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Comment on Question for those in colder climates: Pellet HVAC/boilers? in ~life.home_improvement
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Comment on Looking for help scraping and deleting a Reddit account in ~comp
DeaconBlue Link ParentYou can still view the site while not logged in, so it can still be scraped. Now it might just be a bit less efficient.You can still view the site while not logged in, so it can still be scraped. Now it might just be a bit less efficient.
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Comment on Help me ditch Chrome's password manager! in ~tech
DeaconBlue (edited )LinkI use 1password, which does everything you mention after installing the browser extension. It is not free, but it is not wildly expensive. My favorite feature is that my family has a set up where...I use 1password, which does everything you mention after installing the browser extension. It is not free, but it is not wildly expensive.
My favorite feature is that my family has a set up where I have my passwords, my wife has her passwords, my grandparents have their passwords, and my family has our shared passwords (for anything kid related or for Nebula or utities or whatever). When I search for passwords, I can see mine and our shared ones, but I cannot see my wife's. I can also see my grandparents' vault but it is not my default set to search from.
One of the biggest reasons to believe that this system works well is that my grandparents use it. They are not technologically inclined. I just installed it for them and set it up and they press the "use password from 1password" button, or "save to 1password" when relevant.
If you are a power user or only have your own passwords to manage, a free one might be more appropriate. If you are in charge of other people's information, I think 1password is very nice.
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Comment on The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store in ~games
DeaconBlue Link ParentI have absolutely no idea for any of the emulation outside the N64. I just do N64 hacks and have seen a ton of weird behavior with the Delta emulator. Vanilla ROMs crash regularly and hacks crash...I have absolutely no idea for any of the emulation outside the N64. I just do N64 hacks and have seen a ton of weird behavior with the Delta emulator. Vanilla ROMs crash regularly and hacks crash on Delta when they work fine on console and every other emulator I've tried.
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Comment on The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store in ~games
DeaconBlue LinkBe aware that the Delta emulator is really bad for the N64. Even stock ROMs crash like crazy on that emulator.Be aware that the Delta emulator is really bad for the N64. Even stock ROMs crash like crazy on that emulator.
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Comment on FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price in ~tech
DeaconBlue (edited )Link ParentNot just large public ones, even most private ones have various bots running for one reason or another that can harvest data. Hell, a very valid "attack" vector could just as easily be...If you're in any large public servers and value your privacy, it might be a good idea to be cautious
Not just large public ones, even most private ones have various bots running for one reason or another that can harvest data. Hell, a very valid "attack" vector could just as easily be non-maliciously taking over an account and just leaving it idle and listening.
Edit: as a more general rule, your data is only as private as the weakest listener to a conversation. In a phone call, this means the most gossipy person. In verbal chat, it is the most gossipy person in earshot. Online, it is the most gossipy person/bot on the server or the server itself.
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Comment on Nintendo 64-style platformer Corn Kidz 64 releases for Switch on April 19 in ~games
DeaconBlue LinkI have to say that I am a bit disappointed that this isn't a game that will run on the 64 itself. There is a pretty serious homebrew community around the 64 and I was hoping that one of those...I have to say that I am a bit disappointed that this isn't a game that will run on the 64 itself. There is a pretty serious homebrew community around the 64 and I was hoping that one of those projects was getting a writeup.
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Comment on US Senate Republicans furious over Donald Trump derailing FISA bill in ~misc
DeaconBlue Link ParentI hope it didn't come across as me thinking that Trump is wrong. I am not well educated enough on the law itself to have an opinion (though with your explanation I suspect that I would very much...I hope it didn't come across as me thinking that Trump is wrong. I am not well educated enough on the law itself to have an opinion (though with your explanation I suspect that I would very much agree with you).
My commentary is more on the infighting within the Republican party, and their shock that Senators are not falling in line like they usually do. The Republicans are currently two parties - Republicans and Trump followers. They have the same name next to their entries on ballots, but to the latter group Trump is law and it is their obligation to do what he says.
Democrats pretty much always have infighting, so far as they kind of agree that something needs to change for a given issue but are divided on how to go about doing something. Republicans have not had to deal with that as much, and it is very fun to see the schism happening.
