For me personally, I wouldn’t consider it worth the risk. You still have to make an Amazon account, hand over your personal information, let their cameras onto your network (of course, you can VLAN them) and… how many people are gonna do this to make it effective?

It just seems playing right into their hands, I’d rather outright boycott anything Amazon (I understand easier for some than others) than waste my time, money and effort into protecting my personal info against a user hostile company.

I also wonder how much of this was spurred by Linux even beginning to come to the mainstream mind and how simple most distros are to just install and run (Bazzite, CachyOS, Linux Mint).

You’ve always had Linux go around tech circles, forums, enthusiasts, etc. but big YouTube channels out of that circle are talking about it and hardware manufacturers are distributing it in place of Windows in the case of the Steam Deck, and it’s just building more and more momentum.

I think it’s easy to take for granted how (relatively) mainstream Linux is getting, but if you think today how many people talk about *BSD, that was Linux not even 10 years ago.

God damn that was good. I won’t spoil anything but for newcomers be warned that it will take about 30 minutes of your time, and it will be worth it.

This whole article reminds me so much of the rogue AI sign found in Portal 2

It was one of Aldi’s limited run items and I bought them like 5 years ago. I haven’t seen them back at Aldi since but that’s pretty usual for those limited items

I’ve got a '95 Mazda 323 and as much as I love that car, mine is an absolute bastard for not having any cupholders whatsoever.

It has this little cubby under the radio and its supposed to actually have a tray that slides out but the previous owner installed a kill switch there which I guess interfered with the tray, so she decided the only cupholders in the vehicle was a worthy sacrifice rather than having her auto elec move the switch down 2cm or anywhere else in the vehicle.

Many drinks have been served to the carpet.

Anyway those plastic door trim cupholder things were a godsend when I found them at an Aldi.

OP has done something weird with the comment because for me the link comes to lemmy.dbzer0.com/digg.com - both of you have LW home instances so the URL is incorrectly being parsed as an instance link?

As if constantly pushing more AI slop into their software while making no real improvements wasn’t enough…

Reading the article, I don’t see how AI code was the fault in this situation. They let a developer certificate lapse without renewing it, so actually seems more like a process or human error; either their systems didn’t flag for upcoming renewal sufficiently or the alert was ignored or missed.

Here’s the crux of the article for you.

In just two years, starting in 2022, residential electricity prices rose by 10%, while commercial prices increased by only 3%, and industrial electricity prices fell by 2%.

I perform isha kriya which seems similar but you have a yogi (in my case Sadhguru) repeat a phrase repeatedly for several minutes.

However the ending of it has about a 6 minute time of silence. Why do you ask?

I know this is said in hindsight, but the way the first paragraph is written sets off alarm bells of weird reporting, and I imagine probably was what triggered you to look into it further.

ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems, hoping to ease the rising costs of laptops and gaming PCs.

While I get that Asus naturally would want to be competitive, why would they (from an economic standpoint) care about ‘easing the rising costs’ of their products. They would have actual motives like trying to be independent of these major memory manufacturers.

Reports say the company is preparing to manufacture DDR5 memory by 2026.

2026 is in less than 5 days. If this instead said “by the end of 2026” or longer I’d have a better time believing that claim.

This is already happening. I couldn’t stomach watching such slop, but immediately following the Bondi shooting and Ahmed al Ahmed was shown tackling the shooter, videos were circulating that replaced Ahmed with a middle aged white man, presumably because the correct footage flew in the face of the far right agenda of Australia having a Muslim problem.

That’s the first I’ve seen a HN web client. Why does it exist, and what’s the reason against linking directly to Y Combinator?

Hacker News Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355548

Generally I stream music using Qobuz because at least its more ethical than Spotify AFAIK, paying their artists better rates and not (yet) bricking their physical products (Car Thing).

I’ll otherwise download music using spotdl and my old Spotify playlists, but I don’t enjoy pirating myself. I mainly do this for players without internet like my MP3 player and my car’s head unit that only works with iPods or mass storage.

I’ve been getting into records recently but this is a novelty thing for me.

Might qualify more for !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world but I recently replaced the oxygen sensor on my Subaru all on my own, after 3 years of putting up with a check engine light.

Funny enough, you’re not the first one who’s also noticed this. A couple years ago, me and a colleague (in helpdesk) shared our YouTube subscriptions and found 80% of them matched, and he introduced me to such channels like Usagi Electric.

I do otherwise tend to notice comments on one channel’s videos make references to other channels I also watch (outside of the usual Bringus Studios and DankPods references), so I tend to think I’m part of a larger niche of Gen Z / Millenial computer geeks.

Some ones I haven’t seen yet:

• Camping with Steve (relaxed Canadian camping with plenty of dry humour, usually some wild stealth camping adventures)
• Budget-Builds Official (tries out random ass computer hardware and finds its limits)
• dosdude1 (infamous for crazy Mac upgrades that require resoldering BGA chips and chip programming)
• EthosLab (already saw Xisumavoid mentioned, Etho is still happily making mature Minecraft videos)
• Flexiny (ASMR-like videos of mechanics fixing old cars to run again)
• FlyTech Videos (Windows experiments and deep dives into how Win32 and NT do things)
• GIFGAS (usual accomplice with shiey in train surfing, although I enjoy GIFGAS’ edits more than shiey)
  • Side note: His videos are taken down regularly so you have to be quick to download them before they disappear
• Hugh Jeffreys (Australian right to repair advocate, usually repairs smartphones but has dabbled into more vintage items recently)
• Janus Cycle (2000s deep retrospectives into technology)
• Plainly Difficult (British industrial accident examinations with wonderfully shoddy graphics)
• polymatt (absolute 3D modelling wizard who takes on restoring vintage tech to beyond brand new with incredible attention to detail, and very engaging edits)
• Seytonic (cyber security news roundup weekly)
• This Does Not Compute (retro computer repairs and retrospectives)
• Usagi Electric (extremely vintage computer repairs, going right back to vacuum tubes to 1980s minicomputers)

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I might be playing Devil’s Advocate here, but Psivewri.

I started watching him years ago for his tech videos, usually restoring mundane computers, and I still enjoy that content.

However, he started getting into automotive, and I’m glad that he’s stretching out into other areas. It’s clear he’s still learning and probably on my level of mechanics (backyardie who can watch videos and read a workshop manual), but my issue is how he presents the videos like he knows what he’s doing, almost like a tutorial - giving random tips throughout.

His Dad assists him with the work he does on cars (like myself) and in that sense, I’d rather hear tips from the Dad than him because I’d have more confidence he knows what he’s talking about.

Otherwise maybe PhoenixSC? I started watching him when he was uploading redstone contraptions to r/Minecraft and he had 4K subscribers. His older, experimental videos were always interesting, and his work on adventure maps like PokeCA was amazing to watch.

Today, most of his videos boil down to the following:

• Meme reactions
• Takes on Mojang controversy and how he believes the community should respond
• Joke Minecraft creations

I’m glad that he’s grown to be more confident in himself and in general, become more entertaining when he talks, but I feel he’s gone too much into the mainstream over the last few years rather than keeping to his lane.

If I’m completely honest, I’ve felt that with my own use of AI and it’s my primary driver in reducing or outright avoiding its use personally - I’m not learning anything when it codes up crap that barely works, and then debugging that crap later on is a nightmare because I don’t have the requisite experience.