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- Comment on evangelism 1 month ago:
Fuck yea, buzzwords were the original free money glitch and it still works wonders lmao
- Comment on So today I finally deleted the bird app 2 months ago:
Me too, but discord also
- Comment on Figure 01, the robot closest to the humanoid machines of science fiction 2 months ago:
Mine does not say that? It says “Disagree and close”
- Comment on Even this post is propaganda. 2 months ago:
Hey, I’m autistic! I notice that if I don’t follow the group’s current propaganda fueled nonsense, I am seen as an outsider and hated for asking those hard-hitting questions. Eventually, they think I’m “inflexible” or “will not change my mind” and then say i am “supporting the other guy” or whatever. Like what is wrong with playing with a little of devils advocate to get the full picture. Sheesh
- Comment on Do I Need to Harden SSH over Tor? 2 months ago:
Yes, but I usually add my public key to the authorized_keys file and turn off password authentication once i do login with a password. On top of that, I have a sshpass one line command that takes care of this for me. It’s much easier than trying to manually type a password for the next time. I save it and just run it every time I think about using password login. Next time I need to ssh, I know the password login is not necessary.
sshpass -p ‘PASSWORD’ ssh USER@IP.ADDRESS “echo ‘
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
’ > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys && echo ‘Match User !root PasswordAuthentication no Match all’ > /etc/ssh/sshd_config’ && exit” && ssh USER@IP.ADDRESSAt the next reboot, your system will now only accept key logins, except for root. I hope the root user password is secure. I don’t require it for root because if a hacker does gain shell access, a password(or priv esc exploit) is all they need to gain root shell. It is also a safety net in case you need to login and lost your private key.
- Comment on penguins 2 months ago:
It’s an edited picture. The coat in the original goes down to her thighs.
- Comment on penguins 2 months ago:
It’s an edited picture. Not sure what you are looking to make sense with a fake picture of a fake coat
- Comment on acceptable screws 2 months ago:
Some claim to have stripped Robertson screws but to be fair, the metal used and amount of torque the peson applies is the biggest reason for problems.
Phillips heads were supposed to solve the over torquing problem, but everyone didn’t listen to standard specifications and didn’t bother using them as they were meant to be made and used. The Philips head was supposed to slip once the correct torque was applied. Unfortunately, this positive benefit became a negative. With poor metals and a mismatched driver bit to screw head along with not using the screw head that was meant for the specified torque demands, the Phillips screw became known for stripping.
Trying to implement non overtorquing feature to the square bit and you will find how similar it will look to the Phillips head.
Right now, Torx is the best at not stripping, but good luck if the screw is overtorqued. Eventually, the cheap metal gives out with the screw head, or bit, snapping off.
- Comment on Round 2 🚢 3 months ago:
It may be closer to “hope someone is willing to waste $20 billion on one” and then nobody does so it doesn’t get built.
But if you look at all the crap saudi arabia is doing, the chance that they succeed in selling it may not be zero
Your right, there are plenty of insecure people from all levels of wealth.
- Comment on What game fits this? 4 months ago:
You play ddlc for more than 3k hours and need help
- Comment on life hacks 5 months ago:
I’m surprised they didn’t add them to the toilet stalls either
- Comment on How do I stop hating children? 5 months ago:
At some point, i did what you said and stopped judging the kid for how they are. It was mostly from the sadness of knowing the world they will have to explore, as adults, a world that will be extremely competitive and aggressive. I wanted to shield them from it all and make them live a stable, happy life. At least until they start becoming more independent. Eventually, we all have to let them live their own life.
- Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant 6 months ago:
cable companies literally took a billion dollar grant to expand infrastructure and didnt do much of anything. This is literally doing something. F elon but the engineers who worked hard to make this a reality deserve better
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 6 months ago:
which one would you recommend? some kind of “culling games” or castration? Would you like to go first?
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 6 months ago:
Bed stores are a problem. They sit there taking up space for what? To look pretty for people to try out different brands of bed because we like to not figure out a universal solution to the problem of making a comfortable healthy platform of material that we can lay upon for long term rest. On top of that, instead of supplying our nation with affordable housing and furniture, it is laughably ignored.
All these empty locations for these corporations to advertise products and “experiences”
- Comment on AI won't take your job, might shrink your wages, European Central Bank reckons 6 months ago:
Yes, they are being paid less. Technology is supposed to free us from mundane tasks and make things cheaper. However, neither one of these occurs because of greed and poor management. So in reality if technology is paying us less, it should also be making things cheaper for us. There is clearly a discrepancy and we should demand for lower prices or higher wages, or both as a compromise. The compromise cannot be lower wages and higher prices, that is economically destructive and fuels greed and class wars.
