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I'm a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.

  • This is entirely the wrong community for this answer, but I've used the pro version of Textra for 10 years now. One time payment (10 years ago), updates every few months, lots of features, but they don't get in your way if you don't need them.

    The main feature I use is "delay send for 5 seconds" to allow me to catch all my spelling and grammatical errors after I hit send , but the rest of the UI is pretty well thought out.

    One of the very few commercial Android apps that I'd recommend to someone.

  • Fossify Messages is your trusted messaging companion

    I hate this kind of advertising language.

    Don't sell this as some fait accompli , done deal thing. It's not anything to me at the moment. It doesn't need to be my "messaging companion". It needs to be a program, that I use to send and receive SMS/MMS messages. That's it.

    And "trusted"? I'll be the judge of that.

  • Can it be disabled?

    Sure! There'll be a dialog box that comes up every single time that you wake your PC saying:

    "Do you want to activate AwesomeAI™ now? 98 percent of the functions of this OS are crippled or unusable until you activate AwesomeAI™ so Microsoft recommends doing so immediately."

    And the two options will be "OMG Yes!" , or "Maybe Later".

  • It straight made up a powershell module, and method call. Completely made up, non existent.

    Counterpoint 1:

    I gave Copilot a couple of XML files that described a map and a route, and told it to make a program in C# that could create artificial maps and routes using those as a guideline.

    After about 20 minutes of back and forth, mainly me describing what I wanted in the map (eg walls that were +/- 3m from the routes, points in the routes should be 1m apart, etc) it spat out a program that could successfully build xml files that worked in the real-world device that needed them.

    Counterpoint 2: I gave Copilot a python program that I'd written about 8 years ago that connected to a Mikrotik router using its vendor specific API and compiled some data to push out to websocket clients that connected. I told it to make a C# equivalent that could be installed and run as a windows service, and it created something that worked on the very first pass using third party .NET libraries for Mikrotik API access.

    Counterpoint 3: I had a SQL query in a PowerShell script that took some reporting data from a database and mangled it heavily to get shift-by-shift reports. Again I asked it to take the query and business logic from the script and create a command line C# application that could populate a new table with the shift report data. It created something that worked immediately and fixed a corner case in the query that was causing me some grumbles as well.

    These were things that I've done in the past month. Each one would have taken a week for me to do myself, and with some general discussion with this particular LLM each one took about an hour instead, with it giving me a complete zipped up project folder with multiple source files that I could just open in Visual Studio and press "build" to get what I want.

    In all these cases however, I was well versed in the area it was working in, and I knew how to phrase things precisely enough that it could generate something useful. It did try and tack on a lot of not-particularly-useful things, particularly options for the command line reporting program.

    And I HATE the oh-so-agreeable tone it takes with everything. I'm not "absolutely right" when I correct it or steer it along a different path. I don't really want all this extra stuff that it's so happy to tack on, "it won't take a minute".

    I want the LLM to tell me that's an awful idea, or that it can't do it. A constant yes-man agreeing with everything I say doesn't help me get shit done.

  • The problem is that the "release a minimum viable product, then update-update-update" software development model has reached cars.

    But all other ways cost more and take longer to get to market which makes shareholders unhappy, so we can't have that.

  • You can opt out,

    You see, the issue I have is that it should be OPT IN. But it can't be opt in because nobody would and how can they get more free data for the AI grinder then??

    you will know when as you get notified

    After you have been automatically opted in? I'll wager that there will be a lovely dark pattern that conveniently hides the opt out below the visible "what's new" text in a popup, requiring you to scroll down to see it, because I'm a jaded cynic.

  • Australian here, this is how our voting system works. My method is literally putting the most repulsive politician last and then working my way up until I get to the least-repulsive.

    Politicians dropped from the rounds can nominate another politician of similar views to give their votes to, so eventually the whole thing coalesces into politicians from three or four parties getting elected, but still gives the opportunity for minor parties to become major parties should the standing government of the day really piss people off.

  • Posts in linux@lemmy.ml are on average about 4 or 5 hours apart. I think we can squeeze these kinds of posts in amidst the hustle and bustle in here.

  • It's really more about the overall flavor of the spreadsheet than how "right" any individual field is.

    Just like the Xerox copier/scanners that helpfully kept scanned images small by reusing parts of the image elsewhere. Like, all these 6s on your scanned invoices can totally be replaced with 8s. There's just a tiny degradation in the overall image, it shouldn't be a problem!

    Xerox should have just called it AI compression and people would have been throwing money at them.

  • with the upcoming 2025.2.4 update of JetBrains IDEs.

    Once again my policy of never letting software auto-update itself comes out on top.

  • It looks like your drive is going offline randomly, or at least, when it warms up a little. All the IO errors look like various subsystems trying to write to something that's not there anymore, which is why there's nothing visible in the logs when you look later.

    Could be the drive, could be the drive controller on the motherboard, could be just that your nvme drive just needs to be taken out of its slot and reseated, could be something weird in your BIOS setup that's causing mayhem (bus timings, etc).

    Personally I'd reseat your drive in its slot first and go from there.

  • There's an underlying kernel under the kernels for each core that controls access to hardware. It has all the hardware drivers and maintains state.

  • TL;DR ; let me give you an alternative opinion.

    Money can be exchanged for goods and services, so I don't have to be a hunter-gatherer. Cryptocurrency ends up either an being outright scam or rather difficult to exchange for goods and services in everyday use.

  • Well right now the barometer is running about 85 percent glad of our Westminster-style democracy, 10 percent secondhand embarrassment and alarm about the state of the US, and then of course there's the omnipresent 5 percent who think that everything the US has done and is currently doing should be slavishly copied here.

    That last 5 percent can generally defined as the opinions of the proportion of the population that, kindly speaking, have a few kangaroos loose in the ol' top paddock.

  • Some 3:1 glue lined heat shrink on the backs of each connector might do the job.

    The glue melts during heating and with a 3:1 ratio you get quite a bit of glue forced in around the wires as it shrinks. It then sets pretty robustly once you get down towards room temperature.

    You could try shrinking maybe some 6 or 10mm heatshrink over approx 25-50mm either side of the connector (with a bit of overlap on the connector) and see how it goes. Fully shrunk it's pretty chunky but it won't be any bigger than the connector.

  • Whatever you setup, also do a reverse ssh connection back to a PC of yours and forward ports for SSH and VNC-or-similar to local ports on your PC.

    That way if it still boots you've got a way to fix it remotely and with reverse ssh they don't have to do anything with port forwarding on their end.

  • Dear article writers:

    PLEASE STOP ANTHROPOMORPHISING CORPORATE ENTITIES.

    They can't feel terror, or anger, or 'slam' some other corporate opponent.

    As an entity, they can make decisions and take actions. Assigning them emotional range gives too much credibility to soulless money making machines whose sole purpose is to create value for their investors.

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  • Check and see if they can be hooked up to home assistant. If they can, and they expose start/stop functionality, then you can ask HA to start and stop them for you.

    Then you don't have to deal with the awful app/UI/external cloud server that they usually use.

  • This is just the cost of doing business for Anthropic.

    No particular material harm to the business. Declare the matter settled, everything is fine and dandy, and now they have carte blanche to rape and pillage the next village dataset.

  • I found with my QNAP NAS that even just sitting the case on a piece of styrofoam made it considerably quieter. A lot of vibration gets transmitted through the feet and whatever it sits on gets turned into a sounding board.