft Account as the default login, and the massive bloating and instability of Windows in general, it’s slowly becoming time for even non-technical, everyday users to move to Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just rebuilt my Win 11 Pro Workstation setup (yes, it is the version for stupidly high core and thread counts), and one of the first things I did was to bodily eviscerate anything AI in the system. Right after gleefully ripping out all the telemetry and spyware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dammit. I’ve had an LG plasma for the last 15, and it looks like I’ll have to get that Sony well before I’m ready for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why… why would hard drives be going up in price?? AI does not use spinning platters of rust, like, at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't using a key file the most common way to log into self-hosted servers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For many places, it’s operational inertia. If you’ve had a hosting account at the same place since 1998, you’re bound to still have username/password access to services like FTP even though other (and better) options exist.

  And then there is the issue of sole control. Many greybeards like myself still run traditional username/password auth on services because,

  1. We have whitelisted our IP address, and if dynamic, keep that whitelist updated
  2. That outside of said whitelisting, the service is a quasi-honeypot meant to protect the machine as a whole. Any connection made from outside the address space of my ISP, by anyone else, is by default considered malicious, and is banned instantly as a precaution. They don’t even get the opportunity to attempt a login; merely connecting to said service is sufficient evidence of hostile intent.

  So while my setup is not ideal, it is ideal for myself. if I had anyone else as co-admin, or even clients, things would get stupidly complicated very quickly. But since it’s just me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  REPRESENT.

  Even in Canada I grew up with non-American time, thanks to German parents, and knew of AM/PM only via analog clocks and use outside of the home. I remember confusing the heck out of an elementary school teacher by giving an afternoon/evening time in proper units. She had to do the math (calculators still being hella rare in those days) to convert out of PM in order to see if I was correct or not.

• ⁨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'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …The fuck?

  Is Tim Sweeney legitimately outing himself as a pedophile? Does the Parasite Class really feel so comfortable and immune from consequences that they can openly advocate for pedophilia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, when the crime is going to happen regardless…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My statement has two interpretations, yours is the one that most people just don’t cotton onto.

  Honestly, “running away” is the best possible solution in most any conflict. And when the bullets are flying, you want your opponent to duck and cover just long enough for you to skedaddle and get out of range or into an escape route out of the fire line. Hell, in that circumstance blanks would be sufficient to get that job done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have always been of the opinion that if you cannot solve a violent/dangerous situation with six or less bullets, it is vanishingly unlikely that anything will materially change in your favour if you had more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why buy a new car? It would be cheaper to build your own car at this point.

  Edison Motors (in British Columbia, Canada) can do a full EV conversion on any pre-1995 vehicle (few complex electronics that require futzing with) for $15k-$50k CAD depending on the type of vehicle and its power requirements.

  Pick up a late-80s Type II VW Jetta and it’s likely to be at that lower end.

  Pick up a late-70s dent side Ford F-350 dually, and it’s likely to be closer to that upper end.

  Still, you’re looking at half to a quarter of what a new vehicle costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No contest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically the Falcon is much more like an 18-wheeler than a van. It is a cargo pusher/hauler, by design.

  But still, the comparison is apt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foot In The Door⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But to truly beat the house you need to find that one ATM which has a transaction flaw where you can withdraw your entire balance but the withdrawal does not get recorded anywhere, and for extra measure nothing about the transaction gets recorded so they don’t even know it was you who accessed that ATM.

  Fun fact: there have been a few such cases of ATM flaws in the last few decades, either time-limited to a specific period (the hour after midnight, for example) or transaction-limited to a specific type.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨better look at it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure it screams at us sometimes.

  If there was an atmosphere to carry the sound, the sun would be screaming at us at just over 100db.

  For reference, sounds at 85db can start causing hearing damage after only 8hrs of exposure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨better look at it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that we’re not allowed to look at it, it’s that we have oodles of evidence on how severely damaged our vision becomes when we do look directly at it without sufficient protection, and anyone with two functional neurons to rub together isn’t going to be doing any looking unless they are wearing the appropriate vision protection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever heard Scottish person speak?

  Like, seriously nards-deep into full Scottish brogue? It’s like a language that bears zero resemblance to the English language.

  Although TBH, have a pretty readheaded lass talk to me in Scottish, and fuck me she could read the phone book and I wouldn’t give a shit I’d just be sitting there catching flies trying to soak it all in.

  Relevant example

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sooo… he works multiple part-time jobs?

  Weird how a forced technique of the ultra-poor is showing up here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is why I will never own a vehicle manufactured after 2006.

  I have just too little control with newer vehicles, be it having to auth with the mothership with every repair I do at home just to get it to start up, or even failing to start up in the first place when the mothership could not be contacted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I start off with Win10Privacy (which also cleans 11) and then follow up with Win11Debloat. The two work pretty well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And Microsoft is stuffing AI straight into Windows.

  Betchya dollars to fines that this will happen a lot more frequently as normal users begin to try to use Copilot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I am saving up for, actually. The numbers of surplussed high-end compute just in my sparsely populated region could probably let me open my own datacentre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please tell me this is shopped.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am sometimes forced to wear size 11 shoes, despite having 9½ feet, because so few manufacturers put out 9½ size shoes in an EEEE (quintuple wide) or oversized EEE (quadruple wide) width.

  At least a size 11 in a W (wide) is comfortable enough for me, and most shoes come in at least a wide.

  I think out of all the shoes I have ever bought, only two styles in 40 years have been wide enough to allow me to wear a 9½. I recently found that second style in a work boot that was being surplussed and no longer being produced, with the marketing that it was wide enough for any foot. Once I confirmed the comfort, I immediately bought three more pairs for a lifetime supply. That brand was Terra. Highly recommend, they’re fucking awesome work boots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenBSD does not have a docker engine. Can this be installed without docker?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is only ownership parasites and labour.

  FTFY. You’re welcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, a lot of that is processed foods and…

  Oh.

  Oh, Myyyyyy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes,because dad cool, mom uncool.

  Funny sexism from the 50s.

  Or maybe mom responsible adult, dad irresponsible man-child?

  It’s the funny anti-male gender bigotry of this century.

  And I don’t think great-grandpa could make a meme like this, so your characterization is probably going to be the much less likely source.