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- Comment on Bungie will compensate an artist after its Destiny 2 Nerf blaster ripped off their work 5 days ago:
The rip off
bungiestore.com/bungie-rewards-nerf-ace-of-spades…
The original design that was ripped off: www.deviantart.com/…/Ace-of-Spades-573764211
And the tweet:
- Comment on Mudita Kompakt - E-ink (truly) dumbphone with FOSS OS. 1 week ago:
…so you just made it up then.
No, the phone industry made up these terms.
No one has done that. The only comments I’m downvoting are the ones spreading disinformation.
So how I read that is “Anything that isn’t what I want it to say is disinformation”.
Well, enjoy your day buddy, my participation in this thread is over. Its a neat feature phone, and that’s where I’ll be leaving that.
- Comment on Mudita Kompakt - E-ink (truly) dumbphone with FOSS OS. 1 week ago:
Several decades of phone technology as it developed…
- Comment on Mudita Kompakt - E-ink (truly) dumbphone with FOSS OS. 1 week ago:
While I get your opinion, these things have definitions. Here’s a super simple version:
- A dumb phone does not connect to the internet. Its a phone. Just a dumb device.
- A feature phone is what you’re referring to here, where it may connect to the internet, but isn’t part of some larger ecosystem and is certainly not an app-first approach. Its a phone first, ancillary features are a bonus.
- Smartphones are your android and iOS devices, which connect to the internet, is part of a large ecosystem of applications, is an internet first oriented device, etc.
So yes, this is a feature phone from what I’ve read of the translation.
- Comment on Can't follow my own Pixelfed account on Mastodon 1 week ago:
- Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. 1 week ago:
as long as you are mentally sound and store your guns safely
Yeah, that’s a pretty substantial improvement to what we have in the US.
- Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. 1 week ago:
Perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of good.
It will take a lot longer to get proper gun control in place in the US. We’ve already got the GOP and their “Well it sucks, but too bad, move on” rhetoric going.
There is no reason not to minimize risk during the time it will take, even to get to where we we were 20 years ago.
- Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. 1 week ago:
Juuuust about ideal, definitely.
- Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. 1 week ago:
Looks like this is what they have - www.centegix.com/crisisalert/
- Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. 1 week ago:
I’m all for gun control. As in, significant reforms, nationwide reforms. Real background checks. Limits on the types of guns. Insurance requirements. Safety training requirements. The list can keep on going…
That said, I’d still want an emergency alert system in schools. There are other threats and other situations where it could be needed, there is nothing wrong with having both.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 1 week ago:
I can tell you its done in the tristate area.
Maybe its a Georgia thing.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 1 week ago:
If it doesn’t cover the expected area of concern? No
If you dont know the cause of the issue? No
If you know the issue, and just need to check the state of the esophagus or something? Sure.
Its done for specific reasons, just like an endoscopy is done for specific reasons. When it comes down to it though, it only does a small part of what an endoscopy can do, and with a generic “acid reflux”, its not going to give enough information to diagnose. Its a way to assess symptoms, not a way to diagnose a gastrointestinal problem.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 1 week ago:
My doctors have been incredible, at least those I’ve had for the past 4 years or so. Including my gastro.
They take the time to talk to me, they remember who I am, and my gastro is even a direct recommendation from my primary doctor (my gastro is his gastro).
I’ve been going to gastroenterologists for literally decades, the one I got a couple years ago is the first to finally find the issue, and I’ve been reflux free. I doubt he’d do a transnasal either - its more limited in scope (hah!), you’re only getting part of what an endoscopy can do. That’s why its not transnasal endoscopy, its transnasal esophagoscopy.
And that’s probably why. Why they wouldn’t just say that, I don’t know. There are lots of places that will do transnasal esophagoscopy throughout the US, so it isn’t a procedure that’d just “not done here” or anything, its not as popular in general because its just not as thorough of a procedure.
I hope you find a doctor in the future that takes the time to explain things though.
- Comment on No screens before age of two, Swedish health authority tells parents 2 weeks ago:
With no server-side transcoding, yeah the nuc is plenty, but I also run my media server (JF containers, to be specific) on Debian.
If you do end up needing transcoding, the newer Intel stuff is great. I’m considering arc actually for other reasons, but ideally anything skylake (for HEVC) or Kaby Lake (hevc 10 bit) on up is a rock solid choice, no external GPU needed.
- Comment on No screens before age of two, Swedish health authority tells parents 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I do, nieces and nephews. They are a bit older than my kids, and their parents are not tech savvy.
I basically have a kids library for anything under PG, and I grab common sense media ratings for a decent estimate on appropriate age, and let them go from there. Then I use tags for what we find appropriate for our kids.
Some of them still use other things I wouldn’t go near (YouTube kids, ffs that place is wild and weird), but that’s their decision not mine.
FWIW I run mine off an 8th gen Intel, igpu for transcoding (though mostly I don’t need to transcoded), on a little lenovo tiny workstation I picked up on the cheap. Storage is on my NAS.
- Comment on No screens before age of two, Swedish health authority tells parents 2 weeks ago:
Yup.
