Nollij
@Nollij@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on good to know what can kill you in each state 1 week ago:
If it makes you feel better, there’s a good chance the deer died from those injuries. Between blood loss, infections, and whatever physical injuries, nature is not very forgiving.
- Comment on Dexcom is holding health access hostage for diabetic users 1 week ago:
Sorry, you (probably) agreed to binding arbitration. No class actions or even public spectacle allowed
- Comment on Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November 1 week ago:
You accidentally committed a tautology - it’s a crime because it’s illegal/there’s a law against it. With this law, it will, by definition, become a crime.
I have no idea what the UK’s laws are on incest itself, nor fake depictions of crimes (e.g. fake snuff), and I don’t intend to find out.
- Comment on Is my laundry machine broken? 1 week ago:
While that would work, it’s massively overkill for the original question about whether the water is getting hot. There are much simpler and definitive ways to get the answer.
Now, if it’s broken and they want to fix it, multimeter all the way
- Comment on What I Imagine Taylor Swift Fans Eat 1 week ago:
You basically can, albeit not in pill form. There’s a whole category of complete meal replacement options, mostly in the form of shakes. The best known is Soylent by Rosa Labs, but there are dozens of others targeting every nutritional profile around. Most are a fraction of the cost of even the most basic foods.
Strangely, most of those people will still not even try these.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 3 weeks ago:
It certainly looks like it would be better than regular rice. From some quick googling, it acts more like fiber and is better for diabetics. If I had to eat rice, it’s probably what I would do.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 3 weeks ago:
Not to derail your point, but rice can be especially bad for people (myself included) where carbs (esp. white rice) make you hungry. If you’re one of those people where Chinese food makes you hungry an hour later, it’s usually because your insulin spikes in response to the rice.
For those people, obviously try to avoid white rice (and flour, sugar, and potatoes). Brown rice usually includes the fiber on the outside (which gets stripped away for processed white rice) which at least slows the carb rush.
Fresh or even frozen, unprocessed veggies that you have to cook yourself are still remarkably cheap, even in this economy. A pan of random chopped veggies and some random seasonings from the spice aisle (no blends!) can easily get you a filling and nutritious meal, and still cheaper than a box of hamburger helper.
- Comment on A car parked in front of the fire hydrant hindered the firefighters' intervention, so the team broke two side windows and passed the hose through the inside of the car. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it definitely would’ve been a more direct route draped across the hood.
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 1 month ago:
The best time to leave Allstate was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
Also applies to most insurance companies, particularly the ones that do a lot of advertising.
- Comment on If we flipped the script, and the people working the shittiest jobs in America got Elon Musk money for working what would happen? Then gave the rich the same wage the lowly worker would earn? 1 month ago:
Your point is valid, but the math is oversimplified. Due to inflation, $1m in 1946 (80 years ago) is worth about $18m today.
Still, $1b is way more than enough to live an entire life of luxury, without ever needing to worry (in any serious way) about money.
- Comment on Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t you need to specify their actual need, rather than the broad term?
- Comment on Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth 2 months ago:
I would question what the circumstances were that you needed to point out that someone is mentally challenged. Especially in a workplace, that seems like a rare need.
- Comment on Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth 2 months ago:
That’s remarkably similar to British colonialism. IIRC, they believed you “removed” that part of their lineage after 3 generations.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 2 months ago:
They don’t claim to be sugar-free, at least not the ones made of sugar. Instead, they claim to have 0g of sugar per serving. That is a critical difference.
- Comment on Would you eat 'honey' if humans spat phlegm on pollen and then dehydrated it? 2 months ago:
The closest analogue we normally have is a wet nurse, and most people don’t like that idea. How would you feel if your mother/sister/daughter was one? Then make it worse, because there’s profit to be had by bottling it instead of just feeding someone else’s child. You don’t need to scale at all before it becomes a problem.
- Comment on Would you eat 'honey' if humans spat phlegm on pollen and then dehydrated it? 2 months ago:
The human rights violations are pretty staggering, too.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 2 months ago:
Shrinkflation implies a customer base that would either go elsewhere or without. I’m sure you’ve seen the efforts to eliminate all competition (establishing trusts, i.e. mega mergers) and weaseling into contracts like government that can’t be avoided.
When your audience has no choice, you have no limits.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t shorthand (stenography) be a better solution then?
