zomtecos

zomtecos, 6 months ago

Shade, cooler Air in summer, better protection against rain… 🤷‍♂️ Trees are 😎

zomtecos, 6 months ago

It wasn’t allowed in the US? Wow. Didn’t know that. In EU it’s available since about ten years. Current systems have high definition projectors with >1 million pixels which can display nearly everything on the street before you.

zomtecos, 7 months ago

Hmm. Would be a workaround, but not really what I have and like with 1P.

I currently have collected about 650 items in my 1P vault. Actually that are two vaults, as I share one with my wife.

And notes itself aren’t structured, they are just free text. I like to have structured items with specified fields where I can enter my info.

Also I have several login Items where I don’t just have a user, password, OTP, domain, note. What about if it is a service where the same account is used on different websites? I can save only one domain per password?

The iOS features are so basic, I can’t imagine switching to them. Although 1P keeps to suck more, as 1P8 is only available via subscription and the 1P7 browser plugin isn’t working properly anymore. :/

Not a good situation currently.

zomtecos, 8 months ago

It’s actually not necessary the concentration power but the available time when being adult… 🤔

Reading 2 books wouldn’t be a huge problem today (if they are good and less then 1000 pages). But unfortunately the two toddlers here say no to me sitting a few hours on the couch and reading some book.

zomtecos, 8 months ago

Die Frage wäre: was wäre das gewünschte Vorgehen wenn man seine PIN vergessen hat, die dazu da ist die Ausweisfunktion vor unberechtigter Nutzung zu schützen?

Vermutlich nicht nicht sicherzustellen, dass der Rücksetzbrief in falsche Hände gelangen kann bei der Aushändigung.

P.S.: PostIdent bei Briefübergabe sollte auch via Postbote an der eigenen Haustüre gehen… wenn die Behörde den Service nutzt. Die Post bietet es jedenfalls an ohne Weg in die Filiale. Zumindest da wo ich wohne. 🤷‍♂️ Ist exakt so passiert, als die Krankenkasse den PIN-Brief zur eGK per Post geschickt hat.

zomtecos, 8 months ago

„weil sowieso keiner merkt, ob sie arbeiten oder nicht“

Dann ist vielleicht nicht der Arbeitnehmer im HomeOffice der unwichtige Teil, sondern die geleistete Arbeit an sich. Dann wiederum kann man sich fragen warum das Management dem Arbeitnehmer so eine unwichtige Tätigkeit zuweist, von der das Management nicht bemerkt wenn sie nicht geleistet wird, was darauf hindeutet, dass das Management wertvolle Arbeitskraft verschwendet.

Was mich darauf schließen lässt, dass in diesem Fall das Management der unwichtige Part ist, da es nichts leistet bzw. arbeitet.

zomtecos, 8 months ago

Someone should create himself a reminder in 7 years to check if Google good this promise and still provides major OS updates for this Pixel.

Apple delivered 5 major iOS updates to the iPhone X + the whole iOS 16 lifecycle with probably some additional security updates in the next 1-2 years. Let’s see how many updates the new iPhone 15 (Pro) models will get. I expect not less.

zomtecos, 8 months ago

One big reason for my replacement last year was th camera. The X camera was nice back then… but now? No. Too much capabilities missing.

And of course 5G is quite ok. I like the dynamic island, 120 Hz screen, and some other features.

My old X ist still lying on the desk and works. But I retired it after 5 solid years of work.

zomtecos, 9 months ago

Promise is promise.

zomtecos, 9 months ago

You could just put it in mWh. BAM, bigger number.

3000 mAh * 3.7V = 11.100 mWh Much bigger. Much better.

