lepinkainen
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- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 20 hours ago:
The only place I’d want AI summaries is rambling YouTube videos
Make it a premium subscription extra
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 days ago:
Anything really, it’s really simple to whip up a bot for anything. On par with Discord, maybe even a bit easier.
We have a family channel with bots that do calendar notifications and connect to home automation systems.
But I think you can do full on stores with payments using Telegram bots, never tried nor been in channels that do it.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 days ago:
Signal doesn’t have bot support, so it’s hardly a Telegram equivalent sadly
Matrix works though, but it has the fediverse problem of “which instance do I pick?”
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 5 days ago:
I sold my Alexa devices when the Sidewalk crap came out
Still waiting for a replacement for the Echo Show though, having a smart speaker with a display was handy at times
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 6 days ago:
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 week ago:
It’s by far the least scummy of all online shooters.
I still have multiple to unlock and I have no issue paying for them. I have way more money than time to play.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 week ago:
But you don’t “need” to unlock them all on the day of release, there is no FOMO component, they don’t disappear after a month.
And if you play enough to unlock them faster than they can get them out, you definitely have the time to grind the 1000SC to unlock them.
- Comment on Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense. 1 week ago:
Send a lawyer’s cease and desist with a licensing bill to every email address they’ve used
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 1 week ago:
2000 people, 3k+ devices and one dude wants a Linux laptop.
Not happening 😀
But it did work in a smaller company of around 30 people, mostly because the IT guy was a Linux user too
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 1 week ago:
WSL made windows tolerable in the time I had to use a windows machine for work.
macOS is still the better choice for corp approved work, integrates decently with IT systems and is a “real” unix system underneath.
Linux on a corporate desktop is mostly about how well you know the IT guys and do they trust you. And of course the software stack.
- Comment on quick health tip 2 weeks ago:
www.bulletproof.com/…/bulletproof-coffee-recipe/
Bullet(proof) coffee is over a decade old already
- Comment on Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025 2 weeks ago:
I just started self-hosting this: github.com/sbondCo/Watcharr
Seems to work decently and integrates with Plex, and the arr stack
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 3 weeks ago:
And still people do it, they even give their own devices to kids with CC info pre-filled and no safeties on purchases.
Imagine how bad it is when the next fake ad game gets Timmy to subscribe to a $99/day gem pack…
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 3 weeks ago:
I’m not entirely optimistic about this ruling, but we’ll see.
Apple had no reason NOT to give refunds and then use their weight to claw it back from the app developer.
But what happens when scammy apps use non-AppStore scammy stores to unlock features in an app?
In a perfect world it’s cheap and easy and reliable.
But it can also be a scammy shop that lures you into expensive subscriptions with no easy way to cancel them (eg. gym membership) and what happens when Little Timmy spends $9000 for Nlartbux in a mobile game’s external store?
Could go either way 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 3 weeks ago:
Every store does this. Even Holy Valve
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 4 weeks ago:
Lego Harry Potter
For fucks sake it was obtuse. I had to use a walkthrough to figure out what to do next multiple times just in the first episode
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 4 weeks ago:
GTA Online still brings a BILLION dollars every year.
The next GTA can’t be anything except 100% perfection and Rockstar isn’t in a hurry
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been running Jellyfin just for the metadata on the same library as Plex.
If Plex goes full evil at some point, I can just shut it down and switch to Jellyfin.
But for the time being the UX on Plex is so much better I can’t be arsed to switch. Especially since I got my Lifetime Pass like a decade ago for 79€ or something. I’ve got more than my moneys worth for it.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
You do know what caused the Hetzner thing?
People were literally farming Plex in there. They bought a 2-4TB server in the auction and installed Plex and a content farm setup to feed it fresh content.
Then they sold access to the server until it was at capacity. GOTO 10
At one point Hetzner went “fuck this” and just banned Plex altogether. We can’t have nice things because some people are dipshits professionally.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
This.
I just set up Plex for my mom on her bargain bin cheapo android TV. It had the plex app right there and it’ll play without transcoding.
Can’t do that with Jellyfin.
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 4 weeks ago:
NixOS doesn’t have a curve, it’s a fucking wall 😆
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 4 weeks ago:
Is Ford a part of the police state because they sell cars to them?
- Comment on Philosophy moment 4 weeks ago:
Meshtastic in the US uses 918MHz, it’s good for text chat
- Comment on Where do I go if I want to find someone to help me make an app game? 5 weeks ago:
This might seem crazy but maybe try an AI editor like Cursor, Cline or Windsurt.
Even the free versions of Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok and DeepSeek aren’t bad.
Just tell them what you want, attach any drawings you have and make it a web app first.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 5 weeks ago:
I like it, it’s just extra stuff and nothing essential.
It’d suck a lot more if they gated necessary features behind a paywall
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 5 weeks ago:
My switch to Unraid is feeling better every day 😀
- Comment on Coca-Cola is on pace to dump 1.3 billion pounds of plastic into our oceans each year 1 month ago:
Just have a deposit on bottles and cans. You’ll have a cottage industry of people returning them if every empty bottle is worth, say a quarter.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 1 month ago:
Also his body temperature is 98.6 exactly and 99% pulse ox 🤣
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In Iron Chef the contestants were given a bunch of possibilities for the key ingredient, they could then prep and request ingredients based on those
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 1 month ago:
But will the cult accept a new leader or will they splinter among Donald’s disciples?