Dark_Arc

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

I mean, you don’t want a Trump getting in office and then stopping someone from running for president with a bunch of bogus charges. That’s why there aren’t that many ways to completely disqualify someone. It’s a concept that’s proven to be timely as it’s part of how Putin stays in power.

… the presumption is that we should all be smart enough to realize the charges are real and not put the felon in the Whitehouse.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Google makes promises they keep. They might kill stuff off, but they arguably are always fair about it. I was a stadia user, they basically let me do a bunch of gaming and get a bunch of gaming hardware for free in the end.

Nest products have also had a very long lifespan, only the very very earliest hardware that uses nest infrastructure has been killed off. That includes the Wi-Fi products which are supported much longer than the routers of many competitors in that space (e.g. Netgear).

Google A) hasn’t had the market pressure and B) up until recently hasn’t had their own chip, which has made them rely upon Qualcomm … which has been a huge issue for all Android carriers.

Now that Google has their own chips, I would’ve be surprised if even the Pixel 6 and 7 get extended lifetimes.

Not to mention, if they make a promise, they can get sued for breaking it… so if this leaves the rumor mills, and they say “7 years minimum”, I would absolutely take them at their word.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

You can still get ~1000/mo in a decent apartment in an urban area in Ohio.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

I mean, why not? 🤷‍♂️

Everywhere has problems, Ohio gets too much shit for … literally no reason lol

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

I don’t rent anymore, but I have friends in decent places outside of Akron and Columbus paying about $1000. Also $1300 is still better than $1600.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

I don’t know how much of it was really a joke. A lot of people, especially in the Midwest, seemed to really just not like Clinton… they saw both of them as political devils and people were pissed the DNC got in Bernie’s way. It was kind of the perfect storm in swing states.

Biden doesn’t have the “root of all evil, manipulative woman” issue Clinton had, but he really does need to show people that he’s fit and ready for another 4 years and that he’s done great things for this country … because those are the two points the the right are really trying to undermine him with.

Hopefully Trump just doesn’t even get the Republican nomination and someone else is able to shine through in the Republican debate. Trump is basically like “Jeb!” was in 2016, everyone’s just assuming he’s got it by default, but a lot can change, especially in the later debates and as Trump’s legal troubles get worse.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Maybe if godot gets bigger something like that could spew out of its foundation.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Man the thing I hate the most about fortnite is that it killed UT4…

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

You know you made a really interesting point that they marketed to the sellers not the ultimate customers. I hadn’t really picked up on that before, but it does mitigate what should be a healthy dose of competition by altering the target audience a bit.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

I’m pretty sure they have the same refund policy as steam. They also do have a networking system (which I think even has interop with steam – the Bigfoot game tried to use it but it was very unpopular since it required steam gamers to link an epic account but it exists).

Also pretty sure there are cloud saves but less confident on that one.

And yeah, steam streaming and card collecting aren’t really all that important to me in particular, but I get that some people really like them.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Yeah I don’t understand this either. Hillary Clinton is a prime example of someone that changed some stances over the course of decades in politics and people cite that constantly as proof “she’s disengenuous.”

npr.org/…/evolution-or-expediency-clintons-changi…

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Yup. I didn’t even use third party apps, I paid for Reddit premium, etc. I was exactly what they wanted as a customer. However, the way they treated the community beyond the actual decisions they made was unacceptable.

I’d been wanting a mastodon like Reddit for a while anyways, so when lemmy reached a critical mass, I signed up.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

It’s been established that you can’t call backsies on open sourcing your software.

They could make new updates to lemmy proprietary, but what’s out there is already out there.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Yeah I agree and think dismissal of perspectives and even dehumanization of people you disagree with is definitely a big problem right now.

There are even folks that do this and try to prop themselves up as “intellectuals” by citing various “fallacies” – like the straw man fallacy – without knowing what they’re talking about. I’ve only bumped into it a couple of times but it’s annoying when it happens.

You don’t have to agree with a perspective but to refuse to humor a perspective… to even try and understand where that person is at so there’s any hope of building a bridge… that’s deeply problematic.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Yeah, I think if I could get sleep sorted everything else would just fall out

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

I’m sick right now … and I’m just thinking … glad I’m not on that at the same time 😬

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

eSIM. I have Google Fi on an unlocked pixel and it was trivial (read less of a hassle) to use the eSIM.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Sorry 😟

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

I agree with you but also this was all done in a pretty exceptional circumstance and volume… even a “staffed up” govt would’ve struggled.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Wow I hadn’t realized that strike had gone on for almost 6 months

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

TrueNAS isn’t just BSD anymore. There’s Scale which is just TrueNAS’s UI and ZFS on top of Debian.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

TrueNAS Scale is a pretty easy to use option (based on Debian) backed by the excellent ZFS file system.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Eh… TrueNAS UI basically takes care of any zfs learning curve. The main thing I’d note is that RAID 5 & 6 can’t currently be expanded incrementally. So you either need to use mirroring, configure the system upfront to be as big as you expect you’ll need for years to come, or use smaller RAID 5 sets of disk (e.g. create 2 raid 5 volumes with 3 disks each instead of 1 RAID 5 volume with 6 disks).

