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saigot,

There are a lot more authors who took inspiration from shakespeare than Steven King. Shakespeare is just objectively more influential, tropes he invented are used all the time in many places and there is value to understanding where the source comes from.

saigot,

As far as the staff are concerned If the place is packed then I think it’s a tad dickish to repeatedly not get anything. It’s there’s still lots of free space then it’s no big deal.

WRT to your other buddies you are taking a bit of a privilege, if all the other people you were going with were also unwilling to buy anything then you would run into trouble wouldn’t you. Pointing out someone isn’t buying is imo much much ruder though.

Although personally dropping a fiver every 2 weeks to avoid interpersonal conflict seems like a pretty good deal. Ultimately how your other friends view it and the social standing of the complainer matter a lot. If the hobby has shared supplies I would make extra sure that you are contributing your fair share there.

saigot,

This is going to be a sentiment that will anger a lot of people (and it should) but banning ICEs will, in the short term, price a lot of people out of being able to own a car, and that will drive a lot of demand for improved transit. It’s definitely not the best way to do it, but I think it will have an indirect effect on transit.

saigot, (edited )

I’ve owned a car for 3 years and I have 0 desire for a fast home charger (my garage already has a 240V plug, I just don’t care enough to pay for the wall wart it needs). overnight in a standard outlet is more than enough to handle usual driving. I only need the range for road trips, in which I’m using public chargers anyways.

saigot,

If you go on Canada.ca you can see all the history of the payments as well as how those payments were delivered and if there was some sort of problem, that’s probably the best place to start.

saigot,

Blame modern standby (s0i3). S0i3 is a huge mess honestly, really hard to debug from what I’ve heard and so is full of bugs and unintuitive behaviour on both the hw manufacturers side and on windows side. However if it worked as advertised, it would be a strict improvement to s3.

Hibrrnate (S4) is still alive and well but they hide it in the ui, I don’t understand why because in my experience, it is by far the most stable.

saigot,

Seems like a pretty good plan, hope the new designs are energy efficient!

Is linux good for someone tech illererate.

Now i’ve been considering moving to linux. I don’t have much of a history using a computer and find it tougher to use than my phone. But I also really appreciate the foss movement. I’ve currently got an old laptop running windows 11 I think and it would prolly speed up with linux too. But I’m afraid I’d fuck smth up...

saigot, (edited )

Depends on just how illiterate imo.

Here’s a good usecase:

My mum is completely tech illiterate, I have to teach her how to every task individually, and she has to write them down and follow them step my step. Tasks like emailing a document are a challenge. Linux is great for her. She isn’t used to windows anyway, and Linux makes it harder for her to accidentally make damaging changes, collect viruses or experience unexpected ui updates. It has much less maintaince, so it’s a lot less work for me to manage the system.

Here’s a bad usecase:

You are a user who can do the basics of using a website, install new apps, use usb drives etc etc. You are used to windows ui like where to find apps, where the close button is etc. You dont have a tech friend set up your stuff but if something goes wrong you are boned. This isn’t a good use unless you are interesting in becoming more tech literate (its easier to learn, if you can google your problems).

saigot,

I would argue that all ions are still atoms. More importantly, not all water molecules ionize under regular conditions, the vast majority in fact remains in molecular form.

saigot,

I’m personally a fan of WizTree

saigot,

It’s just a static button for me:

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/27ac3736-2e54-44bb-93c6-d6ee984d9847.png

saigot,

You have 12 finger joints which you can count with the thumb.

saigot,

Good road design lowers the number people like to travel at. All these speed goals are easily obtainable if the road is narrow enough.

saigot,

Well maybe this is too basic but here are the most important to me:

formal implication:

X ⇒ Y (X implies Y)

means that if X is true, Y is also true. Note that the reverse is not necessarily true, Y being true does not mean X is true (or that X is false). There is truly a staggering number of people who make this mistake in thinking all the time. And If X ⇒ Y and Y ⇒ X then X ⇔Y (X if and only if Y).

Understanding ∀ (for all) and ∃ (there exists) is also very valuable.

