BenPranklin

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[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Don't put all your eggs in one basket again, that's what makes degoogling such a difficult thing. There's several proton services I intentionally avoid and use alternatives for so I don't have to uproot my entire digital life to leave them if they start being shitty. If you go from using all google services to all proton you're setting yourself up to need the same sort of big migration down the road. 15 years ago google was also an awesome company that kept making incredibly useful things for users just because they could and look at them now.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Do people think these Star Wars sets just exist already or something?

Yeah i do. After the new movies, several tv shows, and the galaxys edge theme parks they have a decade plus of star wars specific production infrastructure to draw on. They're not starting from scratch on this show.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Neither. I just forget things, like a cool person

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah man, that's the point of the article. Its asking the question "should everyone who isnt using them already move to them". Its not saying everyone already does.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They do. Its much more than a built in vpn, they also have specialized, hardened versions of communications apps on them. The weakest link in cybersecurity is usually the end user.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

A big part of why the tesla plug was chosen as the north american standard plug is the lack of infrastructure upgrades needed. Apparently it uses exactly 1 phase of a commercial electric line so it needs far less infrastructure to add charging if there is commercial electric already. For example they'd be able to install just an outlet on every streetlight.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also forced to use windows for work. That wasn't the windows terminal program being slow, that was git bash.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

How long ago did you try it? I gave the first iteration of wsl a chance and had the same experience, it was super slow especially for things like ls. Its a lot better since wsl2. Probably 90% or more the performance of bare metal install of linux

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (14 children)

At least 50% of NY's population lives within 50 miles of NYC and I wouldn't be surprised to find out its closer to 65%. Of course it gets the most attention. I get why people living outside that area would be upset but they cant be surprised.

You see the same thing in every state with a large metro area. You see similar griping from western and central MA but the fact is 75% of the population lives in the Boston metro area

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I wish you'd shared this anecdote sooner. Think of all the money that could have been saved on water treatment if people had only known that one time you drank from a semi questionable water source and didn't get sick.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I hear this a lot since we converted to heat pumps. People don't realize basically every heat source these days other than wood needs electricity. We kept our oil system as a backup for very cold days but it also doesn't work with no power.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

~~ITT~~ On this platform are many middle aged nerds

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