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- Comment on How To Swap Couplings? 6 hours ago:
Pins are glued, they won’t just come out. There are tools to remove those pins and you can basically make your own, it’s basically a thin flat piece of metal you shove into each channel to move the retaining tab out of the way temporarily
a.aliexpress.com/_mMa3SwF something like this, the ones I have are different, but you can makeshift something in a pinch
But again the adhesive will mean this won’t work unless you cut/remove it. Also are you sure the only thing that’s changed is the connector? The pinout may have changed, the board you’re connecting to may have changed, etc
- Comment on where are worker rights parades? why are we focusing on very limited issues? 20 hours ago:
We’ve been convinced to slap fight about identity politics, many times necessarily so because unfair pressure is being applied via abuse by those in power
This results in blocking any dialogues about class consciousness
At the same time there is propaganda that goes against class consciousness: labor unions have been utterly destroyed both literally and from an optics standpoint (many Americans distrust the concept), consumerism runs deep in our blood to push the idea that we need more capital and glorify excessive “baller” lifestyles, poor is pushed to be seen as a moral failing, etc
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 3 days ago:
They absolutely do this. A drug with a lack of efficacy data is a great way to get shortlisted to insurance denials
It’s one of the frustrating things bc people can then easily manipulate the issue. A drug that can be prescribed a doctor and filled by a pharmacy being denied by an insurance company is very easy to write about online. Then it’s a slam piece, “x insurance company denied me my meds”. Basically 0 people will have any interest in the nuance that the medication is bullshit or possibly even harmful. Too bad insurance companies made their bed by being absolutely horrible for decades, I guess.
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 3 days ago:
Interesting fact: when lowtax was forced to sell somethingawful to one of his moderators that got bitcoin rich for 400k he revealed during the negotiations that conde nast attempted to buy somethingawful for 13 million dollars around 2006 or so. He turned them down because he “was still having fun with the site”
After the sale was completed the mod looked into it a bit more and realized in that same timeframe conde nast ended up purchasing a majority stake in reddit for a very similar amount
Imagine how different the internet would be if “the front page of the internet” was a hacked up vbulletin site from 2003 filled with 40 year old IT dorks and run by a guy that was so afraid of paying child support that he literally killed himself
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Well they’re not good, they’re still enabling the government to remove your rights and the rights of others plus they tend to have a lot of other hot takes and behavior that are objectively shitty.
Speaking broadly they seem to be people that are bigoted and reassess their bigotry when it becomes humanized. They only changed this opinion because it impacts someone they care about directly, basically. In some cases they still hold the shitty opinion and view their loved one as the exception (the “real trans” vs “fake trans” thing)
The other piece that can be a real mindfuck is that they can often go to a “we just don’t talk about it” thing, where they do silently think the absolute worst of you but at least aren’t assholes about it. This is at least not detrimental to you directly but can lead to ugly behavior and systemic oppression
Approach with caution, basically, and don’t be shocked if someone who initially seems very sweet and courteous says some utterly disgusting shit if the conversation turns ugly if you bring up “sensitive topics”
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Everyone is going on about how maga is inherently anti trans but the situation is more nuanced
If you’re terminally online then yes, maga is 100% anti trans all the time but irl that is not always the case
I provide gender affirming care and work with families where someone is trans and their families are MAGA people, respect pronouns and names, give rides home from surgery, call partners boyfriend/girlfriend as appropriate, and will even at times get mad at others for not respecting their child’s identity
This is not a super common thing, to be clear, but it’s also not shockingly rare. Maybe 20-25% of my clients? It also gets into the whole “humanizing” factor. These people are so insulated from minority groups thanks to continued segregation that they can easily demonize them but lgbt minorities can pop up in their families much easier. That’s why they fucking hate acceptance movements; you can’t white flight from your queer kid but you can bully them into a loveless marriage that ends in divorce or suicide. But when they finally do integrate they generally recognize that while there are aspects of a culture they still despise the people within it are still just people, especially if those people are the people they’ve known and loved their whole life
It’s cognitive dissonance at its finest though and creates tons of friction. Client is obviously very upset that family is voting to end their rights and family usually does mental gymnastics to not see it that way. Also majority of instances, overwhelmingly so, are trans men. This is all based on my anecdote so take it with a grain of salt but imo trans women are most often used for propaganda and portrayed as monsters so trans men sometimes fly under the radar via erasure. though to be absolutely clear key word is sometimes, trans men absolutely get a ton of shit flung at them too. This probably plays into the fact that trans women outnumber trans men by a significant margin and more importantly/likely systems of misogyny, people hate women.
