thejml
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- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
Cheaper and easier to upgrade the constellation to newer and faster tech. If you have backwards compatibility, you just start launching v2 and v1 will eventually just burn up, and hopefully finish just in time for v3 to start launching so you only have to be compatible with n-1 versions.
- Comment on IEA calls for working from home, driving slower and flying less to tackle energy crisis | Agency says consumer demand measures needed to manage Iran war’s disruption to global markets 2 weeks ago:
Sure, I would love to work from home. Please convince my and everyone else’s employers of that.
But the driving slower thing… people will do a quick calculation: take 5 min longer and save 10 cents in gas? Nah, time is money!
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 3 weeks ago:
My 2013 MBP is still at 8GB. With memory compression, I rarely run into issues unless I’m doing VMs/Docker or something really heavy.
- Comment on Warning: Facebook Ads for Free Windows 11 Upgrade Will Infect PCs With Malware 5 weeks ago:
The kind of people that fall for this probably has a good overlap with those sick of the “upgrade!!!” Windows Popups.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 5 weeks ago:
Grok will end up with the contract. Even with their back and forth relationship, there’s no way Elon doesn’t love this outcome and capitalize on it.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 5 weeks ago:
You forgot Pedo and Felon… not that anyone cares. Honestly at this point he could sign his emails with that list and people would still vote him in and back him.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in A.I. Clash With Trump 5 weeks ago:
That first part is likely a large selling point.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 5 weeks ago:
Oh man, when they get native mobile apps, I’m looking to switch my Mattermost server to Fluxer. I’ve had good luck with Mattermost, but its not truly OSS and its been moving features over to paid enterprise accounts so the time is soon.
- Comment on Connected cars can be hacked, research finds 5 weeks ago:
This really depends on Keyfob range. My current cars tend to be around 50ft, though i haven’t tested it tons past that. Prior to these, I had a Mazda Protégé5 that I could lock/unlock from 300’+ with line of sight. Thats more than enough to start/cool/heat/etc without actually leaving the house.
Honestly, even 50ft is probably fine. Only time I can think of wanting more would be leaving a large venue and wanting it heated/cooled in the parking garage before I got there… but I’d be worried about it being stolen while running at that point.
- Comment on Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs 5 weeks ago:
“People’s Republic of China”
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 1 month ago:
Not to excuse that POS, but more on how we got here: You have a product that only makes money when people actively use it. How do you increase your ROI? Make people want to use it and want to use it longer. Do that by making it more interesting, more relevant, more stimulating and appear bottomless so people can use it as long as possible.
Addiction for EVERYONE is the only way FB continues to increase revenue. We just single out Children because they are most easily influenced and impacted.
- Comment on I made a pretty video about the Centauri Carbon 1 month ago:
What would be the benefit of designing them so the nozzle isn’t replaceable? There are some filaments (i.e. carbon fibre) that are super rough on nozzles and require regular maintenance/replacement.
- Comment on Developer claims to have built an autonomous AI system that can earn money, pay for its own computing, improve its tools, and even copy itself without human approval 1 month ago:
Calm Down there, Ted Faro.
- Comment on US Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables 1 month ago:
That wave looks like a tsunami…
- Comment on Do NOT buy Creality 1 month ago:
This is sad to hear. I have an Ender 3 Pro that has been nothing short of a workhouse for 6.5 years now. I’ve upgraded a few parts here and there as thats kinda the fun. Dual Z motors 2 yrs after, upgraded the hot end to a direct extrusion one a year or so after that so I could print TPU. Just Got the silent motherboard about a year ago. Solid as a rock. A friend got the CR-10 shortly after, same luck.
With all the issues and sketchy closed source madness Prusa and Bamboo are having, i was tempted to upgrade to a much larger Creality unit, but I guess I’ll rethink or wait on that now.
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 1 month ago:
While you’re probably right about the younger generation, there’s currently a huge movement away from cable and a million online streaming services and back to OTA. It’s why the antenna I bought 15 yrs ago now costs 5x what it did then.
My wife and I dropped cable 13yrs ago now and between the OTA, free streaming like Twitch and YouTube, and such, and buying physical BluRays we haven’t missed it.
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 1 month ago:
Lets be honest, going to the arena sucks. Especially for a game like football where you will almost certainly be crazy far away from any action. I’ve gone to a few and outside the “it was cool to say you were there” part, I’d rather just watch it on TV. Net even taking the cost into account.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 month ago:
100%. But the post i was responding to was talking about recovering a failed array from other copies, not locally.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 month ago:
True, but that’s going to really be pushing your network links just to recover. Realistically, something like ZFS or a RAID-6 with extra hot spares would help reduce the risks, but it’s still a non trivial amount of time. Not to mention the impact to normal usage during that time period.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 month ago:
Rebuild time is the big problem with this in a RAID Array. The interface is too slow and you risk losing more drives in the array before the rebuild completes.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 month ago:
Oh, i do on mine, but can’t do that on the built in keyboard in a laptop!
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 1 month ago:
Dang it, I’m already boycotting them because i want to actually own my media and support local businesses and a bunch of other reasons, how am I supposed to boycott them harder to include capitulation to Trump?!
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 month ago:
I prefer it, however there are apps for Mac to remap it if you like. I use Karabiner to remap my Capslock to Escape. I have Capslock and moving the escape key there is much more ergonomic and where i have it on my custom mechanical keyboards.
- Comment on VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files 1 month ago:
Can’t we just go back to native installs?
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 1 month ago:
I’ve got a 43" 4k Gigabyte Aorus display. 144hz+freesync, dual hdmi+usb-c+DP with a hub and all that. It’s IPS, they had an OLED but it was 48" and more money than I could justify at the time.
Definitely recommend, but 8k would be so much better. I know this article is primarily “no 8k TVs” but the panels are used across many segments and I fear they will no longer have manufacturering setup for 8k for desktop use either at this rate.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time 2 months ago:
This is literally how our corporate network is setup. You MUST be on vpn or you cant get to anything. Makes the access permissions super simple. Prior to this setup there were authorization settings that differed between on-prem/off, on vpn or off, which office you were in, etc. now they just deny all unless you vpn in and then it uses your vpn account to validate access there, in one place. Saved a lot of headaches.
- Comment on Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit 2 months ago:
Add another two zeros and then its a more positive story.
- Comment on Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
When I started work at a new location last year the EV charging section of the parking lot was almost exclusively Teslas. Year later and its much more mixed. I regularly see Porsches, BMWs, Polestars, Mustang EVs, and a few Ioniq’s and a Rivian.
- Comment on Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Totally Tubular
- Comment on Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die? 2 months ago:
I actually started doing that. It’s a living document, shared with others. It’s the best solution I’ve come up with. Knowing whether or not I can convey enough info to make it usable and able to be followed for a less technical person like other family members drives my adoption of software/hardware solutions.