Syonyk

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by Syonyk 4y ago
I was just about to ask, "Is this still coincidence, or have we jumped straight to enemy action?" That two different tools fail in the same, "surface level invisible" but mighty convenient, and "Whoopsie, file ope
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'm not sure that's true. Even among teenagers right now, there's widespread recognition of the downsides of social media/always connectedness/etc, and if there's one thing we can rely on kids to do, it's
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Which one? Scientific calories, or nutrition calories?
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I've been fairly happy with the Rad Power bikes - I test rode a few many years back and felt they did a good job of "Understanding how to build a good mass market ebike" - they got that a motor covers the sins of a heavy bike
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Ew. And, no mention of the RGB LEDs it apparently must have to qualify as a bit of modern consumer electronics? We don't need more expensive, exotic ebikes. We need more "Cheap enough, good enough" ebikes that people will a
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I try. Which is why I reject a lot of the digital nonsense that's just attention vampires for the sake of advertising profits.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Why is it a terrible unit? And what would you replace it with? It's reasonably human-scale, which is better than Joules... If you want to pick on a terrible unit, pick on BTU.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
"Live within the bounds of what's available" seems to be a lost concept these days. I'm rural, I work remote, and I've done so for quite a while on about a 15/3 connection. I've got somewhat better now, a
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by Syonyk 4y ago
And it was 100% polite, responsive, etc. Except it actually hallucinated the control that it told you to toggle to resolve the issue.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
My daughter could do the same at that age, and basically never got screen time. I don't think screen time has anything to do with it, it's just dependent on the child, parental involvement, and how much you read in the house.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Doing more shit that doesn't work, with the only benefit being profits for the tech industry, should be a non-starter. There's a reason most Silicon Valley high end private schools don't use tech to teach. Because it doesn
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by Syonyk 4y ago
You're right, but not being in the position of a god-king where I can change those larger trends, the best I've found is to model and demonstrate that the "consumer tech profitable defaults" aren't the only way to l
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> I’m surprised to see this much negativity on here. Why? The last decade of the tech industry has been "Promise the moon, deliver a mud pie, oh, and the most recent mud pie just turned three more of your friends into raving consp
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by Syonyk 4y ago
So be the contrarian who does those things we "don't do" anymore. Teach your kids, if you have any, to do those things. Teach them to observe the family at a restaurant, all staring at their individual phones, while yours r
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> I like streaming shows and music, but even the net benefits of streaming are dubious... And you can only pull "Yeah, I know you liked that show, but it wasn't as profitable as we hoped, so we're not renewing it for a
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Yes, sentiment has changed. And from within the tech industry, apparently, the blinders are still as strong as ever... The quote about "It's hard to force a man to understand something when his salary is dependent on him not unde
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by Syonyk 4y ago
That would be nice... Most groups, if you send money to support them, seem to then turn around and sell your info to every other group on the planet that might be related, on the " We got a live one! " list or something. It'
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by Syonyk 4y ago
My wife is a very calm, patient person. One of very few times I've seen her genuinely pissed off was after attempting to deal with some of the tech support for this system, because money ended up in the "wrong account" (via
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> But even worse, we're talking about many of people who are still awaiting trial-- presumably they are innocent at a greater rate than those convicted. "Awaiting trial" or even "Awaiting details of the charges to b
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'm not certain what legal consequences she may face as a result - I also slightly don't care, as it's far enough outside the bounds of that which I can control that I don't have reason to pay close attention to it. >
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by Syonyk 4y ago
The ACLU just is obsessed with sending me "push poll" sort of "surveys" in which they goal is to rile me up before the important "And how much will you donate?" question. They're the mirror image of the &q
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Good. I'll have to send them a check and mention it's to support this lawsuit. //EDIT: Printed, signed, and mailed. I wonder what junkmail I'll get as a result of this donation... I've had the recent disp
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Careful. Presence or absence of warrants has almost nothing to do with getting shot. Assuming you have no warrants out for your arrest, should you charge at a police officer with a knife or gun drawn while yelling that you were about to ki
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Matrix Yup. And it has first party support for bridges so that you can continue to mostly interoperate with other systems without too much hassle, should you care to go that route. I've got my Matrix homeserver running with var
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> A lot of modern software problems stem from developers having a powerfully detached understanding of reality. The best thing we could do for the internet is have developers at Google, Meta, etc, use a Raspberry Pi 4 or similar "
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by Syonyk 4y ago
The web client seems to install some DRM packages. I've used ncspot extensively when on little ARM boxes - it requires a premium account, which I have, and it's just a nice little curses interface to Spotify, written in Rust, that
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I mean... that's all our energy inputs, including pumping water from a fairly deep well, almost all our transportation miles (300-400kWh/mo), heat, hot water, etc. It's a ~7 year old manufactured, 2k sq ft, 2x6 exterior wa
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by Syonyk 4y ago
The physical structure. Replace the wood in my designs with welded hunks of old steel pipe and you have his design.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Yes, but the clamps I've found designed for that sort of use are quite expensive, and add a substantial margin to the project cost - and they're not needed if you can weld it up, or have someone else weld it up. As I understand NE
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I live on what can be reasonably approximated as a "pile of rocks." It's fairly thin dirt on top of a lot of basalt. I've considered it, but the cost to install such a unit is quite staggering, before I buy a backhoe t

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