LH0ezVT @ LH0ezVT @sh.itjust.works

A human on earth. Ask me about weird tech. Bonus points if it radiates.

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Ah sorry. I thought you were here on lemmy for an open discussion and polite, good-faith arguments, not just trolling and name-calling. My bad.

You lie, and say that there’s no end-to-end encryption when there is

That is not what I said. Please take a deep breath, maybe go outside for a minute, and read my reply again.

1. No end-to-end encryption by default, you have to explicitly start a secret chat. That means that instead of it all being encrypted noise, secret chats stand out.
2. Servers are not open source (last time I checked). Why not? Seriously, why not?
3. Admittedly, not much of an issue any more, but in the beginning they had horrible security (so did WhatsApp until Facebook threw some competent engineers at the problem)

Witch casts fireball via an amulett (molotov)

The best analogy is still E-mail. Me@Gmail.com can talk to you@outlook.com, which can talk to employee@random-company.com. Sometimes an email service shuts down - has anyone checked if yahoo still exists?

So in that case, you have to get a new mail and probably move your important stuff over. It sure sucks, but there is no good way around it, if you want to be able to choose between different services.

Imagine everyone using only gmail: what if Google decided you smell and they don't want your business any more? What if Google decided to make every login cost $5? Or that you need to say "I love Coca Cola" to read your mail?

Same here. If I want to read and argue politics, I click on main. If I want to pass some time and see funny images, I stay on subscribed.

Reading this makes me realize how many people had really fucked up childhoods. I feel sorry for all of you, don't give up hope for humanity, and choose (if you can) how to live your own life. There are better people out there.

I feel less old, thank you all :)

Some Acer laptop I got handed down, 300 MHz Celeron with 64 MB / 4 GB. Looking back, I can blame a lot of how I ended up on that PoS. I have fond memories of playing around with Win 9x and DOS on that thing, clumsily trying to keep it from breaking apart and my parents from taking it away.

The first computer I actually fully bought for myself was a shitty MSI "gaming" laptop with a first-gen i5. That proves that I learned nothing. It would overheat like crazy, the hinges broke after 2 years, had a custom Ati-Intel dual GPU setup that would not play nice with Linux... ah, memories...

Next one after that was a used Elitebook 2540, because I was done with shitty hinges.

If you want a stable future, I guess you would not pick that lifestyle. And if you worked for 5-6 years, taking a year off for personal reasons is not too unheard of. That is long enough to be trained, work productively and hand over your tasks to the next guy. Also, you could always make something up like "I had to help family members" or "I built a house/family member's house" or whatever.

Interestingly, Hitler was pretty much constantly high at the end of the war. But he did write his manifesto while in jail, so he was not evil because he was on drugs, he just happened to be evil and then started drugs. Might explain some of the more stupid late war decisions.

As someone who infrequently enjoys recreational drugs, I disagree. There is a difference between a glass of wine on Friday evening and horse tranquilizer every morning.

1. "Seemingly unprovoked" does not mean unprovoked, but perceived as unprovoked
2. The post asked for how Jewish opinions, this reply tries to sum up what they hear. Don't shoot the messenger.

Of course you can (and should, inho) disagree with the general opinion, fuck, they've been reelecting that absolute moron for how long?

The funny thing is, half of Telegram is drugs, conspiracy nuts and really weird humour. The ai is going to be great, I can already see it.

Tikka masala being the best British dish will never be not funny

Imagine the Brits actually using spice

Wouldn't any repair worker ground anything they work on first, or assume it is live? I am not even a proper electrician, but "short-circuited and grounded, or treat it as live" has been the rule forever.

It is nice for when you need a quick and dirty little fix that would require you to read a lot of documentation and skim through a lot of jnfo you will never need again. Like converting obsolete config file format #1 to obsolete format #2. Or to summatize documentation in general, although one needs to be careful with hallucinations. Basically, you need a solid understanding already, and can judge if something is plausible or not. Also, if you need standard boilerplate, of course.

It sucks most when you need any kind of contextual knowledge, obviously. Or need accountability. Or reliable complexity. Or something new and undocumented.

I like microcontrollers. It is fun to see code do physical things. Plus, you can learn how simple computers work, which helps get an understanding of regular ones. Combine that with home automation, and you have an infinite time sink.

Most embedded systems programming software runs nicely on Linux (or sometimes even exclusively). PlatformIO, Arduino IDE, STM Cube, ESP-IDF... Obviously, something like a Raspberry Pi (and its alternatives) runs Linux itself.

Although, quite often, I find myself saying that since 90% of work and hobbies is either in a browser (including electron) or a shell anyways. Doesn't really matter how the task bar / dock looks when all you do is run the same 10 programs