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s38b35M5 , 1 month ago

Man, Google really does suck now. It feels nearly impossible to get something like a how-to deep in the Debian FAQs to come up, as it mostly surfaces this auto-generated SEO crap

By design. The longer you’re Googling, the more ads they can sell.

…Ben Gomes – a long-tenured googler who helped define the company during its best years – lost a fight with Prabhakar Raghavan, a computer scientist turned manager whose tactic for increasing the number of search queries (and thus the number of ads the company could show to searchers) was to decrease the quality of search. That way, searchers would have to spend more time on Google before they found what they were looking for.

s38b35M5 , 1 month ago

Dumb.

“We are too corrupt to draft meaningful privacy legislation, but watch as we pretend CCP is the real problem.”

Performative BS

s38b35M5 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

And many, many mobile apps out there, except this one is the bad one, because: China.

My point is that meaningful privacy legislation would stop all apps from doing this with our data, but we have legislators who only pretend to care if a bogeyman has access to the data, and forget the part where any adversary could simply buy the data on the open data market.

I’m personally less interested in China having access to my daily movements than I am my own government, which includes states that are trying to criminalize going to certain medical providers.

I’d prefer if nobody had access, but I can see through the charade. These legislators are invested in technology that competes with China, and that collect and sell our data, so they prefer to keep things the way they are and pick winners and losers.

s38b35M5 , 1 month ago

Charges for peaceful demonstration? Sounds like a violation with no qualified immunity to me. But in the 11th district… Not too hopeful for justice.

s38b35M5 , 1 month ago

Its definitely awesome that your cat is scratching, and good you want to keep their claws trimmed. Sharp claws can get caught in fabrics, and hurt other pets.

Bad news! Scratching actually sharpens their claws and pulls the old nail sheaths off the new razor sharp claw beneath.

Good news! You can trim your cat’s claws for the price of a pair of clippers.

Just be patient and gentle and calm and they’ll get used to it. My formerly feral rescue cats sleep through it now after years of it. The first few times, I’d just clip as many as they’d calmly let me. Now the clippers are like the brush, and they purr.

s38b35M5 , 1 month ago

Why is green bad and red good? Seems like the color choices are as odd as the opinions in the list.

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

It would constantly be telling users how much nicer people are better things are for inexplicable reasons, but would have very little other than news to talk about.

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

How about an image host that doesn’t force JavaScript? This looks interesting, but it won’t load

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

Bam! Thanks!

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but this would probably be great as a PDF or other vector image. Its pretty pixelated on my end, but still legible. Thx for the resource!

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

Back to not loading for me, but no worries – its my choice to avoid JS, not yours to find workarounds for me.

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

“Finance and economics is too complex for the poors to understand. Just trust us; we know what’s best doe everyone.” -The not-poors

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Collective_action_problem

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

Added the ability to select an action when starting playback (for example, you can choose to continue playback from an interrupted position), providing more control over the playback experience.

We have been able to do this in previous versions at least back to v17…

Improved AV1 support is welcome, and the ffmpeg change as well.

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

Why not episode 1? Starting in season one, you meet Tasha, Q, Lwaxana, Khalarr (sp?), Lore…

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

Unlike other clients, it concentrates on albums.

Trying to wrap my head around this. In the context of music on Linux, I listen to albums exclusively. Am I an outlier?

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

Oh and use powder of you can - liquid has way too much water in it, they’re ripping you off

Where I live, if you don’t use the powder up in a month, it clumps or worse from the humidity. I swear by powder in the US Northeast. Here in Central America, I have to buy liquid.

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

My GF would definitely disagree with you there. On my worst days, she stuffs her face into my pits and is practically intoxicated by it. Turns her on.

Sidenote: my pet cat (female) also goes nuts for it. She’ll root her nose into my pits and get all lovey. If she finds a soiled shirt out of the basket, she goes crazy, and her brother had better steer clear when she’s “high on pits.”

ETA: I agree with you, however

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

The same reason people buy the cereal their grocer places at eye-level, and buy their cars from the stealer: marketing

s38b35M5 , 2 months ago

OP asks about HDD technology, and somehow you found a way to ignore the main ask of their question, AND offer a response including a discussion about a hypothetical home renovation.

“I see you want to know X, but I know about construction, so how about Z or Q? Eh?”

Bravo.

OP, WD Red NAS drives are usually 5400 with low cache and go at least up to 10TB. Might have to buy soon, as I don’t see much new stock.

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Garmin has so many different trackers for different niches. Scuba, hikers, bikers, runners, pilots…

I switched after getting my third Fitbit replacement under warranty. Affordable and standard watch band parts, though some high-end trackers are a bit pricey for me.

Just no reason to stay with Fitbit with Google’s history of product longevity and support.

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

I owned four Fitbit devices, and they all broke in some way. The clip broke at the middle joint. Everything else always was at the wristband to body joint, and they refused to make standard wristbands. I’ve had a Vivoactive 3 since 2018-ish, and it still works for me, plus I can have custom activities, and watch faces, and data screens. I like that my partner’s Garmin and mine use the same charging cable, too.

Disclaimer: I don’t use the smart watch features, like texts or calls or notifications of any kind on my tracker, and the battery lasts about five days still, unless I use GPS.

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Obligatory "TrueNAS is free " comment

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Thats is a very budget-friendly choice for UnRAID to accept varying drive sizes. As a backup destination, especially a cold backup, the RAM requirements of ZFS should be less impactful. I had lots of use from my TrueNAS box with 16GB, and my dedicated cold backup build is just 8GB on 5x1TB WD Blue (gasp!) HDDs. I always wanted to try other NAS platforms, but I’m away from all my tech for a few years.

