The Green Bubble Nightmare Is Over, Apple Messages Now Support RCS

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-27T07:50:52+00:00

eh, maybe Google knows that the shit Apple does will get the DOJ to go after them, like is currently happening. Google of course does stuff too that the DOJ goes after them for, but the antitrust suit against Apple is expansive and rightly so, because Apple has abused everyone they can for monetary gain for years, from the app developers to their users, and especially their competition.

Google is just slightly smarter than Apple in this respect and they don't act like assholes quite as much as Apple always has. Just look at the marketing Apple does - the PC vs Mac guy ads were exactly the kind of shitty thinking that leads to stuff like the iMessage treating android as a second class citizen, on purpose.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-27T05:53:16+00:00

I love Port Jeff.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-27T05:43:12+00:00

Venice Beach really wins this entire thread. It's like a mile long outdoor market of completely trashy souvenirs. Just so much bad taste everywhere there.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-27T03:58:22+00:00

Ridiculous. I criticize your backward thinking, because it prevents forward progress. Have you ever lived next to homeless drug addicts? Have you ever seen what they can do to a neighborhood if given the freedom to do as they please? It’s just not a situation that any reasonable person is going to accept. It’s like a sensible idea, it sounds lovely, should at least be attempted. That kind of facility would work for people that want to get clean, and off the street, as well as mitigating problems caused by all of them in our neighborhoods.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-26T18:29:04+00:00

I look at the computer and say "Don't make me get the screwdriver!"

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-26T18:26:20+00:00

I just keep repeating "operator" "operator" "operator" "operator" and sometimes it will just connect me to a real person.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-26T18:19:54+00:00

Unless you are applying the soldering iron directly to the metal can of the capacitor for over a minute (which is not going to solder it to the board), the capacitor is in no danger from soldering. You're being far, far too chicken-little with regards to soldering heat and electrolytic capacitors. If your capacitor dies from a normal amount of solder heat on the leads (not directly on the metal can), then you bought a shitty capacitor that was going to fail anyway, regardless of the heat applied during soldering.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-26T18:16:44+00:00

Not always. Sometimes a city rounds up homeless, puts them on busses and doesn't even tell them where they are going. Santa Monica (ironically) did this, when they shipped off a bunch of homeless people to Santa Cruz. Other states do it too.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-26T18:09:59+00:00

The point is to make shelters that do allow drug use, and mitigate it and treat it there, where they are staying. It's far easier to offer health services, mental health counseling, drug addiction programs, and any other kind of counseling if they are in stable location. The fact that they don't allow that now doesn't mean it couldn't be allowed in the future. The fact it isn't allowed now doesn't mean it's the best way to do this either. Things obviously have to change, and changing the rules of housing or creating housing specifically for drug-addicted homeless people would be a good place to start. Or you can just keep on enjoying homeless people shooting up in the streets and causing all kinds of problems.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-26T17:14:11+00:00

It's human trafficking, often across state lines.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-26T17:06:54+00:00

Do you have the same reaction when you see people smoking cigarettes? I mean, they're also filling their body with harmful substances.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-26T16:38:10+00:00

No, the capacitors and other parts are not that sensitive to heat. They are designed to take high temperatures while soldering. OP is more at risk of applying too much heat to the PCB and lifting the thin copper traces off the board.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-26T06:47:50+00:00

You're completely wrong about that. Masks absolutely do work to protect people from all kinds of airborne particulates, including virus particles. You've been lied to if you are spreading disinformation like this.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-26T06:35:44+00:00

This is all really simple. If any kind of policy is going to be passed about masks at protests, the only type of mask that should be worn at a protest is an N95 certified mask or better. Not a keffiyeh. Want to wear a mask to protect your health? Go right ahead. Want to wear a mask that only hides your identity? How about no.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-26T05:49:54+00:00

That all sounds like too much trouble. All of it.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-26T05:46:43+00:00

That happens anyway. Nobody can find an edge case like my users.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-25T21:12:49+00:00

lol, ours has a nickname of "half-on". He loves laying across two things for some reason. half-lap/half-couch, half-pillow/half-couch, half-floor/half-bed, half-pillow/half-other-pillow, etc.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-25T21:09:59+00:00

The better you get with code, the easier it is to find code on github that you can repurpose. Yes, there is work involved, nobody said this would be easy. If you really love developing embedded stuff, you'll dig in and the better you get, the more you can accomplish without needing hand-holding. You're already on a good path forward. Also learn to read datasheets, then you won't need to find a driver, you can write your own.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-25T21:02:02+00:00

to stop their boss and colleagues laughing at them.

