HiTekRedNek
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- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 5 days ago:
Is this the greatest game ever written?
No. It’s just a tribute.
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 1 week ago:
Very regional.
In areas with high humidity they don’t work all that well
- Comment on Not promoting hate speech but what happened to all the slights/slurs/vulgarity from like the 20s and 40s. There were so many. Now it seems well I can only think of three? 1 week ago:
“Alabama Ingenuity” is the phrase I typically use these days.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 1 week ago:
I had a 1989 Ford Probe without a handle that stuck out like a typical car. It was recessed instead.
Better for fuel efficiency, which was the intention of these stupid flush mount ones Tesla has been fawning over.
- Comment on Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others? 1 week ago:
I dress to avoid indecency charges.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
And that’s the fault of whoever uses those hubs. You can use practically any zigbee hub you wish. Zigbee is zigbee.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
You didn’t look very hard.
Cheap zigbee stuff exists everywhere. And zigbee is an open standard, so if it works, it will work until the equipment breaks.
- Comment on Which would be better? 2 weeks ago:
The Linux kernel isn’t really much different between any distribution of Linux.
If it works on one, it works on the rest, in like 99% of cases.
The only real exception to that is custom distributions built specifically for a particular device or subset of devices.
In other words, for embedded devices, like phones, routers, TVs and such.
And those aren’t going to be running Ubuntu.
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 2 weeks ago:
Naive? No. What’s naive is thinking that if you give power to anyone over your own data , even your government, that it will.protect it.
You think the EU cares about your privacy? I know my own government is doing it’s level best to destroy mine, but at least I’m aware of it.
You, however, have the naivete of Pollyanna and think your vaunted EU is better.
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 2 weeks ago:
That sounds like privacy, not evil.
Because history, as well as current events, tell us that governments will absolutely make privacy illegal, so if you can do an end run of them by not being beholden to ANY government, then that is absolutely a good thing.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 4 weeks ago:
In my own experience, certain things should always be on their own dedicated machines.
My primary router/firewall is on bare metal for this very reason.
I do not want to worry about my home network being completely unusable by the rest of my family because I decided to tweak something on the server.
I could quite easily run OpnSense in a VM, and I do that, too. I run proxmox, and have OpnSense installed and configured to at least provide connectivity for most devices. (Long story short: I have several subnets in my home network, but my VM OpnSense setup does not, as I only had one extra interface on that equipment, so only devices on the primary network would work)
And tbh, that only exists because I did have a router die, and installed OpnSense into my proxmox server temporarily while awaiting new-to-me equipment.
I didn’t see a point in removing it. So it’s there, just not automatically started.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 4 weeks ago:
My reasons for keeping OpnSense on bare metal mirror yours. But additionally I don’t want my network to take a crap because my proxmox box goes down.
I constantly am tweaking that machine…
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 5 weeks ago:
Depends on the face?
If it’s your mom’s? Absolutely.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 5 weeks ago:
Probably the same way easy access to it affected my own generation.
Not a damn bit. At least one out of every friend group had a dad with porn magazines and tapes, and they’d get passed around during, and after school.
I was born in 1976.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. We have a smart washer. It’s out in our detached garage/shop so even if the chime were on, no one in the house would ever hear it.
The only “smart” feature we use on it at all is remote notifications.
And we don’t use the GE app for that either. I have it linked through our Home Assistant, so no one in the family needs their crap on our phones. Yes, HA must link into their servers, but the only real data GE gets is how much we use it, and the “city” where our internet connection says we’re in… which is 300 miles away from our actual home, in a completely different state.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 5 weeks ago:
By replacing it with something better.
- Comment on Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality' 5 weeks ago:
Because almost everyone else in the world has begun referring to their entire internet connection as “Wi-Fi” and it pisses me off, too.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 1 month ago:
Spoons made me fat!
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 month ago:
Opus/ogg @256 sounds at least as good as mp3 @320.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 month ago:
Same. In my younger days, I couldn’t really tell much difference between mp3 and CD. Now? I can absolutely tell.
Yea, 320mp3 sounds close but if the music has a lot of very low or very high frequency music, mp3 seems to clip it off, even 320.
Opus seems to handle the extreme ranges better though. But if you have an MP3, and convert it, it’s no better. Converting lossy to lossy is a no win outcome.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 1 month ago:
I just tried to turn my comment into a lisp joke, but realized I don’t really know lisp as well as I used to 35+ years ago, and I’m not going to reteach it to myself for the sake of a joke. Sorry. 🤣😂
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 1 month ago:
works in a literal jail
Of course, the 20 years of trucking has made my butthole very tough.
Wait…
That did not come out right!
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 1 month ago:
<insert fat joke> <also insert insertion-into-rectum joke> <also insert rectum-no-dang-near-killed-em joke>
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes 1 month ago:
Lidarr + last.fm recommended list.
- Comment on YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren't Watching From the Same Address 1 month ago:
Because fuck truck drivers, fishermen, pilots, traveling salesmen, and all those other people who routinely spend weeks or months away from home, and still wind up with a few hours a week of free time to watch streams.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 month ago:
The way to prevent crime isn’t to punish those who haven’t hurt anyone, but to more strongly punish those who have.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 month ago:
Theft has a victim, what are you talking about???
Without an actual victim there is no crime.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 month ago:
We agree on the last part. But my feeling is that if a crime isn’t “bad” enough to require actual jail time then it probably shouldn’t be a crime at all.
Speeding, DUI, and other risky behaviors should be punished if, and ONLY if, an actual incident occurs. Because then there is actually a victim, and not just some nebulous might-have-been.
Hurt someone while drinking and driving? That’s no accident, that’s an intentional attack. Kill someone? Again, not an accident, but premeditated murder.
You punish someone after they’ve hurt another person. Not when they engage in risky behaviors.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 month ago:
Probability is not certainty.
I do not want people in jail for doing something that is probably a crime.
Every so-called crime that has no jail time shouldn’t be a crime. Fees are just another way of enforcing class warfare.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 month ago:
Proven? To whom?
Excessive alcoholism is known to cause harm. Should we make being an alcoholic illegal? Wouldn’t that make it harder for alcoholicsnto try to get help, for fear of being arrested instead of getting help, much like what happens to drug addicts?
People get hurt constantly while fishing, too. Should we make fishing illegal?
The problem is where do we draw the line. You want to draw it at some possibility of harm to others. I want to draw it at actual harm to others.
Which of these is more or less likely to wind up being stretched over time?
You aren’t thinking about bureaucrats and politicians 20, 30, 50, or 100 years down the road. “We’ll just fix the laws when it becomes a problem!”
Sure. Because we’re really REALLY good at removing or rewriting broken laws… Oh, wait. No we aren’t.
