adarza
@adarza@lemmy.ca
- Comment on DOGE Is Replacing Fired Workers With a Chatbot 18 hours ago:
proprietary chatbot
this won’t end well.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 day ago:
i’ve literally paid more in rent for my small apartment than the entire (5 unit) building is worth. i crossed that threshold years ago.
- Comment on Is it possible or is there a guide on how to revamp this forgotten TV box (Arris VIP4302) into a home server? 1 day ago:
it’s an iptv stb, it doesn’t need much. it’s not designed for subscriber customization or ‘app’ loading.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 4 days ago:
obviously you have to wait for them to go lookin’ for pic-a-nik baskets then.
- Comment on Who gets all the tariff money about to be collected from US citizens buying products from Canada? 4 days ago:
most retailers won’t be happy with the same net per unit when fewer units will sell due to the higher prices, so they’ll be adding more than just that 25% of ‘cost’ to the final retail price.
the basic idea of the tariffs for lord diaper is to pressure those countries into doing what he wants. the revenue stream is secondary to that goal, but is a significant shift of tax burden onto the lower and middle classes; while the wealthy get tax cuts ‘funded’ by those tariffs that disproportionately affect those least able to afford the higher prices.
- Comment on Who gets all the tariff money about to be collected from US citizens buying products from Canada? 4 days ago:
“then what’s all the cuts to medicaid and snap and other benefits and programs going to?”
more tax cuts for the rich.
“how about all the other ‘savings’ from ‘doge’?”
more tax cuts for the rich.
“then why is the deficit still growing by billions and billions?”
more tax cuts for the rich.
“when is it our turn?”
never!
- Comment on Jeff Bezos is scared to have an open debate on economics 1 week ago:
bozo is probably afraid of his own shadow right about now.
- Comment on JD Vance. DOES. NOT. FUCK. COUCHES. 1 week ago:
tbf the sloppy leftovers he’s got to work with isn’t much.
- Comment on How do people even function on a 9:00 to 5? 1 week ago:
a monday-friday ‘9 to 5’ is actually pretty brutal if you live alone, are a single parent, or your partner also has the same work schedule.
you will find yourself taking a vacation day here and there just to ‘get stuff done’ instead of, ya know, taking a vacation or at least days off to ‘rest’.
if you can get a 4 day schedule (even at 4x10), it helps a lot. saves on commuting too, since it’s 20 percent less of that bullshit (expense and wasted time). swapping a weekday for a weekend day every now and then, if it’s possible, is also an option.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 1 week ago:
the people freaking out are reading social media takes written by other people freaked out over other social media posts written by yet more others who are freaked out after not reading and fully comprehending the full policy documents…
- Comment on Another relapse... (again) 1 week ago:
me too. i’m in total control.
i see 'em, i eat 'em.
- Comment on Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users 1 week ago:
you already did this before…
office 2010 starter. slightly reduced functionality word and excel, and ‘office to go’ usb creator. had ads. only ever saw/see generic microsoft ones. like they never actually tried selling the space to anyone.
came preinstalled on new systems from major oems during a short window between ms works’ retirement and office 2013’s release.
tanked sales of ‘real’ office enough that it was pulled less than two years later and never tried again.
until now.
- Comment on Server upgrade/replacement help 2 weeks ago:
windows isn’t the problem. it can and will run all day, every day.
your existing box isn’t a server. it’s a desktop pc that you’re doing ‘server things’ on. you want a server, make it one:
move the retro gaming, the ‘shitposting’, the 3d design work, and the random internet use that goes with those things, off to a different pc.
leave the existing one with the *rrs, the storage, the drivepool and snapraid… get everything else off. then leave it alone.
- Comment on Server upgrade/replacement help 2 weeks ago:
it all runs on Windows 10 (which is where the issue arises)
what ‘issue’? your hardware should ‘officially’ support win11.
- Comment on Adding Sata drives to dl380 g7 2 weeks ago:
the only 6bay lff cage for it i found online after a quick search was over $400usd.
as others mentioned, msa30 is scsi (yuk). along those lines, you’d want the msa60 which is sas/sata, plus somewhere on the server to connect it to. probably not cheap.
but i really don’t think it’s worth putting a whole lot of time or money into a 15 year box… at least not anything that can’t be used in or with newer stuff later.
i’d probably just grab some 2-5tb 2.5in hdd for media storage and use those before i bought something specific for that old hardware.
- Comment on Adding Sata drives to dl380 g7 2 weeks ago:
dl380-g7 is some really old stuff. 1st gen westmere. not very power efficient for the performance. there’s no hardware encoding (qsv with encoding started with some 2nd gen).
how well it can do software encoding would depend on the cpu. but don’t expect too much, and nothing more demanding than h264 avc at reasonable settings. you’d need a newer video card with hardware encoding for hevc, av1 or anything like that.
iirc there was a 6bay 3.5in option for those, and that cage/backplane might be available somewhere.
- Comment on let's goooooo 2 weeks ago:
oh, there you are perry.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 2 weeks ago:
i don’t have one. i don’t want one, either.
- Comment on Washington DC to be renamed to St Donaldsburg 2 weeks ago:
like the fuckface ever graduated on his own…
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 2 weeks ago:
oh, it’ll still happen now… just no ‘15 minutes’ announced to callers.
it will be the actual honest estimated wait time, and more than 15 minutes during customary busy periods…
after they shred half, then another half, of their telephone support staff.
- Comment on Amazon shuts down Chime, its Zoom alternative 2 weeks ago:
some you can at least join and use without an ‘app’ or an install, via browser.
- Comment on Cute animal pictures > random people 2 weeks ago:
the only thing i sometimes wish i could do–snake only gets you so far on my nokia.
but i usually just carry a book when i go somewhere i may have to sit awhile. when i’m reading, most everything gets tuned right out.
- Comment on I knew it 2 weeks ago:
in case you really, really wanna go there and see that billion dollar body: warning: do not click unless you have good insurance and a puke bucket nearby
- Comment on I knew it 2 weeks ago:
putin?
- Comment on Microsoft to remove the Location History feature in Windows 2 weeks ago:
data will no longer be saved locally
to the cloud!…
and probably can’t stop it, either. i’m sure they have detailed data regardless of user settings on their pc.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 2 weeks ago:
i see more and more mobile-only households all the time. and people with landline internet at home that has never seen a pc. only televisions, phones and tablets. an increasing number of people don’t even have that, they live off their cell phone’s internet.
personally, i’m ‘desktop only’. my phone i use only as a phone. i have no tablet, no watch, no gaming console. my laptops never leave home, they’re just ‘small desktops’. when i need one, i grab some spare junk from the office to take to a site.
- Comment on BYTE November 1979 2 weeks ago:
the cover price in today’s dollars: ~ us$10.50
- Comment on DOGE Reportedly Cuts FDA Employees Investigating Neuralink 2 weeks ago:
tesla has been investigated, as well… so tesla, neuralink, boring, spacex and starlink… old spice himself, x(sh)itter would be, his current government work would be…
so pretty much every fucking thing that elon musk has paw prints on is investigated or would be.
- Comment on Why did Microsoft use Windows 3.1 for the Windows 95 setup? 2 weeks ago:
thirty years ago that was.
- Comment on Southwest Airlines to slash 15% of corporate jobs in 'unprecedented' move to cut costs 2 weeks ago:
could perhaps also be that they’re expecting an extended period of lower demand due to ‘current events’