Understanding these concepts is enough to understand the basic notation of a lot of math, with it you can start reading basic math papers and really expand your horizons.

saigot,

I don’t think that dildo has a flared base.

saigot,

It disables the ice/water dispenser, any ui elements and makes the light not turn on.

saigot,

Also get a laser printer. They cost more but are much better suited to infrequent use, with an ink jet the ink will dry out if you don’t use it, a laser printer can be left alone for ling periods. A black and white laser printer is about as expensive as a colour ink jet. I really like my brother b&w laserprinter.

Why does Gboard replace spaces with characters I add between words?

For example, if I type out a sentence and decide I want to add asterisks around a word for emphasis, why does Gboard replace the space between the previous word and the emphasized word instead of just adding the new character? Is this added functionality for something I just don’t understand?...

saigot,

I used swipe a lot until I got a big phone (a glaxy fold), with the wide screen I find I use swipe typing less and less. As soon as you can comfortably use two thumbs at once it gets much faster and you also dint have to worry about typing words tvat arent in the dictionary. I can tap type at 60wpm fwiw.

saigot,

Toronto’s new city mayor rides a bike to work, very refreshing.

saigot,

I too don’t have any ads whatsoever.

I have modified a lot of settings too many to remember, but I also realized recently I am using an ancient windows education license nit the standard one. I bet that makes a big difference.

saigot,

Which is weird

spoilerbecause boost has a button to add spoilers.

saigot,

I have always thought it would be incredibly easy for terrorists to shutdown oil pipelines if they tried. 1000’s of km of completely isolated unguarded pipeline. But Sabotage would be devastating to the local environment, even if it would save the global one long term.

saigot,

I agree but I also wouldn’t call something like that terrorism either. Turning a valve can be reversed in seconds, some sort of destructive sabotage could take months to repair.

saigot, (edited )

YouTube link for those that want to see it for themselves. ~~m.youtube.com/watch?v=3T175LTQFnw~~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l71Hh1gPkE

To me the biggest problem with it is that it doesn’t understand the relationship between the meanings of the words and the melody of the song. It kinda makes it sound like a bad parody song. I think if you looked at just the lyrics or just the melody they would be quite convincing on their own.

saigot,

So my bad, this video is not made by the creators of the song, but by an anti-AI person, they added the subtitles, the cutaways to evil robots and the weird message at the end. They are also called “Big Data Analytics”.

Here’s something that looks more legit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l71Hh1gPkE

saigot,

What a wonderful multinational corporation, spending all this money out of the goodness of their heart! It’s moves like this that let me know I can trust Microsoft™

saigot,

I think the goal is to eat market share away from Steam, once users are too invested in the platform to switch (and/or steam is no longer relevant) then they start hiking the prices. It has the added effect of reducing the switch to linux momentum that the steamdeck started, but perhaps that is still too small to get MS’s attention

saigot,

Imagine looking at this as someone who has never heard of lemmy. You are pulling people off the forum to a place that seems to have a poorly obfuscated “fedish” in the title in order to “talk”. IDK I can see how people might assume you are a spam bot.

saigot,

There’s a lot of very motivated people trying g to stop adblockers on many platforms, I’ve never seen one that works without severely limiting the user experience.

And remember these are the most convenient and useful form of adblock. I don’t think there is anything a site could do to stop the user just throwing a black box over the ad and muting the page.

Ultimately, no security works when the attacker has absolute control over the hardware.

saigot, (edited )

I don’t think they really have a goal of replacing youtube. I think the end goal is becoming an old school style media production organization, one that is collectively owned and bridges the Gap between social media and Hollywood.

saigot,

I think you are looking at individual income where household is more appropriate. The median after tax household income is 68k. So that’s still 50% doing worse, but it’s a little better than you make out.

saigot,

70k per household is the top 50% of renters not the top 30 like you say.

saigot,

Because signing these documents must be accompanied by a doctor explaining things (informed consent) I don’t think it’s really possible for people to not realize what they are agreeing to.

Also because it is medical information it will be held to a much higher privacy standard than is typical.

