Otherbarry @ Otherbarry @lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz

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Not sure if you meant like cleaning them all out with the dishes using soap/sponges/etc. Just rinsing them out is fine.

But either option is better than just dumping dirty cans/bottles into your recycling pile. I had a friend who was living in a shared apartment with 3-4 other people and there was this one guy that never ever cleaned or rinsed any of his recycling. Apparently the shared kitchen area where the recycling was stored would reek and attract flies and other insects all because of that guy.

A few times a year, probably around 5-6 I'd guess. Some months I end up going to more than one and other months it's quiet.

Almost always buy merch.. I have a lot of t-shirts haha.

I really hate the idea of people not liking something and it being scrubbed from the internet.

It's not, the devs themselves took it off Steam (and honestly I would have thought Valve might have removed it eventually). But it's not like the devs disappeared from the internet, searching around I saw they still sell the game on at least one game platform outside of Steam. And those same devs could choose to sell it directly themselves if they wanted, to say they've been scrubbed from the internet is a bit of a stretch.

More Tor friendly instances would be nice. Most Lemmy instances use things like Cloudflare that freak out over Tor connections so just registering/logging into the instance is a PITA, let alone browsing. Extra bonus if the instance actually hosts the Lemmy instance in Tor itself (though realistically the rest of the Lemmy instance would still run on the clearnet since it still needs to communicate with the rest of the Fediverse).

Probably just need an executive order from the current U.S. president to rename the country "United States of Trump". Going forward citizens would be called Trumpians.

Google will happily go ahead and update Google Maps with the new name.

Like the other commenter I pronounce it sen-tor. Just like the word "dinosaur" I would pronounce die-no-sor if that makes sense. Both words end in "aur".

...though now you've got me curious about how you and your wife pronounce dinosaur :)

Does your employer offer you a match on your 401k contributions? That's free money regardless of how the 401k is invested so you definitely want to keep that going.

Even without that generally speaking you'll still want to continue contributing to your 401k. Remember that a 401k is long term retirement savings, the market will continue to rise/fall during your employment over the next x years. You're not required to invest 100% in U.S. specific index funds, in fact most people would recommend allocating a mix of U.S. / International / Bonds e.g. the "lazy" portfolio is one of the more famous recommendations https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Asset_allocation

Or for just set-and-forget you can invest in target date retirement index funds if your 401k offers them (most 401k plans offer those nowadays).

Cash back rewards cards work well, I end up with at least 2% - 5% cash back on all my shopping.

The key is to treat credit cards like cash e.g. pay your bill in full every month, never ever carry a balance. It doesn't work for everyone and that's okay, some people just can't help themselves and get too spendy and end up in debt.

Other nice thing is that fraud is handled better with credit cards, if my card is lost/stolen no one has a direct line to my bank account and can't try to drain my bank balance with debit purchases. Sure your bank may/may not void those transactions but in the time it takes for them to "investigate" you're going to be out real money in your bank account. With a credit card you just dispute those fraud charges and never actually pay for them.

In NYC people never thought he was cool, he was just another rich blowhard in the NYC area. He has spent pretty much his whole life desiring some sort of celebrity coolness he never really attained.

I don't know about people outside the NYC area, maybe they always thought he was some sort of cool real estate rich guy? Do people down south idolize that type of person? Seems unlikely then again stranger things have happened.

Usually what I do is put the plate in the oven towards the end of whenever I need to take food out so it heats up a couple of mins or so then take everything out. Use oven mitts in case you left the plate in there a bit too long.

I believe you meant that you have an internet speed of 81 MegaBytes vs 81 Megabits.

OP is confused but I'm pretty sure they are right about that part. Most (all?) ISPs advertise service in Megabit / Gigabit speeds. Definitely here in the U.S. not sure if other countries do that differently.

Also most speedtest sites measure in Megabit / Gigabit. e.g. https://www.speedtest.net/ is a popular one and by default it measures bandwidth speeds in Megabit / Gigabit.

When I download something using torrent though, the speed is shown as 10 MB/s

You forgot the i, qBittorrent displays speeds in MiB/s not MB/s.

Mb/s = Megabit per second

MB/s = Megabyte per second

MiB/s = Mebibyte per second

Anyway 10 MiB/s is ~ 83 Mb/s so you're fine, seems you are already hitting your max speed.

https://www.google.com/search?q=10+mib+to+megabit

Zip bombs wouldn't apply here, from what I understand to create those you'd have to start with uncompressed data. The typical example is using a bunch of zeroes as the starting point, not only is that compressible but the compression algorithm will look for redundancies in the data to increase the compression efficiency (a bunch of zeroes would have tons of redundancy).

Stackoverflow has a good discussion on it https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1459673/how-does-one-make-a-zip-bomb

If I use winrar to compress 80gb of tv and movies.

You haven't gained anything by doing so since video is already compressed. Compressing data that is already compressed will usually make it slightly larger - or if you're lucky maybe you'll save like 1 megabyte space, not really anything worth the trouble.

Then can I compress it further by making it an iso?

ISO is not compression.

To view blocked instances if you're browsing Lemmy on the desktop website go to https://lemmy.world/instances and click the "Blocked Instances" tab.

Unfortunately there no standard way to view blocked communities, I'm not sure if lemmy.world admins maintain a list somewhere.

I'll add that the blocked stuff is good/bad depending on your point of view. e.g. some instances (including lemmy.world) participate in Fediseer which helps determine spammy intances to potentially block and keep spam out. That sort of blocking is okay, the other types of blocking I'm not too onboard with but that's just IMO.

PS - If you're just starting out probably best not to overthink it too much :) As you get more comfortable browsing the Fediverse you can decide later on if you want to set yourself up on another instance.

Sometimes the instance you are on will block communities or other instances that you may still want to be able to view/browse.. in those cases your only solution is to create a new Lemmy account at a different instance that does not block those things.

For example you're on lemmy.world so all your blocked instances are listed at https://lemmy.world/instances

In addition lemmy.world admins also block entire communities e.g. blocking all piracy related communities is a big one there https://lemmy.world/post/13320356

If you haven't already visited you definitely should! I never had the chance to live there but did spend a couple of weeks visiting and it was awesome. Reykjavik, driving the ring road, all those cliffs, waterfalls, national parks, it's all great. That was before this Lemmy bar existed otherwise I would've visited that too.

I've too wondered how feasible it would be to relocate and/or retire to Iceland but that seems pretty far off from reality.

That has never crossed my mind, I'm thinking heavy metal when I think about Lemmy Kilmister / Lemmy.

But I do think lemmings are cute, and that old video game was awesome, so it all sort of works for me :D

Before or after the MAGA movement called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage? Just saying, it really does take a lot for the hardcore MAGA types to actually change their minds on this stuff.

If you weren't already prepared (see other comments) then assume every credit/debit card you had saved in your Google Wallet/Apple Pay has been stolen - That's one reason people snatch phones while unlocked and try to keep it unlocked.

Also assume any payment apps you have installed are now compromised e.g. Venmo and similar - that's another reason people steal unlocked phones and try to keep it unlocked.

The above assumes you did not have any additional passwords/locking in the apps themselves beyond the phone's screen unlock - I purposely

You may be able to remote lock the phone after the fact if you get to a computer or a someone you know with a phone on them to get online and initiate a remote lock.