yardratianSoma
@yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Worldwide Smartphone Market to Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due to the Memory Shortage Crisis, according to IDC 5 hours ago:
episode #205 of How big tech is ruining tech again
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 2 days ago:
As if backlash matters to them. There’s 200+ million active daily users. They’re are betting on the majority not giving a fuck, and they are right.
I try and try again to convince my friends to leave discord, but they don’t care. So guess what? I’ll just find new friends, fuck discord.
Seriously, I already deleted my discord account once before, because their terms of service already were claiming that all private messages and channel messages are being collected to sold to advertisers and data collection groups. I only joined back because I missed my friends. But now?? I could give a fuck, I already spun up Sharkord, and it runs well. In 6 months time, it will likely be good enough to completely ditch discord, so fuck it. My privacy matters more than friends who don’t use their damn brains.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 4 days ago:
Yeah, makes sense. I “solved” that issue by still doing handwritten notes but then scanning them and converting them to digital notes afterwards.
That being said, I grew up in the 90s so I was never deprived of the skill of handwriting as a kid. It wasn’t until apple made touchscreens popular that shit kinda went downhill
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 5 days ago:
most schools offer textbooks digitally anyways. I never once was reprimanded for using pirated textbooks. If anything, teachers are just happy to know a student cares enough to learn. It’s really the crooked publishers that are far to greedy to serve any educational purpose that profit from copyright enforcement.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 5 days ago:
lol, I mostly ditched textbooks in high school not to support technology, but because I was tired of carrying around huge books in my backpack, the bulk of which I wouldn’t even need on a daily basis. Lo and behold, even 14 years ago, I could find pdf versions of most of my textbooks, some of which were offered officially from the publisher for free via the school.
The problems are the enshittification of the internet, the attention economy and the superb lack of American educational system, not technology itself. Almost every university in the world is filled with the sounds clacking keys from laptops, this isn’t 1984.
- Comment on If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked. 5 days ago:
The Cybernews research team discovered an exposed MongoDB database containing nearly 1 terabyte of personally identifiable information (PII) exposing approximately a billion sensitive records across 26 countries.
Welp. I guess, time to change passwords.
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 5 days ago:
seems like raspberry pi os on touchscreen devices supports on-screen keyboards and basic touch-screen features. There’s also the Librem 11 tablet, that runs linux on an Intel chip with Gnome.
- Comment on Element/Matrix Official Docker Install Method? 6 days ago:
I was scared off a couple years ago when I attempted to host it myself. I took a break from selfhosting, but now I’m back, and from what I learned in the past, I know now not to torture myself swimming upstream when there are far easier downstream currents to follow.
I’m looking at conduit but I’m currently writing up a doc to plan out the process, and understand it before I actually deploy anything. I don’t want to open ports, don’t need federation and don’t need encryption, since I’ll be using tailscale to host a private server to only members of my tailnet.
I’ll report back, either here or in the main community, because I don’t want to expose ports, rent a VPS or use ansible for a simple private server for less than 10 people.
- Comment on Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 1 week ago:
Meanwhile
Mozillaevery fucking large tech corporation is focusing on AI…ftfy
- Comment on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel 1 week ago:
I tried convincing my friends to leave discord, and only 2 people attempted, but I kind of fucked up by enabling message encryption.
But now that this bullshit is here, I wonder if I should try again? I might go the VPS route and call it a day, but I really want to have it locally hosted so I don’t have yet another thing to pay monthly.
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 2 weeks ago:
I lack formal education in the tech field, but I honestly wish I didn’t waste my 20’s on drugs (it was fun though, honestly) and an attempt at a rap career, instead of getting my hands dirty in the field, so to speak. I got into computers in the early 2000’s, discovered linux in 2006, and since then I’ve been that friend who’s into computers and stuff.
I kind of forget what exactly got me into self-hosting . . . but youtube probably had something to do with it, with many youtubers like Raid Owl, Level1Techs, and even LTT talking about things like Jellyfin and TrueNAS, it got me curious as to why I never got into it sooner.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 2 weeks ago:
hey sorry for the late reply, but sure!
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 2 weeks ago:
anyone using any public facing website to organized a protest almost deserves to fall in my eyes.
Why hasn’t everyone downloaded signal yet?
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 3 weeks ago:
I honestly only use debian headless, and manage the server via ssh and manage docker containers via portainer’s web ui.
I’m not new to linux though, so 100% stay with a desktop environment like the one that comes with Mint, because that makes things much much simpler. It’s all debian under the hood at the end of the day, and 95% of services provide install guides for debian-based systems anyways. Is this optiplex 3050 your first homelabbing system?
