BigMikeInAustin

BigMikeInAustin , 3 months ago to Technology in How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can)

Not with that attitude and those wimpy legs.

BigMikeInAustin , 3 months ago to Technology in Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit

It seems like 80% of your posts are down voted into the negatives. Maybe Lemmy isn't the place for you.

BigMikeInAustin , 3 months ago to Technology in Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit

Probably the politicians bought VPN stock just before this was ruled. Just like so many "randomly" happened to buy video conference stock just before the COVID lockdown?

BigMikeInAustin , 3 months ago to Technology in Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit

50% of people younger than you make you think about sex? So are you perving on just boys or just girls? Or just those under 18?

BigMikeInAustin , 3 months ago to Technology in Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit

Wow, dude. Every time you look at someone younger than you all you do is think about sex?

BigMikeInAustin , 3 months ago to Technology in Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit

But I was so excited to watch Debbie Does Dallas #4,537. Ugh!

BigMikeInAustin , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems

The early US phone numbers were from a set of a few names, and the 5 digits, because they thought people couldn't remember 7 digits.

And now people have to remember several sets of at least 8 random symbols, and change them every 60 days.

BigMikeInAustin , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems

Had one of those. Very convincing. Showed my boss. My boss also thought I could be real. So I clicked it. The landing page was an internal "you've been caught" page. Then I got the phishing-email training assignment.

BigMikeInAustin , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in I decided that I will update the nextcloud (windows) desktop client once or twice a decade

What is the parameter to use that tells apps to not auto update once they are installed?

BigMikeInAustin , 3 months ago to Memes in boycott Nintendo products

So that's how Nintendo keeps the price of their games so low! They have a secondary revenue stream!

/s

BigMikeInAustin , 4 months ago to Technology in Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests

I've seen "xeet" from people outside of Twitter. Not sure what an X person would say. It's pronounced "shit" or "sheet".

BigMikeInAustin , 4 months ago to Technology in Portable monitor recommendations?

I think OP is looking for a portable monitor, not a permanent desk monitor?

BigMikeInAustin , 4 months ago to Technology in Portable monitor recommendations?

There are like 3 or 4 main body styles. pick the one you like the most and find the best price from any of the random Chinese companies on Amazon that has more than 100 reviews. They are all made by the same place, as far as I can tell. You are just picking the middleman.

The well known brands are not better quality or better service, and sometimes fewer features. Definitely not worth that $200+ price.

Hopefully you are in a place that gives you easy access to an Amazon return. There will always be a random item damaged in shipping or that is DOA. I haven't been able to find a high DOA in the random Chinese brands.

BigMikeInAustin , 4 months ago to Technology in Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say

Doh. This says to have the AI write the prompt for you, but it doesn't give any examples of doing that.

I don't want to get into a rabbit hole looking up examples from the wide internet.

BigMikeInAustin , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in What storage manufacturer do you swear to and why?

From the drives I have seen, usually there are 3 write-cache sizes.

Usually the smallest write-cache is for drives 128GB or smaller. Sometimes the 256GB is also here.

Usually the middle size write-cache is for 512GB and sometimes 256GB drives.

Usually the largest write-cache is only in 1TB and bigger drives.

Performance-wise for writes, you want the biggest write cache, so you want at least a 1TB drive.

For the best wear leveling, you want the drive as big as you can afford, while also looking at the makeup of the memory chips. In order of longest lasting listed first: Single Level, Multi Level, Triple Level, Quad Level.