Brkdncr
@Brkdncr@lemmy.world
- Comment on 4 hours ago:
Run Linux on your machine as a VM.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
It always feels like it’s someone’s hobby and not a mature product.
Fixing nearly anything is digging through a text file that might follow a standard but never the same standard as the last text file.
- Comment on Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance? 2 days ago:
Only historians can determine if we reached a tipping point.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 days ago:
Lots of Americans have guns. Not just conservatives.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 5 days ago:
Because the phone system is old
It’s also backwards compatible to an extreme:
I remember in the early nineties I found in my grandmother’s antique store one of those old black candlestick phones that you would jiggle to ring the operator. It didn’t have a rotary dial.
I plugged it in and got dial tone. I jiggled the hook and an operator answered the phone and asked me something. I don’t remember if I hung up or talked with them.
When mobile phones came out they improved the system significantly but it was still very much old tech.
Getting the entire world to switch to something better would be quite the undertaking.
- Comment on Is there a word for items that require both hands to use (e.g. game controller, steering wheel, handlebars)? 1 week ago:
Half-quad.
- Comment on What are the possible ways a computer can kill you? 2 weeks ago:
It could give you bad information on making DIY cleaning chemicals.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Is that ram compatible with the mainboard?
- Comment on Is there any non-zero possibility Musk was not doing a Hitler Salute? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not seeing him saying it. He did a “what about” and then blamed the media.
Also those are static images he’s showing. A video of those images would show very different hand motions.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 4 weeks ago:
There are a few tools in the constitution.
- Comment on how normal is it to snore at 13/14 years old? 4 weeks ago:
All snoring is bad at any age.
- Comment on On Lemmy is it safe to create a community on a smaller scale when there are other communities already available of the same topic? 5 weeks ago:
Smaller communities generally have trouble growing. If you were around while Reddit was taking off, they had only a few subreddits to start, and they only created other subreddits when there was a large enough community to support it.
I’d add content to existing community instead of starting a new one.
- Comment on Can someone explain to me how a ventilation fan can suck LESS when on high compared to low? 1 month ago:
Does it exhaust through the wall or just back into the room? Is is set up right?
Every microwave hood that’s come with the apt or home I’ve had has always been installed wrong and has been blocking airflow.
- Comment on Do you think billionaires fear losing their fortune and becoming "a poor"? 1 month ago:
I just saw a post on LinkedIn from a low-rent c-suite that lost their cars and home. Other c-suites were reaching out to help them like I’ve never seen.
Billionaires won’t ever be poor because their peers will help them.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 1 month ago:
Robocop sort of addresses this.
- Comment on Do people still call each other at midnight on NYE? 1 month ago:
Post your phone number.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"? 1 month ago:
Psych eval, video uploads, video camera on me at all times with an atty that has access to the recordings.
- Comment on Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"? 2 months ago:
Because you literally were calling other computers directly. As long as you had dial tone you had internet.
Also, phone books existed for the internet. Google wasn’t a thing, so getting from one website to another was peer distributed by mouth and paper.
It’s incredibly hard to take that offline.
- Comment on How likely will "Cloud Storage" eventually replace Local Storage? 2 months ago:
I’m split. Outlook and other apps have turned into pigs but have very little competition to force innovation. Customers are just as complacent, and demand things not change at all.
Moving to PWA web apps has turned the industry around. MS is dumping all of the old code that causes so many issues.
I find other IT people expecting MS to not make even small changes, while also complaining about battery life and app reliability.
I’m looking forward to New Outlook. Supporting HTML and https is so much easier than map I and legacy client code with dirty plugins.
- Comment on How likely will "Cloud Storage" eventually replace Local Storage? 2 months ago:
It’s already happening. Microsoft’s push to onedrive and m365 was to get everyone off of legacy apps.
Next will be ARM devices that have a multi-day battery because it’s all just cached apps accessing your cloud-saved data.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 2 months ago:
Sorry, parasite.
Only way i think it’s acceptable is one house per person, or renting out property you live at.
If your aunts partner has a place, unused, then sure rent it.
If your aunts property has another home on it then sure rent it.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 2 months ago:
Downtown Los Angeles has a high rise that was abandoned by the owner/builder. It’s covered in graffiti. They could start there.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 2 months ago:
I was impressed with Singapore when i was there a while back: en.wikipedia.org/…/Housing_and_Development_Board
- Comment on Are implanted subdermal trackers in SciFi movies at all a realistic possibility? 2 months ago:
I’ve had a toll pass device for 10 years. It gets scanned at 80mph or more and hasn’t needed a new battery yet. The newest models are the size of a credit card.
- Comment on When putting bullets in a gun does it not leave a fingerprint on the casing? If so why do criminals where gloves before loading their gun? 2 months ago:
You sort of press hard and squeeze the bullet into the magazine. I’d be surprised if that alone doesn’t smear any print. You’d wear gloves to prevent pinches or calluses and might already be wearing gloves to help with the vibration effect of shooting.
- Comment on Are there any actual free programs that clean up all bloat ware on a new laptop? Without them putting hidden stuff in? 2 months ago:
Simply uninstall everything you don’t want. There’s not a lot, MS told OEMs to stop loading excessive crap a while back else they would make them stop loading anything at all.
You can uninstall any 3rd party antivirus. Defender is good enough these days.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
$$$
- Comment on why is my whisky evaporating? 2 months ago:
You can do your own research, but it takes time to leech. If you’re not storing in it for long periods it’s fine.
- Comment on why is my whisky evaporating? 2 months ago:
How many kids do you have.
- Comment on why is my whisky evaporating? 2 months ago:
Yes. Most crystal has lead, it’s just how it works. It’s fine if you’re not a child and you don’t store it in there for long periods.
I have some and use the glasses regularly. The decanter is and finished in 1-2 days though.
If it has a deep resounding ring you might want to avoid it.