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Khanzarate

@ Khanzarate @lemmy.world

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  • Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment

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  • Your wall outlet is AC but a battery is DC, so a pure wire setup is not so much a safety thing as it is just incompatible. A good fire starter.

    So you'll have to convert it, which makes for a big, bulky plug.

    On top of that, you'll need prior knowledge of the battery layout, including whether they're parallel or serial. Usually parallel, but not a guarantee.

    All of this isn't insurmountable, but is enough to make it not the norm. They do, in fact, already exist

  • Headless VNC on Mint

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  • According to The arch wiki, x11vnc operates differently than some other servers and is not capable of going headless. You'd need the dummy plug.

    On that same page, though, it lists the alternative to x11vnc as Xvnc, and links to TigerVNC which is capable of going headless, and has an example config for going headless.

    I haven't tested tigerVNC specifically, but it's known, so I expect this is the solution to your problem.

  • looking for a way to block a specific program from using ipv6

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  • Off the top of my head, the only way I can think of is to install steam using docker, and install SF6 on dockerized steam.

    Then you've converted the problem to either configuring docker to use ipv4 internally or setting up the container to ignore ipv6, both of which are doable.

    There's a good chance it'll be perfectly playable but without trying it out or doing more research than I've invested here, it's not a guarantee.

  • Adding TV to bedroom without using mainstream smart device

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  • My pi 3 has struggled with some particular codecs or large (greater than 5 hours) videos. I'm not proficient enough to say that it wasn't my fault in some way, some config option, but it was a near thing, regardless. A pi 4 or 5 should do it flawlessly, and my pi 3 works more reliably than my roku, even with that flaw.

    WiFi, as long as your router isn't ancient, will be more than enough. Latency isn't a factor, and you can get HD streaming at well under 100 Mbps, the upper limit of most routers. My router, in another room with walls from an old house that destroy my signal, still gives me about 20, which is enough for 1080p.

    I will say a pi 3 feels fairly laggy just using it to browse online. It does much better as a streaming box. The pi 5 I just got yesterday is much snappier, feels great to use. The 4gb model is 60$ right now, although I got the 8gb model.

    All this was on default raspberry pi OS with kodi installed as an app. Very little to set up besides getting the media itself shared in your preferred way.

  • Are there any Windows-exclusive programs you use?

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  • Convert to PDF before submitting a resume. PDFs aren't vulnerable to that kind of version difference messing things up.

    Its definitely possible some other word processor would mess up the PDF conversion, but moving the formatting issues to before you submit anything lets you fully control the problem.

  • Google sued for $2.3bn by European media groups over digital ad losses

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  • While I'd love a percentage based fee, this is a damages suit, so it should be actual damages these people are owed, as determined by the court. A percentage just doesn't make sense here unless punitive damages were also on the table.

    In principle I agree, though, breaking the law should not be an affordable "cost of doing business".

  • Funimation’s solution for wiping out digital libraries could be good, if it works

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  • It could be good because if they actually gave their customers a refund or access elsewhere then they've at least made up for the closing.

    Naturally, if you received something actually of equal value, it's generally alright, in the same way that I'll accept a FedEx van running into my mailbox if they paid me enough to replace it.

    The emphasis is on "could" because they tested the claim that they're doing the equal value thing and found they don't seem to be. So the claim of giving something worth the digital goods you're losing just isn't holding up, so they're shit.

  • ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here?

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  • Because companies insist on it and when growth stops they'll start to cannibalize their own company and charge more money for things that used to be free or fairly-priced until they price themselves out of the market entirely and die as a service.

    Yay, capitalism!

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    Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’

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  • "Gen Z ruining clickbait 'Gen Z are ruining industry' industry. Will they never realize complaining about them has been a national pastime for 400 years?"

  • This Is Why Tesla’s Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting

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  • That'd be a great Halloween vibe. Bit pricy for my Halloween budget though.

  • Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating

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  • I wish I had fiber. I get 100 Mb from T-Mobile 5g and 80 from spectrum. I've had two significant gaps in coverage from T-Mobile, but I also had internet during a power outage with a generator and an extension cord, which was huge.

    For 50$, I'll take that over a more consistent 80mb for 100-120$.

    Definitely a rural thing, less 5g congestion and all. a physical line makes way more sense in a city, ideally fiber, but 5g internet has a pretty big niche.

  • Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses

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  • I have never thought of writing things with static ipv6.

    I have been missing out.

  • I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist

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  • Only if the AI used discriminatory criteria from a protected class.

    They CAN fire you for feeling you're likely to sue. They can't retaliate against a lawsuit, but there isn't one yet. At-will employment sucks, and the thing that protects against this is a union, not discrimination laws.

  • Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin

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  • Yeah the out is that you can buy goods and services with it. I could've paid for my VPN (Private Internet Access) with Bitcoin, Overstock takes Bitcoin, those ATMs exist.

    If everyone suddenly wanted to cash out, it would crash and very few people would get money for it, but that's also what separates it from a Ponzi scheme, the fact that I don't need to transform it to USD to spend it. There was a hard push by Bitcoin enthusiasts to get some places to accept it directly for exactly that reason.

  • Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin

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  • Well, so a lot of people call it a Ponzi scheme, and it certainly has been used as one before, but the thing that separates it from a true Ponzi scheme is there is a product, and it's not you.

    Places accept Bitcoin as a currency, there's Bitcoin ATMs, all that. This makes it valuable as a method to make online purchases, specifically, as a third-party payment processor. First you convert your money to Bitcoin through a service of your choice that's not related to the person you're paying, then you transact, and eventually that person cashes out Bitcoin for money. This generates 3 transactions, which a Bitcoin miner can authenticate and be paid in Bitcoin for their efforts.

    This seems convoluted but it's about the same process as using a debit card, with MasterCard or Visa promising to balance everything in a bit and acting as an institution to verify trust.

    This process is not the only positive thing about Bitcoin, but it's a major one and ensures two things. The first is that those exchange services give everyone in this "Ponzi scheme" an out. While they're running, you can't be pumped and dumped in the usual way. This creates some confidence, which helps keep people in, which raises the value. A normal Ponzi scheme promises an out, but has none.

    The second, because there's people who trust in Bitcoin on actual merits, is that Bitcoin becomes a legitimate investment. It becomes equivalent to currency exchanges, where people exchange their money anticipating the value of USD or the euro to raise or fall. Again, very much like a Ponzi scheme, but since these people have an out, this is a risk, not a scam.

    As far as I know (I'm not an expert) these two kinds of transactions are the bulk of the transactions in Bitcoin, but between the two, Bitcoin will remain alive with frequent usage and that enables bitcoin mining. None of this is stable, but it's also not a scam.

    During the big push to get some vendors to accept Bitcoin this system hadn't formed, there were plenty of people willing to sell and mine Bitcoin, but few that were willing to buy it, and calling it a Ponzi scheme was appropriate. It's just the end goal wasn't to sucker someone into giving you money, it was to sucker them into supporting an economy that didn't exist. They succeeded, so now it's not a scam, just risky.

  • PSA: Bluetooth vulnerability and PS3 Controllers on Linux in 2024

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  • The bug report also listed mitigation steps including turning off discovery, so it seems to me that if you enable the insecure method, you can just leave discovery off by default, and manually turn it on briefly to pair a new device, then tirn discovery back off.

  • App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline

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  • That's not what the article said they meant.

    An EU split that can comply, and a rest of the world split that continues to monopolize the iPhone.

  • The EU common charger : USB-C

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  • Yeah mine does, I love it. I just want it to be standard.

  • The EU common charger : USB-C

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  • Yeah. Wireless charging helps some of that, especially if the pad is itself connected through a USB-C cable.

    Ideally, in my mind, someday phones themselves will be able to charge wireless devices, so we'll connect the phone through the USB-C cable and place the watch on top and they'll both be ready to go in the morning.