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Man, I've had a feeling that LTT and LMG's content more generally has been less and less about consumers and more about selling things to people. I guess it's called "advertainment" - but it's just so intolerable now. I don't feel connected to, or like any of the content is relevant anymore to a regular person.

When your employees are complaining that they can't create the content to the standard they want to because of time, it really sounds like a management problem. One they Linus seems determined to ignore so that they can keep raking in big sponsorships and sales of their overpriced over hyped merch so they can buy ever bigger mansions.

The whole tone of the enterprise is off and the vibes are bad.

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I wish android natively has a roll back option to un-update apps... But that would be too user-friendly, I suppose.

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Why can't we just do it like the rest of the world where the IRS (or equivalent) does it and you just sign off on it being correct? They should already have all the data they need from corporate quarterly filings.

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Well, shit.

If you uninstall is there any guarantee that the kernel level anticheat gets removed, too, or are they in there forever?

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We lived in a house with a bunch of roommates when we got our dog, and at some point "fuck off" became "go lie down on your bed and get outta my space"... So now if "go lie down" isn't taking, then "fuck off" works...

I'm trying to figure out what to buy now because my TV from 20 years ago finally died. Can't find anything that's essentially a large monitor.

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Feels good to finally be part of the 1%

Health!

I, too, love my old Brother laser printer. Their website is absolute garbage though. I don't know what they did to it, but it is just slow as hell.

Definitely spend the extra $10 for duplex printing or regret it for the rest of your life.

(Seriously, why even make non-diplex printers?)

Sony is a Japanese corporation

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Homelabber here, stuck in Comcast hell with 10Mbps upload.

I wish I could afford to bring the local municipal fiber to my house, but to go like 2 city blocks with it would be tens of thousands of dollars. :(

I'm considering a local colocation/ datacenter to move my homelab to. But then it wouldn't be a homelab anymore

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I emailed my "care team" asking if they could help me figure out if I have been dealing with undiagnosed adult ADHD and they wrote back with a phone number to call.

I haven't called them.

It's been 3? 4? Days.

From everything I've heard about running a reliable and trustworthy email service, it sounds like a fucking nightmare. I'm glad to pay something like proton to handle it for me.

This is my take as well. I hope folks figure it out and that laws like these get wiped out.

Also gotta make sure it doesn't "expire" or be the sucker buying ewaste that's "no longer supported"

Because it accelerates the user experience when transitioning from non-hdcp to hdcp-protected content on their display(s). There's no need for re-negotiation of the display protocol causing some minor flickering during the transition.

But that only matters if you're presenting mixed content.

Yeah.

Greetings!

Not really self hosting a lot right now, but I've been spending a lot of time reengineering my network and fixing some things. Recently retired my loud and power-hungry pfsense server, replacing it with a Mikrotik rb5009, so setting that up has been a steep learning curve.

Most things are running on my Synology DS920+, except for a few raspberry pis.

  • Jellyfin (docker)
  • Kavita (docker)
  • Home Assistant (pi4)
  • Paperless-ngx (docker)
  • PiHole (pi zero) currently broken
  • Unifi controller (docker)
  • Grafana (home assistant)
  • InfluxDB (docker)
  • LibreNMS (VM)

Would need to convince a local business down there to support it, but it's not a terrible idea.

But it is a terrible situation that this is the length people need to go to to work around Comcast / DOCSIS lopsided networking.

I mean ... Of your mom's still around... Maybe buy fish and like, ask to learn the recipe and cook it yourself? I'm not a mom, I'm a dad, but I cook a lot and if my kid wanted to learn what I do when cooking, that'd be cool.

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And sometimes they don't. You gotta check ahead, unless you're going there anyway

Libraries are fuckin rad. Everyone should go to their local library if they exist locally. Just going in and out the door helps their counts.

I wish my town (typical mid-size USA) was safer for bicycling. I'd actually get my bike out and use it for short trips for beer or whatever.

For now I walk or drive and I feel shitty every time I drive short distances

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Sounds like you have a high level of financial stability and trust in the State to not blacklist your wallet eyeball

Except for trucks

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You can also send either direction via the share menu, so long as you have your Firefox account signed in to them.

Same

Yeah, we call it "ruby" for red, "sapphire" for not-red, and more generally "corundum"

I have a single spreadsheet with fairly simple formulas for calculating monthly expenses based on average recurring bills vs. (after tax) salary income.

I can see generally what my "discretionary" balance should be and that gets spent on food, stuff, etc.

Things that are recurring: Mortgage, Utilities (take annual average if you can), services, savings, etc.

Use savings like any other bill - a certain amount must be paid/deposited every month. Use automatic balance transfers from checking->savings on payday to facilitate.

I don't try to get too fancy with it and heavily leverage automatic bill pay for making sure I can't forget anything.

Check all your accounts regularly. For me that's a weekend task to do with my morning coffee. Check account balances, make sure credit accounts are addressed as needed, review investments if applicable, but don't freak out about them.

I'm partial to treating investments as long term gambles that are NOT something I'm relying on for retirement. It's just something else to slowly build up over the long run that might be something that can help later or pass on.

Yeah, 4. Bought when we bought the house. Kitchen, bedroom, garage, and living roon where the wood stove is. Little one-time use ones in basement and kitchen again.

If you're able, try and trust a VPN provider, and route all your networking traffic through them. At least that'll cut out your ISP from being able to harvest as much.

I basically stopped using wired headphones when Work From Home became a thing. I kept getting up from my desk and wanting to keep my audio going while wandering around and having wireless is perfect for my small house. I would definitely want to go back to wired if I was commuting or out in public daily though.

Do itttt It's a great game to lose a few (dozen) hours to

And then you open it to find an off-putting empty shelf with a half opened sandwich from the other side of the store...

I also endorse and recommend proton for de-googling.

There's also central market (now Town and Country Market(s))

They also expand your storage every year, so it's not like it's stuck there forever. For reference, I've been on Proton for about 3 years now (paid plan) and I have a data storage cap of 540GB and I've never had to buy more. Also, I all my emails so far only consume 340MB - so even on the free plan I'd still have years to go before I reached even 5GB.

(Also, I'll admit I don't email much.)

This has happened exactly once to me, and it was the VPN, and not the email address.

Paid plan folks can also make use of simplelogin.io

I didn't know those existed... but I kinda hate that they do. Can the Garmin radar delete a car that's about to hit me?

But really, for $300+ it should also photograph the license plate of the car that hits you and automatically SOS when it detects an impact.

I mean, doesn't that sound like a ridiculous product that shouldn't need to exist?

I disagree with the premise that it's the responsibility of the cyclist or pedestrian to avoid being murdered by a 2-ton vehicle. Having something like the Garmin radar on your bicycle seems like yet another thing that would make it EASIER for a driver to argue that it's the cyclist's fault in an accident, right? "They had a radar, it's not my fault they were in my way!" Just like the "it's their fault they're dead because they weren't wearing a helmet!" Argument.

In the worst timeline I could see a municipality trying to require these on ebikes for "safety" while in effect making non-equipped bikes illegal to ride. Which would be great for the car companies.