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JustARegularNerd

@ JustARegularNerd @lemmy.world

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Specs:

  • CPU: StrongArm SA1110 @ 190MHz
  • RAM/ROM: 32MB (shared)
  • Storage: 256MB SanDisk CF-Card
  • Display: 640x480 256 colour CSTN LCD
  • OS: Windows CE Handheld PC Professional

  • ‘Nobody Is Safe’: Canada Sends World a Warning Against Trump

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  • "...but now representing a GREAT and POWERFUL STATE within the greatest Nation that the World has ever seen!”

    Why does that quote from Krasnov immediately give Russia vibes 🤔

  • John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • SMS is incredibly antiquated as soon as you want to do anything multimedia, or heck sending an SMS longer than 144 characters.

    My mother received a video over SMS the other day and it legitimately looked like it was filmed on a Nokia 6310.

    I've encouraged my family to use Signal to replace SMS and it functions really well as an SMS upgrade. It's more secure, private, supports sending decent quality multimedia, the interface is simplistic, it has formatting, does video calls well, and you can send a long message without it being a hacked together string of 5 messages.

    From both a security and usability perspective, it wins out on SMS in my opinion.

    Edit: there's also the nightmare of group chats with SMS. I hate when extended family try to use it

  • Good morning.

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  • It's clearly a complete the CAPTCHA challenge.

    Please enter the word you see above

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  • Agreed, and to be fair I still stop in at niche subreddits I used to follow to see what's new, but never logged in.

  • Are you in this pic?

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  • While I love my ThinkPad T480, there's a bit of me that feels bad for having that replace my Latitude E6420 that still had life left in it on LMDE, especially as I upgraded the processor to a quad core i7-2630QM from the i5-2520M it had.

    That being said, the ThinkPad has been better for my back than the 2.5kg Latitude.

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  • This is the actual reason for me too. I'm making a point to never visit that website again.

    There's exceptions like when searching for troubleshooting help and a relevant result happens to be on Reddit, but otherwise I avoid it as much as possible.

  • Proton Mail says it’s “politically neutral” while praising Republican Party

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  • Yeah I'm very much now considering alternative options like Tuta now. Been a Proton user since 2020 and subscribed for over 2 years with them, and didn't have any intention of moving until now.

  • Can you please start using the correct name

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  • This is exactly how I feel when I use my TrackPoint and my colleague's like "CALL IT WHAT IT IS, IT'S A NIPPLE"

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    I still don't really get this whole Rednote thing but my daughter seems to be having fun

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  • I don't get the hate comments here other than "hurr durr im on a morally superior social media and your daughter isn't". Yes, Rednote is a Chinese app with Chinese ideals, proprietary, non-free, foreign telemetry etc etc. but at the end of the day sounds like your daughter's having fun on an app that's not too indifferent from TikTok.

  • Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

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  • Careful saying that round these parts, you'll summon the ducks.

  • Alright you nerds, I made the jump to Linux.

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  • It only started for me because I wanted to have the convenience of a cloud password manager but without it being publicly open on the internet or hosted outside my network.

    I set up Vaultwarden and Tailscale on a Raspberry Pi.

    Now I've got 2 servers and a (very fucking slow Linksys NSS4000) NAS for backups hosting my life at this point (Nextcloud, Invidious, Beaver Habits)

  • Alright you nerds, I made the jump to Linux.

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  • As a LMDE user who usually keeps it pretty stock, that's customised. I actually didn't even know you could do centred taskbar with Cinnamon (even if it is objectively a crime)

  • We are not the same

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  • I just use Linux Mint Debian Edition for my study laptop, sounds pretty much the same - in over a year of use, I have literally never had a single problem with it (other than things directly caused by me like leftover fstab entries for testing). I know it's what Debian is renowned for but god damn that is a stable operating system.

  • We are not the same

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  • Time to make your decesion

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  • Yeah, my thoughts exactly, even before reading the comments. Yeah, it's a shitpost, but "Oh, Wallace is considered bottom of the barrel because.. he's like 100?" Straight up ageism.

  • Can I get your opinion?

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  • In roughly 7 years of Linux, I think I've only run into issues with automated installers in partitioning if you choose to just go automatic everything and you have a wacky existing partition layout.

