MystikIncarnate
@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
Some IT guy, IDK.
- Comment on Rip Striker 2000-2024 😭 19 hours ago:
You were born in 2000?
I’m old now.
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 1 day ago:
After morale improves, enshittification will accelerate.
- Comment on rollin' coal 2 days ago:
The model I’m looking at is ~45 miles (70km) of EV-only range. Electricity where I am drops under 10c/kWh overnight, and the model I’m looking at is a PHEV.
I work from home and only rarely do I have to commute to a job site, 90% of my driving right now is around town and much less than 45 miles total per day. Having the EV charging start when rates drop and stop when they rise again, would be something I would be doing. Since I don’t have to drive every day for work, several nights of fairly slow charging would fill the ~ 17 kWh battery, even at 10A on 120V.
So every time I go out, I’d likely be starting with a to full charge, and my first 45 ish miles are basically free.
- Comment on rollin' coal 2 days ago:
Arguing that coal ash is less bad than the very rare nuclear disasters is also a bad take IMO.
Both have issues. It doesn’t mean that we should abandon nuclear for coal, nor the other way around.
Personally I’m a fan of nuclear, and I’m against coal, but realistically, there’s too many data points to argue, and bluntly, I don’t have sufficient information at this time, to competently and fully argue either way.
Fact is, green energy, like solar and wind (among others) are better than both nuclear and coal (and even gas and whatnot). I just don’t want to pretend that either nuclear or coal is a better ecological choice than renewables.
- Comment on rollin' coal 2 days ago:
I agree with this. I’m looking at a plug in hybrid for my next car. It’s a bit more costly up front, but day to day, it should save me so much. Hybrids are better, sure, but plugin hybrids can charge overnight, when we have remarkably low electricity costs where I live, especially overnight, so charging it up is trivial in costs, and it can run a good distance on the battery alone.
If I want to go fast, and have fun, ICE cars and race tracks are things still, I can go do that. In the meantime, there’s still a speed limit on the freeway, so while your fuel burning monstrosity can go 200mph+… You can’t.
For commuting/daily chores/errands, a plug in hybrid is easily one of the cheapest options available, especially for me, per mile driven (or kilometer, if you’re not American).
I still want a weekend/fun car, but for daily driving, plug in hybrid is going to get me there for a lot less.
With the prices of everything going up, it’s the only logical choice.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 2 days ago:
Yeah, they’re still behind most other “first world” countries in every metric stated.
Comparing the USA to a country in the middle East or Africa or something? Yeah, the USA is a cakewalk by comparison to many. Compared to any country that’s similarly regarded, it’s dog shit for living conditions.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 2 days ago:
I’m in Canada, and I want to get those stickers that are cut in the shape of new Zealand, so I can add it to every public map I see.
… New Zealand as a service.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 2 days ago:
I mean, neither was new Zealand.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 2 days ago:
American armed forces enters the chat
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 2 days ago:
Bud, have you met a moose?
They’re the size of three deer and they have the personality of a Canadian Goose.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 3 days ago:
IMO, A nontrivial amount of blame goes to the fathers of such people.
This shouldn’t imply that those who need to hear this are exempt from blame; they should have simply been educated by their parents on simple social etiquette…
Of course, I’m also certain that a nontrivial number of those father’s actively encouraged such misbehavior.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 3 days ago:
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 3 days ago:
That’s fair. Maybe I’m just too optimistic.
- Comment on HELLDIVERS 2 sees over 130K bad reviews on Steam as Sony double down 4 days ago:
As a long term PC gamer, two things.
Almost every game out there, made in recent years has had some login component with a publisher type service. Ubisoft, rockstar, Microsoft, etc. So this behaviour isn’t entirely unprecedented.
On the other hand:
Pretty much every single one of those PC versions that have publisher logins, will let you play without logging in. You will sometimes be feature limited, or you will be unable to obtain certain rewards or something… Some only allow you to unlock DLC after you’ve signed in… Stuff like that. The game can still be played, at some diminished capacity, but it can be played.
Making it a hard requirement, crosses a line for many. If it’s optional, sure, those who can’t or won’t get an account are still able to play, most will likely get an account to ensure they have the full experience.
