oo1

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tought you had to play blackjack/ pontoon/ 21 to count cards?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  cheap and easy.

  It’s many thousands of years of solar power , concentated in to a storable, portable and fairly accessible and transmutable form.

  Countries don’t “generate” coal and oil, they suck it out of the ground. It was generated by thousands to millions of years of life and accumulated geological processes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure by windows 12 or 13 coprolite will be so good they will get rid of both control panel and command prompt/powershell. The best ui is no ui.

  In any case, the users won’t want to mess with settings once the OS already knows which advert they want to see next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FANTER⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  fantastic story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the average person have no critical thinking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The concept of “the average person” is a good example of the type of crass generalisation that propagndists often use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to be careful to get a phone and model supported by one of the projects. Check all compatibility and install instructions before buying a phone. And if you need a manufacturer supplied unlock code, make sure the manufacturer still gives them out some will discontinue that.

  For graphene os you need one of the gogle devices - i’ve never tried it but i think its the one most people like.

  lineageos supports more devices usually older.

  I recently got lineageos working on sony experia xa2 - very happy with it. But to get there i had to go try like 6 computers before one of them sucessfully sent the bootloader unlock code over the ADB. For some reason usb is temperamental when doing stuff like that

  It is a lot easier on really old stuff like samsung galaxy s3 or s4 if you can tolerate something that old. Maybe you’ll lso end upon an old version of lineage.

  Once you get the bootloader unlocked it is generally straightforward. but modern phones make that fist part awkward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I backup my precious dick pics at several offsite locations by sending them to as many people as possible as often as possible.

  8-

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're a broke vampire, just say that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They just ned to sell their crypto.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we make lemmy have more relevance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to boost USA manufacturing industries I’d look at the sector that killed it first.

  Bring in international capital controls, forex restrictions, limit consumer / mortgage credit maybe bring in some directed credit requirements. Badically the bank egulation that was chucked out in the 1970s. When us msnufacturing industry mysteriously started to decline. 70s recessions were not only caused by oil price shocks, and the sectoral shift was reinforced by bank liberalisation.

  I’d think you’d want to force the USA finance industry to invest (at least some decent amount) in the future of USA produtive capacity, instead of letting them invest in China’s future and have an arms race to fuel a perpetual domestic property bubble.

  Tarrifs might still be part of it - but if your domestic companies can’t borrow, they can’t grow or maintain/develop asset base.If they don’t have working capital facilities, they liquidate fast.

  Tax breaks might work/help (as might tarrifs), but if taxes are all on profits, you still need to borrow against the future to make the investment in the present (i.e. make a loss and pay no tax anyway) to build the productive capacity. They’d be better for short payback or labour intensive industries than for capital intensive industry - without other stuff.

  I guess if you mean income tax breaks for workers in certin types of jobs/companies, that is interesting. Either way you need quite a lot of monitoring to avoid corruption of just wierd distortions with unintended consequences. That’s what banks lending to businesses should do and be good at, monitoring their loans and their debtors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we make lemmy have more relevance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And Slackware, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak evolution (after crabs)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  God: “let there be light”

  Jellyfish: [activates bioluminescence]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a child of the 90s we grew up with PC Political Correctness. Is that WOKE but just in a different form?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the idea is that someome wants to avoid being “cancelled” after they’ve been exposed for for abusing social trust and norms of behaviour - usually to their own benefit.

  So they denigrate or attack anyone exposing their shitty behaviour or anything similar. If they can do this they can contine to be cunts to society and avoid being ostracised by it.

  But once they can get away with it, one can systematically exploit social trust and norms repeatedly, and presumably grow the power and influnce of their subculture. Even at the cost of overall the weath of the encompassing society - it won’t matter to the dicks so long as they can extort a bigger share of the smaller pie.

  Polite society will unfortunately struggle to effectively ostracise the people who do this because they’re (rightly) worried about due process, accountability, fairness, and miscarriages of justice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a child of the 90s we grew up with PC Political Correctness. Is that WOKE but just in a different form?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re trying justify making the selfish choice in the prisoner’s dilemma and abusing the trust that is so useful to cooperative/polite society.

  They also get annoyed if coperative society is rational enough to slap them with the reciprocity they deserve after being found out for being a twat.

  But I think they rationally they do want a 2-tier society, where lots of people in one tier cooperate to build trust and wealth (generally using trust instead of lawyers), then their tier extorts that wealth. And they find ways to protect themselves from consequences (generally using lawyers).

  I’m sure many of the brainwashed masses don’t know which tier they’re in though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I’d advise against linux then. even if it means a million downvotes here.

  Windows or actually OSX (if you’re ok with mac hardware) or chromeos will work much better for people who don’t ever want to do any basic configuration of their system. All of those have their own issues of course, so it’s a tradeoff for the user to consider. If doing no basic config is the #1 requirement, then I think that rules out linux as the correct choice.

