theothertimcook

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by theothertimcook 1y ago
This is cool but if you can't reliably use it to make phone calls, send messages, play music, navigate and pay for shit, it's a less useful device than it was in the first place. If you could dock it and run your distro to a scree
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Scott Adams is one of those people I just cannot take seriously, I can't put my finger on why but everything he writes has this uncanny valley kinda vibe to it.
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He's still pretty popular in meme/pop-culture circles...
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
The same reason all of them compulsively toil despite not needing to. The denial of death, they can’t have physical immortality so they build legacies and monuments and etc. There’s a few books on it, the worm at the core, the denial of dea
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
It’s just gambling . How these crypto bros gotta try to evangelise everything.
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
You’re probably not wrong. Even the later blackberry phones like the priv and keyOne kinda sucked. The unihertz phones seemed like a genuine attempt but lacked proper support and flagship polish. The minimal phone looks cool but reviews are
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
It doesn’t, it just allows people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to take on a massive mortgage to do just that. Housing in Australia is cooked, tax settings and lack of oversight mean it’s basically an investment product that people can liv
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
These are popular due to lower power useage, mine idles at around 4w, the power supply is a wall wart style and doesn’t have a bulky mid cord transformer, it supports 2 SSDs and is around 120mm x 120mm, almost completely silent and cost me
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
In many countries you need a valid government ID document to activate a mobile service which means burners do not really exist in those places. Unless you bought a pixel, graphene’d it and then paid a homeless person to activate a pre-paid
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
QLD population density is something like 2000x lower than that of Tokyo… Our public transport systems are so bad. The Brisbane airport rail connection runs about half as many train services as the Perth airport, which seems about half the a
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is a 2021 book by Patrick Radden Keefe. The author tells how the early sacklers, while working in a psychiatric hospital, were so horrified by electroshock therapy and the increasing
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
They haven’t forced anything, someone from dreamworks wrote a blog post about “inclusive” language and a couple of foundations have adopted it as recommendations. Part of the “woke” problem is the cycle of performatory outrage in response
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Google massgrave and download 2016 then activate, just year before it went full OneDrive. alternatively Onlyoffice is an increasingly good substitute
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https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795
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Relevant - https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM
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“ I originally provided this an alternative to the broken AUR packages. However, it seems that Arch users would rather use broken packages and keep complaining to me instead of their packager. I specifically forbid packages for DuckStation
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Amazing
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Its probably worth Th 60 bucks not to have to set anything up but I had Walabag running once, I think it was this. https://gitlab.com/anarcat/wallabako/ I find myself mainly using https://send.djazz.se&
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It gave you the answer it thought you wanted?
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How much I've come to trust the answers, responses, and information it feeds me for my increasingly frequent queries.
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Beeper is so cool, being able to dump every chat app into one app and receive messages from meta platforms without having their apps installed is very handy. Meta did boot me out of messenger recently and said I can’t use 3rd party tools to
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
I only learned recently that Felix nearly had to pull out of the jump due to claustrophobia from the suit. After CBT he was able to tolerate the suit and complete the jump. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/skydiver-felix-b
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
https://aiphor.com/products/bluefox-nx1-4-0-android-smartpho... https://www.unihertz.com/collections/jelly-series https://soyes.vip/en https://www.aliexpress.com/w
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
I'm just glade they stuck to their guns and didn't do a google and kill steamOS/linux development when steam boxes didn't take the world by storm. The steam deck allows me to play basically every game I've ever purc
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Australian here. Answer: No, nope, negatory. First hand encounters with high school aged teens addicted to online gambling, in particular slot machines or pokies as we call them, following the lead of influencers who will wager $10AUD per s
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Psychology has succeeded in creating new disorders while fields like virology, immunology and oncology are eradicating and improving mortality rates. It was these professions and their predecessors doing the padded cell confinement, labotom
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Virology, immunology, and Oncology eradicated entire illnesses and reduced cancer mortality by double digits. Psychology, nearly crashed the peer review system, now recognises excessive use of Xbox as a mental illness.
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Youre right you can pretty much run that line backwards for scarcity/availability Shrink, Psych, Social, Counsellor. I was shocked how many psychiatrists deal almost exclusively with treatment and titration of ADHD medication, some are
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That was a very interesting read, it's funny because I have done and experienced (both sides) of what the LLM did here. Don't get me wrong there are many phenomenal mental health workers, but it's a taxing role, and the ones
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*Shitty start-up LLMs should not replace therapists. There have never been more psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors and social worker, life coach, therapy flops at any time in history and yet mental illness prevalence is at all time h

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