I might be wrong, but I can’t recall any game that would refuse to launch the game without an account. You’ll get bugged about it a bit, but it still runs. The only exception I can give to this is any MMO which requires a subscription to the game in order to play; the most notable example of this is WoW. In those cases, you need an account to subscribe to the game in order to play. Almost always, the subscription fee is the cost of the game, so you don’t buy the game, and then pay a subscription to play online… Unless it’s a Nintendo game, I suppose.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 4 days ago:
I just want to talk at the fellas here. Man to man.
If you do this shit, the women will leave and not come back. I know the incels are going to think that’s typical female behavior, and I’m here to say, no, it’s not. It’s typical for someone, of any gender, to want to exit a situation where they feel vulnerable, and that’s what is happening.
Think of it like this: you end up in prison, and your naked, alone, you have no allies or friends, while taking a shower with about 100 other dudes, and Bubba comes over with a grin saying “you’re awful pretty”. How would you feel? I’m guessing you would want to nope the hell out of there and never take a shower with Bubba in the room, ever again. And that’s natural. You were in danger, you want to avoid that danger. While the circumstances might be different for the women you’re interacting with, that raw emotion, the exact same one you would have felt with Bubba talking about how pretty you are, the feeling that gave you, it’s exactly the same.
Now think, after Bubba made such a statement, what could Bubba do to win your trust to shower next to them again at all? Probably not much. Same deal fellas. There’s little to nothing you can do or say to make them feel comfortable being around you when you’ve done something that inspires that unsafe feeling of danger.
Now, how could Bubba avoid the situation of you feeling like you’re in danger and wanting to get out of there. A reassurance? Like Bubba instead saying “don’t worry, I’ll protect you”… You’re going to wonder “from what?” Because until Bubba spoke up, you had no feeling of danger. How does that make you feel? Well, I would feel like there’s danger that Bubba knows about that I don’t, so now I’m on edge, looking for what Bubba is talking about, and all of a sudden, I’m having the same feeling of danger, just this time from an unknown assailant. That’s not good either. I’d still want to gtfo and not go back. Worse now since I don’t know what the danger actually is. Not only would I not want to shower with Bubba nearby like in the previous scenario, but now I don’t want to be left alone with anyone.
Same deal fellas. By trying to reassure the lady, you imply that there’s danger indirectly; she gets creeped out and leaves to not come back.
So, what’s the right thing to do here?
It’s easier than you think. Treat them like you would any of your male friends. Treat them like a person. You don’t need to reassure your male friends that you’ll protect them, nor do you feel the need to defend them when their “honor” is challenged. Let them handle it, but have their back if they need you… and only if they need you.
Be a friend first, and if something happens that makes your relationship with that person, more than just friends, so much the better. Don’t expect it, women aren’t slot machines, where you put in enough tokens of niceness and eventually you win the sex jackpot. It doesn’t work that way. It never has, and it never will. You can’t force someone to like you, and if you try, you’ll either take any attraction that they might have had for you, and destroy it, and/or simply cause them to feel unsafe and creeped out, and they’ll find a way to exit and never return.
People, regardless of gender, just want to do things they enjoy. If you also enjoy those things, then engage in the enjoyment of those things with the other people who enjoy them. Don’t make it about gender. If, beyond that, you both like eachother, you’ll find a way to spend more time together and that’s when things can grow to more than just being friendly, as long as you’re both agreeable to it.
If you continually obsess over the fact that their anatomy is different, you’ll end up filling whatever negative ideas you have about the other gender, and push yourself so deep into a hole of confirmation bias that you may never recover. Just be people. Treat others the same, as people.
I believe in you. You can do better. Always improving.
You will fall, you will be rejected, you will have set backs. And that’s all normal. It’s a part of learning. You got this.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 4 days ago:
I took that as “trying to get along/fit in, with a predominately male group”.
It would seem that you took it as more of “trying to get ‘in’ with a boys club”.
I don’t think either interpretation is wrong, per-se, but one does have a bit of a more negative tone to it, IMO.
Far be it for me to tell you what to think, or that your understanding is wrong. Bluntly, it was a fairly poor choice of words on the commenters part.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 4 days ago:
Ok, I hear you on that, but…
It doesn’t really fix the problem, does it? Sure, the guys don’t end up distracted by someone with female physical characteristics, but when they interact with those people later, they’re still socially inept, creepy guys.
