stealth_cookies @ stealth_cookies @lemmy.ca

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Yes, It is typically pronounced "hike-vision" though.

I have a total of 9.5TB in my computer, another 17TB on a NAS and a backup drive that is another 6TB.

I'm a digital packrat and ensure things that are hard to reacquire are at least copied on a second drive.

Occam's razor and all that. He is simply a low intelligence person with a fuckload of money.

Yes it is the engineers fault, but even then there should have been multiple people that should have caught such an issue along the way.

I don't think the fingerprint reader is the problem it is how the OS supports it. I tried with my framework laptop and it just stopped logging me in after a misread or something like that.

It seems like every year Qualcomm's prices are higher than ever, yet the major companies still use their latest and greatest. Have they finally gotten too expensive, or is this just the same reporting as we get every year as companies trust that consumers will buy at whatever price they decide to charge.

You sure you are using the PETG preset? The only time my PETG prints have looked like that is if I accidentally use the PLA preset and it under-extrudes because the temperatures aren't high enough.

That is a question too hard to answer in a comment and one that depends on the use case of the software. Few users need the power and features of CATIA or NX, but those who need it can't accept anything lesser. SolidWorks is a good spot in terms of flexibility and features if it could be easier for the average person to use. You need proper accurate parametric modeling (e.g. a NURBS kernel) for solid models and surfacing. Hearing things like wireframe and voxel indicates it isn't suitable to me.

Yes I use Lightroom for my library and DxO Optics Pro for editing. Darktable isn't bad but it doesn't do the job nearly as well as those two softwares.

Ground News isn't a source per se. They provide links to various news sources so you can see different viewpoints on the same story. They try to align the sources left and right and indicate their factuality but that is just meant to be a guide to allow you to challenge your viewpoints or determine factuality and to make it clear what the ownership structure might be guiding them to write.

I've been a paying subscriber for 4 or 5 months after finding them and find it quite reasonable and interesting.

I bought an HP laser printer in 2016 or thereabouts. I only just had to replace the "starter" toner cartridge on it a couple months ago (despite it warning me it was low on toner probably 3 years ago). Bought an off-brand toner cartridge for like $20.

Credit card almost exclusively and I get annoyed if I can't use tap to pay. I'm finding more and more places don't even accept cash anymore.

Could be a Berlin thing, but I found it so weird when I was there in early 2020 that most places didn't accept card.

Cameras are mostly software improvements these days. I argue displays have gotten worse with the drop from QHD to 1080p. Many think that the back fingerprint readers are better than the under screen or facial ones. 5G is mostly pointless. All while costs have increased greatly. A phone today doesn't better meet my use cases than the phone I had 6 years ago and in many ways is worse (lower res screen, no headphone jack, inflated prices).

Crazy, even the LG G6 I had 6 years ago had a QHD screen.

You likely aren't missing that much, if that is a normal LCD and presumably a smaller screen you probably have smaller pixels on your phone than a modern 1080p OLED because of the pentile subpixel array.

Exactly, assume your employer can see everything you do on the company network, software, and devices. If your employer regularly checks on employees this way (that is excepting extraordinary circumstances) and uses it against employees this is an indication that they are a bad employer and you should find one that trusts their employees unless proven otherwise.

As far as I can tell there isn't a single one that isn't a steaming pile of shit. Where have you found acceptable ones?

That said I'm against them because it reduces the employment that a business requires while pushing the work onto the customers. Unless they are giving me a discount for using the self checkout you are effectively being an employee for free for the store.

To be fair mine only has an underscore because Lemmy doesn't support periods in user names. I have actually barely used the software I was talking about and use another one that doesn't care.

That depends, if you have the fortune (misfortune?) of using the CAD software Creo/ ProE from PTC then spaces are verboten since they haven't progressed from the days where the software was written for UNIX.

As a fairly early Reddit user I've seen a lot of change as the website got bigger. I would agree that growth is not necessarily good, there is a minimum size of community to keep content fresh and a maximum size before it loses the personal connection. Right now a lot of the larger Lemmy communities are getting active enough, but Lemmy is lacking the users to support the niche communities. Maybe it is best if Reddit keeps those and the two websites end up with a happy balance for all the types of communities.