JustEnoughDucks

@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Palantir

  We have unique digital fingerprints for everyone already pretty much, but they are not linked to official government IDs so there is still uncertainty I think over identification.

  This makes everyone’s digital fingerprint linked on a government ID. Voila, now every person in America is known by Palantir and the government at all times (more or less). Great for genocide and targeting your political opponents and voters to set up sham elections.

  It also tries to stop poors who don’t have drivers licenses in America from organizing as they can’t verify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia forces porn sites to block under-18s from Monday⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a maybe-conspiracy theory.

  Israel, or Israeli citizens who were former IDF, have recently bought up a huge portion VPN companies (see outdated relationship with eachother here)

  Now, conveniently as it happens, now age verification on porn sites (one of the top VPN drivers) is occurring all over the globe, in a lot of countries lobbied/bribed heavily by Israeli entities.

  It is well documented that Israel has one of the largest and influential spy networks and they also have their hands in almost every mass surveillance company in the world (including having a “director of Zionist interests” at Facebook)

  I think this is a big push to get everyone onto VPNs that they own to essentially route all internet traffic through a place where they can log and track all of it as they would benefit massively both financially and politically from that move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly it won’t work on fairphone 6 because it only has USB 2.0 and there isn’t enough bandwidth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am confused.

  In developer options in basic android you can simply enable the feature right?

  My old Sony xperia 5 ii can do that and it definitely isn’t a Sony feature…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🚀 Statistics for Strava v4.7.0 released! Dark mode & Milestones timeline⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, it bypasses that and gives you many of the strava premium features by just parsing it out of the “raw” data. Most of the strava features are just statistics or hiding basic data calculated from your runs behind a paywall anyway. You can do the calculations yourself, technically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I have ever heard that for the a series. That if fact, I have always heard that it is just about the best price-value on the market, the downside being that it is google and no SD card slot (which is common now). They use the flagship chip in it still, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Find what you like and stick with it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d fit in here in Belgium. 80% of people eat 2 pieces of white bread with a spread or a single piece of meat in between lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it very confusing to get a good workflow with it + calibre.

  I sync all of my books (and use readarr for organization or occasionally grabbing books from dead authors) via syncthing. Then calibre web won’t ingest any new books I copy to the folder, so I have to go to desktop calibre to add them manually, then it will sync the database and calibre-web has a built-in task for scanning any database changes so then the book will show up.

  Seems like a clunky method and I would think I am doing it wrong, but I haven’t found a way for calibre to scan books already organized in folders in its book directory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is theoretically something sodium batteries would be good at right?

  Aren’t they not as sensitive to storage voltages? They are almost a perfect lead-acid replacement. Plus a UPS is a great usecase because it doesn’t matter if it is 33% bigger to achieve the same capacity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open-sourcing CORE One CAD Files Under the New Open Community License (OCL)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the creator of the open source initiative has said that open source has failed and we need more restrictive licensing because open source simply is too permissive and has been aggressively exploited at the expense of the people, who it was meant to empower.

  For me, source available licenses that are open source except specifically restricting for profit hungry, exploitative companies and corpos are with something like non-commercial clauses are fine for an end product. I use CERN OHL S v2, but I can’t fault people for going noncommercial like the entirety of the art and 3D printing world pretty much already are to protect themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring calls off partnership with police surveillance provider Flock Safety⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Frigate also works well with standard video cards nowadays?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Belgium, it is legally required to put a sign up if you have cameras, you can’t point them at a place including public properties IIRC, and you can force them via the local government to move the camera if they are pointing at your property (at least in theory).

  Lasers. Blue lasers are what you can do. reddit.com/…/what_is_this_person_doing_to_my_came… (hate to link to reddit but it is a good demo)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statistics for Strava, a self-hosted, open-source dashboard for your Strava data.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something like endurain?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also not very searchable on engines, especially due to fediverse server name differences, you can’t !lemmy because many of the communities don’t have Lemmy in their domain or titles or however that works. At least I have only gotten Lemmy results for like 25% of my searches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but they hide that as much as possible.

