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Zarobi

@ Zarobi @aussie.zone

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  • Are friends just a form of casual entertainment?

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  • You are right that in modern society it's much harder to make and maintain friends. Really you have to think of it in terms of "closeness" or intimacy. Have you talked about only good things with these people? Or have you opened up about maybe some deeper or darker topics? Have you been to each other's house? Have you helped each other do something important and difficult? Being a friend is almost like an imposition. You need to be able to rely on and support each other.

  • Are you gonna be buying a Steam machine?

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  • Same here... I already have a "steam machine". I have a gaming PC connected to my TV via sunshine/moonlight (previously steam link). Heck you could even go HDMI cable, but I wanted to keep my PC in my office so I can use it as a work computer as well. If I didn't build my own gaming PC a few years ago I'd strongly consider it, though.

  • Is it okay to express your feelings for someone even if you don't think they reciprocate

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  • It sounds like maybe just letting them know how important they are to you is a good first step.

  • Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Edge, and Firefox to tackle bot traffic without CAPTCHAs

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  • I keep getting fraud alerts and having to sooth my bank account into permitting my groceries. You'd think after the 20th time on the same day with the same price they'd stop flagging my groceries.

  • What do you think about discord?

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  • Yeah the whole thing feels a bit... Messy? Like it feels like when you get the tail end CC of a 40+ reply email chain at work and you need to figure out what's going on. In many ways it feels like email to me, actually. The text based stuff anyway. Searching is God awful, there's like 100–1000 messages per day you cannot possibly keep up with... But people are using it as a replacement for their entire community, which is just bad. I had to submit a bug report on a game's Discord once, it was even worse than doing the same through Twitter.

    I like the voice chat functionality though. Wish that screen sharing / streaming worked on Linux.

  • Windows 11 hibernation has been silently hammering your SSD this whole time

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  • Yeah I had the problem of my mouse randomly registering 0.1mm of movement from a dust particles moving and turning the PC on randomly. I just use shut down, everything else is too annoying.

  • Windows 11 hibernation has been silently hammering your SSD this whole time

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  • Yeah especially if you have a titchy laptop with 256GB SSD and 32GB RAM... that's a huge relative percentage of storage wasted on a hiberfil.

    I use Linux now, but when I did use Windows, I always turned off hibernate. It had it's time in WinXP or 95 era, when hard drives took so long to spin up that you could leave and make a whole coffee and it would almost be done by the time you get back. We don't need it anymore!

  • Windows 11 hibernation has been silently hammering your SSD this whole time

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  • Always give your computer 8 hours sleep per night to keep it healthy

  • BlackVue's dashcams broadcast users' live location and footage to public

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  • They tried to upsell me with my new car a few years ago. $1200 for one of these dashcams, Jesus. I said no and bought a $80 one at Officeworks.

    But they said that basically the idea is if your SD card is destroyed or lost you have no evidence. This device always streams to the cloud, so theoretically it's more robust. If the police takes your SD card at a crash (common in Australia), and then it's lost or "lost", your SOL. But of course you get privacy problems with any cloud...

  • A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient

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  • Are we discriminating against instances now? Is this a thing?

  • Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins

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  • I wonder if there's a legal loophole here? Specifically this works by transcribing "important conversations" into text, it's not actually storing .mp3 recordings. Obviously still disgusting and I hate it.