I miss the days of windows 8 and Cortana. Sure, she wasn’t perfect, but Jesus was it better than Copilot!!!
My Windows phone back in the day would link to my Pioneer aftermarket radio in my car and Cortana did text to speech for my incoming texts, and could do speech to text for replies. All through voice commands and hands free. My friends were blown away in 2012-2013.
You know how bad it was to buy just a SIM card lately? Really hard! Walmart doesn’t sell them, Best Buy doesn’t have just SIM card for sale anymore unless it’s “Simple mobile” “Ultra wireless” or some shoddy NVMO. or Mint, but Mint doesn’t do mobile hotspot plans 😮💨.
My best guess, I’m going to buy a Tracfone SIM probably, bc it supports T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon, and their cheapest plan is $10/mo for 1GB data which is mostly for emergencies anyway since I use WiFi at home and work.
What?? You don’t replaced your brakes at 5-6 years? If you drive under the US national average of 12k/year it should be around every 50-60k miles, so 5-6 years. Normally you hear the brake wear indicator squealing sound. Do you wait for the grinding noise to start and a funny smell? Yes, most people ARE in fact replacing at about 5 years. More often the cheaper you go as they wear out faster.
I think people reject that it’s as bad as they’re told because that don’t like to believe it’s that bad, or that there’s no way companies would do that to them. People don’t accept being told “you’re making a big mistake” and to feel dumb about it.
That’s my take. I had somebody at work ask what I do regarding privacy and I realized I lit up with excitement to share and had to immediately dial it back to not freak them out. I started out small and simple and emailed them since basics after chatting. Said, if they wanted additional info let me know " so that it’s up to them to continue the journey (down the rabbit hole lol).
But just glad to see others gaining the knowledge. My journey wasn’t immediate, it’s gradual, so I have to be mindful of their process too.
Surprised Copilot ISN’T coming to Xbox like initially planned. Thank god someone made that call to drop out, Copilot would eat up any remaining resources and butcher gameplay.
“AI” is stupid. All of it.
A 5-day, 40 hour work week “standard”
Somebody saying “bless you” to someone else who sneezes
The president
Haha, yeah don’t call someone a slut!! But a cunt is totally called for 🤣
Thanks to whomever mentioned airgradient the other day, I’ve got indoor and outdoor sensors coming soon! It will be so nice to have visibility into the surrounding air.
Dude we’re way beyond $4.50, I think the cheapest I’ve seen in Illinois is $4.89. I use premium, so $5.99-$6.09 depending on the station and their octane rating. I aim for 92-93 for premium. Nothing like a 50%+increase within a few weeks!
Hah, the data centers that’re controlled by AI fire suppression systems will fail because of… The fire. Like a catch 22. So ironic!
Just like Musk with the charade of “it’s coming” and as long as you keep excitement and act like it’s a game changer, the idiot investors will keep throwing money at it, propping it up. They’ve gotta believe by now it’s both unsustainable and a shitty product, but are just milking it dry for the sake of profits.
Someone should do a write up for pihole vs adguard vs technitium vs eBlockerOS
https://eblocker.org/en/ (German product?) (BTW you’re all welcome that I showed you a new thing)
Very good post, this guy gets it!
Holy… Are you me? Haha
Solo IT, very outdated, uh, everything. Spent the last few years updating, upgrading, modernizing, etc. We’ve come a long way! I can conformably take a vacation without sweating out having my stuff at arm’s length.
Message me if you want to share more, bc my list is far too long.
Bitdefender has a good free version, and so does Sophos (or at least they used to)
No usually teacher’s salaries are from local city taxes whereas ICE is federal.
Maybe as a network scanner, because I know for “high accuracy” Android, for example, scans GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth in combination to help determine better accuracy of location. If it picks up a store WiFi it’s going to know you’re within 100ft. Or some car has a built-in hotspot that either found. Not 100%sure without looking into it further, just speculation.
Oh, gotcha. Well OK that makes a little more sense. I figure either way, the price of crude was still around $100/barrel (I think now it’s over) and gas hadn’t gone so high before, so regardless I was just basing it around prices.
The gas prices are bullshit and nothing more than a ripoff. In 2001 with the “war” in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, it didn’t get this bad. Same with 2008 market crash and 2022 with Covid. Check the charts-especially Monthly Avg Domestic Crude
https://inflationdata.com/articles/inflation-adjusted-prices/historical-crude-oil-prices-table/
My recommendation to many newcomers:
Setup Yunohost, which gives you a custom Debian-based OS that’s easy to deploy tested builds, like Rustdesk. You can configure your Domain info, DNS, etc pretty easily, and if you decide, a dynamic domain or Porkbun (cuz is cheap plus free private WHOIS and SSL certs).
Yes, a small learning curve, but easier than building from Docker when you know nothing about Docker nor have the time to learn. I can fumble through a UI, I can’t fumble with commands or code that I don’t instinctively know. Others who day “just take the time to learn Docker”… But I’ve got 2 jobs, kids and their activities, pets, and other hobbies, so not much time for other stuff.