Which isn’t to mention it basically excludes any women from participating, which isn’t very fair to the women who would appreciate the opportunity to join, limiting their options for positive interactions.
It can also reinforce the negative behavior, since they’re probably forced into those spaces because any space that isn’t men-only, they’ve made so awkward and uncomfortable for the women that they’ve been asked to leave. So a nontrivial number of these problematic people are going to be funneled into men-only types of spaces, and they’ll play off of eachother incel opinions, producing a confirmation bias that’s hard to dispel.
Don’t get me wrong here, I’m a guy, and I was the creepy dude in my younger years. I tried to be more subtle about it, but I recognize a lot of the incel opinions as opinions I once had or at least considered. I broke out of it through having some rather strong female friends who very bluntly told me when something wasn’t okay. After a while of that, I realized that if you look past gender, and just treat everyone basically the same in all circumstances and don’t be a fucking incel, then you can actually develop friendships with people regardless of their gender, and, as I discovered, once you’re friendly with someone who you find attractive who also is fond of you, it can turn into more than just friendship. Once I put these pieces together, my entire life improved.
By essentially labeling them as a problem and putting them into their own little echo chamber, it will likely make the problem worse, not better.
- Comment on I finally got access to the catholic AI 1 week ago:
This concept of Jesus praying to God never made sense to me. Like, if he’s supposed to be the same person, he would know what his heavenly counterpart would agree to and what he wouldn’t. Conversely, the heavenly counterpart would know what his earthly counterpart would want, and provide it to him without needing to be asked.
The whole idea of him praying is silly. It’s a lot like having a conversation with yourself to try to convince yourself to do a thing that you want you to do. A pointless exercise. You don’t have to convince yourself to do something that you already want to do. You just do it.
Unless the Holy Trinity is a lie, made up by the church to instill a sense of unity between three distinct individuals… Like marriage.
Thus, the church endorses gay God marriage.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 1 week ago:
And just like Edison, Elon swooped in and bought up all their IP and took all the credit for their inventions/work.
Edison did it with Nikolas ideas when he was working for him, and now Elon did it with something that was named to honor the man.
Tesla gets shafted yet again.
I can’t help but wonder what he could have accomplished if someone, literally anyone had continued to fund him, and help him continue his efforts for the remainder of his natural life. Maybe we would be flying around in wirelessly powered personal vehicles. Who knows? But the ideas he had led to some of the most significant advances in technology for years. Pretty much our entire modern life is thanks to Tesla’s inventions, either directly or indirectly.
Even something as simple as AC electricity delivery… What a genius. Easily on the top of my list of best inventors.
His personal life and some of his opinions there may have been a bit problematic, but it would be difficult to deny that he was a brilliant inventor.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 1 week ago:
Ironic that the company is named Tesla.
Nikola is probably rolling in his grave. May that glorious man rest in peace.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 1 week ago:
I’ve been thinking of going for my cwna/cwne. I just haven’t taken the time to figure out how to go about it.
Any pointers? Obviously I have a pretty solid foundation of knowledge, it’s just the whole getting it written thing that I’m most unsure of.
Though, having a good resource for studying just to review, would be nice as well.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 1 week ago:
Okay, well, I’m a network professional with a specialty in wireless and a keen interest in historical wireless networking, and “non-standard” stuff is also quite interesting. I’m no Richard Easton.
I want to start with a disclaimer, by no means would I, nor should I be interpreted to be saying or implying that any contribution, regardless of source, isn’t valuable. Whether it comes from a woman, or man, white, black, or any color in-between, non-binary, gay, bi, trans, whatever. The contributor is valuable and their contribution is always valued.
That being said, FHSS, has its uses, and it’s been used in wireless. It’s a valid technology that should be recognised as such. As with many things, it wasn’t a singular effort, and nobody should imply otherwise.
As others have pointed out, the most commonly known technology which employs FHSS is Bluetooth; and trust me, trying to track down issues caused by BT interference is a nightmare because of it. Generally I avoid the problem by not using the 2.4ghz ISM band as much as possible, but I digress.
