RegalPotoo
@RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Not the worst sales technique. 1 day ago:
This is a weirdly body-positive message for a gym; you can be fat and beautiful or skinny and ugly
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 3 weeks ago:
“Doctor” is a title you become entitled to use by virtue of holding a PhD - you have the option to use it, but nothing compels you to do so if you don’t want to.
Note that the reverse isn’t true - representing yourself as holding a doctorate when you don’t can be a fairly serious crime - if you did for the purposes of getting money from some, then it’s probably some kind of fraud
- Comment on CNC Kitchen – What is the best way to dry your desiccant? (microwave) 4 weeks ago:
Some (usually cheaper) indicating desiccants use cobalt-based dies which are fairly toxic, but unless you are using them to keep food dry it’s not a huge issue. Having them break into powder in the microwave probably isn’t great though, I’d avoid breathing any of it in
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yup, this - batteries are consumables. They have a service life of ~2-5 years depending on load. If the manual doesn’t tell you how to replace them then it’s basically ewaste already
- Comment on which VPS do you recommend? 1 month ago:
Depends on what you need:
- As cheap as possible, but actually want a VM: OCI free tier will be way bigger than you will probably need
- Happy paying money but still want to learn about Linux things: I’ve had good experiences with Scaleway
- I just want something I can set up and not think about: don’t use a VPS. Architect your site as a pure-static site, stick it in an S3 bucket. You’ll probably be within the free tier unless you do absolutely bonkers traffic, and once it’s running you can leave it alone for literal years without worrying about patches or upgrades
- Comment on "Skip ad's" YouTube and "Skip Intro" on Netflix take the same amount of effort but I only hate the former. 1 month ago:
Adding the cue marks for the skip intro takes actual effort to set up correctly
- Comment on A match made in heaven! 😍 1 month ago:
Tingly
- Comment on Donors 1 month ago:
They seem to be pretty good at making sure the military has all the finding they need
- Comment on Donors 1 month ago:
I’d be ok with anonymous donations if they were truly anonymous both publicly and to the management of the institution receiving the money.
Maybe this is something that the government could facilitate - pool these resources, then help distribute them where they are needed. Almost like how taxes work.
Maintains uncomfortable eye contact with the camera
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 1 month ago:
blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/…/creating-autonomous-s…
It’s doable, just needs a fair bit of hardware, time and money
- Comment on I have no idea how to react to this. 1 month ago:
They are in it for the vibes more than the anything
- Comment on Oh Elon 1 month ago:
What is the constitution if not a law?
- Comment on Oh Elon 1 month ago:
Since when has a trivial thing like “the law” stopped him from trying to do something he wants?
- Comment on Oh Elon 1 month ago:
Oh shit it hadn’t occurred to me that the logical end state for Elon is running for president
- Comment on #goals 2 months ago:
I’m going to use that next time I need to bail out of a story I shouldn’t have started telling
- Comment on What started “weirdo” as a slur just recently? 2 months ago:
As an additional point; “weird” isn’t a slur. A slur is an expression where the very words themselves are considered obscene - a slur is offensive, even when it is used to describe someone or something according to its strict definition.
There is no context where describing someone as a “removed” or a “retard” isn’t offensive. “Weird” isn’t like that, as you’ve pointed out - it’s being used as a simple insult, and it’s persistent because it seems to really annoy the people it is directed at
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
Digging into it a bit more, it seems like I might be better off getting a 12gb 3060 - similar price point, but much newer silicon
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
8700g
Hah, I’ve pretty recently picked up an Epyc 7452, so not really looking for a new platform right now.
The Arc cards are interesting, will keep those in mind
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
Thanks for the tips! I’m looking for something multi-purpose for LLM/stable diffusion messing about + transcoder for jellyfin - I’m guessing that there isn’t really a sweet spot for those 3. I don’t really have room or power budget for 2 cards, so I guess a P40 is probably the best bet?
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
Personally I can’t wait for a few good bankruptcies so I can pick up a couple of high end data centre GPUs for cents on the dollar
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 months ago:
Ah yes, WordPress, renowned for it’s robust social engagement tools.
It’s the kind of decision you announce over Zoom so people don’t riot
- Comment on If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite? 2 months ago:
Basically none. The satellite link isn’t getting traffic directly between you and the server you are reaching - the satellite just relays the data to the nearest ground station that then uses the normal fibre network to get the rest of the way.
Even if you managed to reconfigure starlink to be a peering network rather than an access network, you’d still have the issue that the starlink network as a whole has orders of magnitude less bandwidth than even one under sea cable
- Comment on Should I distill IPA (isopropanol alcohol) at home for 3D-printing? 2 months ago:
lithium batteries
People in the office next to mine deal with prototype lithium cells and yeah, terrifying. They charge them in a special fire cabinet in case they go pop, and have buckets of sand everywhere (although the official advice is to not bother, gtfo). If you plot energy density on a line, there is an overlap between the highest density lithium cells and lowest density high explosives
- Comment on Would it count in basketball, if a player found themselves directly under the hoop, threw the ball up through the hoop from underneath, and the ball fell back down, again through the hoop? 2 months ago:
Only if a dog does it.
Is that the plot of Air Bud? Idk, I only know the meme
- Comment on Cords 2 months ago:
That’s not the point. Normal, sensible people make mistakes because they are tired or stressed or got distracted or just plain unlucky, so things have to be designed so that people can make a mistake and it not instantly create a potentially lethal situation
- Comment on Cords 2 months ago:
You can, but if forgetting to flip a switch can result in death, then you need a stronger safety control
- Comment on Cords 2 months ago:
Yeah, there is a reason why proper installations require actual transfer switches or at least a manual interlock to prevent both feeds being connected at the same time. I’m also not sure what would happen if your generator was out of phase with the grid when it reenergised, but I’m sure it wouldn’t be good
- Comment on Cords 2 months ago:
It’s not that it won’t work - polarity doesn’t quite work like that in AC systems - it’s that as soon as you plug in one end, the other end has a pair of exposed metal contacts with mains voltage between them. One mistake, touching the contacts or having them come into something metal (like the ladder you are using to hang the Christmas lights) and someone dies
- Comment on Mouth feel 2 months ago:
Would it be better or worse if you got a friend to come and kneel down with their hands behind their back so you could “check the balance”?
- Comment on Trump promotes family's new crypto platform, 'The Defiant Ones' 2 months ago:
So politics aside, would you really put any money into a financial system run by someone with a proven track record of driving businesses into bankruptcy?