Not sure what you’re referring to as an easy backup option that zfs excludes, but maybe I’m just ignorant 🙂

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Probably originally was “returns with” or was supposed to be but the editor took it out/didn’t catch that it’s missing.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Gentoo takes a serious commitment if for no other reason than build time. I would not go around recommending it to anyone who isn’t an enthusiast. PopOS to Gentoo is kind of a crazy jump.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Yeah I’m going to echo this. Patience is a good idea on Linux, especially when it comes to proprietary drivers.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Fedora is fine, but you want to use flatpak firefox to get easy hardware accelerated video decoding if you’re on an AMD GPU.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Yeah this is the only todo list app that’s worked for me

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

I mean most games can’t even bother to give colorblind people a slider or a palette of colors to change the red outlines and tints they put on things. That’s a way easier problem to solve than variable sized text in a UI.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Basically AMP is a copy of the website content hosted by Google for a “speedier load” but there are privacy, longevity, and general decentralization concerns with the “protocol.”

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

I mean, the website opts into it (it can’t be done with any website), but otherwise yes.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

I mean, to some degree … yes. Day to day, I do very little math … if it’s trivial I do it in my head if it’s more than a few digits, I just ask a calculator… because I always have one and it’s not going to forget to carry the 1 or w/e.

Long division, I’ve totally forgotten.

Basic algebra, yeah I still use that.

Trig? Nah. Calc? Nah.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Also a software engineer… I look back on my undergrad fondly but was it really that helpful? … nah.

I also put no stock in learning how to learn. If people want to learn something they do, if they don’t, they don’t. Nobody has to go to school to fish, play video games, or be a car guy, but all of those things have crazy high ceilings of knowledge and know how.

If you go into an industry you’re not interested in, it doesn’t matter how well you learned to learn, you’re not going to learn anything more than required. For me, I’m constantly learning things from blogs, debates, and questions I find myself asking both for personal projects and professional projects.

Really all a university is, is a guided study of what’s believed to be the foundational material in a field + study of a number of things that are aimed at increasing awareness across the board; that’s going to be more helpful to some than others.

If you graduate and work in a bunch of Python web code … those fundamentals aren’t really that important. You’re not going to write quick sort of bubble sort, very few people do, you’re going to just call .sort().

You’re also probably not going to care about Big-O, you’re probably just going to notice organically “hey this is really bad and I can rearrange it to cache the results.” A bunch of stuff like that will probably come up that you’ll never even pay any mind to because the size of N is never large enough for it to matter in your application.

… personally I think our education system needs to be redone from the ground up. It creates way more stress than it justifies. The focus should be on teaching people important lessons that they can actually remember into adulthood, not cramming brains with an impossible amount of very specific information under the threat of otherwise living a “subpar” life.

Older societies I think had it right with their story form lessons, songs, etc. They made the important lessons cultural pieces and latched on to techniques that actually help people remember instead of just giving them the information with a technique to remember it and then being surprised when a huge portion of the class can’t remember.

Edit: To make a software metaphor, we’ve in effect decided as a society to use inefficient software learn functions driven by the prefrontal cortex vs making use of much more efficient intrinsics built into the body by millions of years of evolution to facilitate learning. We’re running bubble sort to power our education system.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

I hear this all the time that there’s some profound mathematical concept that I had to go to college to learn … what exactly is that lesson? What math lessons have changed your life specifically?

Also the comment I was replying to was about doing math. Mathematical “concepts” aren’t exactly “doing math.”

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

In what way?

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Yeah most of them seem to have these vague responses that feel cooperate or just … artificial. They use a lot of words to say, very little.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Uh… there’s the Senate majority getting further thinned. Pretty sure this would result in a two party tie if he resigned at least until he could be replaced … and that’s assuming he’s replaced with a Democrat.

That in turn means all kinds of potentially compromised confirmations.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

I wouldn’t quit your day job… the career in stand up doesn’t seem like it’s going places…

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Presumably, he wasn’t challenged in the primaries or name recognition carried him.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Very interesting, though I wonder how much that would’ve actually changed … anything?

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Same I was like “this isn’t the weight tax I was expecting” 😂

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

There was an old Gameboy Harry Potter game I really enjoyed that was basically you performing the major Harry Potter plot points (sneaking around, buying stuff, talking to people). The combat was kind of the Pokemon style turn based thing where each side had a health bar and so many moves. Very neat game.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

I haven’t played many “open world” games, but I think this captures my general feelings for them.

Like, the new 343 Halo Infinite game’s campaign… it just kinda feels like wandering around a big map doing nothing in particular. I couldn’t get into it.

Compare that to what Bungie has been doing recently with Destiny … much more interesting, much less filler/go do this to keep you busy stuff.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

This is a bad take in this case. This graph is of total population, not if signups. It effectively is zeroed.

Sure it’s a very small increase relative to the total but relative to recent history this is very significant.

Edit: the bigger issue from a data interpretation perspective is the date range sampled is small.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Fairphone is targeting 8-10 years with the new model

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Hunters for hunting… yes they do still exist. Speed/target shooters… because they find the sport fun. Police officers… because you’re being stalked(?)

The point isn’t to justify guns more, less, or equal to abortions; they’re not the same thing. What they are is things that different people come to different ways, that have desirable and undesirable characteristics.

The point is we can increase the desirable and decrease the undesirable with small (from a cultural view) changes or we can get nowhere with rage inducing “all or nothing” takes.

Dark_Arc , 10 months ago

Comparing a commodity model to a medical process just undermines whatever point you think you’re trying to make.

This is irrelevant. If it makes the point incomprehensible to you, fair enough… But that doesn’t mean that there’s not a point you’re not getting.