DJDarren
@DJDarren@sopuli.xyz
Just a guy standing in front of the internet asking it to please not
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 1 day ago:
my Android phone
Hard to do AirPlay from a Pixel.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 1 day ago:
Literally the only reason my LG TV is hooked up to the wifi is so I can show my wife stuff from my Android phone. For everything else we have an Apple TV.
I can’t see any good reason to allow a fridge access to the internet.
- Comment on Outsourcing 1 day ago:
It is, as it happens.
- Comment on Outsourcing 2 days ago:
I’ve gone one step further: my wife’s boyfriend fucks my wife for free, meaning it costs me nothing to keep working at my business.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 2 days ago:
This is just avoiding the issue of having a short attention span.
And how do you improve your attention span? By not having distractions available to you.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 days ago:
There are dozens of us out here patiently awaiting a bunch of reasonably powerful new Linux machines.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 3 days ago:
I had a cat that trained me to sit down to pee.
The only time I could ever get her to purr was when when I was sat on the toilet. So, of course, I began sitting down to pee in order to maximise her purring and fusses. And it kinda stuck.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 3 days ago:
I once jokingly mentioned to my wife that leaving the seat up is just as convenient for me as leaving it down is for her. To which she pointed out that, of the four different permutations of toilet use between us, 3/4 require the seat to be down, so all in all, it makes sense to leave the seat down.
And dammit, I had to marry a logical autistic, didn’t I?
So now I always (try to remember to) leave the seat down.
- Comment on One Year Selfhosting My Own Podcast 6 days ago:
I use Castopod for when I’ve uploaded my radio show. At the moment it’s hosted on my site that’s on Hetzner. It only costs me a tenner a month, so I’m wondering whether it’s worth trying to work out how to host it all locally so I can have far more storage and it not cost me anything.
- Comment on You donkey 6 days ago:
Yes Geoffrey.
- Comment on Important update: It's 10 poptarts 6 days ago:
🎶Poptarts on a borzoi You know, you know This is serious 🎶
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 6 days ago:
They do not. Yet.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 week ago:
I don’t really use Windows these days. Mostly in a VM to make sure something I’m fiddling with is compatible for the poor folks at work who have to use it. So I can’t say I have any real opinions on 11 one way or the other. I couldn’t really point to one thing that’s vastly different or improved.
I guess, from that point of view, 11 feels mostly like it’s MS adjusting the OS to better suit their revenue stream, rather than improving workflows for the consumer. Which it is, I suppose.
- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 1 week ago:
Cheers for the heads up!
- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 1 week ago:
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 week ago:
We use a Canon at work, behind a print server called UniPrint, or some shit. I figured out how to use it to print from a USB drive long before I finally caved and mailed the guy who maintains it to ask how to get my KDE Neom machine to successfully send a print job. I figured out how to see it, I could check the toner levels, but I could not send a print.
Works now, because he changed a setting.
Bastard printers.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 week ago:
I genuinely couldn’t tell you what the current gen Xbox is named, though to be fair I don’t really pay that much attention these days.
But yeah, Windows can’t really have much of a default theme update when there are a good four different window styles throughout the various settings panels.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 week ago:
Looking at it from a perspective other than “Windows shit, use Linux”, MS’ biggest issue here is that the vast majority have no compelling reason to upgrade. Currently.
To the average punter, W11 offers nothing that W10 doesn’t already have. There’s no new technologies that they care about, no new tentpole software that they’re dying to try. Nothing. It has copilot running rampant through it, but most people don’t know what that is or don’t give a shit.
Give Apple their due, when they announce an OS update, they focus hard on the ways it improves over the current offering. Ways it can interact with your other devices, for example. Or even just a whole new design.
But MS advertise nothing beyond “This is new, come get it!”, then wonder why no one cares.
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 week ago:
As someone who is actively moving away from Apple stuff, the hardest thing for me to give up has been Pages. The iPad version is fine, but the Mac version is the GOAT as far as I’m concerned.
But it sucks balls for making anything that needs to be opened on any other editor.
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 week ago:
For how good and useful Excel is, it’s overbalanced by how utterly fucking dog shit Word is.
Word is when you have a crap and can’t seem to wipe yourself fully clean. Word is making a morning coffee and finding the milk has gone bad. If it weren’t for the US deciding they’d rather invade the Netherlands than let a single Yank stand trial in the Hague, the entire executive suite of Microsoft would be up on war crimes charges because of Word.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
Ok buddy.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
In most of the world, they are. And most of the world doesn’t have fascists in charge.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
Meanwhile, your “working class” is armed to the teeth and fascism is still running amok.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
I honestly wouldn’t mind paying for it if it didn’t feel like such a fucking rip-off.
For example, for £19 a month I could sub to Netflix top tier. For that, I and three others could watch their stuff in UHD, all at the same time. And sure, Netflix content might be somewhat average these days, but it’s still reasonably high quality and costs a decent packet to produce.
By contrast, YT Premium for family is £20 a month, with which I can access a bunch of videos that, while enjoyable, do not cost Google anything to make. Yes, hosting costs money, and yes, they (theoretically) pay the video creators. But it doesn’t feel like £20 a month, y’know?
Part of the trouble is that they lump YT Music in to the same subscription. But I don’t want or need that. I have Apple Music with its lossless catalogue, and library that I’ve built up over many years. If YT offered a straight up ad-free plan that I could share with my family that cost a tenner a month, I’d probably go for it. It would mean being able to watch videos on Apple TV without having to fuck about downloading them to my Plex folder first, because they’ve injected SO MANY ADVERTS in now that the YT app is completely unusable.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
Until a few months ago I was all-in the Apple ecosystem. iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV. Seeing them launch things like Universal Control was amazing.
Then I jumped out, got a Pixel, put Graphene on it, and started messing with Linux.
… Only to discover that Universal Control is essentially just Input Leap, which can trace its history back to 2001 and the launch of Synergy.
Apple are absolutely a marketing company. Don’t get me wrong, they add some much-needed polish, but they essentially just rejig existing tech and lock it down so it only works on their devices sold in the last few years.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
And are these alternative phones in the room with you?
Seriously, the alternatives to Google’s Android are:
iOS: lol GrapheneOS: Currently at the mercy of Google Lineage: Same /e/OS: Same
Plus a bunch of half baked Linux distros that run on old or limited hardware.
We’re in a duopoly because it doesn’t suit the manufacturers to give a shit.
- Comment on Anti-asylum protesters march on after targeting student flats by mistake 2 weeks ago:
Jesus these cunts are fucking stupid.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 3 weeks ago:
The thing that really gets to me is how we’ve gone from “Here, let us sell you a computer that you can push to its limits however you see fit” to “We will sell you a device and ensure you use that device within a given sphere of acceptability”.
I own this phone/computer/tablet/console/whatever, so why the fuck do I have to adhere to their rules? Rules they’ve changed since I bought the device, of course.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 3 weeks ago:
God, I wish.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 3 weeks ago:
They have stated that they’re more than willing to work with any manufacturer who is prepared to make a device that meets their security standards. But as it stands, Pixels are the only unlockable devices that meet that standard.
Someone like Fairphone could do pretty well from a tie-in with Graphene. But it’s up to them.