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What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?
  • I understand it's a very subjective experience. And tbh, one thing that bothers me about cabled ones is the cable noise when moving. Or accidentally pulling off the headphones from my head, although that's not a common issue,but for sitting experience they're perfect. Aside from that, my music preference is very eclectic, so e.g. the level of bass really needs to adapt properly to the genre I'm listening to atm, so the boosted bass Bluetooth headphones just don't work for me. I've never experienced a Bluetooth pair that doesn't have too much bass.

  • Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.
  • Uranium is a much scarer source compared to thorium. Uranium can also be used to create nuclear weapons, that's why other countries have difficulties using the tech because foreign powers are afraid of these consequences

  • Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.
  • Already India and chine have had working ones for many years. It's not speculative and I recommend you to research the tech. It's unfortunately not very present in western nuclear energy debates. Could be a political reason but that's just a dirty guess

  • What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?
  • I might be exaggerating a but I've never been a real fan of Bluetooth headphones or earphones. Sound quality never matched cabled ones (I also have the popular Sony one) and battery life sucks for the time I want to use it

  • Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.
  • The problem with these arguments and the focus of debates is that they are based on nuclear energy from uranium, not thorium. Thorium is ubiquitous in nature, power centers are much easier to set up and can be small and the waste, while initially (a bit) more radioactive than uranium waste, loses it's radiation level much faster

    Edit:typo

  • Pizza chefs of Lemmy, is a job as a pizza chef a physically demanding job?
  • The thing with a pizzeria is that I expect that you'll just be standing statically a lot. Working at a bar, as a waiter will give you the opportunity to walk a lot. As a barman to talk to people and move more than when you'd just be making pizzas in the kitchen

  • Naming is hard
  • From my experience, Microsoft has generally the worst web developers it seems. It's not only the naming, but a lot of their websites work horrible. Teams never even worked in Firefox, say whut?

  • What are your favourite moments in videogames?
  • The chasing scene in Syphon Filter 1 or 2 where it ends with one guy hanging on to a helicopter and you gotta shoot him down. I loved the whole scene + music.

    Old Pokémon games: catching a legendary with a normal pokeball. Defeating the legendary four (or whatever they were called) for the first time

    Witcher 3, the sad story of the Baron (bloody Baron?)

    Crash bandicoot, being able to reach the really high gem

    Oddworld, having saved enough slaves to win the game

  • warning: do not use XMR to pay azirevpn!
  • I had a positive experience using xmr. But I contacted them about their crappy pgp key months ago, they did nothing. I contacted them about many websites not being accessible from some of their servers, they did nothing.

  • Security considerations between Xen vs KVM?
  • As KVM is part if the Linux kernel, I assume you'll have to look into kernel hardening instead, next to OS hardening. Hardware is also important to consider when talking about VM escaping. A CPU that supports better VM isolation features and encrypted memory

  • lemmy, I just got laid off from my Data Center Job; anyone have any advice?
  • Find someone (online) that can guide you. Make sure you do all the work though, and just let the senior put you KB the right track and only help you with things you're really stuck at. That's one way to get the experience you really need

  • What's your experience with Electron alternatives

    Electron is a widely hated framework on Linux, but what about the alternatives like Neutralinojs?

    In their own words: In Electron and NWjs, you have to install Node.js and hundreds of dependency libraries. Embedded Chromium and Node.js make simple apps bloaty — in most scenarios, framework weights more than your app source. Neutralinojs offers a lightweight and portable SDK which is an alternative for Electron and NW.js. Neutralinojs doesn't bundle Chromium and uses the existing web browser library in the operating system (Eg: gtk-webkit2 on Linux). Neutralinojs implements a secure WebSocket connection for native operations and embeds a static web server to serve the web content. Also, it offers a built-in JavaScript client library for developers.

    Do you experience alternatives like Njs to blend more in the desktop layout, install less junk, use less memory, are more compatible with Wayland,...?

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    Is there a website and keeps track of what bad stuff big tech is responsible for?

    I'm talking for example about Apple relying on child labor in China for cheap labour, being directly responsible for suicides in the factories of their Chinese partners, them sabotaging their clients phones to make them slower.

    Not only limited to apply but also others like Facebook, Google,... Ideally the information should be presented in a simple and easy to get format.

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    What do you think is a proper way to advertise a community on Lemmy?

    I'm looking for a way that's appreciated by the community and doesn't break any rules. I just created one that I think was missing here.

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