Sarmyth
@Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Useful apps to self-host 11 months ago:
I have them both running. The only thing Plex does better for me is remote access. Everything else like UI features, collections, series identication, and CPU usage has been simpler and better looking on Jellyfin.
- Comment on OpenAI CEO promotes crypto project Worldcoin after fundraising report 11 months ago:
Maybe this is why he was fired.
- Comment on We live in a society 11 months ago:
Whoosh
- Comment on We live in a society 11 months ago:
We can blame whoever we want, but deaths are deaths. We can even go further and say that the deaths to user ratio makes the disparity even greater.
Hell, we could go completely nuts and say the stamp tax on tea and other goods leading up to the American Revolutionary War led to the creation of the United States, and therefore, all deaths resulting from the actions of the US could be blamed on caffeine.
- Comment on We live in a society 11 months ago:
LOL, definitely not, but I remember the 90s as well when every stoner wouldn’t shut up about weed bringing anti carcinogenic. Weed kills people beside the user. It’s still hugely safe, but bad decision-making under the influence of weed has probably killed more people than caffeine. You could argue the caffeine didn’t kill them. Their other health condition did. The same way we could argue weed didn’t kill anyone, but the drug trade did.
- Comment on Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash 11 months ago:
I think this is some 4d chess shit where they realize they can get a bunch of people to void their warranty on their vehicle by making easily bypassable paid service locks in vehicles.
The only way to stop this is with regulations.
- Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them 11 months ago:
It’s a baller move. It probably annoys the person at the customer service counter in the moment, but I respect it.
- Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them 11 months ago:
This really is it. I managed a grocery store for years, and the problem these companies have is that the self checkout can replace too many cashiers. Note that it can take the place of 1 or 2, but really, the boon of the self checkout is to really function as the best express lane ever. It should take the heat off your normal cashiers and provide an option best suited for quick purchases under 10 items.
But what ends up happening is schedulers drop their usual front end down from 4 cashiers to 1 and a self checkout host and completely nullify any gains their customers would have gotten from the enhanced service options. People really do like self checkouts but resent the hell out of being forced to use them as a blatant cash grab.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
Because you wanted to. You intentionally misconstrued comments to talk shit online, so I trolled you further to make you do It more. You can dish out exaggerated responses but couldn’t just drop it when I made it clear I wouldn’t be shamed by your crusade.
Next time, don’t bother with the virtue signaling, just tell your truth and refrain from trying to tell people they support slavery or some ignorant shit you obviously know isn’t true.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
I’m not exploiting them. I’m buying stuff about 6 steps down the line from their initial labor. If you let yourself be enslaved by feelings of oppression by existing in a global economy, you’ll perpetually live in the stone age.
If you want to do something about it, you’ll have to go fight a warlord or slavers or something because refusing to buy anything with a battery I just not living in the real world.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
It’s anecdotal, but also widely reported by pretty much everyone who’s bought a car in the last couple of years. I bought mine a year ago. Literally nothing but full trim on the lot, and they just took delivery the day before. My friend works for the dealer group, and that’s why I bought from him, but it’s been that way for a while, apparently.
Of course, if the dealerships want to report what they are ordering to sell, I’m sure people would be interested. The car companies might have the data somewhere in their meeting notes since they are publicly traded, but that would just say what’s ordered from them, not necessarily where it goes.
- Comment on I realized why I like friendships with lesbians 11 months ago:
Way to invalidate someone’s personal life experiences there bud!
- Comment on I don't know how to title this 11 months ago:
My first thought upon seeing this image was that it reminded me of tubgirl.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
I would, but they probably would still mine it anyway to survive. Human history is full of people risking their lives for survival. We make the trade willingly at every turn. Diplomats can play the shame game with their governments if they want, but I’m no diplomat.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
I live here. I don’t care about the environment costs in another country if their government doesn’t step in to protect them. Whe used to mine super dirty in the US and its way safer now than it used to be. As the market grows, the demand grows, and hopefully, the countries most impacted by their own dirty practices will step up and help their citizens run cleaner operations with the added financial security. I’m not gonna act too concerned about it, though if the people actually impacted don’t care.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
They can sell them, they just don’t want to order what people want to buy. It’s actually them ignoring the legitimate intention of the phrase: “The customer is always right.”
