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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

For many things I completely agree.

That said, we just had our second kid, and neither set of grandparents live locally. That we can video chat with our family


for free, essentially!


is astonishing. And it's not a big deal, not something we plan, just, "hey let's say hi to Gramma and Gramps!"

When I was a kid, videoconferencing was exclusive to seriously high end offices. And when we wanted to make a long distance phone call, we'd sometimes plan it in advance and buy prepaid minutes (this was on a landline, mid 90s maybe). Now my mom can just chat with her friend "across the pond" whenever she wants, from the comfort of her couch, and for zero incremental cost.

I think technology that "feels like tech" is oftentimes a time sink and a waste. But the tech we take for granted? There's some pretty amazing stuff there.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think mplayer has an ASCII output mode (VLC, too?), and I believe youtube-dl can output to stdout.

The rest is, as they say, left as an exercise to the reader.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I have one SSID with pihole (which I use), and one without. Works pretty well, if you're ok with a VLAN-aware network.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You can turn it off, at least for ext4: https://lwn.net/Articles/784041/

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Although you can use case insensitive filesystems with Linux, and case sensitive filesystems with macOS. I believe the case sensitivity is a function of the specific filesystem


but yeah, practically, the root for Linux is always case sensitive, and APFS ~~ain't~~ is only if you ask it to be ( https://support.apple.com/lv-lv/guide/disk-utility/dsku19ed921c/mac ).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not sure why you're saying Python forces everything to be object oriented...?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Isn't universally funny.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Many, many (most?) commercial ham radios are powered by ~12VDC, and can be run directly off of a car battery in many cases (always use a fuse, kids!).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Ah, pretty sure that'd be the whole OnStar transceiver, too (which isn't a bad thing to disable...).

I thought the antenna itself was behind a fuse (as in, feedline has an inline fuse) which would be a peculiar design I think.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Are antennas usually behind a fuse?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (8 children)

And environment


DISPLAY and PATH in particular.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Verizon will tell you to fuck right off and will never unlock your device.

Will never unlock their device.

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