adarza
@adarza@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Is there a program to speed up the process between my external harddrive and USB? If used to run super fast now it seems to slow down. Hopefully something I can use offline. Thx 1 week ago:
Flash is slow to write to. Even ‘USB3’ ones can get bogged down on long writes or copying lots of little files.
- Comment on What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads? 1 week ago:
It is often the graphics hardware blocking it in this case… disabling hardware decoding in the browser may ‘help’, if your CPU can handle it (you can still use hardware encoding, tho)
- Comment on What should I NOT do in front of rich people? 2 weeks ago:
pizza is usually a finger food, unless it’s something like a chicago deep dish.
- Comment on What should I NOT do in front of rich people? 2 weeks ago:
you should probably not hock-up a nice big loogie, then swish it around your mouth for a minute like you’re at a fine wine tasting event, then swallow it in one big, noisy GULP.
- Comment on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location 4 weeks ago:
we’re safe from that particular method here in the boonies. we’re lucky to even have one tower from any provider within range anywhere around here.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
that’s when the two scales collide…
-40FC…
‘fucking cold’
- Comment on Tacos for dinner 4 weeks ago:
you have a bright future ahead of you in for-profit food service at public schools.
- Comment on Many guess that it's some type of religious symbol 5 weeks ago:
i had the spindle adapter to put on a stack of 45s, and also a simple disc that fit down it and just allowed one to sit on the turntable at a time. i didnt’ need to use these snap-in adapters.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 1 month ago:
televisions of the near future when you first turn them on: “Internet connection and account required to complete initial product set up.”
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 1 month ago:
… which, in firefox, is either off by default or can be switched off.
- Comment on Do you have to deal with this during your morning commute? 1 month ago:
a bunch of old geezers cruising the local ‘strip’ from 7-9am just like we used to back in high school at night on the weekends.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
some states do not have front plates.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
I don’t even piss standing up anymore
the correct solution.
- Comment on If it's your job to complain but you get burnt out on complaining, what would you do? 2 months ago:
it could be worse.
- Comment on Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone? 3 months ago:
pictures are taken by sorting machines of every piece of mail that goes through usps. that data is retained by the usps for a period of time, and is open to ‘law enforcement’ on request; and who knows what really happens to that data when the usps doesn’t want to hold it any longer.
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 3 months ago:
relish from the grocery store has gotten so cheaply made you have to strain it first. even, and especially, the mass market ‘name brands’. i did run across one super off-brand, imported from turkey or india or something, that was great, though… and like half the store brand price.
so unless i have that or strain the ‘regular’ stuff first, or just cut-up some pickles instead (what i’ve been doing more of lately), the relish goes on top. everything else goes on first.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
the form itself is easy, it’s the bot detection and spam prevention that’s hard. on my own sites, i’ve given-in and use the highest-level recaptcha, a hidden form field triggered by bots but not humans, and a server-side script for the mailing that also has some spam detection routines. they still get through, but far less often than a naked form would.
if you’re satisfied with your existing comments function, can you simply enable comments on your ‘contact’ page and hide them from public view?
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 3 months ago:
every shit-tier chore ever conceived, and every task on every ‘honey do’ list ever made, would be completed. every day. on schedule. and without fail.
- Comment on Video games often have crouch and crawl for stealth but not the much more commonly used tiptoeing 3 months ago:
and the ‘game’ forces you to drop half your carried inventory as well as whatever was equipped in either hand when you do try to get back up.
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 3 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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? 5 months 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 5 months ago:
my sister ‘unthaws’ something by taking it out of the freezer.