dustyData

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Not even the law uses the verb stealing. It is infringement. Nothing any digital pirate does deprives the owner of their property. Remember, if buying isn't owning, then copying isn't stealing.

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Tribal action vs. principled action. Humans have been dealing with this since forever. Lots of people are unable to act on principle and default to follow the leader of the tribe they identify with, ditching their self-proclaimed principles. Some people are willing to ditch the tribe to uphold their principles. And so on and on our eternal struggles continue.

Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” - Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted. ( arstechnica.com )

Big tech companies are still trying to rally workers back into physical offices, and many workers are still not having it. Based on a recent report, computer-maker Dell has stumbled even more than most....

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They know, they just don't care. The payroll goes down, the profit goes up. The most talented are also the most expensive ones and they're also the most expensive to dismiss legally on a layoff process. If they leave on their own they save Dell a ton of money. What they want is to keep operations without disturbing revenue, you don't need the best talent to achieve that, you only need the good enough.

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Yeah, but they're just doing it because they know that Tesla is grossly overvalued, and as soon as he leaves the post the reality distortion bubble bursts and their precious stock will overcorrect into loses. They want some more time to put through the correct paperwork so when they sell right before the bubble burst it doesn't look like insider trading.

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Uuhh, I know we are talking about phones. But the stock keyboard supports all desktop shortcuts when Android runs on a tablet. Like, I'm using them right now on a Samsung A8.

dustyData ,

Well, I'm downtown right now and I no longer have my tablet with me. But here's from the horse's mouth. It says Galaxy Tab S, but it applies to all Galaxy tablets. There you can see the ctrl key on the tablet's default keyboard. That key has full functionality for the common shortcuts. That's undo, redo, copy, cut, paste, and select all. I use them all the time ever since I got it. Both tablets and phones can undo and redo if you connect a bluetooth keyboard to them too.

The Samsung keyboard for phones also acquires the powers of undo and redo if you activate the swipe gestures.

I don't know why it is so simple on the tablet but not on the phones, but whatever. It's a UX quirk, it's not some magic that the keyboards are creating. Android has an UndoManager right in the OS since before 2018. It is what apps that have undo buttons use themselves.

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Curiously, the door is unhinged. They remove it and tie it inside the ISS.

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I think this isn't addressed to people with mental illness. It's more of a general mental health awareness education. I worked therapy sessions and you'd be shocked by the amount of people with truly atrocious coping mechanisms because they didn't receive healthy emotional education.

Playing video games for hours without rests, bathroom or stretch breaks. Self medicating, alcohol abuse, binging junk food at 3 am, etc. This people didn't have a mental illness that I could diagnose directly. Usually they were just overwhelmed by life circumstances. But they were spiraling downwards because of their habits and beliefs on how to deal with the stresses of life.

We did something called mental health hygiene. And they were things just like these. Not just knowing about them, but switching attitudes and habits around them. There's so much people that aren't capable of identifying emotions and needs that we even give them names. People who get hangry are individuals who are easily irritated who can't identify their hunger and it makes them reactive with aggression to almost any social stimulus. That's not a mental illness, it is just bad mental health hygiene.

Saying to such a person "hey, I think you're hungry and that's making you angry and aggressive, go eat" sounds stupidly obvious. But for the person going through it, it isn't that obvious.

Aside: the amount of times I've had to work sleep schedules with depressed and anxious patients is ridiculously high. People with mental illnesses do forget to sleep. And my job was telling them, "you need sleep ASAP" then work with them how to get it done. Nothing is obvious.

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I won't say exactly where I work, because it is a sensitive topic. But the best part of my job is that I get to facilitate access to help for people after they have suffered some of the worst and most horrible experiences that humans can go through. The worse part of my work, interestingly, is not having to listen to the most disheartening stories and life experiences that usually really challenge my faith in humanity. Although that is heavy on the soul and tiring on my emotions, the actually worst part of my job is that I also have to inform to a lot of people, asking for help but who don't fit the selection criteria for the help programs, that they will not be receiving help from my organization. I do try to get them in touch with others who sometimes can help them, but in general, it is always more people being turned down than accepted. There's too much need in the world and too little people helping, but we are here helping.

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Well, you see. Those in charge want that apple there. Because when push comes to shove that apple will also kill activists, protestors and political opponents without asking questions or refusing orders. He will keep fellow apples in check and keep them from speaking up as well. They like that apple.

