RememberTheApollo_

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RememberTheApollo_,

Per fuel/mile/cargo, aircraft are actually very efficient. Better than one or two people sitting in a gas powered car which is how most people drive. Of course, there aren’t transatlantic highways being driven across by armadas of single occupant cars, so the fuel usage is far higher for airplanes in such instances.

Let’s rephrase your position such that long-distance travel is bad for the environment regardless of the mode, period. There more energy efficient methods such as trains, especially local electric trains, but they are slow (unless you’re lucky enough to have a TGV or similar nearby).

RememberTheApollo_,

So your assumption is that she lied or tried to pull one over on the Dr for pain meds?

RememberTheApollo_,

Got any stats for that or is it just the usual anti-EV BS where you equate EVs to cellphones? No? Of course you don’t and are just making shit up.

RememberTheApollo_,

Because guns and explosions; and Denise Richards and Dina Meyer were hot.

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But the US system is so much better because profit.

/s

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What?

RememberTheApollo_,

Fuck. I thought we fixed this.

RememberTheApollo_,

I refuse to be both.

You want me to dodge ads and try to scrape my data from your service in order to use it? Fine.

Want me to pay for the service? Maybe…

I will not support double dipping while pushing ads in my face. Fuck right off.

RememberTheApollo_,

Anything too small to reasonably tap without missing and hitting whatever is in the background.

Things that move for no reason. I.e. icon motion on the iPhone relative to the background when you move the phone. Pointless.

Ads on Windows.

RememberTheApollo_,

Oh, they’d be happy to offer you that for $4.99/mo. Then, after a year or so, they’d inject some preferred provider search results, and bump the ad-free tier to $9.99 mo. The $4.99 tier would be unlimited search, but with ads. Want to block bullshitty SEO sites? Extra $2.99.

RememberTheApollo_,

Per capita? Really? Try per capita gun murders around the world and see what countries the US keeps company with. I mean, your argument is basically because there are lots of people, being shot is NBD because the odds are low because there are lots of people?

And yeah, again, compared to other places this is the kind of violence that happens in the US.

However, this was a targeted shooting. A deliberate murder. That does tend to be a more rare occurrence, but it’s dishonest to break it out and treat it separately from the overall use of crime related gun use in the US.

RememberTheApollo_,

No, I didn’t miss your point. I understand perfectly what you meant. However, you did miss my pointing out of your use of statistics via per capita as an argument to water down risk against the broader view of the US gun crime rate vs the rest of the world to point out that yes, Indeed, this is a US problem.

RememberTheApollo_,

People don’t want to constantly pay more fees in the form of “voluntary” tips that are supposed to be a courtesy based on service quality, not a tax and payroll dodge for employees and employers who obviously have no incentive to report cash income like this. And now even more people are jumping on the tip bandwagon, and on top of that they calculate the tip on the total including tax. I’m not giving the government a tip, too. Tips are becoming compulsory in the eyes of far too many service industry employees.

It’s far easier for them to shit on customers than it is to assume any risks associated with fighting employers and the established system for real wages. Leeching off the hard work wages of customers rather than doing the hard work of fighting for a real wage.

RememberTheApollo_,

What the bullshit is that? We’re charging you more so you pay less?

RememberTheApollo_,

Local radio sucks.

It’s nothing but ads. I’ve tried listening to a couple of them and the music selection is horrendous bracketed by lengthy ads. Bad to worse.

RememberTheApollo_,

Good for you.

RememberTheApollo_,

Same as with computer games - stop releasing half-finished crap. You cede ownership and/or use of your car when they control functionality.

RememberTheApollo_,

And this is why you could tax them at 80 or even 90% and they would still have more money than 90% of the rest of the population of earth.

RememberTheApollo_,

Get a locking shipment container for deliveries. From Amazon, of course.

RememberTheApollo_,

My intent was absolutely this as a joke.

RememberTheApollo_, (edited )

It’s a losing battle trying to inject reasonable responses to situations here. Running away is apparently something that is no longer allowed. People somehow think going for violence is always the correct and immediate response to something like this. This place is no better than Reddit for that, there are some bloodthirsty motherfuckers itching to tell someone who is in charge via the point of a gun.

RememberTheApollo_,

And that result proves that society is too quick to use a gun by deeming potential lethal force so acceptable.

RememberTheApollo_,

and other communist countries. Authoritarian dictatorships.

Just because they slap socialist or communist on the country name doesn’t make it so.

RememberTheApollo_,

And we called it Doggy McDogface.

What quality PLA filament brand have you standardized on?

Typically I would just buy whatever brand had the cheapest white color PLA (I like to paint my print) and quality wasn’t always top of mind. Now I have several prints that I want to do in all kids of different colors and quality matters. Given the new color and quality requirements, it no longer makes sense to get the...

RememberTheApollo_,

Hatchbox seconded. They’re pretty consistent as far as quality goes. Unfortunately they don’t always have their full selection available.

RememberTheApollo_,

College is for networking, if you go to that kind of school. Yeah, you can definitely make good friends in College, but I also made better friends in high school.