That said I would generally assume the worst, especially if you encounter a group of Trump people, or if you are in a place where you are doing discourse online
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Honestly the bigger thing is sponsorblock, blocking youtube ads is a big deal but it’s so much nicer to be able to circumvent the internalized advertising. Youtuber spends 4 full minutes plugging a vpn service? Automatically skipped seamlessly
Rooting ranges from very easy (literally go to a webpage, very unlikely you’re on a firmware this old), to medium (put stuff on a usb and try to play some music, may have to try a few times), to very difficult (connecting hardware to the tv), and in some cases is impossible. Don’t update your tv if you don’t have to, lg rarely fixes issues and never adds new features
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Jellyfin for kodi is pretty bulletproof for me although it wasn’t always that way; when I first changed to this setup (bit over a year ago when Coreelec added dolby vision support) there were some headaches because kodi was changing how the db worked at the time (change from kodi 20 to 21 and Coreelec was using the kodi 21 nightlies for dv stuff that hadn’t been brought into final version)
Once the 21 final came out and Jellyfin for kodi was updated it’s been smooth sailing.
That does remind me of another downside though: there’s a minor slap fight on how db management should occur between kodi and jellyfin devs. Like many open source projects they simply can’t agree on anything so each project just does what they think is right. So kodi 22 or jellyfin 11 might cause another scenario like above if they decide to revamp the db again (especially on the Jellyfin side; I would not be surprised if someday they will overhaul the lackluster music portion of Jellyfin)
If you ever do revisit Jellyfin for metadata administration I would suggest posting about your issues on the github for Jellyfin for kodi. I’ve never used Jellycon so I can’t speak to that but Jellyfin for kodi’s github is overall helpful although fair warning that the dev can be a bit curt, especially if your issue has already been addressed and is configuration related. Things may have changed but at least ~ a year ago it was solely developed by one person who did the majority of the support as well. But if nfs is working then why break what isn’t broken?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
You can root webos depending on what version you’re running but that more just lets you run homebrew (which is handy for youtube with Adblock and sponsorblock)
As others have said the best thing you can do is bypass internet connectivity altogether. I use the youtube app so I keep it connected with lg services and tracking blocked:
||snu.lge.com^ ||su.lge.com^ ||su-ssl.lge.com^ ||snu-dev.lge.com^ ||su-dev.lge.com^ ||nsu.lge.com^
(Formatted for adguard dns)
But it’s easier to just disconnect entirely. Let it collect data but if it’s disconnected it can’t do anything with it.
For a box I use a Chinese google tv box - ugoos am6b+. It can decode almost any video format (including dolby vision and all lossless audio, can pass through) except av1 basically and there are some newer versions that can do that as well. Google is awful right? The ugoos is stripped back pretty hard though it does retain the play store but still block the following:
||androidtvwatsonfe-pa.googleapis.com^ ||androidtvchannels-pa.googleapis.com^
Probably not necessary but just in case. Anyway, the Google tv side is just for streaming services (if you use them) and IPTV because Jellyfin and kodi are garbage at IPTV, tivimate on android is leagues better
Anyway flash the box to use Coreelec and copy Coreelec to the emmc, takes like 10 minutes and is pretty easy, just need an sd card. Now you use kodi as your Jellyfin app (or plex/emby but fuck plex/emby) by just installing the Jellyfin for kodi plugin in kodi and in jellyfin. Sign into your Jellyfin instance in the plugin, your library will import (can take awhile the first time if you’re like me and have a huuuuge library with like 1,000 movies, 10,000 episodes, and 300,000 songs)
Then look around on the kodi forums for a decent skin that looks nice for you bc the default one is butt, configure the menus to match your setup, adjust the skin settings to your liking, etc. backup your settings!