If I have a USB powered device, could I leave it plugged into a portable power bank (like the kind you charge your phone with) as a power outage backup?

Basically as the title says. We have semi frequent power outages where I live. The noise machine in my daughter's room goes out and wakes her up. If I were to buy a USB powered one, plug it into a power bank like one of those 10000ma ones you get for charging cell phones, would it have continuous power. Basically like a cheap...

dustyData ,

They make and sell mini UPS devices. Usually marketed for modems and routers. I use one of those and they have several hours of autonomy for low power consumption devices, and they don't beep uncontrollably like regular PC UPSs.

Selfhosted alternatives to Goodreads?

So I finally broke down and made a very poor purchasing decision and ordered an e-ink writer to be a notepad/e-reader hybrid. Partially so that it is less of a hassle to read books I got from kickstarters and the like while still using the kindle app for the disturbing amounts of money I throw at Amazon....

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I do. I track my reading on Storygraph because it motivates me and helps me keep up the habit when I hit a slump or end up with some uninspiring piece. I don't have to fumble for a new book to read because all recommendations and interests are neatly registered and organized. My progress is tracked and I can celebrate my success. I also have a huge library of digital books, over 2 thousand. By tracking I can keep a log of what I have and haven't read. Sometimes, after a long while, you forget the names of specific books in series, or where you were last off in a particular author's collection, etc. It helps with it all. But I don't connect or share that with anyone. Nor do I feel the need to push it on anyone. Friends and acquaintances are not that into reading as I am and they see no use for a social network about books, and I don't want nosy strangers rummaging though my reading history.

dustyData ,

If I want something new I use gnooks. Their recommendations are usually spot on with my tastes. The secret to reading is immediate access. I got an ereader and that multiplied my interest in reading. Without it I wouldn't read as much as I do.

dustyData ,

Worst still, it's petty dictators with no authority. The actual authorities gave permission, the butthurt low level authoritarians were the ones objecting, stealing her phone, holding her hostage, using intimidation tactics and harassing her. Like, forget whether this is or isn't an ancestral tradition or whatever. You don't detain a minor and prevent them from contacting their legal guardians in a disciplinary situation where absolutely no one is in danger. This is appalling for the entire institution and all their teachers.

dustyData ,

We've gone full circle, my mom has flour pots and my aunt makes dresses (little coverlets) for them.

Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit ( www.theregister.com )

HR software biz BambooHR surveyed more than 1,500 employees, a third of whom work in HR. The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO mandates would result in staff leaving....

dustyData ,

Uh, welcome to society, I guess. That's not a “problem with society”, that's just society. It's what being human is about, developing meaningful relationships with other humans. The actual problem is that we have put in place barriers and obstacles to make us even more isolated and less integrated, thus stripping ourselves off of the social strategies and mechanisms that reduce risks on that principal-agent problem. It is way harder for your car mechanic to rip you off when they are also your neighbor and life long friend. If they defraud you, you can ruin their reputation in the community and thus make them unable to acquire any more jobs in that community. The might also feel an emotional moral compulsion to not hurt you, and vice-versa, for you to fulfill a just payment.

dustyData ,

I’m skeptical of the claim that an average person has the power to ruin someone’s reputation as a punishment for wrongdoing.

If you read my comment, you'll realize that it is explicitly in the context of a small tightly knit community. If they decide to leave the community, then that's a win for the community, now we don't have to deal with the bad actor anymore.

Our society is large and extremely anonymous

If you pay close attention, that was exactly my comment. That is the problem with our current society, not the principal/agent problem. That is just a society. We evolved in a world where you hardly had to keep up with a handful of individuals, maybe meet less than 500 people your entire life. We are not fit for a world with 8 billion+ of us and you can potentially interact with millions of them directly with a tiny glass device in your pocket. That is not something we are good at. We are good at forming strong bonds and meaning relationships with a handful of people who you can sort of trust almost completely at all times, and they will in turn relay you information about who amongst the strangers to trust or not. It is the fundamental basis of gossip.

