DirigibleProtein
@DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone
- Comment on Are any calls without caller ID legit? 1 day ago:
Government departments, hospital, many companies regularly call me with “No Caller ID” and then seem surprised when I don’t answer.
If it’s urgent, they
willshould leave a message (instead they keep calling and complain that “it’s hard to get hold of me”).I actually just got a new phone number because I was receiving literally hundreds of spam calls, text messages, and voicemail messages on a foreign language, every week. I have “Silence unknown callers” switched on. Only my contacts can get through. If anyone else doesn’t leave a voicemail, send a text message, or email me, then it’s not urgent and I won’t even try to follow up.
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 5 days ago:
This is not a captcha, it’s a trick. Don’t do it.
They copy malware into your clipboard and try to trick you into pasting that malware into an environment that will run it.
Delete/ignore and move along.
- Comment on Other than Canada and Australia, which countries are best alternatives to traveling to the USA? 5 days ago:
New Zealand
- Comment on how tf do you warm up plates? 1 week ago:
Put it in the oven on lowest setting
- Comment on If you are ever feeling like what you are doing is meaningless, remember that there are American lawyers and judges who have spent many years studying US constitutional law. 2 weeks ago:
If you ever feel like what you are doing is meaningless, remember that there is someone in a BMW factory installing indicators.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 2 weeks ago:
- Heavy metals: lead, mercury
- Arsenic in small doses over a long period
I don’t know of any plants, but I do know that the leaves of nightshades (potato, tomato, eggplant, capsicum, tobacco) are
poisonoustoxic in large doses. - Comment on Generational trauma is a form of psychological evolutionary adaptation. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard that people with post traumatic stress can pass it on to their children, which certainly seems to be the case in my family.
- Comment on Meat flavored with a hint of fruit sounds alright. But fruit flavored with a hint of meat sounds gross. 3 weeks ago:
They both sound gross.
- Comment on I do not agree with their political views, but skinheads make pretty nice punk music 4 weeks ago:
As a punk from the 1970s, I can tell you most definitely that skinheads and punks are different groups and listen to different music.
Can’t find a direct link to Time Magazine - The Tribes of Britain
- Comment on Best ad blocker for ios browser Safari? What would you suggest? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve just started using Adguard and it seems to work well. Blocks YouTube ads too.
- Comment on What happens if I eat a box of paper clips before an MRI? 5 weeks ago:
You’ll get a big surprise!
- Comment on What's this thing stuck on my dirty underwear? Is it a piece of undissolved tide pod? 5 weeks ago:
Left a tissue in your pocket? Maybe the detergent got caught in a fold and didn’t get a chance to get rinsed out?
- Comment on Is there any handbooks for warning lights on cars/machinery 5 weeks ago:
Dunno man, sorry. I haven’t worked in construction sites for more than 30 years, I wouldn’t know where to look either.
- Comment on i took an iq test and it was nice and i took my time doing it but the answer was 86, is that bad?? 5 weeks ago:
The results of IQ tests vary from country to country, from city to city, and depend a lot on socio-economic, educational, and cultural background. They can be a good bit of fun but aren’t consistently reliable. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
- Comment on Is there any handbooks for warning lights on cars/machinery 5 weeks ago:
On the outside? There’s almost certainly a standard for your country and industry. For example, nsw.gov.au/…/RMS-45070588-Flashing-lights-and-sir…
- Comment on conflicted about my coworkers' overpunctuality 5 weeks ago:
What was the question again?
- Comment on What really separates a PC from a server? Mainly the hardware, but I guess software too. 5 weeks ago:
Technically, only intent.
I can run a samba or plex server, for example, from my raspberry Pi, my desktop pc, or my laptop. These can all be considered servers as well as desktop PCs.
I could, in theory, buy a secondhand rackmount server from eBay and run it at home as a “desktop” pc with windows or Linux.
More practically, hardware architecture that provides redundancy and continuous uptime. A commercial enterprise server could have multiple hot-swap hard disks in a raid array, redundant and hot-swappable power supplies, and something in the back of my mind tells me that even RAM and CPU can be hot-swappable in some models (am I thinking of IBM power or did I imagine it?).
The advent of cloud and virtual machines could work towards making hardware redundancy and continuous uptime obsolete, but there are cases where servers on premises continue to be used and preferred.
I hope that others will correct me and add further information.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 1 month ago:
Because phone numbers are more complicated than IP addresses.
- Comment on Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents 1 month ago:
The income from the fines helps offset the cost of discounted travel.
- Comment on In the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, when Scott Howard turned into a teen wolf, would he have had a human penis or a wolf penis? 1 month ago:
Asking for a friend
- Comment on people who drink, how long do your hangovers last? 1 month ago:
im not gonna drink much after this for a while
Haha, famous last words
- Comment on Why are there silly license requirements? 1 month ago:
Why isn’t there a license to have a kid? With an exam to make sure you’re going to look after them properly?
- Comment on people who drink, how long do your hangovers last? 1 month ago:
When I was young and regularly drank to excess, they used to last until mid afternoon.
- Comment on What even is fire? 1 month ago:
I always thought that fire is “just” plasma, but it’s more complicated: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 2 months ago:
- Flat out like a lizard drinking
- We’re not here to fuck spiders
- As dry as a dead dingo’s donger
- Forty cents short of a shout
- A few kangaroos loose in the top paddock
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Why is this a picture of text?
- Comment on Do people still call each other at midnight on NYE? 3 months ago:
What would they call each other?
- Comment on Queensland whooping cough vaccine numbers down in pregnant women amid huge surge in cases - ABC News 4 months ago:
I was vaccinated as a child, but still caught whooping cough as an adult. Apparently for Gen X, they’re starting to find out that the vaccination wears off after a number of decades.
- Comment on what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one? 5 months ago:
Imagine you like the shape of the front of a Mini Cooper and the rear of a Ford mustang. You could take the paneling from the interior of a rolls Royce and the seats from a Lamborghini and make a really cool car.
Unfortunately, unlike modern standard PCs, phones are individually designed and built and even models in the same range can’t use each other’s parts or software.
Each component is designed to work with each of the other components and just slapping them together doesn’t necessarily make a new working product.
- Comment on Hiker provided with assistance, and shoes, after attempting to climb Tasmanian mountain without them 5 months ago:
Oh, ok, thanks. Never heard of the idea before.