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ShepherdPie ,

When they send the emails at night, it’s called nocturnal emishing. It’s a serious problem that affects thousands of people each night.

ShepherdPie ,

AFAIK this is only required if you apply for financial aid for college.

ShepherdPie ,

This is just like Apple and Samsung removing the charger from the cellphone box and claiming it’s for the environment when in reality it’s because now they can charge you $30+ more to buy one separately that comes in a second box.

Stellantis consistently builds some of the worst cars in the world and have been ignoring electrification for too long. They have a dim future once the Charger/Challenger are gone and this is just a cheap trick to attempt to revise their image.

ShepherdPie ,

Stainless doesn’t really rust out as most of the iron is gone.

ShepherdPie ,

SCHP said the truck was coming off the Nash Street beach access onto the beach when the truck hit the woman.

When the truck hit her or when the cop driving it hit her? I hate this bullshit language is always used to protect the police in articles like this.

ShepherdPie ,

That happened a few hours south in Oregon too. A DEA agent allegedly working with a team doing surveillance fell behind the group so he decided to speed and run stop signs through a residential area in an undercover vehicle. He ran over a woman riding her bike and killed her.

The local police department bent over backwards to stall and cover everything up until word got out. The DEA agent was given qualified immunity by the courts and cannot be held responsible for the crime.

ShepherdPie ,

I guarantee you every single person on that beach had a computer on them without this sort of protection. What equipment do police really need while driving around on a beach? A laptop at most?

ShepherdPie ,

So when you buy a ticket you’re really paying for the olives on the salad, and the flight is just a bonus on the side?

ShepherdPie ,

The spokesperson said that the Tesla was in self-drive mode and **the driver admitted to being on a cellphone at the time of the crash. **

That seems to answer all the questions about this accident.

ShepherdPie ,

They’d never do that to an incumbent candidate.

ShepherdPie ,

Yes these are the same people that tell you that Biden hasn’t gotten anything impactful done because the president really doesn’t have that much power while following that up with claims that Trump would completely end democracy the minute he gets elected. This is a variation of an argument first coined by fascists who claim that their enemy is both weak and all powerful.

ShepherdPie ,

Whose pushing the top dems to be more progressive? If anything it’s thenexact opposite. We essentially have two right wing parties now.

ShepherdPie ,

Or they’ll just hide it like they did with Reagan. Someone at this level isn’t just going to give up that office.

ShepherdPie ,

I think they would have a decent future if they dropped this guy. His personal “brand” used to bring a lot of value and attention but now it’s just an anchor weighing all these companies down.

ShepherdPie ,

Bruh, it’s just basic math.

ShepherdPie ,

Looks like only the S and X still use 18650s. The 3 and Y are using larger 2170 cells and apparently they’re also buying from LG not just Panasonic.

ShepherdPie ,

Sodium batteries are cheaper and less volatile I believe but they’re also much less energy dense meaning you need a heavier pack to get a similar amount of range (which also reduces range from the extra weight). I think they’re better suited for stationary applications like solar banks and other energy storage solutions.

ShepherdPie ,

Imagine being in that line of work and having to tell people you’re a “snake oil salesman.”

ShepherdPie ,

Yes, burying their heads in the sand and downvoting any legitimate criticism of our out-of-touch politicians is sure to make the problem go away.

ShepherdPie ,

Well that’ll never happen… because they have a 6-3 majority so it’ll be a 6-3 ruling.

ShepherdPie ,

Better there than in your lungs.

ShepherdPie ,

You’re still paying the money either way. Buying from the manufacturer typically means paying a much lower price.

BREAKING NEWS: EU Commission announces preliminary tariffs up to 38% on Chinese EVs (www.euractiv.com)

The EU will impose additional tariffs of 17.4% to 38.1% on electric cars produced in China, the European Commission announced on Wednesday (12 June), as preliminary results from its anti-subsidy investigation confirmed prices are being distorted by Chinese state support....

