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- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 1 day ago:
It could be viewed as reasonable if viewed alone. I think that its fine and could make a lot of sense for control over their platform.
The history of reddit sheds a different context in my mind though. Mods are volunteers. Subreddits were established to moderate themselves, implementing nuanced rules for their specific topics that might differ from other subs that need completely different rules and approaches. Its part of what made reddit unique compared to alternate sites.
Then they made moderating much more difficult by eliminating third party apps. Then they started implementing their plans to take the platform where they wanted it, which is fine because its their platform, but they wanted all their mods to do a bunch of work and in a certain manner to make it so. Very demanding on free labor.
So there’s mods still around and they want to restrict them more? Who knows, maybe that’s a great idea but they made the mess they’re in. This decision isn’t a single on on its own, its part of a stack of them.
- Comment on Flooring Pop 2 days ago:
Make sure to ask the contractors about the subfloor. If its flexing at all (you can step on the empty space and see if your weight shifts it) then no matter how good the fix it’ll pop again.
- Comment on Flooring Pop 3 days ago:
I would lead with questions for both context and for you to determine your plan of action.
Its “always been” squishy…how long have you lived here? 1 year? 10 years? It matters in the context of if it was a quick flip install to sell the place and you’ve only been living there a short time, the rest will probably be falling apart soon too. If its been a long time, it could point to just that spot being an issue and needing repair.
There’s also the question of your time and budget. There’s a good chance the entire floor needs to be replaced, but if that’s just out of the question then a patch job could keep it together a very long time if done right.
What room is that? Bathroom? Mud room? There’s tile on the wall too so I’m wondering if water is playing into the problem (either in the tile install or damage to the sub floor in that spot).
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 days ago:
I wholeheartedly agree with this perspective.
I started on a privacy journey because I didn’t like that I’m being tracked (by basically everybody) and feel that the technology that I pay for should be service to me, not me as a service to it (and its related parties).
Anyways, along the way I did a few things. Namely, I turned off mail notifications (this was an inadvertent feature since my mail service couldn’t send notifications without google services that I removed). I also removed my sim and use data only via a hotspot, to which I don’t always have on. These sound like crazy things, and admittedly they aren’t for everyone, but the resulting mental shifts are exactly to this point.
Just because I have a device that let’s me be available to anybody in any place at any time, doesn’t mean I should be, or even need to be, available unless I want to be.
Now I protect my time, and the mental clarity that comes with it. I never was a doom scrolled, but even now that concept is even more reduced. The phone is my tool, and I use when needed.
- Comment on Flipper Zero, Car Thieves, and a Brewing Security Crisis: What’s Really Going On? 1 week ago:
insurance companies need to be holding the car manufacturer’s feet to the fire by not insuring cars
I agree with the sentiment, but unfortunately that screws over the owners far more and for far longer before it even impacts the car manufacturers.
Maybe a better attack (aside from government regulations) would be banks to not provide financing for loans to buy those cars. In the end, if the car is stolen they are at a loss so that makes sense.
People can’t get loans, so don’t buy the risky vehicle. It hurts a little in the now to direct them towards cars that will not be a problem in the future. And the car companies feel the sting of lost sales right away.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 1 week ago:
This company needs to get shut down. Invasive. Illegal. Immoral. They are ushering in a police state and anti privacy world, and of course profiting from it.
You can piss on us, but don’t tell us it’s rain.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 weeks ago:
Not only does it not exist, it isn’t wanted. People are content watching videos on YouTube and Netflix. They don’t care for 4k. Even if they pay extra for Netflix 4k (which I highly doubt they do) I still question if they are watching 4k with their bandwidth and other limiting factors, which means they’re not watching 4k and are fine with it.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
I’m OK with your opinion and I appreciate hearing an alternate view to offset the echo chamber effect.
But for a lot of us, or at least me, its far deeper than just cost and ads.
