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ares35 , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in This automatic faucet that need the hands to be between the wall and the water to turn on.

at the office we have the ones you have to push down--and hold for the water to run. i've encountered them elsewhere and you get 10-20 seconds before the water shuts off... ours doesn't. by the time you get your hand down to the water, it's shut off.

ares35 , 1 month ago to Technology in Delivery Goes Wrong: New Cybertruck Slices Owner's Wrist During Inspection

i've seen two of these things around here. they've both been on the flatbed of a local towing service.

ares35 , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

i bought a few smr drives, knowing they were smr. they were cheaper, a lot cheaper than the same amount of space in cmr. used only for static media storage, so that's not a big deal, really., but holy hell was it slow getting stuff on them initially.

i have a few self-powered externals that are also smr (quite common with those as they use 2.5in notebook hdd). when those things have to start shuffling bits around and rewriting tracks, sustained write speeds fall well under what even usb2 can send.

ares35 , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

i bought a big external hdd recently on impulse... a clearance sale. it was really, really cheap. with the thinking that i could 'shuck' it because i'm short on space in a couple storage systems. i checked. i can, but i haven't. hell, i haven't even used it yet other than to run a full smart diag on it, followed by a full format and a read/write verify. took days. then i put it back in the box and have basically forgotten about it until now.

you have to be careful on what models you buy. some have usb built onto the controller board (no internal sata) or other things (e.g. encryption chip, weird power) that make it more difficult or even impossible to use the internal drive in an environment other than the enclosure it ships in.

ares35 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to 196 in Voluntary Mandatory rule

there's a lot of stupid, ignorant assholes running small businesses all over the place that think they own their employees and can boss them 24/7. this could totally be a legit posting somewhere.

if you want me answering my phone 24/7, you're paying me 24/7--and providing the phone you want me to answer.

ares35 , 1 month ago to Technology in 17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web

fire the computer. go back to the pigeons

ares35 , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Best Audio Format for Storage?

patents is what you're thinking of. and all (afaik) of them relating to mp3 format have expired.

ares35 , 1 month ago to Technology in T-Mobile imposes $5 monthly price hike on customers using older plans

verizon did the same thing awhile ago, and it was more than five bucks a month.

was still cheaper for us to keep the old plan than to switch to a new "unlimited" one, though.

ares35 , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in How to image a Debian system on a zfs mirror?

usb nvme adapters are not expensive and it likely won't be the only time you need it. they are a handy accessory to have on hand if you have nvme storage.

ares35 , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in How to image a Debian system on a zfs mirror?

don't mess around with imaging to a file on the zfs, then restoring it. simply clone nvme -> nvme using a usb nvme adapter then replace the internal with the clone.

ares35 , 1 month ago to Technology in Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach

same deal with the far-right alternatives to aarp. just scamming money from america's most gullible.

ares35 , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve drinks and some locations may charge for refills

that's not a 'problem' everywhere.

if they dump the free refills here and still take 15 minutes to make a simple order, i'm going elsewhere. i've already cut way down because of cost and time, i'll just forget they exist entirely. three competitors are literally adjacent. all three also have free refills, and all three can beat mcdonalds service times. prices are basically the same now, mcdonalds hasn't had that advantage since before covid.

ares35 , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Education

mom always got her 'cut'....

as payment for driving us across town to the 'good' neighborhoods.

ares35 , 1 month ago to Technology in Archie, the Internet's First Search Engine, Is Rescued and Running

my knees and back say i don't need any further reminders. but thank you.

ares35 , 1 month ago to Free and Open Source Software in Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here

first boot: no i don't want a 365 trial.

still first boot: no i don't want 365 'basic', either.

(you should know this msa already has a one-off office license on it, you fuckwits)

and yea, still in first boot: no i don't want game pass trial.

then game pass notifications shortly after from the 'store'.

this was this past weekend setting up a new desktop with 11 pro.