AMillionMonkeys

AMillionMonkeys , 13 days ago

A $3 Million Crypto Wallet... A $2 Million Crypto Wallet... A $5.5 Million Crypto Wallet...
(This joke probably doesn't work anymore, but I still think it's funny.)

AMillionMonkeys , 13 days ago

The 1% of China? I mean, I'm sure they have an elite, but the 1% thing is usually pointed out as a sore spot for capitalism.

AMillionMonkeys , 16 days ago

Rats. Leaving TPM off in the BIOS is how I've been avoiding it nagging me to upgrade from 10.

AMillionMonkeys , 16 days ago

I'm not using disk encryption. It's a desktop and if it's every stolen I've got bigger problems.
Also, I presume that disk encryption makes it so you can't just pop the drive in an adapter and pull stuff off it, which I sometimes need to do with old, retired drives.

AMillionMonkeys , 26 days ago

Interesting. As much as I'm a Foobar2000 fan, it's not open source. Looks like I'll be giving Winamp another spin soon.

AMillionMonkeys , 28 days ago

So you're suggesting that all scammers are skilled.

AMillionMonkeys , 1 month ago

The Nvidia Shield seems to be the gold standard, but it's kind of pricey. I'm using a Raspberry Pi (2? 3?) running LibreElec with the Jellyfin plugin. It works great for video but has some issues with music playlists. You could also try a cheap Onn box from Walmart.

AMillionMonkeys , 1 month ago

Sorry, I'm not sure - like I said, I'm on a Pi.

AMillionMonkeys , 1 month ago

It's a real dilemma.

AMillionMonkeys , 2 months ago

If the crashes are seemingly at random when transcoding I would suspect overheating hardware. Transcoding uses more energy and produces more heat than playing directly. If it were a software issue it would either work or not.

AMillionMonkeys , 2 months ago

Quick! Someone tell us why this isn't a good thing because the government did it! Surely there's some secret corruption at work!

AMillionMonkeys , 2 months ago

It's like a Sokal Hoax for STEM.

AMillionMonkeys , 2 months ago

‘splurging’ on a dumb tv

This might not be the best advice if money is an object, but some LG OLEDs can be rooted simply by visiting a website:
http://rootmy.tv
So you get a top-quality screen and complete control over the software.
Personally, I've never connected my LG OLED to the internet and it works just great.

AMillionMonkeys , 2 months ago

I've got a cable DVR and a Raspberry Pi running LibreElec plugged into it.
I've only experimented a little with gaming since I don't own a console and my PC is in another room. I had the whatever the Steam software is installed on the Pi for awhile, so I could stream games from the PC.

AMillionMonkeys , 2 months ago

Looks like a lot of info is shared through the manufacturer's app which interacts with the car. Easy to avoid if you don't install the app.
What we're all here looking to avoid is the car itself uploading data. The article isn't as clear about that, I guess since it depends so much on your exact model of vehicle.

AMillionMonkeys , 2 months ago

Right... I use multiple browser windows as tab groups. Tried tree tabs, but since I keep one window per topic I rarely get enough tabs open to need them.

AMillionMonkeys , 2 months ago

Especially since modern desktop environments will have a gesture or something to give you a preview of all your open windows. What's annoying is that they all seem to shuffle the spatial order of the window previews whenever they feel like it.

AMillionMonkeys , 3 months ago

Awesome! .... What's a CI?
(I started reading the link but it doesn't introduce the term.)

AMillionMonkeys , 3 months ago

Meta isn't heavily influenced by a government adversarial to that of the US, so the risks to US security are not the same.
The mental health risk looks pretty similar, though.

AMillionMonkeys , 3 months ago

Now if only someone over there would order their plain logo shirts in common sizes I'd give them $15.

AMillionMonkeys , 3 months ago

Honest question: Assuming nation states have the all-powerful ability to install software on your networking gear, which country would you rather have? USA or Russia?

AMillionMonkeys , 3 months ago

I hear pigeons aren't too hard to breed.

AMillionMonkeys , 3 months ago

They should parse it the same way as "postgresql".

AMillionMonkeys , 4 months ago

I've been shopping for the same thing. I can report that Intel N100-based computers currently (February 2024) have issues with Linux WiFi drivers. Not a problem if you're hardwiring it.
I'd also avoid the really tiny PCs because they use the shortest M.2 drives (2242), which limits capacity and upgradeability. You want one that fits a 2280 M.2 drive. Or a 2.5" SATA drive.

AMillionMonkeys , 4 months ago

I choose a Reolink camera. It works well with Surveillance Station on my Synology NAS, Home Assistant, the official Android client, and the official Mac client. I've never been able to get the official Windows client to work. It's failed to work on two different computers.
The camera runs off Power Over Ethernet, so it's just a single CAT6 cable and there are no batteries to manage.
The camera bounces your requests to stream through Reolink's servers by default, but you can disable that feature if you're only using the cameras locally.

AMillionMonkeys , 4 months ago

Depends on the kinds of accounts you follow. Mastodon is all technical users - so not many celebrities who aren't in technical fields.

AMillionMonkeys , 4 months ago

I had to update my BIOS a while ago and it set TPM back to disabled as default. Voila. No Windows 11 prompts because, as far as it can tell, I do not meet the requirements.