BorgDrone
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- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
The least common way of a burglary happening is someone picking a lock.
You don’t need a gun to defend against a burglar. Burglars are generally cowards and run away when caught. The whole point of sneaking into your house is to not be detected and commit theft. (taking something without a person noticing it).
What you might need protection from is robbery (taking things under thread of violence). A robber is not going to sneak into your house. They will either kick down your door while you sleep or simply ring the doorbell and wait for you to open. Do you bring your gun every time someone is at the door?
They specifically said they think it’s true that carrying it most of the time isn’t the point.
Then there is no point. They will just wait until you are not carrying to rob you.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
But mostly it remains at my bedside as an “in case” if it’s needed. If something were to go sideways, law enforcement is probably going to be at least 20 to 30 minutes away and possibly up to 90 minutes. I cannot rely on either one of the two deputies on duty at 2AM to be anywhere near me if things go bad.
If something goes ‘sideways’ at 2AM, you expect anyone breaking into your house to ring the doorbell and wait for you to wake up?
Even if you carried at all times, and you were specifically trained (think special forces training, not I spend my weekends at the gun range training) then it’s still a toss-up if you will be able to respond fast enough. If they want to harm you, they will. You cannot be hyper-aware of your surroundings 24/7, you need to relax, you need to sleep.
I can’t imagine what life must be like when you’re so afraid that you think you need to have a gun within reach at all times.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 weeks ago:
They want to normalize the position so its the same for every user.
That doesn’t make sense if users aren’t all the same.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 weeks ago:
Leaving it as-is after use is the most efficient (least number of seat movements)
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 weeks ago:
We CAN sustain everybody we have now.
Even if we could (which I doubt) is it even worth it living on a planet that’s this crowded?
- Comment on Cloudflare goes again 1 month ago:
Working just fine for me.
Wow. That must mean it works for everyone.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 month ago:
You absolutely don’t need sever-grade hardware for a home/family server
Server-grade hardware makes a lot of sense even for home use. My NAS is tucked away in a closet, having IPMI is so much more convenient when you can’t easily hook it up to a keyboard and mouse.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 month ago:
Even the most expensive Synology only has space for 8 drives with only one 10Gbit ethernet port.
You can build something yourself for less with much better performance.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 month ago:
Better to build it from scratch, your desktop PC does not have server-grade hardware. No ECC, no IPMI, not enough SATA ports, etc.
- Comment on one bright second 2 months ago:
Supposedly this will happen just after the release of The Winds of Winter.
- Comment on Breakthrough in Huntington’s disease treatment shows unprecedented results for patients 2 months ago:
Was he aware of being a carrier of the gene before deciding to reproduce?
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 3 months ago:
The ironic thing is that this anti-DEI government has some of the dumbest, unqualified people in key positions. Clearly they were hired based on anything but their ability to do the job they were hired to do.
Every accusation is a confession with these people.
- Comment on Pretty good idea. Color codes easy to understand 3 months ago:
This. New cylinders aren’t that expensive and they take about 20 seconds to replace.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 3 months ago:
Also economies of scale. They will sell 10.000 TVs for every commercial display.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 3 months ago:
A monitor that size is way more expensive than a TV though.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 4 months ago:
Buying household groceries or anything of size sounds annoying or impossible on bike.
Not sure why buying groceries on a bike would be annoying or impossible. I do all my grocery shopping by bike, every single day, sometimes twice a day. Just bring a backpack.
As for ‘anything of size’, what would you need to transport? I still have a car, but I use it so little that I only need to buy gas maybe once or twice a year.
- Comment on Robocop: Rouge City 5 months ago:
Kind of dumb to set the auto-reply to a Welsh text, you’d expect that people needing the services of a Welsh translator won’t be able to understand the text.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 5 months ago:
There is also OTC www.open-telekom-cloud.com/en
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 6 months ago:
Do you own a large container ship, coal plant or private plane?
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 6 months ago:
The title mentions not owning a car and voting, that’s not in the chart either.
You can drive 12 hummers powered by crude oil and eat steak every day at not have even a fraction of the impact of just one child. Having one less child results in a ecological-footprint reduction equivalent to 58.6 tonnes of CO2 a year. By contrast, living car-free saves 2.4 tonnes a year, eating a plant-based diet saves 0.82 tonnes a year.
Not reproducing is the single most impactful thing you can do for the environment by a huge margin.
- Comment on How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work? 6 months ago:
Adding this to the very, very, very long list of reasons never to have children.
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 6 months ago:
You can spent 10 seconds googling: Source
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 6 months ago:
In the US it’s cheap but unregulated
It’s the exact opposite actually.
US sunscreen is way worse than sunscreen in other parts of the world like the EU. It doesn’t block the harmful radiation as well as the sunscreen as well. The reason is that it’s more strictly regulated in the US. IIRC it’s not considered a cosmetic product but instead it’s a medical product.
As such it’s subject to much stricter regulation and requires much more (expensive) testing before being allowed on the market. Due to this it’s considered too expensive to introduce the newer, more advanced sunscreen products in the US so you’re stuck with the older, crappier sunscreen.
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 6 months ago:
Here in the Netherlands it’s expensive as well. Like a small bottle of name-brand sunscreen is €30.
- Comment on Is flirting redundant? 6 months ago:
I see flirting as banter to make sexual/romantic intentions known.
That’s basically what it is. It’s not there to make someone develop feelings, it’s a way to safely make your feeling known and see if they are reciprocated. It’s basically lowering the risk of rejection, if the feeling isn’t mutual and you don’t get a response you can just write it off as a harmless flirt. If (s)he flirts back you can dial it up a notch.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 6 months ago:
No. I own that copy. It’s not a license to anything. I own it. It’s mine. That’s what the money was for.
Yeah that’s not how copyright works. You are either the owner of the IP (i.e. the company that paid for developing the game) or you need a license to be allowed to own/play a copy. There is no third option here.
Don’t play corporate word games with concepts as basic as having things.
It’s not word games, it’s the law. You and I may not like it but that doesn’t really change anything.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 6 months ago:
Sure, sell. But there are still limitations. You aren’t allow to rent it out or sell copies, for example.
Just because the license is a bit more permissive doesn’t make you the owner, it’s still licensed software, not owned software.
The only thing you own is the 2 cents worth of plastic the disc is made off. The actual content on the disc is licensed.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 6 months ago:
That’s as close to ‘owning’ a piece of copyrighted material as you are ever going to get.
Not true at all. Pretty much all of us own loads of copyrighted material, as in actually own. For example: every single photo you take is your intellectual property.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 6 months ago:
First sale doctrine gives you some rights, but it doesn’t give the all same rights you would have for any other physical object that doesn’t include copyrighted work.
If I buy 100 chairs, I’m free to start a chair rental business. If I buy 100 copies of a game, I cannot start renting them out without permission from the actual owner of the game.
The fact that the law entitles you to a slightly broader license doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s still just a license and not ownership. The only thing you own is the physical media (e.g. the plastic disc) not the contents of that disc.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 6 months ago:
First sale doctrine gives you some rights, but it doesn’t give the all same rights you would have for any other physical object that doesn’t include copyrighted work.
If I buy 100 chairs, I’m free to start a chair rental business. If I buy 100 copies of a game, I cannot start renting them out without permission from the actual owner of the game.
The fact that the law entitles you to a slightly broader license doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s still just a license and not ownership. The only thing you own is the physical media (e.g. the plastic disc) not the contents of that disc.