theothertimcook

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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Doesn't studying anything do that? I mean, it's definitely interesting but a whole quarter of their grades!? Can't see how financing utes and after paying Gucci wallets is harmful but knows about Roman Emperors...
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
QLD state schools are being left to languish while the government heaps funding on private schools and weird “not for profit” flexi schools. Teachers have to deal with all the political drama and enshittification of government while managin
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Pffft, at the scale chat GPT is being used I would estimate they'd be copping thousands daily. Controversially, despite guaranteed harm to some, I believe that many will be better off for it too. So many more people who cannot or will
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
To sequester 1 gigaton of CO₂ (about 2.5% of global CO₂ emissions in a year), you’d need billions of tons of rock and an area of land approximately 6 X the size of India (rough, shit calculations, lots of assumptions) That rock has to be mi
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Kolk was involved in the “memory wars” and repressed memory drama back in the day where people started therapy then suddenly remembered historical abuse by caregivers that in many cases never actually happened (this is a massive simplificat
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Why are you being toxic, let me be my authentic self…
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
$45usd/$70aud from aliexpress you can buy a Innioasis Y1 which is a modern knockoff of a click wheel iPod, smaller, lighter, bit more plastic. They have 128gb of storage but can be upgraded to 512 and apparently 1tb by changing the int
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Definitely worth checking out his book, how the world really works if you're not that into or across this stuff, really fascinating. https://vaclavsmil.com/book/how-the-world-really-works-2/
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
I think it’s already happened with some teslas banned from charging stations and being gimped after sale for whatever reason. Apparently a bunch of jeeps got bricked by a pop software update.
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Depending on how mainstream and popular it is, china may come to the rescue. They’ve made some really cool drop in replacements for oem systems.
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
100% all of the advantages of bulletproof electronic motor are smashed by reliance on finicky little software systems
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
That’s where I’m at now, MAS, Chris Titus took, and open shell. But eventually I’ll have to update. Browser apps because I’m forced into that ecosystem with work, I’ve actually taken quite a liking to onlyoffice otherwise.
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
I wish there was a way to buy windows 11 LTSC with a version of MSOffice stripped of copilot, OneDrive, and all the modern windows fluff. It’s wild how unreliable and complex windows has become, how can it be that Dropbox from 10 years ago
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
They are definitely degrading. Complex driver aid/“safety” systems, outrageously complicated “infotainment” systems that are also used to interact with system functions, sealed/un-serviceable transmissions, exhaust gas filtration
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Pronounced meen-jn*
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Interesting, I didn’t know it was a publication. I learned recently that meanjin, pronounced meen-in, is a word meaning spear head and has been adopted as the place name for Brisbane. The name refers mainly to a spear shaped spur of land in
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Homes can’t be an investment and affordable. Airbnb took the couch surfing model and added payment for people who couldn’t or didn’t want to participate in the social exchange, and when it was people renting out a spare room it was pretty r
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Not the same thing but just want to shoutout https://www.pdfgear.com/ as one of the only viable alternatives to adobe for intermediate level PDF tinkering. It’s free and available for everything except Linux.
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
I used it use a Firefox addon but I’m not sure the state of those on android. You could a dns level blocker like nextdns or AdGuard, you’ll pick up added benefits of blocking ads across whole device
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
No, everyone has that, it’s just a trash OS
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
That makes sense, but still, the assurances of protection, nothing flash there.
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
CIA simple sabotage manual - insist works are completed through proper channels and where possible referred to relevant committee.
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Researchers from Northwestern Medicine and Yonsei University pooled the health data of 9,341,100 South Korean adults, as well as 6,803 US adults, looking at four key risk factors: high blood pressure, cholesterol, blood-sugar levels and smo
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Unihertz hardware and software are pretty crap, no warranty, no updates. Likewise the HMD feature phones, the gimped and locked down s40+ OS is just so bad as to be almost unusable, simple things like in-line conversations for text messages
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
That blows my mind, all the while, not surprising me at all. Ending up in a elsalvadoran processing centre because of red tape and political drama
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Fastmail
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Tuta is dog shit, agree on both accounts.
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Can and will, Ukraine shoulda never gave up those nukes.
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Users seem pleased... Feels like the sentiment is/was enshitification inevitable, starting now.
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Reminds me of Ukraine and the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances from the 90s, where they gave up their nukes for assurances of protection… Has the US government has gotten more trustworthy in the last 3 decades?

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