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- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 3 days ago:
Didn’t know that. I would have guessed the reason is to save battery or stop annoying people when it isn’t in reach / you can’t turn it off.
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 3 days ago:
If OP were interested in learning about tech at the same time, they could research an easy way to call the controller API with a simple button / toggle in a project, possibly writing their own controller-to-vibrator App, e.g. in Godot.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
There is obviously a lot to unpack here, most of it is just plain gibberish. The best option here, as always, is to ask him directly.
Pro: Fresh white bread can be very delicious. It is soft and fluffy, and depending on the freshness even still warm, which are all really nice things to be associated with imho. It is also versatile, as it can be crafted to e.g. a list of delicious sandwiches. The focus on the whiteness of the bread may be in remembrance to a time when paleness was a female beauty standard.
Contra: It is not the healthiest choice of breads, but not a lot of wheat products are. If I’m not mistaken, it could also be a slur for people with a light skin tone.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
mstsc.exewas exactly the one I used. I vaguely remember that I had used that successfully some years ago (in a much bigger environment with proper certs) and it worked.Regarding NLA: I believe that I would have to disable that on purpose no? It was on a very vanilla Windows 11 install. I just looked and regarding any other settings than the ones listed in
mstsc.exe, I get told that Windows 11 Home edition doesn’t support RDP lol. - Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I recently used the old Windows RDP client they refer to. I tried to connect to a Windows VM and it didn’t work. Had to pull out some old log utility tool and filter a while to recognize the server didn’t use a valid TLS certificate (lives inside a VPN) and the handshake failed. Tried disabling cert validation (although I’m not sure if that one obfuscated option did exactly that), still no luck.
I then tried KRDP in KDE. It asked me if I’m sure I wanted to connect since the cert is self signed. I accepted and got in. Easy as that.
- Comment on Comparing network utilization of Lemmy, Kbin and PieFed - PieFed (2024) 2 weeks ago:
I love how fast it is, but the PWA is missing some features like showing likes + dislikes + ratio. Maybe I just didn’t search enough tough.
The crosspost grouping feature is a godsend. I hope Clients like Interstellar are going to implement it.
- Comment on Remove Nutomic from Lemmy development for transphobia - Change.org 2 weeks ago:
Must surely suck to be the guy. He (unintentionally probably) created a safe space for people hating him. I guess contributions on the Lemmy Github or other fediverse projects like piefed are welcome and probably more efficient than trying to force one of the two lead developers out with a petition.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 weeks ago:
Says / asks an article published in a media spin-off created by a big fintech company, which has been funded by, among others, Peter Thiel.
Yes, the tech sector is in a harsh condition, but we will go on. Don’t let the AI hype / lay off waves for an overhired tech workforce from covid break your minds. There will be a need for smart people building and maintaining ecosystems, as long as a rising tech oligarchy won’t gatekeep us all out, which should be the headline here.
- Comment on Political discourse 2 weeks ago:
Regardless of online / offline, this can be attributed to a method of gaining and maintaining political power called divide and conquer.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 3 weeks ago:
Now that I think about it, that has been one of my two blanket explanations for rich people being assholes.
The other one being the mix-up of correlation and causation (or even just the direction of causation). Money arguably does make you a worse person, but also being a bad person usually can make you a lot of money in the first place.
- Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 3 weeks ago:
Sure, why not
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 3 weeks ago:
Could as well be the case. Would fit to the general theme of the series lol.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 3 weeks ago:
Can someone find an excuse for how this behaviour is not just extremely short sighted and just plain stupid? Never heard of the guy before, but he seems to behave like a petty little child throwing a tantrum for something that is obviously his or some of his near colleagues fault. Comparable level of stupidity to “Do you guys not have phones?” lol.
I think they would be better of by just ignoring or at least appeasing the crowd with something.
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 3 weeks ago:
Fahrenheit 451
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 4 weeks ago:
As if LinkedIn hasn’t been enough of a toxic wasteland.
- Comment on The Last Days Of Social Media | as AI slop and sexbots kill mass social media, "a billion little gardens" rise in its place| NOEMA 5 weeks ago:
That was a great read. Let’s hope the author is right with most of it, especially the part where they predict an upcoming focus on teaching media/information literacy as a tool of societal resilience.
