qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Whatever you do, do not touch that one BNC cable. Just trust me on this.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago

Remote backup server would be my suggestion.

Configure it with a VPN to talk to your home network and set it up at a trusted friend's or family's place.

I do this with a raspberry pi and an external HDD that takes daily/weekly/monthly snapshots, with daily rsync. Works nicely for me.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If the minimum wage was a comfortable living wage


like it should be, in my and many other folks' opinion


then it wouldn't matter. One person's excess isn't a problem, unless it's at the expense of someone else (which, you know, is kinda the case...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't have a problem with folks being outraged at an illegitimate vote; but what I can't get behind is this outrage while at the same time being (at best) unconcerned with legitimate voters being turned away.

One is bad because it's a vote counting when it shouldn't; the other is bad because it's a vote not counting when it should. It's essentially the same functional outcome, it's just that one of these...you know...actually happens a lot and the other doesn't.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I would be very surprised if such a fork would diverge from Linux. I would guess that this would be little more than a branch with (most likely) support for Russian hardware. Just my hunch.

A legitimate hard fork doesn't seem particularly smart to me, but what do I know...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Awesome bandwidth to be sure, but I do think there is a difference between data transfer to RAM (such as network traffic) vs. traffic purely from one location to another (station wagon with tapes/747 with SD cards/etc.).

For the latter, actually using the data in any meaningful way is probably limited to read time of the media, which is likely slow.

But yeah, my go-to would be micro SD cards on a plane :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My headcanon for The Matrix's "humans are batteries" is that it's the machines' perverse interpretation of this


killing the humans is off the table, and for whatever reason letting them live with no purpose to serve the machines is also disallowed. But giving their lives "meaning" in the form of a shitty (and thermodynamically dubious) "battery" somehow satisfies the rules.

It's a very big stretch, I'll admit...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 15 points 3 weeks ago

Fun fact, the (rough) conversion efficiency of calories to mechanical joules in the human body (separate from the mechanical to electrical you're referring to) is about 25%


but this is about the same factor as going from calories to joules! So, for a human to put out 13.5 kJ of energy would require about 13.5 food calories (kilocalories).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 3 weeks ago

I'm guessing it's because the developers either have a different speciality that they focus on, are employed to support specific hardware, or both.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 4 weeks ago

Step one: join local bike coalition.

Step two: become a single-iseue voter and only vote for their endorsements.

Only half joking here.

It's not perfect in my city, but it is getting better, which is awesome to see


in the past 7 or so years that I've lived here it has gotten way way better. The pandemic helped a ton (slow streets implemented in a really great way among other things).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

*Nobel memorial prize. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences

(Unless these folks won the Nobel prize and then switched fields.)

Yes I realize this is incredibly pedantic...

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