- Comment on TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan 3 weeks ago:
I mean, when LLMs go out of style, at least we’ll have a bunch of cheap gpus and components to buy when it inevitably floods the used market after the current generation get superseded, coupled with multiple chip fabs going online, it will eventually be raining chips.
- Comment on ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI 3 weeks ago:
I know it’s a horrible job, but at this point I wouldn’t mind trading some sanity to pay the bills.
Crazy world.
- Comment on System Redundancy 3 weeks ago:
thanks for this . . . .I keep worrying about security, hardening the system … etc, but forget about the essentials: power and networking. #1 priority for me is to get a UPS this year, once I find a job, that is
- Comment on The holy journey 5 weeks ago:
damn, I didn’t even know there was an inside, ngl pretty damn cool
- Comment on The holy journey 5 weeks ago:
I definitely already knew 1 tab is not a specific quantity, but since I don’t own thousands of dollars of chemical equipment, I never had the things needed to measure said tabs. I did, at least, have reagent tests to at least verify the subtance present on the paper, but not much else.
But in my experience, I’ve never overreacted to 1 tab, so with a tab being anywhere from maybe 50 to 150 micrograms, that’s roughly how much I can handle before basically blacking out. It’s only happened twice and both times ended peacefully. It’s not a constant thing I use, in fact, I haven’t touched any drugs in many years. That’s the main thing I love about psychedelic substances, they don’t have the addictive qualities of things like MDMA or alcohol. But I may trip maybe 1 time this year, or not.
- Comment on The holy journey 5 weeks ago:
anything more than 1 tab always sends me to the dark side
- Comment on If only 5 weeks ago:
you and at least 100 million other feel exactly the same
including me
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 month ago:
I doubt the wpm of the average physical keyboard user could ever be lower on average compared to the wpm of users of touchscreen keyboards.
That is to say, if we could somehow make a phone keyboard that was practical to use, but not so large that it defeats the portability of the device, imo, that would be the best.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 month ago:
We’ve collectively probably lost years, if not decades of our human lives just trying to fix autocorrect fuck ups.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 month ago:
still far better than touchscreens. I used a blackberry keyone for a while, and it was amazing, until I lost it on a walk in the park years ago.
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 2 months ago:
“Oh no! We must protect the poor MPA! The poor organization that’s been hell bent on policing what films and media ought to contain and ensuring the multi-million dollar corporations make their millions in peace!” ~ Denmark’s Ministry of Culture, probably
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 2 months ago:
Well, I’m still glad offline LLM’s exist. The models we download and store are way less popular then the mainstream, perpetually online ones are.
Once I beef up my hardware (which will take a while seeing how crazy RAM prices are), I will basically forgo the need to ever use an online LLM ever again, because even now on my old hardware, I can handle 7 to 16B parameter models (quantized, of course).
- Comment on The threats from AI are real | Sen. Bernie Sanders [15:02] 2 months ago:
I mean, even open source LLM’s at the moment can solve somewhat tedious and tricky problems, and just on somewhat mid-tier consumer hardware. Supercomputers exist, and it just seems, with time, breakthroughs are inevitable.
But I will admit, like you say, we have limits, but in the realm of technology, the only real limitations are energy and hardware.
- Comment on The threats from AI are real | Sen. Bernie Sanders [15:02] 2 months ago:
If you don’t see AI replacing many roles, yet you know that LLM’s are not what many seem to think they are, text generators and not AGI, then it seems you don’t believe that AGI will ever happen.
Technology will continue to develop for decades and maybe centuries to come. To only see the short term possibilities is to forget how quickly technology advances.
And even just limiting the discussion to the short-term, what makes you think billionaires aren’t taking advantage of the hype and coercing governments to forego safety and regulation? Maximizing profit over enhancing the lives of common man?
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 3 months ago:
I know it’s a normal thing, to not instantly look for alternatives to software you might have used for your entire life, and I get it, if it hasn’t harmed you or done you wrong, then it’s probably fine to stick with what you know.
But as someone who first experienced alternatives to Windows back in 2006, and like others who walked the more beaten path, we’ve grown tired of this stuff. The slow, decline of Windows, and the promise of something better with every update.
It won’t surprise me if one day they decide to full send it and charge a monthly subscription to use the full OS, not one bit. Enshittification, it’s bound to happen. I’m teaching my child about linux now, so they’ll be aware that software doesn’t have to suck.
Try something different, it’s a good way to live, to know you don’t have to remain where you are if you don’t want to. Of course, only if you want to!
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 months ago:
well, I have a dual monitor setup, and can concur, have had many issues related to it, but I blame that more on linux/wayland than proton/wine.