Vent

@Vent@lemm.ee

I blow hot air.

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Surprisingly? It's common knowledge that a high home value only helps when selling. When living in a home, you want the value to be as low as possible since it affects property tax, insurance, etc... That's one of the major factors that prices people out of their homes when their town gets gentrified.

The surprising part is the astonishing rate at which insurance premiums are shooting up faster than a hardened fentanyl addict.

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I think once upon a time, some dumb politician used it to announce something dumb and it didn't work lol

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Who has this many friends willing to jump into a creek fully unclothed?

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I like the free money the Bilt card gives me. I don't use WF for anything else though.

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Lots of credit unions will pay ATM fees for you so you don't need to find one in network unless you're depositing.

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No, it's just an automatic reimbursement into your account, up to a limit like $20/month.

One-Line Patch For Intel Meteor Lake Yields Up To 72% Better Performance, +7% Geo Mean ( www.phoronix.com )

Covered last week on Phoronix was a new patch from Intel that with tuning to the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver was showing big wins for Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" performance and power efficiency. I was curious with the Intel claims posted for a couple benchmarks and thus over the weekend set out to run many Intel...

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P-state what now? We all know what the real commit was

+//sleep(100);
-sleep(100);

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Including women??? Well I say! It's only proper to publicly flog men. Everyone knows that!

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Public flogging of a child is to be executed by the nearest authority figure upon any misbehavior, outburst, or disrespect perpetrated by, or suspected to be perpetrated by, said child. If their innate shortcomings are not beaten out of them at the earliest opportunity, they are bound to develop into unemployed hooligans.

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Wouldn't removing the cap just delay the issue? You get more out of SS the more you put in. The cap exists because there is a maximum amount you can get out of SS. If they remove the input cap, then that implies they'd remove the output cap too. In which case, the immediate result is a lot more money flowing into SS, but over time, a whole lot more money will start flowing out, too.

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Needs based support is definitely a good thing, but that's not what SS is. That's closer to welfare and would require a much deeper look into people's financial situation than a retirement program like SS.

I could make $500k/yr while working then experience some disaster/disability that takes it all away. Conversely, I could be homeless then suddenly come into massive wealth later in my life. Or, I could live a lavish life because my parents/SO are extremely wealthy, yet I am dirt poor on paper. SS is not designed for these situations, and attempting to modify it to fit them is probably a worse idea than bolstering other entitlement programs that are designed to fill in the gaps.

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Most companies don't die by making their product unbelievably great with an impossibly incredible, yet entirely unsustainable, value proposition for its customers. In fact, they're doing the opposite by decreasing product quality as much as possible and fucking over the consumers and customer at every turn. MoviePass's downfall much more closely mirrors an overfunded startup rather than enshitification.

I wish more companies died like MoviePass. It was an amazing two years.

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Conscienceness is stored in the balls

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Yeah but then they got $900k, could an attorney have done that?

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They like cameras

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But scorpion, a type of insect bug, at the bottom of the tastiness scale??

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Thanks for your hard work!

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Schedule I is reserved for only the most vile drugs, like LSD!

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He's a person? First I'm hearing of this.

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If you want a decentralized search, set up a DHT crawler and build a db of millions of torrents in a week or two. If you want anonymity/legal protection, use a trusted VPN. I'm not sure I'd trust a random independent tor-like implementation, especially when the real tor is slow and has imperfect anonymity.

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If you're worried about unauthorized access to the physical machine, you could always just do disk-level encryption instead or store the app's data in something like a Veracrypt virtual disk. They'd still be able to access the data if they go through your OS/user, but wouldn't pick anything up by accessing the drive directly.

Nothing short of E2EE can truly stop someone from accessing your data if they have physical access to the server, but disk encryption would require a targeted attack to break, and no host is wasting their time targeting your meme server. I seriously doubt they'd access it even if you had no encryption at all, since if they get caught doing that they'd get in a heap of legal trouble and lose a ton of business.

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Plenty of comments hurt my brain trying to comprehend how utterly stupid they are, but I don't think there's anything an anonymous stranger could say that would hurt my feelings, that kinda stuff needs to be personal.

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With this court, it's a tossup whether they'll throw this out as blatantly unconstitutional or codify a Christian-only requirement for all government positions.

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The post's title is wrong and doesn't match the article. It's about the 0.1%, not the 1%. Huge difference. 1 in 100 people are not business and cultural leaders.

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That's assuming your interest rate is higher than inflation, which it typically is not. Even when it is, like (debatably) now, it's not that much higher. Over time, you're losing money without spending a cent.

Now, if you invest in some ETFs you might be able to keep going for a while, but there's the chance that the market crashes and stays down long enough that you run out. That's pretty unlikely though, especially if you get a few good years to grow that egg before any crash happens.

It wouldn't be that difficult to live off that investment, but a savings account and interest would not suffice.

