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- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 1 week ago:
I kind of wonder this sometimes too. Maybe not from an organ harvesting standpoint but enslavement. If I were captured/kidnapped and became a sex slave or a scam call center slave or something, my goals would be to escape and if that’s not possible, murder as many of my abusers as possible before they inevitably kill me and if that’s not possible, the s-word.
- Comment on I can't believe this is a real article. Just wow. 1 week ago:
be careful with this one because the types of people this applies to will just twist its meaning into “Poor people need to own less. Minimum wage is too high”.
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- Comment on Which kind of applications need legacy processor but up to date OS ? 2 weeks ago:
Computer engineer here (well I have a computer engineering degree and have worked on several computer engineering projects at least). The only point of fucking with an i486 in 2025 for reasons besides “vintage computing” or playing MS-DOS games is that it’s probably the most powerful cpu that can still run on a cheap 4 layer circuit board. This cpu is also simple enough that a i486 chipset can be DIY’ed without ball grid array components. Electronic devices with 4 layer circuit boards are less susceptible to getting ruined by tariffs because they can be manufactured for a reasonable price in places besides just China. Ball grid array components require specialized equipment in order to put them on circuit boards. The easier surface mount (quad flat package) chips required to build a viable and performant i486 motherboard are simple enough that all you need is a cheap soldering iron and a steady hand to solder them onto a circuit board.
What I’m getting at is that prior to them dropping i486 support in Linux, it was possible to use cheapo microchips from Mouser, connect them to i486 cpu and singlehandedly DIY a modern-Linux capable computer, in theory at least.
With Linux dropping support for i486, the bar is now much higher. It’s still possible to completely DIY an ever more powerful, non-i486 based Linux-capable computer yourself if you REALLY know what you’re doing (and people HAVE done it).
I wanted to build one just for fun and maybe to use it like super high performance arduino but now there’s a lot less of a point so meh.
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, but I know of one thing citizens SHOULDN’T do to prevent their country enabling genocide. That is forfeiting their future by electing a dictator that might genocide poor people on the other side of the world a little less. I get it. Voluntarily making our lives worse because it might help poor people in another country sounds like a noble thing to do. But now they’re genocide American citizens too. Don’t be like gen Z and swing voters in 2024. Don’t do that at all costs.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I would say yes. The only reason I personally have not yet set up a completely ai-driven self-hosted lan forum or lemmy instance meant to simulate the Old Skool ™ days of the internet is because a) none of the forum software has an api that’s worth a damn (phpbb for example. gnusocial is also lame and stupid and impossible to work with) and b) lemmy instances are actually pretty difficult to both set up and get ai bots to operate with.
I could definitely hack up some diy python-bottles or django thingy in less effort than it would take to actually pull off any of those other approaches but I currently marginally better things to do with my free time so it will have to wait.
- Comment on He would have been a better choice as new Pope 3 weeks ago:
You’d have to be a fucking idiot to support Trump while being PUBLICLY known as someone that uses marijuana. Once The Party has all the transgenders either killed or in concentration camps, marijuana users are going to be NEXT. This is advanced stupid.
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 1 month ago:
There is 1 good reason to not do this if you live in the US and here’s why. Let’s say you don’t have health insurance. You get a diagnosis and you have cancer. It’s going to cost 10 jillion dollars to do anything about it. Well lets say a year later you get a job with health insurance. Now you can’t have health insurance cover that because they can prove it’s a “preexisting condition”. Have fun getting all your wages confiscated due to all that medical debt so you’ll have to choose between dying in homelessness or having to flee to a country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the US. Or maybe Mike Johnson will let you live out the rest of your days in gulag out of generosity.
