Love the folks at teamsters. They were super supportive when us folks at UAW went on strike (not the recent automotive one, a previous one)
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Stick to a small instance with a small witchy vibe. You can get by by looking at local + subbing to only topics that you're interested in.
Personally I find my current instance + some of the literature instances (literature.cafe) very comfy. I blocked out 196, but that was only because it was big enough that it was drowning out all other discussions.Then I join in on some niche lemmy.world tech topics from time to time.
Is there a specific reason you're looking at shadowsocks? The original developer has been MIA for years. People who used it in the past largely consider it insecure for its original stated purpose
trojan-gfw is a better modern replacement. However that requires a certificate in order to work. You can easily get one via lets encrypt.
At this point, let Shadowsocks, obfs, and kcp die a graceful death like GoAgent before it did.
I don't think either of us is the target audience here. I can see a "cheaper" (questionable) Pro laptop being useful for students going into college with a limited budget. An undergrad CS/graphic design degree shouldn't tax an 8gb machine too much, assuming students shut down everything else when doing their once-a-semester major rendering/compiling/model training. If people just want Macbook pro software with more ports, a "cheaper" machine is better than none. Personally, I would still get a used/refurbished machine though.
That being said, my current laptop workload tends to be emacs, qpdfview, Firefox, and tmux on EL9. For the remaining stuff, I usually just spin up a VM then ssh/xrdp into it. As for slack, teams, jabber, etc, I'm happy to report I've been out of industry/IT for 1+ years and don't plan on going back anytime soon. For all I care, Apple can call their models unicorn edition. As long as it sells it's not stupid.
You don't understand. It's not like the self-driving feature is just software where they can price it at whatever they want. It's physically consuming brain cells every month. And those aren't free you know!
::: spoiler Do I really need a \s tag for this or does this tin foil hat make me look fat? :::
At this rate the only party they will have left will be their own farewell party.
My T480 is my favorite laptop. But this is NOT one of its use cases.
Do not get a Thinkpad if you're using it for graphic design. The screen color calibration is terrible (even when compared to low end devices)
Last I checked I think some of the Dell laptops have a decent screen (XPS, latitude lines). But they tend to be more on the pricer side.
There are more places where bandwidth is a bottleneck now than 10 years ago.
NIC speeds have gone from 100Gbps to 800Gbps in the last few years while PCIe and DRAM speeds have nowhere increased that much. No way are you going to push all that data through to the CPU on time. Bandwidth is the bottleneck these days and will continue to be a huge issue for the foreseeable future.
Oh great, a human failed the Turing Test...
This person must be fun at parties.
Also, does nobody reach out to people privately to resolve conflicts these days? Even a simple "Hi, I saw my post was removed. Could you please clarify why it doesn't fall under the news category" would do (Not "I object. I'm right and you're wrong" though). There are more efficient ways to clear disagreements without immediately making a fool of yourself in public.
This is solving a problem we DO have, albeit in a different way. Email is ancient, the protocol allows you to self identify as whoever you want. Let's say I send an email from the underworld (server ip address) claiming I'm Napoleon@france (user@domain), the only reason my email is rejected is because the recipient knows Napoleon resides on the server France, not underworld. This validation is mostly done via tricky DNS hacks and a huge part of it is built on top of Google's infrastructure. If for some reason Google decides I'm not trustworthy, then it doesn't matter if I'm actually sending Napoleon's mail from France, it's gonna be recognized as spam on most servers regardless.
A decentralized chain of trust could potentially replace Google + all these DNS hacks we have in place. No central authority gets to control who is legitimate or not. Of all the bs use cases of block chain I think this one doesn't seem that bad. It's building a decentralized chain of trust for an existing decentralized system (email), which is exactly what "block chain" was originally designed for.