One of us... One of us.... One of us...
Lemmy is just as bad as reddit but with fewer people. Downvotes aren't tied with the source but just the content.
"Space garbage kills puppy" post will be downvoted to oblivion and "Reddit CFO becomes homeless says BuzzFeed paparazzi" will get 1000 up votes.
Wow I thought I was the only idiot that bought it. Once they started charging for the smart features, it got unbatteried and became just a fancy box.
Always UPS everything. But also always have a simple backdoor. I generally have 1 little desktop like a NUC running some basic Win10 OS and an install of remote software like TeamViewer. It is connected to my hardware router right after the ISP router and a backup connection. Used to be LTE everywhere, now I'm half and half on Starlink. It is then also connected to the router ports needed for management but inactive.
If I have to, remote into the NUC over Starlink. I can then reboot my main ISP box. I can eventually get into my router and enable those ports which are pre-plugged in. From there I can then access all the stack management and all the IPMI ports like iLo. It's a virtual interface through a virtual interface. It is slow, and painful. But it works.
And it works 99.99% of the time. But even then, I've had to do a call of shame and walk one of my friends through which button to press as I'm on the other side of the world. In my case it was also power related but the UPS I had decided to overheat. In reality over the summer, the temps were high. But also it is a super awesome double conversion UPS. The line voltage into the UPS was dropped to below standards from the utility because their grid was overworked with everyone's AC's. So the UPS saw this as a line failure, kicked in the double conversion and ran happily. But it did not count as a power failure, so none of my services scaled back. Essentially it was delivering 3KW of juice from the wall through a double conversion making the whole thing super hot. Eventually it shut down for safety automatically, just pulled the plug. My NUC is on a separate little backup along with the modems and an auto transfer switch which did its thing. But there was no way to press the reset button on the UPS for a critical safety shutdown like that. It had to be in person.
If he's smart, he'll be on a chartered flight out of the US now.
Yup that's a good description. The scary part is that the new ones are sooo much better. And even work from the planes and helicopters and now drones.
Is this really the first release of the series? Wow. I capture card recorded that in the 2000's off the TV and it sits in my library. Have watched a few episodes by my adult self and some with younger relatives.
What I have learned is that 90s animated comedies are not as whizz bang fast action packed as these shitty new shows. So it doesn't hold the attention of the younger ones.
Only exception so far has been Animaniacs. The youngin's request that show.
I've voted D every time. This question is ridiculous because most people are NOT better off and those that are, are all on the low end of the financial spectrum where the short term income gains have made a difference.
Even the best stats I see from the Democrats show 8% better income adjusted for inflation. That's awesome! But what inflation? The low fed number. Not the CPI.
This means for anyone who purchases things, or where purchasing things is a larger proportion of their income which is everyone below the top 0.5% or 1% in the USA, your effective wage has gone down 10% to 40% depending on what your personal income raise was. Those that job hopped, are only down a bit. Those that didn't are screwed.
Everytime this question gets asked, I look around and not a single person I know is better off now from income. Not a damn one. You know what is doing better? Stock portfolios. I have them, I'm up. My friends have them, they're up. We have traded realized daily losses in living for stock market unrealized gains. The average person doesn't have stocks. They just get shafted completely.
It's incomprehensible to me how low Democrats have gone to just blatantly lie and gas light. That's a Republican move. And every one of the people smart enough to actually think, gets a little more pissed off when they're gas lit into trying to believe that 20% year over year multiple years in a row of inflation is good. That's batshit.
Ipv4 is one of those things that works awesome, is simple, and is a victim of its own success. Ipv6 is just complicated bloat of a standard. Cool features, but nobody implements them, so useless.
In 30 years, probably useful. Until then, I'm not giving up Ipv4.
Yup. Been in the UAE for over a decade. You can get gold out in lots of quantities and varieties. The most common being the 1oz bars.
I tried a few but they all seem to break fundamental features of Plex. I think they do it on purpose.
