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- Comment on NOW! 23 hours ago:
Fixed.
Also, added context plus apparently Keepa is better?
- Comment on NOW! 1 day ago:
That site is owned by Amazon now.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 3 days ago:
Well, at this point more like out of the fire into the frying pan
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 4 days ago:
There’s some models that work with Matter and a local home server. There’s also a couple you can flash with open source software to keep it all local.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Republican levels, so checks out?
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 1 week ago:
That’s a good way to get a McDonald’s coffee express delivered to the face scalding hot.
- Comment on Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy 1 week ago:
Ah, now computers can be infected with fungi along with worms and viruses.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 1 week ago:
We have local providers too tho, and if they go down could give this EU ones a chance to move in, which could be good.
Especially since both Microsoft and Google are both quite in the AI stuff.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 1 week ago:
Revolut is subject to EU laws which are much stricter than US ones. It’s not like Wells Fargo, an actual US bank, hasn’t already messed with Americans by just straight up stealing from them. Wells Fargo would’ve been dead by now in the EU for their shenanigans.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 1 week ago:
Our economy isn’t propped up by AI. One of the biggest AI’s we have is Mistral, and it’s no where near the size of the US ones.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 1 week ago:
Revolut
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 1 week ago:
Weird no one is saying this, but exchange dollars to Euros.
Had it been done back in November of last year, 1,000$ would now be worth about 1,200$.
Even if the Euro loses some value from the crash, it probably won’t be greater than 20% of the exchange difference there is now.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 week ago:
I carved mine out of an old olive tree. Good luck stealing it.
- Comment on Revolt became Stoat 1 week ago:
Somewhere on Lemmy someone said it came out that it was Revolt.tv
But yeah, I honestly would constantly type Revolut instead of Revolt before, so that was my guess before too.
- Comment on Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement 1 week ago:
The average for a person sending / receiving a message is about 35 / day. That’s 70kb / person.
Signal has aprx. 100 million users.
Which means this adds about 7 terabytes daily.
Just doing the math on it, there’s no point to this message 😁
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
I think it’s more questionable that it uses AWS
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 1 week ago:
To be fair I was referring to the 80s 👴
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 1 week ago:
Yeah, job applications haven’t changed that much.
It was still a dismissive black box, it’s just that the process was more manual. Instead of AI tools throwing your application away, someone skimmed it looking for a particular bullet point, if they don’t find it in 10 seconds your resume is tossed in the bin. Whether it was AI or a manager, either way you’re probably not getting a call back to let you know they tossed your application.
The manual review though does improve your odds than an algorithm looking for keywords.
Not to mention sometimes you got feedback of what your odds were of getting hired. If you gave someone your physical resumé, and they just laid it down in a random spot and we’re dismissive, you at least knew immediately that you should probably not expect a call back.
- Comment on Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? 1 week ago:
But is it necessary? I’d rather focus more on the tdp.
I know I could just boost the tdp of the n150 if I did want more power, but I see people here running stuff on 10 year old laptops and older Intel n series stuff seemingly without a problem.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 1 week ago:
There are enough people that are perfectly fine with having any phone or any device to do basic stuff like making calls.
And those people will already have at least a feature phone. The poor don’t stop eating because someone else burns gilded pork fat. In both cases because those things are needed (food, communication in modern society for basic services and work).
It’s very easy to not use social media (in a harmful way) and not consume brainrot AI content in my opinion. Sure, it’s getting more difficult to differentiate I guess, but it’s still not that difficult if you try even a little bit
It actually isn’t. The algorithms for most social media are designed to release dopamine, and humans tend to be social creatures. Sure, if more of society and people knew of the harms it causes, especially particular ones, then it would be easier. But right now? It’s like trying to tell people they shouldn’t smoke in the 1950s.
Btw, we’re using social media right now. Lemmy isn’t immune, and there’s definitely bad actors here that use social media negatively. You either have to avoid All or constantly block communities.
Which is why I didn’t make that comparison, I guess you wanted to reply to @Buffalox@lemmy.world
Whoops yeah, that last part was for them.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 2 weeks ago:
Can’t open source Apple phones.
So basically, getting rid of tech that spies on you and can’t be used anymore after a certain point I guess.
And unlike books, tech has made some things worse. Job applications for one thing. When we were young, recruiters had to physically read the letters and/or places hiring had to physically see you in person.
Now hiring agencies just use automated tools (even before AI) and you get ghosted constantly.
Renting and housing has gotten more expensive because prices can be changed on the fly based on market data available 24/7 (effigy is illegal in many places, but that law rarely enforced).
And that’s not getting into brainrot AI content and manipulative machinations of social media.
There’s definitely reasons to be frustrated at tech for the younger generation. And even justifiable reasons to destroy closed source tech.
Comparing to book burnings is only a false equivalence, as you’re not destroying information, you’re destroying locks that require special keys, unlike FOSS.
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 2 weeks ago:
So I guess you have to make sure you apply to have your tax home changed. Doesn’t seem automatic from what I read
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 2 weeks ago:
US is one of like 2 or 3 countries that does that.
There are usually other costs, and if you have any outstanding debts you have to pay those first too.
Some may need a lawyer to figure out how to just do the paperwork.
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 2 weeks ago:
They have treaties with some countries so that if you don’t pay you can have your wages garnished. This is assuming you have citizenship and not residency etc with the other country.
So it’s on a per country basis. In some, nothing happens. In some there’s also treaties so you don’t have to pay double tax anyway, or it’s percentage based.
However, this also assumes you have no family you care about anymore in the USA or that they’re able to travel to see you instead. Otherwise you face prison for tax evasion if you ever go back.
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 2 weeks ago:
Well, a modern form of that still sort of exists today, except the leash is longer.
You cannot for example just get rid of your US citizenship - you have to pay to get rid of it, and as long as you have it, you’re susceptible to paying taxes to the USA. Even if you have dual citizenship.
- Comment on She's a pain in my rear but she keeps me straight! 2 weeks ago:
I thought this implied the wife was even smarter
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 2 weeks ago:
The Flatpak isn’t from Proton
- Comment on How should everything be routed? 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize I forgot to specify that some were Nintendo Switches, the console
- Comment on How should everything be routed? 3 weeks ago:
Not quite. How did you make the diagram? I can try making one like that to clarify how everything is connected
- Comment on How should everything be routed? 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t sure, since when trying to find devices, the desktop seems to be isolated from everything else.
Also means I can’t use KDE Connect on it unfortunately, and the Bluetooth mode they have didn’t work either.
I’m hoping I’ll at least maybe be able to use it on a server in the future if everything is connected right