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Re:Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:00PM (#50308615)
I don't think CEO personality types have changed all that much. I work IT in manufacturing, and have consistently seen this "macho masculinity alpha" type before. He was quickly let go by the board, thankfully.

We live in a world where CEOs typically have gotten their position through nepotism, or fucking over many people to get to the top. It's just who they are.

Re:We Won't "Just Hang Out" on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:51PM (#50294043)
To a lesser extent, myself and others already are in the 'simulation'. I go to work, go home, play some games or muck around in my lab, repeat. I don't really have aspirations or an outside presence, just focused on ignoring every manmade horror that has been shown to us over the past four years.
Re:Apple Music 404 Not Found on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:38PM (#50213503)
Also for the troops. Have some friends that cannot bring devices that emit RF / BT on base or ships during certain operations and exercises.

It's extremely hard to find a new production MP3/FLAC player with upgradable storage that don't suck for one reason or another. Plenty of perfect new ones, but they will have onboard BT or Wifi still.

Re:Plex laid off the whole player team on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:39PM (#50187307)
Are the shows foreign or rare media? I almost exclusively use Jellyfin for TV and generally the only media that breaks from weird metadata tagging is asian stuff like Animes. Naming convention of the episode titles usually has very little to do with how Jellyfin shows them, unless that's the only data it can see.
Re:Plex laid off the whole player team on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:38PM (#50187280)
It's pretty easy and straight forward, the login UI is similar to netflix where you can have profiles per user and have them shown on the login screen, etc. They get placed straight into the view of your library, from there they can simply click play.

I'm not up to speed on transcoding, but I do notice my web users always have to transcode, assuming due to their native browser playback support for codecs. Local installs of the Jellyfin player seem to avoid this on most systems.

Why is eBay acting as the FCC? I can still buy lasers that will rip through your retina in the blink of a eye from eBay (lol). The equipment is completely legal to own and operate, and transmit with the proper licensing (which is not required to purchase said equipment).
Not really satisfied, but the alternatives seem like an uphill battle for myself. Most of my friends have moved on to their marriages, kids, etc. Certainly entering childless uncle phase of my life.
I'm 25. I go to work and then I go home. Same schedule since I got out of university. I do networking / IT. I usually buy a six pack of beer and then go to bed when I'm off, sometimes I'll stay up on my lab but I usually regret it because lack of sleep.

No bars, no dinners with anyone. I think the only blessing this lifestyle has given me is minimized impact from the failing economy we're in, at the cost of not seeing anyone or doing anything. I still have outside hobbies, but it's all too expensive to keep up with now, or being heavily regulated.

I see no issue with tracking and monitoring public servants, just how public servants see no issue with tracking and monitoring the public.
Hey guys, if you have a dashcam that can record at any time, start hitting that button when you think there might even be an inkling of an unmarked vehicle by you. Back up that footage and save it.
Re:I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:20PM (#49915742)
Well yeah. Why else would you tell off a massive company in the FANG circle as a budding security researcher in their teens.
Re:I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:58PM (#49912876)
At that age in the mid 2000s, I would be foaming at the mouth to tell a FANG company to eat dirt over something like a disclosure + unpaid bounty. But if he got the money and didn't negotiate... You live and you learn.
Re:You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:29PM (#49902275)
I got peered out of my friend group in college which scarred me getting out of school. I really just haven't tried to fix or amend anything since then. Maybe other young men feel the same, but it's like moving a boulder uphill my brain to convince myself to go out and visit anyone these days. That with all the other social / tech factors, I can agree with the general sentiment of the article.
CEOs manage to fail upwards their entire career, I don't suspect this will be any different. Just some "nerds on a forum" who got annoyed with his personal decisions.
Re:I Switched to Brave Browser on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:19PM (#49880421)
Firefox works on 99% of websites I use. In fact, it's always some weird AI product or SaaS product when something complains about user agents, so low quality and not worth looking at.
Re:I said no and Apple said yes on Thursday September 24, 2026 @11:47AM (#49832352)
There's definitely some rough edges still. I wasn't ever able to get CUPS to work with the specific model of Canon imageRunner printers we had in the office. I also never need to print, so I stopped trying after it wouldn't take a few test prints.