  • No longer warranty
  • No specs that indicate longevity
  • also has bullshit WiFi/touchscreens because it is so cheap to integrate for them

  If you are extremely lucky, there is a review for that model somewhere that isn’t just paid advertising, but outside of the US with less-used models, that is pretty much a fantasy.

  For example, even on the most expensive 1400€ Series 8 models Bosch (traditionally one of the best quality washers in the EU) now instead of a drum with bolts and a gasket, plastic welds their drum covers so it doesn’t last as long, breaks at the seam, and is almost impossible to repair correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BASED?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also why people should seriously think about if they are ready to have a kid or want to have a kid.

  Millions or tens/hundreds of millions of kids have parents that never really wanted them and just gave in to the biological clock and/or social pressures and the kids have a shitty childhood. It sucks to be unwanted, and kids can really feel it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And there were tons of ones back in the day that didn’t cost that much either.

  Surprise, cheap stuff existed then too, it just didn’t survive like the expensive appliances.

  The difference is now the expensive stuff ALSO barely lasts at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, many of my childhood best friends live a 9 hour flight away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s literally how much they cost now and they last 10 years or maybe 15

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Non-US cloud storage for backup?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kopia is great for this. Choose your encryption, built in support for different provider storage tyoes in the GUI to choose where to go, dedupe, folder structure scramble, etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have yet to use a consumer ADF scanner on a printer that didn’t feed the paper at an angle until they are crushed and folded, doesn’t matter if the guides are perfectly set for A4 either. It has never worked for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud/OneDrive Files-only Replacement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Opencloud is a fork from Owncloud Infinite Scale just as nextcloud was a fork from the old Owncloud version.

  Apparently much much simpler and more performant than nextcloud in almost every way. It also has a secure file sharing link feature.

  They are also based in Germany.

  I am about to spin up opencloud behind traefik and authelia hopefully this week or weekend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, that is about all Mistral can do too.

  That and python scipy is like a 50/50 for relevant code snippits.

  It had never once output compilable embedded code, even when I have tried to directly lead it there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, THC drinks are all over the US now and very popular. Most of my (young millennial) friends there barely drink alcohol and have swapped them with gummies and seltzers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s technically possible by water fasting for 2 months, but that is pretty dangerous for so long and you would need a strict vitamin and salt intake to even have a chance of doing it safely.

  Definitely not a good idea, certainly not without doctor supervision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does self hosting your own internet count?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  correct, the real mesh internet replacement is HaLow, that can get a whopping 4Mbps or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is why I try to recommend to every single person starting their smart home to plan it so that if everything dies, their internet, their router, power gets restarted, and their HomeAssistant gets corrupted, and you die, at the same time, that everything will work exactly as expected, because with MANY smart home systems they will just stop functioning or be stuck in a bad mode until your family hires someone to fix it.

  That’s why I lean hard towards KNX

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I might catch flak for this, but I understand Fahrenheit made a ton of sense of an illiterate bygone era (well, I guess coming back maybe)

  The vast majority of people were uneducated. Decimals were a non-starter, maybe negatives were also difficult?

  0-100 was very easy. Under 0? Don’t go outside if possible. Over 100? Don’t go outside if possible. >50/halfway? Time for a coat. Having the same scale from -15 to 40 might have been confusing and not centered for them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And Bing, and searches that use google and Bing results (DDG, ecosia)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well CAD software has made leaps and bounds since then. Anyone who used CAD back in the day would know what an unstable clusterfuck it was and how much longer it took than now.

  A lot of software has gotten much better, including “core” Foss like Linux and FFMPEG. There is just 10x as much software that is horrible, and windows has gotten so much worse to the point that it feels like computers have made no progress when you use it.

  Also, CPUs nowadays use about the same power as they did 20 years ago but with an order of magnitude more processing power. The first Core 2 Duo had a 65W TDP, the same as modern Ryzen 5. GPUs are just out of hand with power consumption because of profit-driven game companies and AI.