AlecSadler
@AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Can you open up an unmanned store in the US and will it stay in business or close down? 3 days 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 week ago:
Do your part, damage the cameras.
- Comment on Costly Disappointment 💸 1 week 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? 3 weeks 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 😅 4 weeks ago:
Sup
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 5 weeks ago:
Lead exposure.
Religious indoctrination.
Lack of education.
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 1 month ago:
Appreciate you. You gave me a laugh and it was good!
- Comment on Honey Gets Terminated as Lawsuits Proceed 1 month ago:
Fuck Honey. Burn.
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 1 month ago:
I think you read it inverse
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 1 month 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” 2 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” 2 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 2 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 2 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? 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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? 3 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? 3 months ago:
Wait what has he done since?
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 3 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 3 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.
- Comment on Prisoners guilty of murder after child killer found 'tucked up in bed' with 25 stab wounds 3 months ago:
The only issue I see is that the three people are facing potential charges
- Comment on Old Americans who voted for Trump(who fucked their health-insurance) after hearing that healthcare in Europe is free: 3 months ago:
Every single day over the last 10ish years the US looks worse and worse (I already didn’t love it) and almost everywhere else looks significantly better.
I want to leave.
- Comment on Shutting down a piracy site 3 months ago:
I think it just depends what you’re after maybe. It’s rare I can’t find something, even older things - but if it does happen I have a friend who can grab it for me.
Otherwise, I have both a US and UK subscription as well as access to a 10+ year running private indexer so I rarely have issues with finding things or retention - I can use fully encrypted connections and I can cap my 5gbit fiber line.
- Comment on Shutting down a piracy site 3 months ago:
Usenet working fine still. Generally faster speeds than torrenting and upload requirements.
- Comment on Stay inside 4 months ago:
Whoa, what?? Mine is $8.50 and I just sneak in snacks and alcohol.
- Comment on lol 4 months ago:
holy crap I’m so self-conscious about this now and just looked back at a bunch of messages on multiple platforms and the ratio is insane…
- Comment on Boys convicted of rape get non-custodial sentences as judge says they should not be criminalised unnecessarily 4 months ago:
Then maybe an honorable citizen will just disappear them.