radix
@radix@lemmy.world
- Comment on snek go beep beep 1 day ago:
If it looks like a cobra, it’s a cobra, and if it looks like a viper, it’s a viper.
- Comment on Anon buys a car 4 days ago:
The part where they convinced people this is a real law.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 5 days ago:
These types of machines certainly have their place, and if it meets your needs, go for it.
The big downside is going to be a lack of upgradability. Most of the core components will be soldered to the motherboard, so no CPU or GPU upgrades, and no replacements if something breaks. I know the one you linked was just an example, and not necessarily “the one,” but its on-board graphics are similar in power to a GTX 1650. Lots and lots of games available at that level, but you’ll be locked out of anything newer with no clear upgrade path later.
For reference, I own something similar, but even older, as a secondary machine. It’s fine for what it does. Just be aware of the limitations. There are ways to build a similar-powered full desktop for about the same price. At that point it’s a tradeoff: would you rather be able to upgrade later, or do you want the simplicity and small form factor (portability, aesthetics, etc)?
- Comment on What goes here? 1 week ago:
Turtle with a runny nose.
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 2 weeks ago:
ftc.gov/…/consumer-review-fairness-act-what-busin…
The Consumer Review Fairness Act makes it illegal for companies to include standardized provisions that threaten or penalize people for posting honest reviews. For example, in an online transaction, it would be illegal for a company to include a provision in its terms and conditions that prohibits or punishes negative reviews by customers.
- Comment on here there be lions 3 weeks ago:
“I’m a lone wolf.”
OK, so you’re too useless and/or immature to pull your own weight among your group and they kicked you out?
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 3 weeks ago:
I bought the whole sensor, I’m gonna use the whole sensor.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Odyssey counts, right?
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 4 weeks ago:
As if conservative Americans have read the bible. They’d be the ones crucifying Jesus for being too “woke” if they knew what it was all about.
- Comment on CUSTAAAAAAAARD 4 weeks ago:
Is that a research grant I hear calling?
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 4 weeks ago:
The intent is to provide
playersowners with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking differentheroeshorsepower. - Comment on The guy President Trump nominated to lead the US Bureau of Labor Statistics 4 weeks ago:
It wasn’t a riot, it was a job fair.
- Comment on Is there a place online where I can apply for a bunch of free books? I was thinking of creating a library in my local county jail to help educate and pass the time in a healthy way? 4 weeks ago:
A local or regional library often (but not always) serves jails in their community already. If not, they may be open to extending operations there. If that fails, libraries often rotate out stock to make room for newer, or more popular books. Anything they dispose of would be older, but for this situation, that may not be as much of an issue.
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 5 weeks ago:
While not a “review” in the traditional sense, I hope it would fall under the CRFA anyway.
ftc.gov/…/consumer-review-fairness-act-what-busin…
The Consumer Review Fairness Act makes it illegal for companies to include standardized provisions that threaten or penalize people for posting honest reviews.
They can’t necessarily use a “contract” as a defense.
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 5 weeks ago:
From the king of “free speech.” 🙄
- Comment on I can get a 430 hearing on any family member I want. Hell i can even testify if someone else needs one. So tell me why I can't go through the legal system to get an invasive one for Trump? 1 month ago:
The real answer is, it’s complicated. Involuntary commitment (and related acts) is a pretty extreme measure for when an individual is a danger to themselves or others. There’s no evidence that he’s trying to hurt himself, and the “other” usually has to be a specific person, not just a hypothetical class of others to have standing.
And it’s even more complicated by the idea that the president has been gifted broad immunity regarding anything remotely tangential to official powers. So you can’t even say you, specifically, are in danger due to things done by the government, so long as there is some whack job theory under which it’s being executed.
If he came alone to your house naked and covered in nacho cheese with a knife threatening to hurt you, you’d probably have a case. Depending on the state, it probably takes something similar even for a family member or acquaintance (but check your local laws).
- Comment on Black Holes 1 month ago:
Teachers: You can’t divide by zero.
Nature: Hey guys, check this shit out. - Comment on protein! 1 month ago:
In other news, sales of the caveman fad diet books have cratered.
- Comment on Hope you like math 1 month ago:
Must be an angel with wings, so they can also have a flying fuck.
- Comment on Apparently we should shame people for selling at affordable prices 1 month ago:
“douche”
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 1 month ago:
“If you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product.”
The phrase has its uses, but shit like this is what happens when it’s taken to the extreme.
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 1 month ago:
What’s the worst that could happen if we eradicate all the rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows?
- Comment on Anon wants robux 1 month ago:
hunter2
- Comment on Thoughts?? 2 months ago:
They were living in 2025 when they posted that in 2023. I don’t think the stats software is the biggest story here.
- Comment on Anon's family tries to rein in grandma 2 months ago:
Have they even said ‘thank you’ once for not dropping a nuke?
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 2 months ago:
Dumb question: which one draws more media attention in Chicago?
In my own experience (not Chicago), the local news is dominated by where the rush-hour crash is today, while national news talks way more about gun deaths.
I’m going to go with the general vibe of Lemmy here and assume you mean that auto deaths need to get more attention in America. To that I would say there is a general cultural attitude that cars are a necessary evil (even among most people who don’t outright love them, which is a huge demographic), and fixing the zoning and infrastructure would take decades and many tens of billions of dollars to restructure a large city around public transit. Besides bumper-sticker-slogan politics (“more public transit!”) there are precious few real, concrete plans for getting from the current situation to the car-free utopia.
Even then, you’d not eliminate cars entirely. Among the more developed western European nations that are known for good public transit, Ireland seems (at a quick glance) to have the fewest cars per person at 536 per 1,000, while the car-happy US has 850/1,000. So best case, you reduce cars by ~35%.
Gun deaths, on the other hand, are easier to imagine as a problem that can be solved relatively quickly and with less disruption. From an advocacy point of view, it’s the lower-hanging fruit.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 2 months ago:
Win10 EOL is surely driving some people away, but it’s difficult to put a number on that. Measuring by market share is tricky and can be misleading. Steam Deck popularity may be driving increased usage, but those users aren’t necessarily migrating their main OS, just adding a new machine to the mix. But maybe “migrating” their time spent in a given OS counts? It’s messy.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I mean its not even too late for this to happen starting like right now 2025, right?
No, it’s not. The US, and increasingly the rest of the western world, is infected by a bunch of politicians who think ‘1984’ is an instruction manual rather than a cautionary tale.
IT being used to weaponize surveillance against the people is happening right now.
- Comment on Excel having a stab at dates 2 months ago:
Yep. “1” is 12:00am on 1-Jan-1900
Numbers less than zero just give a weird error. Between zero and less than one give a nonsense date-formatted non-date.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And of course, anything passed by the normal legislative processes can just as easily be repealed that way.
Lasting change is going to require constitutional amendment(s) to harden the democracy against bad actors.