Ludicrous0251
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- Comment on YSK you can fold fitted sheets neatly (guide by ratfactor) 9 hours ago:
- That’s not a fitted sheet reaper. It’s… Something else.
- This article follows the same method as the Martha Stewart video I learned to fold from many moons ago. Normally I despise video tutorials, but given the hard-to-describe dimensionality of a fitted sheet, I find the video much easier to follow. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-a2FR1iwqg
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 2 days ago:
I’m with you - I’d pay extra for a phone that doesn’t take calls just so I can force everyone to just send it as a text.
- Comment on Thermostats compatible with selfhosted Home Assistant 3 days ago:
They’re all generally fine. WiFi thermostats open up more security holes than the others because they are designed to be chatty. I have an ecobee WiFi thermostat that’s isolated to only talking to HA locally using the HomeKit integration, which is fine, but I can’t say I’d recommend it.
When I set up my thermostat the ZigBee/Z-Wave options were quite frankly ugly and had limited wiring compatibility. Nowadays there’s a bunch more options on the market - you should be fine finding what you need anywhere.
ZigBee/Z-Wave/Thread are all pretty comparable, so I’d go with whatever you already have on your network - me personally I’m all in on ZigBee right now so I’d probably get one of those.
If you’re undecided, HA newest official hardware supports ZigBee & Thread so I’d go with one of those.
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience 4 days ago:
Friendly reminder for those on work computers, Firefox can be installed as a user app without admin rights by just declining the admin request when it pops up.
On Mac, just drag the application to your user apps directory (
/Users/<you>/Applications). - Comment on Samsung TVs to stop collecting Texans’ data without express consent 1 week ago:
But definitely keep doing it everywhere else.
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 1 week ago:
If people moved to Linux
When users connect to their organization’s WiFi…
You think my employer would let me use Linux? Creeping on employees is how management feels important.
I wouldn’t use Teams personally unless under extreme duress. Unfortunately professionally it is the norm.
- Comment on Californian pulls AI ballot measures, citing OpenAI intimidation 1 week ago:
Did the article link change? Why are there comments about Hegseth when this article is completely unrelated to any DOD bullshit? Are the bots loose on anything mentioning OpenAI?
- Comment on Resident Evil Requiem currently peaking at over 300,000 players on Steam 1 week ago:
Something something denuvo. I’ll check it out when they ditch the spyware.
- Comment on How does one go about contacting the admins of a Piefed instance? 2 weeks ago:
Probably not. But perhaps you can suffer through 2 min of clicking in the web UI? Once you find their info you can DM through Voyager if that tickles your fancy.
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 2 weeks ago:
Great to know! Does the pen still generally work for writing/notes? Also any clue if things work well with the newer generations?
Last I dug into Linux on the SP, it was a 3-4 generation lag on stable compatibility. My tablet is nearing EOL (because the charge port sucks and mine doesnt support USB-C charging as a fallback). If I replace it I don’t love replacing it with something used, 4 years old, that may have a short life.
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 2 weeks ago:
Touch inputs can be a little messy, driver support for closed source hardware (e.g., MS Surface) is understandably rocky, and I’ve had bad experience with battery longevity especially on open source hardware.
My 6-year-old SP battery still has ~70% capacity, which is teriffic. I have had other laptops lose 90% of their capacity after just a year or two, so I’m skeptical of the tablet market.
I’m not saying good Linux tablets don’t exist, just that I’m looking for recommendations since the waters feel murkier to me.
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 2 weeks ago:
I’m on the hunt for a replacement for my Surface, but sure as shit not getting anything with copilot. Curious what alternatives are out there.
Linux options seem a little light on the tablet front.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 2 weeks ago:
Guess it’s time for everybody to find some grass to touch.
- Comment on Social Security payments predicted to be cut in 2032 2 weeks ago:
That’s fine because cost of living keeps going shown and we’re all totally not going to get royally fucked up.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that 2031 is the year the youngest Baby Boomers become eligible for full Social Security benefits, and this isn’t yet another example of the boomer generation pulling up that ladder behind themselves.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Kareem Diané decides to do their AMA on Lemmy! 2 weeks ago:
You have.
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 3 weeks ago:
An API that at best allowed a small number is users to access millions of hours of content in a relatively short window of time sure as shit feels like a leak to me.
- Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors 3 weeks ago:
Only because you can’t outsource door closing to the Philippines
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- Comment on Ring calls off partnership with police surveillance provider Flock Safety 3 weeks ago:
Build a giant animatronic ring doorbell camera with binoculars that peers into your neighbors homes, wearing a “Hello, my name is Big Brother” sticker?
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant update brings a fancy gravity gun and customizable trucks 3 weeks ago:
Whelp, time to boot this one back to again
- Comment on 58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition 3 weeks ago:
Here’s the problem - book bans swing both ways.
Whatever justification you use to get books like this out of the library will inevitably be contorted by conservatives to ban books on healthy transitioning.
IDK what the solve is here, would love to hear folks thoughts. Move it to the fiction section? Staple a disclaimer inside the cover?
- Comment on Rechargeable electric arc lighters kinda suck for the average person, and will typically end up as e-waste. 4 weeks ago:
Assuming you have access to a power outlet but not a 7-11?
I’m just as likely to notice an electric lighter is out of juice as a Bic.
- Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 4 weeks ago:
At this point I see the value proposition of the RPi being for the developer more than the user (who gets indirect benefits from the devs).
RPi provide a platform for testing code optimizations that is somewhat standardized. Memory leaks, inefficient code, etc. stick out like a sore thumb.
If you can get something to run well on a pi, good odds it’ll run well everywhere else.
- Comment on Disney+ loses Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and 3D amid patent dispute 4 weeks ago:
that would be a lot of extra storage space Disney would need!
I know very little but I doubt storage space is the biggest constraint on streaming infrastructure- even with today’s inflated prices, they (or their cloud provider) could add a petabyte of storage to each of their servers if they needed to for like $20k each, which is pennies in the grand scheme of things. They probably pre-encode these things anyways to save CPU resources - this isn’t a home Plex server, they’ve gotta encode for tens of millions of different devices simultaneously.
I think the bigger issue would be bandwidth - if you can’t dynamically switch streams you have to either serve them all at once or just commit to one at the start and re-buffer any time something changes.
- Comment on Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked 5 weeks ago:
The downloads themselves are signed—however some earlier versions of Notepad++ used a self signed root cert, which is on Github. With 8.8.7, the prior release, this was reverted to GlobalSign.
- Comment on Four FINAL FANTASY games have arrived on GOG in the Preservation Program 5 weeks ago:
Great, now I’m eyeing buying FF8 again for the 5th time. What is wrong with me?
- Comment on Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die? 5 weeks ago:
Bitwarden has a account custodian feature that will give my wife all the info she needs to access essential accounts and hardware, however, realistically the homelab will only continue to work until things start dropping - there is likely no easy recovery of crashes.
I haven’t talked to my wife about it directly, you’ve reminded me this would be a good conversation to have, but the first thing she should do when the insurance money comes in is (after paying off the assassin) buy a bunch of dumb light bulbs and pay to print any photos she cares about in case our digital backups die.
- Comment on Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die? 5 weeks ago:
I uhh… I don’t think that’s right… But I also dont know enough about the idiom to prove you wrong…
