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Khanzarate

@ Khanzarate @lemmy.world

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  • My eyes!

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  • Aha but I have astigmatism.

    So I really do get lens flare in real life.

    It's rather annoying. Some TVs in certain lighting situations actually compound my astigmatism with the lens flare to make ultra flares.

    And traffic lights at night, they're the biggest offender

  • 1 January 2025

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  • I'm pretty sure that was his body but he was sent back, so hes looking at the guy that just executed him

  • Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores

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  • I used to work as tech support and can say that there isn't.

    For instance, in some Asian countries the shutter sound is legally mandated. Apple accomplished this by checking where you are. If the phone's region is one of those areas, It'll always make a shutter sound. If your region wasn't one of those areas, and the phone could still tell it was in the area (like a UK phone taken on vacation) It'll make the sound while it was there.

    There's a bunch of ways to implement that, but the employee-facing article detailing this feature specified that a user who was from one of those countries but moved here could factory restore the phone to get it unregulated again.it had employees who were asked to do that to verify they weren't in the original country anymore as a "cover your ass" legal disclaimer kind of thing.

    This was multiple iPhone generations ago, now, but I doubt they've changed. Economies of scale say having one process is easier.

  • Is it unsafe to use a tablet with a big dent in the middle of it?

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  • Based on this iFixit link you should be fine.

    Charge it and keep an eye on it to see if it swells. If it hasn't after a day, you're in the clear.

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  • Yes but that doesn't mean they're not important in ensuring there isn't a messaging monopoly.

    Obviously in an ideal world we'd have multiple interconnected secure apps with some cross-platform interoperability, but until then I'll settle for one government/corporation not having all of everyone's private conversations.

  • Pregnant Kentucky woman cited for street camping while in labor

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  • This Republican was a voice against it, however.

    There is a minority of Republicans that have actual republican values and are being drowned out, similarly to the socialists within the democratic party.

    Its rare to see one, they have to hide now, leaving the typical "Republican" as a far right soulless thing. But this might be an instance of it.

  • The Automated Bot of Experian support phone line, refuses to let me talk to a real person... 🤬

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  • Hypothetically, yes, but during covid was when a company had to truly learn the work-at-home model. Some succeeded, some failed, but the reality is it was an excuse not to try. Automated is cheaper, and laying off employees because a pandemic has closed doors is a great excuse.

    "I'm sorry, due to an abundance of caution we are unwilling to reopen the offices and do not have the infrastructure to have you work securely from home, so we're going to have to furlough everyone until further notice"

    Then they have a month testing the automated system and hit "good enough" by their standards so then they say the furlough becomes a layoff and everyone loses.

  • Nancy Mace tried to sell transphobic wrapping paper & failed miserably

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  • I am also confident that the underlings are giving this sort of thing the minimum effort. What're the politicians gonna do, do it themselves? No way.

  • My post was removed from /politicalmemes because it was not political?

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  • The orcs he made.

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    How to create home lighting system in a tight budget

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  • Lots of people want adjacent room lights or beyond to be on.

    I turn all the lights in my house on at night, despite the savings loss, because I just prefer being able to see into other rooms. (I also use 100w-equivalent bulbs, to really boost the brightness).

    Some people have fears, rational or irrational, about the dark. Children, people paranoid about someone breaking in, etc.

    Some people feel pets should be able to see where they're going.

  • Microsoft allows Windows 11 to be installed on older, unsupported hardware but specifically nixes official support — minimum requirements for full compatibility remain unchanged

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  • So, most windows installations come with an OEM key because it came pre-installed. OEM keys, last I knew, don't have this support, because the manufacturer is responsible for that.

    If you bought a lenovo laptop, its on lenovo.

    But anyone has been able to buy windows directly with a standard license key and windows supports those computers directly. I've never bothered to use it but I worked with people who did and (again, last I knew, some 10+ years ago) they got someone with a thick accent reading from some support article who didn't know what they were about.

    But they could call. Technically that's support.

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    [Question] Does USB4 increase the number of available endpoints?

