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sorghum , 2 days ago to Technology in Microsoft's Weather app now shows more ads

Oh no! Anyway...

sorghum , 4 days ago to Technology in Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more

Considering the context, I took it as an inclusive or.

sorghum , 7 days ago to Technology in NBC Will Debut an A.I. Al Michaels for the Paris Olympics

Hilarious that the story is from SI

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/sports-illustrated-found-publishing-ai-generated-stories-photos-and-authors

sorghum , 9 days ago to Technology in Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week

Where's the "please drink verification can" greentext when you need it

sorghum , 19 days ago to Technology in The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery

You wouldn't build a foundation with lithium batteries though. This is additional power from something that would take up this space anyway

sorghum , 21 days ago to Technology in Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles

The level 2 charge point chargers that are retractable I've seen twisted and turned into knots. Sometimes the retractor on those are broken and the car parked in the neighboring stall parked on top of the cable I wanted to use.

As EV adoption increases, the amount of asshole and indifferent behavior is also increasing. Any design with moving parts will need to take that into account

sorghum , 21 days ago to Technology in Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles

retractable

I can tell when someone hasn't used a DEF pump for diesel vehicles. The hose not retracting on DEF pumps happen pretty often. They also try to retract while pumping making filling DEF a 2 hands required operation.

I hope that whoever designed DEF pumps will step barefoot on a lego block daily.

sorghum , 1 month ago to Technology in Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source

I look at 'source available' software as the right to review the code yourself to ensure there's no malicious behavior, not for community development.

sorghum , 1 month ago to Technology in Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs

I'm more apt to believe that the government asked Microsoft to name it that to get SEO for Snowden messed up.

sorghum , 1 month ago to Technology in Does anyone use https://presearch.com/

Of all the things I've self hosted, it's by far the easiest. TrueNAS scale's kubernetes chart was pretty install and run. See ya over in !selfhosted

sorghum , 1 month ago to Technology in Does anyone use https://presearch.com/

Yeah, I would-be been fine if they just added a listing that was actually an ad, but replacing actual results with no option to not click the tracking injected link was enough for me. Ignoring their shitcoin is fine, it's not required to use their search. But I don't take kindly to bullshit if it's forced on me.

sorghum , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Technology in Does anyone use https://presearch.com/

I used to, until they started changing links for actual results to have trackers built in. I couldn't click on specific websites i was searching for without my adblock putting a stop to it. Asked them about it in their discord and they basically told me to turn off adblock. Dropped them like a sack of potatoes and spun up a SearXNG instance. Before that I thought about spinning up a presearch node. Glad I switched to SearXNG. It basically accomplished what I wanted from Presearch without the ads and crypto shitcoin.

If I had to switch to a new engine not run by me, I'd consider Qwant or maybe Kagi if paying for it is worth it. I'm old enough to be used to having stuff for free on the internet, doing it yourself to keep from having to pay for a service is a perfectly fine option for me.

My search engine lineage:
Alta Vista

Yahoo

Dogpile

Metacrawler

Google

Cuil

Google

DDG

Google

Presearch

My own SearXNG instance

sorghum , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Top post of PCMR on Reddit today XD

I always viewed the think pad line as more of a business line of products. I know it isn't owned by IBM anymore, but considering how much involvement they had with Redhat, you might have better luck trying a fedora based distro. I'm running fedora Fedora 40 beta plasma and it was basically install and start working.

sorghum , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in nuclear take:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/505cdf6c-cd60-4ee4-b16a-609827dd9bae.png
I also like this setting for displaying separate up and down votes

sorghum , 2 months ago to Technology in The Man Who Killed Google Search

Not to take up for his point, but windows 10 was in development years before Nadella. The only version of windows totally under his governance has been the disastrous windows 11. So I guess I have him to thank for finally giving me the kick in the pants to fully switch to Linux.

I guess the point I need to make is that Microsoft was not good before or during Nadella. There have been bright spots, but not enough for me to have then outweigh all the other crap pulled both during and before Nadella.