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Comment on US Senate Republicans furious over Donald Trump derailing FISA bill in ~misc
DeaconBlue LinkI love how this is meant to sound like a large amount. On the actual topic of the article, this is the result when you have large swathes of people in the country that still adamantly believe that...“Inside the country, the Constitution applies, and this enormous 702 database I would guess has tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of bits of information on Americans." - Rand Paul
I love how this is meant to sound like a large amount.
On the actual topic of the article, this is the result when you have large swathes of people in the country that still adamantly believe that Trump is or should be president. The representatives of those people are, by some definition, doing their job by listening to and following on with whatever random whims Trump has - because that is what their constituents want them to do.
They are accurately following up on what their people want them to do. They get voted in on campaigns that say "Pro Trump". Acting shocked and awed when they do something Trump wants them to do is not productive.
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Comment on What did you do to "prepare" for your marriage? in ~life
DeaconBlue Link ParentAnother vouch here for the separate accounts, but slightly different reasons. We don't consider any money "mine" or "theirs" but we don't like the idea of both people dumping into and taking out...Another vouch here for the separate accounts, but slightly different reasons.
We don't consider any money "mine" or "theirs" but we don't like the idea of both people dumping into and taking out of a single pot. It is very possible that one day we both go to pay bills at the same time and end up grabbing more than the account holds because things can sit in a pending state, and we don't really communicate that we are paying bills on a given day. Keeping the accounts separate means that the number on the account going to my bills is going to be accurate for my bills, and the same for her. If there is a weird influx of bills then we just let the other person know ahead of time that there will need to be some movement between accounts.
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Comment on In-flight canoodling: is it ever acceptable to spoon at 40,000ft? in ~travel
DeaconBlue Link ParentHow would one go about finding these companies?Also consider flying smaller private companies if they're short trips.
How would one go about finding these companies?
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Comment on I bought a house, now what? in ~life.home_improvement
DeaconBlue (edited )Link ParentI did specify "heavy" data, like photo editing or video transfers, and most consumer grade stuff isn't getting 600MBps, maybe 600Mbps. Wifi is totally sufficient for TV streaming or whatever.I did specify "heavy" data, like photo editing or video transfers, and most consumer grade stuff isn't getting 600MBps, maybe 600Mbps. Wifi is totally sufficient for TV streaming or whatever.
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Comment on Looking for non-political content in ~life
DeaconBlue Link ParentAlso Christmas lights. I pray that he never finds a good solution for lights because I don't want the quest for the perfect efficient light strand to ever end.Technology Connections for more than you will ever need to know about appliances
Also Christmas lights. I pray that he never finds a good solution for lights because I don't want the quest for the perfect efficient light strand to ever end.
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Comment on What AI tools are you actually using? in ~tech
DeaconBlue LinkIn any serious capacity, none. I am pretty solidly on the side against using AI to write emails and such, because I don't really want any additional fluff in my emails. If you ask an AI to...In any serious capacity, none.
I am pretty solidly on the side against using AI to write emails and such, because I don't really want any additional fluff in my emails. If you ask an AI to translate a list of bullet points into an email, I would much rather have just received the list of bullet points. It gets even better when the receiver uses AI to translate the verbose email back to bullet points.
I dabble with some image generation stuff whenever a new big thing comes out just to see the current state, but I am still pretty unimpressed by AI images. They all still land solidly in Uncanny Valley to me.
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Comment on I bought a house, now what? in ~life.home_improvement
DeaconBlue LinkRun ethernet cable to every room if you do anything heavy involving the internet or big file transfers around your internal network. It costs an afternoon and a couple hundred dollars and you have...Run ethernet cable to every room if you do anything heavy involving the internet or big file transfers around your internal network. It costs an afternoon and a couple hundred dollars and you have usable speeds for the duration of the time you are in the house.
I suggest doing this before painting because you might be able to cheat and do the hard part of running the cables by using cables that you would otherwise remove. I ran all of our cables by pulling them up behind some old telephone lines that we had no intention of using.
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Comment on Taskmaster Australia | Season 1 complete playlist in ~tv
DeaconBlue (edited )LinkHaving watched a few of the episodes now, it seems like Tom Gleeson is struggling to find exactly where he wants to land. He has kind of waffled back and forth arbitrarily between going with the...Having watched a few of the episodes now, it seems like Tom Gleeson is struggling to find exactly where he wants to land. He has kind of waffled back and forth arbitrarily between going with the audience's cheers for points and then doing the opposite.
