BCsven
@BCsven@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand 1 day ago:
That was my thought. and those pedal bikes with outrigger to run abandoned rail lines is already a thing
- Comment on Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection? 1 day ago:
Well facebook VPN waa sniffing data to see what other aocial media the person was using. But something like Proton that prides itself on privacy and encryption should be fine
- Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand 1 day ago:
Self balancing with an Outrigger wheel
- Comment on The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff 3 days ago:
He clearly misses that removing key people and staff, destroys tons of progress and tribal knowledge at the company. It takes a lot of money and effort to regain the momentum. However he does remind me of an old company owner I worked for that went from a start up in a saturated market to industry leader by being totally uncompromising in his decisions. He also left a wake of destruction, but the innovation was there because he would no stand for a no from somebody
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking 1 week ago:
It totally is job dependent. I have had WFH since 2009. Mostly Engineering CAD work and design feasibilities. Some peoole needed the office interaction for learning, but I already had 20 years experience so I really didn’t need input until design reviews. That role changed to more consulting in 2015 and I had to be onsite to learn the clients process and products, and get differing views from each “expert”. Since COVID WFH i have been solo at home again. I get way more accomplished without random coworker hellos and idle chatter interrupting my flow.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
You are right, I assummed it was like the onion, but appears the irishtimes business section plays to the businesses it attracts ( of shitty companies avoiding taxes in their own country)
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
I think it is meant as satire
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the Union, sadly. My wife was a Union rep, she had a grievence, the higher up union leaders and the employer met ahead of her scheduled meeting and screwed her over in the grievance meeting. I’m not sure if she was more mad at losing the grievance, or having to pay dues to be screwed by the union.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 3 weeks ago:
Out of say a year, I have used it once to help put a work quote into better formatting, the rest of the time I use it solely as a way to suggest films I would enjoy based on a previously warched list, it is actually good at that
- Comment on I saved spreadsheet when Excel was glitching (corporate remote network), time stamp got updated however file reverted to original state with reboot - please help! 5 weeks ago:
It is possible it is opening a cached copy that has the same time and date, even if content is different.
Or the file actually did save like that and MS excel dropped your changes. It has happened to me before.
You or IT should be able to see versions if your company runs that option, to let you load as version X.
IT is going to be your best bet on figuring out if you have a good copy somewhere or if it went into the void
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
Yep, to me there are two groups that linux works well for (at home)
- tinkerer type who likes new tech.
- completely computer/ tech illiterate type ( like my wife or mom)
In the 2 category if they just need a computer for netflix, browsing, email and zoom calls you set them up with a stable diatro and it works the same every day with no windows surprises.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
I had great luck with OpenSUSE Leap on two machines. Another machine was really old and OpenSUSE was a bit slow on it so tried debian, it struggled with all debian based distros I tried. But NixOS has been amazing on it with 0 issues. It really is a dice roll.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
Distro dependent, and hardware dependent. Some have a great experience OOTB
- Comment on HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly 4 months ago:
Unless the front panel of HP is like Dell where the thing that looks like regular usb media reader cable is proprietary to the motherboard connectors. Even dell fans are wired differently and need adapters. Plugging Dell media reader into standard motherboard means clipping wires and soldering to standard usb. Not sure how CD drive would have proprietary though unless that plugged into something indirect of sata connection
- Comment on Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times 4 months ago:
Best part of pre internet was a friend would call saying the got the latest obscure album and we would all rush to their place for a listening party. While something like spotify, etc makes access easier the music culture suffers
- Comment on Starbucks accused of manipulating app payments for $900 million profit 4 months ago:
French Vanilla has hazlenut flavour mixed in IIRC