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- Comment on How to deal with people who obtusely miss your point on Lemmy? 5 days ago:
There’s no helping some people. You might be talking about X, but they really hate Y. So they just ignore/disregard what you were trying to say, and just make it about Y.
- Comment on Amazon executives are enraged about a Mamdani proposal 1 week ago:
On Monday, Mr. Mamdani is scheduled to announce that he backs the Delivery Protection Act, a measure pending before the City Council that is aimed at regulating the “last-mile” operations of Amazon, FedEx and other distribution companies. It would require them to hire delivery workers rather than relying on contractors.
The most important part
- Comment on Is it safe to connect a Windows XP machine to my wi-fi network? 1 week ago:
Nobody is targeting XP these days, and you have to be trying to get infected within minutes. Can it happen? Yes.
But behind your firewall with NAT it cannot magically get infected from the internet unless you do something.
- Comment on Is it safe to connect a Windows XP machine to my wi-fi network? 1 week ago:
Are you starting fresh with XP or using an old crusty install. If you start fresh you should be fine. Just don’t browse the internet on it, or run sketchy ass software on it. And turn it off when you’re done. Behind NAT the only way for your device to get infected is for something else on the network infect it.
Also FYI it’s probably not going to work with your WiFi. You’re probably going to need to be hard wired. Most built in network cards from windows XP era machines don’t understand WPA2, and WPA3 is allegedly backwards compatible, but it REALLY hates older devices that barely speak WPA 2.
I have an old router that I installed DD-WRT on that I use for my old devices. I have the WiFi power dropped down to the bare minimum, and it barely leaves the room. Then I have an open WiFi network with MAC address filtering, that automatically turns off after a few hours of no devices. I can turn it on with the WPS button. That gets me a relatively not entirely insecure wireless network that I can use on devices all the way back on my iBook G3 or earlier.
Just remember, you are the biggest threat to your network.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 1 week ago:
Sometimes mods delete the post too. Some mods are extremely anal about the rules and will end up deleting a ton of posts.
- Comment on Blow up fossil fuel infrastructure 2 weeks ago:
It’s a one time event. It’s either perpetually offline, or it costs a ton of money to rebuilding. Increasing the cost to operate. Once operations costs are too much then it’s just not feasible to continue with this.
- Comment on I need a break 2 weeks ago:
Why do you have to be perpetually engaged with a slack chat? Especially in a volunteer group?
You can just ignore notifications. You’re not required by law to look at them asap. Slack in particular is great for configuring that. On mobile I have it set so only @here/@channel/@mes notify me, or direct messages. Otherwise I just ignore it until I want to check on things. Slack also has a built in automatic dnd so outside of business hours you won’t get notified for anything.
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 2 weeks ago:
I’m very squarely in that age bracket and it was hard to ignore 9/11 if you were at all exposed to any media. I can’t imagine anyone 25-30 managing to entirely ignore 9/11 even without teachers talking about it. Maybe someone with the absolute peak of sheltering could ignore it. But outside of that I can’t imagine anyone in the US 25-30 having no clue.
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 2 weeks ago:
He doesn’t look that young. I can’t imagine somehow missing the post 9/11 fallout and the war in the Middle East. The 20 year anniversary of it wasn’t as extravagant as the 10 year. But as an American it was kinda hard to ignore.
If he’s from outside the us and like just turned 18 maybe. But like how does one even miss all of the memes about it? I guess even those have died down too.
- Comment on Im also too tired to title this 2 weeks ago:
Except it is. That’s why it gets turned off when you disable AI. It uses a small local model. Translations are one of the things LLMs are pretty good at.
- Comment on How do I make the most out of a mediocre laptop? 3 weeks ago:
Check in your bios if you can reduce the memory allocation to your GPU. On my modern ThinkPad it’s under the display settings, then some confusing words that didn’t make any sense, then when you click on it you can pick to only allocate 1 gig.
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 4 weeks ago:
What’s a “Radeon RX 68005”
Did they just add the 5 for fun? Or is there some new model I’m not aware of?
- Comment on Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse' 4 weeks ago:
CXMT is our best bet. But it takes time to ramp up production. Some article I saw said they’re building things at a quicker pace than other manufacturers typically do which is a good sign.
But when demand slumps back down then now you’re stuck with all this manufacturing capacity that’s not useful anymore. So you have to balance dealing with short term spikes vs long term demand.
