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- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 2 weeks ago:
Bitwarden client is FOSS same as Keepass, though. Why aren’t you afraid of Keepass having backdoor by “insert whatever big corporation sponsoring FOSS” giving said companies free access to your passwords you happily store in their clouds?
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 2 weeks ago:
Dude, how is bitwarden hosting your own, locally encrypted (in FOSS client) password database any different than using keypass and syncing it however you want?
I don’t even use Bitwarden myself, I’m using keepass too, but this attitude is … weird?
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 2 weeks ago:
Trusting one FOSS client good. Trusting different FOSS client bad. Logic where?
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 3 weeks ago:
OH, come on, I have body close to some professional shot putters or hammer/discus throwers! /s
- Comment on Lexar doubles up the NM790 series SSDs max capacity to 8TB — new drives spotted at retail for approx $1,000 3 weeks ago:
Any idea what should I get for my NAS then? I’ve been looking at Lexar SN790 as one of the contenders, others being Seagate Firecuda 530 and WD RED SN700. My target is 2TB not too expensive nvme drive.
- Comment on Russian authorities prepare to block Discord. 1 month ago:
I highly doubt regular users will exchange Discord for Matrix. Don’t get me wrong, Matrix is great and all, has some great features, but given its open decentralized way it is and probably always will be mostly for tech savvy people. Now given how half of the Discord (the part I know) is memes and gifs spam, it’s not really easily reproducible with Matrix. At least last time I checked Element still didn’t have gif picker…
- Comment on Synology/QNAP/Asustor 1 month ago:
I used to use syncthing few years back. I don’t remember much about it and I can’t even remember why I ditched it. It probably wasn’t any disasterous situation - I’d remember that, but there still had to be reason I did it.
What I remember I specifically used one way sync of photos. I don’t do picture editing at all and I tend to sort pictures on drive differently than one huge pile on phone, so this was what allowed me to do my shit easily.
Different people, different tastes.
- Comment on Synology/QNAP/Asustor 1 month ago:
Honestly I’ve never even heard of brand called Drobo.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
But that is terrible to use. I can’t imagine my kids or wife to use this with TV…
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Not mentioning taking 100 screenshots each second with what - 25 frames per second? - is kinda overkill…
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
So how do you all guys watch content on these “dumb TVs”?
If you connect e.g. android box, how is it any different than connecting the TV itself? Do you think producers of android boxes aren’t such pricks? This bugs my mind.
- Comment on Synology/QNAP/Asustor 1 month ago:
As I wrote above. It’s not about speed, it’s about price and mostly availability. When I look at 2,5" at my country’s biggest retailer, there’s not really much to chose from and the number of available offerings are more or less shrinking. That’s not really the case with M.2 which seems to be “new shit” everyone wants so there’s plenty of options. And even if I stayed with “trusty WD Red” it’d still cost less to buy M.2…
Another benefit (for me) is its form factor. I don’t have a lot of space. Classic 2-bay NAS size is “perfect” for me, apart from its bay limitation. That’s what’s so tempting on Asustor. Either Nimbustor with 4xM.2 or even Flashstor with just 6xM.2 are quite a small devices (compared to what regular 6-bay would be) which is a big plus for me.
- Comment on Synology/QNAP/Asustor 1 month ago:
I meant I probably should not buy 2-bay NAS with just USB2, if that still exists. There’d be not much to expand to once I put those two starting drives in. So preferably more bays/slots to put another drive there once the need arises. Or use expansion units like all of these offer (Synology is eSATA I believe, others have USB).
- Comment on Synology/QNAP/Asustor 1 month ago:
Thank you for suggestion. I stumbled upon this brand last week, it looks promising. Sadly they don’t have presence in my country. Sure there’s ebay, international sellers and possibly other ways, but I don’t want to buy such a thing with non-local warranty.
- Comment on Synology/QNAP/Asustor 1 month ago:
Thanks for the reply. For now, I only intend to stream music if anything at all.
And as for the services, the main gripe now is adblock, honestly. There’s also cheap N100 mini pc burried in my drawer that I intended to run Proxmox on and play with it. But that’s reserved for “when I have time” winter evenings or so.
- Comment on Synology/QNAP/Asustor 1 month ago:
I don’t need it. But since I can’t use spinning drives due to noise reasons, there are only SATA SSD and M.2 SSD options. And while SATA speed is definitely enough for me, M.2 drives are actually cheaper for whatever reason. That way I could even go with things like Flashstor that only has M.2 slots.
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- Comment on [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax? 1 month ago:
That’s what’s so dumb with it! As I said, in EU you see the final price, including tax. So “healthier option” with lower tax would instantly be seen as cheaper than “unhealty” one with heftier tax. This way it could actually work.
- Comment on [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I was talking about local stores mainly. Online it’s understandable as every state has its own view on taxes, same as each state in EU (we’re not federation though).
- Comment on [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax? 1 month ago:
As a regular European I never even understood why US shops list prices without tax. It feels just dumb. When I go to store here the store is required to show final price on tag - meaning including tax and recycling/author fee if there’s one. Seems much more user friendly.
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 2 months ago:
When either of those things happen it is a good idea to run steam (lutris, bottles) from terminal to see what it’s trying to do while “not working”. Helped me couple times.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes windows 11 ads into windows 10 2 months ago:
Yeah, basically. Except for the S part.
- Comment on Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October 2 months ago:
We’re about to buy a few new laptops at work. My boss is hardcore Dell fan, I need to prove him it’s no better than anything else on the market.
I’m suggesting either Thinkbook (cheap option, comparable specs cost 2/3 of Dell) or Probook/Elitebook which are still considerably cheaper than Dell in my country.
- Comment on With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market 2 months ago:
So basically attaching regular PC to the TV…
- Comment on With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market 2 months ago:
Microsoft make big buck by everyone and their dog having Windows PC and paying for O365. Especially corpos, that also pay for Teams, skype, azure, etc.
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 2 months ago:
Yeah, I wouldn’t get in such a death trap ever, but who am I? Imagining I have infinite money and the world is a sandbox for me, would this feel like “just another thing to keep me interested” like space jumps or formula rental or similar adrenaline gigs? Most likely yes. Everyone in my multi-billionaire social bubble would probably do similar things, so… Why not deep dive? I have paid lot of money, what could go wrong.
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 2 months ago:
It looked worse than cheapest capsule hotel ever built…
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 2 months ago:
Honestly. I can’t afford deep sea submarine dive. I can afford a train ticket though. Do I question every train company, every train driver and coductor whether their train is real dully functional train? No, I simply assume it is, because how else would it be even possible for them to operate it in this day and age?
And I believe these rich people did the exact same thing, jist with a different machine…
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla is an AI company now. Here’s how plausible that is. 3 months ago:
By sheer weight of his wealth spent on bribes here and there.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla is an AI company now. Here’s how plausible that is. 3 months ago:
AI means Automobile Industry. Right? Right?!?