cyberwolfie
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- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
I’d think enrollment rates would be a severe lagging indicator of education quality. Institutions could likely coast on reputation for quite some time after education quality tanks. Inertia is powerful, and some could even knowingly decide to go to poor educational institutions just for the status it still gives among peers and in their community.
That said, I have no first hand experience with US higher education, and wouldn’t know what the quality really is, just saying that enrollment rates probably aren’t a great indicator of it.
- Comment on Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96? 4 weeks ago:
Oh, the name Longhorn unlocked some memories just now…
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 4 weeks ago:
Hosted on Jellyfin, Feishin on laptop and Finamp on mobile.
- Comment on Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer 4 weeks ago:
I bought a kettle with some WiFi features, but never planned to put it on my network as it works without it. Or was supposed to, at least. The thermostat was erratic and it needed a firmware update to fix it, only installable via this WiFi-connection. I set up a temporary VLAN just for the update, and disabled the VLAN right after. Then I took a shower.
I find it odd that one of its core features worked so poorly out of the box. And it’s not like it was a way to trick me into connecting it either, as I first got a replacement part because they didn’t know what the issue was.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
And it has an Android fork (FreeTube Android), and can have playlists, subscriptions etc. synced across devices with Syncthing. It does sometimes result in sync conflicts though, but if you reload it before using it on a device, you will be fine. Most sync conflicts I get are for history, and that’s fine by me to lose some history.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
WE WOULDNT BE BLOCKING ADS IF YOU REGULATED ADVERTISERS LIKE YOU ARE TRYING TO REGULATE VIEWERS.
I still would.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
I use it consistently with few issues. Once in a while, usually on Thursdays (when it seems YT rolls out changes), something breaks, but the devs are quick to fix it. The last issue I experienced was when YT transitioned to SABR, and it was out for a day or two before they had things working again. I am at least perfectly capable of going without for a day once every two months.
It’s also one of the projects I’ve used to learn more about how fixes are worked on in FOSS. I will typically run nightly builds also - I find it pretty cool to follow an issue and once they push a fix I can instantly grab that fresh build without waiting for it to be packaged.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
I just wish they also didn’t constantly try to force backdoors into everything…
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
No no, on Windows it is not your computer, it is “This computer”. The days of “My computer” are long gone.
- Comment on Better music management 1 month ago:
I tag all my music through MusicBrainz Picard before adding to my server. I think most of the artists are good after that (i.e. if there is a featuring artist, it becomes a separate entry), but I typically use the album artist field to browse by artist.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 month ago:
I have ended up using Zotero for this, which takes a snapshot of the webpage for offline reading (and preservation). Synced to other clients through my WebDAV server. Originally only used Zotero as a reference manager for academic journal papers, but liked using it more broadly.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 2 months ago:
Their demise wasn’t due to lack of popularity, the company just had problems getting established, and ultimately didn’t survive its initial growth phase.
Hm, I thought their demise was due to them arbitrarily going back in time.
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 2 months ago:
I run CalyxOS and have automatic updates from F-Droid.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 2 months ago:
I really want to get to a point I can transition to using this or another mobile Linux distro. My phone is fairly (hehe, it’s a Fairphone) well supported, but my impression is that basic phone features are still not functioning properly making it more of a pocket computer and less of a phone. I still need phone features. As for mobile apps, I don’t have many needs and I think Waydroid will get me far.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 months ago:
And this has actually happened before?
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 months ago:
And apart from an undesirable bandwidth usage resulting from someone guessing their way to my file structure, how can this be used to compromise my server?
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 months ago:
I’m not overly concerned about my instance running behind a reverse proxy. Perhaps I am just naive…
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 months ago:
Why would they need to connect to a VPN every time they connect to Jellyfin?
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 2 months ago:
Esperanto you can learn on lernu.net
- Comment on Manage things "To be Read" 2 months ago:
I don’t see the difference
- Comment on Manage things "To be Read" 2 months ago:
I consider storing articles more as building a starting-point for research, rather than something I definitely think I will read at some point. I store by topic that is of interest to me, and when I want to do a deep-dive, I already have a bunch of articles waiting for me.
- Comment on Manage things "To be Read" 2 months ago:
I use Zotero for this. Used to use it as purely a reference manager for scientific papers, but started storing all kinds of stuff for archiving or later reading. My workflow is getting all news/articles I might want to read from RSS, and add to Zotero what I want to keep.
With the browser plugin you can store snapshots as well, so you can preserve it if it changes or is taken down. Not sure how a mobile experience would be as I only filter RSS-items on my phone, but no reading.
You can use file sync through a paid subscription or use youe own WebDAV server for it (I will be moving to this). Other than that, it is a database and folder with files, so you can probably use SyncThing or store it directly in Nextcloud also I would think.
I am a folder-person, but it also supports tags so you have flexibility in how you organize.
- Comment on Spotify is down for many – here's everything we know so far 2 months ago:
But Bandcamp Friday still gives all money to the artists, right? Or have they changed this?
- Comment on Recommended 3d printer models? 2 months ago:
I just got my Core One last week (also first time buyer), and my first impressions are very good.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry. 2 months ago:
RSS-feed of the Lemmy community then?
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 2 months ago:
Interesting, I very rarely see headphone jacks and had noe clue that FM radio in phones was a thing still. Nice resource, bookmarking that for later!
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 2 months ago:
Are there phones available these days with both of these things?
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 2 months ago:
The thing about market bubbles is that there is a lot of money to be made in the inflationary period with sufficient foresight/luck/inside information regarding timing (take your pick as to which is the most important). If they are convinced they can be the ones to cash out big, they are likely not very concerned about preventing a major crash.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 3 months ago:
Where does that article say anything like that? I could find neither a mention of Sweden nor of the US.
- Comment on [Advice wanted!] Things to consider when printing parts for a self-watering planter? 3 months ago:
Oh, that could be a much better solution. How would you design the reservoir filling system in that case? It would be difficult accessing the rear reservoirs directly, but I could maybe make something with cheap PVC-pipes. Ideally I would fill it from only one point, and I eventually plan to have some sensors measuring the water level in the reservoir(s)