adarza
@adarza@lemmy.ca
- Comment on News of the day 10 hours ago:
anything that comes in a box.
- Comment on Tumult in U.S. Treasurys shows Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' might be disaster 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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?
- Comment on Trump tells Walmart to 'eat the tariffs' instead of raising prices 3 weeks ago:
Walmart is noted for its ability to manage costs more aggressively than other companies to keep prices low.
yes. they have sheer scale on their side. but they don’t ‘manage costs’ to ‘keep prices low’, they do it to ‘maximize profits’
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 3 weeks ago:
we are blessed here to have the noise in the winter, too. more than three flakes of snow and there’s sure to be a legion of leaf blowers clearing off precious pavement in neighborhoods all over town. the guys that do it at 4-5am are the true treasures.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
i just finished a single month here, first one in a couple years. ran out of stuff by week three. it’ll be at least another 2-3 years before another binge month, if i ever go back at all.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
they already make significantly more profits off of each ad-tier sub than they do the ad-free… yet it still isn’t enough. greedy fucking bastards.
- Comment on Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive? 3 weeks ago:
the number of years i’ve run usb->sata adapters and had (up to a dozen or so) bare drives laying around and propped up anywhere i could find a spot…
- Comment on Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive? 3 weeks ago:
you aren’t putting a 3.5in in that slimline bay. you can probably rig something to hold one there, though. that’s where the get ‘‘creative’’ part comes in.
you also have the 2x2.5in at the bottom but you’re missing the rails or caddies for them. should be like 5-6 bucks each or so on ebay or azn. don’t bother with those, though, unless you’re putting in hdd there. sata ssd can just be stuffed in the cage, they ain’t going anywhere.
be careful with whatever mb->sata power cables you have. make sure they’re the correct ones, as they aren’t all the same. you could get away with a 1->2 sata power splitter once on each mb power connection, as the output of each is designed for 2x3.5in hdd anyway.
- Comment on Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive? 3 weeks ago:
you’re talking the ‘RED’ series inspiron minitower?
iirc there’s only one 3.5in bay adjacent to the slimline optical bay, and two 2.5in bays in a cage at the bottom front.
bays use drive rails which may or may not be present if the bay was unpopulated when originally shipped.
the pc uses 12vo power supply, so the drives are powered off the motherboard. those cables may also not be present if they weren’t needed for the original configuration.
slimline optical bays can often be removed and replaced with a 2.5in caddy designed fit in the form factor, connecting to the optical power and sata, and hold a 2.5in ssd drive.
- Comment on Hot sauce is for Dad to protect his food from scavenging by lesser beings 4 weeks ago:
my dad’s and grampa’s idea of ‘hot sauce’ was ketchup.
- Comment on Broke again, me hearties 4 weeks ago:
more like ‘day 1’ on the left, and ‘day 2-14’ on the right.
- Comment on Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop 4 weeks ago:
You mean they’re going to turn Androids into Chromebooks
android is getting ‘desktop’ features so it can replace chrome os, and to keep pace with apple–who’s doing similar things with ios
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 4 weeks ago:
they could have kept the skype name on the ‘consumer’ product, even if underneath it was the same piece of shit teams, just with ‘enterprise’ features hidden.
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 4 weeks ago:
if you’ve already got something running 24/7, you could just put it there. it doesn’t need much for resources.
pihole does not need it’s own box. it can run as a container (docker instructions in the official docs) or in a small vm.
i have two small vm running dietpi and used that to install pihole. i fully expected to run a few more things on them, that’s why i chose dietpi–just have never gotten that far (it’s only been like three years now).
- Comment on xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs – Krebs on Security 5 weeks ago:
munching on all that sweet government data that’s been swiped by the muskrat goon squad.
- Comment on Pinterest users left confused by mass account suspensions 5 weeks ago:
did someone let an ‘ai’ mod tool loose over there?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
better upgrade to a zip drive then!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
i got floppy drives and cables, and at least a couple vintage minitowers with them here… but alas, no epic floppy disk cameras.
- Comment on Looking for Creative Uses for Jellyfin Streaming Clients running Debian at Friends' Houses 5 weeks ago:
anything ‘worthwhile’ is probably gonna use a lot of power, burn through bandwidth, or not exactly completely legit and legal.
- Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter 5 weeks ago:
make the overhead train a 12 lane freeway and it’s any random metrohell in texas.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 5 weeks ago:
to monetize the piracy of your users
that’s generally what gets sites and services in ‘trouble’
- Comment on Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk 5 weeks ago:
he’s a minority owner, don’t think he himself even holds a majority of voting shares outright–there’s some bullshit and shenanigans going on that gives him the ‘control’. iirc, it requires near-90% approval of all non-musk held voting shares to make ‘major’ changes like ousting a board member or ceo. that’s why he’s still ‘in charge’
- Comment on What is this for? (Wrong answers only) 5 weeks ago:
it’s the emergency water dish for the dog. looks a little low, better fill it up a bit.
- Comment on OMG no please don’t call me. 5 weeks ago:
when a company puts its reps at a disadvantage by always being grossly understaffed and having hour+ wait times… who’s the ‘horrible’ people? the company or the caller?
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 5 weeks ago:
it’s just sensible. if you take from one end, you run the risk of unexpectedly grabbing the ‘light end’ and accidentally dropping the partial carton on the floor next time you take it out of the fridge.
- Comment on When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million. 5 weeks ago:
that’s one hell of a water bill if you were in the shower counting to one million.
- Comment on I will step on you and spill your food, my small friend 5 weeks ago:
AtLeastTheyPutASpaceBetweenEachWord
- Comment on Google and Adobe appear to be abusing copyright to silence a whistleblower's video 5 weeks ago:
naaaaaah… upstanding corporate global citizens such as google and adobe? no, never. no chance in hell. they’d never collude to do such an evil thing…
- Comment on Sitting on the toilet 1 month ago:
and then there’s the filthy-rich who may have a designated ‘butt washer’ on the payroll.