Nollij
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- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 9 hours ago:
The very first line:
A loss leader (also leader) is a pricing strategy where a product is sold at a price below its market cost to stimulate other sales of more profitable goods or services.
So the answer to their question is “Yes, a loss leader needs to lead to something”. I have no idea why you think they have no idea what they’re talking about.
- Comment on Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 16 hours ago:
Not OP, but the most obvious and popular alternative to Adguard DNS is a (self-hosted) Pi-hole. That setup is effectively protected from such attacks, in no small part because it’s self-hosted.
- Comment on Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants as struggling customers cut back on dining out 5 days ago:
That’s an oddly specific and focused take on food service. Not wrong, just not something that most people (around here) think about when considering fast food.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
It’s not that Google’s algorithms got bad, but the entire Internet turned to shit and they can’t compensate for it.
For anytime not time-sensitive, try adding “before:2023” to your search. I’m being the quality of your results will skyrocket.
- Comment on Data stored in Canada can be subject to foreign courts, government paper warns 1 week ago:
For more information on the subject, Microsoft has been fighting this battle, largely unsuccessfully, for years.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat…
It’s also why they had Azure Germany - an instance where they were not actually in control and data could remain sovereign. I believe it’s now defunct, or at least restricted.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 weeks ago:
Again, kid logic. Plus, many young parents don’t know (or care) how to properly cook veggies anyway. It’s a choice between canned (and usually salted) veggies, or similarly mushy, over-microwaved fresh/frozen veggies with little seasoning or flavor. It’s not like the green beans are roasted with olive oil, garlic, and balsamic vinegar.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 weeks ago:
You’re overlooking an important detail - kids love that cheap, shitty food. It was also quick and easy to make, so their tired, overworked parents were easily persuaded to make it.
Naturally there’s a line where it becomes too much, but even rich kids love hot dogs and Mac & cheese.
- Comment on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds 3 weeks ago:
Archive link to bypass paywall:
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 weeks ago:
If it’s working fine in 10, it’s very unlikely to be a hardware fault. Possible (but unlikely) a hardware configuration.
The answer was almost certainly drivers. While I acknowledge that you were unsuccessful at changing them, that is still where your issues came from. You probably could’ve fixed it WinPE/WinRE, which is admittedly way more complicated than it should be.
- Comment on Beards are technically face pubes 4 weeks ago:
As evidenced by the term “bearded clam”
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 4 weeks ago:
It probably depends on how personalized the ads are. It should come as no surprise that targeted ads have been a thing as long as ads have existed. Coke ads during family shows, alcohol ads (you’ll be cool if you use our product) on MTV, etc.
There are already a number of algorithms to deliver one ad for a product over another, based on likely demographics. Streaming has greatly increased this, since specific demographic details are immediately and directly available when the ad is shown. I won’t get the same as on Hulu that you get.
As for generating ads on-the-fly, that seems unlikely. Few ads are fully generated at all, let alone in response to demographics or the specific viewer(s).
There are also risks when deploying ads without vetting. Some of these viewers will be dressed as Nazis, and will happily share the video to everyone.
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 4 weeks ago:
reassemble
I’m sure that was autocorrect, but it feels awfully portentous.
- Comment on It would be hilarious if, one day, the Nobel Peace Prize was decided by no rules cage fight. Pay per view, of course. 5 weeks ago:
The Nobel Peace Prize, brought to you by Carl’s Jr.
- Comment on Thanks satan 2 months ago:
Christians are the only ones that believe in Satan.
No, satanists do not believe in Satan.
- Comment on How to Decide what an Appropriate Medical Response is for Loved Ones 2 months ago:
Depending on your location and situation, you may have access to a nurse line or fast telemedicine (basically a zoom call with a random doctor). They can diagnose many ailments remotely, and at least tell you what the next steps should be.
- Comment on Deportation? There's an app for that. 2 months ago:
Weren’t there reports of exactly this already happening?
