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- Comment on snail lyfe 4 days ago:
Huh, TIL
https://www.kqed.org/science/1446777/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-snail-sex
When snails copulate, two penises enter two vaginal tracts. Both snails in a pairing transfer sperm, but whichever snail got in the best shot with the dart has a better chance of ultimately fertilizing eggs.
First they stab eachother. The better the stab, the more effective the stabber’s sperm will be. Then they exchange fluids. Then they settle down, buy a minivan, and waste away in an office until they die.
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- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 3 weeks ago:
How do nornal people survive? I have the answers!
Power bank stopped charging? Throw it out and buy a newer better one for $15.
Face seal aging? Buy a new one for $25.
Garage door opener not pairing to your fob? Play around with it a little and if that doesn’t work, contact support and make it their problem.
I’d argue it’s faster, cheaper, and easier to solve all of those issues the “normie” way. Maybe with the exception of the garage door. The equipment to do this costs, in some cases, a lot of money and even enthusiasts are unlikely to have the spare parts necessary to do a lot of this stuff just laying around.
Like, in the battery example, the author replaces the actual battery part and just keeps the shell. It’s really not that different from just buying a new one if you’re replacing basically the only part of the gadget. And how many people have a working (I’m guessing) 10k mAh battery just lying around that isn’t already in a powerbank?
Tinkering and fixing stuff like this is a really great hobby. It’s fun, you get to learn new things, play with cool tools, and be less wasteful. However, let’s not pretend like it’s necessary for survival or even the optimal way to handle most situations.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Using 7 chars to represent 8. Now that’s efficiency!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Do you, though? Pi starts 3.141592, but 7/22 starts 3.142857, already wrong by the 4th digit.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 3 weeks ago:
About time!
- Comment on YouTube coughs up $24.5 million to make Trump case go away 4 weeks ago:
That’s not the bet. It’s a frivolous lawsuit with no chance at succeeding.
They’re either betting that defending it would cost more than $25M, that a bribe will bring them favor, or, more likely, accepting that the cost of doing business in Mein Dönald’s America is to periodically pay large baseless “fines” at the whim of a dementia patient.
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 4 weeks ago:
Are we talking about Thiel or Elon?
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 4 weeks ago:
If you’re fine with self hosting, you can just self host it and backup your local drives to a remote location. That’s what I do.
For backup software, I use Duplicacy. But Veeam, Borg, etc.. would work just fine. For images, since they’re just static files and you don’t really need a version history, you could get away with a scheduled rsync job. Though, technically that leaves you more at risk of ransomeware or something that overwrites your data.
For remote storage, I’d first consider a Hetzner storage box since they are flat-rate pricing and pretty dang cheap at $13/mo for 5TB. You might also consider StorJ, B2, S3, etc… I’d just stay away from any lesser known ultra-cheap storage providers.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 weeks ago:
I hate this move and love my sideloaded apps. However, there are plenty of self hosted apps on the play store. It’s just putting in a unique address at setup, not compiling a whole unique app for each server.
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 5 weeks ago:
Wtf are you talking about? People buy Tylenol all the time.
- Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game 5 weeks ago:
No, you’re wrong. Every wishlist is a guaranteed sale on launch day. When people see that number tick from 0.5937.5 to 1.0, they can’t help themselves. The trick is, they have to see it on launch day in an automated email. Otherwise the sale is lost for good. Literally every true gamer knows this.
- Comment on US | Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in likely blow to tech 5 weeks ago:
They already can, but a local and well trained/vetted workforce has benefits that are worth the extra cost.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 5 weeks ago:
And Samsung just got rid of ads in their apps, like Samsung Health, a few years ago. One step forward, two sprints back.
