Nollij
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- Comment on Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP? 3 hours ago:
Is there any reason to not just use samba or NFS?
- Comment on There's probably some kind of deal between cellphone and pants makers to keep pockets small 1 week ago:
Why do they keep making them like that?
Because you keep buying them.
You had a choice of buying clothes with bigger pockets. Regardless of the reasons or trade-offs, you chose the ones with the smaller pockets. It’s the same reason that women’s clothing often lacks pockets.
- Comment on Trump donors eye potential bonanza if US succeeds with Greenland land-grab 1 week ago:
Invasion. You’re talking about the US invading Greenland. Not just a “land-grab”
- Comment on VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor 1 week ago:
My primary reason for using free ESXi has been career development. VMware was the biggest player at all of the biggest potential employers, so it made sense to be familiar with.
These days, they’re all looking to jump ship. Some are actively migrating, others won’t get there at all.
But all of them now value experience in alternatives at least as much, if not more than VMware.
I’m still using free ESXi, but the next time I rebuild (i.e. new hardware), it will not be ESXi.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
To really find out, you probably just have to ask them directly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
At 16, her personality is visible, and her taste in partners has probably shown. If she’s into guys with ties to drugs, violence, etc, this might actually be a step up.
It still has the glaringly obvious issues OP was asking about, but you don’t always get to choose the cards you’re dealt. This could be the least harmful choice available.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There is so much additional context needed to say with any confidence. The first thought would be that he can be a good provider (i.e. money) and her other prospects are not very promising. Another could be power, and how that could be extended to the family.
There’s yet another possibility that they aren’t actually ok with it, but are only presenting that face in public. Teenage girls are notoriously hard to control, and this might be the fastest/easiest way to get her to end it or learn a lesson.
There are still a number of other possibilities, many involving religion, that there’s no way to know which might apply to your situation.
- Comment on What If History Had Taken a Different Path? 2 weeks ago:
There was a prototype CD add-on for the SNES. Due to a falling out, it was eventually released independently as the Sony PlayStation.
This was immeasurably more successful than the Nintendo CD could’ve ever been.
- Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists? 3 weeks ago:
As others have mentioned, it refers to the gear shift. But it actually has a meaningful origin - many years ago, the gear order was not agreed upon. Many cars had a gear shift that was PNDLR (which I’ve heard pronounced “pendler”), where reverse was at the end. At the time, it was useful to tell the difference between a PRNDL and a PNDLR shift.
Of course that was all before 1971, when PRNDL was mandated by the US government.
- Comment on How do I fit a network card with a physical x4 slot into an x1 slot? 4 weeks ago:
USB the protocol, or just uses a USB cable? If it’s not using the protocol, the cables are a cheap way of getting cables of a certain spec.
- Comment on So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy? 1 month ago:
This can get a bit complicated with federation. This community is hosted on LW. I am accessing it via sopuli.xyz, and you via feddit.uk. All (presumably) have full bidirectional federation with each other.
When I hit send, this message will go to Sopuli’s outbox, which will then sync to LW for this community. At that point, this post will live on LW’s servers. Anyone accessing LW directly can see it, even if Sopuli were to go down. Later (probably less than a minute), LW will sync to Feddit.uk, at which point you will be able to see it.
Note that this is for text posts only. There have been some changes around images and video, both for bandwidth and liability reasons.
- Comment on X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. 1 month ago:
We don’t have 5 9s, but we do have 9 5s.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 month ago:
Yes, they exist, as I acknowledged. How old is it? Is it representative of what you’d find at a standard big box retailer?
For it to work, it means the controls must all be manual and mechanical. This is in contrast to the “smart” features that are very common.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 month ago:
Oh, and FWIW - if you live somewhere with an unstable power grid, a natural gas or LP stove will continue to function when the power is out, albeit you’ll need to light it manually.
This is only true on the simplest (or older) gas stoves. Most models these days have all sorts of electronics, including features to prevent gas leaks.
- Comment on How to escape from surveillance when watching television? 1 month ago:
In the meantime, you can turn off a lot of Google’s tracking, or at least their record keeping. Make sure you’ve disabled all of the tracking you can.
- Comment on Electronic devices or 'signal jammers' used in car thefts to be banned 1 month ago:
I won’t speak to how the UK does things, but in the US this would make for an easier criminal charge.
It can be difficult to prove that someone stole (or is about to steal) a car, or broke in to steal the contents. This is especially true if they weren’t apprehended in or with the vehicle itself. But if they are arrested on suspicion, and one of these devices is found on them, they can very easily be prosecuted for possession of criminal tools. It’s similar to how we normies can’t legally own a lockpicking kit unless we’re locksmiths.
