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Gerowen

@ gerowen @lemmy.world

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  • It depends. It means I live in an area where I have a lot of other freedoms. I can go build a shed and nobody is gonna ask me about a permit. I can plant a garden or put up a fence and my neighbors aren't gonna complain to an HOA about how it looks. And I have the freedom to drive to places much further away and leave whenever I feel like it instead of working around somebody else's schedule.

    There are trade offs for every way of living, but it would be nice to have "something" around here as an option.

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  • There are lots of places, like where I live, that just straight up have no public transit; no buses, no trains, no taxis. We have a couple medical taxis to take folks to appointments if they have Medicaid/Medicare, and if I drive 2 hours I can catch a Greyhound bus or a plane, but that's it. If I want to shop at Walmart it's a 30 minute drive. My in-laws are about 300 miles away, so any time we visit it's about a 5 hour drive, depending on whether we eat on the way or not.

  • "I used to be with it"

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  • I'm a school bus driver and I'm not even joking when I say I blew my kids' minds with a burned CD the other day. My daughter asked me to make one of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. One kid asked how I got it on CD and when I showed him a burned disc complete with sharpie label his response was just, "Wait you can do that?!"

    Made me feel old as hell.

  • This just happened to me, and I did waste 1-2h because of it

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  • Flatpak/flathub is your friend. I've been using Linux for 20+ years and I'm to a point where if it's not available as a deb, flatpak, system package or at the bare minimum an executable binary/script I just don't bother. Compiling should be done by the software vendor and not required of the user unless they specifically want or need to.

  • AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright

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  • People who buy an internet connected bed have more dollars than sense.

  • Probably a good idea to go see how much storage will be necessary...

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  • Neither are that bad honestly. I have jigdo scripts I run with every point release of Debian and have a copy of English Wikipedia on a Kiwix mirror I also host. Wikipedia is a tad over 100 GB. The source, arm64 and amd64 complete repos (DVD images) for Debian Trixie, including the network installer and a couple live boot images, are 353 GB.

    Kiwix has copies of a LOT of stuff, including Wikipedia on their website. You can view their zim files with a desktop application or host your own web version. Their website is: https://kiwix.org/

    If you want (or if Wikipedia is censored for you) you can also look at my mirror to see what a web hosted version looks like: https://kiwix.marcusadams.me/

    Note: I use Anubis to help block scrapers. You should have no issues as a human other than you may see a little anime girl for a second on first load, but every once and a while Brave has a disagreement with her and a page won't load correctly. I've only seen it in Brave, and only rarely, but I've seen it once or twice so thought I'd mention it.

  • A roundabout

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  • I don't think there is a roundabout anywhere in Kentucky, or at least I've never seen one. So when I got to Fort Lewis, WA and was driving across base I came up to one and had zero fucking clue what to do. I started at it for about 10 seconds and watched another car or two go into it and kinda figured it out, but it was the most alien thing I had ever seen.

  • Wikipedia at it again

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  • If it's true, what's the problem?

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    If Trump pardons Ghislaine how does he justify this to his base?

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  • They don't care as long as it's him doing it. If they cared they wouldn't have voted for a known sex offender in the first place. Conservatives have lost all credibility with me.

  • Has this ever happened to you?

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  • You could have just missed your shot at a threesome. Way to go, 😄

  • anon discusses car dependence

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  • Walking to my grocery store and back would be an all day affair and I'd have to have help hauling everything because I'm married with two kids, so our two week grocery bill runs between $200 and $300 depending on what all we need. My closest Walmart is 25 miles away. My closest local grocery store is about 7. And there is no public transportation here.

  • Important Notice of Security Incident

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  • I dropped it in favor of Jellyfin some time back, but this was a good excuse to go ahead and delete my family's accounts.

  • TIL You Can Be Silently Shadow Banned on Reddit

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  • I used the term shadow ban in the OP because honestly it feels like it happens a LOT to me, and for things that honestly, I don't think are controversial, don't contain excessive (or any) swearing, etc. I commented on a video of somebody passing out and said "don't lock your knees" and the comment got removed for being "too similar" to other comments, per an auto response I got. I told a lady being attacked by a dog to protect herself and the comment got removed for "threatening harm to others" until I requested review and told the mods to actually read the damn comment before removing it. It just gets tiring trying to use Reddit at all when there's a 50/50 chance that anything I do will get removed or hidden from view, sometimes without my knowledge.

  • TIL You Can Be Silently Shadow Banned on Reddit

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  • You're right, it appears to be back now. It's just annoying to have probably half my attempts to contribute auto moderated by a bot because I included some trigger word, or I forgot to add the proper "flair" etc.

  • The secret ingredient is crime

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  • I'm not sure, but with that much oxygen in the air I'm sure anything could "become" flammable, especially when atomized or turned into a powder. That's why grain silos on farms are fire hazards; the dust.

  • The secret ingredient is crime

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  • The problem with pencils is that in space broken graphite floats around easily and is conductive. A conductive powder floating into something electronic in a pressurized oxygen rich environment is no bueno.

  • This is not the US constitution; it used to be, but Article I, part of section 8, & all of sections 9 & 10 have been removed

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  • I just emailed 404 Media about this.

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • There is a cost to convenience ratio. Each individual has to decide based on their own ethics and preferences whether they're willing to sacrifice their own personal experience for the right of ownership. I personally chose to cancel my Spotify subscription some time ago and start buying digital downloads and CDs again.

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • That I don't know. I mean you could always just use something to record the sound played by your PC, but at that point A) You're not getting as good of quality as you would from an actual download of the source material and you'd have to manually assign metadata, make sure no notifications or other sounds played, make sure your recording settings were optimum, etc. It's easier, right now at least, to just buy what you want on CD or from a store that sells digital downloads legitimately.