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- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 1 day ago:
If you’re curious about the history, public school lunches were federally funded and made free under FDR during WWII to combat malnourishment, especially for high schoolers who were getting drafted after turning 18.
It was so successful that the US continued the policy even after the war ended, and hence cafeterias became the default since they include a large kitchen that’s capable of producing high quality food at large quantities.
That is until Reagen, among a crap ton of other things, nuked lots of the socialist policies which included free school lunches.
Schools continued to produce lunch, but you had to pay.
40+ years of insane decline later, and public schools are so under funded that they can’t even afford to produce lunch in their cafeterias anymore. American consumerism shoved its way in, so now everything is prepackaged garbage made as cheaply as possible from the same conglomerates that make unhealthy trash that’s often banned by other countries due to health risks.
The final killing blow was when Michelle Obama failed to tackle this core issue in her student health campaign, and they forced public schools to ban essentially flavor as a concept (anything “high” in salt, spice, oil/fats, calories, etc).
Everything was switched over to “healthy” options which literally just meant low fat/zero calorie slop or sugar slop.
If you want a real kicker, the chocolate milk they served at my HS had 28g of sugar per serving lol. But don’t worry because the vending machines now only have baked potato chips and diet soda.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 days ago:
If you mean inevitable due to lack of global action, then yeah because that’s how most models present eventual societal collapse.
If you mean because its too far gone, that’s not true. There’s still time to mitigate the issues we’ve created, but the effort required increases every year, and there’s not enough being done about it.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 days ago:
I read the title in the same voice as youtube’s “That’s how the law works.”
- Comment on woops 3 days ago:
Why am I like this?
Procrastination
And how can I make it stop?
Any well known method that you can probably find on youtube, but the general idea is that you need to overcome the psychological barrier of just starting the task. How you do that is up to you.
Once you start, then you will naturally continue. And once you get in the habit of not dismissing tasks, then you will find it easier to do them from the beginning.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 1 week ago:
Repurposed my 750ti in my homelab server lol. That poor thing is also likely not gonna rest any time soon.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 1 week ago:
Still on a 1660ti and probably will be for the foreseeable future lol.
- Comment on My kind of Doctor 1 week ago:
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
Hey at least it still runs on your machine.
DLSS 6 will run exclusively on the cloud because RTX 6 series won’t ship with any RAM or compute nodes since they all went into enterprise cards lol
- Comment on Is spreading. 2 weeks ago:
Nice lol, have fun!
- Comment on So why are Indian curries so popular in the UK? (interest in culinary perspectives). 2 weeks ago:
Non answer but it reminds me that Britainized Indian food is the same as Americanized Chinese food. Changed enough that its actually counts as its own unique thing which I guess is cool.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 2 weeks ago:
AYN Thor is a awesome DS handheld, but they too also warned that their supplier is bumping RAM prices heavily, so they expect the price to go up too
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 2 weeks ago:
Xbox Windows X11 (not to be confused with Xorg X11 or DX11)
Live announcement on X (not to be confused with Xbox Series X or Xbox One X)
Anyways rip NT Kernel lol. Now there really isn’t any use case left where it would actually be useful.
- Comment on How would I improve Wifi consistency within my house? 2 weeks ago:
As others have said, repeaters are pretty garbage for extending wifi. Even mesh systems are nothing compared to multiple APs connected with ethernet.
For hardware if possible, I’d try to stick to using proper APs and not just reused wireless routers so that you can ensure the radio settings are properly matched automatically or manually. I prefer Ubiquiti, but they’re on the pricier side. You can get something way cheaper so long as it has configurable radio settings.
When using multiple APs, you wanna make sure that the newer standards for device roaming are on, and that they are running the same WiFi network. Make sure any repeater or AP to AP wireless function stays off.
Best thing to do is whip out the wifiman app and look at the channel map which will show you what frequency your WiFi devices are running at, as well as any overlap with other people’s routers. Assuming you’ve taken out the repeaters, the packet loss will then most likely occur from overlapping SSIDs.
Now APs are supposed to pick the most empty channel possible, but lots of times they suck at it or are just overcongested (ex: apartments). This is where you can manually configure channels to eliminate overlap.
In my personal experience, you can just consider 2.4Ghz a lost cause and leave it on auto. There’s only 3 non overlapping channels, so there’s just no chance you’ll ever get a solid signal unless you live like a solid half mile away from your neighbor.
For 5Ghz, you get a ton of more room and bandwidth to play with. Once you feel comfortable playing with the channel settings, you will discover the super secret DFS channels if you live in the US. Those channels can interfere with weather satellite data, so you should totally never use them because its not like our current administration has been budget cutting the national weather service or anything.
If you want to have some extra fun, spin up Kali linux on a laptop or anything with WiFi and run bettercap to see the inevitable smart home or IoT device spamming the airwaves causing even more packet loss.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This thread did a great job showing which lemmy instance users can’t be taken seriously lol.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 3 weeks ago:
If you want a very good in depth answer: youtu.be/7y_hbz6loEo
The gist of it is that the USA, KSA, and Israel all want Iran’s current government to be toppled as they are a direct military/economic/political threat.
What’s the logic here? Not just the conspiracy. But why now? Why at all? Is Israel gaining something that I’m not seeing? Destabilization the main goal? What’s the USA gaining here?
Israel is an ethnostate so they do ethnostate things, which means constantly attacking anyone they view as “not us”. Iran happens to be on the top of that list after Israel’s former enemies, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and KSA were passified via the US or Britain.
The US and KSA also want to secure their oil regime, and now that Venezuela is dealt with, Iran is next.
Why does the USA love Israel so much?
They have a significant economic and military investment in Israel, and many of those Israeli billionaires are a part of AIPAC, which successfully lobbies the US to do what they want.
A bonus is Christian zionism which reinforces the idea that Israel must exist to cause the second coming of christ, or the messiah for the Jewish zionists.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think the Biden or a Harris administration would have started a war with Iran while brazenly sidestepping congress.
No they’d probably unbrazenly sidestep congress after Israel manufacturers a reason for them to go to war with something like another 9/11.
- Comment on Is spreading. 3 weeks ago:
Linux Mint if you want something nice and easy out of box.
Fedora if you feel like taking the plunge
Bazzite if you want Fedora’s advantages for gaming but don’t want to mess with a conventional Linux install (kinda more like Android, lots of guardrails)
- Comment on Is spreading. 3 weeks ago:
Fedora or Bazzite
- Comment on Is spreading. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is spreading. 3 weeks ago:
Step 1: Just don’t pick Ubuntu
Step 2: Refer to Step 1
Optional step: Don’t pick GNOME for the Desktop Environment lol
- Comment on Expecto patronum my ass! 4 weeks ago:
Percy Jackson did this so much better by explaining only imperial gold or celestial bronze can be used to craft weapons that could harm powerful entities.
So naturally some dude loaded celestial bronze bullets into his warplane’s (probably .50 cal M2) machine guns lol
- Comment on Get on my level 5 weeks ago:
PAF looking at the Rafales in the background:
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The last time this was posted, it was PugJesus, and he barely agreed to my live example of Imran Khan.
And as a Pakistani, go fuck yourself. My democratically elected leader is in a jail going blind because American imperialism is universal amongst both parties, and Biden signed off on his removal without a second thought.
Even more insult to injury, Imran Khan won his election against a corrupt, voter fraud heavy, and FPTP system as a 3rd party that upset the duopoly after 70+ years.
Twice. Second time while he was in jail.
So now all that manure you people scream about RCV for 3rd parties in the US is laid barren as propaganda from the DNC & RNC to convince you never to vote independent or 3rd party.
Despite the fact the DNC was caught rigging their own primaries to ensure Bernie, a populist independent, would never win.
Twice.
