Anivia
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- Comment on Meow 3 days ago:
If meows sounded anything like human baby cries they would give me an instant headache and the desire to get rid of the noise
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 6 days ago:
Maybe I need it give it another chance, but 3 months ago it was still hot garbage compared to plex
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty easy to jailbreak a Kindle and block firmware updates. But the fact that it is necessary in the first place sucks
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 weeks ago:
Despite no longer sticking to the DIN standard, and climate controls being integrated into the infotainment system, there still exists a big market for aftermarket infotaiment systems, they just have to be engineered for the specific make of car you have. But they can be bought for most cars that have infotaiment systems that are now outdated
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 2 weeks ago:
Well, there has to be some kind of algorithm. Even picking a random Wikipedia article technically is an algorithm, just not one that adapts to the user
- Comment on How do you all handle security and monitoring for your publicly accessible services? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m not gonna tell the 50 users of my plex server to set up wireguard on their devices so they can request movies and TV series on my overseer, when I can instead just use NPM to make it publically accessible with a password prompt
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 2 weeks ago:
Are you blocked from installing browser extensions?
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 3 weeks ago:
There was also a big outage on 2014 when Sony got DDOSed by Lizardsquad. So maybe you are remembering that one and don’t need to feel quite so old
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 3 weeks ago:
It has happened more often than that. The one in 2011 was the biggest outage, but PSN also got DDOSed by lizard squad a couple years after the 2011 outage
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 3 weeks ago:
Yes, the Pixel 7 Pro was when Google still only had 2 models, the big pro model and the small non-pro model.
With the Pixel 9 series there are 3 options, the budget pixel 9, which is a small phone, the Pixel 9 Pro, which is a flagship but the same size as the small Pixel 9,or the Pixel 9 Pro XL, which is the big version of the flagship Pixel 9 Pro. So you no longer need to compromise if you want a small Pixel phone
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 3 weeks ago:
Well, it may only have had a 4 inch screen, but it also had huge bezels. It’s less tall than modern flagships, but almost the same width, making it similar for one handed use.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 3 weeks ago:
The Pixel 9 Pro is a flagship phone, the only difference to the Pixel 9 Pro XL is the size, charging speed and battery capacity
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 3 weeks ago:
Lol, let me introduce you to smspva.com
- Comment on USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect 1 month ago:
Time will tell
USB C has been around for 10 years, we already know it’s very durable (at least the connector itself, cheap cables are another story)
- Comment on Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series 1 month ago:
Technically the Wii U was the most powerful console at the time it released.
But only because it released towards then end of the Xbox 360 / PS3 lifecycle, so it was a very short time period until it was once again severely underpowered compared to Xbox any Playstation
- Comment on Microsoft is launching a $349 desktop PC that only runs Windows 11 by streaming it from the cloud 3 months ago:
There is absolutely zero reason a thin client needs to cost this much, unless this has some seriously high-end multi-monitor capabilities
- Comment on An old ad for the Wavebird controller for Gamecube 3 months ago:
For those that don’t care about being able to plug it into the GameCube or N64 there is also the Nyxi Wizard
- Comment on An old ad for the Wavebird controller for Gamecube 3 months ago:
There are quite a lot of GameCube games that let you invert the camera controls. But I’m not aware of any that would let you invert the left analog stick
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 3 months ago:
About a third of it is friends of mine, the rest is family and extended family
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 3 months ago:
I guess it depends on your library size and how many users you are serving. My plex server has a library of over 100 TB and over 60 uses, so to me a rack mount server for Jellyfin alone doesn’t sound overkill at all
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 3 months ago:
Wait so you have like rack mounted server but only run jellyfin?
What would be wrong with that?
- Comment on Jewel Beetles 3 months ago:
Emphasis on “trying”
- Comment on New frog just dropped!!! 3 months ago:
Given that the Wikipedia entry got created in 2007 it can’t be very “new”
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
That’s not true. It charges very slowly, about 12 hours to charge a completely dead battery, but it does charge
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 3 months ago:
Anything that has a very low power draw. You already listed one of the common examples: a clock. Due to rechargeable NiMH batteries having a high self-discharge rate you would have to replace the battery every year, whilst an Alkaline battery would last 5 to 10 years. Other common household items that are a good example would be TV remotes, smoke alarms, or smart home devices like light switches.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 3 months ago:
(on a side note, you seem to imply the use of non-rechargeable AA, which holy shit, if they’re still a thing, must be purged, sweet jesus…who’s dumb enough to waste money on em???)
You should probably educate yourself on the advantages of rechargeable and single use AA batteries before calling other people dumb for still using Alkaline batteries.
Rechargeable NiMH batteries are great for most usecases, but even the ones that are designed to have a low self-discharge rate still are much worse in that regard than Alkaline batteries. There are simply use cases where rechargeable AA batteries make no sense and you are much better off with regular Alkaline batteries.
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 3 months ago:
I would. I have never used dollars in my entire life to purchase goods. But I have done so with Monero frequently
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 4 months ago:
Should children be able to buy alcohol on the basis that if they don’t get served in pubs/shops they could theoretically instead be sold moonshine in an alleyway?
Yes. That’s how we do it in Germany, because we know they would otherwise just steal alcohol from stores or get an adult to buy it for them, like is the case in the US
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 4 months ago:
Yes, because the “product that comes in a sealed container” is actually the entire vape, the base you screw it into is nothing more than the battery
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 4 months ago:
Except that time it was lupus