Zectivi

joined 1 year ago
[–] Zectivi@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

We have sonic shower thoughts. Now we have sonic toilet epiphanies!? Awesome!

[–] Zectivi@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago

Clear is now a TSA “vendor” for the precheck process. The machines they use for the sign up process - at least the airport I was at - don’t have the eye scanning camera in the kiosk.

The Clear representative I was asking questions of had said they don’t require eye scans for Clear, though that is the default. People can ask to use just fingerprints, which he said does disrupt the terminal process as the agents don’t think to ask if fingerprints were what was registered when the eye scans fail.

I am not advocating for Clear. I refuse to use them. I simply do want to call out that they are one of 3 who handle the process for the TSA now. People do have a choice of which of the three to use.

[–] Zectivi@sh.itjust.works 37 points 6 months ago

I was a Radioman in the Navy, and some coworkers and I had gone to see Cider House Rules in the theater.

There's a scene where they come to inform someone that a plane with a loved one on board had been shot down.

To quote the movie:

When the plane was hit, the crew chief and the radioman jumped close together. The copilot jumped third.

We immediately started laughing when we heard that, because we were told that the Radiomen are some of the last to leave a sinking ship due to needing to destroy the cryptographic material. Hearing that a Radioman was one of the first to bail was too good to us..

[–] Zectivi@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I run GrapheneOS.

I told myself that my Pixel 8 pro will be enough for a bunch of years. That is, until I went on a trip with it. Now I feel like my Pixel 7 was better than the P8P is, with just as good of a camera with better battery life.

I'm glad I kept the p7 as a burner, because I may just make it my prime phone. I only upgraded on the prospect of a long lasting phone and received the p7 for free..

[–] Zectivi@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

I thought this movie was a great adaptation of the book. I'm a fan of PKDs writings; Minority Report, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, V.A.L.I.S., and others that were mentioned.

I couldn't get into The Man in the High Castle tv show, but loved the book. The tv series feels too different too quickly.

[–] Zectivi@sh.itjust.works 23 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I believe what they're getting at is an issue if they're not already authenticated prior to the outage. Then they'd have no access to their media unless they look into the workaround for that beforehand. It has been an issue in the past, especially when Plex's auth servers go down. I remember plenty of Reddit threads complaining about it.

[–] Zectivi@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's probably an issue all over, and I hope it gets blocked, for the sake of consumers. Kroger acquired a company called Roundy's which has a chain called "Pick N Save" in Wisconsin back in 2015. I remember shopping there after and seeing additional tags with products' prices announcing the "Your New Low", but prices were higher than pre acquisition. I stopped shopping there after that and noticing a decrease in product/brand diversity.

[–] Zectivi@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

I was in a very similar position as you. Thirteen year user, moderator for a few smaller subreddits, including one that provided support for a US-based mobile phone carrier, and deleted everything when the API change happened.

It took time and effort to coordinate and help uplift those who generated the great content for those subreddits, but Reddit, Inc., was unwilling to help us moderators who had developed and used the tools necessary to do it. I wasn't willing to put in the additional time since Reddit was themselves unwilling to, post API change.

[–] Zectivi@sh.itjust.works 82 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

In response to such critiques, Reddit spokesperson Rathschmidt said he did not “know of an industry benchmark for scoring content quality”.

(Emphasis mine)

This is the same tone deaf response I've come to expect from Reddit for some time now, and is why I'm happy to no longer be a user of their platform.

[–] Zectivi@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

Agreed. It didn't feel respectful when they started replacing mod teams that refused to reopen.

[–] Zectivi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have no grounds to question anything that you said, but all I can imagine is this image.

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[–] Zectivi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I'll second your mayflash adapter. I have a few of those, including the GC one, and it works great!

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