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What does a post-piracy world look like?
  • It'll happen some day. There will eventually be "Illegal" wireless transmitting devices that do things such as transmit data over disallowed frequencies, break the token rate speed limit imposed by the fcc (fuck 56k) and illegally use encryption (using data encryption on amateur radio is illegal). When they do start becoming a thing, they'll be able to transmit data maybe a few miles at up to a megabyte per second (not 1 megabit), or for dozens of miles at a few kilobytes per second. Depending on whether the designers wanted to prioritize speed or distance.

    The technology exists to make such wireless transceivers using off the shelf parts available to normal people, there's just no reason for them to exist. Yet.

  • Why more Americans are making hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts
  • I had a "good" job at one point. I didn't put money into a 401k because I knew I wouldn't be employed there forever.

    Let's say you're 25 and you put 6% of $50k/yr into a 401k and then get fired 4 years later but then the best job you can find afterwards pays only a bit more than half of what you were making. You don't get that back that until you're 65 or whatever. That would have been $12k that's just gone. I want to actually live to be 65. I needed that money. I'm glad I didn't do that.

    I might not have a retirement but at least I've (so far) never been homeless or had to live in my car.

  • Arch and Gentoo users reading about NixOS
  • I think Endeavour OS is like that too. I have 2 "unfixable" bugs on my arch installation that can never be removed. I have to manually do 2 annoying workaround tasks every time I turn on my computer before I can use it and this will likely never go away. I've been told both these issues can't be fixed without a complete os reinstall and even then it might not go away. I booted into an Endeavour OS live usb and what do you know, both those bugs were fixed out of the box. Endeavour is based on Arch. The kernel it was running was a kernel number release after my installation developed both of these "forever" bugs.

    Arch is great and all but holy fuck I'm sick and tired of this fucking bullshit all the time. One of these times I'm going to type sudo pacman -Syu and it will develop yet a third unfixable forever bug. This is the same shit that drove me away from Windows: uncontrollable degradation over time that can't be fixed without os reinstall. Even Gentoo isn't this unforgiving.

  • US Majors With The Highest Unemployment/UnderEmployment Rates
  • Surprised to not see computer tech majors on here. I have a degree in IT and have to compete with people more experienced than me for jobs that pay a dollar or two an hour more than retail jobs. I'm going for a degree in computer engineering now but I'm starting to doubt if this is a good path.

  • 120TB hard drives are coming, thanks to new Seagate tech
  • Fuck yes now I can lose 120tb of data and they'll still refuse to replace the drive despite it being under warranty because apparently 1399235195 bad reads + the drive being unusable isn't considered broken enough to get a replacement.

  • [a look in the future] Roku’s New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game
  • When it gets impossible to find tvs that stay out of your way, I'm going to become obsessed with crt monitors. Learning how to maintain them to keep them running literally forever seems like a more achievable goal than doing that same thing with normal unshittified flat-screen tvs.

  • Should it just be called JASM?
  • I hate Java because whenever people make games or performance sensitive applications with it, performance is always complete ass shit. On top of that, it seems I always have to cave in and use Windows because when I'm trying to compile a Java project, there's some obscure dependency can only be acquired and installed correctly on windows.

    Try compiling Freerouting in anything other than Windows for example. It's a good fucking thing Java apps are cross platform.

  • New language
  • If you get even 1 thing wrong, the entire program stops working and you don't get any information about it. Turns out those cryptic errors like "error: object reference not set to instance of an object at address 0x007e00" are kind of important information to have. Unless you specifically know where it's crashing, finding the source of the problem is like finding a needle in a haystack. If it's your own code it's borderline manageable but you'll regret every decision that led you up to that point. If it's someone else's code such as an old project from 9 years ago that doesn't work anymore, absolutely forget about it.

    The only advantage of php is that it's incredibly lightweight. I was running an Athlon XP home server on Gentoo as late as 2022 and still had php running despite only having the SSE1 instruction set and a cpu less powerful than whats probably on a modern led lightbulb.

    But ACKTCHUALLY I think django and python bottles can be run on even shittier computers than php can since they're both python programs and python has been demonstrated to be runnable on a pentium 1. So there is no reason to use php.

  • Can Abortion Rights Voters Turn Florida Blue?
  • Nothing brings conservatives to the polls harder than there being important ballot measures to quash. Marijuana and abortion are both on the ballot. Every single conservative in Florida is going to make sure to show up for this one.

    They still failed to defeat the marijuana and the abortion ballot measure in Ohio so hopefully that will happen again in Florida.

  • Trying to pirate a physical book. Where do I get thinner printer paper?

    I need to pirate this book thats over 1000 pages. I already have the pdf but I really want a physical copy and the book costs too much for me. Even if I have to buy a bunch of ink (the book has no pictures) and even if I wear out the printhead before the job is done, it's still going to be cheaper to do this. My printer has been blocked from the internet since before the pandemic so I can install all the 3rd party ink and replacement parts I want. I'm not worried about my printer situation.

    It seems the biggest challenge I need to overcome is the paper. Cheap printer paper is going to otherwise work it's just that it's too thick. The same amount of cheap printer paper it takes to make the book is going to be more than twice as thick as the book I'm trying to "pirate".

    The 8.5x11in size just happens to be the exact size I need for this. Whats the cheapest paper I can get that's still thinner than cheapo office printer paper?

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    If the us government bans asbestos what else will I wipe my ass with?

    Toilet paper is expensive. Asbestos is the same color as toilet paper and you can clean it by throwing it in the fireplace. This means it can be used as reusable toilet paper. Try using cloth instead of toilet paper and you're stuck with shit stains.

    The asbestos ban is a result of lobbying efforts by Big Toilet Paper change my mind.

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    The Arch Linux paradox. To update or not to update.

    Does updating more often make things break more often? Or does updating less often make things more likely to break when you do finally update? Or do things randomly break regardless and there's not a damn thing you can do to prevent it either way?

    If anyone else is having problems with the latest updates making their ax200 wifi speed capped at 3.4mb/s and has found a fix that doesn't involve buying new hardware or reinstalling the os, I would love to hear it.

    I would like to think installing new updates will eventually fix the problem but I've never seen updates fix anything Iike that ever, not even once.

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    How can I ensure that I'm actually seeding?

    How can I ensure that qbitorrent is actually seeding? I have this torrent with triple digit peers, barely any seeds and it's seeding at 0 byes / second. It says I've uploaded a lot but nowhere near a 1:1 ratio for this torrent.

    I'm trying to be a considerate pirate. What settings do I change to make it seed more?

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    Is there a way to browse communities of a selected other instance?

    The communities button can be used to view communities on other instances. Is it possible to filter it to show the most popular communities on only a specific or specific instances?

    Every other instance besides lemmynsfw kicks me off my app every so often (happens with all apps) and then refuses to accept my login credentials. I'm sick and tired of it so I just going to main on my lemmynsfw one. Fuck it.

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    MyNamesNotRobert @lemmynsfw.com

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