Joelk111

@Joelk111@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a version of every device that doesn’t phone home. I switched to HomeAssistant a couple years ago now, and I think all of my stuff is finally local as of a few months ago, including my robot vacuum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You can have the best of both worlds. There’s a lot of smart home stuff that isn’t owned by a corporation. For vacuums, Valetudo is amazing and fun to set up, if not a little nerve wracking risking bricking your expensive appliance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually only go for the 400Mbps plan, and it’s 40Mbps up across all of their plans. I believe it’s some outdated hardware limitation of cable or something, at least that’s what I’ve heard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so tired of my 40Mbps upload speeds. Why can I get 1.2Tbps down, but only 40Mbps up? It’s crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple quietly released this year's BEST laptop⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This has to be ragebait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Messages is rethinking how link previews work, but we're not sure it's for the best⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not. It’s the same issue as Windows File Explorer not showing extensions by default. Asinine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube AI filter making it dangerous to watch for people with Epilepsy due to a bug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, not really. You can apply for copyright on your content that has been posted to YouTube. If you don’t like how YouTube is distributing your content, applying AI filters to it or whatever, you can take it down. If you want to upload your content somewhere else, you can. You own your content, YouTube just distributes it how they see fit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple quietly released this year's BEST laptop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy, Jake, used to work at LTT/LMG, and has recently started his own channel. I do hope he finds a new groove, as I found him much more entertaining and likable while at LTT. He seems to have adopted a “YouTuber” way of talking - overexaggerating things, and being often overly impressed. He almost seems like a different person on his own channel, and it feels unnatural to me, as someone who enjoyed seeing him in LTT content, where his personality seemed much more muted and natural. Even seeing him on Zip Tie Tuning (a couple of other former LMG people’s new channel), he seemed to act more natural.

  I also was super not aware how much he was into Apple products, which is weird for a tech enthusiast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ADVICE: Running out of storage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what this post has to do with memory, they’re asking about storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s hilarious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot the step where you ignore step 2 and use Firefox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish he’d changed the title to something like “Bootleg DVDs Are Cheapened In a Weird Way” or something to make it more obvious that this was the case. I had no idea that this was what had happened (though I had wondered while watching the video) until I saw a thread about the video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just said I use Linux, I am aware. There were a couple of games I played that had shitty incompatible anticheat, GTAO and The Crew 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, when I switched from Linux I had to give up Fusion360, and now am using OnShape. I’m also not generally talking about companies, at work I’m still required to use Windows, and that’s kinda understandable, though I could do my job on Linux. I am a creator, and do wish some of the alternatives for CC apps were better, but I also never considered giving money to Adobe, even when I used Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t expect someone to upgrade hardware just to get the newest OS. And yeah, you can run a windows 7 app on windows 10, there’s a compatibility mode in the properties of the exe where you can tell it to run in Windows xyz compatibility mode, though often you won’t need to bother with that, as it’ll just work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t Windows like the king of backwards compatibility? I am of the opinion that it’s more people that just like the OS because they’re used to it, not that it’d actually break their workflows. They’d just have to learn a few new ways of doing things, and they don’t want to.

  In thinking about this, I have come up with a few reasons to not upgrade OSs:

  • If the new OS costs money, like Windows used to be, yeah I might not buy it if it isn’t enough better. When my new laptop comes with it, I’m not going to go out of the way to downgrade it though.
  • If the only OS maker in town was a monopoly (but then again, if there was a monopoly, they’d probably force you to upgrade to continue using your device, almost like what windows is doing, as they really do have a large monopoly on gaming)

  Finally, in thinking about this, I’m just so glad Linux exists and is actually a good alternative to Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prusa3D Core One assembled from kit in roughly 36 hours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have a valid point about 36 hours being crazy, but an hour or two is also crazy. The kits are not in 3 pieces instead of 1, they are in pieces, and the parts come in bags like Legos. My Mk3s+ took me 10 solid hours to assemble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prusa3D Core One assembled from kit in roughly 36 hours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My MK3S+ took me a solid 12 of working on it straight, basically spent an entire Saturday on it. It was one of the more difficult things I’ve done, probably would’ve been easier in two sittings, but I was too excited haha. I think my main issue was that I ate the gummy bears before opening the manual and learning that they were needed for construction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  Is this where I brag about using Linux and therefor being superior?

  Honestly, I never and still don’t entirely understand people’s clingy-ness to old OSs. I was happily using Windows 8.1, 10, 11 (less happily), (and now Kubuntu brag successful), while apparently many were clinging to Windows 7. Maybe it’s because I try to be more open to change, or maybe it’s because I just like new and shiny software, but rarely do I cling to old software. The newer versions of windows were the new shiny thing with additional features (some useful, and some annoying), and now Linux is that new shiny thing with a lot of useful features and some annoying things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LibreOffice is so refreshing after dealing with MSOffice’s bullshit and Google’s web-based solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been me experience. I couldn’t even get logged in to Fusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use dashboards pretty often. Considering I’m in America, I use them just about any time I go anywhere, as nearly all automobiles have them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for Note taking app with simple needs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also get obsidian to sync using the guide here: www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/GegPIcBjFg. It’s really good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Any Austin] Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Least pretentious Lemmy user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was wondering if a federated alternative existed, neat. Short form video is not for me, but I’m glad that exists for those that like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One could argue that without Meta’s investments into the technology, we might never get an open specification at all. With something like Valetudo, it wouldn’t exist without the privacy nightmare that is off-the-shelf robot vacuums.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, not looking forwards to being in Meta (or any other massive company)'s database or whatever when a friend or family member wears one of these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not talking about a Meta made pair of glasses. I would never buy those due to the privacy issues. I’m talking about a potential pair of glasses that are open source, or at least privacy focused, and don’t phone home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d want them to use a local database that you’ve created. After you’ve met someone, the glasses could be like “remember this person?” and you could choose to save them or not, or something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you could tap shuffle on an album-by-album basis, or on a Playlist with like 10+ tracks or something.