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- Comment on I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week! 6 hours ago:
You lose if you sell or if Trump fucks up the economy enough to completely wipe out many businesses (such that their stocks go to zero/get delisted).
Frankly, given the real possibility of (a) the US becoming a Russia/Iran/North Korea-style pariah state or (b) the MAGA fascists triggering a civil war, that could actually happen.
- Comment on Dunno what HD is, but doc says I got eighty of them bitches! 15 hours ago:
ADHD has fuck-all to do with autism. They’re different conditions with different symptoms and anyone who conflates them like in OP’s meme is a fucking moron.
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 1 day ago:
Relevant to !selfhosted because one of the projects getting funding cut is Let’s Encrypt.
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- Comment on Car sun visor with built-in navigation 2 days ago:
I wish I could upvote this twice: once for continuing to drive (and improve) an old car, and then again for modeling it in FreeCAD instead of some proprietary shit.
- Comment on Orange flavored recession is superior to the DeMoNCRaTs!!!1!1!! 2 days ago:
“at least he’s going to end the war in Ukraine” from family.
Considering that Trump’s idea of “ending the war” is to give Putin carte-blanche to annex and genocide the place (while also destroying all our historic alliances such as NATO in the process), it’s fucking ghoulish to consider that a good thing!
- Comment on U.S. sending Israel more than 20,000 assault rifles that Biden had delayed: sources 4 days ago:
If you believe they were genuinely left wing and not concern-trolling shills.
- Comment on What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made? 4 days ago:
WarGames. Everything but the AI was very realistic. (Well, also except for the fact that the movie’s NORAD headquarters was apparently way fancier than it was in real life.)
- Comment on We are so cooked 6 days ago:
Slap her in the face for me.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 6 days ago:
No. At this point Reddit is evil because it’s censoring anti-fascist content and organizing. It’s becoming a Nazi bar just like the rest of them.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 6 days ago:
Name and shame. Which browser and which instance?
And is it just something like an SSL error (i.e. the instance screwing up), or is it specifically some kind of anti-Lemmy disinformation?
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 1 week ago:
That would be punishing yourself compared to switching to Jellyfin, though.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
Every difference between digital and vinyl is caused by vinyl failing to faithfully reproduce the original signal. It may be “pleasing” signal degradation, but it is degradation nonetheless.
As for the analogy about different headphones, I don’t think differences in quality of the amplification/playback hardware are necessarily tied to the recoding medium playback mechanism itself. In other words, you could just as easily hook some vacuum tube amp up to your CD or FLAC player if that “warm” sound was what you were going for.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
there is a difference in sound.
Yeah, there is: vinyl is objectively worse.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
Up to 8 points, depending on whether playing with tech that was already old at the time counts. For example, I’ve never used a typewriter to produce a document, but I’ve pressed the keys on one to understand how the mechanism works.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
The one with a sliding metal thingy had a floppy magnetic material inside it just like the bendy one.
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 1 week ago:
I was literally just researching how to do that yesterday (told you I was serious). It turns out that those threaded holes in sheet metal with the little dimples so there’s more thread than the sheet metal thickness are made with “roll taps” or “forming taps,” not “cutting taps” (which is what your tap and die set probably is). Instead of creating chips, they push the metal out of the way to form the threads.
By the way, similarly thickened but unthreaded holes are made with something called a “friction drill.” It doesn’t have any flutes, so it just heats up the metal until it gets soft and gets pushed out of the way. Kinda neat.
Anyway, I just ordered a 6-32 forming tap off AliExpress; I’m gonna see if I can add some more motherboard standoff holes to one of my computer cases because it’s big enough for an EATX board but isn’t drilled for it.
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 1 week ago:
I need you to understand that manually exporting and importing subscriptions isn’t even slightly like automatically synchronizing watch history (including non-subscribed channels).
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 1 week ago:
I like interacting with actual YouTube because it keeps track of my subscriptions and watch history across my devices. (It’s not that I want Google to know my habits; it’s that I don’t want videos I already watched coming up in my feed.)