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AMOLED Alway On Displays are your friends. My phone shows the time, battery charge and notification icons, very dimly, everything else is pitch black. It's better than the blinking led ever was. It sits on the table, if it vibrates, I look at it and decide if it is important or not based on the icon that shows up, then I ignore it anyways.

dustyData ,

I think those are three of those high powered, high lumen led bulbs. For when you want to simulate looking straight at the sun whenever you look up in your living room.

dustyData ,

There's a difference between a 6000k and 4500k light. The latter is still warmer without being yellow. It's usually bellow 3500k that it starts to fuck up with colors. But, a 6500k or more light will also fuck up your wall colors and make the house look like a factory warehouse. It also makes people look sickly and unnatural, and it is known to trigger headaches and migraines. Also, people's opinions can't be incorrect, it's their opinion. Let them have it.

dustyData ,

Rokect science at the end of the day is just fancy plumbing with a ton of really easy but extremely complex math added to it. Leaks are the one thing that almost every single mission to space has had to dealt with, and helium is one of the hardest substances to contain, second only to hydrogen.

dustyData ,

Difficulty and complexity are two different and independent variables. Rocket science math is made of simple operations and principles but compounded and mixed into complex configurations.

Think about juggling. Throwing one ball into the air and catching it back is easy and simple. But juggling three balls at the same time is a complex operation, it is made of individually easy motions, but it is complex to do three or more at the same time in a coordinated and harmonious way.

Rocket science IRL is that but 100 fold.

dustyData ,

Thanks for the totally uncalled for and unprovoked personal insult. But the honor is not mine, it's a phrase by Chris Hackett, writer for Popular Science, artist, maker and science communicator. But thanks for pointing out you are the boring idiot in the room. It makes it easier to ignore you.

dustyData ,

Reading comprehension: 0

Are you sure you have a degree at anything, if it is math related I would understand, you obviously suck at language.

Social skills: nonexistent.

dustyData ,

This, today PC means laptop, that's what almost everyone who has a PC uses, most people do with just a tablet though. 95% of the garbage people use the internet for can be done on a mid range smart phone. The people who need high powered desktop devices or use them for entertainment are already a minority in the market for computing devices. The largest chunk of OS marketshare is decided by business purchases, not individual PC owners.

dustyData ,

The most sold computing device on the planet are Android smartphones. Android is a flavor of Linux.

dustyData ,

Helium leaks all the time, it's a very small molecule that is very hard to contain. ULA and SpaceX have flown with worse.

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There's neuropsychology studies on states of religious ecstasy and euphoria. The theory is that essentially the brain fucks itself up on an excess of dopamine and our own endogenic version of DMT. Certain religious sects actually train for and aim at producing such states. Fasting, meditation and music are facilitators of the state, and it is not casual that all three are part of most religious practices.

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Dock firmware. If changing the cable did something, chances are the chips on the dock are not working nicely with the OS. It is a hit or a miss for what I've researched on it. What you have to know is that a Usb-C cable is only the physical shape of the port, what that port can do depends on ancillary chips implementing the protocols, and the protocol has to be supported on both sides of the connection. So, something on your current driver configuration is not talking with the dock. Maybe try running a newer kernel and see if that helps.

Also, the 30fps lock might be due to X11. I've not tried Wayland but this is one of the points the evangelists like to ramble about. Something, something, if both monitors are not equal and connected through the same protocol it doesn't work, just use Wayland or whatever.

For what is worth, lots of people do complain online about docks not working with Windows and some even stop working after a few months, those things are fickle as hell.

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Wayland is developed by the same people who created and still maintain X11. It's been on the works for a decade, but, and it is a big but, it's still experimental. Sure, feature wise it's 90% there, but it also creates a lot of incompatibility issues, as applications have to be made with Wayland in mind. There's Xwayland that is included in most, but not all, deployments of Wayland that run X apps in Wayland, but that has compatibility issues as well. I get a lot of flak for saying this but, Wayland is not yet ready to be the universal replacement for X11, and that is OK, this is not entirely on the Wayland developer's hands. Adoption of new technology takes a lot of time and it requires all developers on board.

Mint precisely because of their “just get it working” philosophy only provides experimental support for Wayland. As X11 is the mature implementation and no software will malfunction for using it, as they are all virtually designed to work with X. However, if you have the latest version of Mint, Virginia, you already have Wayland available to you. Just choose it on your display manager before login in. But it is marked as experimental because some software might glitch.

