Bizarroland

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

If you look around and are informed then you can easily purchase drives that are designed for Nas use. I shucked three eight terabyte Western digital external hard drives and they were all WD reds, but because of the deal they were running they were $60 a piece cheaper inside of the shell than they were outside of the shell.

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Technology in Man accused of using generative AI to create virus in Japan 1st

You are correct, but I hope we can all agree there is a special place in hell reserved for people who interfere with health workers and cause death in the process.

That's right on par with raping a nun, or a priest diddling a kid in my book.

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

It's called shucking and it happens a lot especially in the home server home lab community.

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Technology in EcoFlow’s $200 PowerStream is so clever, you might buy a $4,000 solar generator

That's a pretty standard issue with grid tied solar systems. You save a lot of money by not having batteries, but when the neighborhood goes down you go down with it.

Plus you don't want to be pumping electricity into a downed power system, you could actually end up hurting a line man who is working on the system.

However, and both of these issues can be resolved by adding in a generator and a whole house cut off system.

In a power outage scenario, all you would have to do is throw the crossover switch and crank the generator. The generator would produce enough energy to reactivate the solar system.

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Technology in EcoFlow’s $200 PowerStream is so clever, you might buy a $4,000 solar generator

The first problem is solved by line sensing technology. If there is not power coming in and off of the switch then the inverter will not pump energy back into the system, at least on the ones that are not $12 cheap Chinese junk off of taobao.

And rather than suicide cords they generally have an IEC connector (standard rhombusy shaped computer power connector) on one end and a normal prong on the other.

But you are right that it is dangerous and not recommended to anyone, especially the people that are not smart enough to take the appropriate concerns and considerations into mind before using it.

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Technology in EcoFlow’s $200 PowerStream is so clever, you might buy a $4,000 solar generator

That happens quite a bit in a lot of areas. It sounds stupid but your toaster does not care where the electricity it is using comes from.

As long as the sine waves are in sync with each other then you have nothing to worry about.

It's probably not standard in America because the technology is newer and the regulations haven't caught up.

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Technology in Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach

Every once in awhile it crosses my mind that if I just gave up my morals I could make so much fucking money.

The difference between me being a middle-class American and me being filthy fucking rich is every day I wake up and I choose not to defraud every single person I possibly can of their money.

I feel like I should get a little thank you now and again, because I could be the greatest monster you've ever seen but instead I'm just a nobody and I don't think I get nearly enough appreciation for my service.

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Technology in Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price

And you could also look at the real world. We have boost air.

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Technology in Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price

I wouldn't get your hopes up too high.

You're thinking like you are the customer and the customer is always right, so if you pay for a service it should provide you what you want, right?

This is not that scenario.

You are not the customer. You are a product that is being sold to advertisers. It does not matter if you also pay them money, you are still the product. If you pay them money on top of being sold then you are just an especially profitable product.

Paying them money will not cause you to cease being a product, no matter how much money you are willing to pay.

If you use a different company's product that starts off with you being the customer, eventually, they will learn that they can make more money by selling you to other people, and they will.

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Technology in Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle

What friend, you're afraid to learn a little Russian?

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Technology in Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle

The sad thing is it'll probably start with infinite anime. There are so many currently existing manga that could be quickly and easily adapted to a full anime given the proper AI backing that it could take you years just to catch up.

Our great grandkids will probably be watching Spotify remixes of aitv shows recommended to them by influencers paid for by micro10gapplesoft

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Technology in Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle

Counterpoint:

Thanks to streaming we don't spend quite as much time thinking about the media we consume and the deeper meanings and subtext and generating internal fanfictions about what could possibly be coming up in the next episode a week from now.

Streaming makes media easier to consume but fills it with culturally empty calories.

The grand majority of conversation I see about a show is, "Have you seen _? No? You should totally watch _, it's really good!" Or alternatively, "Yeah, it's great isn't it?"

Since Netflix came out we've definitely taken one step down the ladder rung closer to Idiocracy ass movies.

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services

Probably bandwidth. You download a game or five and then you're good for a few weeks, whereas if you are streaming media you could run through several gigabytes a day of data per customer in perpetuity.

Obviously, with streaming media there is a continuously refreshing pool of money to cover those costs as compared to games being a one-time purchase, but even with that it would still take quite a while to expend the entire revenue of the purchased game in download expenses and storage overhead.

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane.

It's kind of like in the 1800s they believed that human beings could never generate enough pollutants to actually affect the Earth. There are intelligent opinions statements saying that the Earth was simply too large for anything a mere handful of 100 million humans could do to leave any lasting impact on.

Of course, they had no idea that we would swell to 8 billion humans or that the industrial revolution would take off quite so well as it did, but even today there are many people who believe that nothing that they individually do can leave any type of lasting ecological impact, positive or negative.

And because of that you have bum fuck HVAC technicians venting refrigerants into the atmosphere willy-nilly and assholes driving down the street throwing lit cigarette butts out in the middle of a drought and people just dumping their trash wherever they find an opportunity to dump it.

I said all of that to say that it's probably likely that even minor usage of drugs cause effects that are at best difficult to quantify. I don't think getting high one time is going to be the differentiation between a homeless bum and a Nobel Peace prize winner, but it might be the difference between someone who works a career and earns at their best $250,000 a year and someone who works a career and earns at their best $80,000 a year.

Bizarroland , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane.

I could have sworn nicotine was technically a stimulant because it has vasoconstrictive properties.

And I don't know anyone who has ever put off going to sleep in order to take more depressants.