ExLisper
@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
- Comment on For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why? 1 day ago:
I realized the right is going to win the next elections. Poland was already very conservative. Religion was everywhere, no same sex marriage or civil unions, widespread homophobia, limited access to abortion, complicated divorce process, no living will laws and so on. And from the polls it was clear that not only nothing will change but it will get worse. I moved to one of the most progressive countries in EU (Spain) and for the next 10 years things in Poland did get worse so I was 100% right about that.
Overall I think relocating is complicated. Your values and perspective change over time, places change over time. The grass is always greener on the other side kind of thing. On one hand it’s definitely nice to live in a country I’m not disgusted by. My governments is one of the most vocal supporters of Palestine, progressive policies are passed all the time. Not to mention I prefer the weather, nature, culture and general vibe of the place. The “but” is that future looks pretty bleak everywhere so who knows what will happen in the next 10-20 years. But I guess I can always move back if necessary and having more options is also a good thing.
- Comment on A conundrum 3 days ago:
Not in Europe.
(this is fun. let’s keep doing this forever!)
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 3 days ago:
This all sounds really interesting. Much more interesting then all the celebrity gossip that passes as movie news. I would much rather learn about best boys and location managers then about Angelina’s Jolie new diet. I had a crazy idea about making a podcast about it but I have no idea about making podcasts :D
- Comment on A conundrum 3 days ago:
Read my other comments. I answered this already.
- Comment on A conundrum 3 days ago:
I meant that intentionally defaulting on a mortgage when the property loses value and not paying the debt is not a thing. That’s what we were talking about.
- Comment on A conundrum 3 days ago:
I did.
- Comment on A conundrum 3 days ago:
Obviously, defaulting on mortgages is a thing.
In USA. As I explained in Europe it’s not a thing. Own contribution is a thing in USA and Europe. Therefore, banks don’t require own contribution because of defaults. Q.E.D.
- Comment on A conundrum 3 days ago:
That may work for some minimum wage jobs. No serious company is going to pay you under the counter. At least not in Europe. I’m not even sure what are you suggesting. You clearly don’t know how any of this works in Europe.
- Comment on A conundrum 4 days ago:
I don’t know how this works in US but where I live when you owe bank money they will simply garnish your wages and benefits. No one is defaulting on their mortgage to save money. That’s just not a thing. I personally know people who were paying their mortgages for many many years even though their house was worth way less then the mortgage. You just suck it up and hope the price will eventually go up. If it doesn’t it’s still better then living on the street.
- Comment on A conundrum 4 days ago:
But what you’re saying is simply not true. Where I live you have to provide 20% of equity to get a mortgage but you can’t default when the prices go down. No bank offers mortgage covered in 100% by the house. If you owe the bank $600k you owe then $600k, that’s it. If you default and you’re house now only costs $500k you still owe them $100k.
So the 20% requirement has nothing to do with negative equity protections. It’s to limit the banks exposure in case you’re unable to pay.
- Comment on A conundrum 4 days ago:
You’ll be $50k better off if you just stop paying and let the bank foreclose.
And do what? Live under a bridge? You would still have to buy a new house. Are you going to find similar house at $600k easily? Are interest rates still low despite market collapse? Will banks lend you money if just foreclosed?
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 5 days ago:
Make sure to know which direction the trail is when walking 30 m away from it. People died following this rule. Well, I know of one person that died because of it.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 5 days ago:
He meant to tell animals not to shit less then 30m from the trail.
- Comment on The time has come! 5 days ago:
I get it even less than you
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 6 days ago:
General population was always anti immigrant but the ruling class was smart enough to understand they needed immigration to sustain the growth. What changed is that everyone got so dumb they don’t know what’s in their best interest anymore.
- Comment on Elevator Art 1 week ago:
Is that Banksy?
