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- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 5 days ago:
Just be sure to check support before buying any newish laptop. I really like my ASUS Duo Pro 2024, but ASUS adamantly refuses to lift a finger for proper Linux support for special features. Even the audio chipset which is standard somehow doesn’t work with default kernels due to something they’ve done. Dual screen can be made to work with some scripting-fu, but the keyboard’s multimedia keys just don’t work at all.
Vote with your wallets and be noisy to those brands who don’t support Linux well. Let them know if lack of Linux support was why you didn’t buy.
- Comment on Why are Google's Assistant(s) so bad nowadays? 3 weeks ago:
The Assistan/Nest devices have gone to shit as well. When I first bought one about 5 years ago, it could:
- play many games (voice-controlled text adventures, multi-player gameshow-style trivia and party games, etc.);
- play music from my Google Music Library library with no commercials;
- play podcasts from 3rd party podcast providers;
- play almost any radio station that also had livestream feeds
Now all the games are gone, and ‘podcasts’ are just the small subset of podcasters who also upload their episodes to Youtube (whatever feed they used to use had almost every podcaster there was, even obscure ones); asking for specific episodes by episode number or date is totally broken. Playing radio stations is hit or miss, the voice recognition often picks a stream completely unrelated to the one I ask for; it is waaay worse at matching the callsign/city I ask for.
Playing music is intolerable. There’s a stupid commercial for Youtube Music Premium after nearly every track. NO, I will not upgrade to your freaking Youtube Premium.
Enshittification, thy name is Google.
- Comment on i’m not religious. stop trying to force me to be. 3 weeks ago:
Stay true to your principles. There are many, many others out there who agree with you. One’s religion should NEVER motivate one to force it upon others.
In fact I think there is no true “freedom of religion” without “freedom FROM religion”. If only our governments would codify this explicitly into law.
- Comment on Open Source Github Repositories in Danger of being Deleted 3 weeks ago:
Dunno about docker setup, but I mirror github repos I worry may disappear automatically using my self-hosted gogs instance. (Gitea/Forgejo likely also can do it). It’s point-and-click, you just specify the github URL and check a box “this is a mirror”.
- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 4 weeks ago:
It is a plant, just of a sort that has turned to parasitism I suppose for its nutrients. I believe they are part of a larger family of plants named saprophytes.
- Comment on fireflies 4 weeks ago:
Same for ladybird beetles (ladybugs)! They love undisturbed autumn leaves and are natural pest control, so you should give them any opportunity possible to over-winter their eggs in your yard :)
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 5 weeks ago:
Vivaldi on Linux and Windows is still good in my experience, and so far uBlock Origin for manifest v2 still works. I hope they keep v2 support forever, forking completely if they must.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
“He who saves his country has committed no crime.” -Donald Trump (reading a post-it note handed to him by Felon Musk, quoting Napoleon, or something)
- Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study 1 month ago:
I’ll let you know once I receive mine, fate willing :)
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” 1 month ago:
Heh
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” 1 month ago:
…but a properly functioning calculator doesn’t confidently state the square root of -1 is pi… all current AIs make shit up when they don’t actually find a factual answer, or parrot back wrong answers from whatever crap they trained on. Until the problems of recursive ingestion decay and lack of ability to introspect on the correctness or provenance of data is solved, they cannot be trusted and they give a false sense of confidence.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 1 month ago:
…and for those on Linux there is ‘DeGouru’, a tool for de-DRMing internet archive books that are lending-restricted.
A bit annoying in that it is somewhat sensitive to the Python version one has installed but there are ways to manage that which I am not qualified to advise on.
- Comment on Home - YaCy - P2P search engine 1 month ago:
Neat, will try it out.
Has anyone written an android desktop search widget for it? A quick search only foumd one veeery old experimental project.
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 1 month ago:
Absolutely – I hate how we’ve been raised to think of time in monetary terms; I have to remind myself on days off that “No, I do not need to do anything it’s my day off! I can sleep in… no need to be productive …”
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 1 month ago:
Imagine the reduction in e-waste if everyone in high school took a short course in how to use a soldering iron, solder-sucker/braid and heat-gun to replace common bits in consumer electronics. So many things could be saved that get thrown out only due to a bad microswitch or cracked solder joint to a USB or headphone connector …
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 1 month ago:
True. It isn’t always about a cost/labour analysis. Sometimes I want to repair something to learn how to do it. Sometimes I want to repair something because even though ‘my time is valuable’, I hate the idea of throwing out something I know will rot in the landfill for a thousand years. Sometimes I’m just attached to the thing and afraid I won’t find a replacement that is as good (which is often the case).
I hate our throwaway culture, it’s good to know how to fix things even if it isn’t technically ‘cost effective’ to do so.
- Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study 1 month ago:
- Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study 1 month ago:
Guess all the oligarchs are getting envious of ol’ FelonMusk and want to get in on the action…
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 month ago:
Oh, they know exactly what they’re doing. They are attempting (and apparently succeeding) to bulldoze their way through an administrative coup.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This reads like AI slop. Or, even worse, new age gibberish. Downvoted
- Comment on When will we have auto turrets mounted on plane engines to stop birdstrikes? 1 month ago:
Easy, use dry ice bullets!
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 1 month ago:
On desktop: uBlock origin (Vivaldi or Firefox). On mobile: Newpipe and AdAway (VPN mode, or rooted phone).
- Comment on Liberating manuals from the many jails of manuals into InternetArchive 1 month ago:
I have particular seething hatred for Scribd. That site needs to die in a fire (after all of its jailed manuals are liberated, of course ;) )
- Comment on Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’ 1 month ago:
If it doesn’t 100% look like a Heil, and isn’t repeated twice, sure.
- Comment on Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals 1 month ago:
archive.is or their mirrors should also be used, as archive.org has proven vulnerable to takedown requests from corporations, wouldn’t surprise me if they could be coerced into removing their data by USA govt request as well.
- Comment on Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’ 1 month ago:
As they say though, even a broken clock can be right twice a day
Use of a phrase doesn’t automatically imply agreement with its originator.
- Comment on Self host websites 1 month ago:
Yeah… and unless you really, really enjoy configuring your own stuff and tinkering, a hosting service is much easier.
- Comment on Self host websites 1 month ago:
If you’re in Canada, Rogers (nee Shaw) and Telus business small business plans both offer ‘static’ IPs (Shaw’s residential plans aren’t officially static, but they rarely change on a residential modem unless you are always switching out hardware). Telus business fibre 1GB plan offers up to 5 static IP addresses.
Then you must purchase one or more domain names and assign them to your IP address… depending on your business’s needs even small consumer hardware can run a web server just fine.
Have a backup strategy though! And be sure you actually test the restore procedure on a periodic basis!
My home server is my own, but if money is on the line you want proper backup and failover even. Most Linux distributions are easy-peasy to set up with Apache or nginx web servers but if you’ve never set those up you’ll need to study lots of tutorials and manual pages.
If you don’t want to tend to security and backups yourself though, it might be best to find a hosting service.
- Comment on Simple Sabotage Field Manual by the United States. Office of Strategic Services four friends in the US. 1 month ago:
There are multiple PDF copies on archive.org as well, which are somewhat more readable.
- Comment on Donald Trump imposes tariffs but Canada and Mexico hit back 1 month ago:
What would you recommend I look for from Sweden? I’m always open to new foods to try!