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Most contemporary music sounds like shit. I try to stay current to at least within the last 3 years, but the older I get, the more it just sounds like shit.

South Park did an episode about it, and they were spot on.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

The issues only impacted Mac users because macOS prevents certain applications from running if it doesn't detect a valid Developer ID certificate, something that has affected other apps in the past.

— https://www.theverge.com/news/857377/logitech-macos-logi-options-mouse-certification-fix

Looks like it was the developer certificate required for it to run on MacOS that expired. Still inexcusable since Pepperidge Farm remembers when you configured peripherals through the driver options in the control panel.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

I don't even know what else to add to this headline.

Nothing. Rule 4 here says the post title should match the headline. Don't editorialize.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

I'm slow-walking season 3 for maximum enjoyment, so I'm not going to source a screenshot to memeify it, but:

Blazin' Bev: I'm gonna light this Borg cube up like my first joint this morning.

Alternatively:

Me when I'm the only one in the friend group with a working lighter:

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

Good morning. How are you?

Fine, and you?

Technically that was two lies because I did not care how they were doing.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

I built my first (and so far only) ebike in 2013. Thing was a death trap (did not upgrade the brakes 🤦‍♂️) but I loved it, and it was crazy fun to ride.

Lived too far to e-bike to work but would bring it with me to do around-town errands on breaks at work. Every time I had to park it outside to run into a store, I felt exactly like the meme. The battery alone was $700 sitting out in the open.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

And smoking is already banned in buildings, within 15 feet of an entrance of buildings, on buses, in parks, etc.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

They're the same in that they bring some people joy while being offensive to others.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

As an ex-smoker who hates the smell of cigarettes probably more than non-smokers ever will, I don't disagree in theory. But we shouldn't stop with just assaults to one sensory perception. In for a penny in for a pound as they say.

Loud-ass exhausts, booming subwoofers, and other assaults on the ears should also be banned in public. Strong colognes and perfumes...also banned in public.

Ugly sweaters, poor fashion choices, and shitty cars with anime girls painted on the side? You guessed it: They're assaults on the eyes and should be banned in public

Or we could just deal with the fact that other people like things we don't like.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

I've wanted an electric motorcycle ever since I first saw the "el Ninja" conversion forever ago.

sounds too good to be true?

Didn't see a (suggested) price listed, so the devil's in the dollar signs.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

I really want Arm laptops to take off, but I also don't want them "phone-ified" with bootloaders you either can't unlock or have to jump through hoops and beg the manufacturer to provide an unlock code.

Tech reviews really need to start "benchmarking" device's locked down-ness as well. I don't care how well it crunches Pi or how long the battery lasts while streaming some brain rot from YT. I care about whether I can run Linux on it lol.

If anyone early adopts, be sure to try to install Linux on it and return it if you hit any artificial barriers; make sure to explain exactly why it's being returned.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

Rule 1: No politics. Consider posting to instead.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

I downgraded from used enterprise gear to those ultra small form factor PCs. They sip power well enough on their own that I haven't really bothered tuning anything. I suppose I could cap the frequency with cpufrequtils and set the governor to conservative rather than on-demand (I do this with my battery-powered RasPi projects) but I'm not sure how much difference that'll make for my servers.

In the past, I had Docker Swarm setup and automation to collapse the swarm down to a single machine (powering the other ones down and back on with WoL) but that was more trouble than it was worth. On average load, the USFF PCs run at about 15 watts and don't usually peak above 30 unless they're rebooting or doing something very heavy. Even transcoding doesn't break 20 watts since I'm using hardware acceleration.

The biggest power savings I found that was worth the effort was to just get rid of the enterprise gear, switch from VMs to Docker containers where possible, and get rid of stuff I'm not using (or only run it on-demand).

The only remaining enterprise power suck I have left is my managed switch. It's a 2005-era dinosaur that's loud and power hungry, but it's been a workhorse I'm having a hard time parting with.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

Looks like they banned you from the lemmy.zip instance only: https://lemmy.zip/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan&userId=16510340

When a federated account is banned from an instance, the backend also bans them from any community on the instance they've interacted with (including if you've just voted in them if I'm not mistaken).

Also, yes, admins can ban anyone on any community on their instance (but only locally if it's a remote community). Ergo, a lemmy.zip admin can ban you from !asklemmy@lemmy.world on their instance, but you won't be officially banned and other instances will see your content there while users on lemmy.zip will not.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

Per rule 6, please back up your opinion with the reasoning behind it.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2mo ago

While it offers a screen for viewing and responding to messages, the Communicator doesn’t provide access to addictive social media apps or games. Instead, the company partnered with the maker of an Android launcher, Niagara Launcher, to provide access to messaging apps and productivity tools like Gmail, Telegram, WhatsApp, and Slack.

I don't understand why it would limit apps. $499 is a lot to spend on a secondary device, and I don't know that I'd want to EDC two devices.

Most apps work fine on smaller screens. I've been daily driving a Cat S22 Flip with a portrait-oriented 480x640 screen for over a year, and most apps scale just fine.

I've at least heard of Niagara Launcher. Is that saying the only way to use those apps is through the launcher's integration? That sounds shitty.

The company is teasing the possibility of integrating AI applications with this button

Dear god, no.

The phone’s standout feature is its Signal Light, a light-up button on the side of the device that can be customized with different colors and light patterns to indicate when you’ve received messages from certain people, groups, or app

So, a feature that has existed for years but was taken away from us? My old OnePlus had a customizable RGB light which could be configured the same way. It was really handy, and I hated the "always on" display that replaced it. I could tell from the color and pattern what kind of notification it was without having to preview it which was nice as it didn't stress me out with a need to reply.

I want to like this, but it seems like they're being very opinionated on how you actually use it. Maybe we'll get lucky and it'll be bootloader unlockable and LineageOS can save it from the shitty decisions of the manufacturer.