ramble81
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- Comment on Even though I dislike Reddit... 18 hours ago:
I’d actually argue they do. Look at how often posts and comments mentioning Lemmy get removed. If they didn’t care about them, they’d leave them up like they didn’t matter.
- Comment on SipsTea 2 days ago:
I read “She was 26” and kept trying to figure out that math because I didn’t like the answer I was coming up with. Turns out it’s just my reading comprehension that wasn’t working out.
- Comment on Regulations restricting pay disclosure? 2 days ago:
The phrasing makes it sound like there’s a regulation preventing disclosure so they can’t post in states where a law says otherwise.
- Submitted 2 days ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 3 days ago:
Either means your business is running Pro, or your admins don’t have the GPOs configured correctly. That’s something that’s easy to remove on Enterprise.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 4 days ago:
I think part of the problem is they all use Win 11 Enterprise, which actually isn’t that crappy because all of the bloat can be configured and disabled and most likely their IT department has done that.
They should be forced to use Win 11 Home for a while to see how everyone else is viewing things.
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 4 days ago:
Edited. My point still stands.
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 4 days ago:
5 hours from an unintentional update is even worse.
- Comment on What's a realistic, low-power home server setup in 2025 for Plex/Jellyfin, Nextcloud, and reliable backups? 1 week ago:
This is something where I’ve focused more on a NAS form factor since it’s always the drive bays that get you. I’ve looked at Ugreen and Synology as well as a BYO set up. In all cases their software (or TrueNAS or Unraid) is capable of cloud backups and they also support containers for anything else you want to run with more than enough horsepower.
- Comment on Pakistan grants lifetime immunity to president, current army chief 1 week ago:
Trump is salivating at this proposition right now.
- Comment on Fox star trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage plan: ‘I do not like this idea’ 1 week ago:
You actually bring up a good point. Would banks be willing to even do 50-year fixed rates? You know they’re seething with the number of people that locked in <3% fixed rates a few years ago. Wonder if they’d force something like a 20/30 ARM.
- Comment on Fox star trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage plan: ‘I do not like this idea’ 1 week ago:
What would you think would happen with interest rates? The example I posted forecasted an increase due to increased risk. Would you think it would go down or stay the same?
- Comment on Fox star trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage plan: ‘I do not like this idea’ 1 week ago:
So here’s a little breakdown for a 300k loan, that would save you a whopping $40/mo. Now, even worse though your total spend would be $400k more.
As if that weren’t bad enough, a couple, both making minimum wage, still could not afford a house as they would only net $1,700/mo after taxes.
This effectively does nothing except further line banks bottom lines.
- Comment on Sun Protection + Phone Charge = Big Brain Time 1 week ago:
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update November 2025 2 weeks ago:
What are you looking for in an admin?
- Comment on If I can only find an artist on streaming platforms and no other search hits, does that most likely mean it's an AI generated artist? 3 weeks ago:
Funny you ask that. They almost sound procedural, however that could also be indicative of an average artist. Since I tend to list to house/lounge/downtempo, it can start to feel like that.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 3 weeks ago:
Does $12,856 count? I heard some can be bought for less.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If you move FMA to the front it can kind of make sense. The FMA movie: Conqueror of Shambala showed the link to our world from theirs. Then FMP shows a post-future world of war that takes place after FMJ.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 3 weeks ago:
Bingo. Which goes to my point the ire should be at the companies more than AWS. And a lot of the big companies have more than enough money to handle it, but they’re greedy. But instead everyone is focusing on AWS, saying it’s a “monopoly” and needs to be “democratized”. It’s completely misplaced outrage IMO.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah she’s thicc, but she shows it off with how powerful her legs are, so it actually fits her in more than just a sexual manner. The fact she could crush a watermelon with her thighs is just a perk.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 3 weeks ago:
My main point, which may have been buried in my quickness to type things, is that it is on the individual companies to choose how they design and architect their systems. This was only a problem in us-east-1. They could have used other AWS regions, they could have used Azure or GCP. They could have used a multi-cloud or hybrid solution, and none of this would be an impact.
AWS is offering infrastructure, but it’s still on the companies to decide how they’ll use it. The ire should be placed on them, just as much, if not more, for taking the easy way out.
Even if you were to have a co-op owned style cloud solution (democratized as it were). If companies choose to only host in one Datacenter/region it’s squarely on them.
A lot of these big names that went down have very poor infrastructure practices if a single region of a single provider took them out. It’s definitely not for lack of money on their part.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 3 weeks ago:
Don’t quite remember if it was high school or college for me….
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 3 weeks ago:
For starters: thank you for a thought out response. It feels like most people are missing the core point and just blaming the provider.
Even if there were a “public” public cloud, the underlying issue I’m getting at is with the companies that are using it. AWS has multiple regions. There are multiple cloud providers such as GCP and Azure too. Yet the companies are the ones defaulting to a single region, single provider configuration, which as we all know is still a SPOF, no matter what redundancy is built in.
To that point nowhere im saying that you can’t democratize things.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough there. But how do you “democratize” individual business decisions? Or are you suggesting socializing all entities?
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 3 weeks ago:
With your personal attack your handle suits you.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 3 weeks ago:
So that goes to my point that it’s on the companies that use the cloud providers. Not the cloud providers themselves.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 3 weeks ago:
“There’s a monopoly” — proceeds to list 3 separate providers. Don’t forget there’s also Akami, now we’re up to 4.
The issue is more so with companies that choose to use cloud providers. They’re the ones attempting to cheap out because they don’t want to pay infrastructure costs. You also have a lack of knowledge by engineers on how to create redundant/reliable systems.
Not everything on the internet went down. There’s plenty that was just fine. So I don’t really don’t know what “democratizing” it would gain, or how.
- Comment on 😳 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 4 weeks ago:
Did you actually type out Censored
Oh wow. That looks like your instance or your app that did that. I’m on Lemmy.zip using Voyager