- Comment on Best Practice Ideas 1 month ago:
I always point people here: youtu.be/uPYjJYQEFSg
Hard to give you hints when we don’t know what your background is, so here is some basics:
For starting selfhosting I’d recommend getting comfortable with the linux command line at first (this may help: www.linuxcommand.org). Set up a VM in Virt-manager / VirtualBox / VMWare / whatever hypervisor you want, install a Linux image (I’d recommend plain Debian without desktop environment). Now you have a sandbox where you can toy around. If you’re on windows you can use WSL2. If you’re already on a linux desktop, toy around there.
If you already got some hardware like a raspberry pi or old Laptop, get that up and running with a distro of your choice, plug it into your network and SSH into it, then you have got your playground there. Get the basic commands in like ls, pwd, cat, tail, touch, mkdir, rm, … And some things you can do with them. Check out their respective man-pages.
After that, install some packages, change configs (I’d recommend nano over vim for starters). From now on, there are no boundaries of what to do. Set up your first basic webserver with apache / nginx / caddy, install docker / podman and containerize / get some images, set up pihole, nextcloud, jellyfin, do whatever you like… Congratulations, you are now “self hosting”.
Maybe some day switch that Raspberry pi out for a thin client as seen in the picture from OP and install a hypervisor like Proxmox on it. If you got all that, which may take a while, you can consider networking and firewalls IMHO (you could get a cheap router that supports OpenWRT to learn about these things). Don’t open ports to the internet as long as you’re not 100% sure what you are doing. You can set up a VPN with DynDNS on most modems / routers connected to your ISP though, opening up your self hosted services only to you / anyone with access. Or use something like Tailscale / Twingate.
I could go on, but like I said, self hosting and home labbing is kind of use case / requirement specific.
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 1 month ago:
Great, another one to stress about!
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 1 month ago:
We will probably do at least experimental forms of geoengineering the next years as well. Also those super volcanoes that should have blown up couple hundred years ago will hide the sun for some years once they pop. Also also, fucking with the climate (or trying to save it) could become some kind of climate warfare in the near future as well I guess. Good times ahead!
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 month ago:
Remember when they told you a google query uses the power of a light bulb burning for an hour? We’ve come to a full circle guys.
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 1 month ago:
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 1 month ago:
A lot of younger folks in IT, like myself, have been on the brink of exhaustion since 2022.
Sure, there was the “obsoletion” of PHP, Java, plain JS, etc. before, in favor of one of the JS frameworks that get released every other day, etc.
But this one feels different. They are trying to sell you the idea of everything related to sw development and programming will get “outsourced” to a computer. The problem is, LLMs can’t do the necessary thinking to build resilient systems as they can’t “think”, neither effective nor efficient. They can be great tools when used the right way, but that’s about it.
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 1 month ago:
Crying in amdgpu
- Comment on Life Expectancy is the age at which 50% of the of the population is expected to die before. 2 months ago:
Sorry for being nitpicky and thanks for naming them all. I just assume the term average is equivalent to mean average in peoples heads. For uneven distributions, like wealth or life expectancy are I assume, it just wouldn’t be a good measurement.
- Comment on Life Expectancy is the age at which 50% of the of the population is expected to die before. 2 months ago:
From Wikipedia:
Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.
What you described would be the median, not average.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 2 months ago:
Shout out to yt-dlp, the absolute unit of software beneath lots of media scraping tools.
You can also use MPV Video player, should be able to play many URLs you throw at it.
- Comment on Hackers prove age verification systems on pornography sites can be bypassed in seconds 2 months ago:
Today I read a thread of people using the photo mode of death stranding to prove they are Norman Reedus. While this certainly won’t be the end to the story, it’s kind of funny this iteration of a clearly unfinished age verification system got out there. Makes me wonder how good they are going to protect their “customers” data.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Nothing a good ol’ plowing and seeding won’t fix… No wait
- Comment on Can LLMs Do Accounting? Evaluating LLMs on Real Long-Horizon Business Tasks 2 months ago:
You absolutely want your accounting software to be entirely deterministic.
This always bugs me with all the use cases LLMs get shoehorned into. Letting these do anything unsupervised is literally begging for chaos to happen.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 2 months ago:
Of course not! I will only get organic / grass fed computers with a OS preinstalled by the vendor. They only do this to protect the users and not for the fuckton of money MS shoves into their throats.