Cursive was very specifically a solution to quill/fountain pens of old, where you needed to reduce the times the pen touched the paper.
- Comment on True story, I hate humanity 2 months ago:
Every major social media site has a problem with it. Most report tens of millions of incidents every year, much of it hidden in non-porn areas.
- Comment on Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language. 2 months ago:
That is Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing-impaired (SDH). It is not the standard for subtitles in the US and Canada.
- Comment on Civic duty 2 months ago:
Obviously it depends on your location, but you can probably just sign up. Around here, you contact the county court system (which is how our juries are administered), give them your contact info, and wait for a case. You’re limited to volunteering once per year, because some retirees would keep doing it just to stay busy.
- Comment on When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them? 2 months ago:
He timed his contract expiration to match Letterman’s. He really wanted to take over the Late Show, a move that paid off.
- Comment on Anon has been misled 2 months ago:
For those too lazy to look it up:
12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[e] but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’” (NIV)
- Comment on YouTube money for charities 2 months ago:
I appreciate what you’re trying to do, but you should look into the numbers. I follow a channel that went through their YouTube earnings a while back. 225k subscribers, long-form (20-30 minutes) videos getting 30k views each.
He got about $40/video.
The only way you could make the math work -at all- is if you’re already on resistive heat and you only do it during winter. In any other scenario, you’ll spend more on electricity than they will get in revenue. Even in this one, it’s ignoring things like increased wear for what might not even be pennies of revenue.
- Comment on Kansans Will Vote on an Elected Supreme Court. The Target: Abortion. 3 months ago:
An elected court isn’t necessarily a bad idea. But the people should vote directly on the issue at hand, i.e. abortion. I’m betting the people will overwhelmingly vote in support of it.
- Comment on Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims 3 months ago:
Even worse, it suggests that whatever the AI used as training data also shows retaliation. Since it’s internal, there’s a good chance they just showed that they illegally retaliate.
- Comment on Is there a way to make a recovery USB just in case shit happens? Will it still work without a recovery moment? 3 months ago:
The answer really depends on your needs and use cases, as well as your risk profile.
The simplest option is to schedule regular backups to a USB (preferably rotating drives, following the 3-2-1 rule). If “shit happens”, you would restore that backup using the same software. You may have difficulties restoring to different hardware. Acronis and Macrium are simple solutions here, or Clonezilla if you prefer free or offline backups.
If you want a way to boot to a diagnostic tool, and recover from there, there are countless options. From a live Linux distro, UBCD, WinRE, Media Creation Tool, the options abound. You may or may not be able to recover any data, or your existing system. It really depends on your definition of “shit happens”, and what you need it to do.
I suspect that your real goal is to move your existing Windows install (and all associated data) to a USB drive, and boot from that. Windows to Go was exactly that, but was discontinued. There are some hobby projects to do the same. This is (usually) a really bad idea. USB drives are much slower and less reliable, and create extra points of failure. It also keeps almost all of the other risks of the internal drive. You’re better off using option #1 above.
- Comment on Is there music I haven't heard because I only speak English? 4 months ago:
Way back in the day, Last.fm recommended me a number of (mostly metal) tracks in other languages that absolutely slap. I have no idea how to pronounce any of it, or even type the characters to see what else they might have done. All I can do is copy/paste, which is of limited value since I only speak English.
So yes, and I’m sure I’m missing a ton more just like these that I just have no way to find.
- Comment on Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ? 4 months ago:
Theoretically it could be done. Microsoft SCCM has allowed in-place full reimaging for a long time. It downloads a WinPE boot image (which loads everything into a RAM disk), reboots into that, and launches all of the rest from there. Even wiping and repartitioning the drive.
I don’t see why that WinPE image couldn’t be replaced by a small Linux image, or that you could install Linux from WinPE. I’ve just never seen it.
That said, no browser should ever have that level of permissions, ever, under any circumstances. The security problems would be staggering.
- Comment on Reckless Ben and the Blatant Corruption - Protest the courts. The Police. The Corporate HQ 4 months ago:
Something that stood out to me from Legal Eagle pt1 was that everyone involved - everyone - should’ve talked to a lawyer sooner than they did (if they even did). This is especially true for Reckless Ben, and what he did in Utah (covered by Legal Eagle pt2). He really, really needs to find a lawyer, and listen to their advice. I get that he’s trying to create content, but this isn’t the way.