d00phy

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[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I think we are at the point where Americans just need to make this their profile pic on all their social media accounts.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago
[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I mean, I know I did.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Careful, I had a post like this locked almost a month ago.

FWIW, I went with purelymail, and it’s been pretty good. Basic, but solid.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I am shocked. Shocked, I say. Shocked.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

One of these days they’ll realize that putting restrictions on the weapons given to Ukraine is playing into Putins hands. They’re so fearful of “escalation” when Putin’s already escalated.

Putin knows opening up a second front by attacking another former SSR would force the rest of the world to acknowledge what they already know - that he has no interest in any peace he hasn’t solely dictated - and actually respond to the obvious threat. So, he’ll play the war of attrition against Ukraine, Trump will fellate him, Europe will do little, he’ll rebuild his army and go after the next former SSR. Rinse, repeat. Modern leaders have no stomach for dealing with a bully like Putin. Or even a stupid Billy like Trump.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Reminder that Citizens United was 2010. Just before the bump in the graph. Hard to argue it’s had any effect! /s

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I need to go back to Electric Dreams. I’m not sure I finished it, but I remember liking it. Thanks for reminding me!

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

What about KDE Fedora?

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I actually liked the series better than the book. And I generally like PKD.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just plain delusions. All kinds. Basically her brand.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

… As they should.

… But they won’t.

 

Basically, the title. I have the domain, and have used it in the past with Google Workspace and MS365, but both of those services enshitified, so I'm looking for something that won't screw me.

Don't really care about things like password manager, VPN, cloud drive, etc. Just looking for email service for about 5 users that can be configured to work w/ native email clients on macos, windows, linux, iOS (so Proton & Tuta are out). Anyone have any experience with this? Really don't want to roll my own.

I migrated over to Proton last night before realizing that I had to set up the bridge for it to work on macos mail, and can only use the nativ client on mobile. So, trying to find something soon, so I can cancel within the 30-day period.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by d00phy@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world
 

“Where does that leave citizens? It may be a penny, but that adds up,” said Moss, 29. She paid $8.23 for her orange chicken and cream cheese ragoons with a debit card.

For sure, it does... but this person already had 1 solution already in her wallet! Also, at most you'll pay $0.02 extra for something. This equates to an extra $7.30 if you purchase this thing every day for a year! This also ignores that some things will be as much as $0.03 cheaper.

America last phased out a coin roughly 170 years ago, when it got rid of the half-cent. “We don’t have a lot of experience with this,” said Steve Kenneally, the association’s senior vice president of payments.

... But Canada does. They did this in 2013. I was actually there when they did it, and it appeared to go pretty smoothly. Almost like they had a plan rather than having to quickly react to the whims of a broken clock one of the times it was actually right.

There's also a lot about companies training cashiers on "how to round," which reminds me of the George Carlin quote about the average person's intelligence. Also, plenty about commercial groups "begging" the federal government to help them with the transition and being met with silence. This is probably the most important part of the article.

The US is finally doing something it should have done decades ago, and it's choosing to do it in the most chaotic way possible. Rather than looking at what other countries have done and forming a plan, they're acting like the edict itself, along with no longer minting pennies or accepting deposited ones, is all the government should have to do. Is this the "small government" utopia conservatives dream about!? One that tells states and businesses, "We've done the minimum. You figure out the rest amongst yourselves." Seems like it's going great so far!

Overall, the article should've been more about how terribly this is being enacted, and less about people not being able to do basic math. Especially disappointing since the original source is WSJ (and I know who owns it - it's still a mostly business-oriented publication).

Edit: spelling

 

On Sept. 11, Michigan representatives proposed an internet content ban bill unlike any of the others we've seen: This particularly far-reaching legislation would ban not only many types of online content, but also the ability to legally use any VPN.

The bill, called the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act and advanced by six Republican representatives, would ban a wide variety of adult content online, ranging from ASMR and adult manga to AI content and any depiction of transgender people. It also seeks to ban all use of VPNs, foreign or US-produced.

