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- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 2 months ago:
well said. money in politics has some pretty awful downstream effects. who’d have ever thunk it…
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 2 months ago:
I swear shit has gotten exponentially worse since I was young. For example, last year I suffered a brain injury, I have about a month of missing memory. During that month, my homeowners association sent notice that they were being sold to another management company and the autopay I’d been using for 5 years would be cancelled. I missed this notice due to my brain damage and so never got new payment switched over.
I’m used to companies being gracious and working with their customers. Instead I had a lawyer sicked on me and the paperwork to forclose my house was started. I wound up having to pay all their legal fees and penalties which was an order of magnitude more than the actuall missed payments.
This was the most painful one recently but this is par for the course. Someone else said it in this thread but it’s become a real dog eat dog world, something that used to be a folksy saying has now become a harsh reality.
- Comment on Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them 3 months ago:
I honestly thought it was common knowledge that these things were essentially free labor for training AI.
- Comment on Immich v1.109.1 released with optional paid license 3 months ago:
I am a huge fan of immich, been running it for quite a while, it started as just phone photo backup but it’s good enough that I’ve made it my primary photo repository (fully backed up of course). I will absolutely pay for a license but count me as one who doesn’t really like the terminology used.
I would happily put a donated or supporter badge to show off, but the unlicensed just feels a bit wrong. I have no trouble paying for software, especially as useful as immich, but in the enshittifying world we live in, such language gives one pause.
- Comment on Real 4 months ago:
That fridge, in that color occupied a similarly wood paneled kitchen for me growing up. I got a little sweaty when I saw the picture, wondered who’s been in my old house.
- Comment on Chaos Reigns Inside Tesla as Workers Await Next Slew of Job Cuts – One worker likened the state of the company to ‘Squid Game,’ the TV series where contestants fight for survival. 5 months ago:
Duh, they want to be hardcore.
- Comment on After 7-Year Hiatus, Western Digital Unveils 6TB 2.5-Inch Hard Drives 5 months ago:
Not exactly reliable and less than easy rma process.
Sorry, had typed this and forgotten to hit submit :(
- Comment on After 7-Year Hiatus, Western Digital Unveils 6TB 2.5-Inch Hard Drives 5 months ago:
At the time it was fine. I had an array of 4tb drives that I was backing up with a series of 5gb drives. They were just so unreliable; all but one failed while the array they backed up is still spinning strong.
- Comment on After 7-Year Hiatus, Western Digital Unveils 6TB 2.5-Inch Hard Drives 5 months ago:
Bingo. Sorry, had typed a reply about my failure rate and difficulties getting an RMA but forgot to submit.
- Comment on After 7-Year Hiatus, Western Digital Unveils 6TB 2.5-Inch Hard Drives 5 months ago:
Bought some of these for backup drives. That was a mistake.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 5 months ago:
does the job I suppose. I don’t use desktop enough to have any useful thoughts about it. I like that it’s a decent gui over what I’m used to.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 5 months ago:
bingo, I enjoy the stabilty and simplicity for my servers but I wouldn’t run vanilla debian for a desktop. ironically I tend to use Linux Mint for desktop which I guess is a grandchild then, since it’s based on Ubuntu :).
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 5 months ago:
absolutely nothing, it’s my preferred distro (and I have the grey beard to match). what I mean is that despite not using Ubuntu (or honestly even liking it that much), I give it a pass since it’s the offspring of my preffered flavor.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 5 months ago:
It’s Debian based so gets a pass, so long as it’s headless.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 5 months ago:
6 of one, half a dozen of the other.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 5 months ago:
Pretty much. At this point a religious weirdo is a religious weirdo no matter what flavor they prefer.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 5 months ago:
I feel like they belong in separate categories though. Lawnmower man was regular bad, like it started as something that had value but effects and writing just weren’t up to where they should have been resulting in a hilarious, guilty pleasure mess.
Battlefield earth never stood a chance, everything about it was cursed start to finish and was a complete vanity project by a religious weirdo. There’s just plain guilt with it, no pleasure.
- Comment on Which one? 5 months ago:
Nature has a much harder job creating the perfect rock. I’ll take it and keep my eyes out for another perfect stick.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 6 months ago:
I feel the same way. I feel like we used to buy things and hold onto them for a while, nowadays, everything seems to be designed to have a single year lifecycle. I like AirPods but now that their battery died and I can’t replace them, I’m looking at going back to the cord. But now of course we’re in dongle hell since there’s only one port…
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 6 months ago:
I have an m2 iPad pro. The last thing it needs is more processing power, what it needs is better software to make use of the power that it has. I’d love to run full OS X on it considering I paid more than some MacBooks.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Feels like the automotive world is in utter chaos. I do believe in EVs and hybrids but manufacturers have focused on the premium segment to their own detriment. If they had started with the MVP instead of a flagship things might be in a different situation.
Yes, I am an aware of the Tesla strategy of stating high end but they seem to have abandoned that goal in favor of prestige meme wagons.
- Comment on What side do you open a banana from? 6 months ago:
I eat the whole banana, skin and all. Who has time for peeling?
- Comment on Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO 7 months ago:
Same. Since the aquisition, I’ve moved all my home infrastructure off vmware to debian/docker and currently trying to get in front of our next renewal at work. I’ve been ready to pivot if necessary but no one seems to believe me that we need to be ready for our pending licensing converation…
- Comment on It's kinda wild that zombo.com still exists 7 months ago:
Still the best site on the internet, you can do anything there…
- Comment on Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch 7 months ago:
anyone have a good estimate for how long it will take for these ads to become more numerous than actual posts, at least in terms of visibility. I’ve got to imagine the impact is going to be spectacular since they are doing this desperate IPO as their fall from grace accelerates.
- Comment on I can't unsee it now 8 months ago:
I’m in my 40’s and never seen that. Excellent childish humor right here that I too can no longer unsee :)
- Comment on Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes 8 months ago:
I support a law that all AI voices must use the Dr. Sbaitso voice. Imagine the impressive inefficiency of training an AI voice with the output from a 1980’s? Sound blaster.
- Comment on Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes 8 months ago:
How long until there’s an accepted study of the benefits of electrolytes on plants. Probably already exists in gatoraids filing cabinet.
- Comment on Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes 8 months ago:
ai is going to speedrun us into idocracy, isn’t it? why learn when you can ask dr. sbaitso to just do it for you?
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
i am so glad i deleted all my posts. im sure they have backup hisory though :(.