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Cake day: April 27th, 2024

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  • Ok, krass. Dann bist du da einfach empfindlicher bzw. ich unempfindlicher.

    Ich hab früher mit reeelativ scharfen Messern auch immer getränt. Seit ich ein wirklich SCHARFES Messer habe (was auch regelmäßig gewetzt wird usw) hab ich das vielleicht noch bei 3 Zwiebeln im Jahr (von… Ka… 400?). Daher geb ich das immer als Empfehlung. Aber klar, Allheilmittel gibt es wohl einfach nicht.


  • Es gibt kein Küchengerät, was ich mehr hass zu säubern also einen Blender/Mixer.Selbst in der Spülmaschine nimmt der viel Platz weg und braucht ewig, danach richtig trocken zu werden.

    Ne Zwiebel ist in 30s geschält und geschnitten, und wenn dein Messer ansatzweise scharf ist, weinst du dabei auch nicht.


  • I heard about star citizen when I was a teen, and it looked soooo cool. Unfortunately my PC was not strong enough. So I saved up for months to buy a PC specifically to play Star Citizen. Finally, I had all the upgrades I needed for the PC. Started excitedly pouring over Roberts Space Industries to pick my ship. Noticed the pricing model was… Off. In fact, this felt like a scam. Hold on, there’s no real game I could actually play? Decided to hold off until something released I could play, ideally with friends, and ideally via a less obfuscated pricing model.

    Anyways, I’ve checked in with SC about once a year since. I’m about to begin the process to finance a house with my girlfriend of 9 years. Exciting times ahead.

    I’m pretty sire SC won’t have released anything close to what was promised in 2012 by the time I retire, MUCH less anything promised since.

    (Btw I was not a smart teen. I fell for lots of things and lost money to scams and stupid games. I got lucky with SC, because in an alternate universe, I might also be stuck in sunk cost fallacy.)






    1. Signal
    2. XMPP
    3. Matrix

    In that order. I self-host both XMPP and Matrix, and I wouldn’t want to stop using matrix. Spaces, arbitrary amounts of self-chats, and so on are great. I use matrix every day.

    But for chatting… It sooner or later fails you. It’s slow. Notifications break. Messages are shown as sent, but somehow do not appear in the recipient’s devices until TWO WEEKS LATER (yeah IDK, happened twice already, in different chats and directions. Best part is, I’m not even federated!). Encryption is great IF YOU KNOW SOME CRYPTOGRAPHY BASICS, and utterly confusing otherwise.

    XMPP just works. Especially the calls, holy shit, I had to fight Matrix for so long to make voice and video calls work, and xmpp just… Works. Notifications are way more reliable (as in, have been absolutely perfect). I really like monocles as a chat app on Android. (The downside is: can’t decrypt old messages on new devices, and desktop clients are ugly.)

    So why Signal above XMPP?

    Because it’s not your fault should something ever break in a vital service. Also the encryption and privacy afforded by it a great.


  • I’ll second Pocket-ID.

    I originally had Authentik setup. It worked well enough. However, their packaging constantly broke and no-one seemed to care.

    Switched to Pocket-ID and won’t be looking back. Passkey-based OAuth was all I wanted anyways. (Also, the logins themselves are noticeably faster!)




  • Oh god, here in Germany, too. Was at a chain bakery in Cologne station a couple of weeks ago, bought something for like 3€. The employee told me “choose on the screen and place your card”, I just automatically placed my card. Nothing happens. “Choose on the screen”.

    Oh.

    Do I want to tip 15, 25, or 30% for the literally 5 seconds of service I got?

    Of course didn’t tip, because wtf.

    However, I’m sure in her eyes I was being an asshole. And that’s the thing, isn’t it? Every party is incentivized to push for this model.

    • payment terminal makers increase the amount of fees they collect
    • employees get lured with the promise of making more money
    • employers get lured with the idea of being able to reduce expenses wages eventually

    (This wasn’t the first time btw, just the most egregious one I’ve encountered)







  • Stop moving the goal post. To process satellite images, you need way, waaaaay, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less compute than for AI datacenters. We are not arguing about image processing for a single satellite. (Which is still jot a great idea, ideally you’d want to improve throughput instead since you still want the raw images for people to work with, just faster, no?)

    No, what you were talking about were data enters for AI (no, you didn’t say AI, but that’s what everyone on Lemmy says is a bad idea in space, and you were referring to everyone on Lemmy, so, we are talking about AI data enters in space).

    • putting them in space doesn’t make them faster.
    • putting them in space is incredibly expensive
    • cooling them in space is way harder than on earth; radiating heat away is a function of the surface area of the cooling modules, and you cannot escape that
    • maintenance (remember - things fail) is way harder and astronomically expensive and slow
    • and, thanks for reminding me, sending AI output to and from is subject to the same slowness as for images from telescopes

    Sorry, “data-center in space” is a stupid idea. Musk yaps about it because a) he’s an idiot and b) enough investors fell for it