JoMiran
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml
- Comment on ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice 22 hours ago:
Anyone that’s ever looked into Google Photo’s “auto tag” feature knows that facial recognition is not 100% accurate. Google has done it the longest, with the largest dataset and the most processing power, and it is still 90% accurate, at best.
- Comment on Kira Nerys 1 day ago:
“Tie me up, slap me around, and call me a spoon head.”
- Comment on We were all thinking it 3 days ago:
Some of the few “content creators” I respect. They put in the work.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 3 days ago:
I keep my Signal exclusive to personal contacts. I did just send them a link to a private Proton Drive share and got around it that way.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 3 days ago:
Literally this morning a client had a production problem. I asked for documentation and they sent a SharePoint link. I replied that we do not have or want access to their Microsoft ecosystem. They wasted over an hour trying to figure out how to email me a set of logs because their MS Org configurations do not allow sharing of files outside of company hardware. Good shit.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 3 days ago:
What meme archive of antiquity did you dig that up from?
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
What broadcast software do you usenon the Mac vs Linux?
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
I get your point but the truth is that Apple’s M processors do a far better job than Intel and AMD processors do when it comes to this type of work. I started on Linux with Reaper and BitWig but the Macs performance was significantly better. Also, software and hardware support is key. All music gear manufacturers and software vendors support apple, including Apple silicone. You can run many VSTs through comparability layers but the latency is a huge problem and the alteady high CPU demands get exacerbated.
I have been on Linux since very early days and have always been a proponent of it. Music production is just not an niche that is currently as well covered by Linux as it is by Mac. We need a Linux push in music like the one Valve did in gaming. If Abelton and Native Instruments went all in on Linux, I think much of the industry would follow.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
The right tool for the job is what I always say. Macs, especially on Apple Silicone, are next to impossible to beat for music production. The performance of those chips and the universal support from hardware and software manufacturers make it the best tool. What I find is that the number of scenarios in which Windows is the best tool is rapidly approaching zero.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
I have not tried it. Once I upgrade my M2 MBP (might be a while), I will.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
For sure. I actually detailed our VDI setup in another thread. We use linux minipcs running VMWare and Win10 IOT LTSC VMs to connect to clients that require Windows.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
We tried. Unfortunately, M chips require ARM operating systems as VMs, and they perform very poorly.
Great if youbare hosting apps. Just not VDIs.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
True
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
The Linux/Mac combo covers just about every computing requirement, even for corporate users. You do not need Windows unless you play competitive online multiplayer games.
Me:
Mac -
- Music production software
- Adobe software
- Some corporate VPNs and VDI access required by some clients
- Corporate MS software required by some clients
Linux -
- Everything else
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 5 days ago:
Reddit was the Digg replacement.
- Comment on Ice slipping on ice 6 days ago:
I had seen this before but cropped to end after the fall. The walk of shame back to the Suburban makes it a hundred times better.
- Comment on Self-Care 1 week ago:
Then you realize that you can nownusenthose double barrel self mix tubes of epoxy so the eyes will never come off.
- Comment on Parents... Huh... 1 week ago:
On a banana dude! Same as they do (or did) in school. Sheesh!
LOL, it was poor phrasing.
- Comment on Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source 1 week ago:
Nutanix…oof. I deal with them every day. It isn’t their fault their shit can’t handle what we do, but it is their sales folk that constantly lie and misrepresent.
Wanna know one of rhe big reasons people hate Oracle so much? It’s their sales guys. They are awful. If that guy went from Oracle to Nutanix, that tells me that I cannot trust a single syllable out of their mouth.
- Comment on Parents... Huh... 1 week ago:
I think you meant “emotionally scarred” but if I’m honest, “emotionally scared” is also true.
- Comment on Parents... Huh... 1 week ago:
Getting sex ed and intercourse tips from my mother was horrifying, but it saved me from many mistakes. Not all, but many.
- Comment on Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source 1 week ago:
Hatred of Oracle predates “cancelling” by decades. Oracle is and has always been one of, if not the most disgusting and vicious companies in tech. They kill everything they touch.
If you need a political component, then Oracle = Larry Ellison, but Oracle hate predates and supercedes the American political slide into fascism.
- Comment on Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source 1 week ago:
MySQL belongs to Oracle. That’s literally all you need to.know in order to avoid it.
- Comment on Parents... Huh... 1 week ago:
Oh, I 100% agree. Still, that was…something.
- Comment on Parents... Huh... 1 week ago:
My mother was a social worker in New York and Philly during the sixties and seventies. She use to tell me (as a pre-pubescent child) about how she use to have to put young girls (10-13) on birth control and how some already had a child at 13. I hit puberty at 10 so she gave me the talk about how regular masturbation was healthy and showed me how to put on a condom.
Decades later and I’m still emotionally scarred. *shiver*
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VI is currently free (Epic via Prime) 1 week ago:
I agree for “free to play” games, but not for the store. The idea is that if you use their store you might convert to a customer or start playing their “free to play” games like Fortnite. If you never do, then you are nothing but a cost center. The idea of “we have tons of customers” doesn’t really track either because articles like the one posted here shine the light on how non-sensical their giveaways are.
Another angle could be to get you into their store everytime you want to play your giveaway game. Maybe that way they can hook you with something else. That should not be a problem if you use apps.like Heroic Game Launcher and bypass the Epic app altogether to play your games.
- Comment on Needs money but has his limits 1 week ago:
- Comment on There are only like 3,000 billionaires and they're not physically imposing people. 1 week ago:
Cool beans. Best of luck to you and your endeavors.
- Comment on There are only like 3,000 billionaires and they're not physically imposing people. 1 week ago:
Do you really believe that the sight of OP is terrifying enough to sow fear into the hearts of ex-military, likely war criminal, murderous mercenaries looking for an excuse to hurt people?
The sudden increase of big talk and calls for violence on Lemmy in the past few weeks is beyond cringey and is no better than the MAGA fucks on Xitter and Truth cosplaying as “Meal Team Six”. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If you want to be a “martyr for the cause” by taking out some billionaire or fascist, that’s your choice. Buy a rifle, a pistol, and a knife and go train. Just don’t get on the Internet and start trying to convince others to do what you are incapable or unwilling to do.
CONTEXT: I used to live in Fort Walton Beach, home of disproportionate number of “private security” guys. I have been part of the tech sector at the executive level for many years, and I currently live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; home of an unusually high number of billionaires. I have met a lot of private security guys on the job or at the bar. Do not confuse them with rent-a-cops.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 week ago:
