Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why? 4 days ago:
I’m not cringe enough to recognize any being higher than myself.
- Comment on Why? 5 days ago:
The plastic is in your water and food. If you have organic mass, you have microplastics in you.
- Comment on Why? 5 days ago:
Man, we had some dell WSD19 docks that were pushing like 90 or 120w through USB-C and those things would rarely last more than a year.
- Comment on Why? 5 days ago:
Or grab a wireless charger. Of all the great things about USB-C, that tiny little “tongue” in the socket isn’t one. Wireless charging will get rid of 99% of the wear that port will see.
- Comment on Why? 5 days ago:
The main thing that kills them is sunlight. Totally disintegrates the cover apple uses on their cables.
- Comment on Why? 5 days ago:
The idea of a spring plus the poor retention of USB-C just doesn’t seem like a good idea to me. Seems like these would just be a lot of cable coiled up to make a short cable.
- Comment on Why? 5 days ago:
It’s not a paradox. There is a reason why those old cables don’t degrade, and it’s the same reason why fish are full of microscopic shredded plastic that will never go away.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 1 week ago:
Nah, my snakes don’t really mess with the foot pedals.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 1 week ago:
Useless knowledge.
When playing Mechwarrior 2 on a Windows 2000 system, make sure to change your video mode to 32bit color.
I throw in a useful tip too!
You can buy USB foot switches for your computer and assign keystrokes and other functions to them.
Almost feels like cheating when you are playing a tactical shooter and can lean left or right and strafe on demand without crossing any controls. Having microphone activation, map, inventory, or any number of misc actions boud to a foot pedal makes a huge difference in your ability to play a game.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 1 week ago:
Sharks are older than trees.
- Comment on Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon? 3 weeks ago:
There ain’t enough of him to go around. Willing to negotiate sending a musk, hegseth, or thiel though.
- Comment on Happy Kirkday! 5 weeks ago:
IV/V Romans agree…
- Comment on Happy Kirkday! 5 weeks ago:
It’s funny because we keep pointing it out, and every fucking individual conservative shitslinger has had this lesson multiple times, and it never seems to stick.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 1 month ago:
That’s a trap.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
Clearly, there isn’t even an attempt to rectify why you attacked me on a statement I did not make. It’s a free forum where you can post and comment how you like, but I will not waste my time crafting meaningful replies for you that are either beyond your comprehension, or more likely, that you are unwilling to engage in with honesty.
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 1 month ago:
I don’t think anyone anywhere mentioned redirecting flock cameras funds would even approach switching the grid to green energy.
Couldn’t the billions have been used for solar infrastructure?
That’s how I interpreted your statement actually. It came off to me as “the government is spending so much money on Flock when that huge sum could be used to setup a lot of solar energy generation”. The points again though, is that it’s not that much money (in comparison to other government contractors), a big chunk of it comes from private sources not public anyway, and it would be a small drop in a big bucket of money that is needed to have a meaningful effect on national solar power generation.
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 1 month ago:
Just barely over a billion actually. We don’t have good numbers from 2017 to 2023, but from 2023 onwards they’re basically spot on 1 billion.
Regardless, not all of that money comes from groups that should be building solar power stations, and the amount of money spent on them is not nearly on the scale required to switch the grid to green energy in a reasonable timeframe. That was the whole point, you don’t understand the financials, you don’t understand the sources. You have a valid frustration about where and how public funds are being spent, but you’re barking up the wrong tree, and you’ve picked a rather small tree at that.
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 1 month ago:
“Annual recurring revenue (ARR) is a key metric used by subscription and software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses to measure the predictable and recurring revenue expected over a 12-month period”
They are expecting to bring 500 million this year in revenue. Thats what I said, and that’s what you said. Not 500 million for the first half of the year and another 500 million the rest of the year. 500 million total.
Perhaps you should do a slightly less cursory search.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
Didn’t address the strawman that you created, and instead went to ad-hominem attacks.
You at least put forth some effort to make another point, but I see no reason to waste my time defending against it until we are cleary having an honest discussion on even terms.
Please address why you made a strawman in the first place, and I will address the points you made in your last reply.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
Some empathy is normal, but I don’t think my level of empathy is, and I’m certain that there isn’t enough for an anarchist society to exist at a scale larger than a few thousand people.
I think would rather enjoy living in an equitable society where everyone helps everyone else, and there is no property, but as soon as your society needs to have modern amenities (water, sanitation, electricity, roads, etc) setup or repaired, you’re going to involve a chain of people so large to support that infrastructure that your society will extend beyond it’s stable size.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
I don’t even think it was that altruistic. I have a saw, and a ladder. I could have risked myself to try to remove the tree and fix up the roof… Not to mention the potential lawsuits from screwing it up, since I’m not trained in tree removal or roof repairs, or getting arrested for trespass for messing around in a house I don’t own.