It’s the fact that steps keep being taken to make the platform worse. They don’t want the platform usable unless you pay, and in this case they’re even taking a stab at the people who pay…you don’t pay enough in their mind.
If they had balls, they would just make it a closed platform. Pay to access, and restrict that per account IP. But they’d rather gaslight everybody and slowly turn up he heat so the frogs don’t jump out if the pot. This way they maximize their profits for longer. Point of all of that is, they don’t care about he platform or service at all.
For me, its not even about that. Their algorithm was so jacked up I was sick of being fed videos I didn’t want to see over and over, and videos I’ve already watched over and over. That’s why they added the subscription bell…because you would subscribe to things you wanted to watch and they never showed it to you. It wasn’t “you” tube it was “their” tube.
I bailed on them years ago. I still watch some content on there because there really isn’t a viable alternative. I use a scraper that gives me a feed of just what I want and without ads. I watch what I like and move on with my day. I’m back in control of my video viewing.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
Makes me long for the days of google music. It just worked. Streamed stuff and even allowed you to stream your own library that you had stored in drive. I would use that in the car. Then they ditched it for YouTube music, which was a worse experience and lacked the features.
- Comment on Odd wiring in a 2-gang 2 weeks ago:
Even hand drawing it on paper would help. You’ve got some weird stuff going on and it’s hard to know what is vs what should be. It’s also hard to translate terms like “hallway” into being box 1 or 2.
- Comment on I have this corner in my basement 2 weeks ago:
Storage. Its awkward for almost anything else. Not sure what the rest of the room looks like but build a cabinet or shelving unit to place larger and/or infrequently used items.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Just a dumb DIYer so take this with a grain of salt. You can put in a stud to the left and right of the stud in question to bear any load. Then after the floor repair is made you can replace the original stud (I’d probably leave the 2 temp studs as well since they are already in place just for overkill support).
You’ll want to look into the structural impact of cutting the base plate though. Seems like cutting a section out might require more than just putting it back with some metal straps.
Also, look into epoxy for the concrete fix. I know they have epoxy specifically for injecting into concrete crasks to restore integrity. Seems like it might be much easier (and possibly be able to work around the framing). It’ll probably be more expensive, but pay off in convenience.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I’m in the same boat. This doesn’t effect me except for work stuff. But here’s the thing, all of my documents are already backed up to the cloud via OneDrive settings. So this is redundant at best.
At the end of the day, one of the reasons I hate the MS experience is because they push things on you. Its not your PC, its theirs. Hey, you want to use OneDrive? No? Are you sure? No? Are you really sure? No? Why don’t I just turn it on for you so you can see how great it is. You must have turned it off by accident, let me turn it back on. OK, OK I get it you really don’t want to use onedrive. Oh, I forgot that fact once our annual update came out and undid that setting. You straight out uninstalled onedirve and altered your registry? Ok, how about we just upload Word documents for you.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 4 weeks ago:
I use the term idiot instead of fool. I also use the term resistant instead of proof. Nothing is idiot proof. Things can be idiot resistant though.
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 4 weeks ago:
Well, I was trying to bring a little humor to the conversation by just saying at least as a silver lining is that this other stupid crap is gone now.
If the AI “revolution” never came, I bet a thread just like this one would exist for metaverse or whatever saying how it’s destroying the internet. And think about it, entering an entire world just to hold this conversation where all users are known and conversations recorded…kind of like AI scraping.
You can see his it could get just as bad or worse. Hint: its not the technology that’s the problem, its the companies behind them - those wouldn’t be any different.
I’m not trying to downplay AI, I’m just being realistic of the world we live in and trying to not be so doom and gloom every second of the day.
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 5 weeks ago:
But can we at least be thankful that it shifted focus from augmented reality? Prior to AI, the buzz was around things like the metaverse and digital avatars in your teams meetings.
