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- Comment on We can all agree on this 1 day ago:
Can you sneak in a raspberry pi? Maybe install pihole, eblocker, adguard home, or technitium on it and point your PC DNS settings to it? Requires hooking up another device on the work network, idk how locked down you’re network is, but it’d be sweet if you could do that.
I run everything at work. I’ve got 3 raspberry pi’s I run for redundancy and block ads for everyone at work. Occasionally, one of our teams complain because they’re searching a product on Google and clicking the top link that’s an ad, so I just whitelist their PCs from blocking. It’s annoying they’re so set in their ways, like find another link that doesn’t say sponsored, but oh well. Best of luck.
- Comment on How are there people who don't know Alaska and Hawaii are states? 1 day ago:
Haha, true. Most know NY or NJ. I bet New Mexico and New Hampshire are forgotten about a lot.
- Comment on Drowning in grid scale batteries 1 day ago:
Oh no kidding?! I mean, I never knew until the computer age when hard drives hit giga-bytes.
- Comment on Drowning in grid scale batteries 2 days ago:
I’m just looking forward to the innovations of sodium ion batteries from BYD, CATL, and Goshen. They’re doing a lot of large scale large capacity batteries that’re cheaper and safer to produce and operate. Hopefully BYD implements into more vehicles, and I think CATL will too since they made the F150 lightning and Mustang Mach E lithium batteries. (Technically let Ford use the technology to make them iirc in Ford plants to be called American made or something)
- Comment on Drowning in grid scale batteries 2 days ago:
It’s gigawatts but they mispronounced it because, well, in the movie it’s 1955 and they much power was probably never heard of. IMO it was said wrong on purpose to show how absurd it was.
- Comment on Companies are now using your credit history, past-due accounts, browsing data, and social media accounts to figure out the absolute lowest salary you'll accept. Algorithmic wage suppression is being… 4 days ago:
Um. While this sounds very true, the article date is April 1, so hard to tell if satire
- Comment on Declaration of war 4 days ago:
Oh I gotcha, playing dumb so the dad figures out is the bf. Mkk. Sorry I just woke up when I read it 😅
- Comment on Declaration of war 4 days ago:
So the bf is also the brother?
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
Dude, so much of our area has turned into corporate rentals for when they host guests, or rent them out when not needed for business personnel.
The house close to my parents went for almost 40k over asking last year, so not even in a heated market.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
Private businesses being allowed to buy up the market to artificially increase prices and scarcity. How else can you ensure real estate is a solid investment stream?
- Comment on If there is a meaning for life, this is it 1 week ago:
Brand new… In the 70s
- Comment on Are there any animals that pretend to be injured to lure prey? 1 week ago:
Very likely. She got around.
- Comment on Are there any animals that pretend to be injured to lure prey? 1 week ago:
Yes. My ex.
- Comment on He's got the skills 1 week ago:
Why should you squish whose format into square is vertical?? 🤮🤮🤮🤮
- Comment on The rich passing our money back & forth 1 week ago:
No it’s probably the 250b you mentioned and I was misremembering!
- Comment on The rich passing our money back & forth 1 week ago:
Nvidia gave OpenAI $200b… Same thing happened. Sounds like Sam Altman’s gonna LOVE going to jail 🤭
- Comment on this can all collapse in an economically devastating manner leaving thousands financially destroyed while the executives receive bonuses and payouts 1 week ago:
Keep your head up, take advantage of this next collapse when interest rates drop. You could refinance to save money.
You only lose equity as an “investment” not value of having your own home. Another thing is, if you didn’t put 20% down to avoid PMI, if you lose some worth when the market crashes, that might work in your favor when you refinance and avoid that, saving you even more money!
We bought in 2021 before prices got too high (still higher though) and rates went up. We did less down to get in, after 3 years of paying a little extra and the market being up, we got PMI removed, saving about $100/mo (even without a refi). I’m using simple numbers as an example, but it you bought a $400k house (roughly US median) and put “only” $60k down, if the value drops to ~$300k and you’ve paid down the principal enough, you’ll hit your 20% equity. No PMI.
- Comment on this can all collapse in an economically devastating manner leaving thousands financially destroyed while the executives receive bonuses and payouts 1 week ago:
Isn’t that what Nvidia just said? Or Nvidia just “gave” $200b to OpenAI to buy more GPUs or something… Either way, it’s a mess!!
- Comment on Bad at job 1 week ago:
That escalated quickly
- Comment on What did the tariffs do for us? 1 week ago:
It comes in the form of even higher prices, of course!
- Comment on Trump implemented tariffs illegally, creating over $100 billion of profit for corporations selling foreign products, at the expense of American consumers. Your refund: $0.00 1 week ago:
Why does Billy alternate capitalization in each row?
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
I skimmed the comments and didn’t catch this, but don’t forget about all the PRIVATE EQUITIES buying up nursing home facilities, banking on SSI, Medicare and Medicaid funding, upcharging perscriptions, “maximizing efficiencies” (aka paying as little wages as possible), and the revolving door of customers…
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. Could someone get bad information? Yes. If mine is wrong and I don’t know yours is right, if the database was shared/redundant, you’d make corrections to your which would update mine too.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm 2 weeks ago:
This sounds stupid, no offense. Because Lemmy has people post the same articles across multiple communities, so on ibish, are there going too be dozens of duplicate articles and then huge gaps for other topics??
I think ibis would be beneficial if there “central” database would act more like a RAID of storage where petiole could commit storage space to a redundant database. Make it like a raid 0 but of you had 100 contributors, it would gain additional redundancy for stability and accessibility. It’s be like 25 “copies” or pools in raid 1 with another 25 in raid 0 to make 50 each or 100 total if that makes sense.
That would create a highly available database as if there are servers worldide or nationwide.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm 2 weeks ago:
Guess I’ll not donate now
- Comment on Is Myspace coming back? Owners confirm relaunch plans 2 weeks ago:
Oh I’m not expecting anything to actually happen that way, and even if it did, that’d be temporary until the platform gets adopted enough to be valuable; then you get vendor lock-in.
- Comment on Is Myspace coming back? Owners confirm relaunch plans 2 weeks ago:
Cool, would only be interested in old school Myspace with no trackers, crawlers, or loads of BS that companies try to monetize data in every single possible aspect.
- Comment on Are datacenters in space more lucrative than on earth? 2 weeks ago:
It would be astronomically expensive, wasteful, and expensive (yes twice).
Got a server rack damaged? Are the IT going up to fix it or astronauts? What kind of training would there need to be? What about upgrades? What about waste or recycling of old equipment? Do you just eject out into space wasting all the precious resources??
- Comment on Boys will be boys 2 weeks ago:
I used to eat a 16" large “thin crust” by myself.
- Comment on What are people thinking that they would wear this shirt in public? 2 weeks ago:
Old people don’t lie