Nollij

@Nollij@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the impacts of a power outage that isn't that obvious / isn't talked about a lot? And What happens to restaurant bills? Do Buses still work? (since card payments wouldn't work)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  no bus to church??

  In the US, many (most?) churches offer their own transportation. It’s common enough that the term ‘church bus’ is a thing, although it’s usually more like a large van. For those that don’t, the parishioners will often offer transportation to those that need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They have to file paperwork with the necessary supporting documents. If they can’t, you have no idea why. Maybe it’s because they’re ineligible and in violation of immigration and visa restrictions. Maybe it’s because the documents were lost in a move. Maybe they had their identity stolen and are awaiting new documents. Maybe they just don’t actually give a shit about the job and aren’t bothering to do the paperwork to start working.

  All you can say is that you’ve asked them to fill out the paperwork and they haven’t done so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I found the specs a bit interesting. 52.7 kWh battery and a curb weight of 3,600 lbs is nearly identical to the Chevy Bolt, but this only has a range of 150 miles instead of 240. Is it really that much less efficient? The only thing I can think of is the aerodynamics, but that’s a 40% difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any reason to not just use samba or NFS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix now offers dialogue-only subtitles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great and all that Netflix is doing this, but this isn’t something new in the world. It sounds like their old subtitles were actually Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired (SDH). If you’ve ever seen that acronym and wondered what it meant, now you do.

  Subtitles not labeled SDH have traditionally been dialogue-only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Has the Most Words Per Minute of Any TV Show, Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s

  😠

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My primary reason for using free ESXi has been career development. VMware was the biggest player at all of the biggest potential employers, so it made sense to be familiar with.

  These days, they’re all looking to jump ship. Some are actively migrating, others won’t get there at all.

  But all of them now value experience in alternatives at least as much, if not more than VMware.

  I’m still using free ESXi, but the next time I rebuild (i.e. new hardware), it will not be ESXi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To really find out, you probably just have to ask them directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At 16, her personality is visible, and her taste in partners has probably shown. If she’s into guys with ties to drugs, violence, etc, this might actually be a step up.

  It still has the glaringly obvious issues OP was asking about, but you don’t always get to choose the cards you’re dealt. This could be the least harmful choice available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is so much additional context needed to say with any confidence. The first thought would be that he can be a good provider (i.e. money) and her other prospects are not very promising. Another could be power, and how that could be extended to the family.

  There’s yet another possibility that they aren’t actually ok with it, but are only presenting that face in public. Teenage girls are notoriously hard to control, and this might be the fastest/easiest way to get her to end it or learn a lesson.

  There are still a number of other possibilities, many involving religion, that there’s no way to know which might apply to your situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have mentioned, it refers to the gear shift. But it actually has a meaningful origin - many years ago, the gear order was not agreed upon. Many cars had a gear shift that was PNDLR (which I’ve heard pronounced “pendler”), where reverse was at the end. At the time, it was useful to tell the difference between a PRNDL and a PNDLR shift.

  Of course that was all before 1971, when PRNDL was mandated by the US government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some public numbers on how many occurrences are found each year on the major platforms.

  IIRC, Facebook deals with around 75 million reports per year. Twitter, Reddit, and others were around 20 million reports per year.

  I don’t know how many are dealt with on Mastodon or Lemmy (or how you’d even get reliable numbers for that), but something tells me it’s a lot less than the bigger platforms these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini can now personalize its answers based on your search history⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This might be interesting. I turned off all of my Google history years ago. I presume they still collected all of it.

  This could reveal some of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I don't have my lunch my sugar crashes and I get sleepy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like a daytime event. If it runs that late, it interferes with nighttime events, most notably drinking/getting laid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more like claiming to own a subreddit, or a Twitter hashtag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Having a Discord server” doesn’t mean what those words normally mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 230,000 Canadians Want Elon Musk’s Citizenship Revoked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For comparison, the total population of Canada is 40.1 million people, meaning that just over 0.5% signed this petition.

