GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Is there a way to avoid those holes? 2 days ago:
We could be witnessing the birth of a meme!
- Comment on No, Steam wasn’t hacked, and your account details are safe 3 days ago:
I asked my company if I could use a password manager and they said no. So now they get a set of rotating passwords that are the same for all my work accounts. It doesn’t really bother me - it’s their data, not mine.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 1 week ago:
I’m not sure why you would buy an open-source company/product, particularly a GPLv3 one, if you didn’t understand or agree with the premise. It’s probably the stupidest decision he made. I’m not saying I agree with his other decisions, but most of them made some kind of business sense. With this one, he would have saved a lot of time and effort and received the same value if he’d just spun OO.o off ASAP. The linked timeline kind of says it all.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 1 week ago:
You’re talking the CEO of a company who sued Google on the premise that header files, a descriptor file for what commands can be used and what parameters they took, should be copyrighted? The CEO who poisoned the OpenOffice community so thoroughly that the fork, LibreOffice, was founded by the leaders of OpenOffice and became the de facto standard instead of the original, and it happened overnight? That guy?
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 2 weeks ago:
Distillation doesn’t have to be of water. Not all impurities are solid. And the evaporated water does go back into the water pool, just with steps we aren’t directly involved in.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 2 weeks ago:
What exactly do you think evaporation ponds are doing, then?
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 3 weeks ago:
The lacy top makes it a lot less ambiguous. Also, the ties in OPs image look like spidey swinging towards you while the ones in your link really do not.
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 3 weeks ago:
This shirt looks old, but I’ve never seen it before. Reddit has let me down again. Thanks Lemmy!
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 3 weeks ago:
Love that “disruptive” is a valid term for companies like that.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case 4 weeks ago:
Lol this is the typical takeaway. A better result would be to not engage in illegal practices and then it doesn’t matter if you put it in writing, but that’s not how you become a billionaire.
- Comment on Fossify File Manager: Open Source Replacement to Files by Google on Android 4 weeks ago:
Just checked it on F-droid. Last updated 13 months ago. This is a fork of another project whose creator walked back the FOSS stance of his projects. Forks were immediately produced, but no real work has been done. I’m using two of these apps, and have no real hope that they will be maintained in any meaningful way.
I’d explore these with caution, unless you’re looking for near-abandoned projects to adopt, in which case these may be worth your time to look into. What is there looks good, but without active maintenance it’s an encroaching storm of security risks.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how this works, but I checked your posting history and it didn’t show up there, either. I guess the great weakness of the fediverse is if the links are interrupted. Perhaps it was due to instance maintenance or something.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been cheated!
Could not find post in your instance.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Best ‘simple’ budgeting app 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for the info!
- Comment on Best ‘simple’ budgeting app 5 weeks ago:
I feel like you meant to reply to another comment. Were you referring to Moneymanager EX?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
I have a Win11 laptop for work, and they changed the Start menu. Now it’s recent apps and recommendations for your starting point, and you have to click an option to see installed apps. Every. Time. There is a setting with 3 options - more recently used apps, more recommendations, or an even split of both, but the option to go straight to installed apps is mysteriously missing…
I will never install Win11 directly onto my hardware. If I have to use it, it will go into a VM of one flavor or another.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 1 month ago:
If you haven’t seen her other posts, I’d jump on her profile and read it. There are 7 more of these out there!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 1 month ago:
As a Voyager user, the image load takes a looong time, but everything scrolls smoothly (except for the text jumping as images load).
- Comment on Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest 1 month ago:
Like he did in Brazil, right?
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 1 month ago:
This is fairly inaccurate, as well. Paid work was certainly lower, but prior to the Industrial Revolution merely putting clothes on your back was a fairly labor-intensive task. One estimate puts it at 10 spinners to supply one person on a loom, and this work was often done by women at home, and was generally paid work in the Middle Ages. A British census in the mid 1800s, which over-represents unpaid work in domestic services as laborers (I’ll let you decide if that counts as women being part of the economy or not), still had about 50% of women in the census as employed.
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 1 month ago:
The definition of terrorism usually runs along the lines of, engaging in acts to cause fear for the purpose of achieving political goals. So, stalking someone isn’t terrorism, but sending pictures of a politician in various locations with crosshairs drawn on them saying you will follow through unless/if they do x would be.
Now, the question becomes, are these arsonists setting fire to Tesla vehicles and showrooms because they want Musk to stop his political antics or because Musk is a giant asshole? I honestly think you could get reasonable doubt on that, provided you actually had a fair trial and weren’t dropped in a deep, dark hole somewhere.
- Comment on AI driver: review of Mark Rober's LIDAR showcase 1 month ago:
Ah yes, that’s the more reasonable interpretation.
- Comment on AI driver: review of Mark Rober's LIDAR showcase 1 month ago:
There was a story of where a deer was hit by a Tesla in FSD and didn’t even slow down. If it can happen to a deer it can happen to a person, and LIDAR would be a lot less likely to in either case.
- Comment on Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, with Meta's market share rising to 84%; Vision Pro shipments fell 43% QoQ in Q4, but its enterprise sales grew. 1 month ago:
The Index is pretty old and expensive. I’d love to have it, but there are also third-party headsets that are Index-compatible that are quite impressive.
- Comment on Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation 2 months ago:
8600 from 4 dealerships in 3 days, or 12 dealership-days. So, about 700 per dealership per day on average. Theb1200 in one day is likely the max, which is typical for these kind of statements.
- Comment on Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation 2 months ago:
Yes, keep on reminding people how much better Canada is. And , unlike oil, this kind of better can’t be exported by invading.
- Comment on How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? 2 months ago:
I’m not sure of the availability guarantees, but Oracle and other cloud services have free tiers for low CPU/RAM/storage needs. If the availability guarantees are there, this could be an option. It works fine for FoundryVTT and hasn’t cost me anything for the last couple years, and I don’t imagine your projected needs would outstrip Foundry’s.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 2 months ago:
Printers always go brr.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 2 months ago:
Took me three tries to figure out what was happening, then I was sad.
