foggy
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- Comment on YSK: The pulled *60 Minutes* CECOT segment aired in Canada and is available online 12 hours ago:
I, for the first time in my life, downloaded and securely stored a 60 minutes segment.
- Comment on A billion dollars and a Ferrari doesn't matter if all you have are bumpy torn up roads with potholes to drive on 5 days ago:
So, you’re statement makes sense if you remove the part about a billion dollars.
Brother, with a billion dollars I’d buy a yacht in a desert.
- Comment on YSK that Elena Kostyuchenko is an extraordinarily brave woman. 6 days ago:
If they were an athlete, American announcers would say “KOTS-A-CHANKO”.
- Comment on Celebrating anti-intellectualism is the biggest danger to humanity 6 days ago:
It’s literally ingrained into American culture.
From “ignorance is bliss” to Lisa Simpson, From Don Draper to Peggy Hill.
Anti Intellectualism is as American as Apple Pie. (Which is Dutch).
- Comment on Sheep dogs probably think sheep are just dumb dogs that need looked after 6 days ago:
Pretty sure all dogs think all things that walk are just big or small, smart or dumb dogs.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 week ago:
In going to block you because you’re insisting on having a conversation with me that I am at this point stately not having.
Bye.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 week ago:
No one is talking about cities here.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 week ago:
The US isn’t even in the top 20 for murders per capita.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 1 week ago:
Yeah, many Western European maps still refer to it as Alemania, which in beer contexts is quite a hoot :)
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 1 week ago:
I’ve always found it mildly xenophobic that basically 0 nations refer to any other nation by what that nation refers to itself as.
- Comment on People who can't find respect and fulfillment connecting with others seek respect and fulfillment in dominating others instead. 2 weeks ago:
I think some seek to dominate fields and not others.
Like, I don’t think you get to be the best unless you are the former.
I don’t think Usain Bolt lost sleep over other runners, for example. I do think he lost sleep over failing to break through plateaues on his ascent.
A competitive spirit can be healthy. An adversarial one cannot.
- Comment on How do you handle junk email? 4 weeks ago:
I recently looked at my emails spam filters and my goodness. I’ve built a monstrosity over a few decades here.
- Comment on Tutorial series for self hosting beginners? 4 weeks ago:
Idk of any good series but techno tin has a great video on using cloudflare and traefik to get wildcard letsencrypt ssls for your docker services.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward? 4 weeks ago:
Most obvious reason that comes to mind is cooling. All the HVAC in the world isnt going to be able to stop 50 floors of server rack heat from spilling onto the 51st floor, etc.
This is also a nightmare for fire suppression systems.
- Comment on Laptop Suggestion - highest “Quality × Performance / Price” - 2025-11 4 weeks ago:
In many Linux users opinion, yes. The Lenovo Thinkpad is goated. I’d share that opinion. Very happy with mine and it’s 6 years old.
- Comment on Laptop Suggestion - highest “Quality × Performance / Price” - 2025-11 4 weeks ago:
If you need AI, you need a minimum of 4gb VRAM in your GPU. But really… 8gb…
Get a Lenovo Thinkpad new with 8gb VRAM and 32gb ram.
- Comment on Laptop Suggestion - highest “Quality × Performance / Price” - 2025-11 4 weeks ago:
Now is the time to scope out used Lenovo thinkbooks if you’re good installing Linux on it.
Businesses everywhere tossing them out now that win10 support is dead.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 5 weeks ago:
Depends. Startle response is pretty beast.
In general pretty quick. Anywhere from instant to about 1 hour.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 5 weeks ago:
I present to you a wild notion:
Adobe OS.
They have the market value and revenue to do what steam is doing.
They could make switching a cost save if the OS integrates vertically with the creative cloud.
To be clear, I don’t want this and would t use it. But any business with licenses would say “wait… Ditch Microsoft and… Poof?”
All that Microsoft provides any business at this point is AD/Azure.
I feel like Microsoft is taking massive Ls between now and 2030. I don’t think Adobe is gonna do this, I’m just saying if they did, it could work. Microsoft is a weak giant right now.
- Comment on What is an efficient workflow to separate and organize bulk scanned PDF documents? (At work; software is limited.) 5 weeks ago:
Am I understanding this that you have some number of .pdf files that are 40-60 pages each and within them, there exist documents varying from 2 to 10 pages, and your task is to parse them?
If so, how many .PDFs are we talking here? You said on paper it’s like 8cm high? So like 1000 pages ish?
So like 20 .PDFs?
Just… Do it, dawg. The amount of time you spent on this post you coulda finished 1 of those PDFs. That’s 5% of the task. Do that 19 more times.
If you’re asking “can Adobe Acrobat break a 60 page .pdf into some number of .PDFs based on page numbers I tell it to,” the answer is yes.
- Comment on YSK that in 1994, Ukraine voluntarily gave up nuclear weapons. Europe and the United States promised they would defend Ukraine if it was ever threatened. 5 weeks ago:
However, at the time, the person making and in charge of keeping that promise was not a Russian asset.
- Comment on YSK: Your local library card often gives you free access to streaming services, digital magazines, audiobooks, and even online courses. 5 weeks ago:
More people need to know about
I’m not gonna tell you about him beyond the fact that he’s an EDM artist known as The Flashbulb from basically the era of Aphex Twin. And he’s still quite relevant in the scene.
He did a video on how much it’d cost you in taxes to have all art for free forever and have artist paid well without 3rd part private companies. And literally every tax paying, private service subscribing human should know and vote accordingly.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 5 weeks ago:
I think the bulk of users are running discarded junk and raspberry pis.
That was me, I built a ~$5k rig and now some of what I’m doing is just nonsense of a typical self hoster, so the point is somewhat valid, but even those like me mostly started out with discarded junk and raspberry pis.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 month ago:
Yep, while I have enough service. If I’m good and load a playlist before I leave it usually makes it through the dead zones.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 1 month ago:
It is pronounced like pony; pown.
This isn’t even a debate. It’s canon.
- Comment on How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ? 1 month ago:
You think any given gated community lacks the cash to towe a pile-up?
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 month ago:
I genuinely have never paired Bluetooth headphones to my phone. So I haven’t worn headphones for a phone since the 3.8mm jack was taken from us.
I listen to music when I drive and I wear headphones on my PC.
Walking? 99% of the time that’s exercise like hiking, and I raw dog that shit. Listen to nature and and my surroundings.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 1 month ago:
Mentioned the waterfall in the second post I this thread.
Go read a book.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 1 month ago:
Wow, youre a fucking asshole.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 1 month ago:
I have an electric car as well.
I generate my own electricity.