Ludicrous0251
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- Comment on Cursor is better at marketing than coding 1 day ago:
Seriously, are you worried they’ll sue? They don’t want to open themselves up to discovery on this one, I guarantee it.
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 1 day ago:
Referring to things as carbon neutral is typically shorthand for net neutral CO₂e (or net-zero) CO₂e.
You’re pedantically right that the machine is not creating or destroying carbon atoms, but the things it does create have massive “carbon dioxide equivalence”. Or, phrased differently: the emissions of this equipment are equivalent to emitting significant amounts of carbon dioxide.
They also reek havoc on people’s lungs.
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 2 days ago:
Any carbon it takes in will be released exactly back to where it was.
Except it won’t be. Combustion is not a perfect CxHy O2 > CO2 + H2O reaction. Theres a bunch of other side reactions happening, NOx, unburned hydrocarbons, particulate matter, carbon monoxide. There are lots of challenges to continuing to utilize hydrocarbon fuels, especially in mobile/small scale applications where you can’t clean the exhaust stream.
- Comment on Telly has only delivered 35,000 of its free televisions with always-on ads 3 days ago:
Cheap TVs make for a good business model - more ad revenue for the manufacturers of these pieces of junk. If TVs were more expensive they’d never recover their losses.
- Submitted 4 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 48 comments
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 4 days ago:
Suggest Pop!_OS for the fearful.
Mint, I think you mean Mint.
- Comment on New Android malware uses AI to click on hidden browser ads 6 days ago:
They discovered that the malware can operate in a mode called ‘phantom’, which uses a hidden WebView-based embedded browser to load a target page for click-fraud and a JavaScript file. The script’s purpose is to automate actions on the ads shown on the loaded site.
Ooohh nooooo. Will no one think of the poor advertisers and their wasted ad money??
I know viruses are bad and this exploit could probably be used for more nefarious purposes, but I’m having a hard time getting upset about it.
- Comment on Help getting started with self hosting Jellyfin via NAS? 1 week ago:
I have a 4 bay Synology NAS and it draws ~50W when running. Not astronomical, but if always going is potentially ~$100/yr. If the disks don’t need to be spinning, it idles at a pretty minimal wattage, so realistically maybe I’m paying half that, but if we’re being frugal it’s a lot of headache for something that’s not much less than just picking 1 streaming service/month and rotating (before you factor in the cost of hardware).
In terms of drives, a 4k movie is ~50-100 GB, so 24 TB saves you enough space for ~240-480 4k movies. It’s up to you to decide if that’s enough. Last I checked, the optimal $/TB was ~12TB drives, so worth considering starting with fewer larger drives if it works for you.
In terms of processing capabilities necessary, that kinda comes down to how you consume your content. Encoding audio is trivial. Encoding video is difficult. If you’ll always be playing on devices that can handle the raw HEVC output of bluray disks, then your server CPU doesn’t matter.
If you want to play on devices that may not be able to handle the full uncompressed content, or stream outside your home network without gobbling up all of your bandwidth, you will need to transcode the video. This can either be done on the fly as content is requested (in which case you probably need a capable CPU), or you can take the time and do it in advance on a PC, and just upload it to the Jellyfin server and request the compatible version when needed.
Getting in the habit of encoding your own files to your preferred spec or automating it with something like tdarr is time consuming but worth it in that it let’s your Jellyfin server be leaner (but takes more space on your NAS).
For me, I only stream Jellyfin content to one client (my ShieldTV), which is always on my network and capable of playing all video/audio formats I need. For that reason, I have a raspberry pi as my Jellyfin server because it doesn’t need to do anything more than download cover art and serve files.
I can’t speak to the sound levels of the specific NAS you’re looking at, but if you’ve ever owned a computer with 3.5"HDDs (I’m guessing you have), you’re familiar with the brr brr brr seeking hum & low grumble they do when moving files around. That’s the main source of noise and it’s primarily when you’re using them (aka watching a movie) so it’ll probably blend into the background. But I wouldn’t put one next to my bed.
- Comment on My bike lock was full of ice. Hot water bottle cleared it up, WD-40 to keep it clear. 1 week ago:
Ahh just microwave that moisture out, problem solved!
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 1 week ago:
Because it’s even easier to just set up the right filters in uBlock and never have to think about it again
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 1 week ago:
Mmm but what if I flip my hands over - gives me 4096…
Hands thumb towards vs thumb away from me? 16384…
Introduce a finger bent state and now we’re at 944,784…
Straight/bent a little/bent a lot/closed + 4 hand orientations each gets you over 16M
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 1 week ago:
Probably, but that was more time than I was willing to invest in microslop.
