avidamoeba

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Get out with this noise. This is the same nonsense as "just install Linux" to a person with a Windows problem.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

14.04 to 22.04 so far

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago

That's an odd request. I'm not a huge fan of video content but there's legitimately good content in video format.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well I don't know what OP is planning to use it as, but desktop VLC can cast to Chromecast on the LAN for example.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

I don't think you can. On the other hand, if you register a Google account, use a secondary user on your phone to login, install the app and activate the Chromecast, I think you can subsequently use it without the Google account. Delete the secondary user once you're done with the setup. You wouldn't have given Google any useful data and you'd have cost them some.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 106 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I hope OpenAI is going to serve as a radicalizing example to all the engineers, who fell for the "ethical guy/company" rhetoric, that the minority-controlled corporate structures they're used to cannot withstand the push for profit. I hope this will make more of them choose majority-controlled structures for their startups and demand unions in existing corpos.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Exactly. The moment you hit Enter, the computer becomes part of a botnet on every login.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 months ago

Deploy a user-level payload that is auto started on login. The computer is now part of the botnet and can already be used for useful ops. Deploy a privilege escalation payload later if needed.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Oh I'm not questioning their motivation. I'm wondering if it's a good deal for prospective buyers, given the price, compared to known good tools.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Weller WESD51 sets the temp at the tip and mine has done that since I bought it in 2016. A look at a datasheet dates it back to 2006 but it could be older. By definition that means it has to know what the tip temp is. As it heats up the digital display tracks the temp going up.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Why this instead of an industry-standard station like an entry level Weller? The Wellers got replacement parts, especially tips which are consumables. I have the pervious 50W model and it has worked well in any job that can be done with that power level.

In my experience with soldering, the quality of the tip is the most important part. Then the quality of the solder and flux. Then having a set of soldering tools like wick, pump, stripper, and most of all - a third hand. Then temp adjustability. I had a digital solder station before I had those tools and I did almost as shitty solder jobs as I did with the basic Weller soldering iron I had before it. Once I got the ability to keep the parts stable so I can hold the solder in one hand and the iron in the other, introduce the solder at the joint and melt it in-place with the iron, like the manuals say, the quality went way up. I could even do some functional SMD work using my phone's macro cam as a microscope.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They must be proxying the traffic off of a cached copy. I doubt they'd be sending traffic straight to IA.

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