plateee

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[–] plateee@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago

Same here, and I'm not sure what I'll go to next - the USB port has gotten flakey.

I want to try a Linux phone, but hardware seems to be made of unobtainium, and the software seems like it's not quite there yet.

Part of me is tempted to just get another pixel 7 Pro on swappa.

[–] plateee@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of the selling points for an oven we were looking at was that you could start preheating it while you were driving home from the grocery store.

I'm sure someone thinks it's a good idea to start a hot box up targeting 400° without anyone home. But to me that just screams fire hazard.

Oh, and helpfully it can also do firmware updates over wifi... I don't want my oven to have firmware.

We ended up buying the best "dumb" oven we could find, but pretty much every one of the higher end ones had internet connectivity.

[–] plateee@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Tell me you're slacking off at your day job without telling me you're slacking off at your day job:

Landry, in a post on X, thanked Trump: "It's an honor to serve ... in this volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the U.S. This in no way affects my position as Governor of Louisiana!"

Yes this is a distraction - but we also need to remind ourselves that this shit isn't normal even if it weren't a distraction.

In the middle of the Clinton blow job scandal, Bill didn't go off saying New Brunswick needed to become a state to secure our national supply of bowling balls or some shit.

Trump can be making a distraction and also moving the Overton Window at the same time.

[–] plateee@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Are you in IT? I swear, every conversation with a male, married coworker is the same:

  • bitching about their wife
  • complaining how they can't do anything fun since getting married
  • weird jokes about nonexistent sex lives

My dudes. I've been married for nearly 20 years now. Our sex life changed as we got older but it's still banging. I play video games with her, she laughs at my jokes/memes. I can't imagine either being alone or with someone else.

[–] plateee@piefed.social 21 points 3 days ago

Not only never go on holiday or see your family ever again, but crucially "you better be loyal/work harder than citizens lest we fire you and your visa expires."

[–] plateee@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just wish I didn't have crabgrass everywhere out back. It looks awful and does nothing to actually retain soil, and as a result my backyard is lumpy AF.

[–] plateee@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

I've never used it, does it handle docx authorship better than libre?

Honestly, I'm not even 100% sure they need Word or if they're just being told that by their boss.

[–] plateee@piefed.social 7 points 5 days ago

Give it time and the board will vote to remove that Kennedy fellow from the name too.

[–] plateee@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's $150 for a "perpetual" license - but that's not including any one drive storage. The Office 365 SaaS (I think now it's Microsoft 365?) starts at $99/year.

I know this because I've been trying to find a solution for my sister who absolutely needs office to get a workable solution for Linux. Supposedly, she has to submit papers/writing as docx and can't trust LibreOffice not to fuck up formatting.

[–] plateee@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Maybe a controversial take, but I like pihole for blocking only - I have a pair of powerDNS servers set up for my internal name resolution. They recurse to Pihole, but can fall back to internet DNS servers if Pihole isn't responsive.

I tried pihole for local resolution and found it to be a fairly large pain to automate. Plus kubes has PDNS hooks for auto-updating DNS entries.

[–] plateee@piefed.social -1 points 1 week ago

Or just have a hard cut-off for software released after 2022.

It's the only way I search for recipes anymore - a date filter from 1/1/1990 - 1/1/2022.

[–] plateee@piefed.social 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If those pesky illegals want to come here, they need to do it the right way.

NO, NOT LIKE THAT!

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