Going after the US and falling for one of their provocations are two totally different things. I’m not condoning this in any way, but look at Osama Bin Laden as a case study. With a handfull of people he sent the US spiraling down such that they still haven’t recovered over 20+ years later. He would not have gotten anything like that through conventional means like shooting at planes. The US has become a shell of what it was in 2001, and while it was a horrible act which can’t be condoned, it must have been an incredible success in his eyes, far more so than he had thought possible.

Rambling aside, all I’m saying is you don’t win against the strongest military in the world in a fair fight. Asymmetric warfare means taking your time and thinking outside the box.

I don’t think you really understand the situation. It’s a bully taunting. They want you to take a swing. Your reaction plays right into their hand.

AI is just soooo fucking expensive. Silicon Valley has made burning cash up front a standard practice, but the amount they’re burning is just astronomical. There is going to be a demand for profits, or the path to profits, much sooner than usual.

All the ones I mentioned? It’s not tied to your real identity or IRL friend/social circles.

In your example sure, Lemmy uses the community to vote things up or down to assist in curation, but I don’t look at WHO voted things up or down (I know the data is technically available). And the logins/profiles are random names to me, I don’t know or have relationships with any of these people, so again they are meaningless. This is why it feels like a platform, but not social media. We used web forums and bullitenboards before the word “social media” was coined and we see big differences between tbe two today.

So while I agree Lemmy has social elements, it’s used completely differently then something like Facebook. YouTube has all those elements as well, but I use it to watch infotainment/explainers etc. I have Nebula as well which has none of the social elements and it feels identical because I don’t use any of them.

I guess the difference is are the social elements intregal to the platform, or tacked on and optional, and what kind of weight do they have.

I don’t really consider Lemmy to be social media, nor do I YouTube. I suppose that’s against the norm, but I don’t comment on either too often, and when I do it doesn’t replace conversations with my friends. I also don’t pay attention to people’s usernames (apart from blocking Tankies) or expect to build any relationship. They are just news/current events/video sources.

I don’t deny they have social elements built in, but social media to me was something like Facebook where you had your real name and real friends following you and you posted about yourself anf each others lives. Maybe that’s Social Media and this is Social Media Lite?

I’ve seen a few videos on these and the benifits of european plug design. My only gripe with it is the size. I know it would be a pain because everything is already built for the the current standard, but an updated “micro” plug would be a lot better.

In fact, why doesn’t the whole world collaborate on a new plug design that takes the best from both and combines into a 110/220 auto sensing plug. Sadly i don’t see that happening any time soon. It’s much more likely that USB-C continues to gain ground and becomes the defacto DC power standard for consumers.

I was originally against this because I hate it when language is reconstituted and made murkey, but I looked it up and you’re right.

I’m still not sure this is the same as poison, but it can certainly be harmful so it’s not that big a stretch.

The built in GPU of any sem-modern Intel CPU can do that for you no problem. Probably even the older ones in those corporate computers. Just check for QuickSync support. If you want something seriously low wattage that can still do one or two 4K streams, get one of those mini PCs with an Intel N100 for cheap.

I’ve not had any wear like that on my deck, but I’m not crazy hard on controllers. At worse the whole stick can be pretty easily replaced. The repairability on Valve hardware gets a high priority.

I don’t think you can say there is a “most common” unit for the general public. People probably shop for storage more than they do service providers, so I guess MB?

However I don’t think spelling it makes it any easier. If people aren’t noticing a capital B or a lowercase b, will they notice or understand bytes vs bits when spelled?

I think it’s a case of it just kinda sucks we have similar sounding and spelled words, but the general public is not getting too caught up on it because they’re largely oblivious. So long as manufacturers and sales use the appropriate term on the appropriate product, everything should work out. I’ve never seen a hard drive marketed in bit capacity, so I think this is really a non issue.

Just chalk it up to something you now understand better.

I see what you mean, but what do you propose? The units already exist and they are the industry standard. Should new units of measure be made up just for consumers, or should all numbers but on consumer devices be locked to using only one of them? Who decides what’s consumer packaging and what’s not?

It’s a sticky situation. I think while it may be confusing, the vast majority of people aren’t paying much attention and it’s probably not a big enough deal to do anything about it. The units are most often used correctly as in I can’t imagine an ISP or a router advertising their speeds in Bytes, likewise I don’t see any RAM or storage advertised in bits, so it’s usually an apples to apples comparison anyway.

See that’s where I think you’re still missing it. These are technical terms used by technical people. They were not designed to confuse people, they were designed to clarify the units IT people use in their work.

You might say this is confusing to the general public, and you may be right, but the people making this stuff weren’t thinking about average people at all. The idea these numbers would be plastered all over ISPs and SSDs weren’t even a consideration.

So it’s not bullshit, it’s not designed to confuse, it’s just a technical unit that is not well understood by most people, yet we live in a time when tech-specs are marketed by companies to average people.

Ah, I see the confusion, and it’s understandable. Look for if the “B” is capitalized or not.

Mb, Gb, etc = bits

MB, GB, etc = bytes

Think the larger letter is the larger size.

You’ve actually got that a bit twisted. Not saying the bigger number doesn’t benifit the ISPs, but it actually is the industry standard to use bits per second when measuring throughput. This is because data transfer is a continuous stream, whereas data at rest is chunked so when talking about storage we use bytes. It’s a bit weird but you get used to it.

I don’t think you can compare a park/field to a manicured putting green. You can’t see the ground through the grass. Either way, play it if you like, to each their own.

Lawn darts was a dangerous game to begin with, so I’m not too shaken up about losing it, but I disagree that the bouncing is part of the game. No ground is perfectly even, and you can’t see imperfections from where you throw. It just creates randomness and makes it not worth playing. These aren’t issues in the other examples you cited. My opinion, obviously.

Ah, got it, it’s for VM migrations. That makes a lot more sense.

Can you quickly run me through how USB over IP is helping you out? I get it for devices that are physically distant, but how is the abstraction helping you for reboots? Isn’t it just the server you’re rebooting that talks to the USB device anyway?

So now makers and hobbiest’s just can’t have magnets? Surely that’s an overreaction.

Not sure if you’re aware, but Duracell and probably others coat button batteries in a chemical that tastes bad in order to discourage ingestion.

I see where these regulations are coming from, but we can’t just ban away anything that could be harmful. I just recently bought a bunch of magnets like these for a using in 3D printed models. I don’t have any kids, but I do have pets and so they’re stored away in their own case and not left around. People just need to be responsible. I mean, we don’t ban bleach but you sure as hell shouldn’t drink it!

I was at a company picknic this summer and was watching people trying to play a pitiful version of Lawn Darts. The darts were weighted but would just bounce off the ground and ruin a good shot. Lawn darts, or darts of any kind, simply don’t work as a game when you take the pointy end away. I will say though, that a company outing where there’s people milling about is not a good place to play lawn darts, so I wouldn’t have used the real ones here even if you could.

Proper product packaging, like we use in medicine canisters, and perhaps an extra disclaimer/waiver on purchase is the way to go on these things IMO.