For these reasons I don’t really think a privacy argument makes sense and the case to reduce harm seems pretty robust.

saigot,

Statements like this make people take privacy less seriously. I don’t see how a music streaming site could possibly function without at least indirectly collecting the information displayed in the wrap up.

saigot,

Yeah someone definitely could.

saigot,

In case you are unaware current advice is to avoid brushing for a while after an acidic food or drink

saigot,

I’ve been lockpicking for a year or two, I don’t think ever actually used it in the field at all though.

saigot,

Buckets is a free alternative that I switched to when ynab massively increased the price and dropped their grandfathering agreement. Same principals as ynab, but suited me a lot better and is much much cheaper.

saigot, (edited )

If YouTube finally takes away subscriptions then I’m gone from YouTube. I am one of the few people I guess that just logs in every day watches almost all my subs vids and then leaves. None of the algoithmic shenanigans directly effect me and I don’t think YouTube stands a chance of winning the adblockers stuff. Other than that it’s hard to imagine leaving, even if everyone jumped ship the archive of YouTube alone is so huge.

How do you know if your server (e.g. lemmy.world) is federated with another server?

I want to see a list for each popular server (e.g. the top 10 lemmy instances) and I want to see - for each instance - with whom they federate. How can I do this? Any sure-fire way to know if a instance like HexBear.net is being federated with lemmy.world? How do you know?

saigot, (edited )

I’m pretty sure it sticks around forever, I clicked on a few without “software” or “verison” filled in at random and most 404’d or 503’d.

saigot,

Steam has a pretty sustainable business model but If steam goes evil, their first step will be going public, until then they can continue making long term decisions. Them going public will be a long enough run way for me to move off the platform at least.

What worries me is gamepass, which is definitely trying to trap users right now, eating steams lunch. They will definitely become complete shit, that’s their whole business model.

saigot,

I’m in a house. I want to live in a different house. I can’t afford a different house. Make houses cheaper.

At least how I see it house prices rising is good for you short term if you are hopping from one house to another. For instance I bought my first house in 2020 for 800k, I sold for 1.1mil and bought a 600k house (so I don’t get screwed when my mortage renews) that 300k I ‘made’ from the sale gets to go directly to making my mortgage cheaper and/or renovations.

If house prices drop below what you have left on your mortage then it becomes quite difficult to move, especially if you are upgrading, unless I am missing something.

If you don’t plan on moving then the value doesn’t really matter much at all besides possibly lowering land tax (but land tax valuations are really divorced from the market rate)

This is a selfish take of course, I think housing prices need to go down, and part of why I choose my current home is because it’s a forever home and I don’t ever plan on selling so I don’t need to care about how the housing market fluxuates. One way or another someone is going to get caught holding the bag, I think home owners are a lot more likely to absorb that damage than most others.

Housing is complex, and I am ni expert, so how do you think this reasoning is incorrect.

saigot,

Ah okay you just don’t understand hyperbole. Have a good day.

saigot,

So if it’s been unchanged for decades then you can just add it yourself and recompile the kernel. Elsewhere you argue that you can’t just add old drivers to a newer kernel, which implies these drivers require some nontrivial amount of maintaince. Which is it.

saigot,

I see darkest dungeon 2 is on sale. I remember being excited to play it on release before seeing it was an exclusive, so I might pick it up on sale now.

saigot,

So far I kinda like it. I got major decision paralysis late game in DD1 because I was afraid of screwing up my whole campaign whenever I took a break. I like that the consequences of failure seem more localized in DD2. I can see why that would annoy people who really like the original.

saigot,

gamepass is amazing.

Gamepass terrifies me. Don’t let what happened to movies and TV happen to games.

saigot,

Yeah it’s crazy. I started making my own wet dog food (i give him about 50% wet and dry food). Chicken hearts or liver, carrots, a frozen veggie medley (just be careful it’s all dog safe) brown rice and pumpkin in an instant pot. Cost per unit is about 60c, but I get most of it from a farmers market which brings the cost down a lot. Takes about an hour to makeevery 3 weeks, then I scoop it out into baby food containers and freeze them, and reheat in the microwave before feeding it to my dog. He loves them and seems a lot more healthy. It really was a big win all around for me, only downside is his shit smells way worse now.

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