Gimpydude

Gimpydude , 23 days ago to Mildly Infuriating in A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water

Totally a typo lol

Gimpydude , 23 days ago to Mildly Infuriating in A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water

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

Gimpydude , 24 days ago to Technology in AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent

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

Gimpydude , 1 month ago to Technology in Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X

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

Gimpydude , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Need recommandations for a home server

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 , 2 months ago to Technology in The little smart home platform that could

Thanks, I will definitely check out both of those

Gimpydude , 2 months ago to Technology in The little smart home platform that could

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 , 2 months ago to Technology in The little smart home platform that could

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 , 2 months ago to Technology in The little smart home platform that could

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

Gimpydude , 2 months ago to Technology in The little smart home platform that could

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 , 2 months ago to Technology in The little smart home platform that could

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 , 2 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Because only women are worried about becoming step-parents? (This prolly could've been an Ask Lemmy.)

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 , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Just a bunch of enclosures (JBOE)

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

Gimpydude , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Just a bunch of enclosures (JBOE)

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 , 2 months ago to Technology in A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions

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.