If one of these YouTube alternative front ends would solve for that use-case without too much faff and hassle, I’d happily switch.
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 1 week ago:
It really grinds my gears how many things could be almost trivially designed to be rackmountable, but aren’t for no good reason. I guess in some cases it’s for market segmentation so they can charge more for “enterprise” gear, but in a lot of cases they don’t make any of that stuff to begin with so it clearly isn’t.
Also, I want a version of this thing that’s rackmountable and has no wifi, and then another in the form factor of a ceiling-mounted PoE access point.
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 1 week ago:
I mean, technically there’s no reason a router can’t route between more than two networks. For example, I’ve got both fiber and cable Internet (for no real good reason – I ought to cancel one and save some money) and I’ve configured my OpenWRT router to have two different uplinks, reconfiguring one of the four LAN ports to WAN2 instead.
I’ve also got the other ports configured for separate VLANs (walling my untrustworthy Chinese ONVIF cameras off from being able to phone home, for example), but I think that’s technically not “routing” 'cause it’s OSI layer 2.
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 1 week ago:
In an ordinary recession, you should definitely keep buying because stocks are basically “on sale.”
In this recession caused by sovereign risk (i.e. the government itself fucking up), it’s possible that the market might never come back. If you believe that – or if you just want to boycott US investment to protest against the fuckery – you should still keep contributing to your 401k, but invest it in international ex-US funds.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 1 week ago:
The “4” guy is simping for billionaires, who will buy the forum and censor the other guy for calling him out as a “dumb fuck.”
- Comment on YSK that in the US, denaturalization, the process of revoking a person's citizenship, does not require proof "Beyond reasonable doubt" 1 week ago:
I looked into that, and I’m fairly sure I don’t qualify (I think most/all of my ancestors immigrated before 1920).
- Comment on YSK that in the US, denaturalization, the process of revoking a person's citizenship, does not require proof "Beyond reasonable doubt" 1 week ago:
I mean, if the US stripped my citizenship and deported me to Germany or Poland, obviously I’d be a refugee at that point.
But again, it wouldn’t ever get to that point because Trump’s ICE gestapo wouldn’t give a shit about what would be best for me and would make deliberately punitive decisions about what to do with me instead.
Ditto for you, probably: you wouldn’t be headed to China; you’d be headed to CECOT too.
- Comment on YSK that in the US, denaturalization, the process of revoking a person's citizenship, does not require proof "Beyond reasonable doubt" 1 week ago:
At this point I almost wouldn’t mind being deported, if they sent me back to where my ancestors came from (Germany/Poland). Of course, what would actually happen would be getting shipped to that hole in El Salvador instead.
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 2 weeks ago:
Luckily for us, the original RepRap folks were smart enough to go for copyleft rather than permissive licensing. As such, the common firmwares and slicers are both using GPLv3 code, severely limiting the companies’ ability to do that.
- Comment on I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with. 2 weeks ago:
Email has been “dying” for 20+ years. I’ll believe it when I see it.
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 2 weeks ago:
This thread made me look into the idea of DIYing it, and one of the search results I found looks like legitimately is about actually doing the sequencing yourself:
techcrunch.com/…/citizen-scientists-you-can-now-d…
$800 in 2016 was steep enough, but at the $1600 it apparently costs today I’m not sure it’s still within the realm of DIY, if it ever really was. I wonder if there are any cheaper competitors?
- Comment on No, *This* is the Fastest MS-DOS Gaming PC Ever | TheRasteri 2 weeks ago:
For anybody who, like me, was wondering how the fuck a miniITX board, of all things, had ISA support:
[Andy] had to tap into the LPC (low pin count) debug port & hunt down the LDRQ signal on the mainboard. LPC is a very compact version of the ISA bus that works great with ISA adapter boards, specially an LPC to ISA adapter like [Andy]’s dISAppointment board as used here.