Now you have a Jellyfin client that plays back media directly without transcoding 99.99% of the time (assuming you have an avr that can play lossless audio), is far more mature than any of the shitty Jellyfin client apps (development started in 2003), handles stuff like subtitles far better, still syncs watched status, etc. and the worst part of kodi: library management and administration, is now handled by jellyfin, which does it much better.
If you have remote users or other TVs/phones/etc they can still use the client apps too
Downside is that you lose most plugin support. Like back before they started to roll intro skipper into Jellyfin or jelly scrub, those are useless to kodi. And a weakness of kodi is that with the rise of plex/jellyfin addon development for kodi has dropped off significantly so no introskipper plugin for kodi. Navigation features work well (pressing right on the remote skips forward 10s) so that’s close enough, or just download good quality rips with chapters
- Comment on Breaking in the nice weather with some Dreamcast 5 days ago:
I remember vga patching all my Dreamcast games to play them in glorious 480(i?) on my 19” acer crt back in like 2000
Soul caliber was the best
- Comment on glupi jebeni bot 1 week ago:
“Optimizing for things people love” aka talking to you like an hr team building seminar
It’s frustrating, or maybe it’s a good thing given the tendency for some people to form weird pseudo social relationships with LLMs, to see the evolution of chatgpts language processing
Public chatgpt only had the 3.5, 4, and 4o model but you can play with earlier models like 2 and 3 on huggingface. These were far weirder, often robotic and stilted but sometimes mirroring more natural colloquial English more based on the input
Rather than make something that is authentic and more natural to interact with they instead go for the ultra sanitized HR corporate speak bullshit. Completely bland and inoffensive with constant encouragement and reinforcement to drive engagement that feels so inauthentic (unless you are desperate for connection with anything, I guess). It’s mirrored in other models to some degree, deepseek, llama, etc (I don’t know about grok, fuck going on twitter).
3-5 years until it’s ruined by advertising, tops. If that
- Comment on How 1990s Magic Eye 3D Images Were Made [21:55] | LGR 2 weeks ago:
I was born blind in one eye and I’ve never seen a magic eye picture
When I was a kid I was convinced I could get it to work but I never did. I was never going to, I don’t have binocular vision, but I tried
I really sympathized with that one guy in mallets
- Comment on Henry Kissinger died. 2 weeks ago:
Well even within nepotism and privilege there are people who reject it but there are far more who do not, it seems
That’s where we start to get to the nature vs nurture debate I suppose.
- Comment on Henry Kissinger died. 2 weeks ago:
People respond to power differently. I’m sure you’ve held it at some point. Sure, you’ve never been a captain of industry (I assume) but you’ve probably been asked to watch a child for at least a few moments, or had a pet, or a friendship/romantic relationship where there was an imbalance, if only temporarily
Some people reject that feeling of power for various reasons (avoiding responsibility, the potential to cause harm, etc), some people just are kind of eh about it and see it for what it is (“I will take care of this baby because that is what you are supposed to do”, “I will be a trustworthy partner because that is what is right”, etc), some people realize power is exploitable and gives them potential advantage (I can shape this babies worldview, I can make my friend/partner dependent)
That last category is the type to try and seize more and more power, imo. They will potentially delude themselves with niceties along the way (“I made the baby laugh”, “I did a nice thing for my friend/partner today”, “I have created 800,000 jobs”) but this is always overlooking evil (“my goal is to shape this baby into my worldview rather than allow it to develop its own personality”, “my goal is to manipulate my friend/partner into staying loyal regardless of my behavior”, “the vast majority of the 800,000 jobs I’ve made are exploitative and the empire I’ve built is destructive in many other ways like destroying small businesses that helped create reasonable wealth within communities”)
- Comment on Henry Kissinger died. 2 weeks ago:
They’re not saving, that’s a faulty belief. The majority of them aren’t even liquid
They’re hoarding as frequently mentioned but it’s not about resources, really, it’s about control and power. Power and valuation are linked somewhat, but it takes more than that
Say my company is amazon, as an example. I hoard ownership stake and equity. I do not give workers a share and pay them minimally. I give investors as little as possible and buy back shares whenever I can. I raise the valuation by increasing the worth of company initially through traditional performance means: sell more stuff, productivity, efficiency, etc. but eventually I get so big at this I have to look at how to diversify to increase power. I enter other markets. Now I’m not just a online retail store, I’m a logistics company, I’m a pharmacy, I’m a web host for 50+% of the internet, I’m a key player in media streaming, I’m a smart home device manufacturer, I’m an ebook manufacturer, etc. I have dominance across dozens of markets
By hoarding equity I maintain control of that company to a significant degree. At this point there is likely a board that can override me for the sake of the shareholders who have taken a large portion of my equity but there is no other single person that has my power.
The equity comes with massive resource benefits of course, it’s basically infinite money chest and even if I’m not liquid I can get a loan for infinity dollars at a moments notice because I’m obviously good for it. But the real motivation for hoarding is because if I stop? Even for a second? I lose this power
That’s why they never retire. They only step down and put some weenie ceo in their place who won’t get their full power until they’re decrepit or dead. How many people can name the ceo of amazon now? (It’s Andy jassy, has a 0.02% ownership stake in amazon) but everyone knows bezos (9.6% ownership stake in amazon, 1.023 billion shares). People only knew tim cook because jobs literally knew he was about to die and his ownership stake is minimal (0.021% vs jobs 0.2% at his death). Who can name the CEO of twitter (Linda yaccarino, no ownership)? Musk is still the ceo of tesla (70% stake in twitter, 12.8% tesla). Even with these minimal ownership stakes though these people are filthy rich - jassy and cook both have a net worth well over half a billion from that alone.
- Comment on This section of Jim Carrey's Wikipedia Article 2 weeks ago:
I misread the headline as “this section of jimmy carters Wikipedia article” and was so confused
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 2 weeks ago:
“Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire”
This is a misleading statement. 86% of Mozilla’s funding is from google. Modern web browsers are a fucked landscape designed to perpetuate googles dominance
- Comment on Economcial, Billionaires are the biggest threat to the free market 2 weeks ago:
it’s super fun to talk to a “fiscal conservative” or “neoliberal” that’s real pissed off about the people scalping ps5s or concert tickets or whatever
“They buy up all the supply with unfair advantages like bots and using discord channels to get restock alerts before anyone else can know! Then they drive up the price so high no one can afford it!”
You can get them so close to having the epiphany that you just had but their dream of being a billionaire themselves one day causes so much cognitive dissonance that they will then defend elon musk. Or the neolib will defend all the poor very wealthy CEOs and executives worth 10+ million dollars while secretly wanting to defend billionaires like bill gates because he has better optics, but they realize billionaires in general have bad optics at the moment right now so they shut up
Ultra wealthy people in general are the issue. Billionaires are the absolute worst of it but the single person with an 80 million dollar estate is the same problem just on a smaller scale. That still chokes a fairly large community of resources. Billionaires just do the same thing to an entire nation, or even the world to some degree.
All of that money is equity. Basically none of these dudes are liquid and the bits they have that are liquid are from cashing out stolen equity. It’s because we have this fucked up idea that because I start a company I then hold the bag in perpetuity and you get nothing because I say so. Even if I bring you on in the beginning and you help me build it up from nothing, even if you help me run it as it grows to an empire, even if you help keep the empire running each and every day. I pay you money, as little as possible, and ideally no benefits, and you get absolutely no share of the company that you are helping to build.
So here I sit in my ivory tower, a company valued at 1 million, 5 million, 100 billion, 3 trillion. Who do I share that equity with? People who will loan me money. No one who will actually do any real work to make the company move forward day to day. Those people sweating and bleeding get nothing. The people getting a chunk of the pie are the ones that can afford to buy in and they reap the rewards as a result: they don’t trade their physical health for money, they don’t get paid shit, and as the company grows they make more and more while they sit on their asses like the parasites they are, sucking away your wages and benefits. Your health insurance is worse this year? Or it doesn’t exist at all? Gotta cut costs to please the shareholders and investors to turn a “profit”
That’s why in terms of stock ownership the top 10% of Americans own 87% of American owned stocks and the bottom 90% own 13%. The bottom 50% own 1% and the top 1% own 50%. This excludes the portion of the market owned by foreign investors but that’s still tremendous - the top 1% own 23 trillion dollars worth of equity.
Forcibly take over amazon, Walmart, Google, apple, etc and nationalize them. Give the equity owned by retail investors to the workers. And not just the fancy coders and engineers that probably already had stock options, to the people hocking phones at mall kiosks and doing tech support. Then jail all billionaires for life for crimes against humanity and outlaw advertising and we might save humanity
- Comment on It is like LLMs are massively overhyped and can't even do half the things its advertised... 2 weeks ago:
“but in a gig style setup”
“I will only bring them back if we can do it in a way that treats them with as little dignity as possible”
The entire country and maybe world will be gig workers by 2060. They’ve finally figured out the cheat code. You “get to be your own boss”, they get to shed a ton of liability, pay you absolutely no benefits whatsoever, stop paying for workers comp, etc
- Comment on [News] Mangadex Staff FAQ Page About Recent Takedowns and Policy Changes 2 weeks ago:
This is interesting, thanks
- Comment on [News] Mangadex Staff FAQ Page About Recent Takedowns and Policy Changes 2 weeks ago:
Is that a thing? I’m not part of any groups, just a weirdo that occasionally does a one shot or short series for practice (with horrific typesetting and redrawing because I am garbage at that and I have no e friends haha)
I tend to just post them on a random wordpress site I made and they still usually find their way to mangadex and co with no promotion whatsoever which is weird
- Comment on [News] Mangadex Staff FAQ Page About Recent Takedowns and Policy Changes 2 weeks ago:
This is why I self host. nas+komga+mihon beats mangadex/bato/etc every day
I hope scanlators get back into the habit of releasing rips onto their sites, torrents, or some other direct platform instead of these sites that inevitably turn to shit
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Depends on the person, resilience factors, support, access, what the addiction is, etc
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 3 weeks ago:
I actually do live in a somewhat rural area down the street from a dairy farm. I’m not in the Midwest though, I’m a dirty coastal elite in PA
Institutional investors invest in rural real estate as well. It’s calmed down a bit since 2021 when they were really aggressive but they see farmland as a stable investment
investigatemidwest.org/…/farmland-values-lose-ste…
I do agree that zoning needs to be fixed and suburbia needs to end though
- Comment on We poisoned the whole planet so our eggs wouldn't stick to the pan 🙃 3 weeks ago:
Cast iron is generally safe but not entirely without risk. Old pans are sometimes made with lead and some newer cheap pans from sketchy sources are made with cadmium and/or lead
Generally if you get like a lodge or whatever you’re fine though. Biggest risk there is that it leeches iron into your food, which is usually beneficial unless you have some uncommon health concerns
A stainless steel pan are also generally safe but have similar issues: low quality pans and excessively scratched pans can leech nickel and chromium. 304 and 316 stainless ($$$) are more resilient against this issue. Stainless takes a bit more technique than cast iron for stuff like eggs and fish but it’s not that tricky (preheat pan, add fat/oil when hot, basically). It is also far more responsive to changing temperature (rather than retaining it) and much lighter so it’s easier to use for sautéing and such. Cast iron is superior when heat retention is needed: stews, soups, curries, roasts, etc
Ceramic coated cookware is a mess. Some did use PFAS/PFOA and still does, some ceramics have lead and cadmium, and some coatings just suck. I got one pan to experiment with that was lead/cadmium/pfoa/pfas free but the nonstick properties dulled after 2-3 months of daily use. It was not scratched or chipped; I took care to not use metal implements or wash it with abrasives. I did use high heat at times though which potentially degraded it. It was like $50 too. Researching online after I see there are “good” ones for $80, fuck spending that on a single pan.
I’ll stick with cast iron and stainless steel. Can use metal utensils, covers basically every scenario, and cheaper. To be clear, “well sourced” doesn’t mean expensive. A 10” lodge cast iron skillet is $20 online. A tramontina 12” 304 stainless frying pan is $35.
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 3 weeks ago:
And then there are big brains with bidets
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 3 weeks ago:
They’re artificially high because concentrated wealth is buying up the supply. As of 2024 as much as 25% of the supply is being purchased by institutional investors in some markets
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
A sleep test if you have the resources (health insurance and such). Most common cause for apnea is obesity but there are other potential factors like issues with tonsils, sinuses, septum, turbinates, and/or adenoids that wouldn’t require a cpap but other things like surgical correction
Additionally lifestyle changes can make a huge impact especially if it is related to obesity
Nowadays you often can do sleep tests for things like apneas at home, you usually dont have to go to sleep centers. It can be worth it to make your dad aware of this. Ive had older clients who were very avoidant of sleep studies before they found this out because before a few years ago it was far more common that sleep studies were a much bigger pain in the ass. Youd have to go to the sleep center and sleep there, hooked up to a bunch of machines, uncomfortable bed, not necessarily on your sleep schedule. Now thats really just reserved for certain sleep issues like narcolepsy and severe insomnia
if you can’t get a sleep test and cpap the old school way to manage apneas was to sew a pocket to the back of a tshirt that held a tennis ball, which would force you to sleep on your side. Not ideal but better than dealing with the health impact of an apnea. Not to inspire fear but apneas are terrible for your health. They cause you to wake up briefly and return to sleep.
This happens fast enough for you to not remember and as a result the “cycle” of sleep is interrupted. If the apnea is severe this can happen many times per hour or even per minute, causing you to never get restorative sleep. You “sleep” all night but feel exhausted all the time because you never enter the deeper cycles. Luckily it’s not an immediate danger at all but after years or decades the effects compound just like having a consistent extreme lack of sleep would
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 3 weeks ago:
In this instance at least the regulatory process is simple though
Say what you mean, mean what you say.
We can maybe have some nuance over lifetime being the lifetime of the consumer buying it vs the lifetime of the company although that has to be carefully worded to prevent situations like this. But it’s probably somewhat fair that if your company completely fails the product is done. This should be clear that the company has to completely fail, not a “apple sells lifetime subscription and decides the product isn’t viable so they kill it” situation or “subsidiary company of google fails and google could easily partially refund the lifetime subscription fees as the parent company” situation
But I would argue it’s not as much about legal complexity here but about regulatory capture. There are really two forces on this issue: businesses looking to keep a lack of regulation and continue utilization of vague misleading language, and consumers that would benefit from regulation against said language.
The businesses are aligned, obviously have vast resources, can influence propaganda on the matter, and can lobby lawmakers directly.
The consumers are fragmented because of the propaganda and a lack of education on the issue, they don’t have strong representation among lawmakers, they don’t have resources, etc. they are scattered unless someone decides this specific issue is annoying enough to get up in arms about and make some kind of action network over, gathering people and support. While it is a serious problem there are just so many serious problems facing consumers and Americans right now, so why focus on this?
And thus, our regulatory bodies yet again fail us
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 3 weeks ago:
That shouldn’t matter
If we had the most basic of regulatory practices over businesses in this country, especially the tech industry, this practice simply wouldn’t be allowed. Even the bullshit doublespeak “life of the product” version
Lifetime means lifetime. If you can’t honor that don’t offer it. If you go back on it you should be harshly penalized.
Looking at you t mobile, rolling stone magazine, filmora, Dropbox, salesforce, mcafee, etc
This should also include if you remove features from lifetime subscriptions and make them contingent on paid monthly subscriptions (looking at you adobe, Evernote, and probably plex in 3-5 years)