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ShepherdPie ,

It's all we can use at work besides Edge which is just a reskinned Chrome.

On my personal devices it's 100% Firefox as they have great features like sharing pages between devices and extensions on the mobile browser.

ShepherdPie ,

That's already what they're doing essentially. This person is just advocating for an actual human to review these rather than some black-box algorithm.

ShepherdPie ,

I'm not even sure what you're arguing for since you seemed to have done a complete 180 on your stance. You earlier said you don't want YouTube adjudicating the law (by choosing sides in a copyright claim), but now you're arguing that they have to do this in order to avoid liability.

The issue here is copyright trolls claiming copyright over things that don't belong to them. In many cases, YouTube sides with these trolls and steals revenue from the actual content creators simply by virtue of them having made a claim in the first place, which seems to lend a lot of legitimacy to the trolls even if it's complete fraud (similar to police testimony in court being treated like gospel). Currently, these cases are reviewed by bots, and people here are asking for them to be reviewed by actual people with real brains instead because the system is completely broken as there are no consequences for these trolls making false claims.

ShepherdPie ,

Interesting that third parties like TurboTax aren't required to obtain copies of your photo ID.

ShepherdPie ,

Except that doesn't seem to bear out in the polling numbers or past elections. For some reason, party leaders only seem to want to back candidates that completely struggle against a guy who's been known as a conman and the butt of jokes since the 1980s.

ShepherdPie ,

The president is more of a cheerleader than a person of substantial power.

You're literally using tactics developed by fascists in your argument here. Somehow, the president is little more than a "powerless cheerleader" if we're talking about Dems but "the end of democracy" if talking about Trump/Republicans. Both can't be true.

We kind of had that for 2 years when Obama and we got the affordable care act... Even then, the margins weren't that great; I don't think Obama was the problem so much as they couldn't find the support to do something bigger in Congress.

Even with those thin margins Democrats come across the aisle regularly to actually get governance done

The ACA was a plan written by Republicans. Obama and the Dems chose this over any sane single-payer option to allegedly "appease Republicans" and yet none of them voted for it (and then spent years trying to repeal it). This means we could have had single-payer all along instead of further cementing the private healthcare market that continues to bankrupt Americans to this day.

In another attempt to appease Republicans, they allowed them to steal Obamas SCOTUS appointment while also allowing Trump to steal what should have been Biden's SCOTUS appointment, stacking the Supreme Court with a 6-3 conservative majority which lead to the end of abortion rights in the country and who knows what else in the coming decades.

Neither party is interested in fixing the absolute train wreck that this country has become. Both serve the rich. One party is just better about messaging and branding. There are many good Dem politicians but the party leadership and party as a whole is just as rotten as the other. That's why we're here with Trump having a 50% chance of being president for the third time in a row and why we'll continue to have candidates like him in the future.

ShepherdPie ,

I've never used either, so I can't speak to their actual quality, but cheaping out on cameras defeats the purpose of getting cameras if the footage is too grainy or blurry to be used for anything.

Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...

ShepherdPie ,

Not the person you replied to, but my first 9 HDDs were all shucked from external WD enclosures (MyBook, Elements, EasyStore), but the last one I bought used from serverpartdeals.com. I think it was about $120 for a 14TB WD server drive. Thus far all is well with it after about a year.

ShepherdPie ,

https://serverpartdeals.com/

ShepherdPie ,

It's completely fine and was one of the most common ways to add a cheap new drive back in places like /r/datahoarder. The WD enclosures are super easy to take apart with guitar picks and old credit cards. The USB controller just slots into the SATA port and is held in place with a single Philips screw. I've been running these in my server since as far back as 2018 (usually adding 1-2 every year or two) without a single issue.

ShepherdPie ,

My oldest ones have been running 24/7 since 2018 and tons of people have been doing the same. Where's your data to suggest that these drives fail faster than any other?

ShepherdPie ,

Which external drive did you buy? This must be a fairly recent change.

