lka1988
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- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 7 hours ago:
I don’t disagree, however, there needs to be some form of security so the average Joe (or their kid) doesn’t accidentally press the wrong button and
rm -rfthe entire device (exaggerating of course, but you get the idea). - Comment on Based on a true story 7 hours ago:
I’ve got four paid-off vehicles (2 cars, 2 motorcycles), and am about to acquire another car (W123 diesel Benz) from my wife’s grandmother who is no longer able to drive.
I don’t care to have any more car payments, and I hope it stays that way for a long time.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 7 hours ago:
Exactly, and this also ties into my first point that the people who know, know what to look for.
- Comment on Based on a true story 8 hours ago:
I bought my 2008 Toyota Sienna for $4500. I talked him down from $4900.
It had:
- 230k miles (269k now)
- an engine replacement (2010 with 91k miles less than the chassis)
- worn out sliding door rear hinges ($140 apiece), bad enough to be grinding on the body under the 3rd row windows
- broken power steering rack (found that a few weeks later)
- balding tires
- rattle-can patch job (black paint on factory black paint, not a huge deal for me)
- blown out rear shocks
- more that I forgot about (noted down in my records)
I bought that van because 1) it was a really good price, and 2) I knew what most of its issues were before I bought it and was able to fix it up. Also, I have 5 kids, so the minivan was a necessity.
$5000 is basically the bare minimum for a family car these days.
- Comment on Based on a true story 8 hours ago:
I did this in my younger years and the cars I got always had some hidden fucked up problem.
My minivan is (well, was) like this. The person I bought it from said the roof-mounted DVD player was professionally installed. I got it home, pulled the interior apart (I was installing a new headunit, backup camera, and some other things), and found the “professionally installed” wiring crossed in front of the side curtain airbag. It wasn’t secured anywhere at all, either. Just flopping around. I fixed that up along with some other issues I found.
- Comment on Based on a true story 8 hours ago:
Yes, let’s ban the single most common form of transportation in the country because you’ve never had to live in an area with zero public transport.
Great line of thinking, there.
- Comment on Based on a true story 8 hours ago:
I paid %17 interest on a car with a 6 year loan (don’t do that, kids). Refinanced to 4% a year later, knocked another year off the loan (5 years to 4 years), and still ended up paying less per month than the original payment.
I miss that car sometimes. 2012 Kia Soul, and I really liked it. I went on a 3-week business trip a few years ago, and my rental happened to be a 2021 Kia Soul in mustard yellow. I loved every minute of it.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 8 hours ago:
True. Nintendo is extremely cutthroat with their IP, they like going after emulators and similar.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 9 hours ago:
Sony shipped literal rootkits with their software years ago.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 9 hours ago:
True.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 10 hours ago:
email is starting to disappear
The fuck it is lol, do you have any idea how much email is used in literally everything? How old are you?
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 10 hours ago:
integrated FTP client
Why though? SFTP is leagues better.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 10 hours ago:
Syncthing isn’t going anywhere. The Android app is the only thing that was dropped, and that was only because of Google’s increasingly-difficult requirements to publish on the Play Store.
Syncthing-Fork is the spiritual successor to the original Android app.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 10 hours ago:
That fork is what the Syncthing devs are recommending now. Pretty sure it’s fine.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 10 hours ago:
Syncthing was only ever self-hosted…
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 10 hours ago:
You really need to clarify your comment, as it’s already causing confusion.
- The official Syncthing project is going strong, and is not the same thing as the Android app.
- The Android app was discontinued late last year due to Google’s requirements to publish on the Play Store becoming increasingly difficult.
- Syncthing-Fork is now what Syncthing recommends for Android users.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 10 hours ago:
"[…] This service is being developed in partnership with Flower AI, which leverages Nvidia’s confidential compute to provide private remote processing in the event a user’s PC isn’t powerful enough. Sipes emphasizes that any remote processing features attached to Thunderbird Assist will always be optional, in the interest of ensuring complete user privacy.”
That’s a lot of words to say “we made an AI that totally won’t suck up your data, trust me bro”
- Comment on What steps do you take to secure your server and your selfhosted services? 10 hours ago:
My UDM has this capability. I’ve blocked quite a few countries that it logged as trying to get into my network.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 10 hours ago:
playstation
The game console, made by Sony, who famously keeps trying to fuck everyone else over?
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 10 hours ago:
Because people are stupid, will fuck up their device/s, and then complain to the manufacturer about how their device was ruined.
It’s an incredibly stupid argument, but it’s their argument nonetheless. Something something “for your safety/protection/security/etc”…i.e. “Trust us”.
I think root privileges should be available as well, but in a way that 1) only someone who knows what the fuck they’re doing can access, and 2) can be done entirely locally, without calling to a server controlled by the manufacturer.
- Comment on DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software. 11 hours ago:
Absolutely a fair point.
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 14 hours ago:
…it looks like pretty much every other 75% tkl out there ¯\(°_o)/¯
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t doubt that Logitech would be “borrowing” designs, but this sounds like a bit of a stretch
- Comment on DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software. 1 day ago:
I did the same shit as a teenager, big fucking whoop. How about we focus on the Nazi part of this asshole.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 1 day ago:
Same here! We had it on a Macintosh LC 575. I will never forget those sound effects haha.
- Comment on SoA day of action following allegations of Meta’s mass theft of authors’ work 1 day ago:
The hypocrisy is that if an average person did something like this (such as, IDK, Aaron Schwartz, they would have already been swiftly prosecuted and made out to be an example of “look what will happen to you”.
It’s just the two-tiered justice system being what it is, again.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 1 day ago:
For me it depends which bike I’m riding. If it’s my 49cc scooter, I’ll sit to the very right side of the lane for a quick escape while watching my mirrors like a hawk. On my XR500, I’ll just filter to the front (legal in Utah).
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 1 day ago:
Good to know, I’ll stay away from those damn things when I ride.
- Comment on Just a moment... 1 day ago:
“CRUD”, “Sham” coin, and yesterday’s date…
🤨
- Comment on SoA day of action following allegations of Meta’s mass theft of authors’ work 1 day ago:
It’s the hypocrisy, not the law
- Comment on DockGE released 1.5.0 2 days ago:
I haven’t experienced this, oddly enough. Many of my compose files have comments, and they’re still visible 🤔