JasonDJ
@JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more 12 hours ago:
FL would’ve been a landslide and the courts wouldn’t have mattered if the greens voted for Gore.
- Comment on FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days 21 hours ago:
Not like they used to, mostly. They just replaced “contract” with “equipment payment plan”. Because $50/mo for 24 months is easier for a consumer to swallow than a lump payment of $1200, especially when the carrier is giving you a $10 or $20 (or more) “discount” on the phone.
But as long as the EPP is active, the phone is locked to that carrier. And I think that’s fair. No different than the bank holding the title while you finance a car.
The thing is that the plans that have these equipment deals are significantly more expensive than others. Namely big name plans like TMo or Verizon, compared to MVNO plans like Mint or Visible. So you end up paying more for the plan because you get “a deal” on your phone (but still end up ultimately paying more).
- Comment on Stay Mad 1 day ago:
The Republican party wouldn’t exist if everybody voted. That is a straight up fact. As fucked as our election system is, they are far enough the minority that if everyone got out, the EC wouldn’t matter.
You want a “left light” and a “true left”, you aren’t going to get it by abstaining, or by voting for nonviable moonshot third-party candidates. You are going to get it by abolishing the far right party and making that tiny sliver of the whole population realize that their antiquated views aren’t welcome here.
They need to be crushed.
They only exist because people don’t want to vote for the lesser of two evils, so instead they just don’t vote. And what do you know, a -1 for the less evil is just as effective as a +1 for the more evil.
All of their success is brought on by feeding apathy in their opposition, making it more difficult to vote, destroying any faith in the system, and gerrymandering.
So yes, in my opinion, the far left refusing to hold their nose for a few minutes maybe we’ll be voting for the insurrectionist.
- Comment on Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. 4 days ago:
Ehh…not that much.
Sarah Palin was supposed to bring in the party’s fringes for McCain in his 2008 bid. She was considered a nutter then.
One Obama later, and suddenly McCain was either the scum of the earth or the best the GOP has to offer, depending on who you ask, and those groups of people flipped in that time. Meanwhile Palin became a mascot.
Palin wasn’t even invited to his funeral. Didn’t speak to him one time in the year he was sick.
- Comment on Shower thoughts are wasting water. 1 week ago:
We’ve been getting tons of rain here, but we are still in an outdoor water ban.
Between 8-5, no lawn watering (except golf courses and businesses), no washing your car (except at a car wash), no watering your plants (except for farms and garden stores).
It’s not because of drought, but because one of our water sources is offline due to elevated PFAA, so they are blending water from other reservoirs, and those sources combined can’t make up the extra demand.
- Comment on The fine art of negotiation 1 week ago:
History has its eyes on them.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
If you save the cheerleader you save the world.
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 1 week ago:
You mean to tell me, three days a week, they have to:
- wake up extra hours early
- pack a lunch or plan to pay for one
- put on hard pants
- drive their own vehicle in traffic, with their own gas and wear/tear
- pay for their own parking.
- do the exact same work in their designated space
- drive back home in traffic 9 hours later
All for the same pay and several hours away from my family, home, or bed?
No fucking thanks.
Going remote was the best fucking raise I ever got, and it didn’t cost them a dime.
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 1 week ago:
I’ll start integrating the webhookers with Slack.
- Comment on A/S/L? 1 week ago:
Aww it looks like if Jonah Hill were typecast as the chubby best friend. Back when Jonah Hill was chubby.
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
Only if you use the Self-Hashing Orthogonal Tracing Algorithm, naturally.
- Comment on Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" 5 weeks ago:
Unless the saga continues, they didn’t “hide” the competition, they paywalled their access.
There’s nothing wrong, per se, with charging access to the API. Where they went wrong was setting an exorbitant price. That was clearly anti-competitive. They knew the pricing they set wouldn’t be sustainable to any third party developers. Then he started shit talking the Apollo developer…
- Comment on Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" 5 weeks ago:
The Internet is a perfect example of why we can’t have nice things, or rather, why anarchy could never work.