ShepherdPie ,

Same here. A brand new modular Seasonic Platinum PSU (back in 2018 when I built the PC) also needed the 3v3 pin covered. I just use Kapton tape over the pin to avoid any destructive methods or having to use sketchy molex connectors.

Best Buy Membership "discount" (lemmy.world)

So I was shopping with my wife today and I said "oh let's see if my membership helps out." So we went and added the same item to each of our carts, and to our surprise, the total was the same! So what is it exactly that I'm paying for in this membership if the items "original price" is higher for me than it is for regular...

ShepherdPie ,

FYI you can claim unemployment when businesses do this to you if you previously been working consistent hours.

ShepherdPie ,

Their entire product line really went to shit around 2015, whether you're talking about phones, TVs, or appliances. Now they just skate by on their previously good reputation and intertia.

ShepherdPie ,

If you think he's a liar and a con man, then why even bring up his promises? They're obviously false. SpaceX has done great work despite who their current CEO is.

ShepherdPie ,

Okay? I thought we already established that he's a liar. You really sound like a fan of the guy since you follow his every word, but none of this detracts from the accomplishments of the engineers working at these companies.

ShepherdPie ,

Yes it can also be argued that stupid short-term gains like this can lead to less revenue in the long run which isn't doing your fiduciary duty.

ShepherdPie ,

Because it's insanely restrictive and can't be used by most people or in most situations. It's little more than a marketing ploy.

ShepherdPie ,

So you'd rather more people die in avoidable traffic accidents because we weren't allowed to develop this technology?

ShepherdPie ,

What do those options matter if nobody is developing them and they only work in dense cities? You might as well be arguing for Star Trek-like transporter technology here.

ShepherdPie ,

No, you have the meaning right.

ShepherdPie ,

Great that's admirable, but that isn't going to happen because it doesn't work for most people and there is no political capital to make it happen, so what then?

ShepherdPie ,

The reason it's called that is so when you're buying the car, you can read "full self driving", the salesman can call it "full self driving", and then you can get excited and think you're getting full self driving and pay stupid amounts of money for an iPhone on wheels.

Who exactly are you describing here? Like someone who's been living under a rock for the past 5+ years and thinks cars just drive themselves now, but who also has $50k-$100k to drop on a car and also doesn't do any research beforehand? I think you're blowing this way out of proportion.

All these systems are flawed to some extent as nobody has cracked the code to L5 automation. There is some danger to it but there are many dangers to driving and this eliminates some of them. People have died in Teslas but many more have died in every other production vehicle that has ever existed. If this guy did the samr thing in a Toyota Camry, do you think we'd even be talking about it right now? These systems can only get better with a lot of real-world usage.

I totally get where the other person is coming from. These arguments are so tired and meaningless at this point. If you want Musk to go away, then stop bringing him up at every turn because it just makes people sound like bizzaro-world Musk fans as they hate the guy but can't stop talking about him and following his every move. Some of us want to discuss and debate the actual technology and Musk had nothing to do with developing it.

ShepherdPie ,

The systems with LIDAR aren't L5 either. It's impossible to claim what is and isn't needed when nobody has actually come up with a solution.

ShepherdPie ,

Well why are you lending him further credibility by continuing to make him prolific? You're just feeding into his goal of garnering more attention at every turn. Media outlets will continue to focus on all his insane ramblings because people like you are guaranteed to click on it.

ShepherdPie ,

You can drive anything with nipples.

ShepherdPie ,

They cropped the edges from the article photo.

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

ShepherdPie ,

Ombi and Overseerr will do this.

ShepherdPie ,

This isn't just protecting US manufacturers its protecting all manufacturers that sell vehicles in the US. China selling cars at 1/3 the price of any other available on the market is just going to reduce competition and put a bunch of people out of work for no real benefit. If you need a cheap car buy a used one like everyone else.

