“Just in case I need it” is the principle of hoarding.
a large media library achieves a similar thing a subscription to on-demand streaming achieves: pick a film to watch, and you can immediately press play. there's also a curation aspect. whenever one friend speaks highly of a film, i grab it. then once i have a larger group of friends over for movie night, we just peruse the library until we find something everyone's in the right mood for. whatever we select from that library, i can be confident it'll be received well: it's already been vetted.
i mean it's not that different from the original value proposition for Netflix, only it survives even after they turn off the money faucet.
I personally believe that the prospect of getting hassled and ticketed by fare enforcement staff is a legitimate reason we don’t see more people on the trains who are visibly suffering from addiction and homelessness.
i also stopped riding once they ramped up the fare enforcement. i'm not homeless or addicted, i just don't enjoy confrontation and fare enforcement (regardless if you paid or not) is an extremely confrontational interaction.
weed was pretty endemic on our highschool campus. it wasn't unusual at all to take a bathroom break during class and see someone zonked out and sitting against the wall in the hallway waiting for something to pass. i still have zero gauge on how much schools vary on this stuff: tell that experience to one friend and they'll say "sounds like highschool", tell it to a different friend and they'll ask "what the hell kind of a school did you go to?" i'm sort of thinking it's less "did your school have a drug problem" and more "did you notice the drug problem" at this point.
on the only overnight school trip i ever went on, Zach was taking too long in the shower and Garrett shouted at the bathroom "if you don't hurry up i will shit in a bag". we laughed it off but then he went to the minifridge, grabbed Zach's lunchbag, squeezed himself into the little coat closet, did his business & left without a word.
The real red pill isn’t rejecting democracy—it’s rebuilding it.
the red pill was at least to value honesty/truth above your desire for comfort. you could infer a few more values from the context (e.g. some cloud of transhumanist ideals). more broadly the movie suggests one particular form of society as undesirable -- and the case for why right-wingers are abusing the red pill is as simple as they're pushing for the form of society from which the red pill was an exit.
but the red pill was not a push for democracy: none of the societies shown in that film were particularly democratic. much less was society after the red pill a rebuilding of the current/prior thing. so i feel like that article is rather abusing "redpill" as well.
if you're talking about headphones that are only USB-C, that's a no-go. i plug my headphones into more than one device any given day. Switch can do USB-C audio, but anything retro can't and i spend a lot of time at the arcade.
if you're talking about adapters, before switching away from Apple i did use the official lightning-3.5mm adapter: it worked, but even those official adapters would become flaky after 6-7 weeks of daily use. couldn't walk and listen to music at the same time because the phone acted as if the headphones were being connected and disconnected every time i took a step. went through 3 of them before giving up and switching back to a phone with 3.5mm.
so, idk. 3.5mm just works. USB-C doesn't just work. music + messaging + reading are the primary things i use my phone for. an "upgrade" isn't an upgrade if it's worse at one of those things without being better at any of them.
are you talking ECC RAM? because normal RAM sticks tend to fail in ways like "after 2 years of use this random page of memory is now reporting the 17th bit of every word as 1, no matter what value you actually write to it". if you have faulty RAM like that, RAID won't save you; copy a 1 GB file from ~/a to ~/b: it's read into RAM, 100 bits are flipped, the RAID system takes what's in RAM and commits it to disk, congrats: your RAID array will reliably preserve that corrupted file for 100 years. worse is when the bad bits aren't file data but internal filesystem structures, and then you just lose half your directory tree.
so yeah, get ECC RAM. or if you don't for some reason then when your bulletproof storage system starts reporting filesystem-level corruption 2 years from now, remember this comment and run memtest before spending $100's replacing all the drives, motherboard, etc.
"Oh, in social structures when someone tries to make me do something, I just refuse. I can't keep a job for more than a month. I get by for now by (fill in the blank) but I'm never more than one step away from becoming actually homeless and the background stress from that makes everyone around me think I'm bipolar. Wish I weren't like this."
(fill in the blank) isn't necessarily a euphemism: i've seen more than a couple different answers to that. and of course "one step away from homelessness" does become zero, but also zero becomes one. idk what to say if you can't believe that there are people who have this symptom so bad that they "flunk out" in some way, except to encourage you to venture out of your social circles to the degree you're comfortable with it.
colin @ colin @lemmy.uninsane.org Posts 21Comments 233Joined 2 yr. ago
but what do you do when you run into something?