dan

@dan@upvote.au

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do live in the USA at the moment, but in a state that pays waitstaff well (California).

  There’s too many American people online that just assume everything is about the USA though. It gets to me sometimes :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington state all have the same minimum wage for both tipped and non-tipped jobs.

  A few other states have a tipped minimum wage that’s lower than their regular minimum wage, but still higher than the $2.13/hr federal minimum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m from Australia and we very rarely tip. It’s just not part of the culture. It was one of the biggest changes when I moved to the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  businesses not paying their employees enough to make a living.

  The thing I don’t understand is that even in states that have better minimum wages, the same tips are still expected.

  California has the same minimum wage for both tipped and non-tipped jobs, yet one person working a minimum wage job can be paid significantly more than someone also working a minimum wage job, just because they work in a position that’s customarily tipped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only 5.5% of internet users are American. Don’t assume everyone follows US customs. Some countries actually pay waitstaff well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well damn. Glad he's dead.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no. Not sure I want to look up what he did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just another "we are all going to die" prediction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With your idea, you either have to list a local IP in your public DNS record, or highjack your local DNS to point to the local IP. Both feel inelegant

  The DNS recordz for your internal servers don’t have to be public - they can be only on an internal DNS server if you want to do that. Only the _acme-challenge subdomain has to be public. Let’s Encrypt does follow CNAMEs.

  And you have to give your NAS write access to your API key of your DNS registrar

  You can use a separate DNS server just for Let’s Encrypt, as it follows CNAMEs. I use acme-dns for this. Let’s Encrypt supports IPv6-only DNS servers so I have my acme-dns instance listening on an IPv6 address in the /64 range on one of my VPSes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense - thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just another "we are all going to die" prediction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Debian is ready - as of the latest release, all software in the official repo is being compiled with 64-bit time. wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t the water evaporate and become part of the water cycle? Water can’t just disappear? Maybe I’m missing something.

  It would be good to cut down water usage… Not just for data centers but also for things like lawns and golf courses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there’s no risk of the mortgage falling through, and not as much dealing with banks. I don’t really know the specifics but it was something I had to be aware of when buying my house. Luckily I was buying while it was a buyers market a few years ago, so prices were lower, fewer people were looking, and there weren’t any competing all-cash offers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard in nice/desirable areas because the rich people make all-cash offers, and sellers prefer that over people that will get a mortgage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ride of a lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who’s worked in Silicon Valley for 13 years… A lot of senior developers that work at big tech companies can earn over $500k total compensation (salary plus bonus plus stock) per year, and end up saving enough and having enough investments to retire early and mostly live off the returns. This strategy is often referred to as FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early).

  Of course, people still want something to keep them busy, so they tend to end up doing something they always wanted to do but never had the time or money to do it. For example, I know someone who retired in their 40s and started doing woodworking full time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨something to be reinvented⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the same with public transit. Some people think the government shouldn’t invest in it because it won’t be profitable, but… it’s not supposed to be. It’s a public service, just like libraries, firefighters, parks, public schools, road maintenance, etc. That’s literally what taxes are for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👴☝️I did that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gas would be more expensive if it wasn’t subsidized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any FOSS NAS servers for a Marvell arm SOC?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know exactly which SoC it uses?

  It’s probably a 32-bit ARM processor. Most NAS-focused operating systems have removed support for these, if they even supported them at all. OpenMediaVault recently removed support for 32-bit ARM and only support 64-bit now: www.openmediavault.org/?p=4002.

  Having said that, some OSes still support them. You should be able to get Debian running if it’s an ARMv7 CPU or newer. Debian did support older ones, but they’re being phased out and no longer build an installer for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missed call⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Older people do this a lot. Either their full name, or “Lastname residence”

  The scary thing these days is that someone needs just a few samples of your voice to be able to clone it using AI. I suspect that scammers will do that, if they’re not already doing it. We’re going to get to a point where we can’t trust people are who they say they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice to hear, even if it's false hope⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoever wrote this message definitely knew what they were doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missed call⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some mobile networks have spam protection that’s enabled automatically.

  You could also have a “clean” number, especially if you don’t use your phone number anywhere haven’t answered a spam call before, and nobody used it before you (or the previous user was a long time ago).

  Spam callers can’t robodial literally every number, so they rely on lists of phone numbers that are known to be good/active, for example if they’ve answered a spam call before, if the number has been in a data leak, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing is funnier than The Onion taking over Infowars and making rainbow merchandise.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They really are turning the frogs gay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wack⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We still call them weeds. It’s called a whipper snipper because it snips weeds by whipping them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to lose my shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the opposite problem. It tells me to return the item to the bagging area even though I didn’t remove anything. I end up throwing my keys or shopping bag or something into the bagging area to make it happy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wack⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We call it a “whipper snipper” in Australia lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Real Ned Flanders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want more of these thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally just vibing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t understand the three month discounts lol. Seems like a bunch of insurance plans have it. With my insurance, you can either get one month, or three months’ worth for the exact same price as one month, so I’m not sure why anyone would ever get refills monthly.

  I’m very thankful that my employers covers almost all the cost of my (and my wife’s) insurance. My wife is self-employed so it’d be pretty expensive if she needed to get her own health insurance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally just vibing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, nice! Keep it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally just vibing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah that sucks. I didn’t know that. My wife uses Zepbound and thankfully our insurance covers it so it’s only $10/month.

  We’re Aussies living in the USA, and GLP-1 meds aren’t covered by Australia’s public health care system yet, so right now it’s actually cheaper in the USA than in Australia. In Australia, medications covered by the public health care system (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) are a maximum of $S25 for most people, and $7.70 for low-income families.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally just vibing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to give myself glp1 drugs, but i didn’t want to pay $1000 for a dose, so i want to buy it overseas. Illegal.

  I’m not sure of the efficacy of the pills vs the injections, but in the USA you can get Wegovy pills for $149/month now, which AFAIK is roughly the same price as other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no mirrors here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  please sir may I have a few more pixels?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨False Fronts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In suburban areas of the US and Canada, mixed use buildings are generally not allowed.

  Mixed use meaning retail space one the ground level with apartments/ condos above.

  Really? I’ve seen plenty of “luxury” apartment buildings with an overpriced fancy grocery store on the bottom floor.