downhomechunk
@downhomechunk@midwest.social
40 / m / chicago / bass
- Comment on Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting? 1 week ago:
Same, except I bought the domain through namecheap
- Comment on Real-Debrid Traffic Falls 16% in 3 Months, Anti-Piracy Action Painful But Non-Fatal * TorrentFreak 1 week ago:
I’ll probably finally get around to standing up an arr stack. RD is just too easy.
- Comment on Real-Debrid Traffic Falls 16% in 3 Months, Anti-Piracy Action Painful But Non-Fatal * TorrentFreak 2 weeks ago:
I was worried when I saw the news, but it’s had next to no impact on me. I think I only found 1 or 2 streams removed, but the 720p versions were still up.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, the service is worth it for me. I need the easiest process possible for my luddite wife and kindergartener’s Amazon fire tablet. I put my mom on the account too.
But for everything else, yarrrrr.
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 3 weeks ago:
Disc failure is the verbatim I remember, but I’m glad they’re still around. My 2008 car has a 6 disc CD changer, and I have a few retro PCs which rely on CDs too. Yes, I know I can get adapters for CF cards and the like, but doing things the old way is the whole point.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
I am hooked on the music.
- Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub 1 month ago:
Chicagon here. Indiana is 100% the south.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 3 months ago:
I use unbound with pi-hole inside an Ubuntu lxc container. No additional device needed.
- Comment on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion 5 months ago:
I think it’s a delusion of grandeur.
- Comment on The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. 5 months ago:
Gas like natural gas? Or gas like gasoline? I’m sure it’s the former, but I take nothing for granted anymore.
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 6 months ago:
Does Phoenix have a big enough local talent pool needed to staff this kind of operation? Or are they counting on attracting talent from other places in the US?
- Comment on Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not 7 months ago:
Ddg shows bing results. Are we sure they won’t regurgitate hallucinations too?
- Comment on Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns 7 months ago:
My crippling adhd would like a word
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 8 months ago:
It’s not much of a gamble. Most of their users won’t notice or care.
- Comment on 'One of the wildest Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding 8 months ago:
Overclockers:
“Give me some liquid nitrogen and I’ll make that 102x.” - Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 8 months ago:
Me in the 90s and 00s: yarrrr!
Me in the 10s: it feels good to be legit
Me in the 20s: YARRRRRRRRR!
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 9 months ago:
Streamio and RD are so easy that even my luddite wife can test all the linux distros she wants without my help.
- Comment on Post your Servernames! 10 months ago:
Everything has some sort of top:
Slacktop, craptop, proxtop, oldtop, wifetop, and batocera (because I keep forgetting to ssh in and change it).
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 10 months ago:
IRC
- Comment on Global PC shipments return to growth and pre-pandemic volumes in 1Q24, says IDC 10 months ago:
Hi floor twin!
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 11 months ago:
My home instance is taking a wait and see approach. If we get a bunch of ads or hate speech then they’re out.
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 11 months ago:
Was about to say inverter until I saw your comment. I think the robot meant to call out AC vs DC.
- Comment on Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch 11 months ago:
I bet these ads will be very well moderated
- Comment on Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready 1 year ago:
Where would one find a list of these repugnant corners of the dark web of which you speak? For research…
- Comment on Sustaining Proton’s mission over time | Proton 1 year ago:
I’m happy to support these guys, and I feel like I pay a fair price for the services I get.
- Comment on Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros 1 year ago:
Don’t most reviewers get their sets for free?
- Comment on AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source 1 year ago:
Oddly enough, I’ve been trying to build rocm on slackware for the past week. It keeps failing out somewhere and throwing a HIP error that I can’t figure out. I wonder if this has anything to do with it.
- Comment on Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’ 1 year ago:
F’real, my house just had it. My wife still can’t smell.
- Comment on Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED 1 year ago:
I didn’t watch this, but i bet technology connections video about blue Christmas lights is more entertaining!
- Comment on This Windows tool makes it super easy to debloat and cut down ads on your Android TV 1 year ago:
They don’t make it easy, but it’s not hard either. Flauncher + adb to change the default launcher ftw!