Uvine_Umbra

Uvine_Umbra, 7 months ago

Fedora is not for beginners.

Mint is.

I could go into more detail, but I’ll leave it there.

Uvine_Umbra, 7 months ago

So you’re a power user? Case in point, you’d be better for Fedora.

Also my second distro was mint, after 3+ years of the old hdd’s non-use, I pulled it out last year when my install of some OS broke, updated it to zero issues (I was curious), used the software for a bit, all was good.

3 years without an update to zero issues.

Haven’t seen any issue with Mint updates yet like I’ve fought in Fedora

Uvine_Umbra, 7 months ago

You can take the redditor out of reddit, but you can’t take the reddit out of the redditor

Uvine_Umbra, 7 months ago

FreeBSD. Can’t go wrong with looking at unix if you want something interesting

Uvine_Umbra, 7 months ago

The only thing I know about this sub is that it isn’t funny lol

Uvine_Umbra, 7 months ago

Or maybe a billion dollar research grant to get solid state batteries out, which seem to solve all of these problems

Uvine_Umbra, 7 months ago

Oh, the USA is bloody awful, and they know. You think the CCP isn’t playing up American dysfunction any chance it gets?

They’re leaving for a chance at a better life, not the best. You can think about the “best life” once you have a better one.

Uvine_Umbra, 7 months ago

We on the internet ain’t your bar mates ya know. Just like you to me, we’re all random ppl living our own lives on some part of this planet lol. if you think they are trampling on what you like, then fuck them lol, find a group that does care lol

They exist.

Uvine_Umbra, 7 months ago

yes, this is part of Chinese history.

Republic of China formed by Sun Yat-sen is sincerely praised by both Taiwan & China as the birth of their modern state.

The flag is the 5 races under one union flag, referring to the Han (most), the Manchu, the Hui, the Mongols, & the Tibetians

Uvine_Umbra, 8 months ago

There are limits to these ‘not the onion’ jokes…

Edit after reading:

OK, at least none were actually sold to unaware people to drink, thank god!!!

Though to think Amazon was more than ready to sell them tho…

Uvine_Umbra, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Not an expert or anything but as a person diagnosed with ADHD I have most of those symptoms

So does a friend of mine who takes Adderall (ADHD too)

Mostly excluding the music & sensory stuff tbh

Uvine_Umbra, 8 months ago

All good!!!

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

That’s nothing lol. Turned off the feature when it mistook my paradox game for a kitchen, my highschool graduation for waterfront property (not even close), & my face for a beetle

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

Jesus Christ this is one of the most beautiful photos I have ever seen!!!

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

When I first read this, I assumed that Milo was the name of the dog because my brain could not comprehend how anyone could come up with such insane logic

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

Hmm, interesting, I grew up on it back in Jamaica… never considered where it came from lol

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Threy don’t assist in producing smog so improved air quality and are much quieter.

Besides, all of those things are already being produced where they will be profitable.

Tampa just dropped their tram line project because they couldn’t save enough money. They’re replacing them with buses.

Brightline is getting ready to open their Orlando line & planning one to Jacksonville & Tampa.

Like hear me out: what we need is Full Self-driving ride sharing so ppl don’t have to own a car to get anywhere they want. Just call a self-driving taxi & go to work. This would make trains more convenient too (would always have a cheap “rental car” ready at each stop so people are less-incentivized to take the highway) and significantly decrease the amount of cars overall.

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

First, to highways. Tell me, is rail maintenance profitable? How about for maglevs or retrofitted bus networks?

It’s an expense, it will always be an expense. That’s an expense that will just have to be paid (as if it would disappear anyways, semi-trucks aren’t about to disappear).

The service would open up thousands of dollars to people who no longer need to pay for cars & allow those who were economically disadvantaged by not being able to afford one to be able to take advantage. After all, you could pay for a $120 pass per month (no insurance, maintenance, etc.) Or if you drive comparatively little per month like 15 miles (I looked up the info & did some math), they’d be able to do $60 a month or get this: $0.13 cents per mile.

Another thing, profitability is one of the greatest determinants of political will. Innumerable projects have died once the political will was burned out by the hefty price tag. If uber has shown anything, that will would not die in my idea.

Second, much regional travel would now happen via train and buses as train networks expand to inter-city lines and buses take up high density locations. The logic is simple: Why do you drive the highway in the first place? It’s usually to drive 45 minutes to 1 hour to a job site or college/ school or that rare shopping trip or even friends correct? Some trips may only take 5 minutes, some may have to go 2-3 hours. My idea allows for more greater carpooling. If the uber computers saw that a location had many people coming together to go to a single location, the vehicle used could swap to a bus of various sizes and the app or via phonecall or whatever menhod of communication, you could choose the carpool option which would allow you to walk up to 5 minutes to a hailed bus which would allow the riders in and take them to a list of nearby destinations. Of course this bus would be manned by a driver, but that would be more than offset by the extensive amount of people taking that bus to the designated area. Unlike uber, the bus driver would be a worker for the company & paid for managing the travels, not usually having to drive themselves if ever. A pretty nice job no?