- Comment on Electronic devices or 'signal jammers' used in car thefts to be banned 1 month ago:
Not removed - never added to the US designs. They were added afterwards to models being sold in places that require them.
- Comment on Do you find this compelling evidence to doubt the result of the election? 1 month ago:
In the very few cases where the trump campaign showed any evidence whatsoever, they actually did very well with the court rulings. Keep in mind that these were absolutely not cases of widespread fraud, but of localized errors that are common in every election.
The fact that most suits were filed with literally no evidence whatsoever was very telling, though.
- Comment on I’m planning to teach middle school Spanish, would casually mentioning having a girlfriend cause an uproar? 1 month ago:
Does Spanish have a super generic term like “significant other” or “partner” that doesn’t convey anything useful?
Side note, the types of parents you would be concerned about are probably also the type that get super racist about teaching Spanish in the first place.
- Comment on Chart 2 months ago:
Is the chart accurate? Do we have a source?
I ask because I don’t see where social security would fit at all, and I suspect that Medicare/Medicaid would be a larger portion than the 5% listed for health.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Thank you- this is exactly the sort of critique I had been expecting/hoping to find
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I agree with you, and would go further.
A while back, there was a study (IIRC) from the UK that recommended against gender transitioning for children. No surprise, it created quite an uproar before it was retracted.
At no point in any of the media coverage or comments on Lemmy, etc, did I see any discussion of the study itself. To this day, I have no idea if there was an issue with the methodology. It seems that no one, neither supporters nor opponents, bothered to read past the headline. Many of them were very fervent in their beliefs, but that wasn’t enough to get them to look at the details.
This is also very bad for science - there are countless headline-grabbing “studies” that fail basic requirements. I’m sure you’ve seen things like “Is coffee/chocolate/etc good for you? A new 10-day study of 23 people suggests that…”. Which of course should get picked apart.
If we aren’t following the science, then what are we even trying to do?
(As an aside, I suspect that study was flawed, but I can’t confirm. It goes against the conclusions widely agreed upon, and would require significant rigor and evidence to support the claim)
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 months ago:
In order to do business in Mexico, they must agree to Mexican laws.
In order to do business in Canada, they must follow Canadian laws.
In order to do business in the US, they must
follow US lawskiss the ring.This isn’t the first time big tech has had to tackle something like this. Usually it’s with disputed territory. In that case, each region gets to see what it demands to see, while presenting something different to the rest of the world.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m inferring that you are not in the US, so your local laws may differ. But in the US, your attorney is required to act in your best interests to the best of their ability. Working against their client is a quick way to be disbarred and paying a massive amount to their (now former) client.
That said, this whole thing seems like an exercise in creative writing. Your life savings would be too tempting to any attorney, and they would try to steal it? You need to make friends with someone powerful to find a good lawyer? You’ll need all of this in a few months, but not now? None of it makes any sense.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 months ago:
What did those poor cables do to you to get the Liam Neeson treatment?
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 months ago:
But can it spy on users for marketing purposes? That’s the real question.
/s
- Comment on Trump says US prices ‘could go up’ as he threatens new tariffs on trade partners 2 months ago:
If he’s saying they might go up, it means they will go up dramatically. It means he can’t even rationalize it in his own, incredibly stupid, head.
Which means reality is going to be so, so much worse.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 2 months ago:
Counter point: Lemmy has always been more toxic.
I’ve never seen a group (as a whole) that’s less capable of accepting that there are things they don’t know, or other viewpoints.
- Comment on After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected 2 months ago:
- Comment on Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs 2 months ago:
Unsurprisingly, fitness is always more complicated than it seems.
You are certainly correct that runners don’t burn (much) more calories than a couch potato. But weightlifters do, vs a couch potato of the same weight.
The thing about cardio is that the calories go directly into effort. The calories burned are roughly proportional to the effort (distance). But the moment you stop, the calories stop getting burned.
If you are doing weightlifting, the calories spent at the time to lift a heavy object are minimal. But it instructs your body to add muscle to better handle all the heavy lifting you do. Once you have that muscle, you burn a ton of calories 24 hours per day just keeping it alive. It becomes part of your base metabolic rate. It burns nearly the same calories whether you’re at the gym, or sitting on the couch. And it will continue to burn those calories until your body decides you no longer need that extra muscle mass and it atrophies.