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- Comment on Browsing Photos on Samsung TV with TizenOS 5 hours ago:
A quick web search suggests the native Art Mode function is probably the best.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 15 hours ago:
Racism
- Comment on What load balancers can do HA (preferably open source, web gui) 23 hours ago:
Pretty much all of them.
I didn’t know haproxy had a GUI, but the config files are very simple. I would just modify an example one and call it good.
- Comment on What was Radiant AI, anyway? 1 day ago:
It was a little different, because the quests were procedurally generated. Unfortunately most of them were pretty boring, being either a “fetch the item” or “kill the bandits” quest. I don’t know another major game that did that.
- Comment on Small NAS home server woes 1 day ago:
Check the backplane before you buy drives or an HBA. The N3’s backplane just has SATA ports and molex power, you’d have to swap out the whole backplane and hack something together. The N1 and N2 are probably similar.
- Comment on First server: Buying hardware in a developing country 1 day ago:
I know in the US, local government, schools, universities, etc. will hold surplus sales when they get rid of old equipment. Maybe you can see if they do something similar near you?
You might also compare the price of a local system vs cloud hosting. That might work out to be cheaper.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 1 day ago:
Fortunately I haven’t had to do this for anything like my bank app or its multifactor code app, but yeah it would be like that. For apps not published on the play store, they continue working.
- Comment on Small NAS home server woes 1 day ago:
I have a Jonsbo N3 and I’ve been happy with it so far. The N1 and N2 only fit four drives, so if you want more, you’ll have to get the N3 as well. And you’ll have to get an HBA or something, because your motherboard will probably only have four SATA ports.
The biggest power draw will be the drives, also. And you don’t really need ECC on the desktop; random bit flips are uncommon and rarely significant when they happen. Your filesystem and/or RAID should protect against disk corruption.
- Comment on Building a slow web 1 day ago:
Interactiviry seems to be a good thing. What brings you to participate here on Lemmy?
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 1 day ago:
Maybe for the Singapore thing. For the play integrity thing, it applies to apps from anywhere except the play store directly. I use Aurora to install apps that say “not compatible with your device” for no reason. But a week or two ago ago, they started blocking access and saying I needed to install from the play store.
Fortunately I was able to downgrade and they kept working, but I don’t know how long that will last. At some point the server side will change the API.
- Comment on What are the benefits of a server having multiple public IP addresses? 2 days ago:
For http(s), yes. Other services that don’t support host routing, which is most of them, no.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 days ago:
Because the designers and marketers were given priority over the safety engineers.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 days ago:
Agreed. Are they turning, or just braking periodically with a taillight out? Who knows!
I also love the front turn signals that turn off that headlight. Dumb as hell for everyone.
Also, animated signals should be banned. On or off, no flashing, glowing, or sliding.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 days ago:
Because it wasn’t blindingly obvious? I don’t know how tall the truck in front of me is, and since I don’t drive tall vehicles I know even less about the heights of bridges. Usually commercial drivers are the better ones.
- Comment on Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded” 3 days ago:
So they can review reports and ban people
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 days ago:
Yes that’s all I want, to be able to see the indicator again. A lot of newer cars have moved them too far to the side of the vehicle.
I encounter this pretty often because a Boston area streets are terrible and the drivers are worse, so a visible indicator helps all drivers make traffic flow more smoothly.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 days ago:
I mean when a car is coming at me from a cross street, I want to be able to tell if they’re turning or just an asshole not using their signal. On some cars, the turn signal is mounted so far to the side that if they’re approaching from my right and turning right onto the same street as me, I can’t see that turn signal. Sometimes combined with the roundness of the nose exacerbating the problem.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 days ago:
By signaling to oncoming traffic and vehicles approaching from the side, a front brake light provides an essential visual cue that a car is slowing down or preparing to stop. When the light is extinguished, it indicates that a stationary vehicle might initiate movement. According to Tomasch, this visual feedback can significantly truncate the reaction time for other road users, leading to shorter stopping distances and consequently diminishing the likelihood of accidents.
Sounds reasonable. Personally I just want front turn signals to be visible from the opposite side again.
- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July 3 days ago:
Yes that is how capitalism works
- Comment on Florida ban on kids using social media likely unconstitutional, judge rules 4 days ago:
It’s because they’re Republicans, therefore whatever they do is right.
- Comment on Slrpnk.net outage 4 days ago:
Does Lemmy let you retroactively deny applications?
- Comment on Slrpnk.net outage 4 days ago:
Nobody is remotely at risk of losing life or limb because slrpnk is down for a little while.
- Comment on Occasional weird spam posts by otherwise (seemingly) legitimate users? 4 days ago:
I think “permanently deleted” is when a mod or admin deletes their content administratively.
- Comment on Occasional weird spam posts by otherwise (seemingly) legitimate users? 4 days ago:
Hard to say just from what’s in the modlog. Maybe they’re editing a post instead of deleting it?
- Comment on Occasional weird spam posts by otherwise (seemingly) legitimate users? 4 days ago:
Can you link some examples?
- Comment on Slrpnk.net outage 4 days ago:
If you want a professionally managed instance, you are welcome to pay for a hosted one.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 4 days ago:
Is that even available right now? Usually for this type of thing you need API keys, which are not included, nor available at all.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 4 days ago:
Math articles are the worst. They always jump right into calculus and stuff. I usually have to hope there’s a simple English article for those!
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 4 days ago:
How often do those laws actually get enforced, especially for small online communities who are against genocide? Like I understand not wanting to run afoul of the law, even if the law is immoral, but is it a realistic risk?
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 4 days ago:
Go ahead and run your own instance, then.