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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The price breakdown of my flight is kinda funny, 80% taxes and fees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how that maths out. Last time I booked a ticket (sadly a few days ago), it was a round trip with one connection each way, so 4 flights. It was an extra $600 for first class, so $150 per flight. The planes were around the 20 seats in first class size and that’d be $3k… it’s hard to say that the $3k was the bulk of the income there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larry Ellison wants to put all US data in one big AI system • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My dead grandmother use to tell me stories about the bank account information of everyone in my neighborhood…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily it’s a jeep, so you can just take those off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easier to roll out if no one can saturate it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Fire at the disco; fire at the, Taco Bell!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal -- [Opinion]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how now is referred to as the “post-truth era” as if there were pre-truth and truth eras as well… the internet and newspapers in general have never been infallible. Journalistic Integrity was a bigger deal, but it was pretty easy to find false, dubious and inflammatory statements in printed papers and news programs. As someone who grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, I remember having to site multiple sources in papers due to inconsistencies and straight up lies and opinions being wide spread.

  What we’re seeing here is less about truth, and more about the speed of information spread, truth or not. Coupled with the lack of questioning from the general public and the acceptance of marginal information by the masses. Anything that fits someone’s personal narrative is championed and distributed as truth. I feel that it’s partly due to the online bubbles that promote such community echo chambers, but we had those in the past as well. Perhaps they just didn’t work quite as well as those that can be both world wide and easily influenced by outside actors.

  I’d agree that some of the perceived lack of journalistic integrity could be exaggerated by the AI and click bait tactics to drive views and revenue.

  I’m all about decentralized social media, but I don’t think it’s a panacea as Lemmy has plenty of echo chambers and questionable information just as any other social media network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lazy scientists announce there are probably several kinds of squirrels but they move too fast to be sure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta go fast!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a disastrous opening, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim heads to digital on Dec 27th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow! I’m looking forward to seeing it in theaters, but there holidays are always hard for me to make time for a movie showing.

  To be fair I’d have never known it was a thing if it wasn’t for Lemmy or seeing the poster in the theater hallway when I saw Moana 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you bother with... mini PCs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  eBay, Amazon, sometimes you can snag deals when they release newer versions, they actually had a few on Black Friday/Cyber Monday.

  Tbh, I got mine in a pack of 4 on eBay (I only needed 3), cleaned them out a bit, bumped the RAM and put new disks in them and they’ve been solid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you bother with... mini PCs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, this goes against Betteridge’s Law of Headlines, but absolutely.

  I’ve got a small stack of 1L PCs running a ProxMox and Kubernetes cluster and it’s been perfect. Highly recommend. I’ll probably get one for my wife’s desk when she sets it up as it’ll do everything she needs and more, and it’s tiny and you can get em cheap lightly used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always have to imagine I’m playing Operation and it’s going to buzz and light up a red light over my head if I bump the sides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cetaceans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Verified. It’s on the table entry for en.wikipedia.org/…/Tamanend's_bottlenose_dolphin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ambition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always figure we ask kids what they want to be when they grow up because they have better imagination and we adults are looking for ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google hit with £7B claim over search engine dominance • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I daily DDG and either go to Kagi or, oddly enough, Bing if that doesn’t work. Google is too riddled with ads at this point.

  One day I’m going to run out of free Kagi queries and I’ll probably have to pony up the money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haha SO TRUE!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The phrase “Haha So True!” (referred to as ‘HST’ henceforth to save space and out of respect for the readers’ precious time who would rather engage in intellectual conversations elsewhere than keep repeating “Haha So True!” over and over again

  HST

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're called leaves for a reason.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. There’s a lot in my neighborhood… And it’s annoying when there’s a perfectly good sidewalk right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dogma 2 on the way from Kevin Smith⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP Alan Rickman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hiding the Other Half: ‘Wicked’ Is the Latest Film to Trim ‘Part One’ From the Title⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still remember going to see the first LoTR film and right after it fades out, hearing a lady yell “you mean there’s another one?!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyway, i started blastin'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, what are their names?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve often wondered if the authorities would care about a community run FOSS plate scanner network that publicly advertised the location of all government vehicles. I mean, it’s public data, right? A nice web front end with built in pattern detection shouldn’t be too bad. Plate scanners can be built with Raspberry Pi’s, so it’s fairly cheap commodity hardware. You’d need a good number though. Coupled with additional hardware, you could put them on cars as well I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fwiw, this article says the name of the app is Clue. As a dude, I have no need of such an app, but as a security minded individual, will encourage my female friends to use it if needed and hope the developers continue to have security in mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Box-Office: "Venom" Sinks & "Here" Bombs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I, and my family, definitely enjoyed the Wild Robot, solid film. I seriously hope they get to do the sequel (it’s based on a book series).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you missed (or ignored I suppose) part of his statement that data caps can reduce overall (across multiple subscribers in an area) used simultaneous bandwidth. People say “I can pull 1Gbit/sec, but I know I’ll hit my cap if I do that perpetually, so I’ll just do short bursts here and there when I need it”. This puts people in the mindset not to push their max data speeds all day/month long. Doing so reduces the possibility that everyone in an area (likely using the same data backbone) will ask for all their speed at the same time. This means that the backbone can be smaller and support a higher number of subscribers.

  I completely agree on not having much choice though. And thats really what needs to change in many places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel Studios’ ‘Blade’ Removed From 2025 Release Schedule, Disney Dates ‘Predator: Badlands’ Instead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do we need another Blade?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that people won’t move until their audience there and their audience won’t move until they are there.

  And mastodon is a bit less straightforward compared to old Twitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Likely both of those could be much much smaller for 2024 because it’s just streaming the data so the updates and installation size are smaller since it’s all coming in real time while playing instead of having to be installed before playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You joke about the install size, I’m more annoyed at the constant 1-2hr updates preventing me from playing when I have 20 free minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you filthy casuals wouldn't understand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s insufficient surge or Mtn Dew in this picture, it’s got to be a photoshop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Element in water heater died; less than two months old.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s why you get an on demand unit. In either case, heating water in a jug over and over just so it might be hot hen you need it is not a great idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life saving hurricane info locked behind a paywall⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Throwing it out there, but www.nhc.noaa.gov is hands down the best hurricane tracking site. It’s low Bandwidth, quick, lightweight, legit data backed, and generally the source data for most other weather sites.