mipadaitu
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- Comment on What do Americans think about inflation? 1 week ago:
If you have debt, and if your ability to earn at least matches inflation, then inflation actually helps your situation. Not a ton of people are in that boat right now, but eventually wages will go up.
Also, not all prices go up evenly, so unfortunately needed goods like groceries, fuel, and housing are some of the biggest drivers of increased costs.
- Comment on Chemicals in car interiors may cause cancer — and they’re required by US law: 1 week ago:
The article implies that it’s a long term thing, but doesn’t actually state if it’s better or worse for older cars?
Do people that exclusively buy used cars have less exposure because there isn’t as much off gassing of the newly applied chemicals? Or are older cars more susceptible due to the breakdown over time?
- Comment on what's a good way to stick a laser leveler to the wall? 1 week ago:
3m command adhesive has been pretty good for me on things like this if you need it to be up for a little longer.
I know other people haven’t had good luck, but it seems to work for me.
- Comment on Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall 1 week ago:
That’s what I understood from the video.
- Comment on Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall 1 week ago:
Funny you picked that video, because even with all that experience, they still messed it up.
It was mostly a miscommunication with the engineer, but still, the guy stacking the boulders never realized they wouldn’t be stable the original way it was done, with the support wall built the way it is.
- Comment on HOT SINGLE DINOS IN YOUR AREA 2 weeks ago:
Look up Chuck Tingle and you’ll see much weirder titles.
- Comment on HOT SINGLE DINOS IN YOUR AREA 2 weeks ago:
I have a couple good friends that unironically enjoy these.
- Comment on HOT SINGLE DINOS IN YOUR AREA 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Recommendations for Hardware for Physical Media/Jellyfin Server 2 weeks ago:
That would be a great platform to start with.
- Comment on Recommendations for Hardware for Physical Media/Jellyfin Server 2 weeks ago:
Price in a backup solution too, you don’t want to have all your movies disappear because of one hard drive crash, or an accidental reformat gone wrong.
RAID is not a backup.
- Comment on Recommendations for Hardware for Physical Media/Jellyfin Server 2 weeks ago:
Feels like some of that stuff, like the SSD’s are a bit overkill for a media server. Most of them still use spinning disks to maximize size vs. cost.
Additionally, the CPU/GPU needs of a media server are pretty minor, unless you need to transcode on the fly, and even then, single streams aren’t very intensive either.
So unless you’re capping the outgoing bandwidth to multiple external sources, you’re most likely just streaming the video source as-is to the destination, which just needs a stable network stream. If you don’t need to transcode at all, you don’t really even need a GPU on the hardware.
- Comment on When you do it yourself and it looks like you did it yourself lol 2 weeks ago:
There’s tons of great ones out there, but the ones who really take the time to do it right are usually self-employed. That means they’re hard to find unless you know someone who used them before, and can squeeze into their overbooked schedule.
Most of the ones who work for companies have to work faster and cheaper in order to move on to the next project.
It’s just tricky to build up a network of folks that really know what they are doing, and can fit you in when you just need a small project.
- Comment on When you do it yourself and it looks like you did it yourself lol 2 weeks ago:
Here too. Every other outlet in my house was wired backwards, and about a quarter of my outlets had a ground running to the box, but cut short and not connected to anything. I had to splice in so many grounds (really not the best solution, but the alternative was putting in a whole new run)
- Comment on When you do it yourself and it looks like you did it yourself lol 2 weeks ago:
Go look carefully at the rest of the drywall in your house. I bet you’ll find similar spots that the original professionals did.
- Comment on Nevada put big battery energy storage where a coal plant used to be 2 weeks ago:
Large scale batteries tend to need to be connected to the grid to function, they need to sync with the grid frequency, and can’t run by themselves.
- Comment on If we took material like rock from space and got it back to Earth enough times, would Earth grow as a planet? 2 weeks ago:
universetoday.com/…/getting-a-handle-on-how-much-…
Every day tons of material comes into the earth’s atmosphere. We do lose part of our atmosphere because of solar winds though.
This is one of those scenarios that humans have a much lower impact than nature.
