AlecSadler

@AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world wants you to stop playing call of duty and go to the range⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I own 5 guns now and their total cost (not counting accessories…) was less than my last desktop build.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average Lifetime Credit Card Debt in Every U.S. State (2025)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be interesting if America collectively stopped paying their CC bills though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are rich, white, male and say "Jesus" enough, you can get away with anything.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In tech?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is quite telling, to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese carmaker, BYD, introduces new battery technology with 621-mile range, 620K-mile lifespan, 5-minute charge, and lower prices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a reason you can’t import BYD to the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I did

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I see someone wearing these I’m going to feign bumping them off their face in hopes they break

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bold words⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted to exit tech and thought bars might work.

  They didn’t. Even loving what I did in bar-land, it ultimately led to substantial debt that I’ll be paying on for years.

  I was happier in general, but the financial viability was impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bold words⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s see…

  don’t sell bitcoin don’t sell doge don’t buy restaurant don’t date XYZ don’t date ABC don’t buy restaurant don’t quit place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir's AI Is Already Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries— As Israel bans NGOs, the U.S. is handing aid delivery in Gaza to private companies pursuing their own agendas.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  God the US is such a giant piece of shit and fuck Palantir.

  Source: Stuck in US currently

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar to how some laser pointers or whatever can damage phone cameras or how lidar can too, is there simple device that can damage meta cameras?

  Could just start carrying that around and breaking their shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also startups are notorious for 7-day work weeks because they’re…well…startups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If/when Signal has complied historically, they hand over what they have…which is to say, pretty much nothing.

  I’ll take Signal any day over private Facebook chat, Whatsapp, or even telegram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retro StarCraft prizes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Super early on I mined probably 500+ bitcoin.

  And later in life sold them all at various points for maybe a total sum of $8k.

  So, yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My immediate response to everyone around me when that commercial aired was a loud, “fuck no” followed by a, “if any of you get one I will no longer visit”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  xrdp or a usable alternative primarily

  tried rustdesk, AnyDesk, parsec, nomachine - also no go.

  Bluetooth issues as well, mouse and keyboard issues. Bluetooth earbud issues in meetings where I keep cutting out or audio is distorted.

  Those are the two biggest, a lot of other minor things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Custom built desktop so we can get into that if we want

  Minisforum MS-01 running Proxmox

  Minisforum S02 Ultra

  Samsung Galaxy Book…5?

  Surface Laptop something with the Snapdragon elite X or something

  I need them to all be able to easily and quickly integrate and interact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mouse drivers, CPU something, USB issues, and Bluetooth.

  It varies between my different servers and systems. It’s just one of those things where like, yeah, maybe I can solve it, but it’s going to take hours and I need to be able to constantly move forward.

  If I didn’t have to work 12+ hours a day it might be different. So I don’t necessarily fault the landscape, it’s just that I can throw Windows on any system and it works and I can RDP into it and it works and it adjusts DPI and such automatically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t just an adjustment period, it’s that some things straight up don’t work though.

  Happy to be proved wrong, but I’m not exactly a novice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not that limit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ChatGPT is such garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨halal paintball⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ilu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 8 distro attempts in so far and have yet to not sink substantial time into driver and general usability issues.

  In another life I’d be happy to sacrifice productivity to grind on fixing the issues, but presently it costs has real costs.

  For now, I run Proxmox and a slew of linux containers and VMs - but still unfortunately use windows as my primary :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rufus let me install windows with a local account and debloat scripts let me nuke/hide OneDrive.

  And, INB4 anyone says “switch to linux”, I’m sorry but it just isn’t viable while maintaining the same seamless experience for what I need. I hate Windows, but I also value my time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only time this breaks down for me though is that I still struggle to pay $0.99 for a mobile app I use often sometimes. Really not sure what it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just say the word⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily she’s hardly that way. She’s actually got really bad guilt about it and has wanted to abandon things just to work a paying job so she can tell people that’s what she does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just say the word⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’d be awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just say the word⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, yes, she does a lot, but for opsec reasons I’m not really providing details.

  She just doesn’t get paid to do it, call it hobbies mostly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just say the word⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People feel weird about it, but it’s perfectly fine.

  My wife doesn’t work a paying job, we don’t have kids, but in almost every conversation when I’m meeting someone when they ask what my wife does and I tell them, they always follow it up with like, “Oh does she work from home?” or “Oh, does she sell stuff online?”

  It often breaks their brain that she doesn’t work a paid job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Compound it with Trump taking over the federal reserve.