plateee

@plateee@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is *shower*thoughts, but is there a "snowstorm thoughts" for when you have random nostalgia moments about the past? Particularly about a past snow storm in your childhood, like the SNOW DAYS⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you want to know something awful? There might not be snow days anymore. Not because of climate change, but because of COVID.

  Days where school used to be called off could just be “remote learning” days and instead of getting to go play in the snow like we did when we were younger, kids will have to sit and zoom all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here, and I’m not sure what I’ll go to next - the USB port has gotten flakey.

  I want to try a Linux phone, but hardware seems to be made of unobtainium, and the software seems like it’s not quite there yet.

  Part of me is tempted to just get another pixel 7 Pro on swappa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only never go on holiday or see your family ever again, but crucially “you better be loyal/work harder than citizens lest we fire you and your visa expires.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never used it, does it handle docx authorship better than libre?

  Honestly, I’m not even 100% sure they *need* Word or if they’re just being told that by their boss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s $150 for a “perpetual” license - but that’s not including any one drive storage. The Office 365 SaaS (I think now it’s Microsoft 365?) starts at $99/year.

  I know this because I’ve been trying to find a solution for my sister who *absolutely needs* office to get a workable solution for Linux. Supposedly, she has to submit papers/writing as docx and can’t trust LibreOffice not to fuck up formatting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe a controversial take, but I like pihole for blocking only - I have a pair of powerDNS servers set up for my internal name resolution. They recurse to Pihole, but can fall back to internet DNS servers if Pihole isn’t responsive.

  I tried pihole for local resolution and found it to be a fairly large pain to automate. Plus kubes has PDNS hooks for auto-updating DNS entries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just have a hard cut-off for software released after 2022.

  It’s the only way I search for recipes anymore - a date filter from 1/1/1990 - 1/1/2022.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What DDNS providers you guys recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have dyndns. I don’t recommend them, unless a coworker just gave you their lifetime pro account for free.

  Thanks Roody, wherever you are!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh yes daddy credit please⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve gotten dinged for not having *enough* accounts/credit lines.

  My old car payment fell off last month, and I bought a car with cash (not a great car, but it was cheap) - now I’m in the “fair” zone.

  But fuck me for not wanting a shitload of credit cards/loans, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk abbout this one discord⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if you don’t worry about someone impersonating your account you don’t have to reserve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk abbout this one discord⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Come with me back to IRC land. The water’s fine.

  (Technically you should log in to nickserv, but that’s it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Bat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  https://youtu.be/KOOhPfMbuIQ?si=5sZbKGGdVRDAib_r

  You weren’t lying. I’ve never heard of Half Alive before, they’re not bad!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the AI bubble bursts..⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, in addition to the reasons brought up by the other commenters, I’m starting to think that “computers as a service” will start to be a thing.

  Google’s Stadia by all accounts wasn’t horrible, but it was pricey and the selection was subpar.

  But what if Amazon, Azure, and Google start up some post-AI burst equivalent that provides a use case for all that processing power? Sure, the GPUs used by commercial AI aren’t designed for gaming, but Nvidia could see the writing on the wall and start partnering with hyper scalers to create massive racks of gaming GPUs. *And* it would be one step closer to the ultimate goal of removing personal ownership of things! Pay a subscription for a cloud gaming PC or try your luck on building your own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's nothing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have issues with anxiety/panic attacks? Fun fact, panic attacks can manifest physically with nearly identical symptoms to a heart attack!

  (This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get things checked out though)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cams, anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unifi Protect is what runs on the CloudKey/NVR physical device - you don’t need to have it go through to the Internet.

  Remember, for better or worse Ubiquiti is positioning themselves as SMB Enterprise security - some companies won’t want their footage to be accessible outside their network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cams, anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is maybe controversial, but I love the Ubiquiti security stuff. Cameras (interior and exterior) doorbells, etc, it’s all great. Pricey, but you get what you pay for.

  And the data can stay local or be accessible via their services.

  I chose to go local only, grabbed their UNVR and populated it with 4x 2TB drives and it has enough space to handle 7 cameras HD history for about a month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valves first title with a 3 in it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At a minimum if you still have the shirt (I lost mine years ago to a communal laundry room), you could wrap the steam machine with the shirt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valves first title with a 3 in it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  steam machine is a cube

  Or would you say it looks like a box… Maybe an *Orange Box*!?!

  I’m calling it - a limited release where the black shell is orange and it comes bundled with HL3 for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Old LucasArts or Sierra games like Escape from monkey island or Kings Quest would be good.

  Plus they teach kids to hoard everything because you never know if you needed that custard pie to defeat the Minotaur in act 4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  man find

  Or if reading isn’t their jam, head to explainshell.

  I’m not going to say this shit isn’t hard - it can be challenging starting out if you don’t know where to look. But come on, at this point everyone should know ChatGPT gets shit wrong often enough not to trust it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel’s Wolverine - Gameplay Trailer | PS5 Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Either that or hyper violence. I’m getting Doom vibes for some of the fighting.

  Actually… “Doom, but with mutants” could be interesting.