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- Comment on Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts 1 month ago:
No I did not. Financial forum her is kind of dead. Not sure what other tax related forums there are on lemmy. My question was about some specific issues related to getting an incorrect 1095-C.
- Comment on Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts 1 month ago:
Maybe that is why I cannot see the answer. I have ublock origin enabled. :)
- Comment on Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts 1 month ago:
I put a question up yesterday and got no engagement with it in like 12 hours. Maybe no one that knows anything is answering questions now. I guess we will see.
- Comment on U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly 1 month ago:
Yes. This is why I would never use an iPhone. Closed walled garden. Cannot even load apps from other repos.
- Comment on Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled 2 months ago:
Yes we know who Musk is… and it is a very mixed bag. Some where around the time he became the world’s richest person I feel like something changed and he went over the top or over the edge. Not sure which.
- Comment on Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears 2 months ago:
I liked how the article tried to paint less fractional users from search as a positive. Too me that sounds like less relevance which is negative. Also interesting that Reddit no longer publishes that statistic. Make a me wonder why.
- Comment on Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears 2 months ago:
I was on Reddit the other day asking a tax question. Seemed like posting was less. Felt like a ghost town in some places subreddits. Just my impression.
I wonder if traffic and posting is really down?
- Comment on Any service cheaper than Backblaze? 2 months ago:
The other cheaper way is just 3 USB drives and rotate 1 off site. Should probably do that anyway.
- Comment on Any service cheaper than Backblaze? 2 months ago:
I have the same concern about them. Seems to me that one wants data in a professional and planned data center and based on contractual relationships.
- Comment on Any service cheaper than Backblaze? 2 months ago:
Thanks. That is what it seemed like to me. $245 for the software and $5 for the storage per month. Which of course is a bit nuts.
Block level deduplication does seem interesting. My experience file level dedup is not that effective though of course incremental are. Compression is not either but easy to do. Lot of document formats are already compressed too. Cross system dedup could be large savings also.
- Comment on Any service cheaper than Backblaze? 2 months ago:
I am confused. How is $250 per TB/month cheap. Backblaze B2 is about $5TB/mo.
- Comment on Any service cheaper than Backblaze? 2 months ago:
By the way, some of the mentioned services are annual and block pricing. Those plans, the per TB cost depends on where you are in their brackets. Backblaze is pay as you go which is more flexible and you do not pay for more then you use.
- Comment on Any service cheaper than Backblaze? 2 months ago:
Storj is the other one. No personal experience with it. Also of course Drive e2, and wasabi which others have mentioned. Not sure any of the 4 low cost providers are that different in price though your specific use patterns will matter.
Personally I have been trying Backblaze B2 recently.
- Comment on ‘The tide has turned’: why parents are suing US social media firms after their children’s death 3 months ago:
The thing about social media companies is we all have one important power. Just uninstall the app. I agree they suck in so many ways.
Kids though… There are a few things that make me glad I do not have any. Cell phones and social media. They just seem problematic. Not sure anyone under the age of 16 should have either or be on an unfiltered net connection.
Really no one that does not know the standard net rule of block and move on and never share PII. I would hope that a 16 year old would know that but maybe not.
Very sad.
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 4 months ago:
Most people cannot install or debug windows. For most people the biggest issue is their support network. My father-in-law and my wife run Linux and have done so for 20 years. They are not technical and it works just fine. My mom uses Windows and I have not suggested Linux because I am not local. She needs a local support network. I spend as much time or more supporting her.
The worst barrier is explicit hardware compatibility not software. Most hardware works but you never know. For software most things have FOSS eqyivalents. If you actually want to run commercial software then sure Windows or whatever platform it runs on.
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 4 months ago:
Of course it is. About 50 years ago we went to a regime where everything is copywrited rather then just things that were marked and registered. Not sure where.I stand on that. One could argue we are in a crazy over copyright era now anyway.
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 4 months ago:
Money is not always the issue. FOSS software for example. Who wants their FOSS software gobbled up by a commercial AI regardless. So there are a variety of issues.
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 4 months ago:
Firefox is far from irrelevant. Pure stupid click bait. Market share of courses is a sad thing and may lead to irrelevance when most web sites stop supporting. In the late days of Netscape and the early days of Firefox that was the case… lack of website support. I am just starting to see that again.
- Comment on The march towards an all-EV future hit a major roadblock. What went wrong? 4 months ago:
I have a plugin hybrid that is less then 10 years old, why would I want an EV until about 2030? After that I will probably buy a Bolt or something similar.