BeardedGingerWonder
@BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
- Comment on It makes me shudder 5 days ago:
I’m amazed at the reaction here, I’m not sure the last time I even noticed one of these while wearing a shirt.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really want to do anything with my setup because it works fine. If DHCP is switched on on the pi and not configured to assign addresses to a separate IP range from the router it’s far from innocuous. Some routers also don’t allow DNS settings to be modified so using the pi as DHCP lets you hand out the the pi as the DNS as well.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 2 weeks ago:
Haha, I feel ya. Try logging into your router’s admin panel and see if you can disable DHCP from there, it might fix things. (Also be prepared to to set static IP on the device you connect to the panel from in case it has issues connecting if disabling DHCP doesn’t fix things or resetting your router to factory settings should also re-enable the router as the DHCP server again).
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 2 weeks ago:
Any chance your pihole and router are both trying to be the DHCP server for the network?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It could be, alternatively if the company goes out of business tomorrow you lose.
The question you need to ask yourself is how it will do vs other options, I’m no investor by any means but I’d be wondering:
a) would an index fund beat it long term (historically you might see 7% annual gains on a fund that tracks NYSE over the same period)
b) why is it trading below its face value - everyone has the same information about this bond in theory, therefore bond traders are aware of the same thing, if it was a great deal it would be in demand and the price would rise. So someone more experienced than us has accounted for the return and the risk/reward for them says $80 is right.
c) does it beat inflation - $450 payoff seems nice now (assuming you save up all those $5s) 30 years ago it would’ve seemed even better, but $100 in 1997 has the spending power of $200 today - in 70 years time the $450 might have the equivalent spending power of $100 today. Which is to say your real terms return may only be $20 over 70 years.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Coupon rate is paid on the principal - assuming the hundo is accurate then it’s 5%/yr. If you think Motorola will be around in 14 years then you’d have your investment back. If you think they’ll be around in another 70 years you get $350 + $100 because when it matures they need to repay the bond.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 3 weeks ago:
I’m my experience it’s about a ten to one ratio of people who shit on vegans because they “never shut up about it” vs vegans who actually never shut up about it.
A true testament to how many people they annoy.
- Comment on So how would you handle this? 3 weeks ago:
Because statistically most pole dancers are ladies.
- Comment on Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund 4 weeks ago:
What are you trying to model? It’s far from unusable.
- Comment on Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund 4 weeks ago:
FreeCAD isn’t terrible, especially since v1, it’s rough round the edges at times, but definitely usable.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 4 weeks ago:
You remind me of Clarke’s third law, even in my own head this sounds a bit waffely but at the point one of them can fool all of us all the time how do we distinguish it from intelligence or something.
- Comment on Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund 4 weeks ago:
Okay, now airbus do freecad.
- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 4 weeks ago:
OH MY GOD THERE ARE BEARS SHITTING IN THE WOODS!
- Comment on Real and True 5 weeks ago:
10 with a giant central screen is fairly norm now too.
- Comment on Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking 1 month ago:
A Dutch guy mentioned it to me a few years back how far the brand has fallen, reminds me a bit of GE in the US. It’s kinda sad. The really crazy thing is a few of the investments they made and dumped have gone on to be key players in tech, like ASML.
- Comment on Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking 1 month ago:
Haven’t Philips enshittified almost entirely outside of healthcare products? Everything else is licensing the brand.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 1 month ago:
I’m beginning to wonder if AI is actually going to set us back technologically. Certainly it seems to be creating or widening a technology divide.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sportsball team
- Comment on the year of the linux desktop 1 month ago:
She’s not using it for porn (that I’m aware of) but my wife got a Chromebook with her last phone. Handy enough little thing.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 1 month ago:
Yeah, I should’ve been more clear in my original post - I was trying to convey why investors would like him and just ignored the profit bit.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 1 month ago:
I’m not sure what your point is, the investors care about the stock price because that’s their money in/money out. Lower profit could be fine if they’re, say, investing 150Bn/yr into a new venture that stands to be profitable in the future (may even drive the stock price up). It’s vibes based to a degree, quite a bit of analysis goes into a company’s performance as well.
FWIW their gross profit is also up more than 3x in the same time frame.
- Comment on I can still smell them 1 month ago:
Haha, bought a couple of rolls of these recently to show the kids. Can’t believe no-one’s mentioned penny bangers yet. Take a roll, fold in half lengthwise and wrap radially around a penny, tape off the end, then throw it hard against a hard surface.
- Comment on genius 1 month ago:
ARE YOU OKAY, DO YOU NEED HELP?
- Comment on genius 1 month ago:
I’m not sure I’ve ever fallen more in love with a process than lost wax casting and it’s foam cousin, from the moment a tutor showed me a polystyrene cylinder head I was hooked lol. I’ll get a setup going some day.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 1 month ago:
Are you being serious?
Have a look at the MSFT share price in 2014 when he took over ~$45/share and now ~$470/share - of course investors love him, he’s 10x their investments since he was appointed.
- Comment on MegaLag - The Honey Scam is Worse Than I Thought 1 month ago:
I was going to make a joke about big bee and then remembered actual honey is a huge fraud as well, a significant portion of what’s sold as honey isn’t actually honey. Need a good docu on that too.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 month ago:
I’m fairness the only time I remember being in a phone store in the last decade was because I got an esim when I got my new phone, phone company didn’t send me a qr code to get the esim and I lost access to my account because I couldn’t receive an SMS because my old physical SIM was disabled.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 month ago:
I mean your original argument was it was more convenient - everyone having to buy a milk bag holder already seems less convenient than one guy inserting a few shims in a few moulds every couple of months.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 month ago:
Milk specifically, no, other bagged liquids, yes. An absolute pain in the ass compared to a bottle.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 month ago:
Apart from when you want to use them.