LockheedTheDragon
@LockheedTheDragon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there any gadget that helps find, kill or repel mosquitoes? 4 weeks ago:
Rosemary and lavender are just two plants that mosquitoes don’t like. Fight them multiple ways. Plants, remove standing water, a fan, repellent you put on, ect.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
I do not want my birthday to fall on the same day each year!
- Comment on List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots 1 month ago:
TU Dresden Article about it. tu-dresden.de/…/geheime-daten-auf-dem-druckpapier…
It has a link to the App that decodes, what being embedded in the print and anonymize the prints, by scrambling the yellow dot patterns. dfd.inf.tu-dresden.de
- Comment on This is a Test 1 month ago:
Hospitals have security for a reason. You touching a gun when they have procedures on how to handle this situation is dangerous. If you are on staff you follow procedures. If you are just there and do know about gun safety you would know not to pick up that gun.
- Comment on This is a Test 1 month ago:
C. I worked at a hospital and at the hospital I worked at they would have called Security to secure the gun. There may even be an off duty police officer on staff at the time of the incident.
- Comment on Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 1 month ago:
At work we can only use Edge. But we search using Google. Which you had to fight Microsoft to do. “Do you really want to change your default search engine?” Yes, I’m required to use it and Bing is annoying. But while searching on Google using Edge it is annoying the corner pop up asking me if I want to switch to Chrome. I can’t, stop asking! I want to switch to Firefox but I want all of them to shut up about “switching”, “downloading”, or “trying”.
- Comment on It's kinda wild that zombo.com still exists 2 months ago:
Yes, it was down for a few days… but remember “You can do anything at Zombocom.” So it came back.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
I could see the argument that 7 was peak, but I think it was XP. My Dad pretty much downloads pictures from his phone and browser the web. One issue is some of the sites he uses are set up weird. That why he finally allowed me to upgrade him from 7 to 10. He complained about certain sites, which I really didn’t pay attention to which, would give warning about browser being out of date, then the sites refused to even load. That is when he allowed me to upgrade. They probably would work but I don’t want to risk issues with any sites having problems with Linux.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
Your post reminded me. I worked tech support for years at an ISP and we would not help people with Linux systems. Only Windows or Macs. Android on a cell but only help with connecting to Wi-Fi and very basic settings up email if they used the ISP email.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
A couple of years ago I was trying to reinstall Windows 10 without Internet. I hadn’t bought a switch for that room yet so ended up having to unplug another computer so Windows “Special Snowflake” 10 would let me a little easlier set up the admin and user.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
I got a Chromebook years ago to have to write when out, but now they won’t update it and to install Linux I have to flip a physical switch on the other side of the motherboard.
My Dad gets upset and let’s me know when Yahoo changes their homepage. (Yes, he still uses yahoo mail.) He has a flip phone and still struggling with it.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
I’ve been saying for years I was going to move back over to Linux. This will be the push I need. Sadly my Dad is bad at computers and will need Windows 11 when using 10 becomes a problem. I’m throwing this at my brother since I was the one who got our Dad a Windows 10 computer. FU Microsoft, you peaked at XP.