Even crap AI is more useful than avatars in teams.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. I tired SuSE back around 2001 and Ubuntu around 2006. It was not a better experience so I never stuck with them. I started using Mint last year and it just stuck. There are some quirks and learning curves, but it’s a good experience. Linux has changed a crap ton.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 1 month ago:
Samnsung takes a screenshot every 500ms. LG is every 10ms. For crying out loud they can “stream” everything you watch.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 1 month ago:
Sometimes in the darkness of the internet where all our worst sides come out and I get trampled by the evil of governments, corporations, and people in general…a small beam of light shines through illuminating the beauty of this world.
Today, your comment is that beam of light. You didn’t mean it to be, but sometimes little things have bigger impacts. Thank you. Have a great day.
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 2 months ago:
I dont agree with every point made, but agree with the overall sentinent. My problem is that the same thing can be said about other retailers, especially the brick and mortar ones. Walmart, Target, Home Depot, …whoever. They’ve all done it, and continue to do it.
Small business? Yeah, those essentially don’t exist in this context.
I have always said, ecommerce isn’t killing brick and mortar retail. They are killing themselves. Why? Because I’ve never felt like a valued customer at any of the retailers out there. I’ve been absolutely shit on by all the big retailers out there. And that’s not even getting into their policies, politics, and other behind the scenes stuff that I do care about, but it doesn’t directly impact my shopping experience.
So then I can buy something online, from a wide selection, with competitive prices, have it delivered to my door quickly, and if there’s any issues have zero problem with returns? That works for me.
Now in modern times I can argue that they don’t always have great customer service, don’t always have great pricing (for what you get), and its not all sunshine and roses. But I don’t see a viable alternative.
Find me another retailer online or brick and mortar that can supply me well and treat me well and I’ll go. But small business cant compete. And big retailers when they had all the money and power they didn’t do that so now that they are the underdogs why would they do it? So it’s just not happening.
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 2 months ago:
I get that, but it’s more logical to me that of I’m going to whistleblow on a company to not use one of their devices to do it. That way it doesn’t matter what apps are or are not secure, you’re not using their device that can potentially track you.
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 2 months ago:
Not “you” necessarily, “one”.
I bring it up because you mentioned company MDM blocking signal. The fact that company MDM is active indicates its a company device (if it’s not that’s an entirely different conversation).
So why would one expect privacy on a device they don’t own?
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 2 months ago:
Why would you expect any form of privacy on a device you don’t own?
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 2 months ago:
Out of curiosity, do you use your xmpp app for SMS as well? I’ve been doing so (since the majority of my family will not leave the SMS messaging system) but its a bit lacking when it comes to groups and MMS.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 3 months ago:
I agree with your general statement, but in theory since all ChatGPT does is regurgitate information back and a lot of chess is memorization of historical games and types, it might actually perform well. No, it can’t think, but it can remember everything so at some point that might tip the results in it’s favor.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 3 months ago:
It hurts to even read that. I can’t even imagine your frustration.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 3 months ago:
The stupider part is that it would be easier to stack out from the other direction.
There are 8 pieces of wood @ 1.5" each = 12" Studs are 16" on center.
So to stack from the right would be 2 pieces to be in the same place.
You can even see the gray box that opens to the wall behind it. That is attached to the stud on the right…its that close. But here I go applying logic to crazy.
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 3 months ago:
Oh, what’s that in the corner? A random Uzi mag and health pack. Cool.
- Comment on Is America headed for an age of dumb phones? 3 months ago:
As somebody who has in recent years changed habits like this, I agree with you. But its a harsh change at first.
Turning off most notifications is a key step. It changes your mentality from reaction to your device to a proactive action at a chosen time. It’s a huge shift and well worth it.
Then I started turning my services off at times. No, I don’t need to take a call while driving or check messages in the store. That stuff can wait.
My overall logic is that I don’t need to make myself available to any and everyone at any and every time.
Sure, sometimes it bites me in the butt as far as convenience, however my quality of life has improved overall. I am very protective of my time and mental attention now, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I highly recommend taking small measures to test the waters. Then increase as you acclimate to it.
