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by floundy 1y ago
>Done right this could set them up for life and make them millionaires with virtually no effort by the age of 30 This seems hyperbolic. Given that money doubles in roughly 10 years at a 10% rate of return, if kiddos are 10 years old they
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by floundy 1y ago
They don't care, because 97%+ of people who even care enough to complain will not actually do anything substantial about it that hurts Microsoft (like switch to Linux or Mac). Boomers and non-techies are as befuddled as ever on Win11 s
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by floundy 1y ago
I think it's just the overlap between gamers and a desirable younger male voting demographic that helped Trump win in 2024. These guys aren't watching cable news so it seems logical to try and reach them on the internet.
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by floundy 1y ago
If you’re using it as a tool it’s perfectly usable with just a search bar. I want to learn how to do something in a visual manner, I go to YouTube. Type in “how to replace [part] on [my car]”. All I have on the YouTube homepage is a search
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by floundy 1y ago
This is an important caveat. I get recommended what the parent commenter you replied to stated, mostly videos on home repair, tech, and technological skepticism because those are what I watch. I also get Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Ben Sh
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by floundy 1y ago
>Many older people I work with would love to have more required interactions This was actually a big issue in my office leading to work from home being rolled back. The boomers want to be in the office so other people are forced to socia
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by floundy 1y ago
Time for Reddit, Inc to ban another wave of subs now that the mainstream media is reporting on them. Same story with /r/n***ers (allowed to exist on Reddit until 2013), /r/CoonTown (banned in 2015, was literally just all
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by floundy 1y ago
Good approach, and was valuable and necessary prior to AI. I learned this lesson in my early 20s. Nearly every entity that you interact with is trying to transact with you, in a way that benefits themselves. Whether that's a legitimate
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by floundy 1y ago
My Mac has 256GB. Just checked, I’m using 90GB. I have a 500GB SSD always plugged in for Steam games. Media goes on my RAID1 NAS. Whose boot drive is running on a 32GB SSD. As long as I have enough space to install the programs I use I don’
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by floundy 1y ago
Very obviously assembled from cheap components at that price range. I like Lenovo Business stuff. Their regular laptops are assembled from the same cheapo components as the HP and Dell laptops my parents brag about getting for a steal at Co
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by floundy 1y ago
That was my experience. I switched from Windows to Mac last fall with the incessant popups my PC wasn’t eligible for Win11. My pi-hole is no longer full of blocked requests to Microsoft tracking domains. I get the pleasure of using Win11 on
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by floundy 1y ago
I thought the hit area issues was just a Safari thing after moving over from Android to the iPhone 17 Pro. Idk how it’s selecting things so far from my finger and the actual links I’m clicking on. Interesting you’re saying it wasn’t an issu
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by floundy 1y ago
I've never specifically noticed WireGuard anywhere in the top battery consumers on either Android or iOS. Friday I was out of the house all day, and Wireguard running on cellular all day used 1% of my iPhone battery.
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by floundy 1y ago
Might sound elitist but the average person isn’t curious enough to figure this stuff out, and above all else they’re lazy. If it’s not a one click install and does something better than what they’re using, why would they switch? The average
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by floundy 1y ago
Huh interesting feature, I'll have to check it out today to see if there's enough improvements over pihole to warrant a switch. I'm effectively always on my network because I use Wireguard to VPN back in to home, so I can eas
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by floundy 1y ago
I have two pi-holes running concurrently, mainly so it doesn’t ruin the internet for my wife if one goes down. In 4-5 years of running pi-hole I’ve had I think 3 complete failures, 2 were due to cheap SD card corruption and one due to a fai
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by floundy 1y ago
>finance’s requirement to keep costs under control Apple is offering some great value for the money with the M4 chip now, the Mac Mini is $600 and the 13" MacBook Air is $1k. The real killer is of course the corporate monitoring sof
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by floundy 1y ago
I've already seen LLMs suggest products using Reddit comments as a reference, and when I investigated the Reddit comment it was by a blatant astroturfing account (nearly every comment for the same product) that probably bought upvotes
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by floundy 1y ago
>Today, to install even the simplest self-hosted software, one has to be effectively a professional software engineer. I’m a regular engineer, non-software, my coding knowledge is very basic, I could never be employed even as a junior de
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by floundy 1y ago
What you’re describing is essentially how Apple Maps works. https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-maps/
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by floundy 1y ago
Write often, try to write well, don't sacrifice writing for easier dopamine-rich activities like scrolling the web or watching videos/movies/television. But yes most importantly, just write, as a human. Lord knows the losers
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by floundy 1y ago
Clickbait nonsense title.
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by floundy 1y ago
Glad that some people are coming around to BlueSky being yet another social media shithole. I called it from the early days, when it was settled by Redditors, and later all the Twitter people driven off Twitter by Elon.
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by floundy 1y ago
I'm interested in seeing how long I can make it. I have gotten up and left restaurants in the past when they had nothing but QR code menus. I'm sure I'll face some insurmountable obstacle at some point (e.g. on vacation in a
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by floundy 1y ago
Apple Intelligence can be entirely disabled, I did it on both my iPhone and my Mac and it hasn't bothered me about it since. Actually Apple seems decent with storing personal information on-device, or at least giving the user options t
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by floundy 1y ago
I wanted to try this for just two weeks — my Pixel phone's battery swelled up, and the new iPhone wasn't coming out for a couple of weeks; I told my wife I'd be fine without a phone and she quickly vetoed it. I did my usual i
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by floundy 1y ago
Worthless AI slop. Flagged.
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by floundy 1y ago
>British microcomputers So... Raspberry Pis?
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by floundy 1y ago
Lmao, any comments critical of the piece are being flagged immediately, faster than anybody can even write a reply to them. Remind me again how HN isn't just Reddit-lite? This is a political soapbox piece falsely equivocating the autho
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by floundy 1y ago
But to this frequency? (Note: I tried to find a study on the frequency of em dash use between GPT and em-dash prolific human authors, and failed.) The article has on average, about one em dash per paragraph. And “paragraph” is generous give

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