rolenthedeep

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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
And I'd rather not use YouTube! I want nothing at all to do with google. They quite simply do not deserve my money . How much money has google made on selling my data? What do I get in return? More ads. If I pay google to remove the a
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
I understand, and I empathize. I'm not going to tell you that happy thoughts and a motivational poster will fix you. I will say that once you get past the stage you're in and have the ability to make those big life changes, this p
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
I think it's a pretty pragmatic view. The political system has no interest or even real incentive to fix climate change. Money has corrupted our governments too deeply to alter course in time. There's nothing that you, I, or any i
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
What would happen if you went around to every house in your neighborhood and smashed everyone's printers? Would you be fined 0.01% of the cost of damaged items, or would you go to jail?
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
So they... increased padding on all elements? Is that really what this is? I suppose it could be worse. They could have done what jetbrains just did and replace all the text with meaningless heiroglyphs.
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
There is no good answer. Adderall is a miracle drug for people like us. To get by without, you have two options: incredible discipline and force of will, and overcompensating with other stimulants. Meditate, exercise, do anything it takes t
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
> by that kind of logic people shouldn't make any recurring purchase of anything since in future terms might change. 20 years ago, you'd be right. This argument would be paranoid nonsense. But that's not the world we live
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty okay with sponsored segments. By and large, the people I watch only accept sponsors that appear to be legitimate, and the read is generally "here's this service and what it does, give it a try and thank them
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
I don't want to pay YouTube I'm happy subscribing to creators' patreons or Kofi or whatever because almost all of my money goes to them. Whereas on YouTube, most of my money or ad-generated money goes to Google. YouTube pay
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
If someone offered you $5000 to change the email address you've used on every website for a decade, would you? All of your banking and financial accounts, your phone and utility bills, your doctor. Could you even identify every place y
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
I am the proud owner of my own firstnamelastname.com When I first ventured into web hosting, the domain was dead, but still registered. I did a whois and got Firstname Lastname. Not sure what I expected, really. After some years I randomly
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
I ran my own peertube server for a while. You can configure your server to download and mirror videos from other instances, but (iirc) only if the remote instance allows it, and if it allows your instance to "follow" it. The fact
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
After having been through this crap and now being on the other side of the desk, I've come to the conclusion that this is simply standardized testing for adults, with all of the same myriad problems. It doesn't identify what you&#
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
1. There's no defense against an attacker with physical access 2. The malware you're describing is the main argument against smart TVs. It's installed by the manufacturer, at the factory, and receives regular updates. No thir
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
Just because a problem doesn't affect you personally doesn't mean that it isn't a problem.
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
Did you read the comment you replied to? Because it was a direct response to comments exactly like this one.
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
That is really not how that works. A smart TV is a dumb TV with an extra processor. No matter how you shake it, the smart features are extra hardware added on to the dumb TV. And besides, smart TVs are already much cheaper, because the ma
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
I do Bluetooth hardware for my job. At the scale that TV manufacturers operate at, I would be extremely surprised if Bluetooth cost more than a dollar for them to implement. I operate on the scale of hundreds to thousands of units, and Blue
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
"but what about!" Your question is answered in the comment you replied to
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
"the market" is why we're in this situation. The healthcare cost crisis is simply not a problem that capitalism has any mechanism to address. Capitalism balances supply and demand by modulating prices. When demand is above su
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
"just don't connect it to the internet" is such a typical HN response that completely misses the point. A smart TV with no internet connection is still a smart TV. It still has an entire operating system that needs to load wi
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
Wait, is this new? This is exactly how I'd assumed quantum calculations worked already
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
Shouldn't fear of horrible, gruesome, painful death deter anyone from using their phone in the car ever? People simply don't work like that.
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
I can't decide if replacing names from a gay newspaper with fruit is offensive or hilarious
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
Every coax system in every house I've ever seen (in the US) has been a mishmash of cables and splitters of random length and quality, usually with unterminated branches. That means absolutely horrid performance at RF frequencies. Cable
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
It's certainly an option, but it lacks the flexibility most people have come to expect. Storing your media locally is fine, but you only have it when you're physically at your machine. To go portable you have to manage syncing fil
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
I use Jellyfin, it's about the same thing as Plex, but free. I host it on my homelab along with a half dozen other services, and I can stream any of my media from anywhere. There's even pretty nice third-party clients. I use finam
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
That's a payment to the restaurant, and is counted with the employee's normal pay. Or if you personally hand cash to people it becomes a personal gift. The situation is more analogous to patreon: a centralized service which you ma
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
I'm not an expert, but I'll try to give a friendly explanation. Consider a photon. We're all pretty familiar with how these work. Photons are light, and move at c. Photons also crucially don't have any mass, which is w
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by rolenthedeep 3y ago
I think a lot of it is the opaque way our taxes are collected and used, as well as corruption in government. People get mad about taxes because the government takes 25% of our income and leaves our infrastructure to rot and crumble, continu

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