JDubbleu

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JDubbleu,

It’s not just vending machines. It’s everywhere.

Very long, but well done talk on the topic: youtu.be/ZUvGfuLlZus?si=nr4Wa_XMxr8woq-P

JDubbleu,

This is all great advice, but I take issue with, “if you can’t pronounce it easily it isn’t food”. If you applied this to fruit you’d never eat any because fruit is filled with various “chemicals”, many of which people might be scared of if they read the names on a box. Obviously I’m sure that rule is meant to be taken with a grain of salt, but don’t fear things just because they have large words attached to them. Just look them up.

JDubbleu,

Considering you cannot die from overdose or withdrawal I very much disagree.

JDubbleu,

23, US. Yes, but I find them pointless for daily driver cars. Modern automatics are more fuel efficient and just make more sense because they’re much easier to operate and less annoying in stop and go traffic.

They’re great for off-roading and racing, but outside of those use cases automatics are just better.

JDubbleu,

Don’t worry, Dana White got the guy a few years back.

Do they fail to realize most illegal streams are run from countries outside of the US? DMCA doesn’t mean shit in some tiny country in southeast Asia.

JDubbleu,

The issue is when it comes to trial it does the exact opposite. I’ve heard time and time again to be nothing but stoic if you ever get booked because the prosecution will claim you smiling in your mugshot shows you have no remorse.

JDubbleu,

I never open any ports to the open Internet other than the two my friend client uses.

For remote access I use a P2P VPN called ZeroTier leaving it always running on the Pi, and switching it on for the remote device when needed. It’s free for up to like 50 users and is very powerful, but dead simple.

JDubbleu, (edited )

I’m honestly glad we’re getting rid of white/black list. I personally couldn’t give a shit the racial element (which wasn’t what they ever meant anyway), but I never have to stop and think about it for a half second to figure out which I need. Allow/deny list are just outright better names.

JDubbleu,

I’ve dealt with them a lot but they never really stuck for some reason. Allow/block is much clearer IMO

JDubbleu,

I’m a fan of under sink filters. Dead simple to install and replace the filter. I never trusted those dispensers because many of them are just local tap water.

JDubbleu,

I agree. I had Reddit filtered pretty well to avoid politics, but Lemmy has very few communities which outright ban politics which makes it very difficult to avoid. I even agree with most of the politics on here but it gets annoying and exhausting when it’s absolutely everywhere. I’ve seen the above meme like 5 times already, I didn’t enjoy it the first time and I’m sure as shit not going to the fifth.

JDubbleu,

I engage with politics quite a bit, and do my best to try and stay informed about current issues. However, being bombarded with it 24/7 is a great way to make people numb to politics and stop caring. It’s good to be able to choose when you have the energy to engage with it, and being able to filter it out at times is part of that. Yes it is privileged, but that doesn’t make it negative.

JDubbleu,

I’m someone who almost exclusively pays for things digitally, but even I agree that getting rid of cash is a horrible idea. The Internet goes down, electricity goes out, but you’ll never not be able to pay for something with physical currency. It is absurd to try and abandon it if only for the fact that it is a foolproof backup.

JDubbleu,

I usually run repacks on Desktop PC with Windows and copy over resulting files and point Steam at the resulting exe. It makes the process a lot faster since my Desktop has a 5800X3D. Other than that though pretty much the exact same process on my end.

JDubbleu,

I love too that she mentioned, “REAL OPINIONS” as if those are more valid than the exact words she said.

JDubbleu,

I usually just run a ZeroTier client on my Pi connected to a private P2P network to solve this issue, and then have ProtonVPN over Wireguard for all internet traffic in and out of the Pi.

JDubbleu, (edited )

I have a Pi 3B+ I run qBittorrent, Plex, ProtonVPN through Wireguard, and a Samba share on and have had 0 issues. It’s connected to a 2 TB external SSD which is where the Plex media library lives and coincidentally where qBittorrent downloads to by default wink wink. I also have a P2P VPN called ZeroTier that allows me to securely connect to the Pi from anywhere. You should be golden with a Pi 4.

I’ve had zero issues even transcoding 4k BluRay content, but it required adding active cooling to prevent the Pi from overheating. Thankfully you can get a tiny heatsink and fan for under $10.

Edit: Accidentally said RPi 5 which didn’t exist… Fixed.

JDubbleu,

You’re gonna kill yourself or someone else. Those donuts are meant for like 20 miles at low speeds. They’re awful and are a blowout waiting to happen. If they were meant to be driven on for long periods of time those are the type of tires we’d use because they’re cheaper than normal tires, but they’re not which is why you shouldn’t do dumb shit like run a donut for two weeks.

JDubbleu,

100% agree. I’m yet to notice programming.dev go down which makes sense when you consider the target demographic and that the admins probably fit right into it.

JDubbleu,

Florida* I’m from California and I’ll be damned if I’m lumped in with most of the rest of the US (Oregon and Washington are great though).

JDubbleu,

I truly believe if the US went to shit California, Oregon and Washington would end up as one of the resulting territories. It makes a lot of geopolitical sense.

JDubbleu,

California is like that too, we’re not special unfortunately

JDubbleu,

Pretty much. All US veterans who have died in Ukraine were volunteers. Just about everything we’ve given Ukraine is old military equipment we don’t need, and it accounts for such a small amount in the total budget while absolutely fucking the greatest threat to Europe at the moment. It might be the best ROI we’ve ever gotten from anything ever.

This is coming from someone who is extremely anti-war, but that doesn’t make me anti-defend yourself.

JDubbleu,

Almost all of the people who are fearful that AI is going to plagiarize their work don’t know the difference between statistical analysis and generative artificial intelligence. They’re both AI, and unfortunately in those circles it seems anything even AI-related is automatically bad without any further thought.

JDubbleu,

There’s a subset of artificial intelligence called unsupervised learning which is a form of statistical analysis in which you let an agent find patterns in data for you, as opposed to trying to drive the agent to a desired outcome. I’m not 100% sure that is what the website author was using, but it sounded pretty close to it. It’s extremely powerful and not anything like the generative LLMs most people now think of when the words AI are thrown around.

I agree though, it sucks project got killed it seemed super interesting and insightful.

What made you choose your instance?

Following the spirit of spreading across the Fediverse (and because my main instance is down so many times, because diverse reasons) I’m intrigued about the joining instance process, because I honestly don’t know what criteria to have in order to join another one if I ever want to do it....

JDubbleu,

lemmy.world kept going down every other hour and I figured being a software engineer this instance made the most sense.

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