For those saying it’s not part of 802.11, it actually is. It’s an old part of the protocol which has long since been replaced and it is considered obsolete by the IEEE 802.11 group.
However, in the 802.11 protocol, sometimes called 802.11 prime (Wikipedia calls it “legacy”), it states: “[802.11] specified two raw data rates of 1 and 2 megabits per second (Mbit/s) to be transmitted via infrared (IR) signals or by either frequency hopping or direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) in the Industrial Scientific Medical frequency band at 2.4 GHz.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11_(legacy_mode)
All I want to really add, is that networking is a team sport. If companies and people didn’t work together to make it function, then it wouldn’t work.
Only by collaborating and working together towards improvement and an increase in the ability of the technology to work across all platforms, vendors, manufacturers, and devices, can we get it to function at all. This fact is as true now as it was when FHSS was invented. Everyone needs to work together in order to make any real progress. Otherwise, all of our wifi stuff would “speak” different languages, and nothing outside of a single companies product line, would work with anything else.
Everyone’s contributions have helped wifi get to it’s current state, and that should never be forgotten.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 1 week ago:
It actually is. The original standard published by the IEEE 802.11 group was 802.11, often referred to as 802.11 prime.
To put it simply, it was little more than a proof of concept. The only wireless cards that I know were made at that time, were very expensive and only purchased in very limited amounts by large corporations. Quickly afterwards it was replaced by 802.11a and 802.11b. the big difference between the two, was that b used 2.4ghz and could achieve 11mbps, while a used 5Ghz, and could achieve 54mbps.
Meanwhile prime was on 900mhz and if memory serves, never achieved more than a few Mbps.
802.11b was more popular because 2.4ghz was easier to make inexpensively at the time, and so 802.11g also used 2.4ghz, but was able to increase bandwidth by using OFDM. But now I’m off topic, I just find wireless history very interesting.
The point is 802.11 (prime) was a valid wireless standard.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 1 week ago:
Just chiming in as a network tech that deals with these terms regularly.
802.11, sometimes called 802.11 prime, to differentiate the first protocol from the 802.11 (WiFi) group. This protocol was not really every in widespread use. A few early niche cases, but it was quickly supplanted by 802.11a and 802.11b.
The b standard was one of the first major WiFi versions to see adoption, which used DSSS, or direct sequence spread spectrum. Which fell by the wayside because OFDM was faster and more efficient, which led wifi speed increases from 802.11g, through wifi 4 (802.11n), WiFi 5 (802.11ac), and WiFi 6 (802.11ax). The more recent versions use QAM (wireless N+), which augments OFDM with amplitude modulation.
Beyond QAM, speed improvements at this point are minimal and usually require wider channel widths to get any significant improvement, so 802.11 has focused on multiple access improvements and since 802.11ac, have been making improvements to MIMO. They started with SU-MIMO, then one-way MU-MIMO, then two way MU-MIMO.
I haven’t read up on the changes in WiFi 7 yet beyond 6Ghz being added. I’ll look into it after it’s been fully ratified.
Long story short, they moved to 5Ghz and eventually 6Ghz, because there isn’t enough channel width in 2.4 for WiFi 5, and 5ghz was getting a bit difficult to sustain for the speed they’re trying to hit, so 6Ghz is the next logical step.
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 1 week ago:
checks surrounding area
Seems I’m fresh out of thesises for Dionysian ethics, but I have this handful of napkins from Wendy’s.
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 1 week ago:
Isn’t everybody?
But, ok, thanks.
Anything I should bring? Napkins perhaps? Anything else might be a bit more complicated than I can handle.
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 2 weeks ago:
Weird. So are you just holding massive parties in your basement while reading books?
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 2 weeks ago:
Is there an option C?
- Comment on Why exactly are raisins toxic for dogs and not humans? 2 weeks ago:
So I can be more or less immune to stuff based on my genetics. Neat.
- Comment on Why exactly are raisins toxic for dogs and not humans? 2 weeks ago:
This is amazing to me. We’re immune to so many things that are dangerous/toxic/deadly to other biological life on the planet. We’ve evolved to an amazing extent, and yet, pick the wrong variety of berry and you’ll die writhing in agony.
They’re all trying to kill you, it’s just that some of them, still can.
