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atmur

@ atmur @lemmy.world

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  • Is Craigslist Dying?

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  • Craigslist in my area is at least 90% spam, FB Marketplace is also not super active. OfferUp is pretty popular though.

  • Great Job, Internet: Google’s AI feeds people answers from The Onion

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  • Technically yes but if you need to re-terminate the end of a cable in the future without seeing the other end of it, it's nice to be able to assume it was wired the standard way.

    It I found an ethernet cable wired in the wrong sequence, I would re-terminate both ends immediately because otherwise it will be an annoyance in the future.

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    It is so convenient and free.

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  • lol, maybe -> would've come across better

    definitely not greater than

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    It is so convenient and free.

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  • Google -> DuckDuckGo, sometimes fall back to Startpage if DDG has bad results

    Discord -> I use Discord, but incredibly rarely. Haven't bothered finding an alternative

    Windows -> Linux, obviously

    Whats App -> Signal

    iCloud -> Selfhosted storage + Proton Drive

    I don't want anything like TikTok, Instagram, or the rest of them, so I don't use those or their alternatives.

    Edit: arrows

  • May you find peace for real

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  • Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry

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  • To play devil's advocate, it's not the slightest bit hard to see why. I'd almost be curious to see it happen.

    The concerns of data collection and privacy are 110% valid, but it's not like domestic cars are any better. It's a Facebook/TikTok situation, do you want American companies doing super shady shit with your data, or do you want Chinese companies doing super shady shit with your data?

    Do you want GM doing shady shit with your data or do you want BYD doing shady shit with your data? Either way, one data leak is all it takes for everyone to have access to your data.

    The difference between the two scenarios is that you don't need to use social media. Many Americans need a car due to our garbage public transport and non-walkable cities.

    If actual competition is what it takes to make the American auto industry give a shit, then fuck it, let's see what happens. If they can't compete on price, then compete on privacy. Sell a dumb EV with physical dials and switches. I'd buy the more expensive car that doesn't track everything I do.

    Is this an irresponsible take that ignores long term consequences? Probably, but that's the strategy for most companies nowadays and we need more EVs on the road ASAP (among a million other things to slow climate change).

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  • Steam Refund Policy Update (Playtime acquired during the Advanced Access period will now count towards the Steam refund period.)

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  • I had no idea it wasn't counted towards the refund period previously.

  • Fedora Linux 40 Officially Released with Kernel 6.8, Gnome 46 & KDE 6

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  • Just finished upgrading, all went smooth and Gnome 46 kicks ass so far. VRR is finally here!

  • Bro visited his friend

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  • I will use your imagination instead, give it to me

  • degoogled my Pixel recently :3

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  • Hell yeah. I switched from iOS to a Pixel running GrapheneOS a month ago and I've been loving it.

  • The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games

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  • Just submitted a complaint to the DGCCRF. Hopefully this goes somewhere.

  • Help! Random 1-2 second freezes

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  • I remember there being a bug with AMD GPUs and monitors with freesync a few kernel versions ago. It's exactly like you said, random brief freezes.

    Try updating to a newer kernel or disable freesync in your monitor settings (if appplicable).

  • What is the best dumb ev that you can buy?

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  • I had a 2016 Spark EV before I upgraded to a Bolt. The only reason I upgraded was for the range, the Spark is otherwise an excellent car and super fun to drive.

  • Self Hosting Fail

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  • I like to host as many services as possible and I’m fine with it being a second job at times since this is my main hobby, but I actually agree with you on your examples. The three things I won’t self-host are:

    1. Emails - I am not willing to put in the effort on this. Plus, my ISP blocks those ports so I’d already be into using a VPS even if I wanted to host this. I’d rather just pay someone else, like Proton.
    2. Password manager - I actually did self-host Bitwarden for a long time, but after thinking about it for a while, I decided to take the pay someone else approach here too. I’m pretty sure I’m doing everything correctly, but I’m not a security expert. I’d rather be 100% sure my passwords are in safe hands rather than be 95% sure that I’m doing everything right on this one.
    3. Lemmy - I’ve heard about (luckily never seen) CSAM attacks on Lemmy/Kbin and will not risk that kind of content being downloaded because I’m federated with an instance dealing with those attacks. I’m happy to throw a couple bucks at lemmy.world’s Patreon and let them handle that.

  • Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46

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  • In video, common frame rates are 30, 29.97, 24, and 23.976. (Almost) anything else will be a multiple of those. Your monitor might not actually run at 30hz * 4, it runs at 29.97hz * 4 which is why you see an option like 119.88. Sometimes that’s displayed as 120 to the user for simplicity, but in this case they’re showing the actual value (or it might support both).

  • VM suggestion for gaming?

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  • Someone can correct me if I’m mistaken, but as far as I can tell VM gaming has become pointless in recent years.

    Proton/Wine will let you run almost everything on Linux with the exception of some games with rootkit anti cheats, and you’re likely to be banned if you run the latter in a VM anyway.

  • Apparently my love language is installing on the laptops of people I really care about.

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  • So far I’ve switched 4 people to Linux (with approval and interest obviously, plus unlimited tech support lol). 3 are happier with it than Windows and the other liked Linux but had to switch back to Windows due to some audio production software they needed.

    It’s also secretly been an experiment to see what distro is the most user friendly. I have one on Linux Mint, one on Debian, and the other on Fedora Silverblue. All three have been great, but I think the winner is Silverblue so far. I don’t love how quick Silverblue versions become EoL, but it’s also the distro with the easiest updater. It’s an Apple level of simplicity; click update, restart at some point, done. No scary package lists or changelogs, just a nice blue button to press.

    Also Flatpak + Flathub continues to be a huge contributor in making Linux friendly to normal people, in my opinion.

  • Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all

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  • One of the replies in that thread:

    I’m know I’m a weirdo but I actually kinda like the corrosion and hopefully the associated patina that will come with it.

    Wow.