DrRatso

DrRatso , 2 months ago to Interesting Global News in Bodycam video shows DA calling cop an “a**hole” after being pulled over for speeding

The apology video is pure gold, she reads it with this “can we just get this off the agenda already” look.

DrRatso , 2 months ago to Technology in Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore

I hear you, but a usb-c has more uses than one, the only real problem with a dongle is now is that occasionally you need to charge.

DrRatso , 2 months ago to Technology in Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore

But like, 3.5 to usbc is a 10 buck conversion. Tbh i see merit in double usb c over usbc and headphone jack, might be more doable too, the DAC prolly takes more space than an additional usbc

DrRatso , 2 months ago to Comic Strips in On your own.

Just reading that gave me a headache. In Latvia, heres how the system works.

If you have no deductible spending (medical, education, donations).:

• Log into the govt system.
• Press a button to generate tax form.
• Press verify and submit.
• Pay what you owe or wait for the tax return.

If you have deductible info

• As before but also scan your receipts, and add the info on each receipt to the form. Can done easily via an app, which handily (sometimes correctly) can autofill the needed info. You can do this at any point in time, so you can do it whenever you get a deductible receipt.

DrRatso , 2 months ago to Comic Strips in Computer Monitors [system 32 comics]

The problem I have with this naming scheme as a consumer is it is hard to find which models are roughly equivalent. Like theyll have their mumbojumbo generic name like ABC24P and this is what you find on reviews but then theres ABC24PE, ABC24PU, ABC24PI3Q and often finding info on if it is just some regional release, different panel or what is actually the difference is problematic.

DrRatso , 2 months ago to Privacy in [Solved] Looking for a privacy oriented fitness tracker

Trackers can do so much more than just take time for running. Cadance, ground contact time, recovery, suggestions. My garmin watch has upped my training game considerably. Its a bit like having an online personal trainer.

DrRatso , 2 months ago to Privacy in [Solved] Looking for a privacy oriented fitness tracker

Fucking love my instinct solar 2

DrRatso , 2 months ago to Comic Strips in Pls pls pls....

The Quran immoral because because of the messages it conveys. The only way we can really say the people who wrote it were immoral is by inferring it from the work itself.

There are many times where the work / product / art stands on its own, and should you not know anything about the author, could not possibly be called immoral on its own merit. Admiring work like this, need not automatically validate the evil of the artist.

Just because you acknowledge that some aspect of something otherwise evil is good does not mean have to automatically excuse the bad, however you can recognise the good thing for just being good, on its own. You happily benefit from the work of shitty people, probably daily, it might even save your life one day.

Losing your appreciation for “something good” because of who made it is a perfectly reasonable take. But so is “something good” is good despite who made it.

Side note, genuinely wondering, is the Taj Mahal that intertwined with islam where we would not have it without? At the end of the day it is a tomb, and as far as I understand the biggest reason for it being built is love for the emperors wife

DrRatso , 2 months ago to Comic Strips in Pls pls pls....

People do say that, but then that does not make the song more enjoyable, to me at least.

Theres a difference between “he recorded that in a camper van, thats pretty cool” and “daamn that was recorded it a camper van”.

DrRatso , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Perpetual Energy

Damn, that’s a beautiful dam.

DrRatso , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Simple as

I will soon have to confront the brain tumor that I surely have, which makes me play League, as they are going to roll out Vanguard anticheat. I sorely wish there was an alternative with similar vibes, DotA is too sweaty for me and not as fun mechanically.

DrRatso , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Now my arch is bloated more than the default ubuntu

So just run archinstall Personally as a relative newbie I found arch a lot easier to deal with than fedora and ubuntu, both of which have had me in dependency hell on previous attempts to switch to linux. Not only that but I have a much better idea of what makes up my system.

DrRatso , 4 months ago to Technology in "A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America

Helium-3 is not used in general applications, its uses are far more niche, it is much more rare than helium 4. For most applications, when we talk about helium being used we mean plain old helium-4. MRI machines and balloons both use helium-4.

DrRatso , 4 months ago to Technology in "A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America

Wdym? The only difference is the helium gas used in more serious applications is more pure. Its helium all the same.

DrRatso , 4 months ago to Technology in Reddit has never turned a profit in nearly 20 years, but filed to go public anyway

Ads don’t even bother me inherently. It’s part the maximum obnoxiousness of them these days, of course. But most of all, if I do manage to see an ad (like in a mobile app), I get irrationally annoyed at the fact that it is supposed to be tailored to me and yet here I am looking at a 20 second unskippable ad for something I would never in a million years care for.