I put in an amount of effort to satisfy my own concerns about how devasted I would be if my house was destroyed and no one even lifted a finger to let me know about it before I got home.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
you have a story where you spent an hour of your time and effort to help your neighbour without getting anything out of it yourself.
everyone contributes as best they’re able with no concern for getting value out of an exchange proportional to the effort put in
If you read a little slower, and tried a little harder, you might understand what I actually wrote. I’m gonna go ahead and lay it out here, since you seem to be struggling…
I am not everyone, you are not everyone. Everyone is not me, and everyone is not you. People are individuals, and as individuals, they have different experiences in life. Those different experiences cause those individuals to behave differently. Some people do like helping others, (like I me), but not everyone does. You’ll note in my story that not all my neighbors worked together to find this guy and let him know about his house, I doubt any of them did except me. I called the police about it, and they tried to help, because they are paid by my city (and by extension, me and my neighbors) to help if they can. I do not hold a social view that depends on everyone being as altruistic (if not more so) than I am. I have a personal philosophy that you should help people, and prioritize helping them based on how close they are to you. I put myself first, a little selfish, sure, but it’s the old “put your mask on first, then help others” logic. You can’t help others effectively if you need help yourself. After that, it’s my family first, then friends, neighbors, residents of my state, countrymen, neighboring countries, continent, and then the rest of the world. However, it would be foolish of me to think that everyone has this same willingness to help, or the same logical progression of altruism for their fellow man. That is why I as an individual can help others with no expectations of direct compensation without characterizing myself as a naive fool who flunked out of homeschool, because I didn’t actually state anything about the education of individuals that help others freely. Your comment is a strawman, where you build a different argument, and attack that, rather than debate what I have actually said.
Now, I’m asking you a question to make sure you are arguing in good faith. Please be sure to address it in your reply. Did you build a strawman intentionally, or did you do it accidentally?
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 1 month ago:
Maybe, maybe not.
They’re only pulling ~300-500 million in revenue, which is enough money to build… 1 or 2 grid scale solar farms…
I’m not saying that wouldn’t be a better use of the money, but you should probably do some cursory research on the company so you understand what they are doing, and the financial scale that they are doing it at.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
What makes you think people work together even with the threat/promise of those two things?
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
Maybe an hour of time between checking around the house to make sure no one was home, checking with my other neighbors to see if they had his contact info, calling the non-emergency police line, chekcing the country records for property info, digging up my neighbor’s linked in profile, calling the corporate office (getting stuck on hold) then thinking to check the Zillow listing and call the agent that last sold the house.
What was it worth to me? I didn’t have to spend the rest of my day wondering if he was going to come home from a day of work and find that his house needed major repairs that could have been mitigated if only he’d known a few hours earlier. He was able to get a crew out there the same day to get the tree out of his roof and get some temporary coverage up to weather then next few days of storms.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
No, I’m saying that your reading comprehension abilities and your lofty ideals of a utopian society where no one needs property and everyone contributes as best they’re able with no concern for getting value out of an exchange proportional to the effort the put in, is indicative of a failed home-school education and a lack of real world experience.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
Your first comment is exhibiting the isolationist mindset of suburnites
I don’t think you can narrow that general mindset down to suburbanites. People in all kinds of population densities form in-groups and outgroups, it doesn’t matter if they are in suburbia, a big city, or out in the country. I lived in Baltimore for a year, and that was probably the most socially isolated I’ve ever been. The east coast of the US is just a bucket of crabs, everyone trying to climb over everyone else. The people there wouldn’t even spit at you for free. My partner grew up in a very rural environment, like “outside city limits, and that city only had one traffic light of the blinking yellow variety” rural. The help they got growing up was from family. They would do odd jobs for neighbors and neighbors would do likewise, but there was always some expectation of barter or compensation for materials and services. They definitely had a concept of private property, and knew their tools, time, and expertise were valuable assets necessary to continue their desired lifestyle.
Please, contrast my experiences with yours. I’d love to hear a first-hand account from someone living in a current anarchist society.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
One of them lost a roof during some recent storms. He just moved into the neighborhood and no one had his contact info. I found his house listing on zillow, called his realtor and managed to get her to get him home in time to get his pets and documents secure before the next wave of storms hit.
My neighbors next to me are retired, they have an old dog and are struggling with health issues (all 3 of them) neighbor across the street had a falling out with his son, daughter is graduating high school this year. Other neighbor got a new job and a raise, has been working really hard on his yard and put in a nice gazebo and grill. The guys next to him are working on their drag racing VW Bug. The people on his other side are from Pakistan and are starting a food truck business.
Bro has never lived anywhere but buttfuck suburbia and it shows.
Can you explain how/why people in urban or rural areas would behave any different?
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 1 month ago:
Sometimes it’s public entities, like city councils, or police departments. Othertimes, it’s privately owned business, like Lowes, HomeDepot, apartment complexs, or even “communities” like HOAs. The point is that Flock is a private business, and only government affiliated when and where th government decides to do business with them.
This is in contrast to say, traffic cameras, owned by state DoTs, which are publicly prooerty and exist on public infrastructure.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
How anarchism actually works:
“These suckers are socially obligated to give me free lemonade if I look like I really need it”
“Fuck you, you can’t have my lemons to make lemonade for that slacker, I need my lemons”
“No one wants to provide the materials and do the dangerous work of fixing my roof for free! And now my house will collapse and I’ll have nowhere to live…”