PetteriPano
@PetteriPano@lemmy.world
- Comment on Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting 5 days ago:
Whatever you get, get at least two and do RAID1/5/6. They will break.
Speed shouldn’t be an issue for streaming media.
- Comment on Is there any open-source project that serves the same purpose of Duolingo that can be self-hosted? 6 days ago:
Inspired by xkcd’s thing explainer I generated a list of how often words appeared in subtitles on opensubtitles for my target language.
I whipped those into a database, added manual translation for the top-1000 and started quizzing myself with a tiny php script.
It was more fun to code than to actually quiz myself. I think I played the top-100 before I got bored.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 3 weeks ago:
The theorem holds true. The theorem states that the monkey has infinite time, not just the lifetime of our universe.
That’s just lazy science to change the conditions to make sensational headlines. Bad scientists!
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
I’ll keep that secret from her 😅
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
Three years ago, I bought my wife a laptop with Windows 10 to replace her 10yo windows 7 machine.
It had hardware issues out of the box, and went in on two repairs. It works fine now, AFAIK.
But, she still doesn’t trust it, and she doesn’t think that she can move her Adobe CS6 license over to it…
I even bought her the affinity suite.
I’m starting to think she’ll never move on from Windows 7.
I think the major browsers stopped supporting it sometime during the last year, so my best hope is that some included certificates will eventually make her favourite websites stop working. That has to force her over to something more recent… right?
I use arch, btw.
- Comment on Automattic demanded a cut of WP Engine’s revenue before starting WordPress battle. 1 month ago:
Did I misunderstand something about the scenario here?
Wordpress foundation is a non-profit that develops and hosts installation packages and updates.
WPengine is a for-profit company that sells wordpress hosting.
All WPengine installations constantly look for updates and download these from the wordpress foundation. I’d bet they probably rack up half of their bandwidth costs.
WPengine can of course freely use wordpress’ GPLv2 licensed stuff, but it sounds like their leeching of resources was the main pain point.
To either contribute or host their own installation packages sounds like a fair request at the scale WPengine has been operating.
Hetzner, for comparison, sells virtual private servers running Debian. Debian is free, under a similar license as wordpress. Hetzner is a Debian partner and coughs up dough. Hetzner hosts their own mirrors to reduce load on Debian’s repositories.
Be like hetzner. Stroke the hand that feeds.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated 1 month ago:
Sounds like a prompt for generative AI to sink its teeth into.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated 1 month ago:
these emulation handhelds – which often come pre-loaded with hundreds of games
I can only speak for the retroid pocket I have. It’s not far off from a stock android phone, sans camera and modem, plus d-pad and sticks.
It only came preloaded with a few open source emulators available on play store for free in addition to GApps (with official play store support).
- Comment on What is your favorite retro console? 1 month ago:
Sega Master System. Bought mine used for 200 Finnish marks. Sold it to buy a karate gi.
Bought an SMS2 in 2009 and RGB-modded it. It’s been hooked up too my CRT ever since.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro console? 1 month ago:
I spent a good few years with it. It’s been ten years since I sold it. Those games really shine on a retroid pocket with upscaling.
It’s not retro in my mind, but I’m old.
- Comment on How did people poop before smartphones were invented? 1 month ago:
Huh, this vegan dog shampoo has not been tested on animals.
I feel lile that’s the one product they should test on animals so that my dog doesn’t have to be the guinea pig.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
A youth wasted playing MUDs, I guess. I was pretty fast before that, but I probably doubled my pace in a few years.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
I guess I might be a millennial or Xennial, then.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
Gen X here. I’ve got an average 123 WPM on typeracer, which puts me in the 99,8th percentile.
I started looking at the screen instead of the keyboard early on. There were touch typing classes as an option around 8th grade, I think, but it was literally just having a map of which fingers go where and typing text focusing on using the right fingers. I didn’t take one, but I think I’m using the right fingers for 80% of the keys. I’m moving my hands back and forth a bit to let my dominant fingers do the work.
I started playing MUDs in 1997 at age 13, and building up that muscle memory for every combination of two- or three letter commands probably did more than I’d care to admit. I still miss the responsiveness of a proper DOS prompt, or Linux tty.
- Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words? 2 months ago: