CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Wi-Fi 8 won't be faster, but will be better - more details emerge just hours after Wi-Fi 7 protocols are officially ratified 1 day ago:
I hate the local ISP who hands out “free range extenders” as a promo. They all broadcast at 100% and use 80mhz channels. I pick up something like 150 networks in my house, which is just ridiculous.
Then add in the garbage chip in my laptop… ugh. Channel sharing can’t come too soon.
- Comment on Pharmacies shouldn’t give pill bottles 6 days ago:
Agree. Never have received tamper evident packaging from a pharmacy. what’s the point? They’re filled in front of me and handed to me.
- Comment on Pharmacies shouldn’t give pill bottles 1 week ago:
I get 120 days worth of meds at a time. A paper bag would be destroyed.
But the option would be good, so that I can reuse the bottle.
- Comment on Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company 1 week ago:
👏off👏line👏back👏ups
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 2 weeks ago:
I love spending time in my garden watching the butterflies and bees, but gosh the mosquitoes are terrible, better spray them with a residual effect insecticide.
what happened to the birds and butterflies and bees?
- Comment on Does farting make you lighter or heavier ? 2 weeks ago:
A balloon full of helium has more mass than a balloon without helium, but less weight en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_versus_weight.
Methane weighs more than nitrogen (70% of atmosphere); you lose weight and mass. Molar mass of nitrogen 7; methane 16.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 2 weeks ago:
Risk assessment is a big part of this. Risk when reusing passwords is very high. Risk of forgetting passwords or using weaker/guessable passwords when they’re unique, is high. Password manager mitigates these risks. A good one will also bark at you when you try to use a password in a website that isn’t the one you saved it in (ie phishing warning)
The risk of your PW manager somehow leaking passwords is worth considering. So we ask: How are the passwords stored? Where are they stored? How are they accessed? Different tools work differently; some keep the storage local but others sync in the cloud. Local storage can also mean “in my Dropbox folder”. If it’s a secure format with a strong password (or perhaps Yubikey), that’s fine, but if it’s an excel sheet, you’re leaking to Dropbox. But is that really a problem for you? Think of the steps between an adversary and your password file.
1Password has some white papers published about how they secure the data you entrust them with.
It is my strong opinion, and that of most security experts, that using a password manager to create unique, long, and secure passwords is a lot better than the alternative. It’s usually the opinion that a password notebook in a reasonably secure location (in your desk at home) is better than recycling weak passwords.
- Comment on Are my Frigidaire door bins installed wrong? (Pics in description) 3 weeks ago:
The model number should be printed on a sticker inside the door, somewhere.
Sorry, can’t help with that specific model but I came here to express my rage and frustration at appliance manufacturers who use a totally inappropriate plastic for door bins.
Also, cyanoacrylate seems to work pretty well. Doesn’t solve the underlying problem. Remember when fridges had metal? I do.
- Comment on Pi-hole client filtering without DHCP? 3 weeks ago:
Good; incentive to go learn something. Have a plan in place to deal with it though.
Firewall rules don’t replace parenting.
- Comment on Pi-hole client filtering without DHCP? 3 weeks ago:
Just create a dhcp lease in unifi.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s only weird if you keep shaving them for him. Open conversations like that are a sign of great communication and trust!
I know that removing pubes can have a health impact for vagina owners. I don’t know if that holds true for penis owners. That may be something to investigate and advise.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 3 weeks ago:
Hitting particularly cold water makes it even worse.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 3 weeks ago:
You can improve a skill by visualizing your performance of the skill.
But you need to have the experience beforehand to be able to understand what you’re visualizing.
So - absolutely not.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I used my work address. My work is small enough that it’ll filter to me eventually if they snail mail me.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 4 weeks ago:
it depends
Jurisdiction is key, of course.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 4 weeks ago:
Income taxes disproportionately impact lower earners. Someone earning minimum wage likely devotes the majority of their income to cost of living essentials. Conversely, someone earning 10x minimum wage will spend a much lower percentage.
The exclusion level generally is set quite a bit below minimum wages, and the a progressive tax doesn’t always fix that, as cost of living/inflation can outpace legislation very quickly.
The other reason that it’s not entirely fair is that the wealthy don’t earn a salary. They earn dividends and do all kinds of things to avoid having an income. Someone who pulls down $1 million in salary either needs an accountant or earns an additional 10x compensation via stock grants, dividends, etc., which are (in most jurisdictions) taxed very differently than income. In the USA, for example, the top tax bracket (federal) for income is 37%, whereas a stock grant held for 1 year after vesting would be taxed at no more than 20% (and I’m grossly oversimplifying).
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 4 weeks ago:
- It’s still in use, but perhaps seasonally or infrequently.
- It’s gonna get fixed just as soon as I have time.
- It’s got parts for the other one I have.
- Might be useful someday. It’s got parts, and the hardware store is 20 miles away.
- Scrap metal value.
- Redneck decor.
- Comment on Popular sunscreens accused of greenwashing by Australian Consumer Commission 4 weeks ago:
They’re not.
- Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation 4 weeks ago:
The current situation with megabytes of JavaScript is pretty bad, but at the time, there was still a fair bit of dialup active, and mobile web was just starting to be a thing - on EDGE and barely 3G. It would take minutes to load.
Also, Steve Jobs had it in for Flash and that’s what ultimately killed it off, I think.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 5 weeks ago:
It may be that value prop of 1 with OLED is higher than 2.
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 5 weeks ago:
That $300/visit doesn’t go to the dr before it passes through several layers of bureaucracy, each of which skims their fee.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 5 weeks ago:
It’s not just industry. Now they’re killing the development of skills and knowledge in engineering (hardware, software) and design
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 5 weeks ago:
USA could have spent money developing an electrified economy but the republicans are focusing on bringing back coal mining and reshoring shoe manufacturing instead.
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 1 month ago:
I was a bit of not interested and not educated enough to know what a NDRI was while I was on it but it does make sense for ADHD and Depression symptoms.
The withdrawal from Wellbutrin was bad. I got brain zaps if I was 1hr late taking it; tapering and cessation was miserable.
- Comment on How do some fragance reppel bugs 1 month ago:
They don’t work that effectively. They make you smell like poison to mosquitoes.
DEET scrambles their senses so you disappear.
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 1 month ago:
Community gardens and Internet cooperative are the operating phrases you’re searching for
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 1 month ago:
“If it wasn’t for my medical leave, HP and Apple would be competing for the mobile market!”
It takes a lot of arrogance to be a senior executive; the way he tells the story justifies his position, that’s for sure.
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 1 month ago:
During this same period, he became laser-focused on acquiring Autonomy for $10.3 billion—a software company that fit his transformation vision perfectly. Everything else, including breakthrough mobile technology, felt like a distraction from this software-focused strategy. That Autonomy acquisition later required more than an $8 billion write-down,
Apotheker wrote down 9.2 billion in 11 months and that’s just the stuff the article mentions. I can’t achieve that level of failure in a lifetime.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 1 month ago:
You missed 2. Sell (IPO)company
I’m not sure what he actually did as far as divestiture, but evidently he wasn’t the current owner. I wonder to what degree unreasonable growth expectations flushed the company.
- Comment on Can shoes be made in the US without cheap labour? 1 month ago:
Automation, in low cost of living area, with red-state employee “benefits” is what it takes to possibly make something as basic as domestically-made shoes affordable. That, and it’s not a publicly traded company so it might still be relatively expensive.
Western reliance on cheap Asian labour is a problem, especially when the cheap labour starts to think they want more.
MAGA isolationism is certainly not helping.