ShepherdPie ,

They’re comparing against the price of an ICE engine and the fact that they don’t contain one to offset the cost.

ShepherdPie ,

A motor basically consists of copper wire and magnets neither of which are expensive materials.

ShepherdPie ,

Yes with hundreds or thousands of parts that all need to be cast or machined to tolerances as tight as a few thousandths of an inch. Electric motors just need copper wire wrapped around in circles and a shaft with magnets attached to it. It’s very basic. I get that you want to be right but you’re not going to win the argument that electric motors are more expensive or costly to produce than an internal combustion engine.

ShepherdPie ,

How do centrifugal forces determine which seat you’re sitting in inside of a car? Everyone in the car is going to be experiencing the same forces.

ShepherdPie ,

I actually don’t. Can you describe how sitting in a vehicle driving forward mimics the force of a record spinning in a circle?

ShepherdPie ,

How about their usage here which is:

alleged “assault”

ShepherdPie ,

You don’t need to expose radarr/sonarr to the internet. Only your torrent client needs external access which would be routed through a VPN that offers port forwarding like AirVPN.

For hardware, I’m a big proponent of DIY. A NAS is very expensive and limiting since it has a fixed amount of bays. It’s much more econonomial to buy a case that can hold a ton of drives like the Fractal Design Define series and then run your own hardware. I’d suggest 32GB of RAM, a modern i5 CPU with QuickSync (for Jellyfin), and a motherboard that has as many SATA ports as you can get. Check PCPartPicker to compare features and prices.

To run everything, you might look into using Proxmox and then running all your stuff off that in VMs or containers.

I’d probably keep PiHole separate since you only need a RPi3 and you don’t want your whole network to go down if you restart the server. The rest can be run off the server.

ShepherdPie ,

Jake from State Farm?

ShepherdPie ,

That began in 2020 for them.

ShepherdPie ,

I have a couple and they are great machines but don’t completely fill the space for the Pi which works great in embedded systems along with having so many accessories, hats, etc.

ShepherdPie ,

They did spend the last few years screwing over any customer that wasn’t some giant corporation on a product that was originally created as a low cost tool for educational purposes.

ShepherdPie ,

During covid they essentially stopped selling to people and only sold to corporations with big orders which caused ridiculous scalping whenever a measly batch dropped for consumers. It wasn’t until around the end of last year that people were able to buy them at regular prices again.

Help for getting started with hardware

I dived into the selfhosting rabbit hole once again and again I am stuck at the hardware part. I’d like to start small-ish to make it realisable. I thought about a NAS (Openmediavault probably). First I wanted to do it on a Raspberry Pi with an external hard-drive but then I read USB connected drives are unreliable and so on....

ShepherdPie ,

Maybe it’s best if I just hook up some USB drives to my Pi and get my hands dirty with that. If the performance is not too bad (like you said).

Just do this and grow as you learn. If you buy WD Easystore/Elements/MyBook external drives, they can be very easily removed from their enclosures later and installed internally.

The only caveat here is that a Pi is going to be terrible for Jellyfin unless you only download media that is 100% compatible with the devices you’re watching it on. If any transcoding is needed, the Pi won’t keep up. A NUC or Optiplex Micro might work better here as they both have full-fledged PC hardware and aren’t too much more than a Pi.

ShepherdPie ,

The Define series of cases from Fractal are also an excellent option. I have 9 HDD and a 5.25" optical drive in mine (Define R6) with room to spare and the whole thing is silent.

ShepherdPie ,

I’m not sure as I’ve always stuck to WD drives. You should be able to Google the model + “shuck” and see if anyone else has done it. I know certain models either solder the controller to the drive or add it internally so that there’s no standard SATA port.

The larger clients should work the same as the micro sized ones, but don’t expect to get much more use out of them than maybe being able to store a drive internally as they’re typically full of proprietary connectors and stripped down motherboards. I’d only bother with one if you can buy it cheaper than one of the micro sized options like the Optiplex 3050

ShepherdPie ,

No he didn’t. We’re still under the tax rates Trump set in 2018 that dropped corporate tax rates to 21% and increased rates for lower and middle class individuals.

