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Dude can't build cars that don't fall apart when they get wet, and can't build a truck that doesn't fall apart for uh, existing, and we're supposed to let him stick stuff in our brains?

No, thanks, but no.

Who will get them? I'd say the answer is anyone who doesn't feel the need to be sick as fuck for two weeks.

Also anyone with any health issues who lives anywhere with the anti-vaccine MAGA idiots probably should too, since if you don't take care of yourself they sure as fuck won't lift a finger either.

You want a notification if someone replies to a reply to a comment you made, when you're not the one making the reply?

AFAIK, you can't do that: the notifications trigger on replies directly to your comment, and not a reply to a reply.

I mean, a million dollars isn't exactly a McDouble.

I'm sure they wanted more money, but a million dollars is still fuck-you money, especially in jurisdictions that won't extradite you back to the US for the crime you committed in getting it.

The good news is that wouldn't happen!

If someone coming from Earth had a contagious disease, everyone would die on the ship flying to Mars, thus resolving that particular problem!

(/s if it's not abundantly clear)

We can barely function in a biosphere actually specifically attuned to us.

If you've never read up on the Biosphere 2 experiment, you should.

We tried living in a dome on this planet and it rapidly devolved into a low-oxygen roach infested infighting mess.

And people think we're even REMOTELY close to doing it on a planet that's actually deadly outside of the dome? Hah.

To be fair, I blame the phone more than Firefox for the performance, though at the end of the day, it's still slower than Chrome.

I went cheap and low spec (OnePlus Nord N30, because it had a headphone jack AND sdcard) for my last phone replacement and, for 99% of the things I do, it's perfectly fine.

That last 1% is kind of annoying and browsing falls into it.

It's a case where loading a bookmark from the home screen will crash about 1/3rd of the time with Firefox and will routinely take long enough that I'm sitting there annoyed at how long it's taking to load. No specific sites are better/worse, but it's all mostly self-hosted stuff: redlib, Lemmy, PeerTube, Firefish, etc.

It's a case of it being basically instant for Chrome, and 5+ seconds for Firefox - and more like 20-25 in the case of Firefish to actually load all the content - so I'm assuming Google is doing some background pre-loading or something that's causing the discrepancy.

I use Firefox, but the #1 complaint that's made me stop evangelizing it to random people is the endless, endless complaints that it's slow.

And, frankly, it is: Chromium-based browsers perform better a good amount of the time on sites that use too much JS, which is, well, basically everything.

It's better than it used to be, but boy do people care less about free software than they do fast software.

I will admit I dumped Firefox on my android phone and went back to Chrome because, good grief, it was taking nearly twice as long to open and load pages and yeah, my patience doesn't stretch THAT far.

I'm going to be greybeard: you should totally use kvm/qemu, and virt-manager is great for that.

Buuuuuuut, you should also absolutely learn how to use virsh to at least manage (start/stop/delete/deploy) them, because that tooling is guaranteed to exist basically anywhere and fancy gui stuff might not, or your system might be broken in a way preventing you from running a gui app, or whatever.

I promise, the hardest thing in virsh is setting up a bridged network if you need that and the rest of it is waaay simpler than dealing with a gui for deployment.

Congress has the authority to take away the court’s appellate authority in the vast majority of cases

Yeah, in theory, but that'll happen roughly never. Congress is far too focused on decorum, and tradition, and making insider stock trades to enrich themselves to pull their collective heads out of their own asses to pass even basic, simple, required and popular laws never mind spending time to fix other branches of the government.

I don't want to veer into the failed state crackpottiness or anything, but even an actual insurrection invading the capitol didn't get them to do anything so I'm at a substantial loss as to what could possibly motivate congress to you know, legislate.

How much is the buggy armor DLC?

Their metadata DB is still poorly and broken, and uh, it kinda makes the whole app pointless.

You probably want LazyLibrarian until and unless (and it's been literal years now) they fix their shit.

That lawsuit is going to go on for years, so uh, I wouldn't wait.

And, frankly, those kind of suits settle out of court and end up in a licensing deal anyways so there's very little chance that anything important will change tech-wise.

Something like using a LLM to make actually unique side quests in a Skyrim-esque game could be interesting.

The side quest/bounty quest shit in something like Starfield was fucking awful because it was like, 5 of the same damn things. Something capable of making at least unique sounding quests would be a shockingly good use of the tech.

I did a security clearance interview for someone a while ago, and the agent they sent was very polite and the whole conversation ended up being about if my friend pirated media.

I was very confused and had no idea what his media acquisition methods were, and no idea why that was literally the only thing I was asked during the interview.

I keep looking at all this data collection stuff and wonder if I'm actually crazy to be bothered by it, especially given that I'm totally not a privacy extremist.

Maybe I'm one of the people that doesn't feel the need to constantly go back to figure out what I did a week ago or whatever, and thus all I'm seeing is a tool that knows more about me than I do, and then puts all that data in a single place that is now the prime target for every malicious actor on the planet.

So what even is the point of the "thinnest" tv?

Is that 1/8th of an inch somehow going to REALLY make your TV not fit on the mount over your fireplace or something?

Yeah, and Google Stadia had great new games coming and they were totally committed to it until woops, never mind, it's dead.

Google has a hell of a credibility problem at this point.

Er, they had a "misconfiguration" that exposed passwords?

Uh, were they not properly hashing things?

Yikes.

One thing to consider here too is that faster drives are louder, run hotter (and thus need better cooling) and use more power.

For a LOT of home server workloads (streaming media, etc.) a 5400rpm drive is sufficient and you can have a little bit of power savings and less heat and noise as a bonus.

I've kinda become of the opinion that there's bulk media storage, which for most people is going to have incredibly modest performance requirements, and then there's eveything else and should be on a SSD anyways.

....Just avoid SMR if you're doing anything more than media storage.