ChogChog

@ChogChog@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ThinkPads are great. I have an X220 that I have running Mint that I use in my garage. Its use cases are music streaming, displaying PDF Service Manuals/Technical Diagrams, and web queries for random questions/video instructions. I’m working on trying to see if I can get Wine to let me run some diagnostic software on it too.

  It can certainly do more than that as I used it through school a number of years ago for note taking and small programming projects. But it’s retired to being the tank that it is and it’s amazing for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Responsibility. We’ve yet to decide as a society how we want to handle who is held responsible when the AI messes up and people get hurt.

  You’ll start to see AI being used as a defense of plausible deniability as people continue to shirk their responsibilities. Instead of dealing with the tough questions, we’ll lean more and more on these systems to make it feel like it’s outside our control so there’s less guilt. And under the current system, it’ll most certainly be weaponized by some groups to indirectly hurt others.

  “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to use Collabora? All I get is "OK".⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t worked with Collabora before so I could be completely wrong but it looks like from the install doc that the “OK” string is what should be expected.

  Is CODE the server backend to handle syncing and do you need to install a separate application that points to that server?

  I know standard notes is like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You literally just said the two things I wished Kindle allowed me to do natively.

  I hate the fact my Kindle store books will bundle by series, but my non-kindle books will not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Smartwatch That Was Too Good For This World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hesitant with Eric as well, mostly coming out of the fact it sounds like they’re completely separate from the rebble team that kept the watches going for the past decade. But they are using the rebble discord to interact with people so maybe we’ll see.

  Either way, no, the source code was only open sourced on the 27th.

  Also see the actual repository.

  If you have any evidence otherwise, I’d be interested as I’ve been following all of this since the original kickstarter. But I’m thinking you might be mixing what rebble is as it’s not the source code.

  Either way, not sure how this will go, I’m wishful as I really don’t want to see pebble go bankrupt again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenBudgeteer: a selfhosted budgeting app made for Bucket Budgeting⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think he just shared the .com domain and wasn’t thinking about it/aware which is why he edited his comment and just linked to the GitHub page.

  It’s really annoying, because the .com address is the top result on Google too when you search for Actual Budget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenBudgeteer: a selfhosted budgeting app made for Bucket Budgeting⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actualbudget.com =/= actualbudget.org

  Originally the project was a closed source budgeting app to compete against YNAB on privacy and cost but the developer got overwhelmed and decided to open source the project.

  I can’t remember all the details why the project doesn’t have access to the .com domain still, but you can use the .org site to see the details/source code. (You can also see the .com address hasn’t been updated, and still has the original 2020 copyright date)