njordomir @ njordomir @lemmy.world

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If I had to distribute money based on timeshare, Minecraft would get 49.5%, Cities Skylines would get 49.5%, and all the other programs would be left to fight for the scraps because I play those games like it was a full time job.

"Them" in this case being the business owners, not the workers or the people their tech is used to oppress.

What a trip down memory lane. Back when Reddit was still a place worth visiting and not (or at least only partially) a steaming cesspool of fermented bullshit.

This is a good reminder. I recommend everyone grab their takeout data every now and then, but also, print out the 6 codes and put them in a safe deposit box, safe, bury them in a ziplock bag inside of a coffee can in your yard, etc. Hopefully it will be a waste of your time, but if you need them, they'll be there.

I was gifted a 4g router for my birthday or Christmas or something. It was the better solution for me because one plan gets me internet access on however many devices I attach to it where I would otherwise need a sim card for every tablet and laptop I use.

Probably depends on the men. 100 Chuck Norris clones, no chance for the gorilla. 100 Ted Cruz clones, Gorilla will wipe the table with them.

When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.

No mention of safety in the article. Does a manufacturer of this size have to do crash tests?

Also, this sounds like the Spirit/Ryanair of cars. Everything costs extra.

For years, I drove ~10-20 minutes to and from work. Mostly stroads and freeway. I could never justify buying an extra nice car because I didn't use it that much. Same for a nice car stereo. I'd just listen to NPR and talk radio for news, traffic reports, and maybe a quirky story about some cultural oddity or eclectic artist. If I spend thousands on a sound system it goes in my house, where I live and vibe. Now I work from home, ride my bike everywhere, and a tank of gas can easily last me a month. My current car was purchased for about $20k. If my car died for some reason, I don't even know if I'd be willing to part with 20k to replace it. I appreciate that these guys are building something for ordinary people and not another faux luxury lifted minivan the size of a garbage truck.

I can see a lot of retired people buying one of these to drive to their once a week bridge tournament or bingo night.

Milk :D Build a heat pasteurization plant next to your data center and you can use the server heat for something productive.

I was wondering about this. Why wouldn't it be closed loop? My buddies and I allegedly built a moonshine still in high school and the coiled pipe or hose coming out the top recondenses the liquid that boils off. Why not do something similar and pump the hot water under snow covered sidewalks to melt them and then send it back to the data center to get heated again once it has lost enough heat?

I appreciate their philosophy. I've been a Linux user since the early 2000s and have cycled through 30-40 distros at least. I'm not a highly technical user. I would consider myself a solid intermediate. For a daily use system I prefer arch, but my servers run Debian. Most of the people writing install guides for the software I deploy seem to use Debian so I run into less issues this way. It can be hard to follow a guide for Gentoo when you're using Hanna Montana Linux, know what I'm saying? Same thing with Debian. It's just a solid choice with the bonus of having a better, more ethical philosophy, and the benefit of being widely adopted and supported by people who can help when you get stuck. I don't even mind gnome on my servers since it works well with a single screen and it's super rare that I actually need the server GUI anyway.

Willingness to independently learn and the capacity to let the frustration roll off of you. You will occasionally want to bang your head against the wall, but give yourself the grace to learn.

In high school I used to tape the addresses for proxy servers to the bottom of the keyboards for my comrades. I was on a mailing list and when the new addresses got posted they always worked for a few days before they updated the filters. Even though they could have checked the keyboards, the librarians looked the other way because they were pro free inquiry and pro free speech.

The audacity. How violent!

Sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s I got banned from the PETA forums for posting pictures of steak. :)

I think that's exactly what it is. They do these confusing pricing schemes hoping people will overbuy and "put up with" the extra features they didn't actually want or need. They want you to have to sift through their product inventory before buying. The other factor is that product identity is sometimes not even centered around product features, but rather around an ad campaign with a sexy spokesperson, sports sponsorships, or some kind of performative group affinity. This is especially true for large corporations that have their hands in many cookie jars.

Glad to know I'm not just getting too old and out of touch for the internet. :P

I agree, it's a bit of a weird take especially when we're talking about robots in a marathon, not in a textile factory or flipping McBurgers.

I guess I was thinking: why give up the efficiency of wheels/tracks/propellers for walking (a less simple movement) and why only one set of arms? Why would you want a robot to look human at the cost of being as multitasking and movement challenged as it's owner? I kept imagining Angry Bender from Futurama where he has 3 very maneuverable metal tentacle arms on each side. (Though normally he's pretty humanoid in shape too). I still think we're overly anthropomorphizing them and it's a bit creepy. It seems like we're building the tech based on Hollywood as much as anything else. I hear you when you say the shape is a good "fit" for our built environment, but I think we can do even better so it's interesting that we decided our bodies were the pinnacle of biology and technology.

Do these people miss slavery so much they have to build humanoid robots so they can own them?

Not an epub, unless you saved a copy of Calibre!

I remember a very similar thing happened with one of our visitors. It was explained to me that some of these folks grew up with very strict parents and just get absolutely CRUNK when they have that opportunity. I can understand that. :)

I think a few more people "get it" every time the cycle repeats, but also, a sucker is born every minute.