MystikIncarnate @ MystikIncarnate @lemmy.ca

Some IT guy, IDK.

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I also would not know about that.

Hey, get your Gentoo propaganda out of here.

Run.

Nicola Tesla? He's nowhere in this image.

Also, he's great. He doesn't fit in with the others on the wall.

It's a damn tragedy to have him associated in any way to the owner of the electric car company that uses his name.

Tesla (the man) was better than to have that happen to him.

Oh that's good

With the switch 2 coverage, this is something that bugs me quite a bit.... Not the meme, Nintendo games, by comparison, are worth more than the slop that Ubisoft craps out. No matter how good a Ubisoft game could be, Nintendo has them beat in terms of quality.

Back to my point. The cost of games is insane. The price point for most video game systems is around $500 USD. Whether PS5, Xbox, switch, whatever, they're all either at or near, $500.

You buy 6 games, and you've spent more in games than you did on your console. The fuck is this? We might as well go back to the days when you would buy a whole ass console that could only play a single (or small selection) of games like the Coleco Telstar.

I think they figured out that you make money from selling the add-ons, so they dipped the price of the console and jacked up the cost of all of the games so they could increase profits and shareholder value.

Oh wait.

Clearly, it's light-ish red.

This person colors

Can't fix what you don't know is wrong.

I'm pretty sure if it worked on any frequency in the charged electromagnetic spectrum, they would get completely screwed long before they made it to earth.

As a qualified amateur operator, the radio spectrum is noisy.

I'm not a fan, but that's neither here nor there. I'm weird.

I'm just not sure that flavor can be considered a positive character trait?

Maybe I'm stupid. Who knows? Clearly not me.

I'm not American but, from what I've seen, Republicans seem to flip sides more than a quarter in a hobos pocket during an earthquake.

Having Republicans turn on eachother is about as shocking as the fact that it will be cold in winter.

More or Less. I would think of it more as a third person direct versus indirect. Third person direct being: referring to a specific set of people, eg, they're in the room with you, where calling them females would be rude... Third person indirect, where you're mentioning the concept of that group of people while not citing a specific or present subset of that group, would be rude.

You've made some good examples. Overall I think you understand the concept I was trying to get across.

That is also an option.

Honestly there's a lot of ways to make money in the market if you know what's going to happen in the coming days that will affect it.

This is my thought exactly.

I watched Steven Colbert yesterday saying that this large of a fuck up is proof there is no deep state. While I get his point, I disagree. If there is someone in the shadows pulling strings this was the intended outcome.

It's pretty well known that in trading markets, there's almost always something that goes up when everything else drops like a rock. Even as such, moving money to be liquid right before a steep drop off, then buying up all the formerly high-value stocks at bargain basement pricing, and just waiting for the rebound, is a legit strategy. Having foreknowledge of such an action is considered insider trading however. Realistically, insider trading is difficult to prove unless the perpetrator is an idiot.

Whether you call it the deep state or the 1% or oligarchs, or simply "rich assholes", if you believe there is a group orchestrating things, then you beat believe this was the intended outcome.

Female is still an acceptable term in some context: eg, when referring to the social group on a societal level, female can be fine, also for identifying someone's genetic/biological sex as "female" for medical/official contexts, that's still okay in most cases.

Where it's not okay is to use it on an individual level or to refer to a small group of ladies. The term is seem as cold, clinical, and in some cases, dehumanizing. It comes off as boiling down a person to their function in reproduction and nothing more. "You are the female and you carry children." Kind of thing. Like women are some kind of bakery for your crotch goblins, and not people worthy of respect.

But something like "the female population of the country" is fairly okay, since you're referring to the entirely of the people who identify as female, not an individual or small group of individuals.

At least, that's my take. I'm just some guy. If any women want to correct me, I defer to your judgement and opinion, and happily retract any contradictory statements I may have made. I am always happy to be corrected.

Oh no!

.... Anyway.

There's a lot of technology that people should spend more money on, in order to save money.

Home networking, as an example. People generally won't spend more than $100 ish, to get a wireless router that they expect will service their whole home for years and years. And in some circumstances, maybe that happens, chances are, you're heading back to Walmart/bestbuy/wherever to pick up a new router in a couple of years.

I have business grade gear or better, and I bought most of this stuff years and years ago, and I have no stability issues nor any need to upgrade. I expect that will remain the case for many years to come. While others are out upgrading their wireless router because of one reason or another, I'm enjoying stable, and fast, network access.

The insane thing, to me is that people will spend upwards of $100 a month to have high speed Internet to their door, but then won't spend $100 a year for a way to get that Internet into their devices. Insanity.

Yep, I see that too. Looks like it's baked into the protocol.

Zwave will let you disable encryption or run without it. But it's definitely still an option for zwave.

Both use AES 128, so there shouldn't be any significant difference in security between them.

Since I've worked with the tech for so long, my philosophy is: wire when you can, wireless when you have to.

To expand: if you can run a wire, in any way, shape, or form, then do that, when that's impossible or impractical, use wireless.

One device that walks the line between whether it should be wireless or wired is laptops.... Do you use it on a dock or is it always in the same location when in use? Wired. If you're moving it about and using it on your desk, bed, couch, wherever, wireless.

Stuff like tablets and smartphones are mostly obligated to be wireless, there are some cursed methods to get wired Ethernet to work on some mobile platforms; I've gotten a few to work on Android, but they're not pretty and very hit-and-miss as to what's going to work and what is a waste of money.... Also the device usually doesn't have a lot of control over the wired interface since the OS isn't expecting it, so it frequently doesn't show up on any control panel, you just have WiFi/LTE off and you're still online. Do not recommend.

Anything that doesn't move like TVs, desktops, etc, find a way to run a wire, whether that's Ethernet, or MoCA or even shudder powerline.

Powerline Ethernet to me, is in a very interesting place. It can be good, depending on your power situation. For European electrical systems, there's only one phase AFAIK, so that will likely be a lot easier and more successful, with anything split phase, like what's in use in North America, as long as you're on the same circuit, or at least the same "side" (or leg) of the split phase, you'll probably be fine. If the two outlets you want to use are across the sides of the split phase, you're in for a rough time. It'll be slow, if it works at all....

So powerline sits at this weird intersection of knowing enough to be dangerous with electricity and knowing enough to be dangerous with networks. I know enough about both that I could probably make it work and it would probably be ok, but, nahhh. I'd rather run an Ethernet wire.

For anything IoT, get off my wifi. Ethernet is fine, but I can probably count the IoT devices that use Ethernet on one hand. So you're stuck with either ZigBee or zwave. And yes, there's matter and whatever.... But those new protocols run on top of either Wi-Fi, ZigBee, or zwave.... Not independent from them.