overview for lka1988

Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 42 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

“Americans can rest assured that she is off our streets and locked up. I hope the media will stop doing the bidding of these gangs that murder, maim, rape, and terrorize Americans, while ignoring the innocent victims,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote in an email.

DO NOT WORRY CITIZENS, I HAVE RESOLVED THE PROBLEM I INVENTED

Best ‘simple’ budgeting app in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 1 points 4 hours ago

The whole thing 😅 how do I know if my bank uses MX?

Trump signs executive order on water pressure to ‘restore shower freedom’ in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 1 points 12 hours ago

cries in the Benches

White House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways To ‘Deport’ U.S. Citizens in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 15 points 21 hours ago

Due process is dead

SCROTUS told the trump admin yesterday that due process needs to be followed. All 9 of them.

Of course, SCROTUS didn't say a word about the people who have already been deported, but I suppose it's something...

White House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways To ‘Deport’ U.S. Citizens in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 8 points 22 hours ago

Yes, indeed. 2A was written specifically for this situation.

Trump Orders Nearly 1 Million Migrants Who Entered US Legally to Leave Now in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 3 points 1 day ago

Don't worry, they'll get a strongly-worded finger wagging, that'll definitely teach them.

Trump Orders Nearly 1 Million Migrants Who Entered US Legally to Leave Now in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 5 points 1 day ago

At least he walked back his bullshit on the measles vaccination. He really needs to walk his ass off of a tall cliff, but hey, beggars can't be choosers.

Best ‘simple’ budgeting app in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate on this some more?

6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You're not wrong, and I agree in that it feels like W10 is where MS finally got it right.

However, hindsight is 20/20, and those sentiments were definitely not felt in the first few years after W10 was released. Once all the big issues were worked out and people figured out how to remove the bloat/spyware shit though, it was a solid OS. I still run it on my gaming PC (for now - tested some crucial programs last night on my laptop running LMDE6, great success)

What did W11 add that we didn’t have before? A TPM requirement? Ads? AI slop/shovelware/spyware?

W11 right now is essentially a shitty skin on top of W10, with all that extra shit. The kernel is still version 10.x.whatever FFS 😅. But SHINY INTERFACE and ONEDRIVE

Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 34 points 2 days ago

I have nothing to hide

Yeah, you do.

You might run into an extra grumpy customs/ICE/TSA/whatever person who felt offended at your mere existence.

GOP senator says he was joking when he floated using violence against journalists in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'd rather show him lying dead in the street, in a pool of his own blood. Hogtied for extra snowflake reaction.

6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? in c/[email protected]

[–] lka1988 2 points 3 days ago

These are the people that companies like Apple pander to, with the whole "it just works" schtick.

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Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by lka1988 to c/[email protected]

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I'm in the process of getting my Home Assistant environment up and running, and decided to run a test: it turns out that my gaming PC (custom 5800X3D/7900XTX build) uses more power just sitting idle, than both of my storage freezers combined.

Background: In addition to some other things, I bought two "Eightree" brand Zigbee-compatible plugs to see how they fare. One is monitoring the power usage of both freezers on a power strip (don't worry, it's a heavy duty strip meant for this), and the other is measuring the usage of my entire desktop setup (including monitors and the HA server itself, a Lenovo M710q).

After monitoring these for a couple days, I decided that I will shut off my PC unless I'm actively using it. It's not a server, but it does have WOL capability, so if I absolutely need to get into it remotely, it won't be an issue.

Pretty fascinating stuff, and now my wife is completely on board as well; she wants to put a plug on her iMac to see what it draws, as she uses it to hold her cross-stitch files and other things.