curbstickle @ curbstickle @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Its blocking all movement on the floor. Which slows all the garbage they are trying to push through.

I wouldn't call it a wasted gesture.

Auto segment is about 80% of their revenue, with the remaining 20% being an about even split of the services and energy gen / storage segments.

With ~$100b in total revenue, the percentages are right around where the billions are per segment.

Energy gen/storage as well as services went up a bit in revenue for 2024, but auto also went down, keeping their totals about the same from 2023.

They explain on their site here.

There is membership/assessed, which goes by each member country's wealth. There are also voluntary contributions, which comes in a few forms - core, which have no specific requirement on use, strategic donations which have general goals and can be applied to anything in that field/theme, and specified, which go to specific projects or efforts.

There is also a budget portal which details how money is spent.

Debatable, it might just end up with AI generated Trump-face and a whole lot of pretending he's still functional while they continue to destroy the country.

Though yeah, he'd be a better president and human being. Just not sure it would have any positive impact on the rest of us.

If I remember right, it was a cancer rumor with a cancer specialist going e erywhere with him, and there is also a scar on his neck that corroborates that I believe. I dont think it was wishful thinking, just reporting a possibility (from the reporting at least - random people on the internet, different story).

The more recent one I think is just a comment from Zelensky, so anything there would be wishful thinking as of now, I agree. I'm sure he has intel showing that to be the case, but how accurate it is? I don't know.

In the case of Trump, I think there is visible decline, but - and this is my opinion only - its clearly cognitive, which doesn't mean he won't survive for a long time. Even as basically a vegetable he could serve his purpose to the right wing.

Its just a dock, so no.

It works with most laptops running Linux, but its still just a dock. That gigabit port is just a usb-c/thunderbolt device, it is not a full machine. Same with the video, its just DP alt mode, there is no GPU in there.

If you want a small form factor machine to use a server, look for a used tiny/mini/micro workstation.

On my desktop, I need that num pad.

On the go, I loathe my laptop keyboard and mouse, and bring a 60% and a mouse. Easy to fit in the bag for travel if I'm setting up shop somewhere for a few days or more. Also a dock so I can hook it up to the hotel TV or conf room display easily if they are behind the times.

I want to live in your fantasy land.

Its not hard. Just have a production Linux desktop and a production windows laptop, and it becomes pretty clear what you can do. Basic memos and emails are no problem through the web, and thats a huge number of people.

Why do I want even more shit in the cloud? Some stuff I want on-prem and don’t need it in the cloud.

Why buy cloud shit and then not use cloud shit?

Just don't buy cloud shit and join to a local domain.

Plus, it’s now Entra ID.

Let me know when I need to type that at the CLI and I'll stop calling it aad.

It is.

Its a shockingly stupid decision. Not surprising considering the administration, but incredibly stupid.

USA created a problem

Which other countries can also create if contributions are altered.

Being aware of the how and why of national politics impacting international politics is a good thing. Suggesting otherwise is just putting blinders on.

.... Except what a country does or does not do directly impacts the WHOs functions and financial support, so.... Kind of important.

There are many contributors, some substantially more than others, and any of them leaving will have an impact on the efficacy of the WHO.

Eh, depending on what's being done office.com is fine for most.

That aside, if this is a business and you're using office apps, you have an account that should be getting used during setup. Thats not who this workaround is for, and not who the "just install Linux" comment is for.

Edit: if you're an admin with O365 and not using AAD on your devices, its your own problem.

If you're using a personal device for work wanting to avoid AAD, you've made a mistake.

If this is somehow confusing to you, step back, re-read, and try again.

That was my followup to the P133, a Cyrix MII chip (when they added MMX to the series), with the 266mhz chip! Ran like shit 😄. I think I replaced that with a K6.

Those were... Quickly changing times haha

I always dumpster dived for computers.

We played the same game! Thats how I ended up with a DEC pizza box (multia with an alpha 166 processor) and a SparcStation. Then I'd take them over with me to the computer show (it was more like a flea market, its unfortunate they no longer exist) after I played with them to trade - thats how I was able to get my hands on a 1x (yes you read that right) CD burner.

Good times!

For a ti-99/4a? Me too! It was my favorite thing (up until my dad bought a used 286 from work, then skipped a few generations and went right to a Pentium 133)

With the previous frequency of comments/posts, and everything else going on, I hope flyingsquid is taking the time to relax.

which one society considers more normal.

Ahh, yes, society - normally accepting of all things that are typical but different. Like being gay, or left handed.

They're definitely not comfortable letting everyone know.

Right.

So you probably have other friends who aren't comfortable telling you everything. Maybe someone else, but not you, and there could be many reasons for that.

Why are you mocking me about it? I didn't create the blue hair dye analogy. It clearly has flaws, which is part of why I responded to critique the analogy. It's a bad comparison, I agree.

Their comparison was around percentages - you compared the percentages to people you see/know from discussion, making it a much worse comparison. One thing is visible, one thing is not. You've seen poly people, and had no idea. Not everyone goes out as a throuple, many have different partners they spend time with separately. That is not a visible presentation of poly, which was the point of the comparison I would say.

There are more than you expect, there is just no way to "see" it.

They could tell me? Lol. Do you have small talk with your acquaintances?

Do you tell everyone everything about your lives? Do you not know anyone who prefers privacy?

Compared to people I know who have dyed their hair blue, they do not seem as statistically frequent.

Wow, something you can physically see is obvious compared to something you have to be told about! I'm shocked. Shocked, I say. To the core.

There have been studies on poly relationships BTW.

The Kinsey Institute reported (going off memory here) that about 10% of Americans have been in poly relationships, and about 15-20% are interested, with about 5% actively in a poly relationship.

YouGov did a survey and found about 1/3rd were interested in some form of non-monogamy.

A study in Canada came up with similar numbers to the Kinsey Institute, and a different one found a much higher interest in non-monagamy than in the US.

There are definitely way more than you think, since you're basing it solely on people you know being interested in telling you about it.

but if i saw successful polyamoric couples walking

... How would you possibly know they are poly aside from blatantly seeing them make out in front of you?

Which wouldn't even be how many poly relationships work, BTW.

Seconding them, a friend just went to his appointment at motor vehicles last week, and was done 4 hours later.

Saying its 20 minutes is nonsense.