LLMs are great though. I had a physical RAM issue that resulted in a bad pacman upgrade, failing the mkinitcpio process and corrupting that kernel upgrade. I had never ran into this before and it was complicated by LUKS being enabled. Claude was able to get me the right steps to remount the LUKS drives while I was chrooted in on a live USB, from there I was able to reupgrade and all was well.

I should start calling my jar of quarters the "laundry tokens" haha.
It's not and it's also not uniquely a British thing either. Most of my friends and myself use our phones as wallets, in the US. The only time I use my physical cards is to pull cash from the ATM, ha.
Re:I said no and Apple said yes on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:38PM (#49805159)
Inversely, I've ran KDE on bleeding edge for three years now and have only ran into a handful of bugs, and nothing critical that required me to drop to a terminal to fix. The networking issue seems particularly specific and I have never seen this occur across any of my desktop or laptops.
I think OP misspoke. He probably meant that they're not able to be unlocked by the consumers, usually.
Re:Cloudflare Quick Tunnels on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:55PM (#49759371)
I think Tailscale would've fit my needs perfectly fine, but the management makes access control and grouping dead simple in netbird. It also generates a nice little map of your peers, their groups, and connected nodes etc. Quick visual on your topology.
Re:Cloudflare Quick Tunnels on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:53PM (#49759344)
Also a very good alternative. I went on a spree and tried out all of the self hostable alternatives and this was definitely a runner up to netbird. The self hosted tailscale is also good, just not as polished as these two projects are.
Re:Cloudflare Quick Tunnels on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:04PM (#49757983)
Alternatively, Netbird has been a dream to use over the last half year or so. I think their server software has had some hiccups on new releases, but I stagger those updates anyways. All self hosted, similar concept to Tailscale, very good management UI baked into the self hosted product.
Re:The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:30PM (#49747558)
You're on the nose. My parent passed shortly after I went to University. It was tough and much easier to put all of her belongings in storage for four years, then it was dealing with it then and there while renting and in between jobs.
Re:I hate you Microsoft on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:27PM (#49747534)
Agreed. My resume and slides are all templated with Typst, but I can't be bothered trying UML languages to make diagrams that'll probably be referenced once or twice a year, if ever.
Re:Quake – 30th Anniversary Update on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:22PM (#49203450)
Twitch shooters are niche in the first place, and it has an even more niche player base that isn't majority American. I think it's a hard sell when 90% of the diehard community built their skill on Quake Live, which comparatively takes far less resources than Champions or UE4. Bethesda then switched the F2P status of Champs and Live, which was not a popular move.
Re:Quake – 30th Anniversary Update on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:16PM (#49203391)
Well, this update doesn't mean much overall in the Quake scene, if you actually play it for the PvP. Quake Live has held it down since 2012-ish, and was always a free-to-play game.

Champions came out, most of the community from Quake Live stayed on live. Bethesda in all their wisdom made it cost $10, I assume to sway new gamers into downloading Champions (which they also made F2P shortly after release). So effectively, they swapped the F2P of both games, and the free one is the less preferred option in the scene.

Re:Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight on Monday April 27, 2026 @01:56PM (#47924957)
Man, I hate being rude because I myself weighed 230lbs once upon a time, I get it. I just dealt with a 200lb+ man who spread his legs past the arm rests. Pissed me off the whole flight because I had to contort my body in my own seat so he wasn't spilling into me.
Re:Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @04:00PM (#47157796)
Probably similar to what I do with my papers and resumes, I write them myself then throw them through LLMs for suggestions and corrections, manually reviewing the output.
Any cheap camera with the IR filter removed from the lens. Some better than others.

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