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how I learned to stop worrying and love the link aggregator
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Comment · 3 months ago
Jerk City sends its regards
Comment · 4 months ago
Guess I missed that part, my mistake
Comment · 4 months ago
I wonder if the existing hidden emails I already have in iCloud will be changed over too. If that's not the case, I'm just going to use one of the 50 throwaway addresses I already have.
Comment · 5 months ago
I don't like these articles treating Valve (or really any PC/console maker) like these price hikes are based on greed alone. I can all but guarantee Valve is paying way higher than the MSRP to even secure any memory supply to begin with. Not even enterprise environments are safe from price hikes, the PC hardware at my company went up by 120% and we're still scraping what we can.

It might also be working less in Valve's favor since the Steam Deck is technically a PC, might also not have as lucrative deals like Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft in memory either.

With all that being said though, the Steam Deck is NOT worth it for about $1000 with tax. People glazing the ROG Ally are going to be very disappointed when that also gets a price hike.

Comment · 5 months ago
I only use Vaultwarden, which to my understanding is an open source reimplementation of Bitwarden's API. I personally haven't had any issues with it, not sure if it'll eventually stop being compatible with Bitwarden's official applications however.
Comment · 5 months ago
I don't know how I feel about AI agents being able to buy domains, this is just going to enable domain squatters
Comment · 6 months ago
surprisingly, the people I saw getting the most use out the Apple Vision Pro has been healthcare workers (even though that's already incredibly rare to see). There was a doctor I used to talk to at my old job that swore by it. He would pin EPIC app windows in individual patient rooms and would use the built-in microphones for doing speech dictation on patient charts.

I thought it sounded a little goofy when he was explaining it to me, but hey that's at least a more productive use case than watching YouTube videos on the couch.

Comment · 6 months ago
It's ironic we're at a point where having repairability & no tech innovation is seen as appealing for a modern piece of equipment. That John Deere lawsuit is perfect marketing as to why you don't need modern utility equipment that you cannot service yourself. All the quality of life features and technologies seen in modern farming equipment is only going to get you so far until something breaks & you're having a certified John Deere technician driving 6 hours to your farm.

While not the same, I also feel similarly with a lot of IoT "smart" devices too, if my 1995 washing machine breaks beyond the point of repair, you bet I'm going to be trying to find another old reliable washer to replace it with. Plenty of things are just simply not built to last and IoT is more of just a trojan horse for implementing planned obsolescence for more household items.

Comment · 6 months ago
The anti-trust lawsuits with Google have Mozilla realizing they can't just be a company kept afloat by Google. Mozilla's priorities have been pretty complacent, basically just maintaining Firefox, sometimes Thunderbird, and a couple side services that have little financial incentives.

The current state of Mozilla is pretty odd since they rebranded to make it more apparent they're a non-profit, while also attempting to become more profitable pushing out new products and services.

Comment · 6 months ago
I thought Mozilla was going to join the Thunderbolt standard and/or making some tool for it until I clicked the link haha. Very interesting name choice
Comment · 6 months ago
I adore Proxmox, I'm not really sure about its support with Windows, but from a Linux server perspective, I love it.
Comment · 7 months ago
You'll look like the coolest person in the office running `sudo !!`. Another personal favorite of mine is using the --now flag for systemctl to enable & start a service in one command (i.e `systemctl enable --now nginx`)
Comment · 8 months ago
> Apple is the opposite of planned obsolescence.

OpenCore would like a word about that. It's nice to get official security patches, but Apple does make perfectly capable machines obsolete.

Comment · 8 months ago
My issue is that I don't necessarily trust content if it looks generated. I think I might've lost the link, but when I was helping my company with integrating Microsoft Entra with Ubuntu, I noticed the documentation from both Microsoft & Canonical had heavily generated documentation that was flat out wrong and had me going into loops figuring out unnecessary steps that were seemingly hallucinated.

ai;dr is what I'm going to start saying, it's just frustrating to see.

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