I hate mAh… it’s absolutely no information how much energy is inside without taking the voltage into account. If you use directly (m)Wh, you directly have the amount of energy the battery can contain.

zomtecos, 9 months ago

Had just 4 X-Buttons… could be worse. 🥸

zomtecos, 9 months ago

War der Betriebsurlaub bei BMW schon vorbei? Bei der Aktion am 23.8. in Regensburg war das ja eher so naja…

sueddeutsche.de/…/regensburg-bmw-werk-letzte-gene…

zomtecos, 9 months ago

Ever tried to breath when you head is in atmospheric while your chest isn’t? For example in a pool: swim straight upside in the water, only the head is above. Your chest will be approximately 0.5m below the surface, probably more or less. So you have a pressure difference of just 0.05 bar between the intake (mouth) and the location of the target reservoir (lung). It’s a very noticeable effort you have to overcome with your breathing muscles.

And now imagine being just 20m deep with atmospheric pressure at your head. That would be a pressure difference of 2 bar. You probably won’t be able to inhale anything.

When scuba diving, the air you are inhaling has always the same pressure as your surroundings. When you dive at 40m you are inhaling air with a pressure of 5 bar (that’s also the reason why your tank is emptying much faster at that depth).

zomtecos, 9 months ago

I wonder how the got the seals tight. So many joints with some old technology. When they have atmospheric pressure, they can’t work with overpressure keeping the water out, as the ocean will be the overpressure trying to push the water in. 🤔

Wouldn’t trust this thing my life. :)

zomtecos, 9 months ago

Luckily the Discovery came from the past and saved everyone with the funghi-drive. :)

Discovery had some nice ideas but… well. Alone the constant drama and crying Michael Burnham made the series quite unattractive.

Also the story behind the great Dilithium Explosion. Well. A sad, and alone child. Well. They could have thought about something better.

There were better ST series.

zomtecos, 9 months ago

That’s why I switched sides. From programming myself to developing functions and writing requirements which someone else can implement into code. :)

I could do some programming (did embedded C), but surely I wasn’t the very best in it. So now I’m the guy who defines what a small (but essential) part of SW has to do which will run in hopefully a few million cars in a couple of years. :) Much more fun (and money).

zomtecos, 9 months ago

Oh ja. Genau das was die Industrie will: nicht verlässliche/sich ständig ändernde gesetzliche Rahmenbedingungen.

So kann man auch eine Industrie zerstören. Die Geschichte mit den Verbrennern ist doch schon durch. Jeder entwickelt gerade an seiner Generation und das war es dann. Die Ingenieure werden schon alle nach und nach umgeschult.

zomtecos, 9 months ago

Ist genauso wie mit den AKWs, welche die AfD wieder hochfahren will um den Strom billiger zu bekommen. Welche AKWs wären das denn? Welcher Betreiber würde das denn wollen? Und vor allem wie soll das billiger sein als PV/Windstrom?

Ach ich reg mich nur auf.

zomtecos, 9 months ago

His first kid was called „My“?

zomtecos, 9 months ago

Nett. Leider gibt er nicht zu Skynet zu sein.

zomtecos, 10 months ago

Do they still release lions and tigers within the coliseum?

zomtecos, 10 months ago

Spare lunch?

zomtecos, 10 months ago

A lot of incredible science would be involved. And much much more money and a lot of time.

If we (humanity) could achieve that, that would be really cool.

But: how much solar-, wind- and battery-farms could we built with the same money and in much less time?

Fusion is great, but it will probably not be the solution of the energy demand we currently have. Nevertheless it’s something we should pursue furthermore. But we shouldn’t bet everything on it.

zomtecos, 10 months ago

Probably because the need of moderation.

If you host an instance and let people in (even if it’s a limited circle, i.E. your students) you are responsible for moderation. I think that’s something institutions back off currently.

For an mail server that’s much easier.

zomtecos, 10 months ago

What about mobile apps? I’m on mastodon, but I basically never see the mastodon UI as I stick with Ivory (as I’m a former Tweetbot User on some ancient Microblogging Plattform which has transformed to something… else).

I don’t want to use some „nice looking“ Webpages which are optimized for mobile screens. I want dedicated Apps, as they offer mostly the much better experience.

I think the recent run of developing high class Mastodon Apps earlier this year (as the mentioned ancient Plattform kicked them out) gave mastodon an enormous boost.

zomtecos, 10 months ago

Also that’s the same for Lemmy for me. Since Memmy and Mlem are in the AppStore (where I preferred Memmy), I use Lemmy much more and haven’t opened Reddit since 1st July.