That’s what the Internet used to be, and what it largely is. And it worked quite well, until people realized the Internet could be monetized beyond just being an extension of your brand.
Now it’s quite obvious that regulation is necessary. People are idiots and they can’t be trusted with a dopamine-injection-button run by greedy corporations. That gives those companies really unprecedented power.
- Comment on Fossils 1 month ago:
Of course it’s company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo… always use the indefinite article “a” dildo, never “your” dildo.
- Comment on Golden retriever are the Volvo of dogs 1 month ago:
Both Volvos and golden retrievers are prone to suspension issues.
However, Volvos are indestructible, and all good boys come to an end. My golden was almost 8 when lymphoma took him.
- Comment on Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news 1 month ago:
Can we start some viral alliteration to get people off Facebook for a few weeks?
Make Memories Matter May?
Just Journal June?
Just Jive July?
Authentic August?
Send Stamps September?
Offline October?
No Negativity November?
- Comment on The Patriarchy 1 month ago:
That’s dragons, not dinosaurs. Dummy.
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 1 month ago:
No, stupid. This place is just for questions in general. Unqualified. No adjectives. No stupid**,** questions.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 1 month ago:
That makes sense…if the charger is aware of its own load and the load of the whole house, it can slow down or stop charging to let the other stuff catch up.
I don’t know where you are but 3-Phase is rather uncommon in US Residential. We use split-phase, where we have two 120v lines that use a common neutral, and we get 240v across the two 120v hots (with no neutral…but some 240V outlets do have a neutral leg for parts of the appliance needing 120V.
A while ago, the YouTuber Technology Connections did a segment on the Span smart panel…and I think there’s a handful of others…that measures the load of each circuit and can triage circuits if there’s too much demand. This is really where smart appliances should be heading. It’s cool that my dryer can tell me how many KWh are consumed by a load, but I’d much rather it be able to cooperate with all my other loads and maybe turn off the heating element for a bit.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 1 month ago:
Isn’t 100A considered inside for an all electric home?
Most homes nowadays are 200A. I could probably make it work, or get a smart panel to not have to worry about it…but upgrading service is practically impossible unless I can get someone else to pay for it. We’d have to remove a bunch of trees to trench to where the junction box is, and then trench across our driveway, too. Unless I lucked out and there oversized conduit there already, but I highly doubt it. As much as I’ve been told, the neighborhood was built with direct-bury service entrances.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 1 month ago:
Volvo EX30 compact EV SUV comes out this year with a base price of 35k. I consider that exceptionally reasonable (esp. for a Volvo). I’d buy one myself, but getting my house setup for EVs is a huge can of worms. My electric main is buried, I only have 100a service and my panel is full to the brim.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 1 month ago:
Thatsthething.
Everyone talks about how shitty the environment is and that we’re going to get burned alive in our lifetime…but at the same time, fuck the environment if it means cheap goods.
- Comment on Pure poetry 1 month ago:
Nah a lot of times government inventions get sold under license. Gov invents it and private industry perfects it. Within 5 years you’d have Darn Tough blisterproof socks and gov gets a fraction of every sale. It’s how NASA has the best ROI in the government.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 month ago:
There’s always going to be some level of loss and retransmission. It would take a perfect stream of UDP, since TCP needs acknowledgements in order to continue sending data. That can be reduced by window scaling and multiplexing, but it’s still going to happen.
- Comment on Pure poetry 1 month ago:
Why doesn’t the army just make blister-preventing socks?
That really sounds like some amazing government invention that gets everywhere. Like accelerometers. Or Tang.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
Conservatives on Degobah: there’s probably oil here.
- Comment on Metal is made from refined rocks, therefore Metal music is refined Rock music 1 month ago:
That’s Toph, buddy.
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- Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol 1 month ago:
Can I just get Danny DeVito?