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- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras 1 week ago:
Yeah I’d thought of drones right away too – but those are being criminalized so rapidly esp. in the USA from what I hear… and drones can draw a lot of attention esp. in certain areas.
DVD-writer lasers are, if I recall, not visible to the naked eye, which makes them quite dangerous (cheesy video apparently confirms this, at the end) to be paired with a visible light or dollar-store visible laser pointer, to set up the aim. Then just leave the DVD laser on for a few minutes or however long it would take to burn out the CCD.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras 1 week ago:
I wonder if Flock cameras would be susceptible to burnout from a DVD-writer laser. Hmm.
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 1 week ago:
For those who have experience, yes – but to the inexperienced eye, there are some false morels that can definitely trick people.
duckduckgo.com/?q=morel+lookalike+gyromytra&t=viv…
We have some Gyromitra that pop up every year in one area of our backyard. They produce a molecule, gyromitrin, which is metabolized in the body into monomethylhydrazine, which is used in rocket fuel(!)… So be careful.
Apparently Gyromitra are consumed in Europe by some – but only after careful preparation… I am not brave enough to try that :/
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 1 week ago:
Good advice, but respectfully there are some trustworthy books. So long as the reader actually follows all of the verification steps in those books.
And definitely not those fly-by-night, probably AI-generated ‘slop’ books online!.
My wife & I only moved out to the west coast in our 40s, and in the decade since, we (slowly! carefully!) learned how to recognize the safe species. Just don’t take any stupid risks – be absolutely sure of an ID before eating. Show what you’ve collected first, if it’s a new one, to someone local who knows and learn from their experience.
One good book is All That The Rain Promises …
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 1 week ago:
Don’t forage for mushrooms unless you identify them in multiple ways, from multiple guidebooks, and ask locals what’s around, first.
There are quite a few types of mushrooms that don’t have any poisonous lookalikes, that is once you know what to look for.
Oyster mushrooms, golden (and winter) chanterelles, puffballs (IFF you slice them and make sure there’s no ‘mushroom’ outline within!!!), hedgehogs, boletes.
- Comment on Modern problems require modern solutions 1 week ago:
Bain Capital? The Bain Capital? Ugh.
In his 2009 book The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy, Josh Kosman described Bain Capital as “notorious for its failure to plough profits back into its businesses,” being the first large private-equity firm to derive a large fraction of its revenues from corporate dividends and other distributions.
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 1 week ago:
It depends. I got perma-banned from one particular sub for modifying all my old posts with an info blurb about the fediverse back when reddit nuked all 3rd-party APIs. Mods accused me to trying to “steal users” – as if people can’t have logins to reddit and other websites… sheesh.
None of the other subs I cleaned my post/comment history in this way banned me however. But I am certain Spez and his minions/investors (fuck /u/spez) doesn’t want people to start using alternatives.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 2 weeks ago:
Home Assistant? Replace google / nest / alexa.
- Comment on Beyond All Reason 3 weeks ago:
I played Total Annihilation many years ago w/friends at a LAN party… good times (I always sucked at it, the name described my fate well :P)
Looks fun!
- Comment on Bongo Cat 4 weeks ago:
This is what the internet that was, and should be again.
- Comment on low beans 4 weeks ago:
My beans are mighty low right now and the fog has been dense these past few days. :/
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 1 month ago:
Could workers not form a ‘dark union’, gathering members from as man different companies as possible without informing the employers up-front – gathering a strike-pay war chest before announcing any unionized shops? Then the next time they pull this, everyone everywhere quits out of solidarity. Draw from the war-chest to pay workers while the companies panic, and then dictate fair terms to return to work.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 1 month ago:
Cue that Ants scene… they want to nip resistance in the bud, before it grows too large.
- Comment on ‘I’m just a girl in Canada trying to get everyone their vibrators’: Why a Toronto sex toy store got a letter from the U.S. Department of War 1 month ago:
Guess Trump will be abducting Carney and ‘running Canada’ like Venezuela now, since we apparently have pissed off the Dept. of War for sending buttplugs to Bahrain. What a world.
- Comment on I'm there! 1 month ago:
There is adventurescientists.org which has projects (sadly most are US-only, but sometimes they extend into Canada). They aren’t necessarily 'camp’s with groups, but they might have something appealing to you.
- Comment on Do it. 1 month ago:
This is the best.
- Comment on I just want to play a game... 2 months ago:
And soon you’ll have to agree to not criticize members of the Saudi Royal Family or disparage their name…
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 2 months ago:
Maybe it was trying to end its tortured existence like those prototype replacement models in Robocop II…
- Comment on WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN] 2 months ago:
This really is a new front in the war on general-purpose computing for regular people. The EU or some entity big enough that’s outside of the US needs to fund new memory fabs ASAP and get this industry out of the hands of the present cartel.
- Comment on Question: Is it possible to put Linux on an x86 Chromebook? 2 months ago:
Neat, saw this just after I posted. Gonna bookmark this!
- Comment on Question: Is it possible to put Linux on an x86 Chromebook? 2 months ago:
I’ve heard Chromebooks are such a pain to put alternative OSes on due to their BIOs. Are there efforts to just reflash these things so they aren’t beholden to Alphabet? That would be the most libre-resistance move: “Un-Chrome” the device permanently.
Hmm as I was typing this I did a quick search: libreboot.org/docs/install/chromebooks.html
…but that’s only for ARM Chromebooks.
- Comment on "It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer] 2 months ago:
This just shows that Valve/Steam is way too powerful in games distribution. Another example of over-centralization in our modern world. My initial thought of course was “just move to itch.io or something”, but they claim no one will give them investment funds to develop games unless they can be on Steam, which is just insane.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 3 months ago:
Yup I use it, when I must use Windows. So much better than the default, I sometimes forget I am using Win11.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 3 months ago:
I’m gonna be that “acktually…” guy for a sec here. Oil & gas (mostly) are not dinosaurs… the vast majority of petrochemicals are from compressed dead algae, planktom and plant matter long pre-dating the dinosaurs: chevron.com/…/explainer-where-do-oil-and-gas-come…
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- Comment on New Year? In this economy? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting 3 months ago:
Of all segments of the software industry, games seem to be the most exploitative. So sad, for what should be fun. Business execs taking advantage of those who cannot resist working on their passion. Unions need to get in that industry so very badly.
- Comment on Android/Phone Alternatives? [Discussion] 4 months ago:
As long as you verify the model of OnePlus you use works in your country, you could give them a try with lineage OS. My OnePlus 5T ran it great. However, in Canada Rogers just recently nerfed their Network so that my 5T no longer worked – 4g, LTE or 5g required now, and voLTE on Rogers apparently wasn’t compatible with OnePlus models. I’m trying to work up the courage to install graphene OS on my new pixel 9.
- Comment on DOdodo DODO DOdodo DODO Dodododo DODO DODOOOOO🎶🎵🎶 5 months ago:
I used to see swarms of grasshoppers every summer as a kid (80s), now a single one is a rare sight.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 5 months ago:
Ah, thanks for the correction!
