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Iceblade02 OP , (edited )

Oh undoubtedly!

Hopefully my partitioning was decent though, so distro-hopping shouldn’t be too hard if I feel like switching (or even running different distros side-by-side?)

I was personally drawn to it because: it’s not Ubuntu; ButterFS seems like a nice safety net; KDE Plasma is sexy AF; noone seems to have anything particularly horrible to say about it.

Why is your chosen distro (obviously) the superior choice?

Iceblade02 OP ,

Thanks! Next step is getting equivalents for all the software I use and figuring out proton.

Most of them (thankfully) are foss, but I’ve a few without equivalents.

Iceblade02 OP ,

But b-tree file system sounds way less fun!

It’s already cemented itself as butterfly system in my mind lol

Iceblade02 ,

I just remind myself that I’d rather be lonely than together with certain people.

Iceblade02 ,

Thing is outsiders are much more likely to stir things up than local students - at least in my experience. This applies to parties and other events as well, not just protests.

Iceblade02 ,

On the one hand, I sympathize - on the other, it’d be awesome to find someone who shares my interests.

Iceblade02 ,

I literally own a bit of stock in the most nuclear-power-related company in my country - so yes.

Iceblade02 ,

So the house is in the Katamon neighborhood (West Jerusalem), which is within the internationally recognized borders of Israel, and has been since 1948.

Also, Hasan Karmi died at the ripe old age of 101, fifteen years ago.

In other words, this is not news and reads very much like an opinion piece designed to make people angry.

There are plenty of things to actually be aggravated about, so can we please not post irrelevant not-news ragebait to a community titled “World News”?

Iceblade02 ,

Yeah, getting rid of malaria in large parts of the world was one of the great successes of the 1900’s, and a large reason for that was the drainage of wetlands. Part of the reason I personally cannot at all sympathize with folks who want to restore the wetlands. Particularly with the world heating up, it’s likely to result in a surge of mosquito-borne disease.

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Iceblade02 ,

I fundamentally disagree. Our mastery over nature is what allows us to even care about such esoteric things. As a humanist, I consider climate change a problem because it poses a threat to humans, much like mosquitoes do.

Iceblade02 ,

Hi!

I’m the Swede with a CC, right here :)

Now you’ve heard of someone using one (mwahahaha)

In all fairness, it’s not exactly something people talk about - and for the record, I’ve never ended up paying any interest on the card. It’s just convenient, offering a layer of protection for charges, makes it easier for me to track spendings, and allows me to be earning interest on my paycheck by keeping it in a savings account until I need to balance the CC.

Iceblade02 ,

Naw, the issue is more with corruption creeping into the public system. Swedish society used to have a high degree of trust within the system due to a rather homogenous culture and relatively short social hierarchy, and as such structures of enforcement were rather unneccessary.

It’s become a lot more pressured as time goes on though, inefficiencies, abuse of public funds, straight up corruption which has created huge hole in the public purse - in addition to a sharp rise in organized crime and tax evasion among small businesses such as restaurants and shops.

Iceblade02 ,

Just so you know, the ash particles in soot from coal power plants, regularly spewn into the atmosphere and stored in open-air dumps represents a far more real radioactive danger than nuclear waste does.

Iceblade02 ,

Made me think of this video by darkmatter2525 (beware, it’s kindof offensive, but also funny)

youtu.be/KYV7KWQ-fY4

Iceblade02 ,

Damn, that’s like a 6% power factor. How does it compare to your power consumption during the same period?

If they charge by the image, and there is any expectation that AI image-generators might produce garbage results, then AI providers are incentivized to make you pay for their experimentation

without you ever knowing about it, as well as (perhaps) swapping in a cheaper-to-operate model some percentage of the time, perhaps as request loads peak, hoping you’ll just roll the dice and try again.

Iceblade02 ,

Yep, I’ve a mobile 3070 in my laptop, and whilst I feasibly could run some of the smallest models around, paying on a per-use basis gets me way better quality results for relatively cheaply.