As for actual cities (Cape coral is not a city, nor is 90% of the USA), they are going to go the way of ebikes, bus public transport, trams, trains, etc. as before as the place densifies via infill development like today and everyone who wants their suburbs will be happy and those who want dense cities will be happy.

As for the legal hurdles, that would be easy: Uber would have to pay if their vehicle fucked up, but that would just be another small expense as uber could sue hundreds of thousands of people who would drive like idiots and crash into their FSD vehicles. A FSD car would have a MUCH lower chance of causing an accident versus a human afterall.

If the car was proven to be in human control mode at that time, it is the responsibility of the driver of the FSD car. They are the one who crashed it afterall.

If the crash was proven by something like a black box in the car or the log to be because of a software error, it’s the cost to the company who wrote the software.

Poor maintenance? Uber.

And to those who own a car? They’d have to share the cost of all the people crashing into FSD cars via insurance fees which would discourage direct car ownership for all but the rich much further.

That question had very little thought put into it.

This made me think about people puking in the car, the app & car itself could offer a button to state if the car would be in good condition, needs cleaning, awful, something like that. AND NOTHING WOULD BE CHARGED. This would discourage people to lie, and could even incur a “lying fee” if the vehicle is heavily damaged before the person says the car is good via app to disincentivise lying.

Finally, to answer your centralization question: the era of easy cheap loans is over, killed by Covid. The old days of deficit spending until the next venture capital investment are dead.

Regardless, there are 2 directions this could go in my opinion: 1 is being treated like public transportation. The other is apps like Expedia which centralize various local & regional services for travel.

Yes, there would be big companies that form over all this, but it feels like it would take a lot of capital to enter but it would be in the hundreds of millions, so regional companies could compete in many places alongside the heavyweights for ridership & approval.

Long story short: Highways are an expense, but they will not be expanded by charging people for taking them, saving lots of infrastructure money and encouraging train usage. From the next city, you could just hail one of the uber cars afterall. The system would save each individual person by giving many of the advantages of a car and allowing buses a chance to regain popularity while socializing maintenance costs and the like to all users of the service. This would make car ownership an expensive luxury item versus the necessity it is today for many people and give opportunities to those economically disadvantaged without them having to move. Best part? Cities would not need it. They would focus on trams, buses, subways, etc to manage their local density while not needing the additional parking.

A North American solution to a North American problem

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Oh I don’t mind the bluntness.

And believe me, if is, it bloody effing is, but there are many people who just want the suburb way of life to be accessible to them & hate the cost, while others want dense cities.

This is a way to help both sides get what they want and saves everyone here individually thousands of dollars and as a nation (looking at the USA) potentially 2+ trillion dollars a year while throwing away additional money.

Why not?

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

We already have 3 of the 4 high speed margarita rails in Florida (no need for one in Key West)

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

At least in Latin script it looks like yeah (just looked at a list)

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

What makes me laugh about this entire things is that if Oprah Winfrey & The Rock didn’t donate anything this conversation would not even be happening & I’m sure everyone here would be happier.

Just nod, good for them, more money to Maui, move on lmao

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

Mariokart 8 deluxe:

Tryhard: Tanuki Mario

Casual/200cc: baby luigi

Mariokart DS

Peach, drift stat good

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

There’s my 80+ hours of Stardew Valley in the past week lol

Making a difference!!!

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

Company I worked for committed seppuku, figured I’d find a way to relax

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

Honestly I just read the TL;DR bot in lieu of the article itself so I don’t have to think about paywall & such

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

🐧Must… DOWNVOTE… BLASPHEMY!!! /s

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

I ran a lbry seeder a few months ago to practice devops & data science.

The lbry crypto is used to hold links to every bit of content uploaded into the network, boosting content on the platform, enforcing channel names, creating paywalls for certain content on the platform, & tipping creators.

The blockchain network’s primary goal is to hold a long list of in network links that correspond to content stored on individual computers, so when you put in for example lbry://fireship#f/Java_for_haters or something like that, iirc (I’m not near my PC rn), the request goes to delegation servers which query the block chain, return the video link and then call devices on the BitTorrent lower network to send over the requested blobs.

I may be wrong on if the delegation server or the block chain is queried first, but that is basically how it works.

As for moderation/censorship, this is done on a web server built with the lbry apis delivering the videos to the client. You basically can Blocklist individual links or entire domains per se in the bc network so they will not appear on your stuff. This is how they get rid of copyright infringing stuff. Use a different client & change the moderation server and you will see videos odysee.com blocked. I believe you can setup a whitelist too.

