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Right, but the headline doesn't include that to bait you into clicking the article to get that information. Just like every other click bait article about android app issues.

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so now youre changing your requirements after your first statement is shown to be flawed?

L. O. L.

First of all, my story can't change, since that's my first comment in this thread. Second, reading comprehension is your friend in situations like this. From what you quoted:

I usually respect ars technical for writing great stories.

This time, however, they could’ve included the name of the app so it wasn’t clickbaity

Those are two independent clauses, referring to content and headline separately. That would be clear if you consider the definition of click bait:

Clickbait typically refers to the practice of writing sensationalized or misleading headlines in order to attract clicks on a piece of content. It often relies on exaggerating claims or leaving out key information in order to encourage traffic.

Their wording a bit confusing if you're not reading closely, but their original point still stands. The content is generally good, but the headline is clickbaity.

The headline rarely conveys what you are suggesting.

Just because click bait is common doesn't mean it isn't click bait.

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Lol, ok kid. I'm not going to argue with you all day because you misinterpreted someone else's confusingly worded statement.

I don't have time to deal with that kind of fragile ego.

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Holy shit I feel seen by this comment. I run Linux on multiple hosts and VMs, but using Linux on the desktop for more than a month always tends to devolve into me getting pissed off at having to basically do work like troubleshooting at home.

I fix computers(servers) all goddamned day, I want to enjoy my free time, not have to perform a regular investigation into why shots not working when all I want is to work on my scripts....

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"shell: startup" or "shell: common startup" in an explorer window take you to the startup folder for your user or all users. Drop a shortcut in there and you're done. Been that way for decades.

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Waiting for the day we see the advisement to put the Tesla into carwash mode during heavy rainfalls.

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Because tech journalism is trash on the best days, and these android malapps articles only ever amount to blogspam to make you nervous. I don't think I've seen more than a handful of these articles that actually warns you about the actual apps instead of just talking about the problem without relevant specifics.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

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Yeah, cuz consumers really like getting useless ai results mixed in with their searches and shit. I don't know how I lived before having clippy 2.0 added to fucking everything, including my desktop.

It's entirely relevant to blame producers for creating and shoving this shit down our throats.

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That's all well and good until you have someone in your household with circulatory issues and can't warm themselves up effectively. Sucks having to be warm all the time so they're not cold and in pain.

Passerby6497 ,

This must be that virtue signaling that I keep hearing the right whine about.

Passerby6497 ,

if

This word is like Atlas, holding up the world's shittiest argument that anyone with 3 working braincells can see through.

Passerby6497 ,

AGI is a pipedream

Passerby6497 ,

Do you toast your buns or eat them raw? I've not noticed the issue nearly as much when I pan toast my buns.

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At least then the project plan would get updated and tasks opened on time.....

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technically you could pay cash on delivery, at least for physical goods.

Is COD even a thing anymore? I'd be surprised if there's a real market for that, if for no other reason than a delivery person taking and carrying cash like that is a major target.

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Pretty sure that's supposed to be a very short dress. Like, neglige level short.

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At this point, you should be able to ask, if you missed something important in the last few years. Is there any open conversation waiting for a reply somewhere?

Not sure if you've ever used Copilot (I have it at work) and it offers the ability to summarize conversations and tell you what you've missed. I've used that a lot for high chatter conversations when I don't feel like catching up or I've been out. Pretty nice.

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Some people crave or have to have some kind of flavor with their liquids or they don't want it. I have known multiple people who thought water tasted gross, which is somewhat legit because I had to get used to the different water taste when I went to school on the opposite side of town, but they just thought any kind of water was gross. They'd always have a soda or coffee or something.

My issue isn't flavor necessarily, its carbonation. But plain/unsweetened soda water is gross and soda streams aren't worth it to make my own infused water.

Passerby6497 ,

having dinner with a fizzy drink is just wrong.

Its not mandatory, but I'll have you know this is incorrect.

Passerby6497 ,

MediaMonkey is the GOAT for ease of use and library management. Been using them for years since like 3.x, maybe 2.x.

Passerby6497 ,

I had an apartment that switched payment processor that jacked up my credit card fee well above my cash back (prob cuz people like me ended up saving like 10/mo), so I just switched to bank issued checks that they send for me.

Using the checkbook I got 20 years ago is just a massive pain in the ass.

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Pedo Guy Musk let us know it's just a South African phrase that's common.

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And they absolutely fucked years and years of security training by fucking with url previews and truncating the front of the url.

What the actual fuck were they thinking?

Passerby6497 ,

I probably wouldn't have either of my CISO didn't have to deal with it (and bitched at me to try to find a fix) because new outlook is just the shit mail app with a fresh coat of paint.

They'll have to take old outlook out of my cold dead hands.

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Or Oregon at all before 1926.

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Meanwhile in VS Code: hey, I see this Unicode symbol that's confused for this expected symbol, would you like to replace it?

Passerby6497 ,

You're just running in docker, so you'd want to make sure you map a local folder into your container (at a different location than they are already!), then get into the container and copy your files to the host's mapped folder. Once that's complete, update your docker to point your local folder to the proper config location and it should keep everything local after you upgrade.