Besides, running it locally isn’t free either. Your hardware deprecates and depreciates over time, in addition to non-negligible power costs.

Iceblade02 ,

Part of maintaining a free market is regulations that punish anti-competitive behaviour.

Israeli Weapon Damaged Iranian Air Defenses Without Being Detected, Officials Say (www.nytimes.com)

“The two Iranian officials said the weapon had struck an S-300 antiaircraft system at a military base in the nearby province of Isfahan. The officials’ account is supported by satellite imagery analyzed by The New York Times, which showed damage to the radar of an S-300 system at the Eighth Shekari Air Base in Isfahan.”...

Iceblade02 ,

Because Iraq, by not preventing Iranian military action in their airspace implicitly has made it part of the war zone - same way Lebanon & Syria allowing Hezbollah to use their territories for military action has made their territories part of the war zone.

Iceblade02 ,

Yep, doing that drive in that time would essentially require at least two people taking shifts driving - or one dangerous madman on some kind of drugs.

Iceblade02 ,

Right… because antagonizing and harming people is such a great way to convince them to help you.

Iceblade02 ,

Ah yes, the way to bring about peace and stop them killing each other is… more death? Do you even hear yourself?

Iceblade02 ,

I would’ve been fine paying if the price reflected what I was actually paying for (not being advertised to) which would be <$0.005 per viewed video (let’s be generous and call it 1 or 2$/mo) but noo they have to ask for 25$/month like greedy little shits.

Iceblade02 ,

Iirc there was some danish bank IT guy who stole every unit of currency smaller than 10^-4 in his banks transactions. Pretty neat until he got caught

Iceblade02 ,

It’s a story I heard from my dad a few years ago, tried looking it up now, but… well this is the best I found:

www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-salami-technique/

…stackexchange.com/…/has-a-programmer-ever-embezz…

Iceblade02 ,

“So how did they end up being defeated?”

“Well, we pacified them by giving them the love and affection that they refused to give each other.”

“Wait really?”

“Yes, the majority were so starved for an emotional connection that they preferred us.”

“Where are they now?”

“The majority are withering away in VR warehouses, living ‘happily ever after’.”

Iceblade02 ,

Would you care to elaborate on this, and preferrably add sources for your statements (or pm me) so I can read further?

is that “biological sex” is just not actually a particularly meaningful concept.

It’s “meaningfulness” is secondary - it is most certainly a highly useful concept in the science and practice of biology and medicine.

Iceblade02 ,

Frankly I dislike this comment. We all agree that Putin and the kleptochratic Russian regime needs to go away, but can we please not cheer on hundreds of thousands of young men going to be killed?

Not only are they human beings too (and given Russian conscription methods quite literally stuck between a rock and a hard place), but also mean Ukranian soldiers being further traumatised, both physically and mentally.

Iceblade02 ,

Do you call camping in a campground a “family vacation” ?

I would…

Sure, we never had the latest and greatest, fixed stuff ourselves and such, but we lived in a home that my parents owned and never really wanted for anything. That, to me, feels like a middle-class upbringing, and is what I’d like to be able to provide my own kids when I have them. However, right now the prospect of owning my own home seems increasingly far-fetched.

Iceblade02 ,

*Hate to be nitpicky, but a lot of assumptions go into a “$/kW” LCOE. Your effective costs for the solar + battery are going to be very different in different parts of the world depending on factors such as seasons, land value & labour.

Also not a lot of nuclear is being built atm anywhere unfortunately.

Iceblade02 ,

From an environmentalist perspective, this is fantastic, as virtually all of this renewable generation represents offset coal and gas peaker plant generation.