  • Not enough people buying Premium, eh?

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  • Yeah, anything to make that line go up on YouTube's end.

    The latest tag still doesn't support multiple audio tracks, which might sound niche, but YouTube just rolled out AI dubbed audio tracks, and so Invidious can just play the wrong track and you can't do anything about it and it's been this way for about a month.

    That being said, it seems that the team's plan is to put more dev time into changing the back end to video.js so they don't have to brunt the video retrieval workload, and video.js supports multiple audio tracks as far as I know. I look forward to when that happens, but in the meantime the latest tag is not 100% usable :(

  • Not enough people buying Premium, eh?

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  • I've done this for about 6 months, I've had a very mixed experience with Invidious, mostly with YouTube constantly making changes without notice or the video stream not really supporting resuming if the connection breaks briefly.

    This isn't a comment on the Herculean effort the contributors are taking on, but new users should be aware that they need a very reliable connection, update the container regularly, and exercise patience in the current state of Invidious.

  • Trump Rages at Biden for Wrecking His Plans for Executions: ‘Makes No Sense’

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  • Trump Rages at Biden for Wrecking His Plans for Executions: ‘Makes No Sense’

    President-elect Donald Trump reacted to President Joe Biden’s commutation of the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row with befuddlement and disbelief on Tuesday, claiming the decision “makes no sense.”

    “Joe Biden just commuted the Death Sentence on 37 of the worst killers in our Country,” Trump wrote, in a Christmas Eve post on Truth Social, featuring his usual irregular capitalization.

    “When you hear the acts of each, you won’t believe that he did this. Makes no sense. Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening.”

    On Monday, the White House announced Biden had commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole. Biden left three federal inmates to face execution: racist mass murder Dylann Roof, antisemitic mass murderer Robert Bowers and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

    The decision was explicitly designed to stifle the death-penalty-loving Trump—who oversaw a modern record 13 federal executions during his first term—before he returns to office.

    “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted,” said Biden, in a statement announcing his decision.

    On Tuesday, Trump followed up his original post with a promise to pursue capital punishment once he’s back in power.”

    “As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters,” Trump wrote. “We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!”

    Trump’s return to office had already raised concern among human rights experts.

    “It is near certain that Donald Trump will re-start the federal killing machine where he left off, and we remain concerned about the human rights of those who are still on federal and military death row,” said Paul O’Brien, Amnesty International USA’s Executive Director, in a statement.

    Trump’s spokesperson Steven Cheung was even more effusive about Biden’s clemency than his boss, saying Monday that the death row inmates whose sentences were commuted are “are among the worst killers in the world,” excoriating Biden’s “abhorrent decision” as “a slap in the face to the victims, their families, and their loved ones.”

    Responses from victims’ families and loved ones, however, has not been unanimous.

    Heather Turner—whose mother was killed during a 2017 bank robbery in South Carolina by one of the men whose death sentences was commuted—slammed the decision, writing on Facebook: “Joe Biden’s decision is a clear gross abuse of power. He, and his supporters, have blood on their hands.”

    But retired Ohio police officer Donnie Oliverio, whose partner was killed by another man whose sentence was commuted, offered a statement of support: “Putting to death the person who killed my police partner and best friend would have brought me no peace. The president has done what is right here, and what is consistent with the faith he and I share.”

    Biden emphasized, in announcing his decision, that he condemns the murderers and grieves for those who suffered losses.

    “But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice-president, and now president, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level,” he said.

    His act was hailed by human rights experts.

    “The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, and President Biden’s eleventh-hour decision before leaving office to commute these death sentences is a big moment for human rights,” said Amnesty’s O’Brien.

    Tanya Greene, US program director at Human Rights Watch, said the “courageous decision recognizes the U.S. death penalty has failed to deter crime or improve public safety, risked the execution of innocent people, and runs counter to the belief in the dignity of all human life and the possibility of redemption.”

    Biden’s historic commutation came little more than a week after the president granted some 1,500 pardons and commutations to Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes in the largest single-day act of clemency in modern U.S. history. It also followed his controversial pardon of his own son.