a_baby_duck

joined 2 years ago
[–] a_baby_duck 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I'm in a similar situation. Not to make the switch harder on you, but someone here posted a page with a bunch of reviews of email providers, calling out things like cost, privacy practices, and cooperation with the federal government. Here's their entry on mailbox.org. You might want to read through some of them while you're still in the free trial.

[–] a_baby_duck 17 points 5 days ago

The average ICE agent would be very upset by all of these comments if they could read.

[–] a_baby_duck 4 points 2 weeks ago

Well yeah, the straps are junk. Zulu or NATO strap and you're set.

[–] a_baby_duck 19 points 2 weeks ago

The actual tweet:

"The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond," Trump wrote. "The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!!"

So more regressive nonsense to derail environmental protections and pose himself as a savior to people that can't or won't fact check.

[–] a_baby_duck 4 points 2 weeks ago

Just trolling, based on their other replies.

They said they were and I don't think they'd say something without meaning it.

[–] a_baby_duck 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That pic looks very much like the corner of a memory validation lab I worked in at one point. Wouldn't surprise me at all if someone who's really into server hardware had a home setup like that.

[–] a_baby_duck 8 points 2 weeks ago

President Musk hasn't paid the other 85% yet.

[–] a_baby_duck 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I couldn't tell you when it started, but it's definitely a thing now, which is why projects like noTunes exist

[–] a_baby_duck 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm using a new M3 MBP at work and it literally brought my compile time from 20+ minutes on a pretty beefy Windows machine down to about 6 minutes. Based on that alone, it's hard to imagine using anything else for serious dev work at this point.

Having said that, there's a lot of goofy Apple fuckery going on too. Multi-monitor support is limited to two displays, so if you want more than that you're stuck with an expensive third-party dock and DisplayLink drivers, which cause color artifacting in high motion like you'd expect from a heavily compressed video, which leads to eye strain. Mouse support is terrible without a third party app to fix the goofy scroll wheel acceleration curve they've built in, and even buying first-party peripherals doesn't solve it. I need a third party app just to prevent Mac OS from opening iTunes every time I connect a Bluetooth headset... So many little dumb things to deal with.

[–] a_baby_duck 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

FFXI for me. It's a lot better post Steam Deck, but last time I set it up on Linux (maybe a year ago) a lot of the visual mods that are registry-based weren't working properly, the font rendering was awful, and certain addons and plugins just didn't work (guildwork in particular since it launches a background exe, others related to showing/hiding certain UI elements.) It runs, but it's far from comfortable. Might be good enough in a VM and I'll probably try again next time I resubscribe.

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