Aren’t prices swinging rapidly between negatives and high peaks a sign of volatility, where specifically fossil gas peaker plants flourish? (Since we have a notable absence of proper grid-level storage)

Iceblade02 ,

Now make “Guffaw for Guys” lol

Quick video demonstrating that lemmy.world sends every activity out twice (i.imgur.com)

I realise this is a known issue and that lemmy.world isn’t the only instance that does this. Also, I’m aware that there are other things affecting federation. But I’m seeing some things not federate, and can’t help thinking that things would be going smoother if all the output from the biggest lemmy instance wasn’t 50%...

Iceblade02 ,

You can still make a bug report, so that somebody with the actual means can look into it. If every action is duplicated that’d be pretty severe, if not, well it’ll be closed.

Iceblade02 ,

Idk, it’s FOSS, so you could always try, but just complaining and hoping somebody picks up on it probably also works. I don’t judge :)

Iceblade02 ,

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Iceblade02 ,

Just like there are many brands of far right (nazis, religious fanatic), there are many brands of far-left - anarcho-socialists, communists etc.

Iceblade02 ,

No. There’s a spectrum of both communism and anarchism, their intersection tends to be known as anarcho-communism. An example of non-anarchist communism is vanguardist communism, which is inherently authoritarian (and anti-anarchist).

Iceblade02 ,

So? That doesn’t automatically make communists into anarchists (nor vice-versa for that matter).

Iceblade02 ,

Well, I think we’re at an impasse, let’s agree to disagree and leave it at that. Hope you have a decent day, fellow Lemming :)

Iceblade02 , (edited )

So in essence, they aren’t be allowed to charge extra if the customer is intolerant? Isn’t there basic milk w/o lactose for that though? Or just serve it without milk?

Iceblade02 ,

I suspect that the real “extra cost” comes from having the slight amount of extra space it takes to stock the non-milk, ship it, handle it and the extra time it takes the employee at the counter to make a different drink.

Not saying they can’t just “eat the costs”, but companies never do that. Everything is accounted for and has the 10%+taxes profit margin slapped on top.

If the usage of non-milk would increase, I bet prices would come down in coffee shops as well.

Iceblade02 ,

Sounds fine to me.

I also dislike listening to my own voice, so you’re not alone in that :)

Iceblade02 ,

Had the same thing for a long time. Took me years to rehabilitate myself.

Iceblade02 ,

I didn’t know that, sounds incredibly dystopian tbh. Guess I’ll have to keep my dinosaur of a car running as long as possible.

Iceblade02 OP ,

I did pirate the game, and then it was so utterly awesome that I went and bought it shortly after they patched in the epilogues.

One of the reasons I have the steam achievement for finishing the game, but not the one for finishing the tutorial xD

Rethinking Moderation: A Call for Trust Level Systems in the Fediverse

The current state of moderation across various online communities, especially on platforms like Reddit, has been a topic of much debate and dissatisfaction. Users have voiced concerns over issues such as moderator rudeness, abuse, bias, and a failure to adhere to their own guidelines. Moreover, many communities suffer from a...

Iceblade02 ,

On a basic level, the idea of certain sandboxing, i.e image and link posting restrictions along with rate limits for new accounts and new instances is probably a good idea.

However, I do not think “super users” are a particularly good idea. I see it as preferrable that instances and communities handle their own moderation with the help of user reports - and some simple degree of automation.

An engaged user can already contribute to their community by joining the moderation team, and the mod view has made it significantly easier to have an overview of many smaller communities.

Iceblade02 ,

People said the same thing when BEVs were coming out. Personally, I think the main hidden benefits of hydrogen isn’t fast refueling and range, but rather weight and ease of storage.

Hydrogen may be the solution to enable mass adoption of variable renewable power plants, allowing relatively cheap energy storage between seasons. Doesn’t matter if you only get 50% efficiency if you can produce it when electricity is dirt cheap and then store it nigh indefinitely.

As for the weight - the real money in vehicles is in the commercial sector, where weight is precious. Any weight lugging around batteries is dead weight - and hydrogen means less weight than lithium batteries.

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