LordCrom
@LordCrom@lemmy.world
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 1 day ago:
The code to generate the forms should be simple enough… But the amounts, the deductions, the laws, the rules…etc, these all need to be checked by an accountant or lawyer… It might be a good method to double check a return, but if the return isn’t guaranteed to be correct by the IRS or an accountant is checking details…I would be worried
- Comment on Might be a bit of a tangent: use SIP at home via internet 2 days ago:
It does. Or can just send the recorded message to your email as a .wav attachment.
- Comment on Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android 3 days ago:
It’s an amazing solution… Keeps reminding us how desperate and manic organizations are to collect data
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- Comment on Might be a bit of a tangent: use SIP at home via internet 4 days ago:
I use this.
I have Ms VoIP as my provider. $1 month per line and 1 cent per min.
I have a grand stream sip adapter… Configured with my providers info and my creds. Phone can plug into it. Works just fine. Plus you can use any sip client to connect to the same line from mobile or PC.
Also, my old house had pots lines in every room. I took my grand stream and wired it into the house, not a phone. So I can plug regular phones into any of the original outlets and it works as it directly connected to the grand stream. I have 4 regular phones all running over original wires into the grandstream using sip
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 1 week ago:
I did it for ya…good luck with your phd
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 2 weeks ago:
It’s all about privacy.
I am amazed at services offered that run rampant in the home.
My ISP offers fiber. But only if you also sign up for managed wifi where they manage your internal net…no way
I got a quote for solar power…but they must use a 3rd party cloud to manage your power and it uses eth over electrical … If you use eth over electrical already, then it does whatever it wants in your home network …no way.
Cell phones? They all go into a guest wifi…not on my home network.
- Comment on Is Pop_OS! kind of bad? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve used pop is for years now. No major complaints.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Take the lesson. While learning, stay off of hills and any upward incline until you got a feel from taking the car from full stop to going in 1at gear.
While learning you will stall the car… Don’t let it bother you.
The trickiest part is learning how to ease the clutch while applying gas to go from full stop to motion forward.
Remember neutral when coming to a stop.
Manuals are great, it’s built in theft protection from like 95 % of people
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 weeks ago:
Imagine …
THIS IS SP…
Insert unskippable ad here.
ARTA!
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 3 weeks ago:
Unless the TOS included the common language that the company can change the TOS whenever they want.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
Queue Dave Chappelle and his sketch ‘Negrodamas’
Quote
I predict a movie called The Last Black Man on Earth, starring Tom Hanks
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 weeks ago:
Never be afraid to ask a question to rectify a lack of knowledge.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
Except I didn’t pay a monthly fee for over the air TV. The Jeffersons didn’t cost 4.99 a month
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
Speaking of Hulu, does anyone know a way to get Hulu working on OSMC or other media player. Netflix works via API and keys… I can’t get other streamers on there correctly which pisses me off to to end.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 5 weeks ago:
Legal items aside. My wife has my back and I have hers. Having a partner in life you can trust with yours is a special thing.
It doesn’t have to even be man and woman. I know a group of older men who have a group dynamic where they are all basically each other’s partners…not sexually, just supportive.
- Comment on This is real 1 month ago:
Omg. I just realized this is really from The white house???!!??
I thought this was some stupid meme… Omg
I just can’t even…omg
- Comment on It's a fun new game 1 month ago:
8675309
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 1 month ago:
Holy crap , this is really intrusive. It’s opt in, but who would opt in to this harvesting at all?
- Comment on NVIDIA to Manufacture American-Made AI Supercomputers in US for First Time. 1 month ago:
Can’t wait to see what the cost will be once you figure in American labor, American benefits, 401k, etc … This isn’t foxcon where workers will accept Nvidia dollars good only at the Nvidia grocery store around the corner from Nvidia apartments
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 months ago:
Universal media server works for me. I run it headless on a small instance. Streams my movies and music just fine.
- Comment on Millennials are watching monthly student loan payments skyrocket from $500 to $5000 under Trump: This will ‘crash the economy’ 2 months ago:
Crashing the stock market may be the plan here. Follow me on this …
Crashing the market and removing 20 to 30 percent of value.
Then at the low point invest heavily into the DOW.
Now support the market and get it back to previous levels.
Fucking rich fucks just made 30% in 1 to 2 years on that investment.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
Somehow autocorrect made it funnier too
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
So property tax I am ok with, in theory. The people with property in a city should pay for services like fire, schools, police, road maintenance… What gets me is when the city wants more and more for stupid shit like iPads for all students… Every 3 years due to forced upgrades or just old style deprecation over 3 years.
The amount my taxes go up each year is more than any raise I get. Then add on insurance which has gone insane. I paid off my house to avoid a 20k female flood insurance bill because a 1 foot piece of concrete touched a high risk flood zone. A technicality because if I took down a screen patio, then I wouldn’t have to pay.
It’s insane how expensive owning a house has become
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 2 months ago:
“In some parts of the city, you can’t even park your car anymore without downloading an app.”
Omg, this. I left my phone at home by accident and quickly found out that I could not pay a meter on the area I went to … You had to download an app to pay or use you phone to register a phone number and manually enter a plate and credit card.
No phone…meant no parking.
Good luck too if your phone happens to run out of battery.
- Comment on The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games? 2 months ago:
Same result for me. I’m sure I can buy thimbstick caps or something to cover them.
- Comment on The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games? 2 months ago:
I went to use my old PS2 the other night after many years. The controllers thumpads had turned into this sticky, rubbery, goo. Gross. I couldn’t play it
- Comment on Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? 2 months ago:
Yes thats it. I gotta go find that disk somewhere in my old folders now
- Comment on Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? 2 months ago:
What was the name of that motorcycle racing game where you also beat up other racers all while racing to Soundgarden… That one.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 3 months ago:
I told people years ago. You don’t own those books.
I own my books… They are made out of this thing called paper and line the wall of my office. All the volumes I value I have of copy of for myself and future generations of my family