CouncilOfFriends
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- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 3 weeks ago:
Just today I was listening to Peter F. Hamilton’s “Exodus: The Archimedes Engine” and the mention of attack dogs with diamond-tipped teeth sounded a little wacky for sci-fi. Sometimes life can be stranger than fiction.
- Comment on Solar panels between railway tracks? 4 weeks ago:
I was about to comment that it makes more sense to put panels in open space, but looking into it does appear some numbers crunchers did the math on efficiency gain from being able to swap old panels with a dedicated machine on the rails, versus the other option.
- Comment on Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash? 1 month ago:
If a neighbor asked me I would be happy it’s not going into a landfill and offer to help carry it
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 2 months ago:
It deserves mentioning that Firefox on Android supports extensions, so if you uninstall/disable the official YouTube app and add uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock extensions you get a more tolerable experience.
- Comment on Morish Morals 6 months ago:
There were also plans to construct a device to turn the planet’s food supply into rocks, which were axed due to budget cuts.
- Comment on What if the only reason countries, like the U.S., agree to arm other countries when they are in conflict, is because international billionaires have placed bets on which countries will win. 6 months ago:
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
Sell to who is what I’m wondering. I would be surprised if whoever wants to acquire TikTok is not lobbying hard for this.
- Comment on Thoughts on these SATA/M.2-->SATA/2.5" adapters? 7 months ago:
Correct, it’s not obvious when first diving in but the main use for RAID is increasing performance and availability by allowing up to a specific number of drive failures. For that to work, ideally in an enterprise you’d have a primary and secondary controller to mitigate that point of failure which is not typical for most homelabs and makes backup even more important.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
The only reason I liked using their remote app was being able to do Bluetooth listening. Now the app no longer runs on my phone, and after reinstalling and rebooting I deleted that and am back to using the Chromecast. Time to cut the internet to the TV so I don’t get an update with this ad feature
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 8 months ago:
This is correct. As the article says employees are using their phones as hotspots so it’s not as if it’s a Faraday cage. Their IT guy should do a Wi-Fi site survey and install a few AC Pros.
- Comment on $5 is a steal 9 months ago:
I feel like this person would do it for free, and that makes me uncomfortable.
- Comment on "Fun" competition 11 months ago:
I enjoyed the delay while one person put on their safety squints to check for falling barrels
- Comment on Of the tens of thousands of lies told, I wish this one was true... 11 months ago:
FAKE NEWS!
- Comment on With no access to crypto, disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is now trading fish to pay for services in prison 11 months ago:
What services? For how many fish? This article just raised more questions than answers
- Comment on Skip brushing your teeth by combining it with breakfast 11 months ago:
No onions, jalapenos, or relish either, just raw dogging it
- Comment on Yum 11 months ago:
Baby wolves also lick their mother’s face to signal them to regurgitate food
- Comment on Trump’s Truth Social Has Lost $73M Since Launch, New Filing Shows 1 year ago:
You are forgetting how much Trump has to pay Tim Apple. SAD!
- Comment on Yeah, Yeah, wait what? 1 year ago:
It’s spelled Vagina Convention
- Comment on Workers Unearth 19th-Century Shipwreck Beneath a Road in Florida 1 year ago:
Just a guess, if I was turning an irrigation canal into a road and there was a boat sunk in the mud I would likely put fill on top and call it good
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
- Comment on why host your own files when someone else can do it for you 1 year ago:
My first thought when I read this was of playing with the hinged mirrors of a medicine cabinet and forgetting which reflection is real
- Comment on Amazon coupons: what's the story? 1 year ago:
An old man is selling watermelons. His pricelist reads: 1 for $3, 3 for $10
A young man stops by and asks to buy one watermelon. “That’d be 3 dollars”, says the old man.
The young man then buys another one, and another one, paying $3 for each.
As the young man is walking away, he turns around, grins, and says, “Hey old man, do you realize I just bought three watermelons for only $9? Maybe business is not your thing.”
The old man smiles and mumbles to himself, “People are funny. Every time they buy three watermelons instead of one, yet they keep trying to teach me how to do business…”
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
- Comment on How do you get the dry boogers out if you don’t pick your nose? 1 year ago:
I just keep a dedicated pair of pliers on a hook in the bathroom
- Comment on One month after experimental pig heart transplant, doctors say they see no signs of rejection or infection 1 year ago:
I think their point of view was as if we were judged by an intelligent alien species, where we would have to admit yeah it does look fucked
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
Who is this Abe? It sounds like an honest name
- Comment on He's on the spectrum, he be getting bitches at low frequency 1 year ago:
- Comment on What game did you find in a bargain bin that turned out to be awesome? For me it was Z by Bitmap Brothers which I got at Zellers for $0.47 1 year ago:
All of our NES games were bargain-bin. Section Z was the only one we had with a decent soundtrack, which made up for how often I died
- Comment on Found on the dark web 1 year ago:
Disconnect your router’s connection to your Internet service provider, and then ping another device in your house. You are now on the dark web
- Comment on Those were the days! 1 year ago:
I’m wondering if a crazy straw was tested…for safety
