linearchaos , 29 minutes ago

If it doesn’t I will make something that records the entire f****** stream and removes the commercials out of it the old fashioned way If I have to. Not my first rodeo.

linearchaos , 25 minutes ago

Wait, what frequency sets off the…

BOOM

BAOFENG transmits on all frequencies, it’s just louder on the ones they intend

linearchaos , 11 hours ago

They probably shop at Aldi.

linearchaos , 11 hours ago

Hell I’d settle for 28. Wonder how many of them are paying closer to zero.

linearchaos , 11 hours ago

Cell phones get a surprising amount of viable service on flights. If you don’t turn your cell radio off you can absolutely get text messages.

linearchaos , 12 hours ago

If they would have had two working brain cells they would have made it opt in and made a contest told them that one lucky person will win $10,000.

linearchaos , 12 hours ago

We probably need to have some kind of business that links up people looking for ads with in video monetization. Of course sponsor block Will negate that to some decent extent.

linearchaos , 1 day ago

Don’t worry, they’re just dropping off some people to help with the election count.

linearchaos , 7 hours ago

Saying the internet was better is a haze of nostalgia, a gross underappreciation of new technologies, and a smattering of truth.

Over 38% of the stuff I flush down the toilet is gone forever, too, and that’s ok.

The early Internet was interesting only because it was new and different. Most of the stuff out there was low-quality stuff just for funsies projects. The barrier to entry is still very low. Anyone who wants to put up a website with whatever they’re interested in requires no technical expertise and isn’t even expensive. But you don’t see a lot of that because it’s not new or exciting and few people are going to waste their time on it. On the upside, you can now throw up your own federated content system with relatively little work and have a huge community for very very little. Things are gone chiefly because they weren’t worth saving. Sure, there are exceptions like DPReview, but they even got a reprieve because they were worth keeping.

Before the advent of filter bubbles, the internet was a creative playground where people explored different ideas, discussed varying perspectives, and collaborated with individuals from “outgroups” – those outside their social circles who may hold opposing views.

And how did anyone find those varying perspectives? Everything was unindexed, even search engines were crap. Fark, Digg and Slashdot, link aggregators and forums are the same as they’ve always been. Are the majority of those conversations gone? Sure, but you can find another 25,000 of them on Reddit, x, Instagram, and Lemmy, and when those are gone, some other service will replace them.

If people are moving to algo-driven social media, it’s because they perceive it as advantageous to them. I found the algo ate too much of my time and moved back to diverse and static youtube clients.

linearchaos , 2 days ago

It will perform a little better than a cell phone sharing internet if your signal is marginal. I’ve never really liked cellular based internet for home, but if it’s all you have…

linearchaos , 2 days ago

The entire entertainment industry is floundering. Wages lagging inflation in many sectors, people are paying significantly more to eat. They’re going to cut back on the streaming services and they’re going to cut back on going out to the movies. I’m right here at these crossroads where the only thing that makes sense is to give people a little more value for the money, instead we’re going to pull every fast trick we can to make more in advertising and gambling.

linearchaos , 3 days ago

I seriously doubt that. I didn’t read the law but

Mmhmmm

linearchaos , 3 days ago

New round of Russian funding

linearchaos , 3 days ago

I don’t think we do a very good job of handling vehicle delinquency.

If you don’t pay for your vehicle it’s down to the company that you owe the money to to get it back. If you don’t pay them, and you don’t get caught, there’s almost no downside for you. If it was a jailable offense it would happen a lot less often we would be able to remove the entire repo industry.

linearchaos , 13 hours ago (edited 8 hours ago)

You assholes love to put words in people’s mouths.

Prison is a f****** overshot in any range of the imagination.

What’s better threaten somebody with jail so they surrender their vehicle in peace or hire a bounty hunter to go and f****** steal it from them? The idea of a repo man is just absolute bullshit and you all know it. You already can’t take someone’s primary residence so they’re already on the f****** hook for repossession of non essentials only. I’m just abdicating that it’s better to use a warrant than it is to use some unqualified racist asshole that bought a used tow truck.

Bounty hunters have no place in society.

linearchaos , 13 hours ago

Did I say prison? Because I’m pretty fucking sure I didn’t say prison.

