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- Comment on Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown 1 day ago:
E.g. see people from Venezuela here legally who got put into illegal status anyway due to orange man policies.
- Comment on iPhone Autocorrect is seriously broken and it's pissing me off. 4 days ago:
Not sure if you’ve seen this video: youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo
But it explains what I saw when typing on the later updates for my old phone.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
From the Latin roots medi: middle terra: earth ain’t: nah bruh
Its in the middle of that earth thingy, and ain’t, clear as night.
- Comment on Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay? 1 week ago:
If you leave it up to them, they’ll start burning that toxic cheap marine diesel to power the generators. Its not like its hard to get some states to give you exceptions for pollution with some key donations.
Noise pollution around data centers is very bad already based on some news reports, they’ll push the limits to save a dollar.
- Comment on Refried beans is just Latino hummus 1 week ago:
I grew up eating them and cook them often to this day. I just would not personally call that frying in the same way I would not call vegetables, meat, etc. cooked with a similar ratio of oil to veggie fried. Or at least where I’m from frying implies submerging in hot oil, but it could be a regional thing. And true, we still call them fried or refried beans.
Interestingly some variations of the recipe with higher oil ratios for special occasions like birthdays we call “frijoles chinitos” which kind of translates to “shivering/goosebumps beans” since their texture changes to mimic skin when shivering with little dots after cooking. Not sure how the chino (curly when referring to hair) part comes in since hair is more straight than curly on those conditions…)
- Comment on Refried beans is just Latino hummus 1 week ago:
Neither are refried beans, but I see your point.
- Comment on Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users? 1 week ago:
I only had an older iPhone (which I liked for the most part), but it was announced to not be getting security and related updates soon (what apple calls vintage at this point) so there wasn’t much of an ecosystem once I got a different phone and exporting my pictures to my NAS, new phone, desktop and laptop made more sense.
I supposed I could lose everything if all of those burn in a house fire, but since I always have my phone on me, I’d imagine there would be more pressing matters like not burning to death myself.
- Comment on Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users? 1 week ago:
Forgot about that yes, heard of horror stories of people being locked out of gmail and losing so much time and money migrating accounts manually by having to visit banks and the like.
- Comment on The ability to be massively efficient with todays computers would have probably made you $250k/yr 25-30 years ago. 1 week ago:
Yes, I was thinking how finicky and slow computers were back then (when compared to your now average PC) requiring restarts and the occasional BSoD showing up.
My guess is that with my current knowledge of computers now, I could have been more effective, but would be limited by the hardware more than anything.
Nowadays I freak out if my personal computer even gets a hint of slowness on day to day tasks (as i recently found out using unrar on Linux…)
- Comment on Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users? 1 week ago:
Whichever one you go with, don’t expose it to the internet directly.
- Comment on Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users? 1 week ago:
One reason I would give is that apple and google makes it incredibly hard to leave. I had to use some third party script (and give it my credentials or token…) Just to export pictures with the exif metadata from iOS. Even Google’s obnoxious “select a few thousand pics at a time” was easier (Google takeout puts the metadata separately, so it was also not an option).
Another reason is that big tech companies are complacent with kidnappings and oppressors and don’t want to give them money.
I could see apple breaking the tool or throwing their legal team around in the future if it keeps some people on their platform, why not leave while you can more easily.
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 1 week ago:
I used them for Christmas lights with that sundown condition (+just a time trigger for off at night).
Also came in handy for a light switch that was unfortunately on the wrong side from a table, now its just uses a motion sensor when someone walks to the kitchen and tells a third reality smart switch (screws on top of regular switch, so it works with any light type (e.g. fluorescent)) and is renter friendly.
Bonus points for no lag at all compared to crappy cloud dependent garbage and no need for apps for each device manufacturer. Just look if it is home assistant compatible and no cloud before buying devices since it us a lot harder or impossible in some cases to de-cloud them later.
- Comment on Relevant username 1 week ago:
Instructions unclear HOUSE ON FIRE! HALP!
- Comment on Relevant username 1 week ago:
Fake, 3:37 should still have some un-popped kernels.
- Comment on Solutions for remote access? 2 weeks ago:
For new people, for ongoing domain registrations people should also consider the renewal costs. There are some registrars with somewhat predatory pricing schemes that end up being very expensive long term (e.g. the trendy .io TLD).
