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Gimpydude

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Gimpydude ,

Why would you not be able to continue chat from the phone? I don't all the time.

Gimpydude ,

Totally a typo lol

Gimpydude ,

That's just so wrong-headed. How else do you expect billionaires to monetize every aspect of our lives?

Gimpydude ,

Easy mistake. The M stands for Moron, not mother.

Gimpydude ,

Try getting a used server. You can find one on labgopher. For the budget you have, don't expect something great but it'll be a start.

Gimpydude ,

I've dabbled a little with it, but I really want something that's as easy to use & set up as the commercial offerings like Google Home and Amazon Echo. I want to have an interface where I can connect my light bulbs, and have little hockey pucks that will listen for a wake word and do what I ask of it, and play my music. I also want to be able to get under the covers and do something that solves an odd problem that might come up.

I'm very hopeful for the project and I do think it will get there eventually.

Gimpydude ,

Sure, but if I had a Pi (or similar board) with a speaker and a mic, I'd hope to be able to do the same thing. A Pi Zero would definitely be able to do the job.

Gimpydude ,

Yeah, that's why I said I'm very hopeful. It says so in my comment.

Gimpydude ,

Privacy issues aside, for wider adoption the user experience needs to be better. Most people don't want to be a sysadmin for their house, they just want to live in it.

Gimpydude ,

I'll take a look at that, thanks. It's been a year or so since I last looked at it but back then there was a push button that you could use but I couldn't get it going.

Gimpydude ,

Thanks, I will definitely check out both of those

Because only women are worried about becoming step-parents? (This prolly could've been an Ask Lemmy.) (lemmy.world)

I'm looking for some good reading on how to, eventually, best help be a step parent to my partner's children and NEARLY ALL books are geared toward the woman's perspective as though men don't want to be a strong teacher and develop these kids into healthy adults. Ugh!...

Gimpydude ,

As a stepfather to 3 over 2 marriages, just treat them like people with respect and support them as much as possible. It can be hard, but try to give guidance without trying to impose authority. Love them.

Gimpydude ,

You should take a look at getting sas enclosures. They're pretty cheap, like $200 for a 16 bay. That will be so much more reliable.

Gimpydude ,

That makes sense. I'm a lazy guy and I didn't want to try testing so I went with a known quantity.

Gimpydude ,

I want something like this with a sas HBA and a slot for a GPU

Gimpydude ,

Exactly this.

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

Gimpydude ,

I used to work at Merrill Lynch, we had a Linux desktop pilot. We were an 80k company but had less than 1k users in the program, and most of us were capable of self-support.

It's definitely doable at scale especially since most apps are web based these days, but there certainly is a retraining effort needed for support, and Windows would still be there. For most organizations, that's not worth the effort.

Gimpydude ,

A lot of TVs these days won't start working without wifi. I set up a temporary ssid, set up the TV then delete it.

Gimpydude ,

Meta could easily have the WhatsApp client upload decryption keys to their servers without any notification to the user.

Gimpydude ,

What I'm talking about has nothing to do with the line protocol. Each client has encryption key pairs. The public key of the first party shares it with the other parties, and vice versa. If it's encrypted with the public key then the private key can decrypt it.

If Meta gets the private keys, they can decrypt any message they want independent of whatever protocol is being used.

Gimpydude ,

Yes.

Gimpydude ,

For the same reason I had to buy a stack of floppies to install it in the 90's

Gimpydude ,

Floppies were very rewritable, but the distro wouldn't fit on a single one.

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