adarza
@adarza@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 3 days ago:
Recommend extensions as you browse
Recommend features as you browseturn these off.
if you had these enabled, you are probably running defaults most everywhere and have a dozen more settings in firefox to look at; plus a lot more in chrome or edge if you use those, as well as in windows itself.
- Comment on ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules — 'full fiber' customers found to have 'last mile' copper connections 1 week ago:
the cable company here does the same thing. calls it ‘fiber’ but delivers it via coax from the pole or a distribution box down the street.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
One. Two. Three. Four. Five?
That’s amazing. I’ve got the same combination on my luggage.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
i’ve got one user who has refused to update their win7 system for a full decade–literally the entire lifecycle of win10. offered to set up a dual boot for her and she seemed to be receptive of that–even bought a nice big ssd drive for it, but she never used it and never upgraded. husband says that ssd is still in the damn box sitting on a shelf. i expect to hear from her when that now tired old hdd in her (i think) wolfdale-era win7 finally craps out.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
Literally no one is throwing away a working machine just because some deadline passes.
yes. yes they are. we’ve taken in a lot more ‘junk’ systems over the last six months than we ever have.
many of those who aren’t tossing their pc on the heap are paying for the updates or jumping through the link-and-sync bullshit for them.
microsoft’s scare tactics work, and work very well.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 week ago:
yup. i have a bunch of users that won’t be happy. they only still have fb for messenger, use the messenger app, and never go to fb itself anymore.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 3 weeks ago:
just give 'em time. it’s still a bit early in the game for that play
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 3 weeks ago:
rufus doesn’t help with preloads that you don’t want to or can’t, for whatever reason, overwrite with a ‘clean’ install.
- Comment on Ultra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 3 weeks ago:
how convenient. just in time for winter heating season.
- Comment on Best practice for connecting lots of HDD to motherboards with few SATA ports? 1 month ago:
since you’re buying parts, you can specifically look for boards with 6-8 (more than that will require a ‘specialty’ board). 8 isn’t impossible to find. start a build on pcpartpicker, go straight to motherboards and filter 8 or more ‘SATA 6Gb/s Ports’, then sort low-to-high on price. you should find a msi pro am4 and an asus prime am5 that are quite reasonably priced and have multiple reputable vendors selling them.
otherwise you’re looking for an expansion card to add to a board you’ve already got or to expand one of those above for even more.
of course, you need the drive bays to hold them all, too. which can be harder to find at a reasonable and affordable price than motherboards and controller cards.
- Comment on Rookie mistakes 1 month ago:
my sister ‘unthaws’ something by taking it out of the freezer.
- Comment on how to start with self-hosting? 1 month ago:
don’t expect a 19 year old laptop to perform all the tricks something more ‘modern’ can do, such as transcoding video for a streaming media server. also note that a t5600 is not a ulv chip (draws as much as 34w under load, on its own)–so probably not a candidate to run ‘lid down’ without some outside help for cooling.
it’s not fast, it’s not power efficient, it has slow networking (10/100 and 22-year old ‘g’ wifi), and lacks usb3 for ‘tolerable’ speed on extra external storage space—but it will be ‘ok enough’ for learning on.
if you go with something like yunohost or even dietpi, you will pretty much restrict yourself to what it can run and do and how it does it. if you want more ‘control’ or to install things they don’t offer themselves, you’ll need to ‘roll your own’. a base (console only) debian would be a great place to start. popular, stable, and tons of online resources and tutorials.
- Comment on how to start with self-hosting? 1 month ago:
i use dietpi, which is built upon a minimal debian.
- Comment on The devil made me do it 1 month ago:
absolutely.
the ‘jell-o shot’ of appetizers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
i’ve read more than one book where the elections were like that. the incumbent essentially just faces a vote of confidence before each term. if they lose (no majority support) or are term limited (or otherwise lose their place in office), they get replaced by a random draw from the constituency.
- Comment on Kirkland strong 2 months ago:
iirc, they have their own meat processing facilities. part of that production is used to make the hot dogs (since ~ 2011) for their long-running $1.50 combo with a soft drink.
- Comment on Tubi TV 2 months ago:
it is a popular ‘free’ offering on most streaming devices and televisions (pihole works), plus the web site (dlp works on some). a lot of what they have is junk or on pretty much every other free service, but there’s always something to watch or rewatch on it.
- Comment on Milliamp-hours per hour 2 months ago:
except there’s no ‘safe word’ when you’re dealing with the anal carnage from verizon.
- Comment on Putin's demand to Ukraine: give up Donbas, no NATO and no Western troops, sources say 2 months ago:
“we need a break. we totally underestimated their will and determination. we’ll totally come back and take the rest as soon as we’ve fully resupplied and have more and better-trained troops to toss into the grinder”
- Comment on NPR Sunday Story - an approachable story on why privacy matters and the invasiveness of surveillance capitalism - Lemmy.World 2 months ago:
maga nuts and the rest of the ‘far right’. truth and an informed populace are their enemy.
- Comment on I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation? 2 months ago:
you can mostly just create ISO files from the discs.
some original discs, especially games, may have a copy protection scheme (safedisc, securom, etc) that makes them unplayable without being run with the original media, though. there was some software back then that worked pretty well at ‘making backups’ of those discs. also note that some drives (the hardware itself) were better than others at running that software to make them. i haven’t kept up with that stuff in a very long time, so i don’t have a clue what exists today.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 3 months ago:
more than half the households in my county do not have any high-speed wireline service available to them.
- Comment on My T-shirt size is L 4 months ago:
so, you’re logged in, have a purchase history that includes clothing, and azn is trying to make a sizing recommendation?
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 4 months ago:
and you could change him into something else. links the cat was mine.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 4 months ago:
there is mv3 version of ubo here:
github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-homedunno how well it works on yt, though. i use dlp on a pc for the time or two a month i ‘need to’ look at a yt vid.
adguard’s free browser extension is also mv3 compliant (for chrome). i think the old adblockplus (disable ‘acceptable ads’ and ignore offer to ‘upgrade’ to a paid version) is, too.
- Comment on Amazon vows to crack down on piracy on its Fire TV Stick range 4 months ago:
they aren’t “cracking down on piracy”. they’re mad that a relatively small portion of their userbase is using their cheap devices to stream third-party content that they make no money off of–and so they’re trying to shut down that functionality.
they’re moving away from android anyway, so newer revisions of their hardware won’t have this same ‘problem’
- Comment on YouTube is expanding its ad-blocking powers — closes loopholes that allowed some users to bypass restrictions 4 months ago:
yt-dlp
it or a front-end to it is always #2 on the list of applications to install on my own new os installs–right behind firefox.
i don’t use yt much, but it’s sure nice to have. i can just drag over or copy/paste urls or video id right from a serp and never have to give google a even single page view.
- Comment on News of the day 4 months ago:
anything that comes in a box.
- Comment on Tumult in U.S. Treasurys shows Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' might be disaster 5 months ago:
“the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.”
on top of
“Trump’s tariffs remain at levels that amount to one of the greatest tax increases in American history”
and it only “might” be a bad thing?
- Comment on What could go wrong? 5 months ago:
how long will it take an ‘ai’ chatbot to spiral downward to bad advice, lies, insults, and/or promotion of violence and self-harm?