BertramDitore @ BertramDitore @lemm.ee

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Can’t speak to the others, but I believe your second suggestion, about tapping the top again to go back to where you were, is already implemented, at least it works that way for me. I only know this because I discovered it by accident, and was like “shit that’s useful!”

Yup agreed. I’ve tried brita and pur, and pur tastes the closest to NYC water to me, which is my benchmark for the best-tasting water. Definitely not as good as NYC, but closest I’ve come.

What a cowardly, greedy, unprincipled piece of shit.

Not really donations per se, but I’ll probably re-up my giving to ProPublica and Democracy Now. An aggressive and combative press will only be more critical in the coming years. Fuck corporate media. It’s not in their best interest to do their jobs properly, so we need to stop supporting them with our attention, and instead support independent outlets with our attention and our dollars.

Your title is pretty misleading. Trump isn’t the president yet, so he hasn’t fired anyone. The original headline makes much more sense: 'A Gift to the Oligarchs': Trump Pick to Replace Lina Khan Vowed to End 'War on Mergers'

I’m about to fly to the other coast, and it’s shit like this that makes me pretty sure I’ll never fly maskless again. The one time I got Covid was right after returning from a long flight, but I guess I can’t trust anyone to give a shit about any respiratory virus.

Vaccinate your goddamn kids. It’s not supposed to be fun. But sometime we do things that aren’t fun, because they save millions of goddamn lives. People are so fucking selfish.

I definitely do this sometimes for my morning pour over. If I have a boring dark roast, or a single origin that doesn’t have a ton of depth, I’ll substitute 10g of a light roast to brighten up the flavor profile. Some combos turn out to be amazing, though I usually still prefer a good quality single origin bean.

It was more complicated than just shame I think, but Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak resigned after 18 straight days of public demonstrations in 2011. He was properly pushed out of power, but of course his successors haven’t been much better.

It was pretty common, even after the dangers of asbestos were well-known. The most famous example is probably the Wizard of Oz, but it was used all over the place.

Totally understandable. I was hesitant about it too, but to me it's sometimes worth a premium to get something that just works, and Infuse works better than any player I've used in the past. To each their own, good luck!

As suggested above, I would try Infuse player. I recently switched from a Kodi/Jellyfin setup to an Apple TV/Jellyfin setup and I’m extremely happy with it. Infuse has a free trial, and then you can choose to pay a few different ways (they do have a rather expensive lifetime option, but it might be worth it). The Infuse app has no trouble playing directly from my Jellyfin server, no transcoding, even for full 4K Bluray rips, and yes it even supports Dolby Vision (which the native Jellyfin app struggles with). No hiccups, no issues with multiple audio tracks or subtitles, it’s just buttery smooth direct playback.

It also has a couple different ways of interacting with your Jellyfin library, so it feels completely seamless to me.

I’m not defending the article, because it’s some serious bullshit, but not having a byline is standard practice at the Economist. It’s one of their gimmicks which is supposed to imply objectivity and represent a “collective voice,” but I think it causes more harm and confusion than anything else.

Shit, that’s awesome. I want one of these.

I came here to promote those two outlets as well. Democracy Now and ProPublica are two of the only sources I have nearly absolute trust in. I still consume them critically, but I trust their work because they’ve been doing consistently high quality journalism for years. They’ve never let me down, so I throw them a few bucks whenever I can afford to. It’s probably not a coincidence that they both do more of the muckraking type of journalism than anyone else these days. When I think of ‘traditional’ hard-hitting journalism, these are the two I think of.

This is the advice I usually give. I hate the concept of smart TVs, but I’m not willing to spend more when I can just ensure my Hisense U8K never connects to the internet. It’s a gorgeous and completely affordable display for the quality it provides, and there are no relevant features that are unavailable because it’s offline.

I had to read it twice, because it didn’t seem like they knew why this was the case, but nope, my gut reaction that many Teslas are probably just driven by shitty people was spot on:

their elevated accident rates likely “reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions.”

So what the hell is The Conversation? All the political posts I’ve seen from them lately have been utter bullshit, under-researched, and/or unsourced takes based on nothing. Their “Who we are” page sounds awesome, but I don’t see much of those values in their actual political reporting. Their scientific, academic, and culture reporting seems pretty solid, but I’ve only been disappointed by their political stuff.

This article ultimately says nothing that hasn’t already been written 100 times.

His handsomeness has always come across as “sleazy used car salesman” to me. He is good at talking to the press, but he is not a good governor. I really hope dems don’t try to force him down our throats as the future of the Democratic Party.

Wow, that was an incredibly out of touch and frustrating thing to read. The author has no idea what they’re talking about.

in a highly polarised US political landscape, the anguish about his governmental role may be little more than a knee-jerk reaction from the millions of people whose side he did not choose.

No, it’s a reaction to genuinely absurd proposals for how to save money. For example, if they were able to successfully fire every single federal employee, it would save the government just over $100 billion. That money goes to pay the salaries of around 1.5 million federal employees. That’s nothing compared to the entire military budget, for example. So, even accomplishing their goal of firing as many civil servants as possible would save very little money in the scheme of things. All it would accomplish is ruining many basic services that people rely on every day to live a relatively safe and healthy life.

But what this article most glaringly ignores is that this Government Efficiency talk is disingenuous from the start. It’s not about efficiency, it’s about gutting as much of the government as possible so it breaks. That’s what they want, and they’ve been quite open about it.

Ugh someone recently sent me LLM-generated meeting notes for a meeting that only a couple colleagues were able to attend. They sucked, a lot. Got a number of things completely wrong, duplicated the same random note a bunch of times in bullet lists, and just didn’t seem to reflect what was actually talked about. Luckily a coworker took their own real notes, and comparing them made it clear that LLMs are definitely causing more harm than good. It’s not exactly the same thing, but no, we’re not there yet.