HiTekRedNek
@HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 weeks ago:
Did… You just call my teenager a bitch?
I mean, I do that, too at times, but still…
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 weeks ago:
They don’t if you’re constantly taking them off to put stuff inside them between the phone and the black.
She refuses to carry a purse or even a wallet and just shoves her ID and her teen-limited cashapp card in. And sometimes even spare cash if she has any.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 weeks ago:
My kid does.
And I wish she wouldn’t. To clarify, we’ve bought her cases and she destroys the case in days.
She’s more careful with her bare phone than she is with it in a case.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 weeks ago:
I use a case to add magsafe to my android phone, because I like the magnetic holder/charger idea ,na swish all phones had it built in.
I have a cheap, clear magsafe case for my Pixel 9.
I also have a screen protector, and when I have the phone out of the case, it feels weird in my hand when I brush the edge of the screen protector.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to include the hacked controller software that reports the drive size as triple what it actually is.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 3 weeks ago:
Then that’s changed since the last time I toyed with the idea. Which, granted, was probably 20 years ago…
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 3 weeks ago:
There. Was that at hard?
It’s apparently easier than you not being a jackass, at least.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 3 weeks ago:
The big issue is that your network provider is also the physical provider, and there’s no real competition as a result.
When most people got their Internet service over telephone lines, your ISP didn’t need to also own the telephone lines, they just needed some telephone numbers.
When the telcos themselves got into the business of providing internet access, they pushed out the competition.
The 1996 Telecommunications Act, written by a Republican Congress, and signed into law by a Democratic president (Clinton) is largely responsible for the current state of affairs.
The “Information Superhighway” is a toll road, built by taxes, but owned by private corporations.
What’s crazy is that the government paid these corporations to build this infrastructure.
When your government pays, say, a road building company to build roads, one doesn’t then grant the ownership of those roads to that company.
But that is EXACTLY what we did with our communications infrastructure.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 4 weeks ago:
What’s crazy is you can build a kit plane for less than what this costs, and flying a kit plane does NOT need a pilot license in the US.
- Comment on Wait, that game is still playable online? 4 weeks ago:
Materia Magica has had a playable race called dracon since the 1990s. Back then it was called Moongate Online.
It’s a MUD. The precursor to the graphical MMORPG genre.
And yes, people still play MUDs online.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 4 weeks ago:
It’s Apple. They make everything other than just using their own stuff harder.
It’s kinda their whole shtick.
- Comment on My First Homelab 4 weeks ago:
If he doesn’t want it, I’ll take it! 🤣
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 5 weeks ago:
We really aren’t. The difference is, the most successful of us are. And those are the ones you typically seem to meet overseas. Because the less successful of us can’t afford the trip.
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 5 weeks ago:
Prebuilt is almost always the wrong answer. That holds true in way more fields than just technology as well.
The phrase “bought versus built” comes to mind.
You can almost always build exactly what you need for less money or headache than you think.
Will you maybe spend a little more than buying some cheap one-off? Possibly. However, the best part of building it yourself is that you’ll also typically know exactly what you’ve got, and if you use off-the-shelf parts, replacements and upgrades are easier in the long run.
TCO. Total Cost of Ownership.
- Comment on This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives 5 weeks ago:
Except you don’t need to have bought one to be affected by it. Maybe your employer bought one, and infected a computer you use at work.
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 5 weeks ago:
When the government is powerful enough to cause genocides, that’s a problem. It’s far easier to just not give your money to a business that engages in such practices.
Not giving money to your government, however, is considered tax evasion.
- Comment on New Meta XR glasses again tipped to land later this year – well ahead of Apple's rumored AR glasses with Apple Intelligence 1 month ago:
Google Glass seeing all the new AR glasses: “Man, they just weren’t ready for me yet…”
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 month ago:
Zork. God forbid you forget to look mailbox
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 1 month ago:
+1 For hass.
- Comment on Starbucks' new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant's first 3D printed store in the US 1 month ago:
How many years will that mower last though? I have a riding mower that I paid $2100.00 for… 14 years ago.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 1 month ago:
LOAD “TREK64”,8 RUN
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 month ago:
Did you just threaten Bill? Lol
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 2 months ago:
You can buy a NAS case, get a cheap matx or itx motherboard and roll your own with ease. Where exactly have you looked?
Here’s one such case: a.co/d/eUz87Mh
- Comment on need help finding a racing game 2 months ago:
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 months ago:
Apparently you don’t. Because you are the one confused about how one can get a car delivered to their home instead of going to the dealership.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 months ago:
The same trucks that tow cars can tow new ones to you.
It’s not a difficult concept.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 months ago:
Tell me you’ve never had to have your broken car towed to your home because you couldn’t afford a mechanic.
People have cars hauled to their home all the time on a flatbed tow truck.
Those cars do not rack up mileage while on said flatbed truck.
- Comment on Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs 2 months ago:
The dominant failure mode of an SSD is to become read-only. There’s no data loss there…
- Comment on Given how paintball guns work, could you swap paintballs for a waterballs? 2 months ago:
People were using them to shoot car and house windows out here.