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- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 1 day ago:
No need for vaccines with 5g chips when the wearable will have one right on your wrist.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 4 days ago:
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No it likely wouldn’t make them explode if they hypothetically were there.
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It’s reasonably certain that Iran didn’t and doesn’t have any usable nukes. The claim is that they were working on building them and that the bombing was to stop them from completing any such projects.
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There are conflicting opinions about whether they were really working on building nukes. One might reasonably also say that if they weren’t working on it before, they are NOW.
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IIRC there was some kind of religious fatwa against Iran building nukes, which made the claim somewhat credible that they weren’t building them. It looked to me like they were instead getting the precursor materials together without doing the final refining and assembly, so that if the fatwa was lifted and the clerics said build the nukes, they could do so relatively quickly. That’s just me though, and I don’t have any special sources of info.
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- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 6 days ago:
“How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works Hesitancy about vaccinations is on the rise, but studies show there are specific ways to address people’s questions.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01771-z
Optimistic, but a start maybe.
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 1 week ago:
Sometimes they are on a remote server that I sshfs mount and play the same way. Multiple people could use the server at the same time if desired, though for me it hasn’t been an issue. It’s audio, I don’t need a visual UI for it. I still have a fair amount of physical media too including LP’s, though my record player is long gone.
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 1 week ago:
I just don’t get it, I’ve seen people struggle with itunes, that stuff is way too complicated and I don’t see any need for it. Maybe I’m missing something but if I want to play some music and it’s in a file, saying “play this file” seems about as direct as it gets.
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 1 week ago:
…tumblr.com/…/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-h…
I just have a bunch of media files (.ogg, .mp3, etc.) and play them with mplayer from the command line. Playlist = shell script that plays some group of files. I use old school track numbering (01-whatever, 02-whatsit, etc.) though, so most of the time “mplayer *” is how I play an album and the tracks play automatically in the right order. I don’t understand the purpose of anything fancier. Now get off my lawn.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 1 week ago:
No idea about internet integration or “arr”, but the Inkplate series are completely open. I got an Inkplate 10 because of an app that I wanted to write for it at the time. The hardware is nice, software is lacking, but I’d buy it again if I wanted a basic e-reader. It has an epub reading app and I’d just download epubs to it from my PC by wifi or USB.
- Comment on Looking for an html-based secure message service 1 week ago:
I think I’ve seen some things like that, but you can never stop them from taking a screen shot, with a camera if necessary.
- Comment on Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup? 1 week ago:
Works best with an air hockey table.
- Comment on Best place for a community alternative to Facebook group? 1 week ago:
Reddit probably beats Facebook but it’s getting worse all the time. If you want to use Lemmy you might consider running your own instance. Lemmy as far as I can tell has usable photo uploading. Maybe the new thing you mentioned will be better, but idk anything about it. There is also Threads which is a Facebook thing, right?
- Comment on Best place for a community alternative to Facebook group? 1 week ago:
If you have the time for it I’d say run an independent site. Lemmy is ok for posting photos though.
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 1 week ago:
I didn’t understand the original post. It seemed like someone whining about a switch to AGPL. But that switch certainly sounds like a good thing to me. I didn’t know the old license was Apache but it still seems like a good switch. Redis (with a misstep in between) did something similar.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
This almost seems like a leopards ate my face situation. I remember Plex supplanted some other proprietary media server that went evil. I couldn’t understand why people burned by the first one switched en masse to another one like it. Once wasn’t enough? If you’re going to switch at all, go to something that is 100% libre.
- Comment on matrix is cooked 1 week ago:
I never heard of ircv3 before. TIL. But, some parts of it don’t seem irc-like, and sacrifice the aspects that have made me stay on irc all this time. Hmm. I’ll look at it more later.
- Comment on What can I do with this laptop keyboard? 1 week ago:
Raspberry pi pico
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
x86 hardware interfaces are traditionally pretty well documented and standardized, going back to the original IBM PC in the 1970s(?), enabling among other things an aftermarket of plug-in expansion cards and other peripherals. That standardization also makes it possible to write device drivers and keep them working.
ARM stuff on the other hand is closed and changes all the time. So this year’s peripheral won’t work with last year’s phone. Mac stuff is also like that, maybe not quite as much most of the time.
- Comment on How would I pop a bag of popcorn on the microwave? 1 week ago:
Those bags are made for microwave popping and you pay a big premium for that, besides getting crappy popcorn. For stovetop popping, just buy loose kernels. Zillions of recipes online.
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 1 week ago:
Some very cheap phones with minutes included, here:
www.qvc.com/electronics/phones/tracfone/…/c.html
OTOH they can probably be traced back to you since you have to order them with your presumably real name. You can buy phones and prepaid cards anonymously in phone stores but it will cost more.
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 1 week ago:
A buddy of mine has a foldable Samsung and likes it. IDK what model but it’s big, looks like a full sized phone when folded, and opens out into something with 2x the screen space of a normal phone, basically a mini tablet.
I had a number of flip phones in the old days and they all broke at the hinge. So there’s that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Android was initially developed by some other company, that Google acquired when it decided it wanted to do smartphones. The alternate universe that I see is they pick a different company instead, and things play out about like before. Maemo (Nokia product) unfortunately died before its time, but maybe it could have been where Android is now. Windows Mobile always stunk.
- Comment on Can't get DNS to work on web server 2 weeks ago:
The domain name in the certificate has to match the one in the browser. Does it? You haven’t said.
- Comment on CBDC Explained : Can your money really expire? 2 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_currency
discusses pros and cons of money intentionally designed to expire.
- Comment on How good are amphetamines for brain fog? 2 weeks ago:
Talk to Dr rather than internet randos. This was interesting though (Naltrexone):
- Comment on Why Decentralized Social Media Matters 2 weeks ago:
I’m not used to shitposting being called “content creation” but whatever.
- Comment on Is there a quick way to know which instance might need mods? 3 weeks ago:
Lemm.ee is shutting down from lack of admins, apparently.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 3 weeks ago:
Just be nice, say your romantic feelings are getting to you too much and that you want to back off if you can’t purshe them. Staying open to occasional contact (like by email) is a lot better than cutting the person off completely.
Getting involved with someone with serious mental health issues doesn’t sound like a great idea either, if they’re not under some reasonable level of control.
- Comment on Might be a bit of a tangent: use SIP at home via internet 3 weeks ago:
Just use a sip phone app on your mobile. I use Linphone but there are lots of them.
- Comment on Is there a more convenient way to do this? 3 weeks ago:
Just pick up a little bit of French and then when you meet them, you can get by with a mixture of Frenglish, gesturing, cross-language dictionaries, and help from Domenic.
- Comment on Ansible sounds interesting 3 weeks ago:
I use it to initialize new VPS with my usual setup, but it might be easier to use a container format. I think Ansible itself has become a bit unfashionable since I started using it. I don’t know what is cool instead now. It was Saltstack for a while but idk how long that lasted. Ansible is working mostly ok for me so I’ve stayed with it, til whenever.
- Comment on Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society: How Efficiency Becomes the Master 3 weeks ago:
Worth mentioning, this book was written in 1954. Full text is online, find by web search.