Dot com and dot net are some of the most stable ones, even though they might not appear as such at first glance. Almost anything less costly on initial costs will cost you in some other way (might not offer whois privacy (.us iirc) or be limited to residents or people with legit business on that country (.can) or have a mixed reputation with being labeled spam (.xyz - although I believe this last one was kind of proactive in clearing that up).
Sorry to highjack the comment, but I wish someone had warned me to look, not all TLDs are administered the same.
- Comment on Solutions for remote access? 2 weeks ago:
There’s something called NAT reflection that does a local lookup if the request originated in the internal network and avoids going via the external route. Some software for routers like ONPSense and/or PFSense support it (but I wouldn’t be surprised if DD-WRT, Tomato, etc supported it as well (its been a while since I used them).
It might work better of your DNS provider supports API based challenges vs traditional ACME challenges that might require you to still expose your IP/port on public DNS to get your certificates.
All my internal DNS has the option of SSL certs while my IP is not on any public DNS and it routes to the internal IPs with the above. Not sure how that would work with wireguard or tailacale/headscale, but I’m assuming they probably could complement nicely.
- Comment on Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02] 2 weeks ago:
He has other videos where he has explained that you can’t trust any brand any longer and you should not buy based on previous brand experiences alone but investigate individual models (and even revisions to them since it was a known trick to change them after the initial release to make them cheaper). Not sure if he mentioned it on this video since at the moment I’m not in the market for an appliance, but his takes seemed reasonable.
- Comment on Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02] 2 weeks ago:
That was also the conclusion of this video on the Speed channel for older version of things vs new one (included tools, shoes/undershirts, etc - I would ignore consumables that expire but they were there for s&g it seems):
- Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 2 weeks ago:
Not as much of a stop as you would think. Historically speaking Ford motor company already tried basically enslaving indigenous people on the Amazon for rubber production. Most of the cotton in the US (and many other industries) was done by black slaves. Current fishing in south east Asia (and other places I’m sure) can have slaving with extra steps on a boat. Apple/Nike and other big brand factories in chine have had nets installed to prevent suicides, etc. There is no stopping the horrible disease that is wealth hoarding and human exploration it seems.
- Comment on Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel 2 weeks ago:
NVIDIA: “Our partners will fry the planet for all!”
- Comment on [PDF] HP to lay off up to 6,000 workers as it goes all-in on AI and automation 3 weeks ago:
“Whoops we meant dissatisfaction, small typo…” - HP (Horrible Printers)
- Comment on LumenTale: Memories of Trey | Explore the region of Talea 3 weeks ago:
Graphics look top notch. World looks very fleshed out too.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 4 weeks ago:
NVIDIA said line must go circle, which their CEO says means up.
- Comment on In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Typing anything like a website for the apple TV is the most excruciatingly annoying thing ever, it could only be described as torture. I would punch the executives that approved the design.
The shitty iOS input via annoying notification prompts when anyone in the house uses the TV are not a solution either, since they get so annoying you have yo disable them.
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 4 weeks ago:
Nice try 8-bit guy! We’re on to you ;)
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but it can be involved and one mistake means your email could potentially never make it to peoples inbox as it will be seen as spam, etc. Not even mentioning that if your server was offline for an extended period of time (e.g. 2-5 day vacation), you could lose incoming messages.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 4 weeks ago:
They can also read your more personal emails if the other party uses gmail regardless of what you use. The best you can do is try to distance your different “online personas” by separating personal emails, purchases and other use cases keeping Google out of as many as you can without needing other people to also jump ship.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 4 weeks ago:
Kind of matters to some of us whose parents can’t go to the grocery store without being profiled despite all things being in order because of how they look to other people.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 4 weeks ago:
Having to install powetoys on top of the OS makes it DOA for many on corporate environments. You get stuck on approval limbo or if someone else went through the pain, you discover it breaks every once in a while due to missing .net dependencies that you don’t have the right to install. I’ve seen this for both development (w10 w/ extended support) and thin clients (w11).
Unfortunately our clients all use Windows development machines, so we are stuck on the same to be able to write the guides and documentation. Most of our scripts now rely on Got bash since we know that’s available. MS environments are hostile to proper scripting and automation.