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Jerk City sends its regards

Guess I missed that part, my mistake

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.

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.

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.

I don't know how I feel about AI agents being able to buy domains, this is just going to enable domain squatters

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.

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.

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.

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

I adore Proxmox, I'm not really sure about its support with Windows, but from a Linux server perspective, I love it.

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`)

> 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.

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.

What's the color accuracy like with the nano texture display? I'd consider buying one if it doesn't make any colors come out dull and washed

Definitely. It wasn’t too bad, but it took roughly a month for the brain zaps to completely stop with Zoloft & Wellbutrin. I had worse brain zaps in the past from Lexapro, that was bad enough I’d lose focus on whatever task I was doing.

I decided to go unmedicated from SSRIs/mood stabilizers in 2024 and it changed my life for the better. Prior to stopping, I thought I was physically unhealthy until I found out excessive overheating & exhaustion was a common side effect of Zoloft. Since then, I've lost around 40 pounds and have been able to regularly exercise without issues. My mental health also improved with forcing myself to get vitamin D outside. It can be the simplest of things to improve your life, but it can be easy to forget (especially WFH).

I'm interested in getting that standalone magsafe Clicks keyboard they also announced. I have the original Clicks keyboard case for my iPhone 15 and almost never use it because of how goofy the size is + I dislike hate that soft touch plastic that gets stuck in my pocket. The slide out keyboard looks way more appealing in comparison. Not sure how people lived using the keyboard case with any plus sized iPhone-- It's basically a weapon!

Minus work, I've exclusively been using Arch Linux, Ubuntu Server & macOS on my machines and haven't looked back for the last couple years. The biggest annoyance I have is the lack of (modern) Adobe applications on Linux. I'll be real though, I mostly just like Photoshop out of familiarity, I could probably get used to the alternatives but I'm lazy. Photoshop CS6 I hear works fine in WINE which is good enough for me since my workflow hasn't changed much since CS5.

Oh, and also anti-cheat games forcing me to use Windows. Makes me sick to my stomach booting into Windows 11 every couple of months and having to watch my PC performance tank while it's downloading updates, Windows Defender scans, etc. for 30 minutes

KDE Connect has been my answer to Apple's Airdrop for the last couple of years. It's an excellent program; I even use it on my Mac for file transferring with my Steam Deck

I use my iPad solely for just artwork at this point. I don't respect the App Store and needing to pay subscriptions for things you can get for free on a computer. That, and having to rely on web apps

What exactly is stopping 4chan from not paying the fines? Is the UK gonna send the cyberpolice to shut down an American website? If your website isn't hosted in the UK you shouldn't have to abide by their laws.

Nothing screams modern Linux more than having an unmaintained replacement for ls.

Paint.net was the program to get me into graphic design. I hold this, and Notepad++ as the killer apps for Windows.

The website is giving me an aneurysm to look at, but I did have a laugh sitting through 10 minutes of the Barbie Movie in my terminal.

The direct command from the website is: ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no watch.ascii.theater

My big issue with AI powered search is I don't really trust what it's telling me in terms of news and more specific questions. Sometimes I'll skim what the Bing/Google generation has to say if it takes me longer than 8 seconds to find a relevant link, otherwise I don't find it that enticing of a feature.

In terms of Bing Chat, easily the biggest appeal to me is it's based on GPT-4 and includes features for creative/professional writing. I think that alone is the biggest reason to use it over chatGPT 3.5.

A lot of these backend features/behaviors are super interesting to read through, especially in regards to the "flame war detector" section. I've only ever seen link aggregator websites such as Reddit relying on community moderation & spam detectors rather than anything to improve the quality of the discourse.

For anyone that's interested in self-hosting Bitwarden on your server, I would highly recommend checking out the Rust implementation, Vaultwarden. It takes less resources to run, doesn't paywall certain features (I.E MFA logins), and (in my experience) has been a lot easier to work with compared to the official client.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Interesting. I was under the impression this tool was effective because of some sort of hidden patterns generated in sentences. I guess my assumption was way complex than what it actually is

Wow! That's super handy actually. I'm definitely gonna keep note of doing this in the future for my own projects