- Comment on How long and how hard would it be to get a star removed on The Hollywood Walk of Fame? Asking for a friend. 5 weeks ago:
Removing or vandalizing a Hollywood star won’t accomplish much, and the star that you’re probably thinking of was already damaged daily back in 2016.
Asking this question on lemmy without a darknet is also a stupid easy way to get caught if they feel like investigating you lol/
- Comment on A succulent meal 5 weeks ago:
No one before the 1930s had access to such a large breed of chicken lol.
They probably would have confused this picture with a miniature Turkey.
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 5 weeks ago:
See it actually goes like this:
The cybersecurity field sees the CS and software field as a bunch of posers.
The red team (field) sees the blue team as a bunch of posers.
The actual redteam (opsec white hat) sees pentesters as a bunch of posers.
The blackhat hackers sees white hat hackers as a bunch of posers.
Most (skilled) blackhats work for an APT or Nation State, so we almost never get to see a post compromise attack thay actually does anything other than crypto ransom or targeted hardware destruction.
But seriously, this post really depends on what type of cybersecurity work.
I would expect to see this from a bunch of internal company pentesters ;)
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Their direct Revenue from Windows is not a main concern since I think it was something like 20% as you said. The problem though is that their cloud and enterprise offerings rely on the fact that businesses buy into the Windows platform.
Absolute garbage tier software like Teams, modern O365, AD, Azure, etc only sells because its built on Windows. If MSFT loses the home market, businesses have a high chance of following, especially since their QA process relies exclusively on home users.
Companies like RedHat and OpenSUSE already provide such services and plenty of smaller or newer clients have trialed or switched user-end desktop machines over to linux.
All they really need is to reach maybe 10% desktop market share, and MSFT would start facing a slaughter in the coming years as big OEMs start shipping linux from factory.
Anyone who isn’t heavily vendor locked would probably take the chance, especially if they don’t even rely on any Windows specific functionality for work.
But yeah as you said, good riddance. Windows has been such a trash experience for me ever since 8. They ignored all the critical issues and complaints on the stupid insider hub, and then doubled down on ruining the OS further in 10 and 11.
- Comment on But bro please 1 month ago:
Nothing, i’m just saying that most people don’t understand this and don’t know that their individual skills with a firearm just won’t matter much if you don’t organize into a proper group with modern vehicles at your disposable.
Point is, if you wanna go down the route of “I need 2A for an oppressive government”, you’ll quickly find yourself getting into the same situation as everyone else. Unless you form a side via a civil war, you’re gonna suffer heavy losses in the initial stage just like everyone else, and commit to long term attrition just like everyone else.
Not saying it’s a bad idea in any way, but there’s a significant portion of the American community that I could not imagine being able to walk 10k despite stockpiling a platoon’s worth of ammo.
- Comment on But bro please 1 month ago:
Gulf War 1 was literally the king of all curbstomps and the Taliban fell just as fast to a swarm of CAS, even though they had the NWA completly surrounded.
Only Vietnam survived because surprise surprise they had a hefty mechanized supply line provided by the USSR via China.
Gulf 2 and the aftermath in Afghanistan was still a ridiculously long occupation that all hinged on the idea that the US no longer had any meaningful interest to commit resources and would eventually leave.
Point is, if you wanna go down the route of “I need 2A for an oppressive government”, you’ll quickly find yourself getting into the same situation as everyone else. Unless you form a side via a civil war, you’re gonna suffer heavy losses in the initial stage just like everyone else, and commit to long term attrition just like everyone else.
- Comment on But bro please 1 month ago:
IFVs exist for this exact purpose and they typically have minimum 1 per tank if not 2.
You ain’t gonna get very far when theres a 25mm auto cannon spraying and praying in your general direction.
Plus the coaxial 7.62 MGs
Plus the hull mounted M2 .50 cal MGs.
Why do you think separatists and resistance movements have to rely on IEDs and forcing fights in urban environments with a metric ton of cover available?
Why do you think they get steamrolled by mechanized armored units like almost every time that forces them into guerilla fighting tactics like digging tunnels and using mountainous terrain?
