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- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 2 days ago:
You’re surprisingly wrong. Landlines exist but there is basically nowhere left in the world where landlines outnumber mobiles (except places like North Korea, obvs). Mobile networks are literally cheaper to run than landline networks and that gets more and more true as the quality of infrastructure drops.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 2 days ago:
I was once in New York using an AT&T payphone and trying to place a reverse-charge (or “international collect”) call to the UK and the operator REFUSED to accept that UK phone numbers are ten digits long. You better believe I put that thing through it’s paces.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 2 days ago:
Replace “inside of a highschool” with literally any location with reasonable footfall to get the same answer.
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 2 days ago:
In the North of England that’s called ‘shittin yer keks’.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 1 week ago:
They tried doing the same thing in the UK with a comedy duo, Mitchell (PC) and Webb (Mac). They were best known at the time for a Channel 4 show, Peep Show, where Mitchell played an educated, qualified, no-nonsense, go-getting, straight-talking realist who was a bit awkward and frumpy, while Webb played an entitled, self-aggrandising, directionless, scatterbrained half-wit convinced he deserved greatness… I forget where I was going with this.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
Flanian Pobble Beads
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
Once we get the Americans to write the date properly we should probably agree on the symbols we’re using as decimal and thousand delimitation.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
Your cognitive ability changes with you. Your human thoughts, emotions, memories, reasoning, skills, understanding and desires are destroyed.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
The universe doesn’t distinguish between “intended effects” and “side effects”.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
You’re one of those people who can’t click their fingers.
- Comment on Rhubarb 1 week ago:
You misunderstand. Phil’s abilities and agency are not in question. Phil can read. Phil chooses not to.
- Comment on Wishing for this kind of world 1 week ago:
Whenever someone tells me they’re trans I always say “don’t fucking talk to me. You’re disgusting.”
In fairness I say that other people too.
- Comment on Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening 2 weeks ago:
Is that how it works? Like a file-o-fax made of mortadella?
- Comment on Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening 2 weeks ago:
Old man yells at cloud.
- Comment on LOVE THEM 2 weeks ago:
Carmageddon had a glove with the severed hand still in it. Just saying.
- Comment on What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server? 2 weeks ago:
One hundred percent go for USFF. Even the cheapest, most basic processor will smash server roles because it’s not having to power desktop applications, graphics, window managers, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s easy. Just read the manual.
- Comment on EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis 2 weeks ago:
All this, plus the well-established legal notion of “informed consent”. If I rent a megaphone from a shop it would be utterly unreasonable for that shop to tell everyone I’d bought a megaphone - I wasn’t informed and wouldn’t reasonably assume that’s what they would do, so I couldn’t consent - but if I walk around using that megaphone to shout at people it would similarly be utterly unreasonable to argue that the shop is responsible for keeping my bellowings private.
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 2 weeks ago:
You can use NextCloud as the front end for an SMB share, which is what I do. I can access all my file shares using a protocol designed for intermittent Internet connections, I can sync any folder I want for offline use and, because NextCloud support file rehydration, I can even sync folders bigger than my local disk and it will stream in the files as I use them.
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 3 weeks ago:
I like it. The “progress bar” style fill is nice and clear, and it’s so much better than having an icon with a number next to it. “BuT iT dOeSn’T lOoK LiKe A bAtTeRy” what, do you think your phone is full of AAs? A plain oblong is actually closer to the mark.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, if you’re used to Microsoft servers and have a Microsoft network it integrates really nicely and is great to manage. Plus, it’s free.
- Comment on Bread is probably the oldest human invention 4 weeks ago:
Well, it was the best invention. Then, someone sliced it.
- Comment on Beans 4 weeks ago:
If you just want great scrambled eggs without adding anything else and can be arsed: separate the yolks and cook the whites to your preferred consistency. Then, turn off the heat and whisk in the yolks straight away. The residual heat cooks through but by cooking them less than the whites you get a lot more flavour.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
YES THAT IS CORRECT AND NOBODY NEEDS TO SAY ANYTHING ELSE.
- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Waaaaaaaaay too expensive, but I’d love it if big eink displays became a thing, even with shit refresh rates, mostly because I want some for displaying Home Assistant dashboards.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This still works. Most debit and credit cards can still be used to authorise offline payments up to a set limit, though it’s kinda of moot if the PDQ’s battery is dead.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This depends on where and why. I know that in some parts of the Carribbean, for example, most towers will only last a day or two, but there are some that can last weeks with satellite backhauls providing minimal service to large areas.
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 4 weeks ago:
Dihydrogen Monoxide can make your lungs shut down, killing you, and if gets into your blood it can cause your brain to swell, also killing you. Cancer, Coronavirus and Polio all thrive in environments rich in hydrogen monoxide. If a building’s foundations are exposed to dihydrogen monoxide it can lead to structural collapse, and it causes painful blistering and instant cell death if flesh is exposed to it in its gaseous form. Despite this, the food industry - clamouring for profits above all other considerations - uses dihydrogen monoxide throughout the food production process, meaning this dangerous chemical is present in almost all processed foods.
- Comment on Unpopular popular opinion - fiat 1 month ago:
Yeah, my response to this argument is always the same: I work in IT, how do I barter for potatoes? If you’re a potato farmer, how many potatoes is a hip transplant worth? Maybe assigning worth to things with an abstract unit isn’t such a terrible idea after all…
- Comment on finally got static IP from a new ISP 1 month ago:
To be honest, I used to have an ISP with dynamic addresses and it wasn’t a huge deal. The address only changed every month or two. I used afraid.org’s dynamic DNS service to get a dynamic address that followed the changes and created CNAME records for my real domain pointing at that. The actual connection was fucking awful but the dynamic IPs never caused any problems.
As for services: Nextcloud is well worth looking into for file sync and photo backup, especially if you’ve already got a file server running.