Edit: In my compose, I have this line

/jellyfin/jellyfin-data:/config

so you could map it to :/backup on your first boot, copy /config to /backup, then update your compose to map it to /config and you're good to go!

Passerby6497 ,

Glad to hear it. I'll be honest, I wasn't aware of that command, I've just always done it the hard way and logged into the console of the container. I have this line in my .bashrc on all my docker hosts:

alias docker-console='docker exec -it "${PWD##*/}" bash'

Passerby6497 ,

Not being assaulted, or trapped/confined is one of those things unfortunately

Nah, fuck that. Rich assholes who try to destroy the fabric of our democracy don't deserve those respects. He wanted to use his money and power to make life miserable for regular people, so booo fucking hooo if he can't use his money and power to get away from public opinion.

Passerby6497 ,

Oh it's 186-75-3090, I can wait to meet you in Capital City, US STATE so we can get to know each other better.

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Especially in less than 4 to 5 months. Damn thing was put in back in January and is already failing.

Passerby6497 ,

There are very little, if any, benefits to using a VPN service to browse the public internet.

I've run into issues multiple times where a site doesn't load until I turn on my VPN with an endpoint in the EU

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Do they tho?

Passerby6497 ,

Sounds interesting, and it looks like it covers a lot of what our network VPN does (I can't get any DNS resolution to any DNS servers other than the designated Corp ones, which is annoying as shit when trying to test other reachable servers). My only concern is if this policy would block local DNS resolution prior to the VPN coming up, as it might introduce a catch 22 where I can't resolve my VPN endpoint in order to auth and access the internal resolver

Passerby6497 ,

Doing so at the dns layer is a much better option, as it prevents the end user or malware from bypassing those restrictions with a non-standard browser or modifying the client settings (which shouldn't happen, but can).

In an enterprise environment, which is exactly what this is aimed at, that kind of protection is a boon against the random shit end users click on.

Passerby6497 ,

What person with an automated cargo door closure mechanism has thought "stop protecting my stuff and just fucking close"?

I'll admit it annoys me when there's something in the way that keeps my door from latching and it reopens, but I'd rather have to clear the door and shut it manually than it force itself closed and jams the door or break my shit.

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"Needs" lol

It's just in there to sell more hardware. Afaik, 11 does nothing that actually requires the newer tpm.

Passerby6497 ,

The death spiral begins.

Passerby6497 ,

I'm in the process of overseeding my yard with clover so I have an excuse to not mow nearly as often. Literally the first mow of the season was just to chop it down to give the clover room to grow.

Passerby6497 ,

Thanks! I've been itching to get this done for a couple months (because I fucking love clover), but weather and waiting to see pollinators prior to mowing were keeping me from getting it done. Can't wait for it to start growing!

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    Passerby6497 ,

    Green means good and red bad as well, stop/go is another way to describe it, but colored statuses are super common in software stuff. All my monitoring systems I use are green=good, yellow=warning, red=error/bad

    Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

    I recently learned about Home Assistant here on Lemmy. It looks like a replacement for Google Home, etc. However, it requires an entire hardware installation. Proprietary products just use a simple app to manage and control devices, so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement? The...

    Passerby6497 ,

    so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement?

    The cloud is just someone else's computer, so when you cut the cord from the cloud, you gotta run your own server.

    And you don't need to buy a (robust) device to run HA, just install it on a spare system and start playing with it. I started building mine about 1.5yrs ago when I bought a house and I think I only gave mine like 2 CPU and 8gb ram.

    What actually happens when I turn on a smart switch in my home? Does that command have to be sent to a server somewhere to be processed?

    Yes, you have to have something that accepts your commands and sends the action to the end device. Just like your Google home did.

    What really has to be processed, and why can't a smartphone app do it?

    Because that's not how things work. Your app has to talk to a server to send the commands, Google home has cloud servers and a local bridge. HA has an app that you can use to control your stuff, same as Google Home.

    Smart Home apps are worthless without hardware required to connect the app to your home.

    Passerby6497 ,

    I don't know anything about Odysee, but Rumble is a shithole.

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    I'm unfortunately on Reddit regularly, but that's only because it still has decent tech support search results. Haven't logged in since the APIpocalypse

    Passerby6497 ,

    Same, I'm going to push my kid to do everything they can local. Because even though I don't regret the experiences I had at university, it was a massive waste of money for me.

    Passerby6497 ,

    If you can't see why the alternative is objectively magnitudes worse, I really don't trust your judgement.

    Passerby6497 , (edited )

    That's just supporting Trump but telling yourself you didn't so you can sleep at night. There's literally 0 chance of voting for libertarians doing anything more than wasting a vote that could be used to keep the orange fascist out

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    LOL, plenty of us will stand by those we love. I've got close to a dozen LGBT+ friends (chosen family) who I would stand on the line and take a beating for.

    Maybe take a long think about why you don't feel you have anyone around you who would do the same.

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