xyguy

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[–] xyguy@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Local repair shop wants $229 to replace it. Better then the 569 Motorola wanted to fix it. Right to repair for the win.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think you accidentally put a hex on me. Just this morning I dropped my phone and smashed the front display :(

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don't have YouTube Pro or whatever its called now and when I listen to music on my Google home it plays an ad after ever song. Since I have switched to Pihole and blocked googles DNS servers the only ads I get are to buy premium YouTube which I assume are hardcoded into something somewhere.

We better be careful, with Googles track record they will be getting rid of YouTube soon and rolling it into whatever they are calling their Skype clone nowadays.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a shot.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You pick them yourself. Search for an app, long press and then add to favorites

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When that first happened I switched to KISS Launcher. Fully search based. really simple and really fast.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a client as of a couple of years ago with a custom fronted software build on top of an access mdb database running on windows 98 continuously since 2000. They had been backing it up onto a 18 year old 1GB flash drive every night for years. Their interest was exactly zero in upgrading to anything newer.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was my main take-away. You're the CEO of the company. If someone writes a mean blog post about your business so what? Fix the issues with the product if they are legitimate things that need fixing. Otherwise leave people alone. If something constitutes libel then sue. Otherwise it's just someones opinion which they are entitled to.

No I have a bad opinion about him as well (please don't reach out to me either).

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

I think they mean Seth Grahme-Smith, author of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.

So I'm down. Please not too many pew pew space battles. You can include Abe Lincoln if appropriate. That is precedented and canonical for Star Trek.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Researchers: Hey you're breached

ATT: MMMM I don't think so. Pretty sure other people got breached and it looks like our data.

Researchers: Pretty sure it was you. Here's pretty compelling evidence.

ATT: No actually. I'm pretty sure we would know if we were breached.

...

...

... ATT: We were breached

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

Only 1000 times? It's interesting that there's such a bias there but it's a computer. Ask it 100,000 times and make sure it's not a fluke.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes that even happens to me. And the reverse happens to me with Star Trek V. I remember it being better than it actually is.

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