boonhet
@boonhet@lemm.ee
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Fourth Infrastructure audit completed by Cure53 3 days ago:
Hosting services behind a VPN I suppose
- Comment on Thanks, Google 4 days ago:
Turns as in intersections where you need to turn I guess.
- Comment on Ironing 5 days ago:
Just across (south) of the bay from you judging by your name: I was at a funeral recently, not many people wore suits. Of course, nobody wore shorts or anything, but not too many formal suits.
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 6 days ago:
I feel that if Apple could have soldered the RAM back then, they would have.
Apple used to ship repair and upgrade kits with guides on how to apply them. Not sure they were as anti-repair then as they are now.
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
In metadata, no less.
- Comment on Swoletariots of the World 2 weeks ago:
Definitely done 120 kg and beyond on pull downs. If you’re a heavier dude, that’s still easier than chin ups.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 1 month ago:
But GNOME itself is odd now. Or unfamiliar at least.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 1 month ago:
I ran Gentoo for about 3 years (and will likely return soon) and I reckon there are plenty of really advanced Ubuntu users who know more about how my system works than I do.
Any mainstream general purpose distro can do mostly anything and can be used by power users. Some should ONLY be used by power users, but that doesn’t make them inherently better than a distro that both a newbie and a power user can understand and use.
You know why I use Gentoo? Literally the bragging rights. I doubt I’m optimizing things THAT much with my fancy compiler flags.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 2 months ago:
I used grammatically incorrect examples on purpose to point out there’s no present simple vs present continuous distinction in Estonian either.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 2 months ago:
English at least has “going to” and “will” for future. In Estonian you just use present simple and the only way to know you’re talking about the future is if you hint it with some time related word.
You just say “I go to the supermarket” and it’s ambiguous. You say “I go to the supermarket tomorrow” and you know it’s talking about the future.
- Comment on FOSS app store for iOS? 2 months ago:
I think it would be feasible for most apps given that it’s a million annual FIRST installs for free, but one would definitely need to find a way to monetize if the app gets too popular, which might be hard if your goal is to provide FOSS for the benefit of the community.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 3 months ago:
I just said wifi works as the backup solution if you’re not the one presenting. If you ARE the one presenting, wouldn’t you want to have a more stable connection?
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 3 months ago:
Conference rooms should have ethernet connected to the USB-C dongle that’s attached to the TV and the Jabra or whatever alternative you use.
Wouldn’t want to take my laptop to the break room, I go there to take a break from work, not continue it in a different setting.
I’ll agree on going to someone else’s office, or using your laptop in a meeting where someone else is connected up, but that’s where Wi-Fi works as the back-up.
- Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 3 months ago:
This is an ARM SoC. You buy this because the battery should last 20-30 hours and it still gives good CPU performance at the same time. Not for gaming lol
- Comment on Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports 4 months ago:
Certainly not the best buy they could make.
- Comment on Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials 4 months ago:
I believe pharmaceutical companies already sell drugs to temporarily give extra life to senior hogs.
- Comment on Selfhosted Trello Alternative? 8 months ago:
Youtrack is nice and can be self hosted but costs money beyond 10 users.
- Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage 8 months ago:
Do you use E2EE for all your chats? I think nearly nobody does.
- Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage 8 months ago:
Signal or at least Telegram or Viber. Fuck WhatsApp, I’d like at least my messenger app to not belong to Facebook of all companies.
- Comment on Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger 9 months ago:
Yup, both work!
- Comment on Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger 9 months ago:
Are they going to ditch it though? As I understand, they don’t need to ditch it as long as USB-C remains an option.
For charging alone, Magsafe is objectively the better choice because it snaps in and out of place, so it’s both easier to insert and won’t pull your laptop off the living room table if your kid or dog runs into the cable. For docking in your dedicated workspace, you’ll still use USB-C attached to your monitor of course, it’s excellent for that.
- Comment on We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general 10 months ago:
Why don’t you just start your own? You can defederate any instance you want.
I’m on lemm.ee but I’ve personally blocked communities I’ve found to be toxic, some of them were on lemmygrad. I see very little tankie shit. Took me like 5 minutes.
- Comment on Monday to Friday 10 months ago:
True, that’s fair.
- Comment on Nextcloud on VM or Docker? Best set-up for proper backups? 10 months ago:
It’s more of a pain to get running than you might think for an official image. I got it running but definitely had issues getting started.
- Comment on Monday to Friday 10 months ago:
I’d expect the work servers to be better because I can’t afford to spend thousands per server, but maybe I’m just spoiled with regards to work hardware.
- Comment on ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones 10 months ago:
But here is the thing why do I need to use a tool to connect to a server just to be allowed to unlock the bootloader
It’s been this way since I first flashed a custom ROM on my 2011 Xperia and I’ve never gotten it. It seems so useless. Either Huawei or Xiaomi wanted me to provide a REASON for unlocking.
I think Nexus phones were unlockable without making a request to a server. I might be wrong though. But I do miss the Nexus line.
- Comment on Blue or red door? 10 months ago:
Yeah… The mistakes are learning experiences. They help us grow. If your mistakes are “I dated a girl who cheated on me” and “I leased an expensive car when I shouldn’t have”… Those things probably helped shape you into a more rational, mature person, assuming you learned from them.
Now if your mistake is “I worked 80 hour weeks for 30 years for my shitty career and never saw my family and now I’m dying early from stress induced heart attacks” or “I had some shady dealings in the past and now the mafia is after my family”, I’d take the mistake-fixing door. But hopefully most people’s mistakes aren’t quite that bad.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K 10 months ago:
Nobody makes singleplayer games anymore because you only buy them once instead of spending hundreds/thousands over the lifecycle of the game. You’re supposed to bend over and take it like a man. For capitalism!
That’s why a game like this is so refreshing. A good singleplayer experience that you can also OPTIONALLY share with your friends, and I also intend to do that. I’m literally going to go on Steam and buy two copies now.
- Comment on People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit... 11 months ago:
I don’t even want to do that shit on a touchscreen when I’m stopped dude, it should take less than 5 seconds so I can get moving.
- Comment on People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit... 11 months ago:
I’ve adjusted mine twice in the last month alone because I needed to fold down the rear seats. But also sometimes you borrow your car to someone who doesn’t have a memory setting. Or your car doesn’t have memory seats and has multiple users.