This is light entertainment, so it isn't like an actual criticism of the show. Maybe he is going for unpredictable for laughs. It just seems like he will hit some of the same growing pains that the UK version got with the arbitrary bonus points causing a bit of a stir in early seasons. I also like his banter a bit more than the NZ taskmaster, at least the first season.
Tom Cashman is making a great TM Assistant. He is bringing a lot of the same energy level to the tasks and banter that Alex Horne does without needing to fall into exactly the same role in relation to the TM.
The contestants are growing on me, as they almost always do. Julia Morris is absolutely killing it on the in-person tasks.
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Comment on Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny, will cost $5.25/month standalone in ~tech
DeaconBlue (edited )Link ParentIt isn't features that I miss from Slack, quite the contrary. Slack has fewer features but they work. I regularly switch between three desks. Every time I switch desks, Teams changes my audio...It isn't features that I miss from Slack, quite the contrary. Slack has fewer features but they work.
I regularly switch between three desks. Every time I switch desks, Teams changes my audio device. Sometimes it changes the audio device to one that does not exist.
When I am in Do Not Disturb mode and get a call, the Do Not Disturb does block the call, but then plays the hang up noise anyway so the distraction is still there.
When I am on a call on Teams and unplug from one of my docks, Windows Explorer crashes and Teams disappears (which is both absurd and possibly not Team's fault). The call continues but I need to ask the other person to hang up because I can't end the call.
Often, pings don't show up in Chats when I am viewing the Teams tab and vice versa.
The whole thing just feels unpolished. I don't use the software in any particularly weird way. I use it for chats and calls, both of which Slack handles without issue. I have Slack on the same machine to communicate with some of our external devs, but it never has weird audio device issues or misses pings, it just kind of works better.
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Comment on Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny, will cost $5.25/month standalone in ~tech
DeaconBlue LinkUnfortunately for my case, I don't think this will get my company to move to Slack. Microsoft waited long enough for Teams to become well enough ingrained that there would be massive cost to...Unfortunately for my case, I don't think this will get my company to move to Slack.
Microsoft waited long enough for Teams to become well enough ingrained that there would be massive cost to switching. It was obviously a good business move by Microsoft, but I would have preferred a system that remembers my audio settings from meeting to meeting.
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Comment on California introduces 'right to disconnect' bill that would allow employees to possibly relax in ~life
DeaconBlue LinkI will try to look up the actual wording of the bill later, but this line concerns me. My current employer has a good definition of an emergency. The one time they have called off hours in three...I will try to look up the actual wording of the bill later, but this line concerns me.
Exceptions would exist for emergencies.
My current employer has a good definition of an emergency. The one time they have called off hours in three years was when we got hit by ransomware.
One of my previous employers would define an emergency as any time a user entered a high priority ticket (as defined by the user) so there were texts/calls/slack messages for things like the wireless not working on a random laptop or batteries being dead in a mouse.
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Comment on Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue in ~tech
DeaconBlue Link ParentI don’t follow this It contradicts your statement before that an IRC channel would fit. I was in many, many an IRC channel in the day but I feel like Discord hits exactly the same niche. An IRC...I don’t follow this
important information being conveyed there that will never be indexed by search engines.
It contradicts your statement before that an IRC channel would fit. I was in many, many an IRC channel in the day but I feel like Discord hits exactly the same niche. An IRC channel would never be indexed either.
When I was younger my family used a pellet furnace. I hated that thing.
The pellets always burned better on the right side than the left side, despite all of the fiddling we could possibly do with the air intake. This meant that there was a bunch of buildup of poorly-burned pellets that would end up spilling over during the course of the day.
Cleaning it out was a chore. During the windiest parts of winter, dealing with a pile of ashes was a mess at best.
The auger would end up jamming for seemingly no reason. We would back it up half a turn and it would go on its merry way, but this was only fixed after we noticed it getting colder.
Maybe we had crappy pellets. Maybe our house wasn't good for it for some reason. Maybe we just had a crappy burner. All of that said, we kept using it for several years so it must have been very cheap to run.