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This is what I did. New induction stovetop for $5000 vs an induction cooktop for $50 that I can also take camping? Easy choice. We use the cooktop for a big toaster oven for everything, including pasta, so we only need to fire up the gas range if we absolutely need multiple burners or a ton of oven space.

Our cooktop heats up water just about as fast as our electric kettle, which was surprising to me. I guess they both probably pull the same amount of power from the wall.

Can't recommend an induction cooktop enough. We got a Nuwave PIC, but I'm sure any cooktop will provide a similar great experience. If you end up getting a PIC, I recommend getting the case with it. We passed it up, but we've taken it camping a few times now and the case would have helped. It totally blows our camp stove out of the water.

Can someone demystify computer Ports for me? Please? Blocking, unblocking, opening, allowing, VPNs and their effect, what ports are and what they do, step by step, when you have to interact with them?

It's the one thing when I'm configuring things that makes me wince because I know it will give me the business, and I know it shouldn't, but it does, every time. I have no real idea what I'm doing, what it is, how it works, so of course I'm blindly following instructions like a monkey at a typewriter....

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All these answers read like they're written for comp sci students rather than a general audience. Let me give an ELI5 (more like ELI12) a shot.

Ports are just numbers. They aren't physical pathways or doors or windows or anything like that. A better analogy is a street address, like an apartment number. Your IP address identifies your computer (apartment building), and the port identifies the program on the computer (the apartment). When a program needs to talk to the internet, which is very similar to sending a letter, it hands a packet/letter to your computer and your computer assigns the program a port number. It then puts that number on the return address of the letter so that the recipient knows where to send the response. The computer remembers that port number is associated with that program, so when it gets an incoming letter with that number, it gives it to the program. After the program is done talking to the internet, the computer frees the port up to be used by another program.

Ports are "closed" when there is no program associated with them. Any incoming letters are ignored because they have nowhere to go.

Ports are "open" when they're associated with a program. This happens automatically when programs send outgoing letters, or you can manually open (or "forward") ports by telling your computer/router what the port should be associated with and that it shouldn't use the port for something else.

ELI5 over.

The internet is networks on top of networks on top of networks, so your computer will have an IP and assign a port number, then your router will remember that and change the address on the letter to its own IP with a different port number, then that process repeats a few more times until eventually it reaches its destination. You don't have to deal much with your computer's internal network, but occasionally you have to deal with your router's by opening/forwarding a port because it has a NAT that has to deal with all of the devices on your network. Forwarding the port just tells your router to always send incoming letters with that port number to a specific device.

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Could be worse, mine have started saying "the MVP must be feature complete and 100% bug free" but there's a 0% chance there's enough budget for that.

Please, for the love of God, VOTE! ( pawb.social )

I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...

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Do you believe Trump/Republicans will decrease, maintain, or increase the current genocide levels?

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There are other elections, primaries, donations, and general social pressure. The sad part is you're right, committing to vote for the lesser evil every time does reduce pressure and influence. However, it's not a flaw in the voting strategy, it's a flaw in the voting system.

The alternative is to abstain or vote for someone with no chance, in which case you end up with the greater evil in office who has four years to inflict permanent damage on people and further corrupt the system. You may show the less-evil party that you don't agree with them and that they need to rethink some policies, but the point is moot if they aren't in power and now the greater evil can do things like appoint three SCOTUS justices, irreversibly damage the environment, and pass voting "reform" to lessen the impact of your future votes. Your message is sent, yes, but the overall impact is bad for everyone and reduces your future influence.

In a FPTP system, that's the sad reality we are given. There really is no better choice than to vote for the lesser evil in the presidential election. That's why ranked choice voting would be such a game changer, then you truly can vote for your favorite without helping your least favorite gain office.

You have more influence the smaller the election is, which is partly why it's so important to vote in every election, especially your local elections. Local elections also more directly impact your community and broad elections are impacted by them too! Nearly all higher-up politicians start local, and the larger parties look to local elections to see what gets people out to vote. Plus, if you hate all of your options in a local election, it's much more possible to run yourself and actually have a change at winning. You aren't just voting for candidates either, there's almost always projects, new laws, and funding allocations to vote for locally.

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How much money does one need for a long walk and listening to birds?

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That's how I remember it

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In 2020, Marc Benioff, the co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, declared to the New York Times that “it’s time for a new kind of capitalism: stakeholder capitalism, which recognizes that our companies have a responsibility to all our stakeholders”.

And how is our current system not already an extreme version of this???

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I hope the world loses realtors

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Maybe it's a 4lb banana?

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Or when people figure out that bananas actually cost ~20¢ each and not $2, lol

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That's crappy, but have you seen what other remote apps are doing?

Vizio has an ad that takes up around 25% of the screen!

MyQ has a large scrolling ad at the top, and they are actively hostile towards any integration that allows you to control your garage door without using their app (unless you use one of the very few subscription-based integrations they offer, of course).

vizio app with a huge ad

myQ app with a scrolling ad

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Damn and Facebook ratted them out

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