thejml

@thejml@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku’s Moana 2 controversy is part of a bigger ad problem⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This, but Jellyfin. Plex has already begun its enshitification, sadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Trump announces 25 percent tariffs on all vehicle imports⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we great again yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile Western Digital moves away from SSD production and back to HDDs for massive storage of AI and data lakes and such: techspot.com/…/107039-western-digital-exits-ssd-m…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What host names do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Current homelab+desktop+laptop host count here is 22. All anime characters or references. It’s a fairly large pool to pull from, so it’s worked for me for 20+ years now. Mobile devices (phones, tablets, etc) and game consoles aren’t really as clever though.

  All of them are in a piHole DNS though so no host files keeps it easy to track. Services have names that mostly are just what they are though and cnames to the matching host that hosts them (or load balancer, whatever)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but 7 days isn’t enough time for that. I’ve gone weeks between purchasing the kinds of things Amazon delivers, so it’d just be normal. 2+ months is probably better. Especially if those months are Nov & Dec.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely boycott Walmart. They’ve been horrible a lot longer than Amazon. I haven’t purchased from Walmart in a decade and a half and I see no reason to stop now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panama president calls Trump's talk of 'reclaiming' the Panama Canal a lie⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump lie?! Nah. That never happens.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Daniel’s maker says Canada pulling US alcohol off shelves ‘worse than tariff’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then he should complain to Drumpf that his tariffs are hurting his business and actively Making America Terrible Again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diplomacy dies on live TV as Trump and Vance gang up to bully Ukraine leader⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lost. It’s gone.

  And it’s going to take a long time to get any positive view about the US from anywhere, including the citizens. Any country where every four years you can just completely about face any contract, agreement, accord, convention, treaty, whatever, who would want to deal with that country? You could sign something, be perfect partners and then 4 years later get tariffed and humiliated on a whim just because a of a small percentage of votes (or lack of votes).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expert reports say poverty rate has fallen to 36.8% | Buenos Aires Times⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s… still horrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to secure your phone before attending a protest⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t bring paper directions unless they lead to and from a place that ISN’T related to you. Somewhere you know you can get to and from by heart but is a public place, for instance. Don’t give away a beautiful map from your home address To the protest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t. You don’t even really own physically purchased digital goods (like BluRays or video games). It’s a great time to be alive folks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s entirely cash based. Sure, some parts are “non-profit”, but at the root of it, they depend on cash based services that can pull the plug at any time.

  It’s also completely controlled, directly or indirectly, by localized political regimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct, except that more people buying used laptops will incentivize people to upgrade more often as they can depend on a strong secondhand market to recoup some of the cost of the new one by selling the old one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you run backups on your system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just tell it to back up my laptops every hour anyway. If it’s not on, it just doesn’t happen, but it’s generally on enough to capture what I need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust is Eating JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used it the last few years to do Advent of Code (adventofcode.com) and that’s been fun and challenging. Definitely recommend it. Better than trolling through a book of “now do this” examples if you’ve done other languages in the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | White House bans AP journalists from Oval Office amid continued Gulf dispute⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  La la la, I can’t hear you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly, the deteriorating conditions are exactly what some groups want. Those are also the ones who can affect change, either with guns or money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s $9-million class-action settlement presented to Quebec judge for approval⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “$9-million” shouldn’t that be at least a “b” instead of an “m”?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is once again advertising on X after more than a year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For other potentially worse manufacturers. I hate how far it’s all gone, but even buying a used/secondhand device is empowering the prior own to support one of these manufacturers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is once again advertising on X after more than a year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you have been okay with it enough to purchase one in the first place? As an American, it’s always been pretty clear that American companies are filled with horrible data management. They actively lobby against any sort of GDPR or equivalent data laws and regularly leak data with no real ramifications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla stock is tumbling. Blame BYD⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tesla stock is tumbling. Don’t blame BYD, blame Elon.

  Elon has been running Tesla in easy mode where there’s basically no competition. Now that there’s a bunch of other electric car makers on the market he doesn’t know how to deal with that. BYD included, but they’re not there only one with valid competition.

  Also, he’s a terrible person to have as your figurehead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love it if the board voted Elon out. I know it won’t happen because they’re a bunch of sycophants, but “Elons antics and poor decisions are causing us to lose money” is a great reason to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump faces pressure from US industry over China tariff on medicines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only pressure Trump feels is money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is definitely the most important thing for the country and for human space exploration as a whole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out the group of people who look at mid nineties Laura Croft and think “that low polygon count asthenic is exactly how I like my women and trucks, I’ve got lots of disposable income to buy a truck that can’t do many truck things we’ll, and I’m glad a far right ketamine filed tech bro is running the company!” Is a small number of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wants neighbours to take in Palestinians to 'clean out' Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the other countries doesn’t include America. He’s all for it. Very he’s hardcore NIMBY.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Musk gesture, activists project 'Heil' on Tesla plant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct, he won’t kill trans people… he’ll just talk it up so other people do it for him and then take All the credit. That’s his MO.

  He’s still a Nazi though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands flee as Los Angeles wildfires burn out of control⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “This looks pretty concerning," said meteorologist Daniel Swain.

  Understatement of the year right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a few broadcast 8k channels in Japan and South Korea. There’s some YouTube 8k videos and 16k is being worked on. 8k is pretty awesome, though I really just want 8k screens for large PC monitors. I currently use a 4k 43” and 8k would be even better at that distance. Both Samsung and Sony have 8k screens for sale right now and they’re not really that crazy expensive for cutting edge. (75” Samsung 8k QLED for $3k)