We don’t need bounty hunters in society. Using a bounty hunter to recover someone’s property who didn’t pay for it is the worst, well second worst outcome.

Right now there is no straightforward repercussion for it. If you sign up for a loan to buy a car you sign up for an agreement to pay a bank. A car is not a primary possession they are allowed to recover their product. They are allowed to hire some lowlife who can afford a tow truck to come and try to steal it from you. We’re just begging for people to shoot people.

How about the company who owns the truck gets a warrant to recover the truck, you hand over the truck, or you go to jail to await trial and post bail if you can. There’s simply no freaking way you can say that that’s better than hiring a bounty hunter to come and steal your shit.

linearchaos , 4 days ago

Screw that You’re all great everybody from slackware to steam deck.

linearchaos , 4 days ago

eBay reports income. Try marketplace and list items as ask for price.

linearchaos , 4 days ago

Thank you for the extra knowledge there most helpful!

linearchaos , 4 days ago

One possible cause of the infections is that the devices are running outdated versions that are vulnerable to exploits that remotely execute malicious code on them. Versions 7.1, 10.1, and 12.1, for example, were released in 2016, 2019, and 2022, respectively. What’s more, Doctor Web said it’s not unusual for budget device manufacturers to install older OS versions in streaming boxes and make them appear more attractive by passing them off as more up-to-date models.

I mean there’s knowing and there’s being certain. This seems quite likely.

linearchaos , 4 days ago

I suspect you would dump the heat into the Moon itself. You wouldn’t need that much power up there.

linearchaos , 4 days ago

I want a working search engine. I want something to review my writing and suggest changes. I want high quality noise cancellation and background removal. I want high quality speech to text and text to speech.

These are the things I want from AI I don’t really want something training my every want and whim to provide me better ads. But the stuff I listed in the first paragraph here is really advantageous to most people I believe.

linearchaos , 4 days ago

So I have never experienced it at all. But my wife, at least once a week will mention something random and get an ad for it. If it were just purely confirmation bias I should be seeing the same biases.

The last one last week she mentioned checking out a certain store 10 minutes later she got around to searching for it. Google auto completed “where can I” with find (whatever store she was looking for) It was the first time she had typed it in and it was dead on what we had been talking about.

It’s definitely not everyone and everything every time but it happens in awful lot for coincidence.

linearchaos , 5 days ago

This by far was what I hated most about Reddit. Oh look a sub where I can finally get a good answer to that question…

Blocked, go take it to tip of my tongue. But they’re not about crowdsourcing… no

linearchaos , 4 days ago

Yeah they witch hunt you pretty bad about using docker in Enterprise

linearchaos , 4 days ago

It doesn’t make the point any less valid. I would pay for better transcoding performance in jf if it were an option.

linearchaos , 4 days ago

For the sake of not being trapped by Plex I could deal with all the other problems everyone’s listed here.

But asking my friends and family to either use tailscale or for me to leave that open highly complicated open source project dangling out there on an open port…

linearchaos , 4 days ago

My problems are less about speed and more about compatibility. I have Plex and jelly thing set up next to each other as containers on the same media database. There’s quite a number of videos that play on Plex that will not play on jellyfin. It could be problems between the two clients.

linearchaos , 4 days ago

They’re mostly just using FFmpeg behind the scenes, which is exactly how Plex did it to start with. Plex spent a long time working on hardware acceleration, it’s hard to tell exactly what they’re doing at this point but it’s safe to say they spend a hell of a lot of time on it so I doubt they’re just using FFmpeg for hardware acceleration anymore.

linearchaos , 4 days ago

I mean it’s not entirely impossible, FFmpeg has also pushed to improve themselves over the years.

linearchaos , 5 days ago

I suspect he vastly underestimated the scope of the job.

