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- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 11 hours ago:
Now if they’re really mad in a movie you see someone yeet their $800 phone. They lost the middle ground of slamming or throwing a $50 corded phone out the window. Now there’s only the nuclear option.
- Comment on So close! 11 hours ago:
Like a “dry brine”. Aka “rub”. Just more salt. A rub with salt.
- Comment on Avocado 19 hours ago:
AI says what?
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 19 hours ago:
My comment was regarding how the press, the Post in particular, handle crimes if they can get more views by making it about lgbtq. I had no intent to offer an unqualified diagnosis of the person in the OP article.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 19 hours ago:
Great. Use it for ocean going ships and boats. The bicarbonate will lower acidity in the water.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 19 hours ago:
If a WASP with a trump shrine has mental health issues and kills 4 people it’s mental health issues.
If anyone not fitting the conservative mold, even if they have mental health issues, kills people it’s about their differences from the mold that come first. “Mental health” might get a one line mention at the bottom of the article.
- Comment on I feel attacked 1 day ago:
Yes. We’ve had two. Still have one. The only major problem with them is that sometimes the unibody starts to crack above the rear end. It doesn’t happen to al of them. You can still buy them for $3k-$10k in ok to pretty good shape respectively depending on the miles and engine type. Maintenance costs are reasonable for an older car.
They are really fun little cars, even the 4 cylinder is great.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 1 day ago:
Not at the time I saw it. It was just an internet ad.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 1 day ago:
I just saw an ad for a “training course” to “qualify” people to interact with AI as a profession.
- Comment on I feel attacked 1 day ago:
None of the above?
Strength training and returned to a hobby of my younger years - cars.
- Comment on $1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up 2 days ago:
Somebody might actually get in trouble here for pissing off rich people. Regardless, the common investor will just get hosed.
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 3 days ago:
Paypal is not a bank account. This is dangerous.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
IMO it was my hardware on the first tries. Not sure what your problem was, but after digging around I found something that loosely indicated that my hardware was too old or something - it didn’t play well with the onboard graphics or similar. But the second hardware set I tried it on was far newer, and after all the installation was complete I got a black screen. Every time. No matter which guide I used, no matter what dependencies I thought might be missing or whatever I tried to get it working. A hair pulling experience indeed.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 4 days ago:
“Failed to load media”
Bummer. Mobile using the Voyager app, if anyone else has the same issue.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
Don’t be smug.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
Seconded it’s not a no-brainer. I spent days trying to get it set up with Docker on two different computers and three different distros. It wouldn’t install, if it did install it had errors, if it would even open at all with anything other than a black screen. Hours trying to search how to fix it. I gave up and installed it as a standalone app on a common distro. Not as convenient, but FML it finally worked. Really felt like I wasted my time. Personally, this is the exact bullshit linux fanatics completely ignore when they insist on how great linux is vs whatever. I’ve got a shitload of patience, willpower and modest skill to try to get something like this working, but 99% of the population doesn’t. That’s why linux will stay on the back burner. And if it ever becomes just as easy as Windows…guess what? You’ll have many of the same problem as Windows.
- Comment on The Gooner 5 days ago:
Or “gyat” was what a ranch hand might say to a critter to get it to more swiftly depart.
- Comment on TIL: UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive” 5 days ago:
ROI
- Comment on Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend! 5 days ago:
What?
A modern circumstance would be refusal to raise min wage to a reasonable wage. That’s absolutely a circumstance abetting poverty. If you don’t believe in that, then unfettered capitalism is commodifying poverty and increasing disparity.
You either maximize rules and services to prevent poverty, or you allow exploitation to increase it.
- Comment on Anyone Hiring? 6 days ago:
Nobody pisses you off more than family. Nobody tries to take advantage of you like family, because you’re family and obligated, 24/7. Yeah. Companies be like that.
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 6 days ago:
Done. Nobody else wants to know why I have 3 RasPi’s running stuff around the house, so I get to tell you in the survey, lol.
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 6 days ago:
Think of them more like division heads. Not quite a regular middle manager, but not C-suite.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 1 week ago:
The “corporate raider” existed before that, infamously thanks to people like Frank Lorenzo dismantling Eastern Airlines in the ‘80s or Icahn to TWA. The late ‘70s and early ‘80s were rife with corporate raiders.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 1 week ago:
Innovation is enshittification these days. It used to be invention, where entirely new products and materials came about. Then there was innovation, incremental improvement coupled with price hikes. Now “innovation” seems strictly rearranging deck chairs with worse service, and reducing employee count for increased profits.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 1 week ago:
If you thought your service was bad now, it’s gonna get worse.
- Comment on I got that dept in me 1 week ago:
Yeah, but that was back in the day when if you wanted some things they could take weeks or more than a month to have it ordered and shipped to you. It was all snail mail and next day prime delivery didn’t exist for the average person. So if you paid layaway for a month you could get the double benefit of payments and not needing to wait for an order to come in. IOW you could save up for a month and then order and get your item a month after that, or “claim” an item now and make the payments.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
You cannot forget the bad things, the pain, the emotions that went with them.
- Comment on I got that dept in me 1 week ago:
I remember layaway fairly well. The great thing was that there was a small fee at worst, no interest charged.
It really needs to come back. It’s far better than putting someone in interest laden debt. But debt is profitable.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 1 week ago:
There are some that blame administration costs, which is correct because of the multiple layers of redundancy in US schools - each district has its own administration, plus more at the state level - but some also blame the riding costs of benefits.
The latter seems far more of a right wing target because they attack the employee getting benefits, not the insurance companies jacking up the costs of benefits like health or life insurance.
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 1 week ago:
The problem with automation is complacency. Especially in something that people already have a very hard time taking seriously like driving where cell phone distraction, conversations, or just zoning out is super common.