JustARegularNerd

@JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Google Photos popup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ridiculous, its enabled by default on any new device you set up and sign in to. I could have missed turning off iCloud on my iMac, but I didn’t have any problems before updating it, and then after I updated it I had iCloud full notifications, so I’m pretty sure it was off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Google Photos popup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was feeling smug that being on LineageOS and now GrapheneOS for almost a decade I’ve never seen this.

  …then I remembered my fucking iMac seemed to turn on iCloud photo backup last week after updating and next thing I know all the obsolete iPads I get from work are telling me how my iCloud storage is full

  Seriously this iCloud shit is on by default, predatory ass tech companies. I’m pretty sure I disabled it on that iMac but it’s so possible that my own device can gaslight me that I’m left unsure. It’s off now and I spent an afternoon removing all those photos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wall⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This photo takes me back to when I’d make mock environments in Unreal or Unity engines

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck happened to YouTube!?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From my experience, if you’re on iOS then Brave is the only browser I know of that includes a built-in adblocker (although I have my own issues with Brave).

  If you’re on Android, should be able to just install Firefox (or a fork like Fennec), tap the three dots in the app > Extensions > uBlock Origin

  If you’re otherwise using the YouTube app, I don’t have much to add in that respect as I usually use Invidious or NewPipe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only a support tech chiming in, so far I’ve found when it goes wrong, it causes errors or behaviours that are unusual and could be hard to trace back. Clients might be confused as to why their laptop isn’t connecting to some services but their co-worker still can.

  I’ve currently got an infuriating issue where the DNS on my modem just dies at seemingly random intervals. I set up a monitor using Uptime Kuma to let me know when it goes down, and ever since it just hasn’t been a problem yet so I have no idea why it’s going down. I might just set up a pihole and just work around the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose your difficulty⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably the most I check in day to day life is just under the toilet seat before I sit on it. Haven’t yet had a spider under there yet but have definitely heard of it. Otherwise just being careful of huntsmen when you have something like two sheets of iron or wood, as they love to be in between them.

  Have otherwise had little spiders come out from the car’s crevices while driving and calmly pulled over to deal with it.

  Overall not really that paranoid or bad in Australia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP mentions in the post details that this is a work laptop. Switching to Linux also isn’t as simple for most people. I’m fairly technically minded and I still took nearly a year to fully switch, and I decided a year ago that to just not have the headache of virtual machines and/or dual booting, I’m back daily driving Windows because my degree requires me to use stuff that only works on Windows.

  For you it may have been a pretty quick switch because your circumstances would’ve almost certainly differed.

  That’s why I think you’re being down voted. If we want to drive Linux adoption, this isn’t the way and never was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Handy temperature conversion scale.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a slight exaggeration, but I know here in Australia if you went out in 42C with no sun protection then yeah, you’re not having a good time and it is a risk to life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is my voice annoyingly high?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you stream? Purely based on your voice, I’d be interested in popping in and watching. I think your voice is completely fine FWIW

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New Teams is a rewrite of the old Teams client which is intended to be faster and better to develop for MS as it’s based on a newer framework.

  However it does seem to still have a few odd bugs here and there. I do find it faster myself though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lesson in Input Validation⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What you can’t see is that’s only about 6% printed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll definitely look into it, I have had a couple friends play it before actually, so they might be able to give me a steer on how to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have, and generally I get overwhelmed with how complicated they can get, especially the really popular modpacks that add magic and stuff like that.

  I usually end up making my own “Vanilla+” kind of modpack, but I’ve gotten bored with most mods that I would usually add to that.

  With that being said, I might try adding only a few of the more technical mods and seeing if I enjoy that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was coming back into Minecraft but wanted to make the game feel more spicy because vanilla survival has gotten boring for me, so I’ve been playing the latest April Fools snapshot “The Vote Update” in hardcore, with a personal rule that I cannot say “Do nothing” to any vote.

  I did lose my first world to “Replace Creeper spawns with Warden” but the second world has been going well, and it’s definitely a more chaotic and interesting way to play the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This person's rejection reason⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t on their résumé it was on their LinkedIn.

  Although now the question becomes, why would you put your DOB on LinkedIn, which I have no idea.