:-)

Going back in time is cheating a bit, but around 2013 my computer was an 8gb netbook. I carefully segregated my files into a couple of GB that I’d keep available, and the rest on an external HDD. To this day I keep that large/small scheme, though both parts have grown since then.

“Grumpy Grognard”. Do we have flairs on Lemmy? I can subtitle myself, grumpy grognard.

Fair point that laptops aren’t really the use case, though there have been times I’ve wanted to try things out on my laptop - actually that’s a reason I still want to learn podman or docker, because I hope it’s a way to try server-y things on my laptop without polluting my system, and being able to cleanly uninstall.

But okay, space on servers. I have a VPS with 20gb storage. And that has to include my backup data that lives there.

None, in fact, because I still haven’t got in to using docker! But that is one of the factors that pushes it down the list of things to learn.

I’ve had a number of low-storage laptops, mostly on account of low budget. Ever since taking an 8GB netbook for work (and personal) in the mountains, I’ve developed space-saving strategies and habits!

Mine, on my 128gb dual boot laptop.

“Google maps is over …there! It used to be here, now it’s there. Go click a link or something, like we did in the old days.”

You know, not everybody likes onions.

Cakes! Everybody likes cakes! Cakes have layers.

Why can’t software be like cakes?

Pour a cup of java and write it down in javascript.

“We noticed you’re good at solutions when things are mixed up - so we’d like to offer you a job in a warehouse.”

Of course not. Sysadmin skills are good for pouring the drinks, not managing the restaurant.

But for ordinary drivers, it’s great.

Thing is, consider Google maps. It’s been harvesting data secretly and openly for a long time. I vaguely remember a time when Street View cars were found to be harvesting WiFi information in Australia and their response was, “oops, our engineers made a mistake.” Yeah, right.

But, Google maps is an amazing tool. All that traffic info? All those time estimates? Maybe it’s worth it. Maybe if people knew what they were providing, and the result they’d get, they’d still be happy to give all that “free” data to Google.

Putting aside the ethics of a company taking (stealing? or shall we call it, pirating?) all the ownership of that knowledge asset, if they make a really useful tool from it perhaps Pokémon players will be glad to have been part of such an epic achievement.

I presume the idea is to generate a base idea with ai then correct it with real time data.

Like the way go AI has one part to make a ‘policy’ of moves and a second part to simulate (‘read’) the results of those moves many steps ahead.

Beware the Great Eye of Google. Ever it roams, ever it watches.

Okay I misread that title as “Casio made a One Ring alternative”

True, one person needs an account. You used to be able to do Jitsi - and before it other webrtc calling solutions - with no account at all but now Jitsi also needs the first host to sign in.

But Signal calls, every participant must have a Signal account. The others, I can invite people to join with no account.

“Browser tech”? Just the fact you can make it work from a browser without needing to install anything else. Again, Signal isn’t set up for that kind of thing. It’s just designed and extended from a different use case.

Jitsi. Even zoom and teams allow joining without an account. Good ol’ webrtc and browser tech.

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Malloc

That’s a good cat name!

I was going for the Harrys Truman, but this is much better.