- Comment on Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says 6 months ago:
Chevy bolt at least has half of the features but still quite a few, I would say a very set of features to include, but I do imagine it would only shave less than 5k if the bolt had the most basic of features. That means it would be 1-2k cheaper as a used vehicle. I do think it’s the more reasonable priced vehicle, and we need more competitors to this vehicle. On the other hand, most of the cost is the battery and it just something researchers must be paid to bring innovations for and its just not reasonable to pay them cheap as they are doing a great thing for humanity. However, this forces companies to charge higher prices and should instead be subsidized without trademark/IP protections restricting its adoption.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 6 months ago:
Same situation, I have the bolt and volt cars and I drive about the same with the caveat that I coast more often to a stop and make full use of being plugged in at home for warming up or cooling down the car. Really, all you need to know about driving an ev or a hybrid. Everything else is just extra stuff to take care of and make better use of the dollar savings you get with an EV.
On the flipside, I know too many people who don’t care how hard they drive the accelerator and brakes that they would rather get a gas car because of how fast they consume and prioritize time spent fueling vs charging. Really, I save close to 2k/year more than those who drive semi efficiently, and about double that amount vs. the people who are economically irresponsible. Also, I meet a lot of tesla owners who do users using the tesla superchargers who are complaining about how garbage their battery life after 3 years of driving for Uber(20% of degradation). It makes sense why people don’t want to drive an EV. They just don’t want to slow their lives down. They want to constantly keep doing stuff and do it fast. It’s amazing how much instant gratification has made everyone’s lives worse. Even people like me who go slow have to deal with their BS.
- Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea 7 months ago:
We should stop measuring our productivity in hourly and need to go back to salary well paying positions, or everyone needs to share the costs with UBI instead.
- Comment on Should I quit my monthly expenses for alcohol? 7 months ago:
Somehow, spending 12k/m on Uber rides and the gym costing 7k/m too
- Comment on Become a Better Programmer by Taking a Shower 7 months ago:
Who knew resting and taking care of your basic needs can be beneficially productive.
- Comment on Wasting water with tankless heater 7 months ago:
You could put a loop system that circulates the cold water from the pipes back through the heater for a set amount of time, then have it switch over to sending the water to the shower. The problem is that a set of pipes will need to be installed that can send the water back and may need a custom solution on switching from circulating to dispensing. In the long run, it would be cheaper, but it would take a fair amount of time to pay itself back. The positive is that it is cheaper than installing electric heater on every water outlet but more expensive for just one outlet.
As you said, the pipes are not easily accessible. You may need to just live with it or suck it up and pay the professionals to install either the whole house water scavanging system for every hot water tap to be hot or just an electric water heater for just the shower. Depends on how much you want to save water vs. how much cash you can throw at this problem.
- Comment on trig 7 months ago:
Trig-gering?
- Comment on Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor 7 months ago:
I wanted to hear what they had to say. People report on stuff and do journalism. Oh, well. I’ve been labeled and shamed already good bye
- Comment on Monetising spare computers 7 months ago:
OK, I understand your idea. However, I will have to throw some cold water on you. You did a market analysis, and you saw the margins for low-end gaming PCs were too high. However, what you didn’t do is market analysis on the clients. You half ased it and got burned. From my experience, customers do not do much research or think logically about what they spend their money on. It’s true that people will most likely make bad financial decisions. They will see your lower priced PCs and overthink it. They will believe that the lower priced stuff is also lower quality and a worse deal. There is a range in which they believe a PC should cost, and by undercutting the competition, you estranged your client base. On the other hand, presentation and words matter a lot to people and the algorithms(search engine optimizers). They don’t care about acronyms or technical words. If you look at how Apple and other giant tech brands marker their technology, you will find that specs take a back seat and the experience and capabilities take center stage. Making your clients feel welcomed and meeting their desires without accidentally coming off as “cheap garbage” is a tricky balancing act.
If you don’t want to do this type of marketing and selling, then just make the PCs work for you instead.
- Comment on Monetising spare computers 7 months ago:
Maybe don’t try to market them as gaming PCs and just market them as great workstation PCs. Also, it depends on the market and your inventory imports. If your market is people who can afford current Gen laptops, they will not like your PCs. If you market them as home theater media streaming PCs for those who want something better than a firestick, then it will make a better selling point. Either way, if you have a steady supply of these low-end PCs, then think about multiple markets instead of limiting your client base to just cheap gaming PCs. There is so much more a computer can be. Do some market research on your local or online markets and make the PCs capable of solving their needs.
- Comment on Monetising spare computers 7 months ago:
The amount of money you can gain from renting out your equipment vs. the electrical cost is not worth the effort you will need to employ to make this work. Especially for these entry-level spec computers. The best way to monetize is to liquidate them into cash and churn that cash into something more profitable, which is not easy, but it works for those who are creative and passionate enough. Another method is to make them do tasks that frees up your time, or you can delegate tasks that will help you. Good luck on your monetization efforts
- Comment on Blueberry milkshakes 7 months ago:
if things got to brain in a jar levels and I am complacently accepting of the fake reality, then I might just live a long life
- Comment on It's ok R, we still love you for diagrams. 7 months ago:
Because it’s a console, not an IDE. But I see your frustration and does seem ridiculous
- Comment on Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor 7 months ago:
Would you like to share your story?