Mint is trying to create the most straight forward and easiest experience to the vast majority of people. We might have normalized it in the tech circles, but the vast majority of people don't use multi monitor setups. The non-tech people who do, usually do it on an enterprise setting where IT deals with the technical details.

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Like I said, it has feature parity to about roughly over 90%, but not adoption on the software side. The DE developers are correct that they need to start supporting it as the default, because de-facto we are forced to make it so. X11 is on death row after all. But if it glitches on Wayland but not on X, then to me it is still experimental.

EDIT: BTW for me it is experimental, but also, Mint also calls it experimental, because their support from the Cinnamon DE is experimental.

dustyData ,

Not only a dead format, but a unstable shelf life format. CDs and DVDs were always marketed as storage for good. But technically that was never possible, not the way it was actually manufactured. The used plastics and metal laminates had a rough expected life of 15 years or thereabouts, at best. Obviously a massive increase from magnetic tapes that started degrading as soon as the recording stopped and got slowly more damaged the more you played them. But still not a permanent solution. No organized data is stored forever, entropy won't allow this. Most if not all original compact discs are probably gone by now, and some end user burnables had even worse chemistry in their data layers than original prints.

Only actively making new copies of digital goods in new storage media regularly keeps those goods alive. We need new storage mediums that are resilient in the measure of centuries and not just a decade or so. We need commercial glass 3D optical storage now.

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Not just enterprise. Some organizations handle extremely sensitive information of victims of crimes, survivors of wars, potential political targets, just to name a few. A feature taking a screenshot and registering all of that data is a nonstarter. MS will have to prove that the feature doesn't run with certain gov clients, the privacy risk is way too high.

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So they already wrote Musk's Linux version for him. Always ahead of the curve, aren't we?

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Read some Foucault for an explanation, that's just being human. You don't stop being human just because you follow scientific ideals. All human endeavors will follow human dynamics.

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It's the same concept but with a third of the amount of letters. What is wrong with a word that exist in the language being used for its intended meaning?

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I feel excited every time I find a new word, it means an opportunity to learn has just presented itself. I still semi regularly find new words, even in my native language. I love opportunities to grow and learn. I learn new languages explicitly to experience this more often.

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Gotta love the brain dead whataboutism.

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Would you care to read the article? They weren't thin walled capsules, they were cairns. It made it so the statues were a solid block of material. There would be no or little fragmentation or spalling effect towards the statue.

dustyData ,

It's done by some Millenial or GenZer animator. It's a series of videos made on Source Filmmaker that feature prominently the head of Half-Life character, Gman, amongst others, protruding out of a toilet, doing a comically animated dance to various remixes of popular songs with the special featuring of the line “Skibidi”. The remixes are all original for the videos. The extremely short videos were initially of only the toilet man dancing with fellow toilet folk, but it has evolved to follow the conflict between skibidi toilets against camera head men struggling to take over the world with increasingly ridiculous scenarios of combat and warfare that include mechas, gore and sci-fi weapons. It has no dialogue, the plot is implied via animation exclusively.

The thing went popular on the YouTube shorts algorithmic suggestions and since it has no dialogue, it features repetitive and catchy music and a bizarre and amusing subject matter with immature bodily function humor, it garnered massive attention by small children. I say that Gen alpha barely passes 10 years old right now, so we should give them a break before imposing inflexible marketing labels upon them.

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It shows, animation keep getting better every episode. He's obviously learning a lot from these. Also, I think most episodes are muted now as several grifter have made remixes that sound exactly as his music and copyright claimed his videos. But if he doesn't want to monetize them anymore it still sucks that someone is trying to funnel money out of a kid's work.

dustyData ,

That's an hardcore but apt name for a mushroom.

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Connery's Bond was also awfully sexists and misogynistic. It's incredibly cringe trying to watch certain scenes of that era. Some are rape fantasies through and thru.

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It looks ok. The premise is actually really bad. But I guess Michael Keaton, Jenna Ortega and of course Wynona Rider can make it work.

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This is analog to the whole bear in a forest question and women. If it involves Reddit, it's bears, every single time.

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Why does the garbage stench always comes from kbin.social? Lemmy can't get an option to ban entire instances fast enough.

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They've know about the helium leak for a month now but managers “did not consider it significant enough to stop the launch”. It's always incompetent managers.

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Tough, but fair.

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