BarbecueCowboy

BarbecueCowboy , 4 hours ago to showerthoughts in Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk.

This makes me irrationally angry because whenever I hear this, putting the time it took to ask would have been enough time to just type up a few sentences in an email that would explain everything everyone needed to know and then we’ve also got it in an easily searchable format so we can reference it later if needed.

I may be a little bitter.

BarbecueCowboy , 18 hours ago to linux in Synchronizing user (files, configs, etc) between 2 machines

Not super popular, but i’ve been using Resilio Sync for years, it’s from what used to be the Bittorrent Foundation.

The UI has all the features I need but is still simple and I’ve been using it for years and have never had to spend any time troubleshooting it post-install. I’m not sure what that gets you over syncthing though.

BarbecueCowboy , 18 hours ago to technology in Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

The ‘But, everyone is a bit evil’ argument is such bullshit, the concern here is obviously the extent of the surveillance, but no one can say you’re entirely wrong because the definition of that is so broad.

It’s kind of technical, but there are comparisons on the report itself, even a fancy table, to other popular shopping apps and there are some legitimately troubling items. For anyone else, I’d recommend skipping direct to the source:

grizzlyreports.com/we-believe-pdd-is-a-dying-frau…

BarbecueCowboy , 22 hours ago to linux_gaming in The Steam Summer Sale is live now!

As others have said, prices should be mostly stable, especially for big names, but you still might see a few small devs who were like “Oh shit, its the summer sale, we should add a discount” halfway through.

BarbecueCowboy , 22 hours ago to news in 75 tons of illegal fireworks seized in Los Angeles area, largest fireworks bust in California history

I know it’s kinda hard to quantify and fireworks can be overpriced, but street value up to 10 million and 150,000 pounds puts that at around $67 a pound per fireworks. I know that’s also a weird metric to use for fireworks, but that feels pretty high.

BarbecueCowboy , 2 days ago to lemmyshitpost in Ironing

If I have to choose between keeping nature around and not having to buy an iron again, is gonna be a tough choice.

BarbecueCowboy , 6 days ago to aboringdystopia in Having to score strangers on their 'empathy' and 'courtesy' and 'knowledge' (anything less than a 5 star is a 'bad grade', I am sure)

Probably doesn’t matter. Having worked similar jobs in the past there’s usually a question along the lines of how you feel about the company overall and if you answer negatively the whole survey counts against them and it sometimes only takes 2 or 3 of those in a month for them to get fired.

Turnover is intentionally exceptionally high and employees aren’t usually treated that well. Pay was pretty great comparatively at the time though.

BarbecueCowboy , 6 days ago to technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

Plex operates a service on their end that mostly covers you if you fuck up the network routing. It’s probably the least user friendly part of the setup, so kind of a big deal.

BarbecueCowboy , 6 days ago to technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

There are resellers in the US who will set you up with the infrastructure to do it yourself. You don’t need much and it’s less expensive than you’d think, almost turnkey.

Demand is more than high enough in poor areas too, they probably made a really good return before it shut down.

BarbecueCowboy , 6 days ago to technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

You might be overestimating how much content that was. Streaming services try to maintain an illusion of neverending content but last I saw except for prime, the amount of content they offer has been trending down.

Those numbers are fairly accessible for an average person with 3 or 4 large hard drives.

BarbecueCowboy , 6 days ago to technology in I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity

Honestly, I use it because it does a better job than who we usually use, the items it adds to the Job descriptions usually actually exist.

BarbecueCowboy , 7 days ago to technology in Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp

You’re right that is a real loss. Really, an Alexa that didn’t require a personalized amazon account could still be huge if they could figure out how not to have to justify the costs of running the servers. I think that unwillingness to let Alexa be just a voice assistant is the key roadblock. In a similar vein, Alexa for business could have been a really big deal too if they could have worked it out a bit faster but now I think interest has mostly died out before it had a chance to be adopted.

I’m not a huge fan of the company and I think it’s a coin flip as to whether they would just completely screw it up, but I wonder what would have happened if someone like Crestron had taken a real interest instead of just half-assing an integration.

BarbecueCowboy , 7 days ago to greentext in Anon is a fish

There was a conversation awhile back about how any term used to describe someone with a disability eventually becomes a slur and history tends to back that up, but I’d say ‘special needs’ is probably about the least offensive qualifier we have today.

For 4chan, that’s like a miracle.

BarbecueCowboy , 7 days ago to technology in Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp

Google has these phases for the products they develop, right now they’re in the phase where they’ve functionally abandoned home and are giving it just enough support to try to get some other company to manage/fix it and let them profit off of it.

I’m not usually a fan of Apple, but they’re probably going to be the ones defining where things go. If they want the market, it’s basically up for grabs right now.

BarbecueCowboy , 7 days ago to technology in Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp

Alexa has a tendency to give you the ‘featured’ product no matter how precisely and specifically you ask her for something. Even if you don’t have to research and know exactly what you want, it’s almost always easier to just go find your phone.

The real game changer for Alexa was always having a voice assistant that you can integrate with just about whatever you want that isn’t tied to someone’s phone. The idea of going into someone’s house and just saying ‘Alexa, turn on the kitchen lights’ or ‘Alexa, is it cold outside?’ is where the Alexa magic lies, but Amazon never could figure out how to make that profitable on it’s own, just doesn’t contribute to the business case.