Shopkeeper: Oh, hello Thomas, back already? How was that blender? Not big enough you say? Well how big do you need? A whole large coconut you say?

linearchaos , 5 days ago

Bones, tendons, cartilage those blades would probably be toast after about 30 minutes. The article also mentioned chemical so I’m assuming he tried to do some form of chemical treatment but it wasn’t moving along fast enough.

linearchaos , 6 days ago

Had a little spark of glee looking at a fellow nix user in the wild

Defined in /nix/store/vicfr

linearchaos , 6 days ago

ut never called it that. And I mostly would background or foreground tasks. I didn’t

yeah I had no idea about disown, Jesus the number of times I could have used that, I might have never learned tmux or screen :)

linearchaos , 5 days ago

Yeah between the forced binding arbitration and their claims to wanting to start pre-roll ads, Roku is dead to me, I will never buy another device from them nor recommend them to anyone.

linearchaos , 6 days ago

Maybe an electrode with a lot of age on it was nearly burned up and one more flip on managed to blast a little clean spot on it.

Maybe you had a short in your ballast that got hot enough to change material properties a little and not become a short anymore.

Maybe your ballast was loose and had an open line and it just managed to wiggle enough to work again.

Maybe your ballast is partially shorted and ineffective at certain voltages and your temperature in the room is now cold enough to work with a lower potential ballast.

Maybe you had a shorted cap that leaked and then burned itself the rest of the way out and is now open.

linearchaos , 6 days ago

Go look at YouTube videos about thermostatic radiator valves. You can replace the head pretty easily.

linearchaos , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Yes this meme is dated. You can run proprietary stuff in bookworm with just a couple of check boxes.

linearchaos , 6 days ago

Yeah you can’t tell anybody on this site that you pulled some data from AI. Even if you followed the link and found the actual report and the numbers matched up you’ll still get down voted into oblivion.

The mass layoffs are definitely pure greed. At one point they served a purpose of ebb and flow and separating the wheat from the chaff, but things aren’t that healthy anymore.

Crunch time was great when it came with the bonuses and liberal vacation.

But now, anything that’s worth a damn gets bought up into large public companies who need to satisfy shareholders. Even the private stuff is still subject to the whims of the executives. There are still some good places to land out there but they’re slowly getting trashed over time.

linearchaos , 6 days ago

Ehh, still mostly beats the hell out of working enterprise health insurance. At least game developer unions are slowly becoming a thing.

linearchaos , 7 days ago

I have 8 years to prepare to mine Bitcoin.

Also I can start making a name for myself as a prophet

linearchaos , 6 days ago

How about I just open a pizza shop near where it all started and take Bitcoin?

linearchaos , 7 days ago

I played heavily back in the day I don’t think the money was ever really the problem It was the time. When I finally settled down and had a family I had to stop. $15 a month for service and $50 every 2 years for DLC isn’t really all that much money If you consider 60 hours a week of entertainment for that price a deal. If you are that close to the edge you’re going to be on the edge anyway.

linearchaos , 7 days ago

I’d like to think that people pretty much know this. Then again warning labels and cigarettes apparently make a difference so why not…

linearchaos , 7 days ago

People will pay more money for premium.

But yeah environmentally this is a damn good idea. We should make everything out of metal.

linearchaos , 7 days ago

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered a distant galaxy, JADES-GS-z13-1-LA, that emits a type of light called the Lyman-α emission line. This light is usually blocked by the intergalactic medium (the space between galaxies) and has never been seen from a galaxy this early in the universe’s history, just 326 million years after the Big Bang

This discovery is puzzling because it challenges our understanding of how light travels through space and how early galaxies formed. Scientists are now trying to figure out why this galaxy’s light isn’t blocked like others.

We’re essentially seeing hydrogen in a galaxy that is technically too young to have it.

linearchaos , 7 days ago

Not all ads are like that. I work for a small company that needs targeted advertising, we don’t spend for a couple of months out of the year when things just become insanely expensive I’m trying to rely on organics. It’s a significant drop when you turn off that UA spend. For advertising budget pays for itself many times over

linearchaos , 7 days ago

We really need limits on how much advertising can be on the screen and places you can advertise and how often you can be advertised to that would make a hell of a lot of sense. When you have shitty web pages like an index card sized recipe drawn out to 15 pages long to make you click through tons of ads. The advertiser should be able to detect people doing that s*** and not pay them.

But targeted advertising is also a single ad on a social media site for a brew pub or a florist in your neighborhood advertising a mother’s Day special or a new cheap arrangement they just made out of an accidental over-order.

When ads go wrong they really go wrong.