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- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 3 days ago:
Apart from usuals like spotify or bandcamp, 8cd also like to introduce gnod here: www.gnod.com
I do not use it very often, but it’s quite nice to browse the recommendations based on what you were recently listening once in a while.
- Comment on Does anyone use https://presearch.com/ 5 days ago:
Wow, that trackers bullshit is even worse than I thought.
After all I’m glad that I asked. Something felt fishy about Presearch from the start and I couldn’t pin point what exactly. Reading through all the terms and technicalities was exhausting, so this thread was nice kind of tldr.
Thanks everyone.
- Comment on Does anyone use https://presearch.com/ 6 days ago:
I don’t know, the best I can do is hope. I’m not a native speaker and my english lessons are long gone, so I put words here and there as they came to my mind hoping the other side will understand… Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
- Comment on Does anyone use https://presearch.com/ 1 week ago:
My bad, did not notice it before. It could not be this visible, though, right?
- Comment on Does anyone use https://presearch.com/ 1 week ago:
I was PRE-blind then, which is not unexpected…
- Comment on Does anyone use https://presearch.com/ 1 week ago:
That crypto part must be new, it definitely wasn’t there some time ago. Anyway, glad I’m not the one smelling something fishy in this…
- Comment on Does anyone use https://presearch.com/ 1 week ago:
Yeah, that crypto part must be new(ish). I remember it definitely wasn’t there about half year ago when I first find out presearch. I believe it had no account to create either.
Well, I’ll give SearXNG another chance I assume.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 30 comments
- Comment on Cheap, but reliable SSDs? 2 weeks ago:
Well, I remembered it wrong, it’s only 100 TB written. Still quite a lot IMO.
- Comment on Cheap, but reliable SSDs? 2 weeks ago:
Yep, it’s a lot, but it should be right. Hope I did not misread the numbers. It runs quite write-heavy warehouse and cash register store database, running 24/7. I don’t have the drive by me now, but I’ll try to remember and post pic on Monday when I’m back to work.
- Comment on Snikket is a simple, secure and private messaging app (based on XMPP) 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how does this differ from plain XMPP? There are tons of XMPP clients for every imaginable device, includong browser ones.
- Comment on Cheap, but reliable SSDs? 2 weeks ago:
We have hundreds of Samsung 860/870 EVOs in operation at my work now. All of them are working reliably in both windows and linux machines running 24/7 for years. Some more heavily used (local postgres db) are probably not in the best condition, but still working. Speaking of mostly 250 GB ones.
We used to buy OCZ brand. First OCZs (Vertex 3) were amazing, some of them are still in work for 10+ years. Vertex 460 still great, again, some are still in use. But ever since Toshiba came in and old models were replaced with Trion models, it went to shit. Some of those models in the same environment started to fail (and I mean critical failures, like no OS after reboot or missing data etc.) after less than a year. Some of them still run in less critical PCs with light use, but do I trust the brand? Hell no.
I just checked one 250 GB OCZ Vertex 3 running for ~10 years with Crystaldisk. It has over 220 TB written, 300 TB read, and crystaldisk still shows roughly 40% lifetime left. It ran in badly wented, really dusty Dell Optiplex with Windows XP.
- Comment on This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born 5 weeks ago:
I’m not native speaker so please excuse my stupid question. How does the “a” change the meaning? My language doesn’t even have articles so I have troubles with using them or understanding such nuances.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 5 weeks ago:
Not the person you replied to, but I think I get his meaning.
Windows/MS obviously has strong opinion on how the desktop should look like and behave and they’re shoveling it to the user hard. Gnome tends to do the same thing, although the UI/UX is completely different. Yet the similarity is in the forceful pushing said concept to the user whether user likes it or not.
Sure there are plugins for gnome so you can customize it a lot after all, but it requires some tinkering and your regular not tech savvy user won’t ever find a way to do so.
- Comment on Does portable bluetooth speaker with USB input exist? 1 month ago:
Nice, this looks like a winner! How does it play?
- Comment on Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. 2 months ago:
According to user name I’d say because he’s Russian? I can’t speak for everyone, but people I know have nothing against ordinary Russians. It’s those in charge (i.e. Putin and his boys) that took the Russian nation hostage that everyone hates.
- Comment on Does portable bluetooth speaker with USB input exist? 2 months ago:
This is interesting! Thanks for the find.
- Comment on Does portable bluetooth speaker with USB input exist? 2 months ago:
As stated couple times in my replies. My PC doesn’t have Bluetooth capability. Need to buy dongle first.
- Comment on Does portable bluetooth speaker with USB input exist? 2 months ago:
I know, but my PC doesn’t have Bluetooth. Yet. USB dongles are pretty cheap as I see…
- Comment on Does portable bluetooth speaker with USB input exist? 2 months ago:
Interesting, this is also a good point.
- Comment on Does portable bluetooth speaker with USB input exist? 2 months ago:
Thanks for the insightful reply. Since I couldn’t find one such device myself, I concluded using bluetooth dongle was next-best step.
- Comment on Does portable bluetooth speaker with USB input exist? 2 months ago:
Main reason is I have small desk and my OCD is really picky about cable mess. So the lowest possible amount of cables is a must. Two cables for such a single-purpose device is too luxurious.
The other one is I have audio interface/headphone amp which has only balanced outputs, thus requiring bulky Y cable from this one to speaker. Or bypassing the interface with AUX cable from lowend motherboard audio.
Well, thinking about it if nothing comes up, I might buy bluetooth dongle and use the speaker wireless. And charge it with regular phone charger every once in a while… (Then I’d have to find one reliable linux friendly dongle.)
- Submitted 2 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on Thanks to OpenAI, it's never been clearer that Sundar Pichai is Google's Steve Ballmer 2 months ago:
PhotoPrism is kind of that thing on self hosted NAS.
Or alternatively both biggest NAS makers Synology and Qnap have their own things for that.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 2 months ago:
“I’m now billionaire, I don’t need the money anymore…”
…said no billionaire ever, yet people still choose to believe this crap.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 2 months ago:
You’re not fucking around my friend, well done.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 2 months ago:
What about Al Bundy?
- Comment on Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see 2 months ago:
Collateral damage…
- Comment on Why do (desktop) PC have so few USB ports ? 2 months ago:
Thinking about this, my Mobo has only 5+c on back panel and I was bit afraid of that. Well, why though? Keyboard, mouse, usb audio and well, that is it. Sometimes I plug in extra usb mic. I don’t have printer or some weird setup, hard drives etc. When I want to connect flash drive, I put it to one of 2 extra slots in front. Same with mobile when I want to transfer something.
- Comment on Why do (desktop) PC have so few USB ports ? 2 months ago:
Why would you need usb headset when you have audio interface?