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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I came here to suggest. Everybody should be using power toys and keyboard entry as much as possible on windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t turn it off because none of the lightbulbs in the house would turn on anymore

  If you have Hue bulbs, you can buy little radios that attach to your light switch (or replacement light switches) that will still operate your lights when the server is down or the network is unavailable. It’s a worthwhile upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Lower Decks S4?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got my preorder from Amazon this week. The error they reported was just the release date being too early on their records.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used homebridge for a long time, but found maintaining it to be a bit of a chore. Home Assistant was easier to maintain and configure, thanks to its web-based interface. And it has a bridge to homekit that achieves basically everything that homebridge did. You may want to investigate it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ST: DS9 - Behind The Scenes (1993/LaserDisc)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fantastic!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Tasha Yar stayed on the show, what do you think would have happened? How would she have been written?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Denise Crosby has great talent as a villain. Just look at how she jumped off the screen as Sela. After seeing where the writers went with Ro Laren, I feel confident that Yar would have filled that role. She would have been a friendly foil, either as a member of the Maquis to set up Deep Space Nine, or as an onboard intelligence officer like Malcolm Reed in Enterprise.

  In the early seasons — while Roddenberry’s edict that the crew not have conflict was in effect — I think she would have befriended Data and Geordi, and would have been in many scenes with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek’ Spatial Experience Set To Launch On Apple Vision Pro⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a tip for people who do own the Apple Vision Pro: although the Vision Pro doesn’t support side-by-side video playback out of the box yet, you can use this Archive app to view it. The app has a video player included that will handle various modes of stereoscopic file playback. I haven’t tried it yet, but this is a welcome workaround.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police departments are using AI to review bodycam footage, and police unions are not happy about it⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using AI to flag footage for review by a person seems like a good time-saving practice. I would bet that without some kind of automation like this, a lot of footage would just go unreviewed. This is far better than waiting for someone to lodge a complaint first, since you could conceivably identify problem behaviors and fix them before someone gets hurt.

  The use of AI-based solutions to examine body-cam footage, however, is getting pushback from police unions pressuring the departments not to make the findings public to save potentially problematic officers.

  According to this, the unions are against this because they want to shield bad-behaving officers. That tells me the AI review is working!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If a company requires you to re-apply for the job you already have, you lost your job long before you ever recorded yourself with HireVue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco's Union Square⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to my local Apple Store yesterday morning and saw one person leaving with an Apple Vision Pro and maybe a few people inside trying it out. It wasn’t crowded at all. It seemed like the store was pretty overcrowded with employees, though.

  On the bright side, I was able to get in and out with my purchase really fast!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Era of American Computer Magazines Has Drawn to a Close⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe they published this article without including a copy of Computer Shopper in the image!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPNs, self hosting & security⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing people recommend nginx proxy manager, I’ve tried to set this up but never managed to get the certificates to work from letsencrypt (“internal server error” when trying to get one). When I finally got it working a while ago (I think I imported a cert), any proxy I tried to setup just sent me to the Synology login page.

  I think WebStation is causing this. I just investigated my Synology NAS and discovered that the default web portal is redirecting ports 80 and 443 to the synology login portal (which lives in ports 5000 and 5001 depending on whether you use SSL or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's remember some Star Trek games⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a PC port of the 1971 Star Trek game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to switch to OLED displays for iPads and MacBooks - Nikkei Asia⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s amazing! I’ve been living in fear of my super expensive OLED TV getting burn-in. I turn it off during software updates, etc. Now maybe I can de-stress a little.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The surprisingly robust careers of Star Trek stars who became video game voice actors⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget Marina Sirtis and Denise Crosby in XCom 2! It was quite the TNG reunion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's smart ring technology may not be limited to just fingers⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  please don’t say it … please don’t say it … please don’t say it …

  God dammit!

  I don’t know what I expected, actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any chance to get a mounted NFS folder show up in Synology Drive (Virtual DSM) ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for going to the extra trouble to explain this! This is why I love communities like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any chance to get a mounted NFS folder show up in Synology Drive (Virtual DSM) ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I fully admit I’m not the most talented linux person, but you say that you created an smb share on Unraid, but you mounted it as if it were an NFS share. Is that just a typo, or could that be the root of your problem? I could imagine Synology Drive not letting you interact with files in the mounted folder if the permissions and ownership weren’t set up right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Drivers will retaliate against you if you do not cover the part of their wage we refuse to pay them.”

  There, fixed that for you, DoorDash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proxmox: Running everything on xpenology-VM or have a dedicated VM instead?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not install proxmox on the bare metal of the NUC, then add VMs and containers inside of Proxmox for your reverse proxy, blocky, and other services? Maybe this is what you are doing and I just don’t understand.

  I have Proxmox installed on bare metal in my primary home lab server. I also run a Synology NAS on the side. I’m not running Synology Drive for any clients, but I’ve set it up for others before, and it works great in this configuration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-created child sexual abuse images ‘threaten to overwhelm internet’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy hyperbole, batman! Threaten to overwhelm the internet!

  Someone’s hungry for clicks today, eh, The Guardian?

  AI-generated CSAM is illegal under the Protection of Children Act 1978, which criminalises the taking, distribution and possession of an “indecent photograph or pseudo photograph” of a child.

  Aaaand there you go. This is nothing new. There have been laws on the books for decades to help deal with this exact problem. Someone just slapped “AI” on the story to gin up worry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Locked” is a pretty strong word. I’m running a home lab with Home Assistant, and I’m running Macs, PCs, Android devices, and lots of Linux virtual machines. The reason I use an Apple product instead of an Android product is that Apple products are a lot more polished.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about time someone pointed this out. Look at all the things phones got rid of in their UI:

  • Clustering of icons on a desktop
  • Application windowing
  • Preferences located inside an application

  (It also gives up a lot of context-based right-clicking, but I personally consider the right-click a bad UI design choice.)

  Some things, like folders, are only barely implemented, with a host of features that we’ve had for decades removed. Ever tried to sort a phone group by creation date?

  I’m writing this on an iPad, which I would love to use as my daily driver, but because it runs iPad OS, there are so many productivity and organizational features missing relative to Mac OS that I do most important things on the laptop.