Shurimal

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Zero. Because it's turned off when I'm away from home for more than a few hours or sleeping. It never gets more than 24 hours of uptime, ever.

Even if my home server is turned on 24/7 it still runs a chron job to do a weekly reboot on sunday nights to keep things tidy.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

family is everything, child need them

My favourite part is when the conservatives start talking about all children absolutely needing mother and father. Not just parents, not a parent, not a family; mother and father specifically. Yeah, sure, now what about the millions of single parents? Shall we start forcefully assigning a new spouse of opposite sex to them the day after their current spouse dies, divorces (if we keep that as an option, that is), runs away or whatever? All pregnant people who are not in a relationship are immediately married off to a random person of opposite sex? No opt-out. Because think of the children!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

An old joke comes to mind.

The sarge orders a private to go and set up an observation post for 24 hours camouflaging himself as a tree stump.

12 hours later the private comes back to report. The sarge asks why the private is back 12 hours earlier than ordered.

"Well, sir," explains the private, "I set up camouflage as a tree stump and start observing the enemy movements. Then a young couple arrives at my position and starts a picnic. Fine, that I can deal with. Then they sit on me and start making out. I can even endure that, no problem. What I did not endure was the boy cutting their names into my bum with a pocket knife."

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

Cybertruck at least has a coherent design language. New Boomers look like a badly trained AI vomited random crap from a prompt by someone who has no idea about design and has just downed a bottle of vodka mixed with a bottle of strong beer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Back the fuck up! If you only have one copy, you have none.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Maxim 57: Artillery exists to launch large chunks of budget at an enemy it cannot actually see.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Forever War delved into the problems with super strength. The power armor took a humongous amount of training to be used finely enough in everyday tasks and not break something or someone. A simple handshake between someone in power armor and someone without could result in crushed bones or a ripped off arm. A great show of skill in using the power armor was the main character sitting down in office and writing a letter with pen and paper while wearing the armor!

Another great example of how dangerous superstrength is when dealing with non-superstrength people was in anime Beastars where one big carnivore accidentally ripped off the arm of his smaller non-carnivore friend. In-lore was said to be a very common thing to the extent that limb reattachment is a common medical procedure.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

For a publicly traded company the people who buy their products are not the customers for whom to create value.

Shareholders are the real customers.

People who buy the products become a resource to extract value from.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (15 children)

The very day Hamas attack happened I suspected that there's no way Israel's intelligence orgs, some of the best in the world, did not know about the plan for the attack way before it happened. This whole affair stinks to the high heavens.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Winter:
-10°C outside, sometimes colder; comfy +22°C inside. Sun sets at 1600, but that's what tea, candles and mood lighting is for. Everything is nice and quiet outside, with an occasional noise of snowplows after it snows.

Summer:
30°C outside, 30°C inside (aircon is not common here in older houses). Hotter in the sun in the middle of the sea of asphalt and concrete that is called "city". Sun sets at 2200 and rises at 0400.

When the sun rises it's like fucking Jurassic Park outside when all the birds wake up and start making noises. And by "birds" I mean not lovely songbirds like blackbirds and skylarks but pidgeons, crows and seagulls (and no, I don't live by the sea; I live pretty much as far from the sea as one can in my country. The city is overrun with seagulls.). They seemingly love to scream right into the ventilation shafts of apartment buildings.

When the sun sets in summer all the inebriated revellers come out and start making noises including loud and off-note singing, loud laughing and loud inarticulate screaming. Add loud boomboxes to the mix and it's one hell of a racket.

Also, mosquitos. Lots of mosquitos.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Obviously somewhere along there were some hubs that weren’t obvious to the naked eye.

Probably the port on your laptop was on a hub built onto the mobo. If my understanding is right that's how USB ports usually are connected: controller->hub->ports. If you open up device manager and go to USB controllers you'll see several root hubs and hubs even when you have no external hubs or docks connected.

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