Smoogs
@Smoogs@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 1 week ago:
So getting to the point: I’m not sure of the point you’re making here as the reference you’re using is all domestic funded in the US. You didnt provide the comparison to the international. And the point of the post was that the going up is the bubble OP is worried about. You’ve done nothing more than establish what was already the fact OP was posting on. We are well past this.
If youre laying down information I’m checking it because there’s a lot of misguidance and misinformation online. If you think it’s not appropriate to call it out then you have a big problem here. I’m not going to apologize for being a critical thinker and you’re just going to have to figure out a way to live with that cuz compromising myself isnt going to come at the cost of approval from random strangers online.
As far as politeness: so far you’ve not posted in good faith. And so I owe you nothing. Now you may proceed to clutch your pearls.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 1 week ago:
…Tariffs affect other countries stock so you’ll get the same swing on the international. Im not sure you’re understanding how stocks work and maybe you’re just saying buzz words? Well… Either way, op is worried and they have a good reason to worry. They are educated enough about stocks to be worried. You…. You not so much.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 1 week ago:
Shorting counts as income and you’ll be taxed on it as income. You also have a chance that no one will buy you out of the hole once it hits its mark.
Lots of risks in shorting.
While I agree with diversifying, the tariffs are fucking over the stock market hard in so many ways you cannot avoid it. Right now everyone sold their gold cuz they need money, And two days ago the tariff on China created a ripple on the precious metals. Tomorrow trump will fart some blithering assanine remark and suddenly for whatever reason lithium will take a dive for it.
Investing has become a stupid stress game.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 3 weeks ago:
Yes but got forbid those jobs be stolen by another country. Can’t have that.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
Because the moment they go public the stock market demands they constantly have an improvement basis to keep their stock holders in a state of security to keep invested. Like it’s not even an improvement of a product. It’s a bullshit announcement for Wall Street.
That is…until crypto collapses it all.
Tax the rich and fix this shit.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 4 weeks ago:
There’s two problems. I’m new at setting up the network so no doubt that is mostly my problem. I’m just switching over to nfs now.
But the exfat drive that only works on plex (can’t upload from ext4) is the weird bit I don’t get. Are you storing everything on ext4 for plex? If so how did you trick plex library into seeing it?
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 4 weeks ago:
Is there a way around the problem that plex only feeds from ex fat/nt drives but Linux has permission issues networking such a drive? I wanted to have one computer where I’m doing all the formatting and the other being the standalone plex server with them both connected. Samba is being a pain.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 4 weeks ago:
Yeah it barely makes a dip. It is one of the first things I tested when putting in a switch where I just go do the ookla speed test.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 4 weeks ago:
they are interchangeable. you can export from google to use in proton. I’ve set all my google logins to proton too. I’ve not experienced this ‘locked in’ situation if you’re using your own phone to run the app.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 4 weeks ago:
Why do you need the google Authenticator? Proton has it too.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 1 month ago:
…second phone number…
Anyways… we are digressing here,
at this point it’s a lot like protecting anything in life: prevention and making yourself less tasty to a psycho.
If you’ve set it even two step You’re already doing way more than any user they are probably intending this warning to do more to protect themselves who set their password to “password” or phrases haven’t changed it in decades and would even prefer to publicly post their passwords on social willing to give up their entire savings rather than having to do anything further as if technology is too beyond and suddenly so super complex that they have to use different keys on their keyboard other than letters.
You don’t have apply every threat like it’s calculus in a situation where there are people who are scared of even doing basic sums.
This situation was hashtags. Literally. And all they are asking is to rehash it. And here you are already disposing of the 2nd feature after that.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 1 month ago:
Yes and no. hacking isn’t new. Everyone could get sued technically for security breaches for not taking enough interest in their own security.
But then it’s ridiculous if you could sue your own grandma cuz you once used her computer to print your resume and because she uses default passwords now someone has all your info you had from anything you left behind.
Ransom and hacking is pretty common unfortunately in the industry. And it is in part on the user to also take practices to protect themselves if they haven’t enabled 2F yet. And there’s way more you can do where you make email masks now and simply do not fill in with your accurate information like don’t use your real name.and use a VPN. Store stuff on ext drives and less on clouds that don’t use e2e encryption
I don’t know if it’s perfect but as a user just always have it back in your mind that your information can be obtained(if you ever used a web service to check your info on the dark web, this is pretty much going to be a given) . And it probably has. So maybe at least you can try to control what gets obtained.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 month ago:
Not a spoiler: Complaining the way of blaming one evil for you doing another evil is not effective either.
Go back to soiling your diapers.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
Either buy pine or try out userland for current but I haven’t completed the research yet
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 month ago:
And how many from the republicans?
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 month ago:
“Doom us to republicans”
No this is bullshit as you’re choosing to vilify one and not the other. If you blame your mistake on choosing worse for yourself and blame someone for your choice it is you to blame. And it is pure ignorance. You are using pure ignorance to try to explain your position and only ignorant people and abusive people would agree with this level of stupid.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 month ago:
Blaming dems for Republican actions is pure ignorance.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 month ago:
Blaming dems for what republicans so is some mental gymnastics.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
And just like that I’m all about Ubuntu phones now
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 month ago:
Dems didn’t invent ice.
Nor Epstein
Nor trump.
Voters need to take some culpability to their own mistakes here and stop blaming it on anyone else but themselves for this shit show they created.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 month ago:
Blaming it on dems that you voted Republican?
It’s your finger on the trigger with the gun to your own head. That’s not biden’s. This is how people with mental illness sociopathy reason their actions. Manipulation and unreasonable rules that never hold themselves accountable to themselves.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 2 months ago:
just look how he treated Twitter once he bought it. He cares…. just about the wrong shit.
Because he’s unstable and undiagnosed and in denial.
And yet somehow he seems to legitimately think that’s how you do business.
Perhaps it’s because America coddles everything under the capitalist label so he doesn’t have to do business like he has to care about it succeeding. And he has too many millions to have to count anything else as a success.
Enablism and denial all the way down.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 2 months ago:
He didn’t care so much he bawled on trump’s shoulder and got him to buy one.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 2 months ago:
in US the patriotism is injected into a brand. Way more money than brains.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 2 months ago:
And no ads 😁
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
Oh hell no. Fuck off with this won’t stand up to the bully but will stand on everyone else you think you can bully bullshit.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
Ok then You Go yell at musk about it.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
There are areas of the planet where there is no signal or fibre. Clearly you and I are not in one of these dead spots but they do exist.
Just something to think about before you run around talking down with privilege of where you’re speaking about it.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
I’m so glad other countries are coming up with their own satellites just for the expressed interest to boycott musk.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 months ago:
Same and I’m sure we will get there. Seems with the help tutorials online someone somewhere has found a trick for almost every consideration on Linux. Im 95% of the way there. Dunno where I’d be without those tutorials.
I’m still happy I took a plunge. It was a real plunge though. Lucky for me I’ve worked with Linux (only on the job) so it was likely easier for me to convert than someone who probably never has touched Linux. I cannot imagine the sheer terror of having to step back and learn on a whole brand new OS after being embedded in a different OS the entire time up until now.