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- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 weeks ago:
Not to take up for his point, but windows 10 was in development years before Nadella. The only version of windows totally under his governance has been the disastrous windows 11. So I guess I have him to thank for finally giving me the kick in the pants to fully switch to Linux.
I guess the point I need to make is that Microsoft was not good before or during Nadella. There have been bright spots, but not enough for me to have then outweigh all the other crap pulled both during and before Nadella.
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 3 weeks ago:
Censorship of words makes me not know which definition of regarded you are using.
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 1 month ago:
The way to get around this is to have your router block outgoing dns requests to anything but your dns server (which I have my pihole do double duty for)
- Comment on Is there a Mastodon android app that has the option to open mastodon instances in the app 1 month ago:
Thanks. This did the trick. Any chance you’ll make Lemmy redirect compatible with Voyager?
- Comment on Is there a Mastodon android app that has the option to open mastodon instances in the app 1 month ago:
This is my latest example. !comicstrips@lemm.ee/post/26313185 I ran across this post in Lemmy and basically got tired of trying to find a workaround that involved a bunch of steps to interact with the toot. I just wish Lemmy redirect worked with Voyager.
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- Comment on Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them 1 month ago:
Remember when Nokia was king? Yup, lack of regulations then. I’m not saying it’s not a coincidence, but it certainly could be. I am glad to see Nokia’s resurgence in the infrastructure area in tech though.
- Comment on AMC to Pay $8 Million for Alleged Violation of Video Privacy Law Through Use of Tracking Technologies, Including Meta Pixel, X Tracking Pixel, and Google Tracking Technology 2 months ago:
It physically exists on my hard drive after being converted from an encrypted version
- Comment on Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports 2 months ago:
Guess I better figure out how to redirect DNS requests to my pihole on my router
- Comment on ‘What do you mean, the tower is gone?’: thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station | Alabama 2 months ago:
Carmen Sandiego level crime
- Comment on Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge 2 months ago:
I think most of the regulations for truckers here in the US were made in mind with how long the distance is between everything.
As far as driving my EV goes, ideally I would like to get 3-4 driving hours in before recharges, but only when the drive is longer than 6 hours total. I’d rather just get there sooner. I currently drive a Bolt EUV and it’s an hour charging for every 2-3 driving. Longer road trips take some planning especially when driving across middle America where the charging network isn’t that great yet. Meals are easy, but in between meals planning an hour long stop can be challenging.
- Comment on Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge 2 months ago:
All of our driving has to be completed in 14 hours (11 hours driving total). When I drove over the road (not home every night) I usually tried to aim for a leg stretch every 4 hours. I’d usually walk around the rig and check things out for leg stretchers. For the 30 min break I would find a rest area or a truck stop and have a proper meal and I usually took longer than 30 for that break unless the place was boring. When i would take breaks were usually determined by location along the route.
- Comment on Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge 2 months ago:
Truck drivers have to take breaks every 4.5 hours for 45 minutes.
Is this a specific state requirement? I ask because that’s not what the FMCSA says. It’s 30 minute break every 8 hours (USA) and it can be any activity including including work (except driving) that would satisfy the requirement. Source, am a truck driver and …dot.gov/…/summary-hours-service-regulations see 30-minute driving break section.
- Comment on Tech Employee Who Went Viral for Filming Her Firing Has No Regrets 3 months ago:
Paywall removed
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds in Assistant, hardware, engineering teams 3 months ago:
Anyone got a self hostable smart display and smart speaker setup? If I can build the devices myself, even better.
- Comment on Japan determines copyright doesn't apply to LLM/ML training data 4 months ago:
Is there a c/WTFJapan? Asking to keep track of future developments
- Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. 4 months ago:
It was during this time the transition to 64 bit systems became necessary to deal with needing to have more than 4GB of memory which was not helped by Vista using 2GB just to run, iirc. If your ran Vista 32 bit you had memory problems. Of you ran Vista 64 bit you had major compatibility problems. It wasn’t until the end of Vista’s life did 64 bit go mainstream.
- Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. 4 months ago:
I was done with Windows when the spying and built in advertising. Poor design decisions are one thing, but untrustworthy untoward actions to the user are another. The last shred of trustworthiness Micro$oft had in my eyes was was being mostly straight in Windows instead of the shady and underhanded shit. We should’ve seen it coming when they started offering free upgrades
- Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. 4 months ago:
I wish I was old enough to have access to install NT on the family compute at the time. My aunt and uncle had ME and it was bad enough that i knew to keep it off my family’s machine. Instead I stuck with 98 SE until XP and it gave me an excuse to build a new machine at the same time.
- Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. 4 months ago:
Are/were you a big fan of Vista and ME as well?
- Comment on 2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip 4 months ago:
- Comment on The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up 4 months ago:
Just a matter of time before we get Ghost in the Shell style cybernetics replacing parts of our brains
- Comment on Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds 4 months ago:
I have a feeling this is where the suburban and rural grids are going. Dense urban areas are likely still going to need power produced off site.
What I’m more interested in will be farms in whether they’ll stay traditional producing food or convert solar farms where food production is not the main focus (see the hops farming solar panels for example).
- Comment on The Google Play Store Ruling Is Bad News for Longtime Android Phone Users 4 months ago:
At this point I think people have been babied about technology long enough. It’s time people learned just a little bit about how to handle technology so that it doesn’t look like voodoo black magic anytime you do something more basic than opening YouTube and getting cat videos.
- Comment on Google to pay $700 million in case over whether its app store is an illegal monopoly 4 months ago:
Let me introduce you to []!fdroid@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules 4 months ago:
It’s not complicated at all. The constitution guarantees the right that no one be compelled to testify against themselves.
- Comment on 1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles 4 months ago:
My Bolt EUV uses automatic transmission fluid in the transfer case to reduce the RPMs of the motor to the wheels. Traditionally ATF is refined from crude, but you can use a synthetic replacement. As far as I know it doesn’t have any grease fittings either, so it’s all sealed in on bearings and the like. Don’t get me wrong though, it’s a massive reduction in petroleum usage though.
- Comment on HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated' 4 months ago:
It needs to be replaced. It’s about 15,000 pages past life expectancy
- Comment on HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated' 4 months ago:
Here’s my maintenance page, I’m not a heavy user, but when I do print, it’s usually a sizable job.
- Comment on HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated' 4 months ago:
Amateur, I have my HL5170DN from 2006 still going strong