Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on An insurance I don't love 4 days ago:
I live in a country with free healthcare and private health insurance. I even have private health insurance. But I have it through a nun-profit organisation that pays out ninety-something cents in claims for every dollar of premiums paid. So I’m ok with it.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 6 days ago:
Yes but this depends significantly on where you live.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 6 days ago:
Sure. Any driving you do increases your risk of death. But it’s likely you need to drive for other reasons that reduce your risk of death (like buying food).
Drinking is different because no one needs to drink.
- Comment on Back to the future 1 week ago:
My phone changes lenses automatically as I zoom the camera in and out. So I use them even though I’m not really actively choosing to use a different lens.
- Comment on i hate ai i hate ai i hate ai 1 week ago:
It pretty much always was?
It’s a tertiary source, so not appropriate for citing in your essays, but that isn’t a comment on the accuracy.
- Comment on Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war 1 week ago:
You could say they are on the far-right side of history 🙃
- Comment on Apple Maps has Ads now 1 week ago:
Interesting! I know if you look back at changes in my country you can see where someone has done a massive automated load of buildings (addresses as well as the actual shape of buildings) from data published by a government department, so I guess I’m quite privileged to have such good data. I’ve corrected some but it’s been at the level of it tagging a garage instead of the house, it’s always close to correct. The main issue I have is searching up a business by name, they are only in there 2/3 of the time, but I go and add them if they aren’t.
I feel very lucky!
- Comment on Apple Maps has Ads now 1 week ago:
When I put in an address it directs me straight to the right building. Sometimes I have to go on a place’s website to find that address but most of the time I can search by name.
Does your area need better Open Street Map data? Might need to contribute 🙂
- Comment on Buying new trends is a choice 2 weeks ago:
I normally do that, but I got Baldur’s Gate I think within it’s first year, and the thing that sold me is they put it DRM free on GOG super early. Normally you have to wait 15 years to get a AAA game on GOG, so I wanted to support that decision to put it there early.
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 2 weeks ago:
Yip that’s the complaint about it. Lots of problems with no obvious solutions. I’m not sure how Piefed handles it.
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, to the complaint of many but that’s how it currently works.
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 2 weeks ago:
How do you hide from those 0.5%? Blocking someone stops you seeing them, it doesn’t stop them seeing you?
- Comment on In Bittorent how can I make sure I upload alot more from the stuff I am seeding? 2 weeks ago:
Private trackers are private, you need account and to get an account you generally need an invite. If you don’t know anyone who can invite you then you can watch reddit.com/r/OpenSignups for trackers allowing applications for access.
- Comment on In Bittorent how can I make sure I upload alot more from the stuff I am seeding? 2 weeks ago:
In private trackers, it can be difficult to find enough leechers to upload more than you download. Most of yhe content will be sitting there with many people seeding compared to how many people are trying to download.
To balance the system, private trackers will give you points for the amount of time spent seeding. You use the points to purchase upload credit to keep your ratio up.
If you’re using public trackers (that you can access without an account) then this doesn’t apply. If you’re struggling to upload enough then it’s probably that you aren’t contactable. To transfer, one of the parties needs their port forwaded to create the connection. If you have yours forwarded you can share with anyone, if you don’t then you can only share with peers that have their port forwaded.
- Comment on In Bittorent how can I make sure I upload alot more from the stuff I am seeding? 2 weeks ago:
Of you’re in private trackers, you’ll find that hard. Instead, seed for a long time and use the points to purchase upload credit.
- Comment on Aug. 19 new beans starting today 2 weeks ago:
Don’t buy it. It got famous for being the best coffee because the civits only ate the best coffee berries, but now they put them in cages and force feed them.
- Comment on AI applied to hardening systems might cause US intelligence agencies to lose a large portion of their surveillance capabilities. 3 weeks ago:
Especially as more programs are written with AI. Using AI to check it’s own work will likely lead to vulnerabilities missed that can continue to be used.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I have too (uBlock Origin)! On chrome as I’m not allowed Firefox. But when I flick through the chrome store, almost all extensions are blocked. It’s like it was a deliberate decision to let us have it, which is considering the maturity of the organisation in other ways.
- Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification 3 weeks ago:
There isn’t much from memory. It’s a great way to support them, but in terms what you get from it I think it’s basically just automatic cloud backups, access to cloud speech to text and text to speech, and if you need it, a URL to access your Home Assistant when you’re away from home.
- Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification 3 weeks ago:
Oh I’m using Home Assistant Cloud as I worked out day 1 there’s no chance of it recognising my voice. I would like to switch to local processing when it gets good enough though.
- Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification 3 weeks ago:
It does all the basics. Can play music via jellyfin, spotify or any of the supported Music Assistant sources (preferably plug in better speakers). Can set timers. I have it announce various reminders (put the recycling/rubbish bin out, etc).
One thing it can do that I don’t think other smart speakers can is proactive things. When the room gets cold, I have it say “It’s getting cold in here, would you like to turn on the heating?”, then it listens for a response and you can reply yes/no.
I’ve also been playing with connecting it with frigate events, such as “I can see Grandma on the doorbell camera”, or “I can see your Ariya on the driveway camera”.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It has been many, many years since I played it, but I seem to recall Max Payne 3 was fine but cutscene heavy. More of a movie than a game haha.
Steam say 85% positive reviews, and the negative ones are split 50/50 between saying too many cutscenes and saying fuck you Rockstar for your shitty unnecessary launcher.
- Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification 3 weeks ago:
No, but if you want a voice assistant that you can tinker with but without expectations, I’ve been enjoying the Home Assistant Voice Preview (preview here refers to it not being consumer ready, a beta or similar).
It does need a Home Assistant setup first, it’s not a stand alone speaker.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
However no one who uses adblock should be using Facebook either
If you ask me for help with your computer, whether you’re my mother, mother in law, or uncle, if I had to open your browser at some point then I’m gonna install uBlock Origin. It’s unfortunately the price you have to pay for my help.
What I’m getting at is I’ve installed it on many people’s computers even if they are regular Facebook users.
- Comment on The perfect date 5 weeks ago:
I can tell I’m on Lemmy because of how many ISO 8601 comments I had to scroll past to find this comment.
- Comment on Based arguments for solar 5 weeks ago:
My governments arguments against solar: we need to build a billion dollar storage facility for natural gas because hydo doesn’t work in dry years and solar is too unreliable.
Me: you’re saying we need gas because solar is unreliable
Government: correct, the sun isn’t always shining
Me: and hydro has dry years
Government: yes, sometimes it’s just sunny all the time so there’s no rain for the hydo lakes
Me: 🤦
- Comment on Anon accepts a prestigious job 5 weeks ago:
I dunno, data entry isn’t mentally demanding in the same way as some jobs, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t demanding. You’re expected to enter at or above a particular speed, and it can be boring which is a different kind of mentality demanding.
- Comment on The only one country 5 weeks ago:
Hey NZ is major now, don’t take that away from us!
- Comment on Ate there more galaxies in the universe, than stars that can be seen from Earth with the naked eye, or with a telescope? 1 month ago:
To add on to your “with telescope” numbers, the number you can see with the naked eye is surprisingly small. If you are out on a clear night, you can pretty much only see stars within the milky way, and even then you’re talking the ballpark of 5000. If you’re naming them and counting them on all sides of the earth (not just those visible from your one location) you can double that if you have great eyes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s probably highly dependent on what you want to do with your life. Are you trying to become an archeologist professor? Work in IT? Run a pub?