DJDarren
@DJDarren@thelemmy.club
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
You know this thing is tiny, right? It’ll be shockingly easy to pick up and press the button. Even with cables hanging out of it.
I use a 2014 mini with all cables hanging out the back, and it’s really easy to pick up.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
It’s literally just the same body as the OG Magic Mouse, which had a bay for a pair of AAs underneath. All they did was remove the bay, put a rechargeable battery in there, and a socket to charge it. It takes a couple of minutes to give it 9 hours of juice.
There’s no grand conspiracy.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
My MacBook has just two USB-C sockets. When I bought it I picked up a couple of A adapters on Amazon for a few quid each. It’s never been an issue. Even less so with a desktop, as you’re able to leave the adapters in all the time.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
The power draw of these things when sleeping is negligible. They’re basically off, so there’s no real need to shut them down with any regularity.
I can use my MacBook for a whole day and still have half the battery left. Their power efficiency is genuinely remarkable.
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 2 weeks ago:
The other day I got to pondering whether people who work for ad serving companies have ad blockers on their work computers.
- Comment on Relationship goals 3 weeks ago:
My kink is thirty disappointing seconds of plain vanilla missionary with the lights off.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to Netscape? 3 weeks ago:
And with GMail and Chrome, it is still.
- Comment on hard to argue with 3 weeks ago:
And some of us are blessed with producing more shit than others.
- Comment on let's settle this 3 weeks ago:
This group is for shitposting, yet this is qualityposting.
- Comment on You fuckin monsters 4 weeks ago:
Let me do it for you…
…Kermie
- 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 get that ready cash availability at the time is absolutely a factor, but it does make you wonder whether spending $5k more on the competitor would save a bunch of money in shit that John Deere won’t let you repair for yourself down the line.
- 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:
Is Case to farming equipment what Brother is to printing?
Am I going to have to buy a Case for the two holes a year I might need to dig?
- Comment on Badgers 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 5 weeks ago:
I’ve spent much of the day trying to get Yunohost/Debian running on my old 2011 MacBook.
It’s much quicker and easier to install the latest macOS on it, and that ain’t right.
- Comment on Just finished Doki Doki Literature Club, what a fucking rollercoaster 5 weeks ago:
I had literally no idea what it was when I played it, so it really span me out. My wife played it first and recommended it to me.
And yeah, it’s a trip.
- Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse 1 month ago:
But what if some change in the right direction doesn’t fix everything immediately? Then what?
May as well just not bother.
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
Yeah, the app is batshit and has got much weirder over the past year or so. It’s now rammed full of competitions and ways to waste your time trying to get discounts that you’ll never actually achieve.
There’s also some really odd stuff on offer on there, which I kind of enjoy finding.
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
I know it’s only fractionally better, but I’ve started using AliExpress more for shit that I’d buy on Amazon in the past. Delivery takes a couple of weeks, but that’s had the added bonus of making think about how much I really need the thing I’m ordering.
But yeah, we canceled Prime when they added adverts. We didn’t really watch much on there, but it gave us the bump we needed to stop giving Amazon £10 a month, even if we didn’t order anything.
- Comment on Br*t*sh 1 month ago:
I say!
drops monocle
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
Yep. Company I work for didn’t miss a day of work because our boss had the HR manager make up a certificate for us to all put in our cars telling the police that we were considered ‘essential’.
I don’t think we are, but hey ho.
- Comment on I'm homeless after making and losing £1,000,000 and having a hit film 1 month ago:
I wish.
- Comment on I'm homeless after making and losing £1,000,000 and having a hit film 1 month ago:
I’ll never forget the taste ☹️
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
I have an iPad mini and enormous pockets. I’m living the dream.
- Comment on I'm homeless after making and losing £1,000,000 and having a hit film 1 month ago:
It’s a Sunday Sport article.
- Comment on Batman. 1 month ago:
A joke in which the central conceit is Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman fuck each other, but yeah, censor the word “ass”.
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 1 month ago:
Crazy Frog itensifies
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
See, I don’t really mind the sponsored segments. Some creators actually have fun with their ad reads, like the Map Men or Colin Furze. But if it’s boring I just tap the forward button on my Apple TV remote and skip past.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
This is exactly me.
I’ve been paying £5 a month by using a VPN to sign up for Premium from Ukraine. Been doing so for the past couple of years without complaint. Literally all I need from them is to fuck off the adverts. I have Apple Music for music and I’m happy with it.
Now they’ve rumbled us and will be cutting off our Premium next month.
I am fucked if I’m paying those ratfuckers £20 a month just so I can watch other people’s hard work without the adverts they force in. Fuck that noise.
So I’m now researching ways to get my subs onto Plex so I can carry on watching on my Apple TV.
- Comment on The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. 1 month ago:
Here in the UK they weren’t often referred to as a VCR, or even a VHS, to be honest. It was always “the video player”. Even if it was a recorder. At least that was my experience.
- Comment on The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. 1 month ago:
I got my first MiniDisc in 99, when I was 19. It was Panasonic off eBay, and it was fucked. So I got my second MiniDisc in 99 when I was 19. THAT one was a Sony, and was rock solid.
I wish I could have afforded one in ‘96, because then I might have got more use out of the tech before MP3 strutted up and pantsed it.
