octobob

@octobob@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a younger person (32) and didn’t know about this norm until I saw an older person doing it. Now I do it as well but make it obvious what the intent is.

  For example:

  Hello (person),

  See responses below in red

  Blah blah blah original email text

  Red text

  Blah blah blah

  Red text

  Etc.

  It works really well. Said person will even respond in green to my red. We do all this in new outlook, which to be fair, is still a mess for other reasons. Don’t even get me started on the search lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why even lump pedos in the same sentence with the gays

  This is an age-old hurtful stereotype. I’m hoping you don’t believe there’s any connection, because I have heard that before from bigots in my life and it just makes me see red. Same as the whole “homophobes are just closeted gays let’s point that out as if it’s a sickness”.

  I’m just tryin to exist, not be considered “harmful” to anyone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At a certain point they’re beating a dead horse. Outside of graphical updates (which I thought the cartoon-y look of the leaders in civ 6 was a huge downgrade), the core gameplay is still mostly the same throughout the series.

  I watched a video on civ 7 and it seems like they really tried to shake up a lot in the game, I think for this reason that they needed to try something fresh to stay relevant. But really this is to its detriment rather than benefit.

  I’m not sure if the three age thing is to “even the playfield” on those marathon long sessions when one civ runs away with the ball so to speak, but really that’s one of my favorite parts of the series. Like it’s awesome to take out some cavemen with navy seals or launch nukes when everyone is cowering in fear. If everything gets massively reset, then why even try to get ahead? I’ve not played the game so there could be more nuance but that’s my general impression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to keep outlook off my personal phone but there’s no chance I’m getting a company phone considering I’m a shop employee and everything in it is an afterthought for IT. Like our computers still run windows 7.

  Unfortunately I need email to do my job, on a ping system for what to test and general communications with coworkers who are often not there or traveling in the field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As in watch the media not on my own network or have other users do the same from their homes.

  Music is another big one that jellyfin can’t compete with Plex with in its current state. I currently have 718 GB of music that I stream with plexamp when I’m driving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that it may be technically possible but that is leaps and bounds different than having my senior dad make a Plex account on his fire stick so he can watch movies with his niece, or my fiance’s boss is in the hospital with cancer right now and is watching things on his iPad.

  I already have a hard time getting people to just make a Plex account and watch on my server and that’s the “easy” route.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have a guide somewhere on how to set it up? I’ve poked around online and didn’t see anything short of tailscaling your container to a web browser which I don’t want to do for a few different reasons (opening ports / security mostly)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think jellyfin offers remote access to your media

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LAN (local area network) games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’m not sure exactly where this may fall, but I play a very wide library of games over LAN on my KVM. Emulators from the NES era all the way up to PS3 and nintendo switch. I also can play my whole steam library, all from a convenient launcher called EmulationStation (desktop edition)

  The KVM is connected to my Linux PC over its own individual Ethernet wire to the living room TV. It works great and can do 4K and has zero latency problems (at least none that I can notice)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What host names do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used the names of the eldrazi from magic the gathering:

  Ulamog: desktop PC Emrakul: NAS / Plex server name Kozilek: NUC mini PC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna be honest, it’s been a while since I’ve been out to the country. I just saw most carriers shut down 3G in 2022. Time flies and all that.

  Also now that I think about it, we may have been installing 4G LTE modems on our pumps lately. That customer only buys a few systems a year.

  I wonder too, say 3G gets totally shut down in the US. Will new phones still be able to connect to it if I’m traveling outside the US? I was bopping around some small islands in the Pacific last year and was heavily relying on 3G for things like maps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of rural areas in the US still rely on 3G. I’ve definitely seen my phone switch to it out in the sticks