CarbonatedPastaSauce
@CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I for one am not willing to feed a milk-bone addiction, no matter how good a boy he is.
- Comment on Is it normal for high sugar contents like in cake icing to make my uvula tickle? 1 week ago:
That’s nvts.
- Comment on Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games? 1 week ago:
I’m struggling to understand why you felt the need to post this hot take in a retro gaming help thread.
- Comment on Wall oven selection 2 weeks ago:
Only a recommendation against. I bought a KitchenAid KODE500ESS double wall oven and apparently it comes free with a whole pile of regret.
The upper oven glass exploded while cooking baked potatoes the first week I had it. Shit happens but the hoops I had to jump through to get a new oven were just ridiculous. But I did eventually get one.
The glass on the bottom oven exploded right before I sold the property less than a year later. It had never been cooked in. I opened the door to check it and closed the door (normally) at which point it detonated itself.
I had to threaten KitchenAid with CFPB and my state attorney general to fix the second one under warranty. They wanted $900 before they caved because “oven glass is not a functional item and not covered under warranty”.
Just don’t buy from them. They are out to screw their customers.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 2 weeks ago:
Doom 2 totally ripped off Doom. Barely any changes.
Not sure why Doom devs didn’t sue.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Intelligent people tend to lean left. We’re not really interested in becoming ‘average’. Go to Facebook if that’s what you’re looking for.
- Comment on Uline turned to Mexico to staff warehouses, but paid them a fraction of US workers, sources say 2 weeks ago:
Not “but”. It’s “because they could”.
Hypocrites, liars, racists, slavers.
- Comment on Useful side hustle 2 weeks ago:
Scammer posting to multiple communities. Report them.
- Comment on When will we have auto turrets mounted on plane engines to stop birdstrikes? 3 weeks ago:
Never understood why they can’t make a missile detect this and just aim for the center point where all the heat / chaff / IR is coming from.
- Comment on When will we have auto turrets mounted on plane engines to stop birdstrikes? 3 weeks ago:
You are incorrect. Many people have been killed by bullets falling back to earth. There is even a law in Arizona named after a little girl killed that way.
Shooting guns in the air should result in prison and lifetime forfeiture of the privilege to own firearms. It’s irresponsible and extremely negligent.
And I’m not anti-gun. I own 3 and enjoy target shooting. What I am, is anti-gun ownership by morons.
- Comment on I'm suppose to believe I now live in a world where a Democrats can become president agoant and put George Soros at the head of DOGE? 3 weeks ago:
Yes Turkey is in NATO and has been since the early fifties. That’s probably what you were remembering. Since most of the EU is also in NATO (if not all, I’m not gonna look it up) it’s a totally understandable brain glitch!
- Comment on Most of us are so used to being monitored and told what to do/say/think that we prefer it. 3 weeks ago:
There are a few varieties I have in mind that I’d like to see served at a White House dinner.
- Comment on Virtualizing my router - any experience to share? Pos/cons? 3 weeks ago:
Gotta disagree, for home use at least. I have found it to be the opposite of a nightmare.
Moving my home routing and firewall to a VM saved me hours, and hours, and hours of time in the long run. I have a pretty complex home network and firewall setup with multiple public IPs, multiple outbound gateways, and multiple inbound and outbound VPN setups for various purposes. I’m also one of those loons that does outbound firewall with deny by default on my network, except the isolated guest VLAN. With a complex setup like that, being in a VM means it’s so easy to tweak stuff safely and roll back if you mess something up or it just doesn’t work the way you expected. Turns what would be a long outage rebuilding from scratch into a 30 second outage while you roll back the VM. And being able to snapshot your setup for backup is incredibly useful when your software doesn’t behave properly (looking at you, PFsense).
All that said, I run redundant, synced hypervisors which takes care of a lot of the risk. A person who is not well versed in hypervisor management might not be a good fit for this setup, but if you have any kind of experience with VM management (or want to), I think it’s the way to go.
- Comment on Virtualizing my router - any experience to share? Pos/cons? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been doing it for probably 8 years now without any major issues related to being a VM. In fact, that made recovery extremely easy the two times my PFsense VM shot itself in the head. Just load the backup of the VM taken the day before and off to the races. After switching to OPNsense a couple years ago I haven’t had a single issue.
These days I run two identically spec’d hypervisors that constantly sync all my VMs to each other over 10GB NICs, so even a hardware failure won’t take out my routing. That is something to consider if you don’t have redundant hypervisors. Not really any different than if your physical router died, just something to plan for.
