shortwavesurfer
@shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia 39 minutes ago:
Nope, still hate it.
- Comment on Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia 14 hours ago:
The late 90s to early 2000s PCs I remember were that god awful beige color that I absolutely hated. It was fucking horrible.
Like in my mind, I associate that particular color of beige to dinosaur tech that’s not worth having around.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 21 hours ago:
Well then that’s just too bad for me, isn’t it?
Obviously I have my phone on me so I could just dial 911. If your phone breaks when whatever occurs to you, then your spouse or whatever isn’t going to be able to track your location and you’re not going to be able to call 911 either. So either way you’re fucked.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 21 hours ago:
If this was demanded of me, I would end the relationship immediately. That’s absolutely not worth it.
- Comment on Trust in the US is eroding. Now the question isn’t if the dollar will lose supremacy: it’s when 2 days ago:
I have lost all trust in all fiat currencies and only hold dollars long enough to move them into Monero and have just a few for emergency purposes for quick liquidity if need be.
I’m also active on a marketplace and help people price their goods and services directly in Monero.
I’m also a holder of some gold in the form of goldbacks.
- Comment on WhoFi: Unique 'fingerprint' based on Wi-Fi interactions 2 days ago:
My comment from an earlier version of this post
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 3 days ago:
Just based on the title, since I haven’t read the article yet, that’s quite unfortunate. I would want all of them to be practically identical, so there’s no way to trace them at all.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 4 days ago:
Thats true, i just didnt want to setup the reverse proxying for that. Also, its DoH ao my isp doesnt get my dns.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 5 days ago:
My DNS is from controld.com.
What you do is you log into your router and on the local area network page there’s generally a section to change the DNS settings of your router and you just put in the IP addresses that control D gives you.
You can also set it up on iOS and Android so that you are also protected when you leave your home network and are on the go on your cellular network.
As I said, along with Control-D, I also use U-Block Origin to catch anything that it might miss.
The other thing to do is use as many open source applications as you can possibly get away with.
- Comment on Crypto sector breaches $4 trillion in market value during pivotal week 5 days ago:
Because it can be stupidly easily controlled by the government. If there’s a pandemic and they don’t want you going more than five miles from your house, they can literally turn off your money if you are more than five miles away from home.
Did you eat too much meat this week? Your money gets turned off because you used too much carbon.
Did you take part in a protest the government disapproves of? Good luck eating for the next month with no money to pay for your groceries. Have fun starving.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 5 days ago:
I have my entire network running with a DNS that blocks all advertising by default. And then, just to make absolutely certain, I run browsers with UBlock Origin on them.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 5 days ago:
Call them what they are. Internet condoms.
- Comment on Starlink: The newest asset for rebel and jihadist groups in West Africa 1 week ago:
Somewhat related, I’m surprised Starlink doesn’t seem to accept crypto because it seems like it would be incredibly difficult to pay with a credit card for Starlink service in some of these African countries.
- Comment on How Android phones became an earthquake warning system 1 week ago:
Now it needs to be figured out how to do it in an open source way so that we don’t have to rely on Daddy Google for people who don’t use Google Play Services and all that other crappy shit.
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 1 week ago:
Hell yeah. Also have a look at XMRBazaar.com where you can buy and sell legal goods and services directly for Monero. X premium, Spotify, Canva pro, laptops, houses, cars, etc. are all on there.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 week ago:
Ubuntu 10.10 was my first linux. Though 11.04 was released soon after my switch.
My first experience with 10.10 was as a virtual machine on my school issued Dell Latitude D505 laptop with Windows XP, a dual core 32-bit processor and 512 megs of RAM. And boy, let me tell you, it ran like shit. But I knew that it was because I was virtualizing it and didn’t hold that against it.
I can’t remember what it was called, but I eventually installed this OS on my flash drive that was meant to be eco-friendly for old devices. It had a very green wallpaper. And just used that instead of ever booting into windows by changing the boot order and leaving the flash drive plugged in at all times.
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 1 week ago:
Then they have to take all those people to court one by one, which wastes their own funds. And as they lose, because those are just regular people, then other people will start asking what the hell they’re doing.
- Comment on Windows 11 will soon be able to describe images on your screen using AI — and it'll all be done locally 1 week ago:
I use a screen reader due to being blind, and this would be incredibly helpful. Mind you, I sure as hell wouldn’t use Windows in order to get it. But if I had the option to do this on Linux, I would totally go for it.
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 1 week ago:
Which is why I hold it as a long-term store value. The harder they regulate it, the more the strizend effect happens.
I want them to be fucking terrified. I want them to wake up at night in cold sweats screaming their fucking heads off because that’s how afraid they are. I want them to have stress-induced heart attacks caused by Monero.
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 1 week ago:
While that is a possibility, there are a lot of incredibly intelligent people who do their absolute best to make sure that that does not happen.
And just like Bitcoin, upgrades are only deployed after they have been thoroughly vetted and torture tested to hell.
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 1 week ago:
Considering I’ve lost all faith in fiat currencies, including the US dollar, I no longer measure my net worth in it, this would be quite good for my gold and monero holdings. Because those are stable assets, not controlled by the whims of any central bank or government.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 week ago:
I have not read the article yet, but I will be doing so after posting this. But from what I understand, concentrated cells via lenses already exist. The problem with them was keeping them cool.
Going to go read the actual article now.
- Comment on When tech hardware becomes paperweights 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been slowly making my way into the smart home ecosystem and was incredibly concerned about these not because of paperweight necessarily but because of needing to send data to a company over the internet which might not be available when it’s needed.
So I ended up going with Home Assistant and I’m really happy about the launch of the Works with Home Assistant program with the logo on devices.
- Comment on Holy sh*t: Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain. 2 weeks ago:
Have a look at meshtastic. Yes, you do have to get a separate device, but range on it can be several tens to hundreds of miles depending on the mesh density.
- Comment on Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have a significant need to use a laptop or desktop as my phone is my primary computing device. With that said, I run Mint Debian Edition on my laptop. Just because I want my computer to work when I go to use it, even if it has been six months.
- Comment on US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried? 2 weeks ago:
I have lost all faith in fiat currency, and so I only now hold Goldbacks and Monero. If I need fiat currency to pay for something, I can easily get it using one of those two currencies that are stronger.
- Comment on FairPhone AMA 3 weeks ago:
Haven’t had a reddit account since API Gate.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 3 weeks ago:
I don’t use a PC for very much anymore, so I have little need to use my laptop. But when I do, I’ve honestly just gone with Linux Mint just because it works. And I have Lineage OS on my phone, which is my primary computing device.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 3 weeks ago:
And i no longer use Ubuntu. I remember that too. I also remember such large push back that it was removed
- Comment on Session Messenger 3 weeks ago:
I think it was a great idea, but poorly executed. I prefer using simpleX, personally.