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Pika

@ Pika @rekabu.ru

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  • Cloudflare

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  • The thing is, every instance is its own server (virtual or physical). If it uses Cloudflare services somewhere, well...

    If it uses some other stack, it'll be just fine. Neither of the two instances I'm on seem to use Cloudflare and hence the experience was uninterrupted for me.

  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

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  • GPL > BSD

  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

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  • I cannot express how much peace of mind switching to Linux has granted me.

    "Windows now has this horrible feature! Windows now breaks user experience! Windows has ads shoved everywhere!"

    And here I am, comfortably sipping my cup of tea and watching the world burn from afar.

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    [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame

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  • Having an exclusive game for Steam hardware would undermine the reason why users support Valve in the first place.

  • Paul McCartney joins music industry protest against AI with silent track

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  • This.

    Honestly, I'd rather not have copyright at all. The problem is not that copyright law doesn't apply, it's that a particular kind of wealthy businessmen are shifting our policies to fit their needs.

  • TIL: There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S

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  • Most homeowners only own the home they live in. For what it's worth, housing prices don't matter if you don't intend to buy or sell.

  • TIL: There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S

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  • We can't afford to subsidize everything, many of us are struggling to get by ourselves.

    You shouldn't pay for it. Landlords with plenty of housing under their belt and billionaires, though...

    If you are in CA and refuse to move to Detroit then it doesn't matter how many available homes there are in Detroit.

    I'm pretty sure plenty of homeless people would take what they're offered. If they don't - it's up to them, but an offer must be made.

  • Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs

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  • Sounds like a porn site

  • Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs

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  • Rich asshole who throws money that could alter the lives of thousands on yet another yacht.

  • What would be the most optimal way to have good bodily nutrition with the lowest cost per meal?

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  • Quite unexpected. I love soy sauce in a classic tomato-cucumber salad, but soy sauce + beetroot is something I cannot comprehend. Maybe I'll give it a spin, though!

  • What would be the most optimal way to have good bodily nutrition with the lowest cost per meal?

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  • On the other side, being killed by a bear is not particularly healthy

  • What would be the most optimal way to have good bodily nutrition with the lowest cost per meal?

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  • Where I am, it's potato, carrots, and beets, which coincidentally make a traditional salad.

    This is not a coincidence :)

    Really, if you want to look into cheap and good food, look no further than what your ancestors ate. They ate it precisely because it was cheap and as nutritionally adequate as they could get.

    Sure, some modifications must be made now that we have more foods and clean drinking water available on demand, but this is a good starting point.

  • Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss

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  • Mining two cryptos together is already a thing, so...

  • YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg

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  • Jesus Christ, you can produce a Q1 article with nothing but math and a bunch of eggs?

    I really need to up my publishing standards.

    P.S. Of course they got some fancy measuring equipment in there

  • YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg

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  • There's an app for everything, ain't it?

    I remember seeing an app that just allowed you to set one of three timers corresponding to one of three teas you may want to brew.

    At this rate, it's easier to memorize.

  • If you speak a language that has a formal 'you', when do you use it?

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  • Russian here.

    I use the formal "You" when talking to adults I don't know well and in official conversations. Also, with superiors.

    I use the informal "you" with friends and family, and with colleagues I know well. Informal "you" also communicates warmth, safety, a call to action, or authority, which is why it may be used when addressing children (particularly preteens), people in danger, or someone else you need to either influence or make feel safe, or both.

    Of course there are millions of exceptions, and everyone keeps it slightly different. For this reason, it is common for people to have hard time figuring whether to address certain people by formal or informal "you". Mistakenly using the formal option can be read as creating more distance, the informal - as invading the personal space. It's an issue in spoken conversations, too, as these forms are actually two different words that are audibly different.

  • MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On

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  • Nice! Now, this is absolutely a niche solution anyhow, but it's an option.

    Glad you found your secret sauce!

  • World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing

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  • You said "thousands of tons"

    Thousands of tons on a single vessel. The reason we have such huge container ships is that while the surface area and subsequent water resistance gets squared, the volume growth is cubic.

    This means the larger the vessel, the more energy efficient it is at delivering anything from point A to point B. This is exactly how shipping has become the most efficient way to deliver goods.

    If you want to deliver the same amount of cargo by many smaller ships, you'll need way, waaaaaay more energy to do so. This is incredibly inefficient, and ships of the past were of that scale exclusively due to structural limitations. Hence, shipping costs were incredibly high, leading to only the most expensive items being transported.

    Now, rowboats cannot technically be wide, because otherwise you won't be able to seat enough rowers to drive the ship. And they cannot technically be too long, or else, being narrow, they will be turned over or broken in a storm. So, they are forced to be small.

    Oil

    I answered you right there - you can use electricity generated through renewables instead of heavy human labor. Sodium ion batteries for smaller missions (like ports in Asia), green hydrogen for longer hauls (like China-US), and nuclear for particularly long hauls through complicated areas (like the Northern Sea Route).

    Strawman argument

    I re-read your comment again. You claim we're all wage slaves anyway and it's better to row a cargo ship until people in power decide to rather throw us into war. You also mentioned that it's either rowboats or ecological collapse. Did I get it right, or did you mean something else entirely?

    What's your basis for what you're saying?

    Studies on the issues of modern agriculture and recent developments in renewable energy tech. We do have safe ways to grow food, indeed, but they require much higher level of investment and do not pay off very well, while renewables are already cheaper than their traditional counterparts, naturally leading to massive rollout. We just need to keep going with this.

    You think sailing is a 9-to-5?

    Obviously not as in "9 hours a day, 5 day a week job". It's more of a cultural reference to the current work time conditions. If there are too many workers and too little job, maybe the best course of action is reducing work time and redistributing gains made through automation?

    This way people won't need to do useless jobs like rowing a boat in the era of electric propulsion, and will have more time for themselves.

    Bad faith

    By no means. I was genuinely engaged with the conversation, but it just so happens that the point of your argument completely misses me. There are obviously better ways to do what you propose, and I fail to see the merits of going back to rowing as means of ship propulsion.

    Rowboats cannot be big, hence they fail to reap physical benefits that come with larger ship sizes, which alone makes them so incredibly inefficient; they require intense manual labor and overblown crew, raising costs and reducing useful load, and they offer a very grim picture of the future full of pointless jobs instead of worker liberation.

    So...why rowing, of all things?

  • World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing

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  • I'm absolutely positive they've done exactly that.

    Never on a historical scale we moved so much cargo. Long-range ships were primarily used to move something extremely valuable, such as spices and gold - and now we have ships hauling everything because it's so much more efficient than anything else.

    Our owners have never been so far from needing more of us

    And so the solution is, instead of reducing work week and expanding social programs, to crank people up in dangerous conditions and make them do one of the hardest and most avoidable jobs known to humanity?

    I didn't say "use bad methods to grow food and fuel the crew with that."

    Fair, but it follows. Nowadays, in the age of cheap solar and new, eco-friendly power storage options, it is much, much easier and cheaper to add an electric engine than to maintain a fleet of wage-slaves fed by agricultural surplus.

    Your kind of "solution" is both economically inefficient and inhumane, and doesn't seem to get out of the box of "9-to-5 to everyone by all means". So, don't rush to accuse me of shortsightedness.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Pika @rekabu.ru

    Is it possible to enable systemd output on login/shutdown similar to Arch Linux?