el_abuelo
@el_abuelo@programming.dev
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 4 days ago:
Thank you that’s very helpful! I’m pretty handy with software so not troubled by that, but I am lazy outside of work so I’ll likely follow your envision advice! But still sounds like a fair bit to do so I suspect I’ll kick it down the road till WMR finally goes.
Thanks again!
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
Thank you for the insight. I’m glad to have the opportunity to have this discussion and gain some new understanding of the world outside my usual.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
Thank you. No sources required, and I already try to do those things…hence my questions! I hope that my questions don’t cause harm, if they do I would like to find a way to learn without harming.
If they had said “biological male” then this would be okay? Sounds equally as hurtful to me…what is the correct term use? Trans woman?
The only thing I see them denying is that the same group of people spreading trans rights are also the ones spreading transphobia…which sounds logical to me?
I appreciate that this sounds like I’m defending them but I’m really not, I suspect from what’s said in this thread that they have a storied history of being hurtful on this topic which i think is indefensible. But I am out the loop and have very little idea who this person is.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 1 week ago:
How are you getting on with VR? I have a Reverb G2 and if I can play Elite and DCS on Linux I’m basically sold at this point.
I really want a new headset but nothing beats the G2 right now, without giving money to Meta which I refuse to do.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
What would be the correct way to voice opposing views about these issues?
Genuinely asking as to my ignorant eyes this looks like a reasonable way of discussing the issues, so I must have some kind of wrongthink here and would love to be guided back to a place where people can discuss opposing views safely.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
I have a pi4 and been very happy with the dimensions and low power usage. What could I get for the same price and power use?
Genuine question. Im looking at a pi5 right now.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 5 months ago:
Care to elaborate? What’s wrong with “hosting” on a rpi?
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 months ago:
Exactly, bad PR.
Waste isn’t actually much of a problem - it’s just been portrayed as one.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 months ago:
Funny how people think waste is why we don’t use nuclear power.
You noticed how we’re all fine breathing in poison and carcinogens? Still haven’t banned burning fossil fuels.
It’s a money problem and a PR problem
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 5 months ago:
Yeah, what’s stopping the richest guy in the world just buying blue-sky as well?
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 5 months ago:
Maybe I’m misreading your tone, but I’m not trying to argue with you - I’m genuinely curious about this and if you have superior knowledge I’m open!
My understanding from a quick skim of Wikipedia citations suggests we understand what’s involved (particles and receptors) but the actual mechanism around encoding of signals seems to be theory.
We also can’t teach a computer to think, but we still have quite a good idea of how it works.
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 5 months ago:
Science shit?
I dont know…but I wouldn’t say that’s a good reason to doubt it, for example I don’t know how they proved black holes exist but they seem pretty confident.
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 5 months ago:
That’s how they kill the germs…very clever really.
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 5 months ago:
Isn’t smell just particulate matter hitting receptors not dissimilar to how taste receptors send taste signals to the brain? I thought science had this stuff nailed down now?
- Comment on You have a bad friend if he isn't willing to help you bury a dead body or if he is willing to help you. 6 months ago:
Must every use of a singular pronoun be called out? This isn’t offensive, it’s slip of the tongue. Get out your own arse and give people a break.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 6 months ago:
Every day is a school day! Thanks
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 6 months ago:
Wtf is smegma
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 6 months ago:
I wouldn’t bother arguing with this person. They’re either trolling or intentionally ignorant - either way, you will lose to their vast experience.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 6 months ago:
Is this Poe’s law? I genuinely thought this was satire but the downvotes and responses are very serious!
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 6 months ago:
That’s a bugger! Maybe report it as an issue on their github so you can track when it’s fixed?
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 6 months ago:
Interesting, thanks
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 6 months ago:
I wonder if someone can come up with some kind of distributed storage that isn’t insanely slow. Kinda like a CDN but on personal devices. I’m thinking like SETI@HOME did with distributed compute.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 6 months ago:
Never used GrapheneOS. Did it export and import okay? Looks like not.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 6 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 6 months ago:
Yes you can. I just did it without any issues.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 6 months ago:
I just installed syncthing-fork from f-droid and it worked flawlessly as far as I can tell:
- “Export” in syncthing
- Uninstall syncthing
- Install syncthing-fork from f-droid
- Import in syncthing-fork
- Comment on Ukraine graphics is crazy 6 months ago:
WTF is jock itch!?
- Comment on Ukraine graphics is crazy 6 months ago:
Have some respect. He had to get his pants on first.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 6 months ago:
The time taken to traverse is less than the time taken to suffocate. That’d be my guess.
- Comment on Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed 7 months ago:
I wish this worked, but it only does for things that are popular.
As it stands I think I’m just going to have to back up my entire media collection for fear of not being able to get a copy during retirement - when I plan to watch a shit tonne of TV.