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  • Just wanna throw in a voice saying your setup sounds completely fine to me. Maybe it's a bit odd but it also sounds like how I'd do it if I had storage needs that large.

    My current storage needs are currently met with a 2.5" SSD connected to a raspberry pi shared with samba over WiFi though so I'm pretty sure every storage nerd in here is gonna tell me my opinion doesn't count, take it with a grain of salt.

  • 🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐

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  • Haven't shared it enough. Send it to everyone you've ever interacted with on Lemmy, individually.

  • When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

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  • I dunno about pricing back then but the issue is the amount of wealth that can be generated from a situation like that.

    Like, hypothetically, let's split your grandfather into two people. A landlord, and a maintenance guy hired to maintain those properties, getting paid a fair wage.

    Would the landlord make money, after paying a mortgage and his maintenance man?

    If the answer is no, then becoming a landlord isn't financially beneficial, and your grandfather could've just been a handyman, and made a steadier income, his money not directly dependent on whether or not someone paid rent.

    If the answer is yes, then your grandfather made more money than his labor was worth. While he earned money doing labor, the real issue is the money he earned by doing nothing. It's likely your grandfather made quite a bit more money than his labor was worth, given the fact that property management companies live entirely off of the price difference from labor put into housing and the price they can charge.

    Landlords are middlemen. They're used car salesman for houses. Are there landlords that aren't shitty? Yeah. My last landlord was awesome, he actually sold me the house I was renting, when I told him I was gonna buy a house and start my family. He was nice, reasonable, all those things. The total rent at the time (pre-covid, so a lot better than now, and split among 6 people) was 2250$, and my mortgage worked out to be 900$.

    Did your grandfather put effort in? Yes. Did he make money doing nothing? Also yes, the difference between what his labor was worth and what he got paid.

    That margin didn't come from his labor or his smart investments, it came from other people trying to live, and potentially created hardships. If his tenants could've paid for the actual cost of housing instead of whatever your grandfather charged, that might mean another kid got to go to college, a father getting to retire earlier, a family that could've worked 1 job instead of 2.

    Your grandfather is probably fine, he likely understood hardships and acted like a human being, but he still belonged to a class of people that are better off if they find ways to minimize the amount of money other people have. Some people judge others for taking what they don't need.

  • The GPT Era Is Already Ending

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  • I do agree it's not realistic, but it can be done.

    I have to assume the people that allow the AI to generate 10,000 answers expect that to be useful in some way, and am extrapolating on what basis they might have for that.

    Unit tests would be it. QA can have a big back and forth with programming, usually. Unlike that, QA can just throw away a failed solution in this case, with no need to iterate on that case.

    I mean, consider the quality of AI-generated answers. Most will fail with the most basic QA tools, reducing 10,000 to hundreds, maybe even just dozens of potential successes. While the QA phase becomes more extensive afterwards, its feasible.

    All we need is... Oh right, several dedicated nuclear reactors.

    The overall plan is ridiculous, overengineered, and solved by just hiring a developer or 2, but someone testing a bunch of submissions that are all wrong in different ways is in fact already in the skill set of people teaching computer science in college.

  • The GPT Era Is Already Ending

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  • Well actually there's ways to automate quality assurance.

    If a programmer reasonably knew that one of these 10,000 files was the "correct" code, they could pull out quality assurance tests and find that code pretty dang easily, all things considered.

    Those tests would eliminate most of the 9,999 wrong ones, and then the QA person could look through the remaining ones by hand. Like a capcha for programming code.

    The power usage still makes this a ridiculous solution.

  • He knew what needed to be done

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  • He gave her the ball

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    I live in the green part (obesity map)

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  • The "I can't believe you're so thin" is still mildly infuriating.

  • Causes of Death in London (1623)

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  • Most that would die in the street would have an underlying condition, like ague or bleeding or even old age, since most people that starve would try to do something about it.

    If you're sick you might not be able to. If you find a job or charity successfully you've averted the death. If you tried to steal and fail you'll get on the executed list, or if you got wounded but got away, you'll be on the bleeding list, or if you succeed then you dont die on the street.

    I imagine those six would have the "died of unknown causes" phrase attached to them in modern times.