RememberTheApollo_,

EA anti-cheat sucks and is useless. One look at the KDR or literally impossible hit % rates at the top of the stats board is proof enough. They just don’t care.

RememberTheApollo_,

Because movies like that belong on the “Lifetime TV” or “Hallmark Channel”. It’s been done. Maybe yet another “Can’t fix stupid” reductionist country wisdom beats city slicker smarts? Or make fun of city people who don’t know how to ride a horse?

That, or nobody wants to watch movies with people sitting around bonfires drinking cheap beer on your truck tailgate.

I grew up rural. It isn’t that exciting.

RememberTheApollo_,

Truth. A trip to the hardware store was a significant chunk of the day.

RememberTheApollo_,

Don’t forget your private jet to get back to civilization when you’d like some decent medical treatment, something other than satellite TV, or a dinner of better quality than whatever restaurant is next to the truck stop.

RememberTheApollo_,

What did TikTok do recently? Reddit and TwittX I know about. Could have added Unity to the mix, even if they’re not social media.

RememberTheApollo_,

I wonder if McD’s “automated” franchises are the preemptive move by the company expecting more of this to happen. The writing was on the wall and they moved to compensate. They make a big deal of it like it’s some cool thing, but IRL they’re just reducing human overhead.

RememberTheApollo_,

Present “normal” person with new information: “Huh, that’s not what I heard. I’ll go check it out when I get some time.”

Republicans: “It’s a liberal plot by George Soros and the liberal MSM run by illegal aliens and that traitor Hunter Biden! Did you see what that Clinton did?!”

RememberTheApollo_,

Scared?

Despite what Linux aficionados think, the Linux world is fractured and broken for the average person. I’ve been running dual boots or standalone linux for decades, but I still consider myself a relative beginner because I get pissed at Linux not doing what I want when I need it to and I’ll just give up trying to sort it out. Packages don’t install .make doesn’t work. .configure the same. Windows applications don’t work because Wine sucks, if it even installs correctly. Too many distros, too many versions that won’t accept apps built for previous versions, repositories disappearing and upgrade paths that aren’t intuitive. Online searches offer multiple “fixes”, but good luck. It probably doesn’t work for your distro, version, user privileges, etc. Linux for the average person sucks, and it sucks bad. Even popular ones like Ubuntu are a pain in the ass. I have all sorts of boxes running linux, from raspberry pi to Ubuntu, to Debian. The Pi’s are the best, they don’t break shit on updates or upgrade. The rest? Apt-get update is fraught with peril. I grew up with command line work, I still use it all the time, but I don’t have the patience to deal with trying to get Linux to do what a Windows machine does.

RememberTheApollo_,

Elderly…lol. You’re funny.

RememberTheApollo_,

If you’re the one “remembering when”, you might be the boomer ass.

RememberTheApollo_,

“I hate it when I see an old person and realize I went to High School with them.”

RememberTheApollo_,

Yeah, this should be higher up. Pi’s have usually been around the $35-40 mark, and this one is going to be $100. My B, B+ came as a kit with power supply, SD card, and a cheapo case for $45. Now you can’t even get just the 3B+ for less than $50. My Pi’s are doing boring, simple work like running my 3D printer, running PiHole and a VPN, or being a print server. None need $100 computers to do the job. I guess as long as earlier Pi versions are still available, NBD.

$100 is starting to price out of the cheap educational/hobbyist/experimenter range and send people looking elsewhere.

RememberTheApollo_,

3 out of 4 times?

Find myself reiterating something that was already said. Arguing a point nobody cares about. Entering a discussion that I know will not go my way regardless of what info I provide, because even Lemmy has a Hive Mind sometimes and doesn’t like dissent. Realizing half way through writing it that I don’t really know enough about the subject and should just shut up. Or maybe I just think my comment won’t offer anything that contributes to the discussion.

RememberTheApollo_,

Some of the new motherboards will recognize dual boot systems natively. My ASUS saw the partitions when I upgraded my motherboard and gives me a boot option menu. Super easy. Not that GRUB was too difficult.

RememberTheApollo_,

youtu.be/F5IVlPJiluk

Prime example. Lifted truck can’t see car next to it.

RememberTheApollo_,

The lift prevented “see and avoid”. No, it’s not the truck’s fault that the sedan drifted, but the concept is the same. The height prevents the truck from seeing a problem.

RememberTheApollo_,

Well, it’s antimatter, not anti-gravity.

RememberTheApollo_,

I don’t think it works like that, it’s not as simple as doing the opposite of what we would normally expect the flow of time to dictate.

RememberTheApollo_,

This was already a thing back in the ‘90s. Several games had actors in them, it was a sign of the times because it hadn’t been done before. After the exuberance wore off we got more professional voice actors to do parts. Guess it’s back in style again.

RememberTheApollo_,

Yes.

The jobs they do:

LAN print server

Running OctoPi for a 3D printer

PiHole and VPN for the home LAN

Experimenting with OpenHab

Portable Kodi box.

And a crappy mass storage server via USB.

RememberTheApollo_,

How much abuse did yours take? Ours is a backup and occasional video server.

RememberTheApollo_,

Thanks. Guess I’ll keep my fingers crossed that ours keeps trucking.

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