leisesprecher @ leisesprecher @feddit.org

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I mean, look at Reddit. Huge uproar last year, nothing happened really.

Pretty much every service, platform, app has become worse over the last two or three years. But people keep using them. And not for a lack of alternatives. They are actively hostile against change and many really don't care. They are so used to being fucked over, squeezed for pennies and bombarded with bullshit ads, that they gave up.

The same thing happens in politics, btw. People just vote whatever - if at all, because they already expected to be fucked over. All those activists you see on TV or online are a tiny minority.

But not for us.

That's what I meant by larping. The vast vast majority of us here would probably not even notice if their systems went down for an hour. Yes, battery backup has its purpose. In a datacenter.

I mean, what's on the line here in the worst case? 15min without jellyfin and home assistant? Does that warrant taking risks with old batteries or investing in new ones?

That equation might change if you're in a place with truly unreliable electricity, but I guess those places have solutions in place already.

That's typically a feature for servers or business desktops. Maybe your laptop has it, just look into the BIOS.

As I wrote in my other comment: try to be realistic about your needs. Chances are, pressing the power button every few months (if at all) is perfectly fine for your use case (and most others here).

God, I hope so.

AI apocalypse sounds much better than anything the current timeline can offer.

And how much need is there for a UPS in this scenario - realistically.

Some of the people here take their admin-LARPing a tad too seriously. Most households have reliable enough electricity, and even if there's an outage once every quarter, would a dead battery even help?

I advocate for being realistic with one's own needs. Don't build a five-nines datacenter for a glorified weather station or VCR.

https://youtu.be/sSiVYgot9SI

Not even two weeks ago.

In case you didn't already do that: remove the battery. It's probably dead anyway, you don't need it and it poses a potential (albeit low) risk.

Maybe Israel could inject bleach into these sites?

She could start by abolishing all that royal tax money wasting crap.

As an expecting father, I hate you a bit for bringing up yet another fear of fucking up.

On the other hand: seeing the mental state of some parents during their children's infancy, I would not consider them fully responsible.

Being under constant stress, sleep privation, constantly on edge because of jobs, money, children's needs, relationships, etc. brings some parents to the brink of collapse - and some even a bit further.

I'd really be interested in studies on how this actually happens. Are the parents really just shitty people or normal people put in an impossible situation? Probably bit of both, but at least the latter group can be reduced by societal support.

Of course you can.

But they made half a million.

And there are literally hundreds of similar companies raking in billions in investments that magically vanish while the founders live a luxury live and move on.

The real question is: why do VCs shit so much money into obvious frauds? Are they this stupid or do they just hope to pass it on to the greater fool?

Collision is obviously a risk here, but a jet pilot almost by accident firing a missile is just absolutely absurd. These incidents are a dance that happens almost daily. Pilots are trained no to be trigger happy in these situations.

I've done the horrible deed of updating Debian, for example.

Distros like Arch get a pass, but Debian screwed me over several times. For example a few years ago, some driver decided to make itself clinge onto old kernel versions. So the boot partition got full and left me in a weird start where I had to manually remove old kernels and track down the driver at fault.

Recoverable, but annoying, and on a system I use for work it would be really really expensive.

Fedora used to nuke itself sometimes if you upgraded an install from version n to n+1, n+2, .... Like a config not being migrated properly, a package conflict because of renamed packages and versions, yada yada yada.

If you didn't experience that, you either were very lucky, only used enterprise distros, or simply reinstalled often enough for it not to be an issue.

I don't know how exactly it's set up in the US, but in Germany the best before date means essentially "we guarantee no substantial change". That means, if the liquids in a yoghurt start to separate after a week, the date is one week after production, even though the complex refurbishment of "stirring" might make the product perfectly edible for weeks after. I'm involved in a local food sharing community and I've eaten yoghurts literally months after the official shelf life, they were fine.

Two separate dates would already do the trick. Like "best before" and "not after". Both are relevant, but they mean very different things.

Which makes you wonder, how Hezbollah manages to shoot rockets into northern Israel for so long? One could speculate that someone intentionally left their capacity to maintain low level attacks untouched.

Yeah, but better!

I feel really bad for these scientists. The decision is perfectly reasonable, but being punished for something completely out of your control must suck.

That's not the argument. The argument is rather that good employees can easily find new and better jobs. So the remaining people are on average worse.

It's also called Dead Sea Effect. The good ones evaporate, only salt remains.