Main issue I have with this article, and a lot of articles on this topic, is it doesn't address the issue of youth access to porn. I think any semi-intelligent person knows this is a parenting issue, but unfortunately that cat's out of the bag, thanks to the right. "Proliferation of porn" is the '90s crime scare (that never really died) all over again. If a politician or industry expert is speaking against bills like this, their talking points have to include:

  • Privacy-respecting alternatives that promise parents that their precious babies won't be able to access that horrible dangerous porn! (I don't argue that porn can't be dangerous, but this is yet another disingenuous right-wing culture (holy) war)
  • Addressing that vagueness in the bill sets up the government as morality police (it's right there in the title of the bill, FFS), and NOBODY in a "free" country should ever want that.
  • Stop saying it can be bypassed with technology. The VPN ban in this bill is a reaction to talking points like that.
  • Recognize and call out that this has nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with a religious minority imposing its will on the rest of the country (plenty of recent examples to pull from here).

Unfortunately this is becoming enough of "A Thing" that the left is going to have to, once again, be seen doing "something" about it. So they have to thread a needle of "protecting kids," while respecting the privacy of their parents who want their kids protected and want to look at porn, and protecting businesses that require secure communications.

 

It's just... ugly. It's kind of a retro-ish, but chunky design. It really shows it full ugliness in the Finder windows, especially when you column view (which I default to). It looks like a design by committee mishmash of stuff that all collides. I'm not normally one to hate on stylistic choices in an OS. I've never had much interest in "ricing" my environment, but I'm really just not a fan of this.

All the individual little "bubbles" of things instead of buttons, or even just borderless areas denoted by an icon. The way the left column looks like it's just plopped down on top of the rest of the content. Like it's a separate entity, but it's not. Especially noticeable in how the lower cookie crumb trail at the bottom of the window just abruptly ends at the border to the left column. Also, the color choice for the sliders is... bold. Almost the most noticeable thing in the screenshot! This looks like a Linux Enlighenment DE theme from the early `00s trying to emulate OS-X. The dark view looks slightly better.

About the only positive thing I can find is the tolerances around the edges of windows for resizing feels more forgiving than in the past & w/ other operating systems (ahem: Windows). On some OSs/desktop environments, it seems like there's a 1-2 pixel area where the cursor changes and you can resize a window. In contrast, this works pretty good in Tahoe.

 

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Honestly wasn't really sure where to post this. Since this is supposedly a documentary, this seemed like the right place. Anyway, I thought is was a pretty good article talking about the slant of the doc, as well as the things surrounding Deen's "cancelling." A couple if interesting points the author makes:

  • This was a problem that could've been easily avoided with a settlement. Maybe even a private apology to the complainant.
  • I agree that she could very easily rehab her public persona by embracing MAGA, but AFAIK she hasn't. If true, that does say something about her character. It's sad that such a low bar is to be commended, but here we are.
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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by d00phy@lemmy.world to c/windows11@lemmy.world
 

I mainly work from home, and my personal daily driver is an M2 Ultra MacBook Pro. My work system is a Lenovo P1 gen 4, with Win 11 24H2. Well-spec'ed "portable workstation" that the P1g4 is, it obviously does not have a built-in Ethernet port. I've used 2 different USB-C Ethernet adapters, one of which has worked fine with my backup ThinkPad T480s using the same cable. Whenever I use the Ethernet connection, connecting via RDP using the awesomely-named "Windows App" for macOS, my connection starts dropping ~50% of packets. Using Wi-fi, RDP works fine. I've seen some sites saying to disable UDP, but I don't see that option in Windows App. I've tried lowering the display settings to 16-bit, but that made no difference. I'm just using a ping to see the connection performance between my MBP and the P1g4.

Editing to add: I've tested the cable with my MBP, and it works fine - no packet loss to other systems on my LAN. The two systems are connected to the same switch - a fairly new Netgear 1Gb dumb switch.

 

Copying this from Reddit (I still get the daily emails). Since I no longer post there, I figured I would ask here, and include my prediction: Will be more popular, possibly in stable release. Still won't be able to rotate photos natively.

 

All the mention of me.com email addresses being badges of honor.... Me over here laughing in mac.com!

 

Waffle cut are a novelty. Crinkle cut are the best. Fight me.

 

Have to say I’m not impressed so far. I think the glass look has a retro vibe that just isn’t sitting well with me.

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