joe_cool

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Why would somebody lie on the internet?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That's because it's all local to your device.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

About 500MBit/s on Telegram Desktop. They currently have 10 million paying subscribers out of ~950 million users.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

And paying for it with a card with your name on it might be a bad idea...

EDIT: VPN or Usenet might be better and there are also pretty good tools.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Depends on what you are looking for. I like Akregator but it's quite old-school.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Oh, lemmy has cakes. Happy cake day.

That password was only for network shares/NT domains. 95 didn't have any concept of users, like DOS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I just pressed cancel. Who needs network shares.
On XP you could start the On Screen Keyboard, open the help for that and then open the explorer by browsing for a different help file.

MS has a history of security first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Rebel Galaxy rocks. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is also amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Steam version has Denuvo. GOG version doesn't. Other than that they should be the same. I noticed only differences in load times.

It's a fun game and runs great on a potato. $5 is definitely worth it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, even XP had Rover, the search dog.

Ninite and Chocolatey helps a bit. But then you get to the point where there is no automation for a start menu entry for some packages. It's a bit of a mess.

A colleague installed Python from the MS Store on Windows 11 it messed up all python software, PyCharm, the other python versions and some file associations. Quite a mess.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It's true. I fixed a Samsung LED TV that wouldn't turn on. They used a tiny resistor that I thought was a fuse.

That resistor was chosen so that it always ran hot and failed after about 3 years of normal use. I put in a bigger one with the same resistance that stays cold and now have the TV for 5 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Can confirm. Use a fridge from 1974. 2 years ago thermostat failed. Replaced with digital one for $15. Now have a nice digital readout of the temps. Thing uses ~~180W~~ 100W when running, less than bigger newer ones.
It's even more ecological to keep it running since it still has the nasty ozone layer killing coolant that would partly evaporate when trashing it.

EDIT: 100W just checked the type plate.

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