Onomatopoeia @ Onomatopoeia @lemmy.cafe

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Can those containers hold hundreds of pounds of... anything?

I'm assuming it's linoleum, which would go with the pink tub era.

Otherwise, an artist needs a visit from Vinnie Goombah.

I've never seen an ad in Windows itself. Not sure how people are getting that.

I just retired a 2012 Windows 7 machine that had never received any patches/updates.

Never crashed, never had issues.

I've run Windows boxes even longer than that.

Since Win2k, stability improved drastically. XP was another major shift.

Linux is like running NT4 by comparison (and NT4 was damn stable).

Because it doesn't, by a long shot?

Cut the existing handle off the shaft - most likely the shaft is knurled so the injection-molded plastic will grip it.

Either attach a handle with a clamping mechanism (see motorcycle brake and shifter levers), or simply weld a handle on.

Before I were to go to that much trouble, I'd weld a 1/4 hex shaft on it, so I could use a drill or impact driver.

Meh, not a recent change.

Go read about the early "talkie" era. Same shit today as yesterday - Hollywood has always been a cesspool

Medium rare is the only acceptable answer anyway

It's not like the geotagging was all that great anyway. The phone app sucked battery like an alcoholic with a fresh bottle.

suddenly my hands malfunction

Hahahaha, so much in life can be explained like this

I despise reading a book on a screen. Ebooks are inferior to physical books from a typical usage standpoint.

Shame that.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people

There's a vast difference though. You're acting like we're Luddites or something, when there's already a concrete example of the problems you're promoting.

Yes, we have to tinker with AI to understand it. But your approach is to shove it into everything when we don't fucking want it in fucking everything.

Ffs can you be any more dismissive and denigrating by comparing us to luddites?

And, I'm probably mot much younger than you, and I can call bullshit on your claims. Nothing from 4+ decades ago compares to the Cloud and AI concerns, by orders of magnitude.

Yea, that's a lot of ambiguity.

"Doesn't work". Well, yea, if you only install it on your phone - it's a multi-device sync tool.

For Windows I recommend SyncTrayzor, for Linux and Mac it's Syncthing, for iOS it's Möbius.

I've installed it hundreds of times, the only time it hasn't worked was between 2 Android devices of a specific version, and this is a documented thing.

An alternative to Syncthing is Resilio Sync. I use both, for different purposes.

Resilio is a battery eater on mobile, but it is a bit more consistent than Syncthing (though after 10+ years and probably terabytes of sync, it's not like ST is problematic).

RS offers Selective Sync, so I don't have to sync an entire folder, but can pick a file to sync "right now". This is really useful for my media folder (~2.5 TB), since I don't have that kind of free space on my phone. From anywhere I can fire up RS on my phone and grab whatever movie I want (or any file from my laptop, other phones etc, because all those files are synced to my server using Syncthing).

The Fork dev forked it years ago, well before the original dev stopped because of Play rules (which I really don't get).

Anyway, I've used Fork for years now, it "just works", plus moved all the config into each sync pair/folder.

Encrypted messaging is unrelated to phone numbers. That's an issue of using apps like WhatsApp (which I refuse to use), and a beef I have with Signal (part of why I really don't trust them).

Simplex doesn't use your phone number, why would it? It's not technically difficult to solve this, it's a business/social/political issue.

Apps have no need of your telephone number, not that it isn't hard to find anyway.

It's a tough call, I don't disagree at all with the concerns you pose.

However... Email is every bit as another data point for tracking you, and worse it's in the clear. Every email address I've ever used over the years is in databases with IP addresses, timestamps, locatiin/region data, last used, associated device ID's, etc... Plus any analysis from content that was ever done. Yahoo/Google, etc certainly know lots about the user of those addresses, even ones that aren't their addresses.

I'd happily use an encrypted system(s). I'd simply create multiple accounts, and isolate them in different ways.

For example, my healthcare org sends nothing through email except a notification that you have some kind of update. You then log in to their system to view the info. I do wish they'd develop an app for iOS/Android, it's a bit of a nuisance otherwise. In their defense, App dev with sensitive info isn't their forte, so at least they aren't opening that Pandora's box.

Everywhere I've lived, it's never changed, for years (current is 5 years).

I guess it really depends.

I've been using email since it was text-based.

I think email for the average person is kind of dead. I rarely use it for personal comms, and it's more of a repository of receipts and the occasional password reset.

I reluctantly use it for person-to-business.

Work? That's not my concern. I use the tools that they manage.

Email is practically dead to me - it's not encrypted, and plenty of encrypted systems exist that provide equivalent, and in some ways, better functionality for personal use.

I wish companies would start embracing them.