tjhart85

tjhart85, 5 months ago

Yeah, it's a nice little QOL improvement. Nothing game changing at first glance, but it makesa hell of a difference in day to day usage!

tjhart85, 4 months ago

I mean, they also think that the text needs to be verbatim in order to qualify as infringement (although, it does make it significantly easier to prove!), so, they're operating from an absurd level of naivete on the subject.

Like, if I CTRL+H'd a book and changed ' and ' to ' & ' do they think I can all of a sudden (commercially, no less!) re-distribute a book all I want? Just to be on the safe side, maybe I should remove every 'e' since that's bound to change almost every sentence in most books but won't make it all that much harder to read!

More importantly though ... plenty of people purchased material that they then put on Napster back in the day and they weren't magically granted immunity because they legally acquired the material that they then distributed illegally and that wasn't even for commercial gain! Once you add people making money into the equation, it becomes even worse.

tjhart85, 5 months ago

If it makes you feel any better, the functionality is only 6 days old :-)

Ernest is also putting a ton of work in, and documenting it in that magazine (note: it's also a bit of a unique opportunity to chime in right away on a new feature ... for example, 'Collections' was called 'Categories' originally and someone in that thread said that they thought 'Collections' would be a better name and Ernest agreed and made the change right away!)

tjhart85, 3 months ago

I know Repubs don't actually want a functioning government, but JFC, when half the govt actively, publicly and LOUDLY works against it, it's no surprise it's so fucked up.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

Uncle Jay Explains Congressional Recess!

With a schedule like that, no wonder they can't get anything done! But yeah, when 1/2 the govt literally wants to point and say "See! Government doesn't work!" I don't know how we can function without getting them out.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

For the people that don't want to read the article, this seems especially relevant:
But much has changed since 2022: Embracer, which owns Gearbox, bet the house on a $2 billion deal with a Saudi investment group that fell through in 2023. Ever since, its many, many properties have been hit by layoffs on a near-monthly basis.

tjhart85, 5 months ago

I've got a 20 mile commute and that's basically at the edge of what I'd be willing to do on a daily basis at this point. Sure 50 miles is fine once a week or whatever, but fuck if I'm putting in anything more than 39.9999999 hours if you're expecting me to spend 2+ hours commuting every day (and 2 hours is basically assuming best case highway all the way scenario to come up with it only being 2 hours)!

I know this is the norm for a lot of people, but I'd have to be very desperate to do it again and people that were 100% WFH or worse yet hired to be WFH aren't going to be willing to do it for long.

tjhart85, 5 months ago

I believe they're saying that Chipotle is helping OP by making it so OP doesn't eat there.

tjhart85, 5 months ago

On Android you can install unapproved apps and even entire app stores. The barrier to having people install your app is a couple of taps (approximately as difficult as it'd be on Windows when you've got to approve UAC a time or two).

So, it is kind of ridiculous in comparison that they lost but Apple with an entire walled of ecosystem that you can't bypass without finding a zero day exploit won their case.

With that said, I know a lot of people who only buy Apple BECAUSE of that walled off ecosystem and conversely I know people that primarily buy Android for their relatively open system, so I'm in the minority where I think neither Google nor Apple should have to change in this particular regard. Both companies suck, but charging the same price they always have for their app store isn't the issue I'd fight them over.

tjhart85, 3 months ago

From what I understand due to the way that Lemmy handles federation, it doesn't (currently?) have a way to handle an instance changing its domain name and still being able to communicate or even an individual user changing their instance and retaining their comments/votes/etc... (this might be more ActivityPub limited since the way Mastodon does it still seems pretty hacky and just a work around for underlying issues).

From a website perspective, yeah, just change some settings and you're good to go and accessible on the web, but that doesn't mean that anything regarding Lemmy is going to actually work.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

RIght, exactly. Mine is basically 'worst case scenario' for these things and I'm still very happy with it. In aggregate, it does a fantastic job even though objectively, it's about as bad a unit as you can buy (I mean, it sucks well enough ... I'm sure there are ones that are functionally worse, I just mean feature wise, it's very minimalistic)

The only real improvement I'd actually want it to have one of the ones with the tanks on the base so I would be able to leave it and not have to empty it as often ... other than that, it successfully picks up pet hair and anything else that it needs to, as long as it's not something that is in the way (in which case, from a practical perspective, no matter what robot vacuum we had, the best solution would have been to pick it up ourselves).

tjhart85, 4 months ago

It doesn't map, just makes a bunch of straight lines throughout the room and goes around things it bumps into.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content

