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- Comment on Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week 6 days ago:
I am curious as to how they plan on handling dark sites moving forward. They appear to be gradually removing all references to local accounts and disabling local account installers. Is the goal to push all dark site deployments off of Windows?
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
My main thought here is that if they were based out of a non-US location, maybe they could have kept on operating. If I were Cuban, I’d be looking to startup something like this and offer global services. Hardware is cheap so the main cost is bandwidth which has been coming down. You would have trouble with CDNs as they would get muscled out of supporting the platform but that could be overcome with geographic partners.
- Comment on Elon Musk has another secret child with exec at his brain implant company 1 week ago:
I cant even picture how he would have meaningful relationships with the children as they have three different mothers so at least three different households on top of him being CEO of multiple companies. I wonder how often he even sees the kids. Maybe this is the Republican dream of spawning more children but never having to raise or care for any of them outside of maybe an annual trip to Disney Land or some shit.
- Comment on Get Pasteurised 1 week ago:
This whole raw milk thing is truly breaking my remaining faith in humanity. Like I saw how we responded to COVID and everything we’ve done across the past hundred plus years in destroying environments, greed, and selfishness but for some reason this raw milk saga is kinda like the straw that broke the camels back. Just intentionally trying to work against the whole species.
- Comment on Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira 1 month ago:
Probably going to be what happened to Toys R Us where the company currently has value but private equity will pull out cash and anything not bolted down and load up what remains with extreme amounts of debt before abandoning what remains. The skeleton of a company that remains will be viewed as unviable as it will have large amounts of debt and no cash once the vultures have stripped everything off.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 months ago:
Except that is what China already does. Cloud providers with regions in China have to utilize a local partner company which gives access to the whole tech stack. It’s a reason that AWS China regions were always so far behind in service offerings to the rest of the AWS regions.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 2 months ago:
I would have thought the same thing but the after hours ticker has the stock up damn near $20 which is just insane to me.
- Comment on Papua New Guinea leader responds to Biden comment, saying nation undeserving of cannibalism label 2 months ago:
Sounds like something a cannibal would say.
- Comment on The Tiny Ultrabright Laser that Can Melt Steel 2 months ago:
That was incredibly interesting to read. I don’t know anything about lasers but am now heading down the rabbit hole.
- Comment on Humane AI Pin review: not even close 2 months ago:
That was my thought, someone watched Star Trek and wanted to give it a go. I am always in favor of pursuing Star Trek tech so I hope this makes improvements.
- Comment on America Is Sick of Swiping 2 months ago:
The last time I saw someone ask this question, the general response was to start participating in new hobbies and meeting people. Considering that our time is typically already packed full if you try and eat healthy, have a job, go to the gym, hang out with friends there isn’t a whole lot of extra time for new hobbies and activities. That response always felt so empty like if I had that much free time I would have already been doing something fun with it. Dating apps seem to me like the only option to date outside your existing social circle. It’s a sign of the times and our lack of time.
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 2 months ago:
I appreciate the recommendation! I’ll check out FlexASIO and QJackCtl.
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 2 months ago:
LOL after typing my last comment I checked the Reaper site and they have arm builds. I may just try it out on the rpi for the fun of it.
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 2 months ago:
That is amazing. I would try it on my spare rpi4 but I doubt Reaper has an arm build.
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 2 months ago:
I have the 2i2 and this is what I was hoping to hear. I’ve always had it hooked up to Windows and it drops off daily to where I need to reset the sample rate to get it working again. Apparently it happens on Windows relatively often so looking forward to that not happening on Linux. I also hear that Reaper works in Linux so those are the last of my concerns.
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 2 months ago:
I haven’t had the chance to run an external audio interface through Linux so not sure how smooth the transitions work with multiple recording sources. According to Focusrite, Linux is supported so hopefully it won’t be too rough.
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 2 months ago:
So I’ve got a year to get everything I need running on Fedora. My only concern is Linux audio configs as I never have to use audio running servers.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 2 months ago:
Aight. So it’s time for me to start taking this seriously. Has anyone tried using like a GrapheneOS or LineageOS as a Roku or FireTV replacement? Is there anything like that which will support an experience with a regular remote control and have apps like Netflix and Hulu work?
- Comment on Radxa Penta SATA HAT adds up to five SATA drives to the Raspberry Pi 5 3 months ago:
Anyone know what the throughout would look like on that? Would love to use it for SSDs if it’s fast or spinning disks if it could run at a reasonable rate.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Man they really jumped the shark at number 4. I mean you had to suspend rational belief across all of them but that’s just movie magic. Number 4 took it too far.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 3 months ago:
My Win10 machine is an audio workstation (DAW) so I am curious how the migration to Linux will work out. Reaper has a Linux port so that should be OK. Hopefully all the VSTs will still work and I’ll have to check on my Focusrite Scarlett. I am not buying a new machine just to run this stuff as it’s just a hobby.
- Comment on Nginx core developer quits project in security dispute, starts “freenginx” fork 4 months ago:
So I am a bit confused on this one. Why does this particular developer or anyone really, disagree with assigning CVEs to releases code? I mean I get that it is experimental but having associated CVEs adds to disclosure on the experimental features. What is the downside of the assigned CVEs? I was all ready to jump on F5 being wrong but it sounds like they may have taken the right position. Can someone elaborate on why that may not be the case?
- Comment on Closing the Data Broker Loophole - Congress must pass legislation that prohibits government agencies from buying its way around the Fourth Amendment and other legal privacy protections. 4 months ago:
I feel like this is the forest-through-the-trees comment. The data shouldn’t exist and that should be the direction of legislation. If it’s available for purchase then I think it would be weird that any schmuck could buy it but not the government. If the data collection is stopped, no one gets it and everyone wins.
- Comment on Anybody here running AD on-prem in your homelab? 4 months ago:
I run AD at home but it’s because my job is in enterprise software engineering and so running these programs in my home lab requires AD integrations. It’s also needed for HyperV and SCVMM along with things like SQL server auth and GMSA which I can’t get out of testing. Ironically most of my work is in open source/Linux but Windows servers are all over the Enterprise so I don’t have a choice but to run this stuff. No real users on it and just used for the lab.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 4 months ago:
If it were me, I wouldn’t be as worried if I wasn’t there to lose stuff. If I was there I would be concerned with violence against me or my family. Not concerned with stuff but very concerned with safety.
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 4 months ago:
This comment made me wonder what happened to Caitlyn Jenner.
- Comment on TikTok sounds go silent as songs disappear from app 4 months ago:
This could be a good move for everyone. It said TikTok has agreements with everyone else so many other artists will have the chance to get noticed now. The Universal artists are already well known and don’t really need more promotion anyways. This gives the smaller people a chance. Aight I’m off to learn an instrument, write a song, create a record label, and sign up for TikTok exposure. Wish me luck…how hard could it be.
- Comment on The Perfect Solution 5 months ago:
Same here. I’m pasting my password here and it will encrypt it so no one can see it other than me: *******
- Comment on Jeffrey Katzenberg: AI Will Take 90% of Artist Jobs on Animated Films In Just Three Years 5 months ago:
I feel the same way about modern music but I can’t tell if it’s the music or just me getting old.
- Comment on Netflix Resumes Advertising on X After Elon Musk Controversy 6 months ago:
I mean that’s probably the preferred path but I can’t see how that realistically happens. There are too many individuals globally with too much to lose that will think their loss of capital is worth bringing down the whole human race. I’m sure they would rather see the world in ashes rather than succeed under an alternate system where they may not be on top.