- Comment on Deportation? There's an app for that. 2 months ago:
There are options, but you probably won’t like them…
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 2 months ago:
In some places, yes, probably. It would most likely fall under anti-SLAPP protections.
IANAL though, so it could be more complicated.
- Comment on If they wanted to do a gender-swapped Doctor Who, without it being the absolute pile of dogshit that is the BBC's current attempt, Fern Brady would be an immaculately perfect choice 2 months ago:
The biggest problem I had with the Jodie era was the companions.
Doctor Who has a rich history of the Doctor/Companion interactions following traditional gender roles. The Doctor is a powerful man who can bend time and space to his will, and his companion is an empathetic woman who can keep him grounded and retain his humanity. While there have been exceptions, this is the default formula.
When Jodie started, this all got turned upside-down. How should a woman Doctor act? Do they maintain the same character archetype (as they did with the Master/Missy), or do they make the character more feminine? What effect should that have on her relationship with her companions? Should the companion continue to be the traditional feminine role? Headstrong and masculine, but powerless? Wise and sage, like an advisor? This is a difficult plan for even the most accomplished writer.
Chris Chibnall was apparently not up to the task. Instead, he threw all of the options in at once. At best, it felt crowded and disjointed. But more often, it felt like they were focus-group testing. And by the end, it seemed clear that Kaz was the most popular with test audiences.
- Comment on If they wanted to do a gender-swapped Doctor Who, without it being the absolute pile of dogshit that is the BBC's current attempt, Fern Brady would be an immaculately perfect choice 2 months ago:
Yes, because of Disney’s refusal to commit to the series. The production schedule is entirely too unpredictable right now, and Ncuti has (a lot of) other offers.
I can’t elaborate without major spoilers.
- Comment on Am I corrupting my data? 2 months ago:
Kind of. They will be multiples of 4. Let’s say you got a gigantic 8i8e card, albeit unlikely. That would (probably) have 2 internal and 2 external SAS connectors. Your standard breakout cables will split each one into 4 SATA cables (up to 16 SATA ports if you used all 4 SAS ports and breakout cables), each running at full (SAS) speed.
But what if you were running an enterprise file server with a hundred drives, as many of these once were? You can’t cram dozens of these cards into a server, there aren’t enough PCIe slots/lanes. Well, there are SAS expansion cards, which basically act as a splitter. They will share those 4 lanes, potentially creating a bottleneck. But this is where SAS and SATA speeds differ- these are SAS lanes, which are (probably) double what SATA can do. So with expanders, you could attach 8 SATA drives to every 4 SAS lanes and still run at full speed. And if you need capacity more than speed, expanders allow you to split those 4 lanes to 24 drives. These are typically built into the drive backplane/DAS.
- Comment on Am I corrupting my data? 2 months ago:
The one I had would frequently drop the drives, wreaking havoc on my (software) RAID5. I later found out that it was splitting 2 ports into 4 in a way that completely broke spec.
- Comment on What would be an inexpensive and reliable way to set up a personal-use VPN tunnel? 2 months ago:
First, this approach is going to fail at some point. Depending on how far away it is, that could be a major issue. It also makes some very bold assumptions about connection speed and latency that are probably not true.
Second, IP doesn’t reliably show location. My cable ISP is typically geolocated to Chicago, despite it being 2 states away. Same for T Mobile connections.
Third, it’s incredibly unlikely that the employer is going to be looking at IP addresses to determine location. Even if they wanted to use tech for this purpose, they would use location services/GPS/etc. Which a VPN won’t conceal.
Fourth, changing the physical mailing address on file would be a bigger flag. But presumably he’ll list that family’s address, which could create other implications.
- Comment on Am I corrupting my data? 2 months ago:
I don’t want to speak to your specific use case, as it’s outside of my wheelhouse. My main point was that SATA cards are a problem.