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Well as long as you’re aware of the risk and prepared for it, its not so bad to run in a volatile way like that. I ran my TN box for almost a decade on the same USB boot before I finally caved and picked up three Intel enterprise SSD for the job, with one as a cold spare. Nothing in the vox was critical or would be missed for more than a few beers of crying.

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Kind have?

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Looks to me like you got (temp) banned for posting apparent incel comments in a hateful way. Not to mention your advice was exactly what the OP said they were avoiding from their own friends.

Perhaps reading the room is a good start before you click reply. Doubling down when called out for hateful comments will rarely go well, and defaulting to name calling and reducing well-received advice to a “lib salad” (whatever that means) won’t either. Perhaps stop behaving like the internet is some place where manners and respect are optional, and you’ll feel more welcome wherever you go.

I’m not trying to call you out or rehash that relationship advice here, only pointing out that you can disagree with people politely if you truly do desire respectful discourse. I hope you reflect on the ban and the comments replied to you. The world needs fewer, not more hateful incels or “alpha males.”

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Not temporary.

Looks temporary to me: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/116b5c82-5896-4780-8bf0-e76a981dfffa.jpeg

No interest in engaging with you further. Good luck, comrade.

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Yes! I imported 23k media files into a new platform, and the takeout process was such a pain. My destination was built to handle the zipped or unzipped media, but occasionally issues cropped up,like when files spanned archives but the json was on the previous one. That resulted in orphaned files with upload dates instead of date taken.

Ultimately, I think I had the best experience extracting all 123GB and uploading the albums/folders that way.

Would have been SO much easier with an API that allowed cloud to cloud.

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

You just haven’t met anyone like my partner. She pauses movies and TV to point out how my neck “is sexier” than the actor’s. “Yours isn’t little and thin like his.”

“Thanks!”

She is definitely obsessed. Maybe not a fetish, but certainly a point of interest.

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Yes, I’m clueless with regard to others liking or noticing me. My partner sees it and points it out for my benefit. Usually with, “Poor man, never knew he was hot until he met me!”

Everyone should be so lucky to be adored like I am now by my partner. And for things like, “your hands are perfect!”

“They… are? Thanks!”

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

This comment seems to imply that at least some titles won’t function after the delisting, perhaps related to servers, perhaps not.

s38b35M5 OP , 3 months ago

Thanks for the reply.

This is the drive I picked up. It’s a bog standard tiny M.2 drive that will fit in my laptop.

I have my controller set to AHCI mode. The drive is seen, as I can install MX Linux or Mint to it, but it won’t boot. Same with Clonezilla or dd, which can see the drive just fine to copy data to it. The option to boot from PCIe/M.2 is enabled. Toggling it changes nothing in any case.

When I press F9 for boot options after removing the 2.5" SSD, I can see the boot option named as “MX23” or “Mint” (depending on which I’ve just installed or cloned), but selecting it does nothing, unfortunately.

s38b35M5 OP , 3 months ago

Thanks for that insight. The hard thing is that getting things from Amazon or other web stores in Central America where I live is not easy. I ordered this drive in November and received it two weeks ago. I was sure it would work, as my G3 laptop came from the factory with a M.2 Kingston drive, so I assumed NVME was a no-brainer.

The real kicker is that this was planned as a gift to my partner who has the same laptop, but with a Toshiba HDD. Boot time >2 min, vs 17s on my SSD, and even faster (theoretically) on this M.2. Sigh… poor prep on my part.

Thanks again for the kind help. I had no idea.

s38b35M5 OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I may go down that road, but the main push was to remove the almost ten year old platter based magnetic drive. Maybe I’ll look into placing the ESP on a flash drive until I have a better solution. Bummer. This secret upgrade to breathe new life into my partner’s laptop isn’t going well at all.

s38b35M5 OP , 3 months ago

I’ll do some research on this front to see what I find. Thanks

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

I think tlp-ui can do this, but only on specific devices. IIRC, you set the charging thresholds in such a way that the battery will not charge. For example, configure to prevent charging until below 40% and as long as the battery is above that threshold, no charging should take place.

However, this likely means that as soon as your device goes to sleep or powers off, the battery begins charging again.

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago

Have you tried this?

s38b35M5 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Which version, pro or tube? My 2015 pro is a champ, including in Kodi. Adding the Samsung SSD a few years back was a game changer though. Boot time dropped to 7 seconds, and no trouble with h.265 and even 1080 AV1.

Edit: To OP, I currently host my files on the shield local drive and watch with Kodi. I used to have a NAS, but am living leaner lately, and local works fine. Can easily move files to it over the network

s38b35M5 OP , 3 months ago

It turns out the card doesn’t display any video during POST in this slot.

s38b35M5 , 4 months ago

Which distro? Do you have tlp installed? If so, you an use tlpui to configure lots of power related settings.

s38b35M5 , 4 months ago

Hey, that’s me! I’m (Lemmy) famous!

s38b35M5 , 4 months ago

I prefer the deb that works. I get a signal.update almost every other day. I don’t remember to update my flatpaks anywhere near that often. I also appreciate that it doesn’t force me to include dependencies that are already met.

s38b35M5 , 4 months ago

I don’t see anything describing any kind of cessation of activities. Can you share what you saw?

s38b35M5 , 4 months ago

tells her story

Not in this article, she doesn’t…

s38b35M5 OP , 4 months ago

My SO was skeptical from the start, but when they sent an email from an impressively obfuscated email address, that was the end. The alias had over 100 characters including specials, and the domain was the same.