So, as long as there aren’t any major high class mobile Apps for firefish, I don’t expect it getting anywhere near to mastodon.

zomtecos, 10 months ago

Still waiting for Teslas driving from west to east coast completely autonomously. And Elon flying to mars.

zomtecos, 10 months ago

Let’s see. I work at a huge corporation (tens of thousands employees each with his own laptop). Until now: only windows, currently since a few years HP Elitebooks (the suck completely if you need a little bit power) and optionally some zBooks.

Some months ago they introduced MacBooks as another option. But with less support and some things a bit more complicated as the corporation completely relies on the AD user management.

Unfortunately we have a ton of custom made software applications or specialized software which - of course - run only on windows. So currently, the MacBooks are only an option for the typical Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel user.

I don’t see this being transferred to complete Mac compatibility within the next 10 years. Probably step by step (we just started using Codebeamer as our Requirements Engineering tool, which is completely web based. That’s nice. :)

But that’s just the first step. We‘ll see in a few years.

zomtecos, 10 months ago

By the way I’m not sure if Microsoft would be that sad if people would use Macs more than windows. As long as Microsoft can continue to sell Microsoft365 and alle their other Azure services. That’s where they make the money. They don’t really make money with windows.

And with Satya Nadella Microsoft changed its focus: Bring the product to every single platform, not only windows. iCloud is nice, but I don’t see the huge functionality the Office Cloud brings into the game with all the tools Microsoft has to offer. Apple is here far far far away.

So if in the end, the companies use Macs to access Microsoft365… well. 🤷‍♂️ it hopefully runs better than on windows.

If hate my HP Elitebook 850 G6. Even with 32 GB RAM. It sucks.

zomtecos, 11 months ago

„… which is rapidly becoming the de facto charging standard in North America and Europe.“

Wait? Europe? I have never heard of anyone in Europe switching to NACS. Europe is all CCS2, even Tesla uses CCS2. Only Model S and X are using a custom Tesla-Solution which is based on the Typ2 AC-Connector. An probably switch to CCS2 in the next generation cars.

So, definitely no NACS in Europe as far as I know.

zomtecos, 11 months ago

Could be worse.

imgur.com/a/x592xFG

zomtecos, 11 months ago

I run a private Mastodon Instance. The server gives me the option to automatically delete the media-cache after a given number of days (I have it set to 180 days). If the data is needed again, it will be pulled from the original instance. Again. If still available.

An additional setting is the deletion of the federated content at all, which is saved on my server. This probably cannot be reverted, as the server doesn’t know anymore what to pull from what server… I have this setting at 365 days.

Additionally I can set my personal account to auto delete my own posts after a given time. With being able to set some excludes (favorited, bookmarked, posts which got a minimum of likes, …). But this is not a server setting, it’s an account setting.

Social media does not need to be saved forever. :)

zomtecos, 1 year ago

Well… for iPhones (and other smartphones) I’m not sure if anything changes. There is a exception in the regulation: if the device is waterproof, it is enough if the manufacturer or repair shops can change the battery for you. They do not need to be user replaceable.

But probably for MacBooks, there will be replaceable batteries in the future. I don’t see, how Apple will find a way around this regulation.

Apple Watch: they are waterproof —> nothing changes.

AirPods: well… are they waterproof? I don’t see user changeable batteries ever. Perhaps they will become waterproof in the future too? :) AirPods, now also for swimming and diving!

iPads: well: probably there will be changeable batteries in the future. Or we will have underwater Tablets soon. We just need another input method. Probably gestures like the VisionPro?

zomtecos, 11 months ago

Interesting. Apple itself says, „Apple Watch Ultra has a water-resistance rating of 100 meters“.

If even being officially able to dive until 40m and use the Ultra as a dive computer, doesn’t make it waterproof but just water-resistant?

What does it need to be waterproof? Being able to dive down the Marianne Trench?