some_kind_of_guy
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- Comment on Does anyone know? 13 hours ago:
and by ‘it’, haha, well. let’s justr say. My peanits.
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 19 hours ago:
I was working phone support a few years back and, when I asked this one lady what her email address was, she got confused. I started running out of ways to ask such a simple question when finally, all exasperated, she said (and I shit you not): “but I don’t have e-mail, I have G-mail!”
So yeah, I get what you’re saying, people’s brains do be rotted these days, sometimes I just forget.
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 1 day ago:
I’ve never understood this argument. You pick an instance you like, make an account, log in, join the comms that interest you, comment on things, make posts, etc.
This is all very normal internetty type shit that anyone who’s created an account somewhere should be able to do very easily. You don’t need to know anything about federation or how that all works. You don’t need to spin up your own self-hosted instance (but you can if you want).
Am I missing something? It’s really not rocket science here. IMHO, the “fediverse is too hard” sentiment is missing the actually difficult bit, which is getting people away from the ingrained habits formed after years of only using Facebook, Twitter, Reddit et al.
- Comment on ParanoidAndroid was the perfect name for a privacy focused android custom rom 1 day ago:
When I am king, you will be first against the wall With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 3 days ago:
Except it doesn’t do much of anything effectively
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 5 days ago:
Yeah this pisses me off as well. And TVs now are much bigger and wider, too. Back in the day we’d split screen on whatever we had, which was more often than not an almost-square CRT with not much screen space to begin with!
- Comment on AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era 5 days ago:
There are other legacy satellite providers like hughesnet that are somehow still hanging on. They don’t really hold a candle to starlink performance-wise, and they shit the bed in bad weather, but at least they’re not Elon. There’s going to be a lot of latency, but it’ll feel blazing fast if you’re coming from dialup.
There are other dialup providers still remaining as well, besides AOL. I know msn is still kicking at least. It’s kind of funny to think about receiving dialup service when almost all POTS lines have gone away, and much of the modern web will be borderline unusable without lots of tweaking, but at least grandma who lives out in the sticks can check her email, use chat clients, download articles and books, etc.
- Comment on Maxwell House to rebrand as Maxwell Apartment 5 days ago:
Oh it is, the other options didn’t have proper walls or climate control though.
- Comment on Maxwell House to rebrand as Maxwell Apartment 5 days ago:
There’s a lot to unpack here, but there’s a reason some people like getting coffee from a good cafe sometimes – where it’s fresh and sourced/roasted/prepared by someone who possibly gives a shit – instead of scooping questionably-sourced powder that tastes like exploitation from a giant plastic tub. And yes, we know it’s more expensive.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 days ago:
Same here. Split between 5 people it’s very reasonable. This is the one thing I’m actually afraid to touch when it comes to degoogling
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 days ago:
I prefer it poached or grilled, but I’ll accept steamed
- Comment on I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto 6 days ago:
If you selected tomatoes, that is a fruit.
- Comment on I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto 6 days ago:
If it’s keeping the crawlers at bay though, couldn’t the differential represent a cost savings? This question is breaking my brain, maybe I’m not thinking about it properly.
- Comment on I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves. 6 days ago:
I’ve always taken the “timeline” stuff to be a reference to multiverse theory, a metaphysical concept which suggests that the universe exists on an infinite number of parallel realities which can be split, merged and maybe even jumped between.
I’m often guilty of giving the benefit of the doubt by default though, so you may be right and those people’s brains are just cooked.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 1 week ago:
All cats are communists, obviously. They have no respect for concepts of “ownership” and expect to be housed and fed according to their needs.
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 1 week ago:
Can’t really go wrong with b vitamins though… being water soluble you’ll piss out whatever your body won’t absorb, which is the reason for that wonderful neon yellow color.
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 1 week ago:
That hotdog’s looking pretty rough by dinner time
- Comment on facebook ai 1 week ago:
But the fetus is my favorite part! Tender and juicy, like filet mignon. Religious extremists ruin everything good
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 week ago:
- Comment on Hotdog, egg, and pickle bunt aspic 1 week ago:
Yeah I’d crush that with the bread toasted and some grainy mustard
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
My wife doesn’t let me bring the Thinkpad to bed anymore
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Such is the nature of the hacker spirit
- Comment on POV you are rich 1 week ago:
That’s not far from how the wealthy actually operate.
They also use life insurance products in unique ways. Normies buy regular term or whole life insurance and pay out the ass in premiums, whoever sold it gets a big cut. The whole focus is on the death benefit for family in case you die, no benefits in life.
Wealthy buy specially designed whole life policies and don’t care about the death benefit. They will max out their contributions and paid-up additions, then just open more policies to dump more money in. They can borrow against their contributions at a low interest rate, say 5%, for as long as they want. At the same time (and this is key) all their contributions are earning a higher interest rate plus dividends (say 6-8%) uninterrupted even if they borrow from it. Compound interest does its thing after a few years.
This is like if you had a savings account at a bank that you have full control over, earning higher interest than anywhere else. You can make a “clone” of your money at any time and use it for as long as you want at a low cost and do whatever with it. Put that cash to work in investments, buy real estate or cars and boats, start a business, pay employees, anything. While you’re doing that, the “original” sum in your savings account is working away earning interest the whole time. As long as the “clone” of your money plus interest makes it back into the account (paying yourself back) you can do it all over again and continue piling it up. An infinite money machine.
If an LLC owns this vessel where all your wealth is, and an LLC formed in, say, Wyoming – a state which allows registrant anonymity – owns that LLC and you have everything under a living trust, now you have governance over it, can create rules for how it operates, draw up contracts governing who can use it and stipulations for that access, avoid it going through court after you die, etc. You’re now shielded from personal liability, no one can figure out who owns the assets underneath that umbrella trust entity. On paper, you own nothing and control everything, you’re nearly impossible to prosecute, you have 0 income that has to be reported to the IRS. You have all the power and control and reap all the upside, while suffering none of the usual downsides written in the social contract the rest of us follow.
It sounds to good to be true, but the wealthy and powerful have been following this playbook for centuries, almost as long as insurance has been a concept. If that doesn’t describe a sovereign citizen, I don’t know what does! The stereotype of the methed up poor white guy who drives around baiting cops and argues baseless logic in court that they got from some other methed up poor white guy they met in some godforsaken chat room that is Totally Not a Honeypot Run by Feds is a red herring imo.
- Comment on NYC Telecom Raid: What's Up with Those Weird SIM Banks? 1 week ago:
the linked article did mention apartments were “abandoned”, so maybe it is actual organized crime local to NYC. They would have to at least be pretty entrenched to know where is safe to set up.
If it were just run of the mill spam/scam stuff, why not just use VoIP or contract out like the rest of them do? It would certainly be cheaper if that were the goal. There are many, many different reasons to want so many local numbers that are beyond the obvious. Personally, I have questions.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
while ($care < 0) {$care–}
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
They probably enjoy it too, sick fucks
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
It must really suck right now for all the regular dudes whose name is Sam Sung just trying to go about their lives
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
It’s not done fattening us up yet, silly!
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
I’ve often fantasized about a fridge that knows its contents and adds items to a shopping list as they get low. maybe it could check prices at local stores or help combat waste by suggesting recipes based on what we already have at home.
Would I trust any company currently making smart-fridges to deliver on all that, and then willingly invite that product into my home? Absolutely not.
If we ever have a fridge like that, I will have built it myself.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
You expect me to just stare into space while I’m grabbing my verification can?
