PlutoniumAcid
@PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 days ago:
What would be the point? That’s just staying on Windows, with extra steps and lower performance.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 days ago:
Just the name itself sounds like an an angsty teenage dream. Not really selling it there.
- Comment on Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what? 3 days ago:
This was entertaining. Thank you.
- Comment on Is a Prusa Mini+ for $100 a good deal? 1 week ago:
The quality is whatever you print. The printer’s quality is stellar.
I always say that if you want to print stuff, buy Prusa. If you want to tinker with the printer, buy something else.
Prusa is the Mercedes of 3d - premium price for a premium experience. At 100$ for a Mini, I would not hesitate even if I already have one.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 week ago:
Notepad++ has a plugin that makes it the default even for things that would normally be go to Notepad.
- Comment on Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says the Quiet Part Out Loud and Demands an Encryption Backdoor 1 week ago:
Stupid, lazy, overworked, underskilled - it must have been easier to raise us who are adults now, pre Internet, than it is to raise our kids today. And I repeat, tech is not the solution.
- Comment on Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says the Quiet Part Out Loud and Demands an Encryption Backdoor 1 week ago:
Full encryption means privacy. From everyone. For everyone. Please explain to me why that should not be given to minors?
In my view, protecting children online is not inherently a tech problem. It’s a part of parenting.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 2 weeks ago:
US LEO are the real ones. In UK+EU they really aren’t murderous villains, many don’t even carry a gun.
And politicians don’t murder, they just fleece us.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 2 weeks ago:
a stab
I see what you did there 😄
- Comment on Recommend EU webhosting provider to replace DreamHost? 2 weeks ago:
I pay ~8€ per month at DreamHost, for many, many domains and databases and mailboxes. I worry that having to maintain a VPS myself is tedious and risky, and there’s no automatic backups, and there’s no tech support, and it can’t possibly be as cheap. I’m fine hosting some stuff at home, but for some things (like mailboxes) I want a real independent service I can trust.
- Comment on Recommend EU webhosting provider to replace DreamHost? 2 weeks ago:
I’m still a huge DH fan. It’s just that the latency from Europe is noticeable, and also there’s an increased risk that some self-proclaimed dicktator might do something stupid so I lose access to my account and my mailboxes. We’ve all read the horror stories of people suddenly being permabanned by Google and losing access to all their precious data. I’m trying to cover some scenarios here.
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- Comment on Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code. 2 weeks ago:
Hah, I get you, man. I left the place almost 25 years ago and nothing after WinXP was good. It irks me that open source Office suites just aren’t good enough (looking at you, Calc) or I’d be using Linux on desktop, too, not just on my servers.
- Comment on Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code. 3 weeks ago:
Hey, I’ll take you up on that. Better than no sex, amirite?
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 3 weeks ago:
Makers by Cory Doctorow is a great novel that explores exactly this.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 3 weeks ago:
Email is a must for between businesses. Having said that, lots of internal communication is findingther channels, like Teams, Slack, and so on.
- Comment on Do you eat shrimp shells when eating shrimp? 3 weeks ago:
twitches in FDA
- Comment on Breaking GPT-5 News! 3 weeks ago:
Can’t argue against that!
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 3 weeks ago:
If it ain’t broke, fix it till it is!
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 3 weeks ago:
Paywalled…
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t get it? That description fits on the amoebas currently acting as “politicians” demanding Zelenskyy to say “thank you”.
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 3 weeks ago:
50+ European here. Could you please explain in simple terms what “woke” is? I’ve seen it for years now and still don’t have any idea.
In my mind it’s a lumberjack shirted 30yo with a trimmed full beard and tattoos working as a barista. That’s how little I know of it… Sorry!
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 3 weeks ago:
Yup. Competent nerds like us make up about 0.0002% of their earnings. The big business is in corporate, and the hordes of plebs as a distant second.
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 4 weeks ago:
I was the lucky owner of a rare FingerWorks Touchstream keyboard for many years. If you don’t know it, it’s the precursor to the keyboards used in Star Trek Enterprise.
It’s a keyless keyboard. Two large flat mousepads with a keyboard layout printed on top, and you type by pure touch. There’s no mouse; the surface just cleverly detects when you are doing mouse gestures. Or a lot of other gestures.
Trekkie joke aside, it’s actually the magic tech that made the iPhone possible. Of course Apple didn’t invent anything, they bought existing future tech.
I miss that keyboard. They still sell on ebay, for 1400$!
- Comment on Apple reveals M3 Ultra, taking Apple silicon to a new extreme 4 weeks ago:
184 billion transistors
My mind broke, reading this. From way back when you could count the transistors by pointing at them with your finger, to hundreds of billions on a postage stamp. How??
- Comment on Is Severance the new Lost? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah because the ending (and severance last seasons) of Lost was a big unlubed middle finger. Effing waste of time.
- Comment on Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink 4 weeks ago:
Maybe Lexmark? OKI? I vaguely recall there was 1 other not-evil printer company.left.
Otherwise, I’ve heard good things about clay tablets.
- Comment on How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? 4 weeks ago:
Wow, that does seem really useful! So clever to use Home Assistant, and nfc tags. Plus, it’s plain csv when you need the data.
- Comment on Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but the challenge is how to block them without putting undue load on humans.
In the olden days, you’d just host a webserver and be done with it. Today you need elaborate setups to trick bots. It’s a losing proposition.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 4 weeks ago:
Just to the left of Demimoore.