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  • I understand not liking Apple, but my point was more that x86, even good x86, is still literally hot trash if you want anything resembling modern performance.

    I really hope that someone steps up with ARM-based laptops that can natively run Linux (because screw Microsoft and the shitty ARM stuff they've done to date) and that they ship at a reasonable price and with sufficient performance. Until then, the sole vendor that can provide cool-running, silent, high-performance ARM with 15ish hours of battery life is... Apple.

  • No, not really: even at idle the fans are still moving air, and the laptop is warm enough that you can notice it. You CAN force them off, but then you've got a laptop that gets unbearably hot pretty quickly, so that's not really a workable tradeoff.

    I've honestly just kinda given up and use the M1 for everything because it literally never gets warm, and never makes a single sound unless I do something that uses 100% CPU for an extended period of time.

  • Windows task manager is a poor indicator of actual clock speed for a number of reasons, one of which is that it's going to report the highest clock speed and not the lowest one, which in highly multi-core CPUs isn't really representative of what the CPU is actually doing. Looking at individual core clocks and power usage is more indicative of what's actually happening.

    That said, I've had pretty bad luck with x86 laptops with the higher-end CPUs; even if you get them to fantastic power usage they're still... not amazing. I managed to tweak my G14 into using about 10w at idle, which sounds great, until you look at my M1 Macbook which idles under 3w.

    If thermals are really a concern, you may want to look at the low voltage variants, and not the high performance, though that's a tradeoff all on it's own.

  • Enjoying this quite a lot, even more than the "unofficial" way of doing it on Classic servers with an addon.

    It feels like, for the first time in a VERY long time, an actual game with slightly more to it than getting a purp that's +2 iLevel from your last purp, so you can grind another one that's +2 iLevel from that one.

  • Eh, I think CIG has enough true believers buying JPEGs for this to continue pretty much until the whales die of old age or just run out of money to send him. I wouldn't be shocked if we're still talking about this in another decade, except this time it's $1.2 billion in funding.

  • If you want to keep up with trending topics, find news outlets you believe provide you the proper coverage of what you're after, and just follow the RSS feeds instead.

    Mastodon/Lemmy/Reddit/Facebook/Twitter are there for people to post hot takes on the news, not just share the news. RSS is the way to go if the news is what you're after, and not people commenting on the news.

  • Eh, I wouldn't go about 'the self-hosted admins didn't do anything!'. There never really was a time when the majority (or even a meaningiful minority) of users hosted their own email.

    In the beginning, you got your email address from your school or your ISP, and it changed whenever you left/changed providers, so the initial "free" email came from the likes of Hotmail (which rapidly became Microsoft), Yahoo (which was uh, Yahoo), and offerings from the big ISPs of the era, like AOL and whatnot.

    You still had school and ISP email, but it just rapidly fell out of fashion because your Hotmail/Yahoo/AOL email never changed regardless of what ISP you used or whatever, so it was legitimately a better solution.

    And then Google came along with Gmail and it was so much better than every other offering that they effectively ate the whole damn market by default because all the people who were providing the free webmail at that time didn't do a damn thing to improve until after Google had already "won".

    So if you want to be mad, this is firmly Microsoft and Yahoo's fault for being lazy fucks.

  • Keep in mind that you're going to be retrieving and storing a huge amount of data running these scripts, and you should expect to need more than a $5 1gb of RAM vps to do it without it being a shitty broken experience for you.

    We're talking dozens of gigabytes of storage for the database, plus effectively a need for an infinite amount of storage for the image caching, plus enough RAM and CPU resources to effectively process the whole Threadiverse.

  • Thunderbird doesn't understand aliases by default (apple's mail apps on MacOS and iOS do). You'd need to add the alias under Account Settings -> Manage Identities for each alias (which is any custom email domain accounts you add, assuming you want to send mail as that user). There is only one account: the iCloud login. Everything else is treated as an alias, and doesn't create its own inbox - everything goes into the singular inbox.

    As the other posts said, email won't migrate automatically. The easy way to do it, though, is setup your old email and the iCloud email in email and just drag and drop your email from the old email to your new iCloud one.

  • For #3, you need to log in to your iCloud account, head to the profile and security options, and make an application password.

    Thunderbird will find all the appropriate settings once you provide your main iCloud email, and you just need to use the application password and everything will just work.

  • That's a misquote: it's "There is no ethical consumption under capitalism". It's basically saying that you, as a consumer, cannot legitimately make ethical decisions when buying, because the entire system is built on being exploitative, and thus any decision you make cannot be ethical because the choices you have are already the result of exploitation by the time you're making the decision.

    A good example is the "going green" fad: it does not matter which consumption choices you make, because your choices are effectively irrelevant. You spend a little bit more money for the "green" product, and that money will go directly to megacorporations that are exploiting and polluting on a scale that so outstrips your ability to combat it. Thus, your "more ethical" choice did absolutely nothing but fund the exact same polluters and environmental exploiters as if you had not made the "green" choice in the first place.

  • Server Annoucements @lemmy.uncomfortable.business
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    Testing please ignore.

    Please enjoy this mouse in a hoodie.

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    Another new UI for the site (Photon)

    Continuing my trend of setting up every UI I come across that looks like it's got potential, I've added a Photon UI at https://photon.uncomfortable.business/

    Enjoy.

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    New Web front end UI available (Alexandrite)

    Since it's super pretty and the layout is amazing, I've added https://alexandrite.uncomfortable.business/lemmy.uncomfortable.business to the pile of other hosted front ends.

    Enjoy.

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    lemmy.u.business Onion Service

    Semi-anonymous doomscrolling for all your doomscrolling needs is available at http://lemmyucbqhclmuy5zevt3q27vnyk5pwf6zf5ao3oc74gvtgcktn4tnqd.onion

    Disclaimers: This is NOT actually a safe(er) way to browse Lemmy.

    Lemmy makes no provisions for TOR, so this is going to leak your IP to every other Lemmy instance, as well as any analytics and whatnot any instances are also running.

    This is here because I wanted to set it up because it seemed fun, and use at your own risk.

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    Old.Reddit style UI now available

    Liked the old.reddit UI instead of these new fangled javascript ones?

    If so, https://old-lemmy.uncomfortable.business/ is for you.

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    Updated to 0.18.1

    Many fixes, please let me know if you see anything wonky.

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    Voyager instance - Like Apollo, but for Lemmy

    After playing with full-fat client apps, I found VoyagerWAY the best way to visit on the mobile phone, so I stood one up at vger.uncomfortable.business.

    Feel free to use this lovely thing for all your mobile browsing needs.

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    Updated to 0.18.0

    Updated to 0.18.0, more details at the attached URL.

    Please let me know if you run into anything that's broken or weird.

    BBS - Bulletin Board Systems @lemmy.uncomfortable.business
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    Want to know more about this whole BBS thing?

    If you're not of a certain age, you probably have never actually used a BBS; they still exist and you can still visit them but it's hard to cover how big of a deal and how pervasive these systems were in the 80s and 90s. In lots of ways, they're the spiritual predecessors of modern federated services: individual instances run by a single or small team of admins that had their own culture, appearance, and rules which were (often) connected by discussion forums, usually called message bases.

    A good place to start would be one of the several great video series: Jason Scott of textfiles.com and archive.org released a BBS Documentary that covers the technical, cultural and ongoing impact that the BBS had.

    Also, a slightly more recent take is Back to the BBS which covers similar, but different perspectives on BBSes and their lasting impac