- Submitted 1 week ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 1 week ago:
You can do this in uBlock Origin without having to install another add-on by adding the following to
My filtersand enablingAllow custom filters requiring trust*##+js(rpnt, #Text, "Microsoft", "Microslop") *##+js(rpnt, #Text, "microsoft", "microslop") *##+js(rpnt, #Text, "MICROSOFT", "MICROSLOP")This will probably break some things but I’m not sure I care enough to figure out what. Enjoy.
- Comment on Age, death, and inheritance. 1 week ago:
No it doesn’t. tl;dr - (as of 2025) $19k/individual/year is tax free (so one couple could give another couple up to $76k/yr)
Any gifts above that limit needs to be reported but is still tax free, it just whittles away at your lifetime exclusion (which is the same bucket of money as your estate tax exemption - currently $15M).
The gift giver pays the tax only once they exceed the lifetime exemption. There is no tax for receiving gifts.
For 99.99% of Americans, there is no gift tax.
- Comment on US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children 2 weeks ago:
Why is this news? This should be the default - everyone leaves platform hosting CSAM and pervy deep fakes.
- Comment on Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support 2 weeks ago:
Given its rocky path to get here, I have 100% confidence early access will be a buggy mess.
What remains to be seen is 1) if they can clean it up fast enough to stay relevant, and 2) if it will be a compelling enough upgrade to draw people away from Minecraft.
I suspect 2) is going to be incredibly difficult to get right. Sure the gameplay might be better, but Minecraft is one of the most overly documented and heavily modded games ever. If they want to convince people to give up years of work optimizing every aspect of that game to come play in their sandbox they’re gonna have to get clever.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 2 weeks ago:
With Alexa, there will never be an ad-free tier. You’re just paying to have the ads be less obvious/disruptive.
- Comment on Do bats have an option on their phones that turns photos upside down automatically? 2 weeks ago:
Feels like they would want the opposite of that option. Like when you’re laying sideways in bed and the phone rotates sideways for no apparent reason.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 2 weeks ago:
90-day password changes?? You monster!!
- Comment on Why do we have shampoo, conditioner, and body wash soaps? 2 weeks ago:
Or they need more gentle body wash.
Realistically, most face wash products just (typically “sensitive skin") body wash diluted enough to work in a foaming dispenser.
Pro tip: Check if your face wash manufacturer makes a body wash with the same ingredients. If so, it’s pretty good odds you’re paying 5x the price/oz for something that’s diluted ~2:1 with plain water - so 15x the price of the actual cleaning priduct just to not have to dilute it yourself.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 weeks ago:
This is exactly the problem, weird policy quirks and better alternatives didn’t help the situation but quite frankly there’s no new content for the Switch 2, and the performance bump over the OG Switch is almost irrelevant because raw performance isn’t the reason people buy Nintendo systems & games.
- Comment on Well we certainly aren't talking about the Epstein files. 2 weeks ago:
Ahh I see what he did there. Raped a bunch of kids over a decade ago so that no one would notice when he starts annexing other countries.
Real 5D chess moves.
- Comment on Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year) 3 weeks ago:
Generally speaking, Microsoft and Google don’t have encryption in the Privacy sense, only in the security sense. They hold the keys, and are therefore happy to have anything over that’s requested. No need to break any encryption.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on How many of you are using everdrive? 3 weeks ago:
annoying trying to find 1 game out of 1000 if it doesn start with “A”
I don’t have one, but if I did I would probably just find a “top 100 games” list for a given console and just load those + the 2 or 3 games I really care about in as a start.
A lot of people get into emulation with the attitude of “I can play every game, and they’re tiny files, so I want every game!” But realistically the overwhelming majority of people are gonna play fewer than a dozen or so games on a retro consoles, and good odds most of those would find their way onto a top 100 list.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 4 weeks ago:
Lot’s of mention of syncing settings, but the other reason for a server is scraping sites that do not provide their own RSS in order to create feeds. That requires regularly checking pages and translating new content into a standard RSS format.
- Comment on Halo Zero (Unofficial remake - Amiga/MD/NeoGeoCD) by earok 4 weeks ago:
Be the crosspost you want to see in the world.
- Comment on Are there any abandoned fediverse community you'd like to see resurrected? 4 weeks ago:
Well, that makes quite a bit more sense!
- Comment on Are there any abandoned fediverse community you'd like to see resurrected? 4 weeks ago:
Got it! I will not downvote comments on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
^I don’t know why I’m not doing it but I’m not doing it^