StrawberryPigtails @ StrawberryPigtails @lemmy.sdf.org

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Given that my experience with the US healthcare system has largely been terrible over the last 20 years, cant say I'm shocked. Seems like every doc I visit is either a legal drug dealer or a damned rolidex. "You need to see a specialist". Please. Every damned specialist I need has a waiting list 6 months long.

There was any doubt?

Despite the timeline we currently live in, The Onion is not a reputable source of information.

Please delete and repost to !theonion@midwest.social

Sadly The Onion needs to up their game. It’s sad that the NYT often reads like them.

My Uncle once told me that the most important thing you can learn is where to find more information.

Libre Office should work in most cases. In the handful that Libre Office can't you might try installing MS Office through WINE.

One heads up, even MS Office on Windows has trouble with opening MS Office formats correctly between versions. Seems like every time they release a new version the format changes slightly but dramatically. The actual text is usually fine, but formatting is often borked.

A third option is to use Office 365. It's browser based. It's also a monthly subscription.

Yep.

You don't have to but it helps folks that don't speak English to be able to filter by language. English speakers seem to be dominant in the undetermined category from what I've noticed.

Thats a new one on me. What did that do if I may ask? Best I have been able to figure out is that it's probably IRC related but that's it.

Though I’m sure that person exists here on Lemmy somewhere :D

I feel seen!

In all honesty, I've been doing something somewhat similar for the last 2 decades or so. Originally I was building my archives because I was often away from internet access. Now, though, it's just become habit.

I started with basic first aid and medical texts and whatever other books and reference texts I found interesting. To that I also archive proprietary software and the source code and releases for the open source software I find useful. Add to that ISOs of the distributions I tend to use and I'm at roughly 3TB. I could probably cut that to 2TB if I remove the older Ubuntu and NixOS releases. I'm over 30TB if you include CD and DVD rips.

About the only thing I am missing from my current archives would be a clone of the Ubuntu and NixOS repositories for all of the "glue" dependencies that no one ever thinks of. After that you would just need the hardware to build out the network.

I’m inclined to say no. It pretty much a useless feature and doesn’t solve the fundamental problems of searching a federated service like Lemmy.

Even if LLMs worked like the general public thinks they should, who would pay for the processing time? A one off request isn’t too expensive, sure, but multiply that times however many users a server might have and it gets real expensive real quick. And that’s just assuming the models are hosted by the Lemmy server. It gets even more expensive if you’re using a one of the public APIs to run the LLM queries.

You'll need to be more specific I'm afraid. Lemmy isn't a single site, but rather a bunch of sites all talking to one another in the same "language".

Is your homeserver, lemm.ee communist? No clue. I do know lemmygrad.ml is. My homeserver, lemmy.sdf.org, leans from libertarian to liberal to marxist depending on the particular subject or user.

Each cat their own rat.

Canonical? the US could try but Canonical isn't a US company so far as I know. The attempt would probably just piss off their "home" nation. That would be the UK, I think.

Red Hat is another story though. It's owned by IBM which is a US company, which means it is, in theory, obliged to obey any lawful order of the US government. I say "in theory" because there is a long history of companies here saying "Yes sir, Yes sir, Three bags full sir." and then doing whatever they want when no one is looking anymore. For examples see Facebook, Google, OpenAI, Exxon IBM, Coke, Ford and... Well just about every company that has been around for more than 20 years and most small businesses to boot.

Practically speaking, though. These companies are based around open source projects whose source code has been widely distributed. If you need to, (or hell, even if you just want to) fork them, rename the project to avoid trademarks, and move on. Whether you flip Uncle Sam the bird as you do so, your call.

Depends on what the thread was about. If it's a technical thread, and if you have something to contribute that might help someone in the future with that issure, go ahead. Most of the rest of the time, it's just bad form.

Matrix or XMPP. Personally I’d go with Matrix. World’s on fire and Matrix is encrypted by default.

S&P 500 is still up 5% over the last 12 months. Up 95% over the last 5 years. Any action on a shorter timeline than that is emotionally driven and should be largely ignored. Unless you're day trading of course. You're not, right?

That said, ya. We're probably heading into a rough time.

We're looking at negative GDP growth according to folks smarter than I am. 2 quarters of that and it's probably a recession.

Additionally it looks like foreign investors are leaving the US Treasury market kicking up yields and foreign governments are getting uneasy about purchasing US made weapons or relying on US security guarantees which, again, reduces GDP both directly and indirectly.

2028 can't come fast enough.

Depends on your threat model, but you’re probably fairly secure from remote unauthorized access right now.

Given that I’m American, I would put the *arr stack behind a dedicated VPN container like gluetun and set Gluetun up using a “no logs” VPN.

For remote access, Tailscale can probably get around that double NAT. If you have it on your devices as well as your server, you won’t necessarily need to expose anything publicly.

If that’s not an option, you could set up an external VPS to run a reverse proxy (Caddy perhaps) and use the Tailscale connection to connect the VPS to your home server. There are fully self hosted ways to do this (Headscale comes to mind), but Tailscale is how I personally would solve this.

They are, among every thing else tobacco related.

They are, to the tobacco industry, what TTI is to power tools. Among the companies they own are Philip Morris (Cigarettes, Cigars and pipe tobacco), US Smokeless (dip, snuff and whatnot), and NJOY (vaping).

I remember reading somewhere that most of the caffeine used in things that don’t usually have caffeine, comes from the byproduct of making decaf coffee.Not sure how true that is though.

Don't know about booze, bullets and bread, but there does seem to be alot of folks taking up smoking again. Altria stock has shot up like a rocket over the last 12 months.

Most law enforcement in my area already does use a form of encrypted coms. Have been for the last 25 years. As for my opinion on it, I can see both sides.

On the one hand, police com traffic often contains details about people's most painful or vulnerable moments. On the other hand, there has been a real problem with law enforcement conduct for some time and the darkness that encrypted com traffic allows for some real shady shit to go down unnoticed. It's the exact same arguments, for and against, for civilian use of encryption.

In the case of police in my local area, the com traffic is supposed to be recorded and made available on request. Never tried going after it, though.