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billwashere ,

Yes. Yes we’re are.

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billwashere ,

How does this affect browsers like Brave?

billwashere ,

Like a real president should, Biden does a lot of things I agree with and some I don’t. I thought Obama was one of the greatest presidents in my lifetime but even he did things I didn’t completely agree with. Would I’d rather have someone like Bernie or AOC in the Oval Office? Absolutely (well except he’s to old and she’s to young). Could we do better than Biden? Also absolutely. What I’d love to see is national ranked choice voting and more like 5-6 candidates. I think this would be better for everyone. But Trump is an existential crisis waiting to happen. I’m not sure this country can withstand another Trump presidency. Frankly I’m not sure my health can either. I literally noticed a significant drop in my BP when Trump left.

So yeah, you can be critical of Biden and not a Trump supporter. Frankly if you’re not a little critical of any president regardless of party, you’re not in a party, you’re in a cult.

billwashere ,

But I have to pee really bad HAL!!!

billwashere ,

So Windows is trying to become Facebook?

billwashere ,

How ironic would it be if this guy was killed in a knife fight.

billwashere ,

Ok this made me chuckle out loud... thanks for that.

billwashere ,

Dumb phones don’t have all the gooey “track everything we do” goodness in the middle so I doubt it.

billwashere ,

I bet all those NYC bike messengers love this.

billwashere ,

You don’t mix technology and YOUR nudity 😉

billwashere ,

“This should not have happened.”

Duh, ya think?

Google Sales Engineer: oh I see you didn’t purchase the “Do not randomly nuke my cloud” option.. well there’s the problem.

billwashere ,

I never understood the move to synchronous communication for asynchronous questions. The ephemeral nature of discord is really a PITA. It’s like using IRC for a FAQ.

billwashere ,

Exactly. I really hate when people use Discord for stuff like this.

billwashere ,

Or host your own speedtest like openspeedtest or libre speed. That’s what I do.

billwashere ,

Personally I despise everything about the idea of influencers. I have yet to see one who wasn’t an outright attention whore or just trying to get free shit.

billwashere ,

I can definitely see your point. Celebrities are the center of attention and can influence people. But the two you mentioned, well three actually, are entertainers first and foremost. They had a skillset that was interesting to watch and people would pay to do so. So it gets back to the definition of “influencer”… it’s always the nuance of definition isn’t it 😀

So I guess my definition would include some no talent YouTube or Instagram C-rated “celebrity” that is essentially famous for being famous. They expect special treatment and recognition when it isn’t deserved or warranted. They are often pretentious and obnoxious. When I think of “influencer” this is the image in my mind.

billwashere ,

I’m really starting to think Google has gone to shit now.

billwashere ,

I like calling it cruise control with extra fatalities.

billwashere ,

It would be better with distributed generation like solar. The idea of a central generation point and transmitting it long distances is just not the best way (single point of failure/attack, losses of long distance transmission, often dirty and/or dangerous). Having lots of little solar farms all over (or even private) is better. I’d imagine most of Californians could provide their own EV needs if you have a large enough roof.

Take this with a grain of salt …. I’m not a power engineer but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

billwashere ,

Exactly. It’s like an article I saw about some new internet tech that was “X times faster than broadband”. Broadband is a type of transmission using multiple frequency carrier waves to transmit data. It ain’t a speed.

Wh/kg or yes maybe volume Wh/cm^3…

The only other thing I’d care about it charge speed. Maybe it doesn’t last as long but I can fully charge in 10 seconds? Yeah I’m interested. Hell I’ve never had a car yet get the estimated miles per gallon on the sticker. It’s all bistromathics as far as I’m concerned.

billwashere ,

I'm stealing this... way too funny

billwashere ,

Well maybe Google shouldn’t take political contracts.

billwashere ,

Speaking as a dad… yes, yes he does.

billwashere ,

HungerGamesOS. I love this idea!!!!

billwashere ,

This is only about 21 amps. Most outlets in a home are 15amps but 20amps isn’t unheard of. From one outlet doubtful but yes one house would provide that much power easily if you split them up to three or 4 rooms on different breakers.

Now it would be fun to watch his electric meter spin like a saw blade … (yes I’m old .. I remember meters that had spinning discs)

billwashere ,

Well true but I was assuming the circuits had some things drawing a little power. Flipping on a device and tripping a breaker with 12 machines on it wouldn’t be ideal :)

I have done this before in my upstairs home lab. 3 beefy ESXi machines, some nas storage, and a basic 10gbe switch eats up a lot of a single 15amp circuit. And apparently turning on a TV pushes it over the edge. Luckily the UPS saved my but while a reset the breaker and shut some stuff off.

billwashere ,

Since this whole VMware debacle we’ve been playing with xcp-ng but I’ve been meaning to look at proxmox. Is proxmox really worth taking a look at?

billwashere ,

Broadband is not a speed.

billwashere ,

Asshead.

billwashere ,

If this is indeed like GATTACA selecting specific embryos after fertilization is not really selective breeding. Selective breeding is picking the parents. This is picking the children. You could do both but it didn’t seem like that is what was happening. I could still see this likely leading to problems genetically not dissimilar to problems with inbreeding. Genetic diversity requires the randomness of life to be useful long term.

billwashere ,

Of course they are. There’s money involved.

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

billwashere ,

ROKU has patented a way for me to not even look at their tvs.

billwashere ,

This makes me want to look at TCL TVs more closely. Thanks.

billwashere ,

My philosophy is if they are truly happy with what they believe and aren’t harming other people with vitriolic speech or dogmatic beliefs just leave them be. It’s not harming anything for them to comfortable in their little bubble.

But when they put on their “holier than thou … I know better and I am going to push my beliefs on you” hat the gloves are off. Although it’s unlikely you’ll change their mind, you can usually score a few jabs that rock their world just a smidgeon.

billwashere ,

We’re all agnostic. No one truly “knows” one way or another. I personally think there isn’t a god because they don’t “need” to exist. There is no purpose, the universe just is and given a large enough system, life can be explained by randomness and chaos.

I don’t need the comfort of a god to justify my existence. I’m ok with just existing here and now and when I’m gone I hope I made enough difference in those still living to carry on in spirit.

billwashere ,

Yep. Totally agree.

Looking for Cloud Storage Replacement, but I don't like NextCloud

I'm looking for something to replace cloud storage for myself and family. I've tried to use/like NextCloud but honestly I despise it. The UI/UX really bothers me, and administering it is a pain. It also just does way more that I want or need....

billwashere ,

What I’d really like is something more akin to google drive streaming. Let me see all the files in the file system but only go get them if I try to open it. I don’t have room for all 2TB of files on my laptop but I don’t want to constantly go click on which folders to sync either.

billwashere ,

Why not both? 😂

billwashere ,

My wife would absolutely agree.

billwashere ,

What’s “a raise”?

billwashere ,

Pfsense and opnsense are also very good for this.

billwashere ,

Slow clap 👏

billwashere ,

Jesus… the stupid, it hurts.

billwashere ,

Not sure why they’d think cloud will be cheaper. If anything, costs are way more unpredictable from the research I’ve done.

billwashere ,

Yes commodity is a much better term here. It is a mature and fairly ubiquitous technology at this point.

billwashere ,

My workloads are open to students doing things on an LMS. Chaotic doesn’t begin to describe it. 🙃

billwashere ,

Yeah no doubt.

billwashere ,

Well after just finishing Death Stranding, I can’t unsee that.

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