shiftymccool
@shiftymccool@piefed.ca
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 1 week ago:
There is no “quiet part” anymore with these subhuman mutants. Billionaires are just telling the frog it’s being boiled now and it just smiles and asks for the heat to be turned up
- Comment on Most mouse pointers designs assume right-handed users 1 week ago:
I use the mouse left-handed and have never had this thought
- Comment on Thumbs up 👍 3 weeks ago:
I submitted this to “Dirty Jobs” with Mike Rowe but they noped real fast
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty convinced this is the play. Drive up DIY PC parts then promote thin cloud clients as a way to have a PC without paying the crazy prices that they set. It’s a lot easier to tell you “it’s safer for the children” and pillage every file, action, and keystroke for AI training and data brokerage. Your owned PC is a black box for them and it’s their wet dream to own it for you… As a subscription of course.
- Comment on uhhh 1 month ago:
I want this so much. I still fire up the original for a quick playthrough
- Comment on uhhh 1 month ago:
Black and White 3
- Comment on My take on how a pencil cell works 1 month ago:
It’s always just boiling water
- Comment on Password managers... 1 month ago:
Backups are the most overlooked part of getting into self hosting. You’re basically a sysadmin now, you have to act like one. Get remote storage (cloud, friend / family house, hdd in a safety deposit box, etc…) and get your 3-2-1 on
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 1 month ago:
There’s just more fucking people in general so the odds of encountering the worst of them goes up
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 1 month ago:
Fsck?
- Comment on Creating bots that show russian-like speech that are anti-US would be a good use of AI 1 month ago:
Maybe I’m just dense but this feels a lot like the right wing’s contradiction of the immigrant that is lazy but also taking all the jobs.
If the goal of the Russian bot is to polarize discussion, how is “both sides are the same” also the goal?
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 1 month ago:
Windows will probably add AI too
Ummm, I have some old news for you…
- Comment on The British Empire 1 month ago:
Whenever population control is mentioned, this inevitably comes up. No, not looking to “remove” anyone, just prevent more births than the natural environment can handle.
- Comment on Keeping .yaml files up to date... 1 month ago:
Easy, reliable backups are key. I’ve used komodo with automatic updates for over a year and watchtower before that for a couple more. I’ve only had one issue when Nginx Proxy Manager had a release that deleted all of its own data. Didn’t take long to realize that the services were still up and what the problem was. Restored the missing data from Proxmox backups, pinned the Nginx version for a while, then turned auto backup on again. I’ll stick to this until checking updates is less work than fixing the occasional problem
- Comment on Oh no! 1 month ago:
Yeah, as if finding FOSS alternatives to mega-corp software wasn’t hard enough, now i have to care about the politics of a sponsor’s co-sponsor’s ceo’s husband’s dog’s groomer before I install? Pass
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 2 months ago:
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 2 months ago:
I resent that the cost to the car company to install seat warmers is the actual installation of the seat warmers. Running them costs ME money in electricity generated by gasoline I bought. It costs them nothing to run them but i have to pay a subscription to use them on top of paying to power them?
The football grandstand continues to cost the owners in maintenance and space that they own. You pay for the privilege of using something that is not yours. I bought my car, I shouldn’t have to continue to pay for the privilege of using something I already own since the equipment is already there and doesn’t require any interaction with a remote service that would make sense to charge for (navigation, satellite radio, etc…)
- Comment on Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server! 2 months ago:
My entire setup uses less than 100W at idle. That includes:
- Pi 4b (1 USB HDD)
- HP ProDesk 600 G5 Mini
- Custom ITX N150 NAS (4 HDD)
- Wireless router
- Switch
- Modem - Comment on And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair. 2 months ago:
I’ve been seeing quite a few portal references lately, 10/10 i approve
- Comment on Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company 2 months ago:
“Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire”
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 2 months ago:
Gather 'round chillun and let grampy tell you about the times before cell phones
- Comment on Understandable 2 months ago:
New future consumers need to be born to keep the line going up. It’s better if said consumers have poor health to fuel the medical money machine
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 3 months ago:
Seems to be working fine for me but i don’t do anything complex, just folders by year and month
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 3 months ago:
You can adjust the directory structure in immich using templates