I’ve got two kids, the amount of time they get consuming content is limited, the content they have access to is only from my media server (so very curated), and occasional extras like crafting/drawing/etc when we are sitting next to them. And even that I’m moving to the media server due to the ads, which are impossible to really curate and can be very, very odd…
The physical presence of a screen being on is not an issue. Using it as a replacement for parenting is an issue. Especially under 2.
I just wish it wasn’t so much effort to manage content that other parents could do it more easily.
- Comment on I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta! 2 weeks ago:
This seems super fun! I’d definitely check it out
- Comment on Chromecast / Firestick Self Host Replacement 2 weeks ago:
#3 is the route I’m going.
Bigscreen is still pretty rough though, I’m trying to see if I can resolve some open issues to submit back to resolve, but in the meantime I’m going to start playing with flex launcher - complexlogic.github.io/flex-launcher/
Its likely to be the way I go as of now.
Lutris to be a gaming interface (retro games and Roms), jellyfin for movies/shows/music, gcompris for some kids educational stuff, etc.
I want to figure out a remote that I like and get some CEC testing done, may look towards using my homeassistant to act as a control system if its a pain (and most CEC is implemented poorly IMO).
But I’m done with stuff like Chromecast, rokus, etc.
- Comment on As He Realized His Mistake, Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He'd Pushed For 2 weeks ago:
Who also made massive profits.
- Comment on How is Open Source developed paid? 2 weeks ago:
Had someone buy me a dinner once
Or maybe they just repurposed the gift card, I don’t know. But I enoyed the dinner all the same!
- Comment on Is It Worthwhile to Serve Video off a Server separate from my NAS? 3 weeks ago:
If its the only bit its doing or its critical for other services, yes, nofail is a good choice.
- Comment on Is It Worthwhile to Serve Video off a Server separate from my NAS? 3 weeks ago:
If you can map a network drive (very east fstab edit BTW), then yes, its a great way to go.
That’s what I do, I have two 5-bay NASs, both use all 4 uplinks (LAG) to my switch, and my media server is an LXC on an 8th gen intel, with GPU passthrough.
If you reboot your nas, you may need to reconnect from the server. If you reboot your server, you dont have to do anything since its connecting when it starts up. If you end up needing more space, you just mount that new NAS alongside it.
To me its the better approach.
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 3 weeks ago:
Similarly, I use my windows work laptop for accessing remote (usually Linux) systems, and a few specific apps that are windows only.
My desktops are Linux (and of course my servers here as well), and I have a windows VM for those tools that are windows only that I need. Which I’ve modified that VM heavily to not have the normal junk from windows.
A recent decision for “security” will require using AAD joined machines only to access email/teams/etc. I was going to make an exception for my machines, then decided against it. My laptop now just sits off to the side, with only teams and outlook running, and its basically all I’ll use it for.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 weeks ago:
Yup, all visible. The only exceptions are fully private instances (or mostly private, with limited federation) and local only communities.
kbin/mbin also make all these votes public, so you could even just be on an mbin server and see all the votes. So right now its like… jumping over an 8" high hurdle. Or doing the limbo under a pole at 5’. You have to do something, just not much. I wouldn’t call it completely non-trivial to do, but it isn’t rocket surgery either.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 weeks ago:
As far as I know right now, IP and such details are your instance only.
Votes, however, are visible across any instance. I agree its a transparency issue. Right now I think a of of folks believe their votes to be anonymous (or only visible to their instance admins at most), but that’s not true at all.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 weeks ago:
Anyone can stand up an instance though. So its available for anyone to look at right now.
I don’t think it should be made easier, but I don’t think its fair to suggest its currently private in any way, shape, or form today.
Because it is decidedly not.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 weeks ago:
I absolutely agree that its a problem. The problem is there is nothing stopping companies/governments from doing that now, and I don’t know if its feasible to make them actually private on Lemmy.
Right now, they aren’t private, you just need a few extra steps to see it all.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 weeks ago:
The problem is its already pretty public, just for mods and admins, and non-lemmy instances.
While I agree its not ideal to have everything be public, given it functionally already is, this just makes it easier for users to see. Right now its a minor hurdle, but still a hurdle - but your votes are not really private/anonymous to start with.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 4 weeks ago:
Plex. Its been getting shittier for years.
Meanwhile JF has been improving in leaps and bounds.
- Comment on Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel 4 weeks ago:
Every phone I use a case. And every case I use, any camera is at least slightly recessed to protect the lens.
I’ve never given the slightest crap about bumps because its going in a case, and the only people I know who don’t use a case are the same people walking around with broken screens and lenses.
So I’ve never understood any review about how a phone looks without a case. That said, I also like 3.5mm jacks, SD cards for expansion, and replaceable batteries. I don’t care about shaving 1mm off the thickness, 1/8th of an ounce of weight, or any of that nonsense.
I hate what Steve Jobs has done to technology (and the world, considering what a piece of total garbage he was as a person and how many people idolize that d-bag).
Anyway. /rant.