[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 68 points 1 month ago

I live in a national park and the Govt just awarded a contract to a private company to build a fiber line to the villages for high speed internet, and the company building the thing will own the network while the govt is stuck paying the bill forever. So stupid imho. No private company should own a network that exists entirely on federal land, and everyone depends on .

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 47 points 1 month ago

Billionaires. Nobody ever needs that much wealth. Resources better used elsewhere for the public good.

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I work in hospitality and our systems are completely down. No POS, no card processing, no reservations, we're completely f'ked.

Our only saving grace is the fact that we are in a remote location and we have power outages frequently. So operating without a POS is semi-normal for us.

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 20 points 2 months ago

I've used backblaze b2 for almost 8 years now and it just works. I've never had any data lost by them in that time.

I just recently switched over to Storj.io as it a bit cheaper at only $4/TB as compared to B2 at $6/TB. Both are S3 compatible and work with just about every backup software out there. I have used Borg, Kopia and now Restic to do backups of important data. All 3 tools deduplicate all your data and reduces the amount of storage used. They also do encryption client side and are open source. They also have a built-in verification mechanism that checks the data is intact.

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 16 points 7 months ago

I've had a framework for 2 years now. It's run fedora, manjaro (arch based) and Debian with no major issues. Manjaro had some problems with KDE and the high DPI screen. Sometimes the scaling was inconsistent between apps. Fedora just works.

Only hardware issue is the battery life is just not that great. And the trackpad doesn't always work property, but I think that was a first generation issue that's been resolved since.

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 22 points 9 months ago

So why not just use the van? At least the cargo space is covered from the elements. Most people who drove these yank tanks don't actually need the truck part.

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 101 points 9 months ago

One is a truck made for actual work and the other is an abomination pretending to be a truck.

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 29 points 9 months ago

To be fair, lighting is the most important part of generating photorealistic graphics. Having realistic and real-time lighting makes it look so much more realistic

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

GrayJay just came out into the testing phase. It not only supportsYouTubee but also Nebula, Odysee, Twitch, PeerTube and a few others with more to come. Works great so far. grayjay.app. Built by Futo, a nonprofit company which Louis Rossmann works for. His video here

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 61 points 1 year ago

Cars=freedom

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 24 points 1 year ago

I just cancelled Spotify and switched to Tidal a few months ago exactly because of shenanigans like this. I was getting popups to look at recommended eBooks that I had to buy.

That was it for me and I cancelled immediately. Between the ads and the countless bugs and issues I had while using their app, glad I made the change. Been a premium member with Spotify for almost 10 years.

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 38 points 1 year ago

NewPipe for android is still working. Much better than the official app IMO, no ads and it actually shows the videos you subscribed to.

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