- Comment on With Tech growing so fast the humans can barely keep up. Is there a so called "paper trail" for things? Like in medical stuff. Or other things so you can track it back to a single person. 5 weeks ago:
There’s a whole world of accountability a nurse does not want to get dragged into by sharing their login.
When I was at the hospital last east nurse would swipe their ID tag and type in their password to log into the computer. When they were done they’d swipe it again to log out.
Nobody wants to get held accountable for someone else killing someone.
- Comment on Is it even possible to drop 20 lbs in a month? Are there any diets for people who want to go to the extreme? Kind of like celebs do for roles? 5 weeks ago:
I lost about 5-10 pounds a week for a while when I first started losing weight. But I was also extremely overweight.
Actors are liteypaid for their body so they can dedicate their entire time (and crazy amounts of money) into a diet and exercise routine.
- Comment on There Is No Reason To Buy Another PlayStation Or Xbox 1 month ago:
and there is a comparably steep commitment required to research CPUs, GPUs, storage, cooling, and RAM, and how their combination will affect performance and longevity
I mean those same things affect consoles too, you just don’t get a choice. Sony prioritized keeping the PS5 quiet so the CPU and GPU run pretty warm. If you add an SSD it’s just hot boxing itself in that awful enclosure. You can always just yolo it like you would when buying a console. Then if it’s bad on a PC you at least have the option to fix it.
- Comment on Is IPV6 better for youtube adblockers? 1 month ago:
In theory if every device in your network is routed to the outside world they could say “fuck this guy in particular”
But idk why they’d bother doing that. They’d detect the blocking all the same and probably not care about IP.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 1 month ago:
They almost always point out what they think the issue is in the log. It doesn’t take much effort to take a snippet of the error, ctrl F, and see that it’s been blowing up 500 times. It’s not hard to verify from there if that was the issue. But if it gives you a fix and that fix worked then presumably it was right.
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations 1 month ago:
I ran into a whole list of games I wanted to play that don’t work right when I tried last.
Off the top of my head I know Forza Horizon 5 from the microsoft store doesn’t work. Being from the MS store has nothing to do with it, it’s the splash screen. The controller works great for the 5 seconds it’s up. But when the game actually opens then steam input decides to stop working, even though steam knows the game is still open. Valve could easily fix this by just applying steam input forever until the program quits. But they don’t. So if I want too play that game I need to use a 3rd party steam input wrapper just to make the damn controller act as a controller.
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations 1 month ago:
I have many complaints about the steam controller. Build quality isn’t one of them.
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations 1 month ago:
Not all work properly.
Pretty much any game with a launcher or a splash screen won’t work right.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 2 months ago:
I just tell them I’m gonna be late one day. No PTO necessary.
- Comment on Is this machine good enough to install QEMU considering that it runs on windows 10 ? 2 months ago:
The minimum requirement for win 11 is 4 gigs and it’s tolerable. Windows only needs like half of that. The other half is garbage that gets unloaded when you run low on ram.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 months ago:
Poorly aimed headlights are the real killer. They might not even be brights, they’re just aimed to the heavens because people don’t know how to maintain their car.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Whatever’s the most debloated version of firefox or chrome.
You will not get all websites on something thats light weight. Web browsers are basically mini operating systems at this point.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Valve randomly stocks tthe steam deck all the time. I swear they’ve got like one guy running the whole show, and he stocks things one unit at a time.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
For $35 I’m guessing whatever on FB marketplace.
Android phones tend to become pretty worthless after like 5 years, but are still perfectly good for emulation. Hell 10 years ago I was emulating the DS without any issues.
- Comment on Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs 2 months ago:
I have a slim q charger for my laptop and it’s about the size of two phones stacked on top of each other. The factory brick is pretty slim too so I never really cared. It fit well in the bottom of my backpack.
Also many modern high end machines come with smaller GaN chargers. It’s mostly the cheaper models that come with the classic brick.
- Comment on How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10? 2 months ago:
You still need some sort of exploit to be able to hit your machine. If you’re behind a firewall and not raw dogging it on the internet then you’ve got a decent layer of security.
At that point it’s just your web browser (or your brain) that needs an exploit to for something bad to happen. And both chrome and Firefox will be supporting 10 for years to come.
- Comment on Beloved whale mural painted over for FIFA World Cup artwork 2 months ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-sFA-1REss
Non (extra) google tracking link