Finally, I don’t think comments are actually built into the library protocol itself but are still managed in house by lbry/odysee inc itself. Would have to look deeper into this one, but it wasn’t baked in last time I checked.

The lack of moderation isn’t due to the lbry protocol, it’s the deliberate decision of the lbry team to avoid doing anything as much as possible to show a contrast to YouTube.

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

Iirc, uploading videos really isn’t an issue.

You find the video you want to upload, choose a thumbnail, choose like 5 tags (because like the federation that’s the main way you find stuff), potentially choose a language, then place down like 0.01 lbry credits or so for it to be uploaded to the block chain & the bittorrent network/lbry’s servers themselves.

FFmpeg is used to convert the video to a more friendly formatting on the client itself right before sending & boom, video is up.

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago

“I never doubted that I made this comment, but there have been so many posts lately insisting I did that I’m starting to think maybe I didn’t”

Uvine_Umbra, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Travel the Caribbean & document my travels & the cultures & concerns of the people I meet with my own eyes

Why not? Well, I’m an actual idiot in reading social situations, Knowing who to trust, inferring details, attempting any meaningful level of reading comprehension on the spot, avoiding the urge to hyper focus on random stuff (makes people uncomfortable sometimes), trying to be humourous in terms of wordplay, and nowadays just avoiding social exhaustion.

Now with all that, imagine the amount of judgement & talking down to I’ve gotten just entering into social events or even bars.

A trip to the Caribbean to understand people?

Not happening lmao!!!

To those of you who can, you’re all blessed.

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Georgia: 93,191 sq. mi (149,976 sq. km)

Georgia: 69.700 sq. km

Apparently well more than twice the size Population-wise too

Georgia: 10.7m

Georgia: 3,6m

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Good, real journalism is out there; it’s just being masked by all of the clickbait fluff

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Hmm, that’s better fo sho, tho a bit of extra fat don’t hurt

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago

Fees, random support networks with people from Poland to Paraná, and whatever else of an enigma of a mess agency qualm qualm demands I swear…

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago

Yup, that’s why I don’t use bing chat nor Google assistant to find info lol

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago

I don’t see consciousness as some special mental faut or whatever.

In my mind it’s a social mechanism meant to allow a more nuanced, complex and deliberate reaction to the world around it and it’s community versus a creature purely with instinct.

In my eyes then, we will know that an AI is conscious if overtime it varies it’s actions and reactions based in a way that it assumes will help guarantees its existence and future usefulness versus it’s prompt varying because that’s how X spoke to it 1 million times.

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago

Everyone has different experiences, interests, & focuses in life which determine what they prioritize.

Communities survive & die due to shared desires, understandings, & experiences after all, no matter how quaint or in someone’s eyes, misinformed it may be.

Regardless, I think the AI singularity thing is just the old mindset of we have a problem today, let’s make up a solution because it’s more comfortable to do that than accept the powerlessness of no answer.

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago

Ooo, glad she likes poetry, or at least reading

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Using it rn, it’s forked from Misskey and is in alpha rn

It feels like mastodon but they sprinkled in a few telegram features tbh.

Much better than mastodon in terms of user experience tho

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago

Too bad this becomes less effective as time goes on, this wont affect wyaland windows, only xwayland/X

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago

When are they gonna allow us to change the cursor to glow or something, it would be soo helpful, especially with fleets of airplanes in the sky

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

🙄 Im just gonna say it here:

Crypto has been dead, dying, scam, grift, rugpull, etc. for 15 years now.

And the market is still there & growing again, to die again, to grow again, to die again, rinse & repeat.

Like the fossil fuel industry & nuclear weapons, it will not disappear until something better replaces what it can do to the point its obsolete. .

Clearly, to those who keep industry value over 500 billion dollars (oh, it’s over 1 trillion again 🤷🏿‍♂️), that replacement does not exist yet.

You can cry, you can call politicians, you can bomb blockchain companies, you can scream at every bitcoin logo ever, it’s clearly here to stay.

Deal with it. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago

True Ireland

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago

This is actually often done when trying to be more eloquent or dramatic or add importance, like how Independence day is The 4th of July versus just saying Jily 4th.

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Date Formats:

Aug 9, 2023

9 Aug, 2023

8/9/2023 US

9/8/2023 GB

2023/8/9

Correct Date Formats:

9 AUG, Juche 112 ✅

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago

As an American (Georgian):

Sad there isn’t a dot in the middle of germany called NEUTRALITY

Georgia in Europe is annoying so we would call them “joor-jee-yuh” instead, at least in Augusta GA lol.

Oh, we know Ireland, most would often just give them the entire island out of ignorance & laziness tbh.

Sidenote: Ex-USSR bit is pretty effing accurate tho lol

Uvine_Umbra, 10 months ago

Yeah, but ppl i know still place it as ex-ussr fighting for freedom tbh