- Comment on Chirp in Fahrenheit 1 week ago:
Exactly. Quick image search will show you that this is in fact a cricket:
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 1 week ago:
What do you do? I’m super curious about the ‘behind the scenes’ of the movie industry.
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 1 week ago:
I heard people theorize that Sandler has to be an amazing guy and great friend and all the good actors star in his shit movies as a personal favor. I also heard somewhere that at when they finish shooting for the day a boombox automatically appears on the set and it turns into a party.
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 1 week ago:
One of my favorite movie anecdotes is that during some press conference promoting Magnolia someone asked Paul Thomas Anderson what his next movie is going to be and he said “a comedy with Adam Sandler” and everyone laughed. And then he made Punch Drunk Love.
Also, Reign over Me was also pretty good.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
I’m saying that there’s enough laptop providers and enough different factories to maintain supply of unlocked hardware. You don’t have to worry about locked CPU/GPUs, only about locked bootloaders which have a lot of different providers. With mobiles it’s easier to lock because it’s all packed into SOCs and you don’t have as much choice for latest hardware.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
You need way, way better sleep handling. To get decent battery life everything needs to be able to go to sleep really fast but also be able to listen for signals from specific devices like GSM modem and wake up immediately. Without it it’s not really usable. Desktop PCs didn’t have any sleep functionality for a very long time and even now they mostly just disable everything and wait for a button press. Sleep/wake-up cycle can last couple of seconds without issues.
Mobile hardware also has more devices. I don’t have GPS, GSM, accelerometer or finger print reader in my laptop. When Linux was developed they also didn’t have cameras or bluetooth. A lot of this additional devices are not easily available like PC parts and require closed source drivers and firmware.
To make a usable mobile phone you need to figure out all if it at once. You can’t really release a phone without GPS or GSM and expect people to use it as a daily driver. With PC you can leave without the camera or build in WiFi. I remember using USB dongles for WiFi and simply not having a working camera in my Linux laptops and I was fine with it.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
They might add binaries to mainstream kernel that lock you out and who can stop them ?
Who are “they”?
It seams you don’t know how Linux kernel is maintained. Linus is simply releasing the most commonly used versions of it. Nothing stops you from choosing a different one. If someone takes over the main kernel and starts doing weird things distros will simply package another kernel by default.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
Too late to do this for PCs. You already have Linux laptop providers and Linux distros supported by corporations. Most of the components have multiple providers. You will be able to source “unlocked” hardware from somewhere.
The problem with mobile is that the hardware is too complicated for open source projects to handle. Many have tried, all have failed. So far. Hopefully we will finally see something usable come out of projects like PinePhone and PostmarketOS.
- Comment on Have you?!?! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Have you?!?! 1 week ago:
Maria Skłodowska-Curie, yes.
- Comment on If you are paying to use "AI", who are you paying and what are your regular usecases? 2 weeks ago:
Anthropic chat but only because my employer paid for it. I use it for high level technical questions some time. For example I had to manually patch a binary executable and it help me understand it’s structure.
I also have some API tokens for OpenAI, Claude and Perplexity. I’ve build an app that uses LLM models to parse some complex data and I had to test integrations with different API providers.
- Comment on 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics 2 weeks ago:
Glad you liked it. I think the low rating is because the movie is simply too smart for a lot of people. Like it’s actually smart Sci-Fi, not just pretending to be smart like Interstellar.
The same guy also did Open Your Eyes (www.imdb.com/title/tt0125659/) which was remade in US as Vanilla Sky. If you haven’t seen it check out the Spanish original.
- Comment on 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics 2 weeks ago:
www.imdb.com/title/tt4074928/ - I really liked this movie about it. Without spoilers, the idea basically is that to keep getting funding the company has to prove that the technology works. They have to start waking people up and someone has to be first. Decades after you’ve been frozen all your family is long dead so you’re basically company’s property, they can do whatever they want…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Move in with your gf. Moving the gf in could work out fine or could be a disaster. I wouldn’t risk it.
