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- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 12 hours ago:
Learn where the water shutoff is to your house.
If the worst happens and you lose power for any significant amount of time with no way to heat your home, and you face leaving your house find someplace warm, shut the water off. Some might suggest leaving taps trickling, and that might work for sinks, but won’t for toilets and other pipes.
Open the lowest spigot in the house to drain as much water as possible. Flush the toilets enough times to empty the tanks. Pour cheap vodka in the toilet “S” traps and sink “U” traps as a cheap antifreeze.
I’ve had to winterize a house on several occasions, learned the hard way on a couple occasions when I came back to a busted toilet or cracked drain.
- Comment on YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy 1 day ago:
I have a feeling that the people blasting conversations in their car are the same ones in the airport subjecting everyone nearby to their conversations on speakerphone.
- Comment on Rules for a gun fight 2 days ago:
That .4+ is bugging me for some reason Just say .40 cal or larger.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 days ago:
Nadella, stop trying to make ‘AI’ happen, it’s NOT going to happen!
- Comment on Interesting 2 days ago:
Ans they’ll probably be designed to be strong enough for a human to use, because that’s good safety design.
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 2 days ago:
Hopefully some cheap hardware.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 days ago:
Answering a question that who asked? Who would think war is a video game? Everyone’s a badass until they’re on the wrong end of a shooting range. If war causes infrastructure collapse to shipping of critical supplies like foods and fuels tens of millions could die, or more. Exposure, lack of meds (like insulin, anti-rejection, etc.), and lack of clean water will wipe out a huge number of people, too.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 3 days ago:
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 3 days ago:
I don’t disagree. I don’t know about strictly “techno-“, because it isn’t restricted just to the insertion of technological rent extractors every step of the way, it’s also every single business trying to maximize profits at every step along the production line, and they’re all effective monopolies that have no other way to make the line move up other than to charge for it. Almost nobody is making anything new, it’s just putting different color lipstick on a pig.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 3 days ago:
Way, way back, capitalism was a version of “the customer is always right.” Various companies would compete to sell a product at the right price point and quality the customer could accept. It wasn’t perfect, but it was pointed mostly the right direction.
Now capitalism is just the few major companies competing to see who can make the biggest cash grab and fuck the regular customer with prices, fees, and enshittification. Now we have dystopian monopolies divorced from the consumers.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 6 days ago:
Yep. Just finished ripping about 150 of our DVD collection and space was filling up, went looking for HDDs and was surprised at the prices. Now I know why.
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 1 week ago:
Yeah, just read that article here. Follow the money. They never stop enshittifying, trying to force people into walled gardens that are as shittily built and expensive as possible.
- Comment on A sampling of the responses to a tweet about ICE shooting out a 21-year old's eye in Santa Ana. 1 week ago:
Is that Threads? If so, f**k Threads. I participated around election time. It was overrun (and probably silently still is) with reich wing troll farm tools and bots. The month or two leading up to the election saw a flood posts that were outright lies regarding grocery prices, gas prices, housing prices, racist, AI images JAQing off, immigration and a dozen other easily verifiable hotbutton issues that were twisted up into lies.
And as soon as trump won?
Dead f***ing silence. They all went dark.
I deleted my account. It’s every bit the cesspool of bots and trolls as Twitter is.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
How he thinks he can make more billions by forcing yet another subscription model that takes ownership away from individuals.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 week ago:
Instead of ever-bigger screens thanks to flip open folding displays, how about the same size phone that flips open to an easily usable qwerty board?
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
Yep, but what we had access to was far, far different than what we see today. I wouldn’t have a problem with basic features like FTP, telnet, newsgroups or whatever, but the content will be limited. Gonna be back to dialup speeds.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
I’m not sure compression would solve the issue I mentioned - this would be probably more akin to using Napster to DL a song in 2001 via dialup, or trying to get an image off a newsgroup at best. I’m not saying it wouldn’t be useful, just very limited. Like I said, you’re not getting a full distro this way.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
I don’t think you’re going to be downloading a linux distro over this system. It’s probably just going to be text and the most basic data,
- Comment on How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC? 1 week ago:
But as long it sounded like he was addressing their fears, the most frightened people struggling to make ends meet latched onto whatever false hope he gave them.
Bit of a differenceI should point out – trump addressed their fears by giving them someone to blame with at best a nominal economic statement. LGBTQ, libs, Biden, “elites”, brown people, foreign countries, etc. were all to blame.
He never actually had a plan to offer anyone on how he was going to fix things other than by punishing the scapegoats. “I’ll lower prices” vs a boring, difficult to understand, years-long effort to maneuver industry and economics in a positive direction for the middle and lower classes.
- Comment on And the cold in particular. 1 week ago:
Meh. Cold doesn’t bother me too much. But it being dark at 4:30? Yeah, that can get fucked.
- Comment on Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again 1 week ago:
One of the shittiest humans on the planet is in charge and fucking things up, here’s a completely unlikely event that would fix nothing that could happen.
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 1 week ago:
I figure I would just stop at greed. I don’t think there’s incompetence, they know what they’re doing to maximize profit. Our concerns being DIY PC builders are pretty low on their radar.
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 1 week ago:
Never attribute to profit?
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 1 week ago:
Just trying to kill the DIY PC market. You will buy the Paystation, Xbox, and Steam machine and like it. No user upgradable hardware. Only upgradable models. All non-console GPUs, CPUs, and DRAM are for AI alone.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
We’ve never been great. It’s just removing the veneer of respectability we gave ourselves and doubling down on the shittiest parts.
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 1 week ago:
Jennifer Government and Snow Crash here we come. Except we don’t get any of the cool shit fictional cyber-dystopias do.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Yep. Engagement drives more engagement.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 1 week ago:
The US is like turning on a morning soap opera. What absurd and dramatic contrivances have they come up with this time that could never happen in real life?
- Comment on X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 1 week ago:
Coward$.
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
Bullshit.
If he was alive and well he would have been trotted out to the public as propaganda by the CCP that they weren’t cruel, and instructed to regurgitate some safe speech that toed the Party line.
If he’s lucky he disappeared and kept his mouth shut to survive in silence.
Sources conflict as to his identity, and whether or not he was executed, imprisoned , or lived free.
Not that I expect tankies to think anything other than pro-CCP thought.