As for LSi SAS cards, there’s a lot of details that probably don’t (but could) matter to you. PCIe generation, connectors, lanes, etc. There are threads on various other homelab forums, truenas, unraid, etc. Some models (like the 9212-4i4e, meaning it has 4 internal and 4 external lanes) have native SATA ports that are convenient, but most will have a SAS connector or two. You’d need a matching (forward) breakout cable to connect to SATA. Note that there are several common connectors, with internal and external versions of each.
You can use the external connectors (e.g. SFF-8088) as long as you have a matching (e.g. SFF-8088 SAS-SATA) breakout cable, and are willing to route the cable accordingly. Internal connectors are simpler, but might be in lower supply.
If you just need a simple controller card to handle a few drives without major speed concerns, and it will not be the boot drive, here are the things you need to watch for:
- MUST be LSi, but it can be rebranded LSi. This includes certain cards from Dell and IBM, but not all.
- Must support Initiator Target (IT) mode. The alternative is Initiator RAID (IR) mode. This is nearly all, since most can be flashed to IT mode regardless
- Watch for counterfeits! There are a bunch of these out there. My best advice is to find IT recyclers on eBay. These cards are a dime a dozen in old, decommissioned servers. They’re eager to sell them to whomever wants them.
Also, make sure you can point a fan at it. They’re designed for rackmount server chassis, so desktop-style cases don’t usually have the airflow needed.
- Comment on Am I corrupting my data? 2 months ago:
To anyone reading, do NOT get a PCIe SATA card. Everything on the market is absolute crap that will make your life miserable.
Instead, get a used PCIe SAS card, preferably based on LSi. These should run about $50, and you may (depending on the model) need a $20 cable to connect it to SATA devices.
- Comment on X's declining Android app installs are hurting subscription revenue 2 months ago:
This is strictly about new app installs, not daily/monthly active users or time spent on the app. It’s unclear whether it’s just new users, or if those numbers also include users downloading on a new device.
TL;DR: Don’t start celebrating the death of Nazi Twitter quite yet.
- Comment on Turn linux server into a router? 2 months ago:
I did this back in the days of Smoothwall, ~20 years ago. I used an old, dedicated PC, with 2 PCI NICs.
It was complicated, and took a long time to setup properly. It was loud and used a lot of power, and didn’t give me much beyond the standard $50 routers of the day (and is easily eclipsed by the standard $80 routers of today). But it ran reliably for a number of years without any interaction.
I also didn’t learn anything useful that I could ever apply to something else, so ended up just being a waste of time. 2/10, spend your time on something more useful.
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 3 months ago:
Watts (and gigawatts) are not a unit of energy. They are a unit of power, or you can think of it as a rate.
900 watts for an hour is 900 watt-hours, or 0.9 kWh. For 24 minutes (3 minutes x8) is 360 Wh, or 0.36kWh.
All of the major public LLM and diffusion models (ChatGPT, copilot, Grok, etc) are absolutely using more than a gigawatt. And I mean constantly. They are trying to create nuclear power plants exclusively to power an AI Datacenter. You could math out how much that is per query (not per person), but it’s absolutely insane.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
This is terrible advice. Ask any urologist and they will tell you the same. OP, ask YOUR urologist about it.
Vasectomies can, in some circumstances, be reversed. You should not plan on yours being one of them. You should plan on it being permanent and reversible.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It’s tough to predict the future. Most people don’t start wanting kids until they’re older than that, or at least until they’re in a serious relationship. Given that you did not mention one, I’m going to assume that you are unattached. Most single people in their twenties want to get laid without having kids.
You may find that a vasectomy is a complete blocker for certain relationships. However, if you truly do not want kids, those would be doomed regardless.
Will you change your mind? Perhaps. Many people’s views on the subject change as they enter their 30s. But that doesn’t mean yours will.
It might also be worth considering why you want a vasectomy right now. If you are single, you should not be hooking up with random people unprotected. If you are in a relationship, this is something that you should discuss with your partner.