herrvogel

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[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Javascript is a beautiful language where '3' - 1 = 2 but '3' + 1 = '31'.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

We do jira + bitbucket + confluence + teams.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (9 children)

You joke but people do that. I've seen people repurpose their old android phones to host small services on their home networks. I won't comment on how reasonable it is because battery, but it's a thing.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 102 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I got fired when the company decided to downsize.

"How is that dumb?" you ask? That happened less than two weeks after I was hired. The boss man's speech indicated that that was the result of a long deliberation by corporate. So if you knew there could be layoffs any moment, why the fuck were you hiring?

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I use Linux myself, but my work laptop they gave me is windows. I can honestly say that I believe in near future the average Linux experience is going to be smoother than windows. Because I cannot believe how insanely annoying windows 11 is. It's really not good. And modern Linux has more than good enough software and hardware compatibility.

But of course it's gonna take a long while before Linux overtakes windows because social inertia. And that's not gonna change easily because there is no humongous international corporation that spends billions every year to get their Linux based OS pre-installed on almost every new computer.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They're probably talking about Samsung TVs, not their android phones/tablets. Installing jellyfin on those things can be a chore. My experience with LG was similar. The official build was out of date and riddled with issues that didn't exist on other versions. It refused to play videos that worked well enough on other devices, transcode or no.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How does that work? Based on imei perhaps? Does spoofing that not do the trick?

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just checked. In the online stores of the 3 largest tech chains in my country, there's exactly one 16:9 40+" monitor model available, and that's a 43" VA panel. The other 40+" stuff are weird absurdly wide curved monitors and some smart whiteboard type thing. So forgive me if I am extremely doubtful of your claim.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Lemme just pluck a 52" monitor from the 52" monitor tree where 52" monitors grow bountifully.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

The concept might be, but the word itself is a compound of the words "verantwortung" and "bewusstsein". They mean responsibility and consciousness respectively, and are both perfectly common and simple words. The whole thing means what you think it does, nothing special.

German doesn't really have those hyper specific super obscure words, they're almost always compound words made up of common words.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Same here. My parents both smoked like chimneys. I tried smoking once. Tasted awful, smelled disgusting, and made my eyes hurt like a motherfucker. Then I tried twice again on different occasions. Same experience. Just an exceedingly nasty thing overall that had not a single thing that made me wanna go back again, so that was it. I consider myself lucky that my body found it so revolting.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes. It could talk to another smart device and ask it to send its packages. You could be careful and connect none of the smart crap in your house to your network, but the smart fridge in your upstairs neighbor's kitchen could still be helping with smuggling your data out. Or your devices could be connected to some unsecured network around.

In any case, the only surefire way to stop your data from getting smuggled out is to physically kill all the wireless connectivity capabilities of the device. Disconnect antennae, desolder chips, scrape out pcb traces. Otherwise you're just hoping the firmware is not doing anything funny. Fortunately I think these are all hypotheticals that have not (yet) been observed in real smart home products.

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