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blargh513

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  • COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - Gamers Nexus

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  • I set up an enterprise grade firewall on a computer I got from a deceased relative. It was probably already 8+ years old when I got it and had been replaced with something newer. I had it for a long damn time; during covid when everyone was home and a lot of people were having their home internet connection clogged up with multiple users doing zoom sessions and remote work, my crusty machine was doing a good job of balancing out and shaping our meager 100mbps connection for five people. I think the CPU maybe got to about 10% at peak, but usually ran closer to 4% most of the time. It used up all the memory, but that was how it was supposed to work. It had a traditional spinning hard drive in it.

    I kept it until it was about 18 years old when I finally retired it. It never broke, never failed, hardware just quietly ran and ran. I never turned it off unless the power went out. I only retired it because it was too big (full desktop tower case) for the home I had moved into. I wiped the disk, loaded a minimalist linux on it and donated the whole thing, monitor, keyboard mouse all in perfect order.

    Hardware lasts and you don't even have to be nice to it.

  • Any Other Guys wish they were short/shorter

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  • Boo hoo, car is too small!

    Get use to it you circus freak. Us toddlers will just have to suffer through being made fun of for something we have no control over or worse, entirely ignored as if we don't even exist.

    Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be getting into my tiny ass car and driving it to the airport where I will comfortably fly in the cheapest coach seats possible. While I'm waiting in the airport, I'll just buy some silk cashmere sweaters on ebay for $30.

  • Kitchen

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  • Exactly. Unless you're cooking or cleaning GTFO of the kitchen. There is a living room, a porch, and several other places you can be. I even put the food in the dining room and people STILL want to stand in stupid places. If you come in then I'm giving you some shit to do. Here, take the trash out you vagrant or get the hell out of here.

  • borger

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  • Get borger. Cheap, not waterproof, but you can eat it whenever you want in the shower.

  • Why are we OK with doctors and nurses working double or triple shifts?

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  • The decision making center of your brain is the prefrontal cortex. It's the really thinky bit. It is what does the explicit thought about novel situations. When something is done "instinctively" or out of habit, that's usually handed off to the amygdala. It's used more for stuff that you've done many many times before.

    When you are tired, haven't eaten well, and any number of other conditions that overworked and overstressed doctors face, your prefrontal cortex will do a lousy job. The amygdala will actually secrete chemicals that inhibit the performance of the PFC. As such, routine things are probably ok. something novel comes up? Bad times.

    I'd prefer my doctor is well rested and in a good frame of mind to make quality decisions, thank you.

  • an appeal to abandon Spotify

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  • Desensitization to guns

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  • Seems like a mighty silly way to blow $500+ bucks. On a puzzle that shoots bullets.

  • Desensitization to guns

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  • (not everything in wikipedia is correct and sometimes people invent new words)

  • Desensitization to guns

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  • a hand blender in my sink? TF?

    Are you referring to a garbage disposer?

  • DeepSeek Permanently Reduces The Price Of Its Flagship V4 Model By 75 Percent

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  • As long as you don't mind them harvesting every tiny bit of data you feed it.

    I don't like the big US players, but at least they're doing a tiny bit to keep out of your shit. Deepseek is not pretending at all. I suppose it's at least honest and the price point is REALLY tempting. Openclaw gets expensive fast with the number of tokens it consumes. I burned through $30 in two days with it using Claude Haiku/Sonnet. Plugging it into cheap LLM is a nice idea, but no thanks.

  • I have to mop today AGAIN

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  • I am the guy they yell at when no budget is small enough. Please sir may I upgrade the ancient platform that is full of security vulnerabilities or replace it with something more modern. NO and we just put out a $2m go-get, fuck you

    (A go-get is when the exec and c-suite want you to give back some or all of your budget because they want it for no reason. Usually the reason is they pissed away too much money on something stupid and unplanned and have to cover the hole. It's 100% bullshit and I fucking HATE it. What's the point of setting a budget when you're just going to steal that shit back half way through the project? Fucking assholes).

    Only one time in my career was there a "spare no expense" event at a very big bank that rhymes with shmase. They moved heaven and earth to fix that shit. Of course, they have all the money anyway, so while it was impressive to me, it was probably a rounding error for the people that actually see the real money. Anyone else, when shit goes wrong they just bend the employees over and withhold bonuses and comp increases. I got a fat spot bonus for the one big bank event.

  • Clarence Thomas Could Be Charged With Felony Tax Fraud in Virginia on Monday

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  • NOBODY should be appointed for life. That shit stinks of dictatorship real bad.

    What bad could come of letting someone make important decisions, someone who has become deranged as their brain atrophies and also desperate as death looms large, someone with no future and no stake in the consequences of their decisions?

  • I have to mop today AGAIN

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  • Well that was an enriching read.

    Smear all your floors and walls with poop to repel insects. 🤔

  • I have to mop today AGAIN

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  • I'm a corporate goober, fully institutionalized. I know no other life.

    The notion of part time seems so absurd. I'm not saying it is wrong or bad, but just so puzzling, like a concrete life preserver.

    I would love to work part time, but nobody would hire a part time cybersecurity leader. The effort it would take to make that institutional change to job sharing would be tremendous. It would just be easier to hire someone else for a little more money.

  • Google Search as you know it is over - but there are alternatives (see post)

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  • That is the point. Search is free. You will be paying for ai soon. If you don't then you'll get the low-quality results. This is nothing more than greed. They were making lots of money with search, but like everything in the modern world, businesses only exist now to extinguish what was free or a good value and sell the same thing back at an extreme markup.

    Furniture was made of wood. Now it's mostly disposable composite junk. Wood, now commands a high premium.

    Household goods like toasters, irons, lamps, sofas were all at one point made to be durable. Many people would buy these things and maybe replace them every 15-20 years. Now the same stuff lasts five if you're lucky.

  • Is it just me or is Lemmy less active than reddit?

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  • It is quieter.

    Post some new shit, comment a little. It ain't no good if y'all just lurkin.

  • TIL that eating dirt was common in the U.S. South until the 80s. People ate a handful a day, often seasoned with vinegar and salt.

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  • That's why I rub out a fat one first and THEN eat the cereal.

  • The Enshittification Train

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  • I know it is somehow the worst thing ever, but Firefox really is ok. Turn off some telemetry and it's not a big deal.

  • Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid

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  • I did something similar to a 5th gen camaro. It was much easier. Take out the cell modem unit, open the case, pull out a physical hardware pin bridge that connected it to the OnStar unit. Done.

    The only thing I lost was an in-dash compass heading.

    The modem was 2g so its dead now anyway, I suppose I could put the bridge back and get the compass. I won't though, that takes effort and road signs have directions on them. There is always the sun too.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    blargh513 @sh.itjust.works

    Is Reddit deleting accounts?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    blargh513 @sh.itjust.works

    Lemmy has a problem

  • Antiwork @lemmy.ml
    blargh513 @sh.itjust.works

    I give up (pissing and moaning)