  If a user would stay maybe 12-24 months behind the cutting edge then they might be ok with a rolling release. The one time I did get a latest gen Wifi/BT card, I had to migrate from Debian to Arch to get it working.

  I belive the only way youll get that experince with linux is with defined hardware - laptops or steamdeck. Linux is never going to cover all possible bleeding edge hardware combinations in a custom PC with no user config effort.

  Until or unless linux becmes bigger than MS, and all HW manufactures get theur linux drivers working before the device goes on sale, as a matter of course. Never gonna happpen unless MS actually goes bust or something. I can’t see linux ever competing in B2B market; do all linux distributers combined have the resources to smarm up to a million corpo procurement twats? I don’t think so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you have only two different answers so far. which is just not playing the game. i’ll give you another two; there are at least 15 “best lightweight linux distro”. For your use, I’d pick any one at random, try it out on a bootable usb.

  Personslly, I’d try stock debian and choose LXQT for a lightweight desktop.

  puppylinux also deserves a mention, I always have a bootble PL usb lying around somewhere. Its reliable , fast for a usb, very good potato-compatibility, has loads of useful programmes and utilitiea already in there. I’ve never actually installed it permanently though. Scared of making a commitment to slackware that I don’t understand.

  I’d avoid Damn Small and Tiny Core though - unless you really need them. Cool as they are they are well out of mainstream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting thanks. Not all that surprising though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Circle of iLife⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “technology is cyclical.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes me wonder how ‘real’ roman gladiators were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some things are a mystery ig ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds impressive in theory, but I’ve actually seen it; it’s this weird guy from the '80s singing about quitting cigarettes or something.

  Does not live up to the hype.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unpopular popular opinion - fiat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most money is not really created by central banks. It’s created by private banks when they make loans. They literally add a number to their assets, and to the borrowers liabilities - and the borrower can now go spend that new money.

  Central banks are supposed to try to regulate bank lending to try to stop the pyramid spiining out of control.

  Governments also take out loans though (by selling bills, gilts, bonds) - so they are also involved in money creation process, that money typically goes to pay public services and public servants.

  But the majority of money creation is typically private loans - and much of that goes ino property price bubbles , which does indeed benefit the rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tariffs don’t “work” or “not work” it’s not a binary outcome. Just as measuring “the economy” is pretty much impossible, so is attributing economic outcomes to one single feature of the regulatory environment, They interact with the rest of the economic environment and some variety or work, production, trade, investment and distribution will occur. Over time all aspects of the system will change, adapt and react. Most changes have winners and losers and they can be counted or balanced off differently.

  It it were paired with bank regulation and asset ownership regulation and a coherent industrial strategy, maybe also forex controls, maybe some counter cyclical macroeconomic policy (extremely unpopular these days) the outcomes would likely be quite different from a low regulation free for “all”. “All” is probably “a few with relatively unconstrained access to enough capital or credit to hoover up assets of the losers”.

  But then a smaller subset of those things might also change the outcomes on their own. Either way it would be a matter of time and adaptation of a complex system.

  It also depends what you think the objective is before you understand “success” or “failure”, the goals might well be social as much as economic. If the objective is trash the small scale asset ownig middle classes and enrich the elites economically then it might be working already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Request for FPS recommendations.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the main level designers for original Doom “Sandy of Cthulu” was a pretty serious mormon christian.

  “I have no problems with the demons in the game. They’re just cartoons. And, anyway, they’re the bad guys.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the community for stuff like this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ongo Gablonion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that's an interesting question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a less popular name “Jago” in English that would fit. I think that also comes from Jacob or Iago.

  So I reckon “Saint Jago”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨frenly warnin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they emphasise “children” to encourage more of the current adult generation to sacrifice themselves. And to manage expectations of when the benefits arise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A squirrel-inspired robot that can leap from limb to limb.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks a wee bit like Calculon, facially at least; a bit skinnier in the torso.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s a pointless statement to say if everyone did anything

  I was agreeing with this part, except that I think OP statement was ‘hyperbolic’ not ‘pointless’; an exageration for rhetorical effect.

  What I think is pointless is taking hyperbole (and most rhetoric) at face value and arguing about it. It is better to try to determine the underlying point being made (there probably is one if you look hard enough or enquire about it) and think about some more realistic scenarios.

  I don’t think the original point was about <hyperbole> the vulnerability of the economy of mauritius due to overconcentration of the dodo industry </hyperbole>; or, the sustainability of a street entirely owned by landlords. Maybe someone wants to <hyperbole> make some Ronald Coase type speculation about how property rights could have saved the dodo </hyperbole>.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ok, nice and realistic. No hyperbole here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you’re saying that if an economy has an increse the concentration of farming activity then economic ouput will deteriorate as fast as if it were to have instead had the same increase the concentration of parasitic activity? Very interesting idea.

  Maybe I’m dense but the only way I can see that working is if the parasites become super-effective livestock and can be turned into food that is either more nutrious or has a longer shelflife than the feedstock.