NekoKoneko
@NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 4 hours ago:
Literally thousands? Have you tried bookmarking things after they’ve sat unused for awhile?
I typically just periodically save my browser windows with a tab manager extension. I just say because thousands sounds like way too much to keep track of…
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 5 hours ago:
Funny story, they actually did this to me before this all happened, and I was on a “I’m never going to update again” beta firmware that they gave me a link to, when the forced-update happened that broke my wifi. I didn’t disable any ADB-level processes, and I don’t think the system let me disable updates.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 9 hours ago:
I mean, that’s great in theory. But the amount of manufacturers of non-smart TVs is tiny, and if you are interested in the best panels and display technology, refresh rates for gaming, etc (even removing affordability), it’s very very hard to just boycott if you want to have a modern TV at all.
- Comment on Meta has acquired Moltbook. I am starting to doubt myself. 15 hours ago:
Yup, really a core monopolist mindset. Money is a way to avoid competition, not win it.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 16 hours ago:
Unfortunately the firmware was the issue, not just OS software. So factory-resetting didn’t help us. But yeah, that definitely radicalized me to the “never connect it to the internet” camp for future TVs.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 16 hours ago:
I outright told them it’s illegal, since they are unilaterally altering the terms of any T&C agreements when we started using the TV and materially interfering with our ownership and use of the TV we purchased. They didn’t care. I then sent it to our state attorney general and nothing happened.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 16 hours ago:
Would have loved to. It was just over one year (right after the warranty ended as well), though.
- Comment on Meta has acquired Moltbook. I am starting to doubt myself. 16 hours ago:
Zuckerberg more than any other tech CEO uses acquisitions to either adopt or strangle any potential competitor in the cradle. But he isn’t a visionary, he doesn’t actually know what technology will be useful. This is a perfect example.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 16 hours ago:
Relatedly, Hisense also forces updates and disables use of the TV if you do not accept the update (via a full screen non-cancelable prompt).
I learned this the hard way after Hisense broke my TV’s via an update that I didn’t want and then refused to fix it even after 6 months of escalations and emails.
- Comment on Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content 1 day ago:
Them hosting their own archives of copyrighted articles would need to be non-public (for citation verification only), since if they did an archive.today-like public service, it would certainly get them sued by a constant carousel of copyright owners until they run out of money.
Archive.org might be a sign that most would look the other way, but given how tightly they are balanced between survival and oblivion, I don’t think that’s a good idea.
- Comment on Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package 3 days ago:
I propose there is a final step in Cory Doctorow’s enshittification theory, which is one step past the company collecting rents from captured business and customer bases: the CEO leading the enshittification push collecting exorbitant rewards for facilitating the process.
- Comment on Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024 1 week ago:
I used to spend a lot of time on tech sites, but they’ve all become such an evil enterprise. I remember back in the '00s looking forward to the next Android update or even back when a new Windows was going to bring improvements (even if just to fix the bugs). Now every update is enshittification and SaaS.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 1 week ago:
That does make sense - also matches how I have currently sperated files so it’s a valuable idea. Thanks!
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 1 week ago:
Sorry. Shortly after posting this and the initial QA I left for a trip.
I could definitely wait those time periods for a first backup and a restore, since I assume it’ll be a once in 10 year at worst situation. Data changes after the first upload should be show enough to keep up.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 1 week ago:
Bob Odenkirk has never steered us wrong, thanks. I downloaded three copies of this from YouTube in case I forget.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 1 week ago:
That’s a great point.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 1 week ago:
The Backblaze option is something I’ve seriously considered.
Any reason this person didn’t go with the $99/year personal backup plan? It says “unlimited” and it is for my household only, but maybe I’m missing something about how difficult it is to setup on Unraid or other NAS software. B2’s $6/TB/mo rate would put me at $150/mo which is not great.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 1 week ago:
For me, I have a bad memory. I might remember a childhood movie (a nickname I give to special Linux ISOs) that I hadn’t even thought of for 10 years and track down a copy, sometimes excavating obscure sources, and that may be hours of one-time inspiration and work repeated many times over. Having a complete list is a good helper, but a full backup of course is best.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 1 week ago:
Yeah, this is certainly a viable “brute-force”-ish ooption. While I have 56, I’m only using 26 or so. But I’d actually be hesitant to do anything less than a full capacity mirror because I do expect to eventually use this (and more - adding drives to Unraid).
I’ve balked because of cost and upkeep (maintaining the same capacity, additional chances for drive failure, two separate sites I need physical access to with a high bandwidth connection), so I admit I was hoping I was missing an easier option.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 1 week ago:
Do you have logs or software that keeps track of what you need to redownload? A big stress for me with that method is remembering or keeping track of what is lost when I and software can’t even see the filesystem anymore.
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- Comment on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went 2 weeks ago:
Fascinating. Definitely still prefer the Go for retro futurism, though.
- Comment on (REDO) FediNSFW the announcements community for the lemmyNSFW replacement 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, my opinion is rule-breaking should be reported. The phrase I should have used is “bad-faith conduct.” Sealioning, LLM-likely text, propaganda posts, troll comments. Things that may not break rules but still are outside the bounds of respectful or legitimate effort.
If people want to use it to express general disapproval, the result will be a reddit-like leveling of commentary and opinion, because the bell curve of opinion will keep narrowing to just the most statistically acceptable content.
But if you insist on using the for just “disapproval,” I’d at least suggest doing it asymmetrically: upvote if you liked a thing at all; downvote only if you absolutely hate it.
- Comment on (REDO) FediNSFW the announcements community for the lemmyNSFW replacement 2 weeks ago:
I believe that was the rationale for disabling downvotes. Honestly, it was pretty nice. Really, only rule-breaking content should be downvoted in my opinion. But everyone just uses it as a “don’t like” signal, which further marginalizes small/niche posters and communities that aren’t breaking any rules, by suppressing their posts with negative ratios.
- Comment on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went 2 weeks ago:
Beautiful! Love those billboards. Also reminds me to check out a PSP Go, I bet the slide-out design is cool in person.
- Comment on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went 2 weeks ago:
PSP is peak retro tech. The disk drive mechanism is so satisfying to open and close, popping out the UMD cartridge…
But yes, Japan preserves their old tech, books and games by default. Used items are almost always immaculately kept and sent cleaned up. It’s pretty reliable to buy used in Japan.
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry. Recently laid off myself and management avoided directly saying AI was the reason, but other statements (C-suite talking about whether AI can do other work months before the layoffs, in front of me) convince me that was the reasoning.
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 2 weeks ago:
The alternative prediction is that this is in fact sustainable and AI companies will in fact have revenue to keep the bubble inflated for a lot longer, just in the worst way - by extracting the value of reliability and trust from the market:
CEOs have also bought into AI almost to a person, and are using it to replace workers, results be damned. AI can’t do the things they believe it can, but to them, if they can fake satisfying a need with AI for $5, that is preferable to actually satisfying a need with a real employee for $10.
The CEO is happy because his company saved $5 and he’s met his stock option incentive target, the AI companies are happy to pocket that $5 instead of the employee getting $10. Maybe they even raise the customer’s price to $12 as AI rent-seeking starts rising, and both companies get $6 each. Win-win, life will go on, just worse for everyone else.