LordCrom
@LordCrom@lemmy.world
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 6 days ago:
Bad phrasing. There are power walls for home use and FPL is still available.
My point is that Florida could use solar as 1 prong on the challenge to provide clean, green energy but FPL must deliver profit to it’s shareholders and will fight that effort
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 6 days ago:
Hell. In Florida, FPL is the electric provider, and they are fighting tooth and nail to keep people from installing solar on houses… In Florida, we would have almost free electric for everyone if all houses could install panels…
But FPL lobbied our GOP legislature and force anyone with solar to have a million dollar insurance policy payable to FPL in case something happens. Also got regulations passed to bar home windstorm insurance if any panels are bolted to the roof. So if you have panels, no hurricane insurance for you…and the mortgage holder gets to put their expensive policy on your home.
Fuck FPL
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 week ago:
Not just phone makers, but the telecom companies. Even if your phone shares no location data, it still checks in with a cell tower constantly. As you move around, so does your registration at a tower. It’s accurate to about 2 miles. Match that with your known home address or work address and your location is easily guessed
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 1 week ago:
Eh, most of the old school titles are just too ‘Soap Opera ish’ for me. It’s was supposed to be action and adventure and mystery with good art. Last 2 decades, it’s become people coming back from the dead, clones, ridiculous story lines that have nothing to do with the original character.
It’s ridiculous.
Indie books and limited series are my go to now. Even those start to run out of gas if they are kept around too long.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
Well, there technically may not be an eternity. Universe is 14 billion years old now…in 32 trillion years or so the last black holes and last particles will cease to exist. Time will no longer have any meaning, and the nothingness will be all there is.
What a shit hand we were dealt.
- Comment on Split Tunnel by Domain on Router Level? 1 week ago:
You could always just get the entire list of AWS public ranges and use that to identify interesting traffic… Of course that would vpn all AWS stuff.
If you have a list of domains, you could schedule a script to resolve each to IPs and rebuild your VPN definition every night.
- Comment on Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem 1 week ago:
Already dropped them.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 2 weeks ago:
Why excel for super complex computations? At some point, just code your solution instead… It’s easier than troubleshooting Excel
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
I dropped my Spotify account after last price hike.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 2 weeks ago:
Hahaha. Who would pay so much for a smart fridge. In the words of Gilfoyle, all it needs to do is keep my fucking beer cold.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 2 weeks ago:
Haven’t had a haircut since COVID. Now I just keep it long, I’ll cut off a few inches every few months.
Companies I work for ignore it because I’ve become a valuable greybeard, so I get away with stuff like that
- Comment on ‘Maybe we should go after you’ Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech 3 weeks ago:
President just threatened a reporter asking a question…
Narcissistic POS
- Comment on AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access 4 weeks ago:
TIL that AOL is still a thing.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 5 weeks ago:
I knew someone who threw away a laptop because the screen broke.
They see junk
I see a new home server with built in ups, just rip off the screen.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 weeks ago:
Will this kill FDroid ? I imagine yes since you have to install it from a download.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 5 weeks ago:
A weed is just a plant someone hasn’t figured out how to market it yet.
- Comment on LOTR: The fellowship of the ring. The game that people and history forgot. 5 weeks ago:
I love abandonware. So many old and beloved titles.
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 5 weeks ago:
I refuse to use those stupid self order kiosks. I went to the drive thru Instead and refused to pull up there so they could deliver my food while artificially keeping the drive thru time per customer statistic low.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 1 month ago:
Remember you can always check out CDs from the library and rip them to your collection.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
My reaction was “no fucking way this is 1989”.
It’s amazing how much wasn’t taught to us in US shcools
- Comment on Started hosting my own Nextcloud and its awesome! 1 month ago:
Welcome to the fold.
Been running nextcloud for 8+ years. Love the auto upload and bookmark sharing apps.
The contacts and calendar apps support DAV…I use DAVx on android to sync contacts and calendar to nextcloud …haven’t sync’d to Google. Grab it from FDroid. I have an article on my web blob explaining how to do it.
Remember to backup your cloud data and secure your web portal or run over private vpn.
Oh and go find the php updater script…it’s a life saver.
- Comment on Laura Loomer wants ICE to livestream arrests for entertainment: "Make it exciting an show ICE agents tackling Juan and Jesus" 1 month ago:
Wtf
- Comment on Study Finds That School-Based Online Surveillance Companies Monitor Students 24/7 1 month ago:
Monitor students digital behavior?
Just don’t use accounts the school knows about…how hard is that? Don’t use the shitty equipment they give you because it’s loaded with spyware, haw hard is that.
Maybe students need to stop using tech and start learning how it works like we did
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 1 month ago:
This company is acting like a spoiled brat of a child.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 1 month ago:
Masked men
Refuse to give names
Refuse to give badge numbers
Refuse to identify themselves
Have no arrest warrant
Threatening bystander with lethal force
Show no shred of professionalism
Taking your loved one with no explanation other than ‘shut the fuck up’
How is this not a kidnapping and why don’t people defend themselves.
If masked men who refuse to identify as law enforcement with names, badges, or at least faces, are pushing my wife into an unmarked car … Ya someone is getting shot. Even if it’s me, no one is taking my wife like that.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 2 months ago:
Exactly this.
Governments have a rock hard boner for detailed face scans of every person.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 2 months ago:
It took me a bit to realize this wasnt an actual quote from Trump
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 2 months ago:
My company required everyone come back to the office. My team works in a terminal, we can do our work from anywhere. Everyone of my department went back in. I said no.
They said I could be terminated
I said go ahead and fire me, I’m the lead tech, 40 experience, I built and maintain more then half of the automation, I’m the only one who understands networking onprem and I cloud and has a security background.
I dare you.
They said they would make a special exemption for me.
The moral of the story… You can demand stuff from your company if your company can’t function without you.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 2 months ago:
Good call.
I took over for a previous manager who installed all smart lights controlled via Alexa. Every week…every fucking week…there would be a section not working, lights with disco colors, Alexa was offline so we could give the command to turn on lights…
When I took over, 1st task was to rip out all the smart shit and I put in regular LED bulbs controlled with the light switch. Works every time
- Comment on You'd need to calculate the compound interest 2 months ago:
You do know that interest earned is also taxed right? Letting it grow means you pay every year of how much it grew.