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  • Do you know any tricks to disenshittify a work computer?

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  • You've probably tried this approach already, but just in case: "You don't play videogames to make progress, and you don't make progress by playing videogames. You play videogames to have fun and pass time, and those are driven by the experience brought on by the game's content, not by the name of the game's host. Also, fuck Blizzard."

  • Do you know any tricks to disenshittify a work computer?

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  • most suggestions on here involve running unauthorized software or visiting sketchy websites

    Agreed, which I won't be touching. That's why I opened with the example of the Bing trick to scrub ads off of YouTube: fully compliant with company policy. HR, IT, and Legal could be watching over my shoulder, and I'd be inclined to show off that trick just so they could go back to their own workstations and use it. Zero risk to my career, zero risk to my patients, and zero risk to the company. Win win win. Looking for more tricks like that.

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  • I've actually played on a private server alongside an anesthesiologist! We both grew up on Vanilla WoW and the earlier expansions, and both developed the same animosity to Blizzard for the finger they gave to that original target audience. The WoW itch is still real; but Blizzard won't get another cent from me.

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  • I mean, I could afford a YouTube subscription just fine; nursing isn't exactly a path to some Scrooge McDuck mountain of gold or anything, but we're not living paycheck to paycheck either. My refusal to pay YouTube isn't because I can't, it's because they're Google, and fuck Google. If there was a playlist generator/streamer made by an ethical company who's product is actually worth using, then fuck yeah point me to their subscription page! Unfortunately, the only options I'm aware of are either shit products or shit companies, so I'll continue to be a stingy asshole until I find something worth supporting.

    ...and although it's not really on topic for this thread, feel free to drop some recommendations - I'm most familiar with music.youtube, spotify, and pandora, but youtube is youtube, and the other two leave a lot to be wanted for the playlists they provide. Or they did at least, it's been probably over 5 years since trying pandora or spotify... maybe they're better now? /shrug

  • Do you know any tricks to disenshittify a work computer?

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  • Probably better than trying to fuck with HIPAA.

    Not sure you understand the goal - I'm not trying to pull anything shady with patient data; but to find better ways to use those comps. There are functions protected by HIPAA, and functions that Microsoft/Google/etc have enshittified that I'm trying to make a bit more user friendly - the only overlap in the venn diagram here is that they happen on the same computer.

    Fortunately our charting software isn't loaded with unskippable ads (...give it a few years...), so even if there are ways to fuck with that software, there's no need to.

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  • Can you install user apps (which don’t require admin elevation) or is it truly nothing?

    It's truly nothing - healthcare setting, so it's pretty strict. Absolutely no installing anything, or plugging in an external drive to run shit from that. We're allowed to use the work comps for personal stuff so long as it's not getting in the way of our actual duties. For me this usually means putting some music on while I'm charting, but nowadays it's more ad than music without an ad blocker.

    The bing trick was great - pull up a 2+ hour long full-playlist-in-one-video, and just let it run in the background... but that loophole got closed. But from the hospital's perspective, they didn't care if we did shit like that - they couldn't give a rat's ass if we slurped up all of Googles ads or not; they just don't want any liability from a security or privacy standpoint.

  • Do you know any tricks to disenshittify a work computer?

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  • In my case, not an option. Healthcare setting, patient info is all over by our work stations, so having personal devices out will get you accused of a HIPAA violation in a hurry - even if it doesn't have a camera, people get paranoid.

    People do still use personal devices at work, but I see em get burned for that semi-regularly.

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    Murse @slrpnk.net

    Do you know any tricks to disenshittify a work computer?

  • Suspect in custody after Trump evacuated in shooting incident at White House correspondents’ dinner

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  • Just one more staged assassination attempt bro, I swear bro if we stage just one more people will believe it's real this time bro. C'mon bro bro just one more. One more staged assassination attempt and people will stop talking about how Trump raped children on Epstein Island. We just need to stage one more, it'll work this time bro, I swear!

  • Trump escapes unharmed as gunman opens fire at White House press dinner hotel

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  • Not going to kill off a pawn from the audience and wear a magical band-aid that can heal every trace of a gunshot wound in two days this time? But it made the last one feel so real!

  • People with terminal illnesses/in their last days should be allowed to have any drugs they want.

