Obelix
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- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 1 week ago:
I really would like to try those glasses. They sound cool. But at $500 they are too expensive for an impulse and there is no place around where one can try those offline
- Comment on Google cuts hundreds of jobs in Android division. 1 week ago:
It’s a really cool thing, but if we are honest: That is nothing for the general population. I’m not really sure what Apple is doing with that feature, but there is no way that Grandma Smith will 3d scan things and send them to her grandchildren for 3d printing
- Comment on A Mouse, No Hands! 1 week ago:
It looks really goofy, but I like the concept. That gives your carpal tunnel hands a pause. Or it might free your hand so that you can type with two hands and still use the mouse. It also might help people who lost a hand or arm.
- Comment on Google cuts hundreds of jobs in Android division. 1 week ago:
I really do not want anything innovative in my phone TBH. Android works ok and the heavy lifting is done with apps. I really don’t want Google to move more crappy features into the OS and I really do not need stuff like those LIDAR sensors modern iPhones have. Just give me a smartphone with several years of security updates, enough speed to run my programs without issues, give me a good camera and I’m fine.
- Submitted 1 week ago to history@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Tinker WriterDeck - Convert any laptop and most chromebooks into a writer deck. 2 weeks ago:
It is something to fight against the constant distraction of modern tech. It’s hard to write a novel when social media is just a click away, your friends are chatting in your group, you’re getting news alerts from everywhere and you even might fall into a wikipedia hole while researching about mongol tribes. So there really is a use case for devices who are only able to do one thing.
(it’s kind of the same with phones: Get a dedicated camera and go on a walk and you won’t be distracted be someone whatsapping you)
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. I run Wordpress on my personal blog, but after this I won’t use it for future projects. A community fork without all that stupid Jetpack shit would be great
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 3 weeks ago:
Exactly this. We knew that everything would get shaky after he fired all those people and a data leak is the consequence
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 3 weeks ago:
<3
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 4 weeks ago:
Word and Powerpoint are not the worst - just think about all the time lost due to whatever Microsoft is doing in Teams or by random decisions like moving the start button to the middle instead of leaving it where it was since 1995, which automatically renders every corporate training video obsolete.
- Comment on I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with. 4 weeks ago:
email is a standard protocol. You can run your own server using FOSS software in 5 minutes if you start now. One of the biggest problems is that you will have a hard time “federating” to gmail and others due to the spam problematic, but that is something that we will see with Lemmy, too. Currently I can spin up my own server and start pushing shit to lemmy.world and other bigger instances, but I feel that this will change with the coming spam waves
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, those old forum threads really were great. Many forums had threads that were discussing topics for years, all in one place. There were people posting how they were building something and they would just reply to their thread with an update. It’s a great way to collect information and better than we are doing it here
- Comment on U.S. Government Removes Tornado Cash Sanctions 4 weeks ago:
I’m really curious here: What are you buying and dealing with crypto? I am old and I remember the first discussions about Bitcoin and other cryptos and the privacy topic was discussed back then. People were skeptical of the technology, exactly because every transaction was public and people were even more skeptical after others started to use bitcoin to buy drugs with it online. So why are you using technology that is not really suited for privacy by design and expect privacy?
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 4 weeks ago:
Ok, that is a totally different use case than mine. I’m one of those guys browsing a selfhosting community on the fediverse and I only want to stream my own stuff to my mobile and provide my wife with audiobooks. If you’re providing a bigger group of people with streaming services, who are not tech savvy, another software might be the better solution. But that doesn’t mean that Jellyfin is bad - it’s just another use case with different requirements
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 4 weeks ago:
But let’s be honest - it really is not complicated. That was a one minute configuration in my router.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 4 weeks ago:
I just setup jellyfin and it totally is the same. Install. Point it to a media folder. Setup port forwarding.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Research what you are allowed to do with that land. In my country you are not allowed to simply buy agricultural land and start building stuff on it and that is the case in most civilized countries.
- Comment on Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin? 4 weeks ago:
And those lifetime subscriptions are also a trap. They know that you have the money and are willing to pay and that you’re using their service. Do you really think that some business suit will be satisfied by your onetime payment back in 2022?
- Comment on “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
I have Audio-CDs from the 80s that are still playing 40 years later. And I have CDs with deep scratches that also play without problems.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 1 month ago:
I run a small thinclient (HP Mini G400, but those small Lenovos thinkcentres and others also work) in my home. Cost me ~100€ plus a few Euro for a RAM update and a bigger hard drive and now I’m running Proxmox with the help of the Community Scripts:
community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/
It’s quite awesome, to be honest.
- Submitted 1 month ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 1 month ago:
I mean… why wouldn’t all that is happening not have a effect on sales? Musk is the face of Tesla and Musks image has totally gone downhill for lots of people. He’s gone from “techbro genius” to “fascist” in a few months (!) in the public image and there is really not reason to doubt, that this won’t have an effect on sales.
- Comment on 🐸 time 1 month ago:
I mean, evolution kind of might work around the ozone layer being gone. People just need to have children before the skin cancer kills them and that’s totally possible. Might be good if the parents don’t die when the kids are too little.
Evolution really doesn’t care about your personal well-being and won’t help you. It might “evolve” the human race to get children earlier in their teens, because everybody over 30 is dead from skin cancer and microplastics, but maybe the better solution is to use something different in hair spray and fridges.
- Comment on Is there an independent model database? 1 month ago:
Many models on Thingiverse and Printables are released under a CC-licence, so it would be possible to use that as a basis for an independent model database or some kind of decentralized fediverse STL databank, however that would work
- Comment on Downtown Doug Brown » The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives 1 month ago:
Be the chance you want to see in the world and email him?
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
I don’t think phone makers are that close to ad companies
Google?
- Comment on Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media 1 month ago:
Yeah, LLMs could really help. Other tools without AI are also helpful. The problem with all those companies is that they don’t want to do moderating for the public good at all. Reddit could kill a lot of Fake News on it’s platform, prevent reposts of revenge porn or kick idiots just by implementing a few rules. They don’t want to