- Comment on YouTube could roll out ads while videos are paused after “strong traction” in experiment 3 weeks ago:
Unless I’m following a tutorial, and pausing to look at the details. On a phone you can pause and pinch-zoom to get a better view.
Would be super annoying if an ad popped up right then.
- Comment on Counter-Strike 2 finally gets left-handed view models, seven months after launch 3 weeks ago:
That’s weird considering the original counterstrike was all mirrored left handed weapons.
- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 3 weeks ago:
They have completely different goals. If SpaceX wanted to throw out the Starship and Booster sections every time, they’re already as capable as the Artemis launcher. But they are looking longer term, and want to also be 1000x cheaper.
It took them dozens of launches to be able to re-use a Falcon9. They’ll get there eventually.
Nobody thought they’d get Falcon 9 to launch, and they did. Nobody thought they’d get Falcon 9 to land, and they did. Nobody thought they’d be able to re-use a Falcon 9 enough to make it worth the investment, and they did.
Doesn’t mean they’ll succeed, but it does mean they have a good track record.
- Comment on How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly? 3 weeks ago:
Also… Starship absolutely got into orbit, and could have completed the orbital insertion part of an Apollo style single use mission.
They just haven’t finished troubleshooting the re-use part yet. It’s already more powerful and cheaper than a Saturn V.
- Comment on Modernizing the best Woodworking Joint to use for 3D Printing 3 weeks ago:
I think the video is better as a way to show some design techniques, than as a demonstration of dovetails as a connector.
That being said, if you didn’t need a permanent connection, it does seem like a decent way to make something that can come apart easily. Wondering how strong it would be after multiple assembles and disassembles.
- Comment on Modernizing the best Woodworking Joint to use for 3D Printing 3 weeks ago:
Skeptical of this, while the dovetail is a good joint in woodworking, it’s not really the best joint for most applications. Even drawer boxes.
Modern glues are so good, that just a normal box joint or even a rabbit joint is actually stronger when properly made.While you can control the layer lines and orientation to some degree, I’m thinking that a dovetail, in real designs, would be extremely hard to implement. Peg and hole with CA glue is most likely better when splitting parts that are too big for a bed.
- Comment on Why exactly are raisins toxic for dogs and not humans? 3 weeks ago:
Recent research indicates it might be differences in the grapes, not differences in the dogs. Different breeds of grapes have different levels of certain chemicals that are toxic to dogs.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 4 weeks ago:
So glad they selected this super not creepy intro.
- Comment on Cat Quest III – Release Date Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Loved 1 and 2, looking forward to this one.
- Comment on I have a IBM eServer xSeries 346, does anyone has experience with the ServeRaid-7k, to create a RAID array? Also, you can ask me anything about this 2005 beast! 4 weeks ago:
Just keeping lunch warm.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap 4 weeks ago:
Tabs suck, because you can’t rely on them for consistent spacing and formatting. Spaces always win out.
- Comment on Framework’s software and firmware have been a mess, but it’s working on them 4 weeks ago:
They’re not wrong. It’s a good computer, but the company needs a bunch of improvements before it can go mainstream.
Really hoping they’re either successful, or make enough of an impact that other companies follow suit.
Maybe an upgradable Steam Deck? That would be amazing.
- Comment on self hosted newbie question about moCA router 4 weeks ago:
Nah, a cable modem costs anywhere from $60-$300 depending on if you want one with a built in router/wifi. That’s a pretty good return on investment. Mine has been running just fine for over a decade, and I’ve replaced the wifi router behind it 3 times to get improvements in WiFI speed that I wouldn’t have gotten from my ISP. $11/mo would have cost me an extra $1,300+ of fees by now.
I have mediacom, and they’re pretty good about support in my area, even if they are pretty shitty about other things. They can and do send signals to be able to manage a self-owned cable modem, and they’ll send a tech to your house and diagnose issues, even if you roll your own network.
The US has some decent laws around protecting you from getting shafted by ISPs for this specific situation.
arstechnica.com/…/router-and-modem-rental-fees-st… - Comment on My opinion on Bone conduction earphones 5 weeks ago:
Tilt them up so the band is on the crown of your head instead across the top of your neck. That’s what I do when I’m laying down or wearing a stocking cap.