CompactFlax

@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Recently resurrected a nano; it’s 20 years old. Works fine.

  My full size iPod though won’t boot. Just clicks and reboots constantly. I think the hard drive is toast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sharing feedback or opinions respectfully does not lead to a dismissal. We have a clear Code of Conduct that outlines our shared expectations for working together safely and respectfully, which employees review and sign each year.

  It’s shaming them publicly that did it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a "patience" building exercise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The time to patiently apply to jobs elsewhere was a few months ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just say the word⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  $12 million a year? In two years time we’re retired and the kids are set for life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Yes

  2. Calories in, calories out is basic thermodynamics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  50 pounds in 8 weeks is 6 pounds per week which is well beyond a safe level of fat loss (without medical supervision and extenuating circumstances or surgery).

  You’ll be left with a lot of flappy skin too.

  “Not spending a lot” wouldn’t be worrying about that, you’re not going to be eating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug dealers hate this one weird trick!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On one hand it’s probably clean and fairly free of bacteria, on the other hand it might have hair and bugs, and because animals have shorter lifetimes might not meet standards for long term health. For example we dose dogs with systemic insecticides for fleas and ticks but don’t use them in humans because over 80 years it builds up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Low tech options: a smart plug that power cycles if it can’t ping eg google and have your edge devices plugged in there, or a timer that reboots the firewall at 0200 daily.

  I have decided dual firewalls are silly without dual internet and dual power, as both those things go down more often than my FW.

  I have two instances of pihole on two hosts, because I block dns outbound to the best of my ability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Normalize it for age. How much did GenX spend at 22 vs GenZ?

  There’s a big drop off in drinking overall and it’s a good thing. Yet genZ is back on nicotine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using ridiculously low DNS TTLs | APNIC Blog⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a reasonably latent connection and using pihole and an anycast upstream resolver is noticeably slow. It falls out of pihole cache so freaking fast with these low TTL. I have set up unbound with aggressive caching prefetch and if I recall correctly pihole has a toggle to serve expired. Serving expired in unbound, before pihole, breaks stuff that rotates IP fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I could choose to not sleep and still be healthy, I'd still choose to sleep every night.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, but the corollary would be a 16 hr workday, because capitalism.

  It’s complicated because I want to sleep because of mechanisms that exist because I need sleep. If I wasn’t sleepy, I wouldn’t want to sleep. I am sleepy, because I need sleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re making heat. Don’t worry about the sweat. I get a literal puddle underneath my bike on long sets. I can wring my shirt out when I run. I’m not even a particularly sweaty person. I know some people who can make a full puddle in 5-10 min. It is what it is. Especially if you’re at home, who cares!?

  I’m pretty sure that you can sweat while getting frostbite. Your fingers, toes, nose, ears, etc. all are too exposed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s better than the alternatives, unfortunately. I really want to dump Apple; the products are waning in quality and the company is spending a lot of time genuflecting for king tangerine. But it just works.

  “Just install grapheneOS” my brother in Christ, I have no time or interest in fucking up with the primary communication device I rely on to reach family, friends, and work. I don’t have time for the hobbies I want to do let alone adding work-adjacent activities under the cloak of a hobby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Line go up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this why there’s no stock?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My dog's treatment cost £1,600 - vet bills are shocking⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a few factors at play:

  • vet clinics are increasingly owned by private equity groups. This is primary in recent years, and linked neatly to the “untapped market potential” of the next item
  • people are more willing now than ever to spend money on their pets - “pets are family”, “I’m a pet parent”. I heard about a hip replacement in a senior Guinea pig, an animal with a lifespan around 6 years.
  • medical costs are expensive, and in countries with single payer or public healthcare, a lot of those costs can be transparent (for humans) which leads to sticker shock “how can the blood tests be £150, my GP doesn’t charge!”
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s Four-Year Energy Spree Has Eclipsed Entire US Power Grid⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  China is building all these power plants for energy independence. Less than 20% is thermal energy. AI is today’s bingo card, but it’s also transportation and industry (the kind which actually makes things), and globally, China now dominates battery and solar manufacturing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I wasn’t clear. Hormonal imbalances make it seem they’re beating thermodynamics, but thermodynamics wins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I created a text file with all the IPs, server name, and function and some general notes. I don’t use good passwords in my home network, sue me. But my master password should go into the will stored with lawyer.

  It’s enough to get started but my family will have to find someone to help them at some point as they don’t have the technical skills I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you can’t be in a verified calorie deficit and gain weight, outside of extreme water retention. Thats the definition of a calorie deficit.

  But there are vanishingly small numbers of people who gain weight eating a very small amount of food who have hormonal imbalances that make that happen. Theres a much larger number of people who forget to count the handful of crisps or nuts or chocolates in their diet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have snort running on my firewall monitoring my LAN port. Does it help? No idea. Does it make me feel good because it blocks stuff? Yup. It does enforce IP blacklists from a feed, so it’s a start.

  Keeping an loose eye on things and watching for extra network traffic, cpu, ram usage is what I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Troubled waters: How the UK’s water companies became a national disgrace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Public water: Fees + tax grant = budget

  Private water: Fees + tax grant - profit = budget

  Seems pretty fucking simple to me, Thatcher.

  (Tax grant: government support, which may or may not be applicable to all scenarios.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Way before they reach that state.

  I go barefoot whenever it’s feasible, so if I’m wearing shoes, they better do shoe things. They last a long time because I don’t wear them, which helps from a financial side .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My neighbours have long conversations in their cars. I can hear every word the distant party is saying.

  I think the audio levels get set higher in cars to combat road noise and the missing sound spectrum of phone calls, because it sure is loud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’ve hit a wall with tech.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I Work with tech at work.

  I Work with computer-free problems in spare time (ie get a hobby like gardening).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The people who want to run everything like a business either have never worked for a business or is a Business Idiot who doesn’t know how much waste happens in the average business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully all the time it’s taking will result in a half decent result. Siri is frequently less useful than just talking to a rock.

  It could just as well be delays related to capacity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wtf are they made of money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨India's proposed phone security rules that are worrying tech firms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the same government who brought you the mandated spyware app with access to all your phone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No shit. Win10 made explorer slow as shit somehow, and the start menu was slowing in 8.1 already. Win11 slowed them both even more and they’re firing more javashit at us because someone thinks it’s an acceptable front end language. It’s fucking not. It’s just a lot of people know it.