AlecSadler
@AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Bleh. These were gross 6 days ago:
They’re tablets used to highlight plaque / areas missed by brushing. Common tens of years ago in the PNW anyway, haven’t really seen them in 10-15+ years though.
- Comment on Don't stop until you hit the saturation point! 1 week ago:
A store near me sells 6% whole milk and it tastes amazing.
- Comment on MMO players (past and present): what is your attitude towards "forced" group content? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t like it. I play odd hours or very sporadically, sometimes with large gaps, due to life/work. I would prefer the ability to jump in, have fun solo, and bounce.
- Comment on Paris, France 3 weeks ago:
Fuck off.
- Comment on Paris, France 3 weeks ago:
This is amazing.
- Comment on Can we estimate the size of the Internet ? If so, what size would it be (in GB, TB or whatever) ? 3 weeks ago:
My friend works at AWS and has single customers with hundreds to thousands of petabytes.
In whole sum, I think it would be pretty unfathomable.
- Comment on This Is The Ideal Swing Voter. You May Not Like Her. But She's What Democracy Looks Like. 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for realizing. I meet too many people who think “protest” is them voting 3rd party.
I put that on par with people I meet who tip $0 or tip 1 cent to make a point and force owners to pay better.
- Comment on Can you open up an unmanned store in the US and will it stay in business or close down? 1 month ago:
Doubtful, IME Americans lack honor and respect at a significantly higher rate than other countries.
- Comment on Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee 1 month ago:
Do your part, damage the cameras.
- Comment on Costly Disappointment 💸 1 month ago:
Highly recommend trades. Plumbing, electrician, heck, friends friend is an elevator maintenance/repair something and their company has more work than they can keep up with.
Anytime myself or any family member needs an electrician or plumber, they’re backed up for days or weeks or months.
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 2 months ago:
Guns and ammo. Voting isn’t sufficient. Peaceful protest isn’t sufficient unless you can organize a national strike - which won’t happen.
- Comment on currently busy 😅 2 months ago:
Sup
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 2 months ago:
Lead exposure.
Religious indoctrination.
Lack of education.
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 2 months ago:
Appreciate you. You gave me a laugh and it was good!
- Comment on Honey Gets Terminated as Lawsuits Proceed 2 months ago:
Fuck Honey. Burn.
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 2 months ago:
I think you read it inverse
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 3 months ago:
I fully support capped CEO pay.
I fully think large grocery chains are screwing customers.
But having worked at a few smaller grocery stores, the margins are absurdly thin. At one 6ish store semi-local store I worked for we made roughly 3 cents on the dollar. That included various fees and labor, but once you factor in theft and chargebacks and bounced checks and such - it could get even thinner some months.
Granted, I assume the megacorp ones maybe negotiate / strongarm for higher margins? So fuck 'em.
- Comment on The economy is so bad that scam messages went from “you won the lottery” to “remote job available $18/hr” 3 months ago:
Definitely not a fake company, have made a dent in the administrative side of healthcare spaces, but #3 seems plausible.
Another place I worked would do it semi-related to #1 with regards to sponsoring visas - but I never asked too many questions, just in case.
- Comment on The economy is so bad that scam messages went from “you won the lottery” to “remote job available $18/hr” 3 months ago:
I worked for a company where I sometimes tried to refer people to positions posted on our website, only to learn from HR that they weren’t real positions and they were posted to meet some legal requirements I wasn’t given details about.
That same company burned 12 internal employees’ time across 350+ applicants and a countless sea of interviews over a 6 month period. We arrived at consensus. Stated who we’d like to hire and were told the req had been closed the day prior. Was it ever real? We’ll never know. Did we waste well into the six figures of people’s time and energy? 100%.
Same company a few months after laid off entire departments, sunset numerous product lines with paying customers, and last I heard the current owners are just keeping it in hobble along maintenance mode and extracting profits before it crashes. Dumpster fire.
- Comment on Michigan Republicans vote to strip child labor protections 3 months ago:
I fully support children getting violent against those who voted for or support this.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 4 months ago:
Good, America sucks.
- Comment on What's gunna to happen when the American Federal Government starts prosecuting people for owning powerful computer hardware and software? 4 months ago:
Nah, Americans’ are weak. Too busy with social media and shit to do anything. I’ve been trying to recruit people for violent reformation for months now and nobody is interested. Everyone either thinks the next election will fix things or are too afraid to take action.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I agree. I purposely applied magnets to floppies and like…maybe 9/10 had issues but generally it was a non-issue.
Now…filling a floppy disk with shaved off match head dust…
- Comment on It is only a matter of time before private citizens are arrested and charged with crimes for owning/using powerful computer parts and software without official permission and authentication 4 months ago:
It should absolutely worry you, all of it, not sure what your problem is, but wasting my time fighting you is what they want, so I am bowing out.
- Comment on It is only a matter of time before private citizens are arrested and charged with crimes for owning/using powerful computer parts and software without official permission and authentication 4 months ago:
The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer, and whether you participate in it or not will not change that. That all of us will continue to not even have the opportunity to play on a level playing field should concern you. I don’t give a shit about your opinion on AI in general; this is still a problem for us.
- Comment on It is only a matter of time before private citizens are arrested and charged with crimes for owning/using powerful computer parts and software without official permission and authentication 4 months ago:
Part of me thinks this is why memory prices are being held high. Even if supply increases I doubt we’ll see significant reductions in price.
Frontier AI models will only be accessible by the rich and powerful (government and corpos). Distilled frontier models for local use may exist but will be arbitrarily out of reach for most due to hardware availability or pricing.
This is all by design.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 4 months ago:
Yeah sorry Kevin Mitnick. Always supported this type of stuff… I guess I was missing the bridge there.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 4 months ago:
Wait what has he done since?
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 4 months ago:
I got in trouble in school for putting free Kevin stuff on my binders, backpack, etc
Hero? From the stance of exposing things that should have been public knowledge, absolutely.
- Comment on I swear it won't hurt you if you use it for like a second 4 months ago:
I try 3-5 distros every 3-4 months and always end back up on a debloated heavily modified windows.
I don’t like windows, don’t get me wrong. But between driver issues, app issues, some utilities I can’t seem to find a replacement for, and a suboptimal shared remote access approach - I really can’t make things work well enough to not degrade my day to day work productivity.
That said, I do run Linux distros for very specific things at work or my homelab just fine…I just can’t seem to figure out a way to run it as my dedicated personal and/or work machine without making heavy concessions.