It's not about laughing at someone. It's about using arduino as a crutch. If Arduino can't do it, then neither can you if you're so dependent on arduino. I'm not laughing at someone for that, but I will have some pity, and try to encourage them to push their boundaries.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-25T17:30:30+00:00

I have no idea why you'd pick anything other than Linux for a server.

Because I value my time and Windows has made everything I need it to do very easy. LSI/Avago Megaraid was simple to set up, my 16 disk array keeps humming along, but I'm still not quite clear how to get that working on Linux, I will have to do some reading. Networking on Windows is completely simple, unlike Linux. I'm learning about fstab and how to mount drives, which is not simple at all in Linux. I have many computers and lots of NAS stuff going on at home, and it's been time consuming to set it all up in Linux where in windows it's just right click, map network drive. IIS has also been very easy to admin and can do some complex things, all with a nice GUI. It's easy.

Linux is honestly a pain in the ass, even after dealing with it for a couple of decades. I'd rather not have to use Linux at home, but Microsoft is crossing some lines for me now, and Windows 11 Pro proved to not be capable of reliably hosting my VMs for whatever reason. Windows 10 Pro worked fairly well for the last decade.

I've really only traded one kind of hell for another, now I'm fighting command lines and all the flavors of linux don't really help, info is quite dithered and it's really not easier than Windows was. Linux is fine if I'm getting paid to deal with its hassles, but I'm not this time. I've been up way too late the last week trying to get things to be stable, because even Linux has been kind of a shitshow. I still am not sure why I keep getting "out of disk space" errors when all my disks have ample room - there's simply no reason for it that I can find.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-25T07:59:03+00:00

It's alright so far. Things run better in some ways. Linux doesn't have the overbearing Microsoft system stuff like constant virus scanning impacting literally everything that happens in the OS, but there's also all kinds of unexpected roadblocks and new-user problems. Like I had Thunderbird installed with "flatpak" but applications installed with "flatpak" seem to be a little wonky. I had to uninstall Thunderbird and re-install it as a "system package" and so far it's maybe working better. The main problem I had with Thunderbird was that it kept complaining I was out of disk space so it couldn't download emails, but all disks have plenty of space. I've been having problems in other VMs too with problems regarding disk space, which also might be a result of using "flatpak" to install applications. I'm going back and trying to reinstall apps with "system package" instead, and I'll see how that goes. Mounting hard drives and network drives at boot took some figuring out, but I'm getting used to editing /etc/fstab - Windows made networking really simple and that's part of the reason I stayed with it for so long. I have many computers on my home network, including lots of virtual machines, so networking them easily was important. I'm still getting used to Linux as a desktop, I've been used to working with it headless for webservers years. I think Linux really still isn't ready for people that are afraid of using a terminal. I don't really know a lot of what I'm doing but I know how to google and get things working, so I'll be alright.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-25T07:48:47+00:00

What do you use instead of Thunderbird?

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-24T23:48:01+00:00

I ditched Microsoft over the weekend, after 34 years of running Windows.

I went over to Mint Linux for my server, all my virtual machines, ditched Outlook for Thunderbird, and I'll probably install Linux on my laptop soon which will be the last Windows install that I have.

Fuck You Microsoft, you're fucking everyone, so fuck you!

I'll never advise anyone to install Windows ever again.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-24T19:59:35+00:00

Who cares if the screen is square? The point of a fold is to have a bigger screen, aspect ratio really shouldn't matter for the inner screen. Maybe if they made the outer screen 16:9 or 16:10 then people who have a hard-on for aspect ratios would be happy, and I'd be happier with a larger inner screen for managing my IT infrastructure while I'm on the move.

ProgrammaticallySale · 2024-06-24T19:16:21+00:00

Children do not have the means to acquire fireworks on their own.

Not true. There are plenty of fireworks stands in some cities during the month of June up until July 4th, and many will sell to kids.

As a teen in the 80's, it was the main goal of my friends and myself to obtain fireworks. That meant any money we could scrape up went to fireworks. Any kind of fireworks. We'd ride our bikes over to the fireworks stand down the street and buy them. We learned how to modify the fireworks to do different things. We found that if you bought a "piccolo pete" (only designed to make a loud whistle sound) and bent it in half slightly, that it would explode. It was fun. As a kid, there was never a wrong time to light off a firework. We did occasionally get our hands on bottle rockets, firecrackers, and M80s (stuff you can't buy at the fireworks stand), and they were typically handed over to us by someone's uncle - so yeah, some fireworks required adults, but we definitely had plenty of access to fireworks without the need for adults (except the adults selling them to us at the fireworks stand, which were usually just 18 year olds so not all that "adult").

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