SreudianFlip
@SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Can confirm, I live out in the countryside with only coax available, and a measly 1Gbit down 150Mbit up and 9 - 11ms ping. No caps.
Wait, that’s awesome and steady and reliable. Expensive sure but with heavy multiperson usage and no noticeable issues, I am wondering WTF you’re on about unless it’s some weird edge case?
- Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress 1 week ago:
Generally, Safari was kind of middling in function and design until around 2018, when it got more streamlined or something; at least, its apparent performance improved over the other browsers on macOS. It was novel on Windows but pretty limited and just, meh.
- Comment on Why do so many people delete their posts? 3 weeks ago:
Well I was going to explain but
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
Is it that uniformly bad? I guess the exceptions to the rule stand out starkly then.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
You know that this is a global forum, right?
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
Oh, do your regional school districts let teachers design their own curriculum?
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 1 month ago:
If the analytics cross over a certain threshold, trigger an ad.
This is extremely simple and does not require an LLM.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 month ago:
Battery would be grand for a household solar install. Seats would be nice on the porch. The frunk can hold a lot of chicken feed, and the cabin would make a fine henhouse for a small flock.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 month ago:
That cadence…
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 1 month ago:
Most of my work is with Macs, and even one server is running macOS, so for those who don’t know how it works ‘over there’, one runs Time Machine which is a versioning system keeping hourlies for a day, dailies for a week, then just weeklies after that. It accommodates using multiple disks, so I have a networked drive that services all the mac computers, and each computer also has a USB drive it connects to. Each drive usually services a couple of computers.
Backups happen automatically without interruption or drama.
I just rotate the USB drives out of the building into a storage unit once a month or so and bring the offsite drives back in to circulation. The timemachine system nags you for missing backup drives if it’s been too long, which is great.
It’s not perfect but very reliable and I wish everyone had access to a similar system, it’s very easy, apple got this one thing right.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 2 months ago:
Such a prescient episode.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This is the best answer in the thread. Add in eye contact and eyebrow gesture.
- Comment on Linux Prepper (federated podcast) - episode on system monitoring, terminal tools, local AI tools, NixOS, Kubuntu 24.10 2 months ago:
Maybe ‘digital resilience’ is a more accurate, less sensationalist term?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Word has been broken since v.5.1a. But you’re right about Excel.
- Comment on I'm gonna be really pissed if my chtistofascist parents were right 3 months ago:
It’s all just food prep for the Archons.
- Comment on Trans is Trans 3 months ago:
Yep but that’s a separate issue, geopolitics at play. Fascists and conservatives support each other internationally. I guess you can only assassinate character with a meme lol.
- Comment on Trans is Trans 3 months ago:
I see this misguided gripe all the time, people forget how important cultural and political messaging is for organizing and motivation.
I interviewed an old guy who fought in the spanish civil wars and he had this massive collection of pamphlets and leaflets and newsletters and posters from that period and, let me assure you, other than design, style, and medium, the messaging was consistent with current sarcastic memes and even shitposts. That stuff is important.
Effective resistance strategy incorporates many tactics. You look to your expertise, and draw strength from others where you can.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 3 months ago:
Well, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary, such as the way Costco mostly operates. Being the good guys has a lot of brand value. With a little nurturing of the vast propaganda machine known as advertising, that could be improved.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 3 months ago:
One of my clients is a small company that has been running with seven staff working from home, scattered around the globe, mostly rural. Since 1999. Everything has been held together by skype: chat, video, audio.
Should be interesting finding the right new workflow!
- Comment on The next scandal involving Musk should be called Elongate. 4 months ago:
Ewww, no, not even with a 10-foot rapier.
- Comment on Trump Sentenced to…Nothing 5 months ago:
The Rule of Law! Oh wait…
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 6 months ago:
You mean like SNW which is peppered with regular jokes about the captain’s appearance, especially hair? Especially the musical episode where the Klingons aggressively sing and dance “why you only call me / when you got your problems”. Took that one pretty far.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 7 months ago:
Eating a tiger liver would probably kill you with Vitamin A poisoning, particularly painful.
Easy to just avoid eating entirely, even if the rest of it is safe enough.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 8 months ago:
Apple doesn’t want people using the mouse with the cable attached because it would cost them a fortune due to failed charging ports within the warranty period. It’s a wireless mouse. Using it plugged in will fuck it up.
I fix computers and an apple mouse with a bad charge port is just a throwaway.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 8 months ago:
Mac Mini M1 when it was released was a good deal compared to same form factor machines at similar prices. Same for the M1 MacBook Air, despite the base RAM.
That advantage lasted a while, too, considering battery life and build quality.
- Comment on The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books 8 months ago:
I can corroborate that it gets crazy even in courses expecting high literacy. I had the painful experience of teaching a 3rd year course in communication studies that was part of the media production stream. It required writing preproduction documentation and a script. There were a lot of questionable attempts but there’s always a range of interest and skill, right? One student, and let me remind you this is third year at a university, I called into office hours. I’m a fan of poetry, so I just had to be sure that she wasn’t cleverly lampooning Gertrude Stein in some ironic way. Sadly, no, she just had no fucking clue how to write ANYTHING coherent. Amazing.
- Comment on Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed 8 months ago:
I think the suggestion is that if they leave the content available, they can still write it off.