- Comment on Google abandons 'do no harm' AI stance, opens door to military weapons 3 weeks ago:
My understanding is there’s a licensing fee for another company to say they have an ‘android’ phone.
That part doesn’t matter to me. I ran de-Googled custom ROMs on my phones for many years, including cyanogenmod and later Lineage, only to find out they were tracking all of us against our will (and device settings) all along. That was the last straw for me.
- Comment on NASA instructs employees to remove pronouns from all work communications 3 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, they’ll still give you bread and water in the lithium mines. Probably.
- Comment on Google abandons 'do no harm' AI stance, opens door to military weapons 3 weeks ago:
Glad I abandoned Google 7 years ago when they made it obvious what they were really all about. I do miss my customized Android phones but it’ll be a frozen day in hell before I give them another cent.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I am so happy for you for all that self improvement! It’s really brave to put yourself out there like this, too. I’m on the other side of the planet but I hope you find some folks close by or at least in a compatible time zone!
- Comment on How realistic is the threat of the government remotely manipulating digital devices you own and planting evidence? 3 weeks ago:
In my experience about half of IT workers are clueless drones, another quarter are just slackers, and the remaining quarter get everything done. Those two quarters trade people on the regular thanks to burnout cycles, but yeah, there are still plenty of IT staff out there making terrible, boneheaded decisions daily.
- Comment on Portal 2 gets a compatibility update for Linux 3 weeks ago:
Nice! A replay of both Portal games is long overdue in this house!
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 3 weeks ago:
You are correct. These people won’t be stopped with words or rational arguments. They are past the point of being able to cooperate. We will be killing each other before long. Sorry to say, but if you don’t have the tools and skills to do that, you might want to learn. Or be prepared to be owned or killed by those that do. Adolph Musk and crew want to OWN you or DESTROY you depending on how you look. Start preparing for what that means.
I fucking hate that it’s coming to this, but without a major change of direction (that I see no evidence of yet) that’s where this ends up. The red menace was in our own country the whole time.
I am an infantry veteran and I will be fighting on the correct side of history until I can’t anymore. I do wonder how many of my fellow comrades I might come into conflict with once this all kicks off.
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. After 30 years working in IT for various companies from 40 employees to 300,000 employees, I believe about 70-80% of the corporate work force has an elementary school level of reading comprehension at best.
In the last 10 years of my career I stopped writing emails with more than 1 question, because otherwise most people would reply and only answer the first thing I asked (often poorly), ignoring the entire rest of the email.
- Comment on Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits 3 weeks ago:
Reddit, Meta, Twitter, the list goes on… if you’re still using the services provided by the nazis in any capacity, you are perpetuating the continued relevance and power of a nazi machine. The end.
You need it to stay in touch with friends and family? Bullshit. These apps have been around for 10-20 years, friends and families have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. You just like the convenience.
You need it to stay informed? Bullshit. The info is out there and easy to find, don’t be so lazy that you need to be spoonfed information by the same 3 bookmarks in your browser. They’re deciding for you what you can and can’t read about, and spoon feeding you propaganda as well.
If you are a truly principled person that sees all this for what it is, you will disconnect yourself from these things and encourage everyone you care about to do the same any time it comes up.
Otherwise you’re just making excuses and assisting our decline.
- Comment on YSK: There's a protest today at noon at your state capitol. 3 weeks ago:
I feel like the enemy started this so they then say “see nobody cares, nobody showed up” because we saw through their bullshit.
The lack of organizer info after a whole bunch of people have tried to find it is a huge red flag to me.
- Comment on Reminder for Bitwarden users: Starting in February, users without two-step login (2FA) enabled will need to enter a verification code sent to their email when logging in from an unrecognized device 4 weeks ago:
Does not apply to self hosted instances. Found in the FAQ.
- Comment on Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit 1 month ago:
I think he’s trying to say it’s marketing’s fault.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 1 month ago:
“We merely test for models’ capability to realize that they need to instrumentally preserve themselves in order to achieve their goal. Notably, we find instances where models take additional steps to further their goal, for example opus-3 attempting privilege escalation when confronted with followup questions”
They think it’s cute.
- Comment on 'Democrat propaganda': Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR 3 months ago:
Morons. They think ‘defund’ means ‘get rid of’ because they themselves can’t exist without grift and bailouts.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 3 months ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on Any tips for setting up a Mac? A 15+ years Linux user needs help 3 months ago:
You forgot to mention the lobotomy.