  As much as I enjoy the sentiment, this petition was never going to go anywhere. As others have pointed out, revoking citizenship based on popular opinion just isn’t a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you find this compelling evidence to doubt the result of the election?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the very few cases where the trump campaign showed any evidence whatsoever, they actually did very well with the court rulings. Keep in mind that these were absolutely not cases of widespread fraud, but of localized errors that are common in every election.

  The fact that most suits were filed with literally no evidence whatsoever was very telling, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m planning to teach middle school Spanish, would casually mentioning having a girlfriend cause an uproar?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does Spanish have a super generic term like “significant other” or “partner” that doesn’t convey anything useful?

  Side note, the types of parents you would be concerned about are probably also the type that get super racist about teaching Spanish in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you- this is exactly the sort of critique I had been expecting/hoping to find

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you, and would go further.

  A while back, there was a study (IIRC) from the UK that recommended against gender transitioning for children. No surprise, it created quite an uproar before it was retracted.

  At no point in any of the media coverage or comments on Lemmy, etc, did I see any discussion of the study itself. To this day, I have no idea if there was an issue with the methodology. It seems that no one, neither supporters nor opponents, bothered to read past the headline. Many of them were very fervent in their beliefs, but that wasn’t enough to get them to look at the details.

  This is also very bad for science - there are countless headline-grabbing “studies” that fail basic requirements. I’m sure you’ve seen things like “Is coffee/chocolate/etc good for you? A new 10-day study of 23 people suggests that…”. Which of course should get picked apart.

  If we aren’t following the science, then what are we even trying to do?

  (As an aside, I suspect that study was flawed, but I can’t confirm. It goes against the conclusions widely agreed upon, and would require significant rigor and evidence to support the claim)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly why, for many years, there was no percentage on the label. They were concerned that people would try to get it to 100%.

  Fast forward a few decades, and it’s extremely rare to find Americans consuming that little sugar, so the concern was no longer valid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your favourite YouTube channels might not survive this [Minute Earth]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I appreciate that rule in many communities, there’s nothing stopping them from posting a summary or even editorial in the body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your favourite YouTube channels might not survive this [Minute Earth]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TL;DW:

  A lot of science-related YouTube channels get indirect funding from the US government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m inferring that you are not in the US, so your local laws may differ. But in the US, your attorney is required to act in your best interests to the best of their ability. Working against their client is a quick way to be disbarred and paying a massive amount to their (now former) client.

  That said, this whole thing seems like an exercise in creative writing. Your life savings would be too tempting to any attorney, and they would try to steal it? You need to make friends with someone powerful to find a good lawyer? You’ll need all of this in a few months, but not now? None of it makes any sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'll happen to you!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What did those poor cables do to you to get the Liam Neeson treatment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'll happen to you!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But can it spy on users for marketing purposes? That’s the real question.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jamie Dimon popped off at the 1,200+ JPMorgan employees fighting against full-time RTO: 'I don’t care how many people sign that petition'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have a Chase account, the best time to close it was 20 years ago.

  The second best time is right this very second.

  Even ignoring this story, with the collapse of the CFPB, you are about to get screwed harder than you can even imagine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would do this for just 1.99⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Counter point: Lemmy has always been more toxic.

  I’ve never seen a group (as a whole) that’s less capable of accepting that there are things they don’t know, or other viewpoints.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unsurprisingly, fitness is always more complicated than it seems.

  You are certainly correct that runners don’t burn (much) more calories than a couch potato. But weightlifters do, vs a couch potato of the same weight.

  The thing about cardio is that the calories go directly into effort. The calories burned are roughly proportional to the effort (distance). But the moment you stop, the calories stop getting burned.

  If you are doing weightlifting, the calories spent at the time to lift a heavy object are minimal. But it instructs your body to add muscle to better handle all the heavy lifting you do. Once you have that muscle, you burn a ton of calories 24 hours per day just keeping it alive. It becomes part of your base metabolic rate. It burns nearly the same calories whether you’re at the gym, or sitting on the couch. And it will continue to burn those calories until your body decides you no longer need that extra muscle mass and it atrophies.