Whenever someone says that, this is actually what the author meant. If your customers keep coming in to buy size 8-11 shoes and you only want to stock sizes 12 and 13, you are wrong. The customer always knows what they are willing to buy. Some people can be coerced, but you can’t make someone who doesn’t want a truck for 100k buy one.
- Comment on A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month 11 months ago:
Body images that are so unobtainable that we literally made them up.
I feel like considering it AI is disingenuous, though. It’s a team of graphic artists, no? Like you have to digitally render every piece of clothing and assemble ensembles you want to sell.
- Comment on Tax time 11 months ago:
Interesting. The interest from my mortgage payments and property taxes take me above the standard deduction alone, then I have work expenses as well.
- Comment on Tax time 11 months ago:
IRS doesn’t know my deductions til I tell them. I’m certainly not rich either. I just get to write off alot.
- Comment on Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show 1 year ago:
This is my stance as well. You don’t lose your job, but why would I promote an employee who disregards policy. You’re not being asked to round up Jews. This isn’t some evil, “just following orders” moment.
Keep your job, but don’t expect to advance in a company who’s requests you decline. It’s far too entitled to think you deserve a raise for telling your boss no.
- Comment on 2014: Barack Obama Tan Suit Scandal (biggest scandal of two presidential terms) 1 year ago:
Certainly, presidents have some responsibility for things that the military does during their tenure, but people talk about these events, like he was told they were striking a DWB facility. I suspect he was told told they had located their target, and he approved without knowledge of the location and potential blowback.
His Whitehouse always struck me as more savvy than that, which led me to believe some of these were the result of omissions during communication from overseas.
That said, I totally believe they would bomb a wedding if they felt a high enough priority target was there (even if they were wrong). I felt the military was given ALOT of freedom to make decisions on their own while Obama was in office.
- Comment on 'They Want To Be The Gatekeepers': Car Dealers Are Stopping Customers From Buying EVs 1 year ago:
When I bought my EV, the dealer helped me talk shit about EVs the whole time. The job attracts bros who like muscle cars. EVs are still small PP cars to them. I got a great deal, though, so I couldn’t complain.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 1 year ago:
Tesla almost always works. Electrify America is like 90% operable every time I’ve used one. Charge Point is a literal 50/50 (last station I visited 2/3 were broken) I’ve never even seen a Blink charger.
The charger at my house has been working great for 7 years, and it’s installed outside and gets weather, but it’s California weather, so it never long-term extremes. It also where I charge 99% of the time.
- Comment on Maybe (HBO) Max Just Isn’t Worth It 1 year ago:
It hasn’t been worth it for me since GoT. I didn’t pay for it directly back then, either, though. It’s always been included with some other service I was already paying for. There were brief gaps when I didn’t have it through something else, but it was never worth paying for in those moments.
- Comment on Every time 1 year ago:
Regular pony tail. Both sides are usually buzzed.
- Comment on Every time 1 year ago:
It’s a haircut that retains traditional views of feminity but incorporates the functionality of a military buzz cut. It makes a lot of sense for anyone who might have to wear a helmet but doesn’t want to chop it all because of their own aesthetics of just the time investment of having grown long hair. The maid of honor at my wedding had this haircut, and a few women I work with rock it as well.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta’s proposals to improve teen mental health, court documents allege 1 year ago:
I remember when I worked in tech years ago, about the time Facebook was formed, it was common to avoid things like this because they only become lose/lose for the company. Once you engage in a program to help people’s mental health or really anything vague and not part of your core business, you’re tying an anchor to yourself.
People start writing articles about your failings and petitioning changes, etc. Everyone becomes a critic of your methods, and then it becomes possible for every blogger to come up with a story of someone experiencing a mental health crisis using your product to blame you for whatever happens to them. Eventually, this thing you were convinced to implement out of a sense of communal good becomes the pitard you’re hoisted upon.
Better to just say “Not my business” and let people tut about your unwillingness to help for a news cycle than spend hundreds of thousands just to get bad press everytime the program fails or someone feels like writing a different critique for how they would manage the program.
- Comment on WhatsApp head Will Cathcart says the chat app could introduce ads in Status 1 year ago:
Booo! Boo this man!
- Comment on Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech 1 year ago:
So what you just said is you could but don’t want to. I feel that deflates the point.
I got new for ya. There were rarely more than than 2 checkstands open before self checkouts were commonplace, too. If you remember differently, you must have been in a different part of the country than me. Either way, you are choosing the self checkout because it’s more convenient, not because of a lack of choice.