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astrsk , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Yes. It’s a viable way to save money if you use a site like https://shucks.top/

astrsk , 1 month ago to Technology in Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames

Yeah anyone following space YouTube has seen this a dozen times already and knows that it was a deflagration likely due to busted lines and not a detonation. The test stand is likely undamaged (In anysignificant way at least) and it was just an engine test of likely raptor 2 design. This has nothing to do with IFT4 or starbase as far as we can tell.

astrsk , 1 month ago to Technology in Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower

Too bad these innovations wont make it down to the workers that stores hire from 11pm to 3am to clean the store parking lot across from me.

astrsk , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Bloat

Debian net installer is 700mb, still fits on CD-R and with a DE selection and base tools during setup, it’s still about 2gb installed as a fully functional system requiring very little to get gaming. Seems fine to me. This post is an Ubuntu problem.

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch02s05.en.html

astrsk , 3 months ago to Technology in How do I turn off Windows 10 & 11 automatic updates?

Jesus. Just use group policies and be done with it. What’s with all the shady annoyance blocking apps.

astrsk , 3 months ago to Privacy in How to avoid account lockout when using password vault?

Honestly this would make for a neat project — build an esp32 or rp2040 based punchcard reader / printer and then print out all your backup codes (encrypted of course by some hardware based code like a set of dip switches) onto custom punchcard tape.

astrsk , 3 months ago to Technology in What Do People Think of Apple's Vision Pro Headsets?

If you’re doing any writing on it that’s beyond a quick text or search, you’d either use dictation or a connected MacBook’s keyboard, or a connected wireless keyboard. The pass-through is so clear and lag free that you can just look at the physical keyboard if you need to / can’t touch type.

astrsk , 4 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in parcel safe place

You know this is fake because there’s more than 5 pixels in the picture taken.

astrsk , 4 months ago to Technology in Microsoft Word’s Subtle Typeface Change Affected Millions. Did You Notice?

At least the ! and @ are much cleaner and not italic.

astrsk , 4 months ago to Technology in ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24

The moon photos they’re talking about are specifically the AI enhanced zoom moon photos of previous Samsung models that caught controversy because taking a picture of a marginally round object against a black background with their zoom enhancement would produce a moon photo even if it was in someone’s dark basement and the object was a dimly lit bottle cap.