ShepherdPie ,

Is there a benefit to buying a brand new car just because it's an EV and it was cheap? This is like saying it's better for the environment to get a new phone because it gets better battery life even though your old one is working fine.

One way to curb emissions is to not waste things that were already built by tossing them in the trash and buying a newer version.

ShepherdPie ,

How does this change anything about car dependency?

ShepherdPie ,

Where in the world can you buy a $12k EV that doesn't come from China?

We have subsidized them here with the $7500 credit and loans/grants to retool factories but it's a drop in the bucket compared to what China is doing.

Ford just released their financials for last quarter and it showed them losing $130k for every EV they sold: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60621256/ford-ev-revenue-losses-q1-2024/ so clearly they aren't subsidized so much that they can sell them for pennies on the dollar like BYD.

ShepherdPie ,

How does everyone buying a brand new car result in decarbonization versus keeping the ones we've already expended carbon building and upgrading them when they break? There are 283 million cars on the road in the US and replacing them all is going to generate a metric fuckton of carbon.

ShepherdPie , (edited )

A $12k car selling for $24k after the tariff is still highly competitive in the US market. It doesn't seem so bad to me.

What has been done here, is pure protectionism for the US companies that didn't invest enough in EV.

The only US companies are Tesla, Ford and GM. China selling these cars well below cost here is going to harm every manufacturer that sells in the US. This isn't about protecting US companies like everyone (who sounds like they're living in 1970) likes to claim.

ShepherdPie ,

Yeah China has been doing the same with solar panels. Funny you bring it up since my wife used to work at a facility that made the ingots and sliced them up. They shut down several years ago since it was impossible to compete with Chinese prices. Hurray for cheap prices right?

ShepherdPie ,

Cool you can act dramatically. Now that the theatrical portion is out of the way, maybe you can defend your position by responding to the topic of my comments.

ShepherdPie ,

How does putting manufacturers out of business lead to cheaper panels? What it leads to is low competition and higher prices in the long run.

ShepherdPie ,

What I do to get back at them is to take all our decent donation stuff to local thrift stores and all the bulky crap that's barely hanging together goes to Goodwill for them to dispose of.

ShepherdPie ,

Would you really argue that he's been silenced as we sit here discussing him in the comments for an article written about him?

ShepherdPie ,

And then 6 months from now Samsung will release their own ad showing items getting crushed. Both these companies suck.

ShepherdPie ,

"I'd never even heard of this 2 weeks ago, but after watching a single 90-second segment on Fox News, it's all I can talk about and clearly the reason why the country is failing!"

ShepherdPie ,

I actually own one of these but never use it because extension cords are such a pain in the ass especially if you need to stretch it all throughout the yard. I really only bought it because my dryer duct was clogged with 20 years worth of lint and this blew it right out.

ShepherdPie ,

Can I borrow them to clean my yard? I promise I'll get them right back to you.

How much does it matter what type of harddisk i buy for my server?

Hello, I'm relatively new to self-hosting and recently started using Unraid, which I find fantastic! I'm now considering upgrading my storage capacity by purchasing either an 8TB or 10TB hard drive. I'm exploring both new and used options to find the best deal. However, I've noticed that prices vary based on the specific...

ShepherdPie ,

I think this really depends on what you're storing. I have a large media collection and doing full redundancy would be extremely wasteful, but it's fairly easy to repopulate things if something goes awry. If it's irreplaceable or smaller files, redundancy definitely makes sense.

ShepherdPie ,

I bought a small roll of kapton tape years ago and just use a sliver of it to cover the 3v3 pin.

ShepherdPie ,

Well one benefit of everything being available on streaming is that it's really easy to populate my Plex server with any and all content.

ShepherdPie ,

Have you been forced to use "New Teams" that loves to close itself randomly throughout the day and also doesn't allow you to pin it to the taskbar even though the option is there and selectable? It also has a permanent "Update" button at the top of the window that nags you to update but when you select it, it tells you that you're running a newer version than what's available.

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