GreatAlbatross

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[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

I'm down to two 2.4GHz devices over the whole network now.

The day I can disable it entirely will be a happy one!

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago

It's also a lesson for if you're the other people in the room.
Someone kindly pulling OP to one side afterwards and talking about what happened, and why they might have misunderstood, might have saved them from the social isolation, rather than just ending up excluded.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

All pale to the satisfaction of inserting a digibeta tape.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is actually something I'm paying attention to: Which EVs get hacked and fossed.
I'm hoping the 40KWH zoes get done soon.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 6 points 4 months ago

HEVC is almost entirely down the the licensing. This section of the wikipedia page details it pretty well.

The tl;dr is that the LA group wanted to hike the fees significantly, and that combined with a fear of locking in led to the mozilla group not to support HEVC.

And it's annoying at times. Some of my security cameras are HEVC only at full resolution, which means I cannot view them in Firefox.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago

I've found this when trying to get a decent USB>9-pin Serial connector.

You think it's your software, or something weird going wrong. Then you swap over a name-brand adapter, and the thing just works.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm shocked, I say. Shocked!
The idea of an app being used to gather additional dat~~e~~a from a customer!

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

I was eagerly anticipating "I'm looking for a gift for my aunt".

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

This is good feedback, the Mint team could definitely streamline things, maybe even with a "help pick".

Because it's not immediately apparent which to use (Cinnamon/MATE/Xfce).
I'm not sure how the resolve the mirror issue, sadly.
The cost of serving the data directly would be very high, but doing so would avoid scaring people. Unfortunately, it's hard for them to 100% guarantee every mirror is safe (even though they are!), which means they have to leave instructions on how to verify.

Selling pre-loaded USB sticks would be very cool, but people would have to be interested enough to spend £20.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the post, it persuaded me to get off my bottom and add another one to the list.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is the thing, the balance of anonymity and preventing people using that anonymity to be a tit.
In my opinion, one of the answers is keeping the signal-to-noise high: Make sure that there are enough sensible people in a community that if someone starts acting up, they're alone. And then they can either correct their course, or get banned, ideally before the next moron shows up.

And part of the way of achieving that is raising the barrier to sign-up, if only a little, and rate limiting.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

Just for context, the full database of feddit.uk compresses down to about 4GB. I am not sure what's going to happen to the ghosts long term, but I don't think storage will be a huge issue.

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