andrewta

@andrewta@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to arm chair general it. How come the US doesn't get a bunch of helicopters over to the Lincoln with food meds and whatever? How did it get this bad where we can't supply our own ships?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  With that username I have to ask if you are prior service Navy? And I agree with your assessment, it’s a leadership issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Jail websites they let you know the exact address where a Pedo lives. But tells you not to go out and harm them. Has anyone ever used it as a list to go hunt down pedo's?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have much time for pedos, But if you wanna try vigilanteeism, the only thing that’s gonna happen realistically if you’re going to wind up in prison. Yeah, you might get a few good hits on them or they’ll even kill them. But the end of the day you’re still in jail or prison. So if they’re alive and you beat the shit out of them, now you get stalking charge harassment charge, assault and battery charge. And once you have those charges on your record, good luck on getting a decent paying job. You won’t even get the interviews. Might make feel good, but good luck on paying your bills.

  If you killed them now, you’re in jail for murder. Or manslaughter depending on.

  Exactly how was that successful? how is that a good thing in any way shape or form? Your life is fucked.

  By the way to the original poster, I know you weren’t saying you were going to go do it. This message is really to those who are thinking about doing it. It’s just a stupid idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Google’s servers would be screaming for mommy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are these brownish speckles on my polyester shirt? How to get it off?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do not wash using the regular setting in a washing machine in the US in any machine made in the last ten years. Choose another setting. The regular setting doesn’t do a good job. That is from several washing machine repairmen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are these brownish speckles on my polyester shirt? How to get it off?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The extra rinse cycle was also my thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With all the things any politician has to vote on it’s impossible to know something about all of them. They just need to surround themselves with knowledgeable people. But like a said I will ding his staff on not briefing him on ai / ChatGPT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will give him points on admitting that he can’t know everything. And on admitting that he doesn’t know what ChatGPT is, and that he works to surround himself with people who can learn these things. I will ding him, and his staff are not informing him on what ChatGPT was or is.

  With as many people who are pissed off about AI, the fact that his staff is not informing him about AI and getting them to visit an AI data center that’s a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad were the asylums that Reagan closed in his tenure? Were they really that bad? Did no one take a look at the staff and bed side manner? Or was it really like Born On The Fourth of July?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My grandma wound up in one. If even half the stuff that supposedly was done to her, was actually done to her, the staff needs to be in prison for life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I survive the US immigration?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best advice I have for you is you look into soccer groups. That sounds odd, but we just had the World Cup here. Ask them how difficult or easy was to go through customs. As somebody else said how Caucasian do you look, Well, if you’re concerned about then Contact groups of fans that look basically like you and find out If they had any problems.

  The problem is you were asking lemmy . The problem here is there’s way too many people that have this mentality of US bad . You’re going to get a heavily skewed Perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the US Military can offer free money for college education..and is part of the government then why does the average Joe have to pay back a small student loan?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would not surprise me if that benefit goes away. But at the same time, the difference here is for the military you serve, you get the benefit of a college education, then when you go to college, the college is paid for. It is not a loan. So in other words, if for some reason, the government pulled that benefit back then the veteran of the military would know that before they sign up for college.

  But yeah, it would not surprise me if the If the US government pulled that benefit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent answer.

  On a side note: if I could get my ant colony to build small camp fires we could create some ugly forest fires, or some nasty building fires in large cities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot afford to buy directly from the manufacturer. Otherwise, yeah, Steam is my second option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of the posting of easily searched questions here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It does not bother me at all. The reason it does not bother me. Is because sometimes things that are easily googled, are also things where if you don’t have the right search words or the right search terms, Google won’t help you. And I’ve had that happen to me. Before I tried and tried and tried to find an answer and I couldn’t find it. Once I got the answer that I pushed that into Google oh there it is right there for me.

  Sometimes people prefer to talk to other people instead of googling. Given you’re not actually talking to anybody you’re typing into a forum, but still point is. So it doesn’t bother me. And if I have a chance and I know the answer, yeah I’ll answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. That’s why I don’t use biometrics to unlock my phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad did once. Stolen off his pickup while on a work parking lot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, that is so true

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is true, in some countries they can demand that you use your biometrics to unlock your phone. In other words, if you can unlock your phone by simply looking at it or using your thumbprint, they can demand that you unlock your phone using that. From what I understand the United States now does this. They can’t demand to give up your pin number because they can’t require you to give up something that’s inside your head. But biometrics are not what is inside your head that is publicly available data. So they can use that to require you to unlock your phone. Personally, I think it’s a bullshit concept that they can require you to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After updating CachyOS, I am unable to play games as easily as before. How do I fix it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for letting me know about this group

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Contact an attorney, and explain that you want to use inmates as a work release program. Or possibly to have the inmates work on your project inside the prison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I swear it won't hurt you if you use it for like a second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Linux user I approve this joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Watching this back and forth while I’m eating my chips 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you do check the store don’t look at the west wall, or in any glass show cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doubt it. Maybe a few but nothing huge

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how I interpreted the statement.

  Open web browser

  Click install

  Files down load and install. Computer reboots with Linux os installed on hard drive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if the US got rid of the majority of their bases and brought all the stationed soldiers home? What would be the impact on society, the economy, and other things?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think to add to what you just said, places where US military bases are at , those local communities, especially their restaurants. Will see a big hit in traffic. Ramstein air base in Germany has over 70,000 Americans there. Those people eat in restaurants in the area (off base) they shop in stores off base. That is a LOT of money going into that economy. And it isn’t all going to major stores (corporate stores) it also goes to mom and pop shops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s interesting that your experiences that adaptive cruise control is never set to the closest. Every time I go to test driving new vehicle and when I say new, I mean very low miles like 15 miles or something. I checked the adaptive cruise control. It’s always set to the closest possible setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can make it a good solid guess as to what happened there. They probably had adaptive cruise control running. For those who don’t know adaptive cruise control is it’s a sensor that will adjust your speed to perfectly match the speed of the person in front of you. If you are using cruise control. The problem is by default adaptive cruise control is set to the shortest distance possible. So it , from the person who is in front , from their perspective it looks like you are riding their ass. It should never be set to the shortest distance possible it should be set so you have about a three second following distance. Most people never adjust this because they’re stupid.

  Now, why did they follow you when you change lanes? I’m going to call them a lemming. Well, the other person moved over so I’ll move over too. So as you slow down the adaptive cruise control makes them keep slowing down. And they’re not paying attention until like you said you get down about 30 miles an hour. Then they realize what’s going on.

  Here’s the fun part when they pull out to go around you. If they speed up normally their engine doesn’t get gunned really hard. But if they just pull out, the adaptive cruise control kicks in and realize oh there’s nobody in front of me and I’m supposed to be going 80 mph. And the car will absolutely freaking gun it. It’ll go into overdrive. And if you aren’t prepared for that it’s quite the jolt.

  And yeah they are basically goldfish and lemmings out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, has age verification really become the new normal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a nice sentiment. Wait until the United States government says we don’t care if it’s open source or not , you’re going to comply. Which from what I understand is exactly what they’re pushing for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, has age verification really become the new normal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As I said to another comment, the law is being wrote Where it will cover all operating systems. So exactly which one would I use if they’re all covered?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, has age verification really become the new normal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And when they require age verification of the o/s then what?