Excuse me! Canada won it last year.
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kevincox@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.ml•Windows 11's Weather app reportedly uses 5x more RAM than macOS's Weather app, with ads to boot by XDA on August 9, 2026
26·26 days agoMy first thought: If it isn’t always running it honestly not a major concern how much memory the weather app uses.
My second thought: 1.2GB WTF? Ok, that is way over the top. The executive in charge should be fired.
My third thought: 250MB? That is still a little unnecessary, even if it probably does fall under the “doesn’t matter” threshold.
My fourth thought:
gnome-weatheruses 180MB, not great, not bad.
kevincox@lemmy.mlto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years.English
6·28 days agoMe neither. I heard the hype so I went, I love me a good chicken sandwich. It was fine. But I don’t think I’ve gone again. Might if I was hungry and it was nearby. But it always has a line up the door and was packed. These people must see something that I don’t in it.
I also used to read a lot as a kid then stopped for a long while. I have gotten back into it by reading before bed. I try to get to bed at least 30min early on most days—sometimes much earlier if I am having a lazy day or otherwise feeling like I don’t want to stay up—then I get a bunch of reading before bed. As a bonus reading makes me sleepy so I always nod right off when I put the book down (or sometimes have to put the book down because I am falling asleep and can’t keep my eyes open) I’ve managed to finish a good number of books already this year.
But I think the moral of the story is just find some time that works for you, reserve a bit of time in your day and try to make a bit of a habit out of it.
Looks like a cunt to me.
kevincox@lemmy.mlto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Take the fucking hint, already! 🤦🏻English
31·1 month agoI don’t get what you are angry about. If it is one email before deleting I think that’s pretty reasonable. You could have had some important-to-you conversations that you would be upset to lose.
If they keep sending stuff like this that is one thing. But I appreciate one or maybe two confirmations before someone deletes my data.
kevincox@lemmy.mlto
memes@lemmy.world•When people tell me AI will eventually replace everyone
5·1 month agoOnly the poor people.
Reminds me of this page which I can’t believe isn’t a parody: Where to Watch Pokémon Episodes & Movies | Pokemon.com
Oh, right. The OP is wrong it appears and I didn’t think much 😆
2026-06-27to be unambiguous. (About two hours in the future from time of posting)Edit: Actually 2026-07-27, OP has the wrong date.
kevincox@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some people identify with a political party even if many of their views don't align with that party's platform?
4·1 month agoTo drive this point home, even if there are smaller alternatives voting for them is actively harmful in first-past-the-post elections because you are effectively giving an advantage to the party that you are least aligned with. (Look up the the “spoiler effect”.)
So in most countries the logical voting strategy is to vote for whichever of the two most popular parties you favour, even if the reason is just that they are marginally better than the alternative.

Original image credit: https://www.tumblr.com/robotatertot/156736308530/truth
kevincox@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How can a company like Terabox give away 1TB of space for free and still stay a stable company?
11·2 months agoNot just the first hit in general but this also sounds likely to be a bait-and-switch. They will roll with that free 1TiB as long as they can for marketing and market capture. They have a few profit streams (ads, whales on bigger plans) to help cover those marketing costs. But most likely they will not be profitable and eventually will reduce/remove the free plan and try to upgrade as many users as possible to the paid plan (reducing costs and increasing revenue in one go).
kevincox@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How secure is my local backup drive with sshfs?English
3·2 months agoGenerally speaking it will be fine. SSH will also refuse keys with open permissions so you would notice if it was wide-open to other users of the device.
But you know if you are running random code or AI harnesses as that user it can be at risk. Or if you copy around the key all over the place it is more likely to leak. But generally speaking you are secure by default, just don’t do something dumb with the key and you’ll have no problems.
kevincox@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How secure is my local backup drive with sshfs?English
5·2 months agoIt sounds pretty reasonable. As long as you keep SSH patched and keep the key safe it should be quite locked down. Do double-check that password login isn’t allowed (or that all users have a very strong password).
One non-security note is be careful with rsync backup. Generally rsync isn’t considered a backup as any mistakes made in the source will be propagated to the “backup” on next sync. Although there are ways to use rsync to take good backups (like copying to a new directory for each backup).
I built Chibichange to have a way to conveniently deliver changelogs to Dawarich users
Have you considered just posting a changelog to your blog? That would be much more convenient than every app I run pinging me in its own way by phoning home to its server.
My wife’s last name was Wang. She was planning on taking her husband’s last name her whole life. Joke’s on her.
It’s not really though. They just used the screen from the pregnancy test and replaced all of the other hardware.
kevincox@lemmy.mlto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in MexicoEnglish
51·3 months agoAs much as I hate it, I’m 90% sure that they did some analysis (probably 10 years ago now) and found that there are enough people that don’t properly configure their computer that IP location is actually a better indicator than the
Accept-Languageheader.…which of course perpetuates the problem.




If not USB why USB-shaped?