LordCrom
@LordCrom@lemmy.world
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 7 hours ago:
I dropped my Spotify account after last price hike.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 7 hours 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? 7 hours 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 1 day ago:
President just threatened a reporter asking a question…
Narcissistic POS
- Comment on AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access 2 weeks ago:
TIL that AOL is still a thing.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 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 2 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 2 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. 2 weeks ago:
I love abandonware. So many old and beloved titles.
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 2 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. 3 weeks ago:
Remember you can always check out CDs from the library and rip them to your collection.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks 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" 3 weeks ago:
Wtf
- Comment on Study Finds That School-Based Online Surveillance Companies Monitor Students 24/7 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
You do know that interest earned is also taxed right? Letting it grow means you pay every year of how much it grew.
- Comment on They are so clueless they don't realize that this just pisses everyone off. Shove your banana 2 months ago:
But code monkeys prefer Fritos with Tab or Mountain Dew
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 2 months ago:
How many false positives will it have when trying to find accounts for John Smith
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 2 months ago:
Yes it is housing and healthcare. Even with health insurance, a major sickness can bankrupt anybody, especially when insurance denies coverage.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 months ago:
HIPAA data is protected…until it isn’t. Laws change. Especially when companies are salavating to access health data.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 months ago:
Follow the money. Nominee for surgeon general has a stake in wearable tech.
Just like when those scatter machines were forced on the TSA, it’s because the person in charge had a stake in the company making them.
My company gave these things away to each employee for some ‘fitness challenge’ between departments…I never even opened the package. My group was mad at me for not helping win the free lunch or whatever it was … Until I made them read the privacy policy. Many stopped wearing them immediately
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 2 months ago:
When the engine is off?
Of course, how to tell this with an electric car?
- Comment on Google’s Advanced Protection Arrives on Android: Should You Use It? 2 months ago:
Most features here let Google scan and evaluate what you do on the web, messages, and apps.
They say it helps security, but of course it assures those features are on letting them suck in more data about the person.
A company like Google doesn’t do something out of the kindness of their hearts, they do it for profit
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 2 months ago:
So if you are in trouble or held against your will and you say you’ll order pizza but sneK a call to 911 for help instead and pretend to order and give your address for delivery hoping an operator catches on… Doubt the AI will catch on.