I got into CloudWorkers with the hopes it is some sort of legit cause I am in deep crap.

https://www.reddit.com/r/freelance/comments/kfx8bt/warning_about_cloudworkers/

I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Also low level, $20 an hour, remote really is asking for a LOT. Can you not work in person, or do you just don’t want to work in person? $20 an hour is reasonable in person, $20 an hour remote isn’t.

Words will do nothing, that’s how Trump was elected.

Actions are what’s needed. Get out there.

If you’ve got a thunderbolt port on your laptop and a thunderbolt dock on your laptop then there’s no reason why it shouldn’t work.

I’m not familiar with thunderbolt on linux, but on windows you plug it in and it just works™️ and shows up as if it was inside your machine. Your DE on linux might automatically do it, but if you’re command line only you’ll probably have to run a command first.

That makes it even easier for big companies to bully you. If you’re a big company you can actually afford a lawyer to tell these parasites to fuck off.

This happened with all of our work phones. It died down over time of not answering, but it still happens.

Honestly sticking with a known number is much better than trying to get something new. There’s a reason that number was available, and it’s probably because someone wanted the spam to stop.

You don’t even need to install the App (or keep it installed), it’s a service they offer on their end.

Social media in general was also a lot smaller back then too.

Until the iPhone got popular you had to use a computer to access it. And back then we didn’t really trust sleep mode very much so you had to wait 2 minutes for windows to boot when you wanted to go on the net. VS right now I’m standing in from of my clothes not getting ready for work for 45 seconds.

At only 82% I’m going to say no.

I think their confusion comes from OPs title.

Why is it “e-waste go brrrrrrr” when OP is presumably saying they’re keeping this laptop out of the machine? _ machine go brr is a dumb meme in the first place, people using it the wrong way makes it even dumberer.

The worst laptop you can find could probably be better than even a reasonably specced VPS. Low end VPS are dire, and you can get some pretty decent laptops for almost nothing. If it’s pre 8th Gen. Intel they’re basically worthless on the used market. But they’ll still easily get the job done.

Decentrilization is both a blessing and a curse.

If there’s an issue you can make your own community with blackjack, and hookers.

But at the same time these communities never seem to get super big (minus a few) and if you’re subscribed to both there’s not a good way to deduplicate the posts. So 5 communities post the same thing (or one person posts them in 5) sometimes you see all 5 side by side.

Don’t forget safety. There’s a LOT of of sketchy ass gan (and non gan) chargers I wouldn’t even let in my house. Gan chargers being by so compact dont have enough space to safely insulate things.

Modern phone cameras are 99% software at this point. If you took one phones camera and put it onto another phone without adapting the software then the photos will look like ass.

You can’t just unplug something from device X and connect it to device Y. The connectors aren’t standardized. And even if they were they wouldn’t fit because the placement is different. In theory you could take the CPU off of one device and plant it onto another. But have fun with that BGA micro soldering. Plus the connections will be different unless you picked a phone with the exact same CPU. Ram is the only thing you could potentially upgrade. But like good luck.

You’d legitimately have an easier time making a new phone from scratch than trying to piece together 3 different phones.

If you need the money then start looking for jobs now, and quit when you’ve got something.

My friend had an older MSI gaming laptop and it was built like SHIT. He didn’t use it a whole lot until he started working at our company and it lasted maybe 4 years of reasonable daily use. Physically it was fine because he never actually touched the laptop. But that thing was so incredibly unstable and eventually ended with it’s M.2 and it’s internal sata slots being unusable, and making the machine take 5 minutes to boot.

I also bought two MSI “business” laptops and those things were absolute junk too. The touch panel came from the factory broken. Thankfully nobody wants to use that shit so we just disabled. But my co worker dropped one the other day and we need to replace the whole display assembly but I can’t for the life of me find parts for the machine. After about two weeks of searching my only options were A. a whole ass laptop for $500 (thankfully they depreciate lick a rock) or B. A complete display assembly for $375. No thanks, we’re replacing those pieces of shit.

Unless you want to game on it save yourself the suffering and just get a used thinkpad. The T14 gen 1 goes for $200 easily and it’s quadcore CPU is sufficient, and you can find it with the 6 core. I bought a T14 s gen 2 AMD for $300 and it’s 6 core blows that T14 out of the water and gets far better battery life, plus it’s iGPU ain’t no slouch. (All prices USD, can will probably be higher)

Side note are there any good hardware swap communities on lemmy? I have a number of old machines I need to get rid of.

There’s probably a better way but…

Open the page, right click, inspect, paste these in there and possibly expand the node list for users.

Users

document.querySelectorAll('.person-listing')

Comunities:

document.querySelectorAll('.community-link')

I had 0 users, but 69 communities.

ChatGPT

LLMs are really good at dumping a big ass error log on them and saying “what’s wrong” and it will find the issue, and probably point you in the right direction.

The size of the app doesn’t matter, it’s what the app does.

Say you managed to uninstall your only launcher. Getting a new one on there would be a pain, but is doable. But uninstalling the fucking massive DJI app? Nah that’s nothing.

Mad? No. Unhappy? Yes. If I don’t want the food I’m not going to eat the food. I don’t want people to waste their money on something I don’t want.

Even if it’s not my money I don’t like unnecessary spending.

I have an N100 box for my router and it’s great for singe gigabit or less. But > 1gbit and you really quickly need some serious hardware.

At work I was using a VM with 2 cores from a xeon 4215 and it struggled to get anything more than 2 gbit. As soon as I bumped it up to 4 cores I was able to get the full 4gbit speeds. If I wanted to do any traffic shaping or packet inspection speeds would tank. Also my OpenVPN speeds kinda suck on this N100 device. They’re never great, but I can definitely tell I’m getting CPU bound vs when I ran it on my server. So if you plan on running extra services don’t expect the greatest performance.

A lot of networking traffic is single core dependent so I’ve been trying to find one of those weird 5 core machines with 1 P core and 4 E cores which I think would be the perfect fit.