Quite a few organizations and lots of individuals are now starting to migratev away from it and if any of the money made by visiting goes to Nazis, many of us would prefer to avoid the place when possible.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

For me, it's the refusal to demontize them that's particularly bad. I can understand free speech absolutists (in theory anyways, in practice you'll find that they VERY rarely actually are and will happily censor people they disagree with like LGBTQIA+ or sex work content), but that doesn't mean you need to actively be funding them!

tjhart85, 4 months ago

When I was a cashier, I'd tell people that and they'd respond that it wouldn't fill out the carbon copy, so they'd just manually continuing to fill out the check anyways and hold up the line :-\

With the machine filling out the checks, it's no slower than running a credit/debit card.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

TFA has an example of a fake warrant being used and the fake being clearly fake but accepted anyways.

I know a few people who happily have ring doorbells in their house as cheap cameras and don't seem to care at all that all an officer has to do to get INTERIOR footage of their house is to ask for it and they get it no questions asked.
I hadn't even thought of how easy that makes it for non officers to just do the same thing.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

I've got a Qidi Smart3 and it's made me enjoy 3D printing again!

I've got 3 other printers and they're such a chore, but the Qidi is just a little powerhouse that works fantastically. Qidi needs to come out with competition for the Bambu AMS and they'd have more of my money in a heartbeat.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

The article, while interesting feels like 3-4 articles copy/pasted together haphazardly

tjhart85, 5 months ago

It's the key needed to unencrypt a video DVD, it's how people were able to make duplicates of DVDs. This was technically illegal to use thanks to the DMCA, but not illegal to know, so people had fun with it and plastered it on T-shirts, mugs, etc...

tjhart85, 5 months ago

Blockbusters mail rental service was amazing since if you returned the movies to the store instead of mailing them they counted as a free in store rental coupon AND would flag the movie as returned and prep the next set to be sent to you. They were slower than Netflix but if you were willing to go into Blockbuster, it was crazy worth it.

I had Netflix and Blockbuster and a huge rotation of DVDs coming and going.

I didn't have time to actually watch anything I was ripping, lol, but it was fantastic to expand the collection.

tjhart85, 5 months ago

Conversely, I use 'send to kindle' from Calibre all the time and absolutely love how easy it is to send a book to any of the 3 kindles in the house. I just send it and the book is there a few minutes later. The only time I've ever run into any issues with it is when I was loading up a Kindle for a kid with a TON of books and it wasn't happy about so many emails.

Overall though, I agree with your message: you're not really forced into using the Amazon ecosystem at all if you're willing to put in a tiny amount of work and the Kindle's are either sold at a loss or at such a small markup that it might as well be one that it's difficult for me to consider the competition since they cost so much more.

tjhart85, 5 months ago

FYI Kindles now support ePub natively and it's fixed a lot of the random issues that used to occur with the spacing and such with no need to convert into AZW3 first (they recently dropped support for AZW ... at the same time they added ePub). It helps that I get everything I can in ePub format or convert to it when I can't.

All in all though, as long as we're all happy with our workarounds, it's all good :-)

I kinda like that mine costs Amazon fractions of a penny in compute time though!

tjhart85, 4 months ago

Agreed completely. With those tools it looks super easy and then you go to do it, it takes all day!

A few of ChrisFix videos he's said something like "if your car is as rusted as this one is, you're going to need to spray it with whatever a few hours in advance to help unseize the bolt, I've already done that, so ...." And you just don't get tips like that from someone that's going to just air hammer away the problem ... Best case if they even show the problem at all, their initial go to is to hit it with the torch, which is never my initial go-to! Start easy and escalate up!

I do have a battery impact wrench, so that helps some, but, seeing it done completely by hand definitely helps give the actual scope of the project and mine doesn't fit everywhere and hand tools are usually needed anyways.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

I mean, kind of ... I have file servers, download servers, documentation servers, syncthing servers, backup servers, vaultwarden servers, etc... that are all linux VMs/containers and my main machine is a Macbook, but I do still have a Windows machine in the living room for gaming (yeah, Steam has pushed us far in this regard, but, when I get time to play a game, I just want to play it, I want the best chance it's going to work the first time and that's still, sadly, Windows). I have another windows machine running Blue Iris as my NVR because I didn't have a good experience with Frigate, Shinobi or a few others. I've got a few other systems floating around that do various things and some of them are linux based and some are windows based depending on what's easier/possible.