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  • ...that's not how hospice works. Hospice is just care to keep a patient comfortable through a condition they're not expected to survive. Food can be part of keeping a patient comfortable if they're able to eat. Some people aren't able to eat, and then you start getting into the hard questions like whether it's ethical to keep someone alive with a feeding tube and IV drip just so their brain can soak up more morphine, but the cutoff of life sustaining treatments depends a lot on the nature of the condition, what the patient stated when they were in a sound state of mind previously via a 'living will', or at the discretion of family.

    But yeah, you can be on hospice for months - they absolutely feed you unless there's some reason not to. You can also come off of hospice if the underlying condition improves on its own and it starts to look like you'll actually recover - it's not a death sentence or assisted suicide or anything.

  • Deluxe poppy seed cake

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  • This makes me realize I have no idea what poppyseed actually tastes like. I've had lemon poppyseed muffins/bread, which are delicious, but just taste like lemon - the poppyseed gives it a nice fine crunchy texture, but doesn't make any detectable impact on the taste.

    ...and now I'm second-hand annoyed at OP's situation of finding a product that promises to highlight that taste, but turns out to be more false fucking advertising.

    I want the thing pictured in the wrapper!

    Then again... random piss tests... probably not worth it.

  • Sleep @ Work

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  • This has deep vein thrombosis / pulmonary embolism written all over it.

    Basically blood doesn't circulate in the lower extremities because of the distance from the heart - when it stagnates for too long it starts to clot.

    Then a chunk of the clot breaks off, follows larger and larger veins until it gets to the heart, gets sent smaller vessels in the lungs until it can't fit and becomes lodged.

    Really should sleep horizontally.

  • Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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  • Quietly

    The developer made this change from a personal laptop at their local public library.

    Shhhhhh.

  • Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for

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  • Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for

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  • Previous poster is probably talking about a company-owned computer. I'd be fired in a hurry if I installed anything on one of the computers at the hospital I work at... MS office is the only option for me at work.

  • SHOCK POLL: Trump Approval Craters to 33% in New AP Poll, Whopping 67% Disapprove

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  • 33% of the US are traitors. Not just to the US, but all of humanity.

  • The CIA Is Quietly Using AI to Build Emulated Versions of World Leaders

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  • quietly

    As opposed to using a mechanical keyboard to do it. Otherwise the headline would be "The CIA Is Clickety Clackishly Using AI to Build Emulated Versions of World Leaders"

    Unsure why we need to know the volume, but here we are.

  • AI chatbots are offering cancer patients alternatives to chemo and sparking concern for health officials

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  • AI doesn't even meet the bar for stupid, in the same sense that a toaster isn't stupid... it isn't any measure of thought processing, because it doesn't think.

    It generates slop based on slop that it finds/pirates.

  • MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

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  • Trump (like Reagan) was literally an actor, before becoming President. It is not that surprising that Trump can "act" when given an opportunity which arises.

    Well yeah... it looked like acting.

    Ear wounds bleed like crazy. It could be just a little nick.

    Little nicks still produce a scab. His ear was back to 100% in like 2 days. A fucking zit takes longer to heal than that.

    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

    That rule absolutely does not apply to world leaders. He has mastered getting away with evil shit by playing the village idiot so people just brush it off as stupid.

    It would also require the shooter to more-or-less agree to be murdered.

    It would require him to agree to make an assassination attempt, fully expecting to take the shot and probably some elaborate escape plan -- all without knowing his real instruction is to sit pretty while responding agents proceed to kill him. Again, outlandish and probably not how it actually went down, just an example of the kind of shit that's less implausible than the official story, which is in direct conflict with what we saw plainly on national TV. 'Ignore your eyes and ears' and such.

  • US Navy denies food shortages after grim photos emerge from blockade ships

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  • We'll see. Gen Z males showed up in force to vote for Trump in the 2024 election. Some of the younger ones are alright, but others are doing the whole Hitler Youth thing. Overall I couldn't tell you if they're any more or less shitty than any other generation, but their voting record isn't off to a great start.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Murse @slrpnk.net

    Looking for insight from the crafty types: how would you go about making a rolling (semi-mobile) dual computer monitor stand?

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    Murse @slrpnk.net

    Smartphone that isn't filled with AI slop or general enshittification?

  • PC Master Race @lemmy.world
    Murse @slrpnk.net

    Looking for keyboard recommendations

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Murse @slrpnk.net

    Where can I ask less stupid questions?