…wikipedia.org/…/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_Stat…

ShepherdPie ,

Seems that’s the only direction they go since all their wealthy donors prefer it that way which is why we keep getting status quo “business as usual” candidates like Clinton and Biden getting all the party support, while progressive candidates get sidelined, get excluded from debates, get zero media coverage, get treated like lunatics, etc.

If you think voters are “getting what they want” then you haven’t been paying attention to politics in this country.

ShepherdPie ,

While the new taxes are “generally not positive for stocks,” the 15% corporate minimum tax won’t be “material,” Wells Fargo analysts wrote in an Aug. 9 research note that called the new taxes “modest.”

Just over 170 companies in the S&P 500 paid less than 15% in taxes last year, according to a new analysis by Credit Suisse. Of those corporations, less than half would likely see a tax hike for 2023 since the legislation allows companies to use adjusted earnings, which can be massaged in a number of ways, the analysis found.

So a very modest increase for roughly 80 companies. Really groundbreaking stuff here.

cnbc.com/…/bidens-new-corporate-tax-hike-wont-be-…

In passing the bill, they also stripped out universal child care and tax cuts for the middle class. Business as usual it seems. Lots of money for energy companies and health insurance companies and nothing for the working person.

ShepherdPie ,

So which is it? Other people are saying that if Trump gets reelected, democracy will end instantly.

Seems like “things take time” only when neoliberal Democrats get criticized for their shitty policy.

ShepherdPie ,

Don’t forget the blind support for the Democratic party. They haven’t done much to fix things or even stall Republicans, but if we just reward them some more then they’ll start acting in our best interests.

ShepherdPie ,

Scalia died almost a full year before Obama left office. That was his appointment, but the Dems didn’t bother putting up a fight because they were convinced Clinton would be the next president and wanted to focus on the election. Then in freaking late October 2020, days before the election, they once again allowed another Trump appointment without putting up any sort of fight or stall tactic because they didn’t want to rock the boat before the election.

ShepherdPie ,

Yes, I remember it along with every other American alive. There is zero chance they’ll allow that to be repeated again just like a 9/11 will never happen again because people no longer think a hijacking means being flown to some other country for ransom.

Our institutions are being damaged by the leadership from both these parties. I’m so sick of hearing excuses for why things can’t improve meanwhile Republicans seem to face little opposition in passing their shitty agenda while also not holding a majority.

ShepherdPie ,

It takes fuck all effort to block things. The GOP can do that with control of only one of the 3 (house, senate, presidency). Which they’ve had for 20 of the last 24 years.

That goes both ways, and yet we’ve seen Republicans pass all kinds of vile legislation in that time. If “it takes fuck all effort to block things” then why aren’t Democrats doing that too?

ShepherdPie ,

This is projected to bring in up to $30B per year. The current deficit for the year is already at $855B and projected to hit $1.6T. Hardly a drop in the bucket.

I won’t argue that it’s bad these corporations are now paying at least a little bit in taxes, but this is pretty pathetic for some ‘landmark’ legislation.

ShepherdPie ,

Your own link from earlier has this right in the header’s bullet points in reference to the bill that was actually signed into law not an analysis of a proposal from a year and a half prior:

The more than $430 billion package is expected to reduce the deficit by more than $300 billion over a decade.

The wealthy haven’t had their taxes increased so I don’t know where this $4T is supposed to come from unless IRS audits are going to find $4T worth of unpaid revenue.

ShepherdPie ,

Neither did you, apparently, since that link is two years old and says this $4T is a combination of revenue from Biden’s BBB plan and tax increases on wealthy individuals, two things that never actually happened. BBB was spun off into the IRA which we already discussed above. Furthermore, even if these things had passed, you’re double dipping on these numbers and counting things twice to come out with the figures that you’re claiming in your previous post.

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