miguel
@miguel@fedia.io
Just a person who likes media that you actually can hold in your hands and computers that only do what you tell them to.
- Comment on how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life? 1 week ago:
I just tell people "It's free and I don't get twenty thousand 'license term updates' in my email every month"
- Comment on NaNoWriMo2 1 week ago:
Writing month is exactly just that. Just an excuse for those looking for one :)
I hope the new community does well, since none of the writing communities on the fedi are especially active. - Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 week ago:
Karabiner FTW.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 week ago:
Basically it's garbage, Siri effectively just posts your query, sans context, to chatGPT. What comes back is hilariously bad.
If they'd integrated it "correctly", it'd probably be as bad as MS. I've played with it a bunch in the store, though my device (intel) doesn't support it at all. - Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 week ago:
I do. They're garbage cleo laptops with a badge and no support. I had one, when it failed they refused to stand behind it at all.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 week ago:
I cooked (literally) 3 'gaming' laptops in 5 years. It seems that even with a riser and constant (monthly) cleaning, heavy GPU use pretty much kills the later gen nvidia chips.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 week ago:
Makes sense, I did. Granted, mine was an old model for $40 that I have now upgraded to 16GB of RAM, but yes. Good plan.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 2 weeks ago:
I can't speak to pre-1950s, but before the modern internet (not counting ARPANET), I spent most of my time hiking trails and reading.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 weeks ago:
The most first world of all first world problems has arrived
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 3 weeks ago:
In my case, I simply ended up buying a subscription to Brittanica, which I started using instead. I just don't trust wikipedia in this era.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 month ago:
How is the color? I've been told it makes the screen less sharp, is it noticeable?
I kinda want one, been using a tablet for comics lately and it's nowhere near as good at night. - Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 month ago:
In fact just a few minutes ago I got another bundle from Humble that I loaded onto my kobo with no issue
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 month ago:
I have owned 5 kobos over time, and just love them.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 month ago:
"Almost all"... Unless you read a very specific niche, I've rarely looked for a book that I wanted to read and not found it elsewhere.
There certainly are some that are specific to KDP, but hardly "almost all". - Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 month ago:
My kobos have been excellent, I've had a few over the years. MUCH sharper screens than the kindle by and large, and they support loading epubs, pdfs, cbz, all sorts of things.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 1 month ago:
All my parking meters require an app, and all of my work logins require pressing a confirmation in an app.
- Comment on A Brief History of Trapper Keepers. 2 months ago:
We had peechees, no compartments or anything to speak of and still managed to use them for artistic expression.
The distraction was coming from inside the student