When playing media, outside of plex, I do use MxPlayer most.
I believe you'd need roughly 500GB of RAM to run it minimum at full context length. There is chatter that 125k context took and used 40GB
I know I can load the 70B models into my laptop at lower bits but it consumes about 140GB of RAM.
Road trip? Usually week or night of.
Airline travel within 4 hours, domestic or international is usually 2 days before hand.
Airline travel across the world is usually planned as a time block a month or two ahead of time. The actual destination and activities being planned as the dates get closer.
Exceptions are scheduled events. If I have an event to attend in a location, I'll make a hotel reservation and book tickets for the thing. Then checkup options for travel there. Sometimes it's part of a multileg journey.
Often I don't know where in the world I will even be the week leading up to the thing. So I tend to either not purchase travel tickets, or buy a few different ones from hubs globally that are cheap and easy to get to.
I can see the regulation now. All robots MUST have red eye error indicators. They must glow for 3 seconds on every boot to verify they are in working order.
If you hold your Nazi meeting at a Dairy Queen, and people show up to protest your Nazism, the news article should not be about the disgraceful attacks on Dairy Queen. When they are, and nobody mentions the reason why the protest was actually there, it is blatant propaganda. The fancy new term being "fake news".
And still anytime it's brought up, often the Americans downvote it... There have been a few great studies that show the complete ineffectiveness of voting. It's all about lobbying.
And when you finally get people to concede its about lobbying from elites, the definitions of elite is wildly skewed. People who make $100k/yr are not "the elites". "The 1%" are not the elites. It's about $700k/yr now to be a 1%er in the USA as of 2023 data. Even with 700k a year, you aren't buying a $25m private jet, and a $300m yacht. You aren't donating $3m at a time to Super PACs to get your pet project through.
$700k/yr is also just some tech dude coding for Netflix that lives in a 1500sqft house in California.
We humans are really really bad at numbers. A million sounds like so much. A billion sounds like so much more. But the concept of how much more is lost on most people. And now you have TRILLION dollar companies.
There are a few people and companies in the USA that control everything. Everything else is smoke and mirrors. And lots is purposefully designed to keep poorer and less powerful people fighting each other.
Wow this is such propaganda... How many mass shootings does the USA have again???
Unsurprisingly almost all non-negative news of the arab world is suppressed. Yes the path is full normalization and fully legally protected.
The major difference in the UAE is that the judicial system is victim based. Not DA based. Basically the government leaves you alone for most of these things except if a party to the "crime" on the books complains.
So for abortion, if 2 expats hook up and a need an abortion it's basically like California. You make an appointment, you get it done, you get prescription meds, all good. No protestors anywhere, ever.
If someone hooks up with a deeply conservative person and they disagree with the abortion, then legally they're correct. And it can be stopped unless as outlined for the reasons in the article now. But just like in the redneck states, most of the conservatives are not against it when it benefits them or they need it.
Which brings it all back to nobody cares. And having been someone who has taken women to get their abortions in the US (as a friend only!) that walk of pressure and shame is ridiculous. The last time was like a friggin spy movie. We got a location to go to 1hr before the appointment. We parked there. An unmarked van pulls up, and you get in. You put on covers for your clothes and face. The van drives you to the clinic, parks near a rear entrance, and you run inside while all the "Christians" scream at you, throw blood at you, call you a murderer, etc. Then after the woman has the procedure and has to go back, has to do it in reverse in pain. And the van does like 30 minutes of evasive driving down random roads until they finally double back to wherever your car is. This was in a purple area of a blue state btw. The clinic had people routinely shoot it up (at night, not with people in it), try to light it on fire, harass employees, etc.
It's absolutely horrifying.
You obviously can't comprehend basic things, so goodbye.
It is true. And yet it actually has been that way for a long time. The level of theocracy is actually lower in the UAE than in the USA. Which is super weird if you haven't experienced both.