JustEnoughDucks

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes but swiss people can still be absolutely piece of shit human beings. They proved that in WWII by helping fund the Nazis directly. Swiss people also aren't immune from rampant US party propaganda. You aren't magical, psychologically different humans than the rest of the world.

Publicly supporting an openly fascist dictator, whatever "political party" they are on, someone who directly opposes the stated mission and values of the company, means that they are piece of shit humans who cannot be trusted with our data because they will just lie with what they do with it just like how they lied to us about their company values.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Except when it is frustrating and continually tries to send you through tiny "technically paved" service roads so you know anyone unfamiliar to the area would risk car damage because there is no way to mark a road as "low priority" or "only use if you live on that road".

Street complete is very awesome though! Especially for updating local businesses.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 7 points 8 months ago

External MBAs taking over running businesses will either result in this or making a billion dollar company through the heavy exploitation of their workers and the consumers. I think the vast majority are the former though.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Please send me a link from where I can buy a Razer core X from their site or where they link to a distributor. Would love to find that!

https://www.razer.com/search/core%20X

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

eGPUs have all but disappeared. 90% of the models available in 2019 are no longer available with no models to replace them. Even bigger companies like razer and coolermaster seemed to silently discontinue them and simply let the product webpages break down. I think power requirements of the last years of GPUs have also made them less practical and people aren't going to pay 500€ for an enclosure when that is simply approaching the cost of the rest of the PC.

There are even fewer thunderbolt4 but thunderbolt3 has a bit of latency results in slight performance loss, so finding an old model enclosure with thunderbolt3 might be your best chance of getting it. Different storefronts sometimes still have a few in stock you can buy.

Edit: Nowhere did I say "no eGPUs have been made" just that there are signifucantly less options than 5 years ago:

https://egpu.io/best-egpu-buyers-guide/

Look at the vendor pages for most of these models and see if you can buy them from tge vendor or an manufacturer-listed distributer and then try to find newer, actively produced eGPUs by the manufacturers (including the big names). For the vast majority they have stopped making them.

To frame it as an example: If you saw that 30 laptop manufacturers making 100+ models in 5 years went to 3 manufacturers making 5 models, you would say that is a very rapid decline.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We have 38h in Belgium, but if you work 40, you get 12 extra full days of holiday during the year (what I do).

A 32 hour work week with no salary cut will never happen, but that would be a dream

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Sadly it doesn't work with CrowdSec which is the biggest thing I would want notifications on (bans and such) and Gotify isn't the pub/sub MQTT-style that I like about ntfy...

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am using the app. I sent a message to Stix the admin of the instance and magically a few hours later I was able to see everything (but no response). I wonder if there is a timed lockout or simply a soft ban to prevent spam on that instance. I also verified that discover indeed linked to other instances, but the results were still all but useless.

However, there is still no way I can find to switch to or even view the global feed on the app, but I can do that on the web browser app easily. Is there a setting that I am missing or so? It is very straightforward on every mastodon and lemmy app...

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Gram.social

To me, the entire idea behind federation is that, like mastodon and Lemmy, you can see everything in the space, not just what is on your own server, especially by default or extremely upfront and clear way to make the behavior like that. That is the entire thing people are afraid of when they have to choose a server which leads to centralization or people simply leaving.

I mean I also don't get any of the hashtags I follow on my feed. Only the 5 accounts they forced me to follow by default.

It's hard for me to believe the number of 44k monthly active users and yet the "most popular accounts" that I can see on discover have 45 followers and there is virtually no activity outside of a few photographers that imported their Instagram account.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Interesting because i just joined 1 day ago so my feed only has 5 default following, but discover only has about 5 other peoples' work repeated through the discover tab. It seems difficult to discover new people which could be a problem in retaining normal people after the ibflux, like what happened to lemmy

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My girlfriend runs a kid-friendly café for younger moms and sadly it would probably tank her business moving over to pixelfed... It's quite a big risk for those kind of small businesses..

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The only problem with RSS is that it doesn't work for many many news sources as well as niche interests.

The RSS feeds on most of my country's news sources are literally a headline with a link to their website. Plus the ones that it does work for break multiple times per year (at least on feeder) so being able to actually fetch the article is a toss up. Right now even with freshly added feeds, 9 out of 10 are "cannot fetch full article".

I find most people's blogs rather boring and uninspired or extremely longwinded. I much prefer the kind of organic conversations from forums. Algorithms point me to the 4-5 pieces of content from people that I find interesting. I don't often subscribe to them because their other content is not as interesting.

With RSS feeds I would have to manually search through hundreds of articles and blog posts just to find 3 that I might actually be interested in. For example the less niche Phoronix has like 20 articles per day that are essentially fluff article padding updates like "video acceleration improvements merged for Mesa 25". Like I don't care at all. But the LACT Intel support addition I would be interested in 10 articles down.

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