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

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  • But then you might be able to bypass the €25/mth subscription on your €3059 mattress cover.

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    Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol

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  • Too busy eating crayons.

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    What were you doing at 18?

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  • Hey, that’s what I did!

    I had people trying to look out for me in a way but I was an idiot and you can only tell an adult what to do so many times.

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    Is Tailscale ok? (Spoiler: no)

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  • How many people are CGNAT and also no ipv6?

    Actually, I don’t want to know. It’s too damn high.

  • Is it true that progressives are more collectivist rather than individualist?

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  • In his work The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt talks a bit about this. In my interpretation of the points he makes, humans aren’t more or less collectivist, but rather there’s points that some care for more than others. For example, left leaning individuals care more for the fairness across the group, while right-leaning individuals value conformity. From an evolutionary perspective, there’s a good reason to have increased conformity, though some would argue that in a modern world our differences are what make humanity stronger. I found this discussed it a bit, if you can’t get the book. https://www.highexistence.com/how-jonathan-haidts-6-moral-tastebuds-can-heal-a-divided-world/

    He also makes a point that a shared mythology is vital to maintaining a group for a long term - communes seldom last through the second generation, while religious sects last centuries.

    I’ve butchered the concepts (it is a several hundred page book), so if you’re able to get it from your library I think it’s worth reading it even if the concepts are somewhat tangential to the question you posed. It promotes a theory, which is simply one many ways to interpret a part of humanity.

    In short, no, I don’t think that there’s a difference in the amount to which left or right are more communal; it’s the inclusion criteria of that community.

  • I stacked a cord of wood

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  • Face cord is a much more common measure for firewood in many locales.

  • Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole?

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  • HAOS has add-ons to run a sort of managed version I think of pihole. Good start for containers.

    RAID0 is not RAID, because R stands for redundant and RAID0 has dependency on as many drives are in the machine. You need to change that. One drive fails you lose everything.

    The question is pertinent to my interests and the answer is to spend some time learning about the benefits and disadvantages of chipsets and processors unfortunately.

  • EVs are depreciating much faster than gas-powered cars

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  • I haven’t hit that but if it’s anything like phones and laptops, the batteries will hit a point of unreliability where it says 80%/200km but it plummets as the BMS just doesn’t understand what’s going on, and real range is closer to 100km - but because the gauge is broken, range anxiety is justified.

    I hope that isn’t the case! I use my EV for small trips, so I expect to keep it on the road for at least 10 years and hopefully longer. Just hope the rust doesn’t destroy it.

  • EVs are depreciating much faster than gas-powered cars

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  • They keep mentioning fleets but don’t mention the effect when Hertz dumps their entire stock on the market.

    I think the critical issue at this point in time is that people don’t understand battery lifespan yet. “You don’t want a used EV, you don’t know if the battery will last.” All the data I’ve seen so far is that the batteries on average last longer than anticipated before hitting their 80% nominal capacity at which people tend to replace them.

    Personally, I tend to keep my cars. Gas or electric, they don’t need to be replaced every 5 years/100k mi. More like 15/250.

  • Could the original WWII Willys Jeep be built and sold today?

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  • The entire design would need to change to meet safety standards. I don’t know that the ease of assembly and cheap low cost would survive the safety requirements.

    A lot of the complexity of modern vehicles encompassing not just drivetrain but also exterior design is to squeeze fuel economy from a stone. The shape of the Willy’s isn’t aerodynamic and that’s putting it mildly. Modern standards for body panel tolerances raise component costs. Full time 4x4 is awful on paved roads and terrible for fuel consumption, so we would now use a transfer case or a AWD system, which add cost and complexity. The simplicity of the suspension design made it a death trap at speed - good for off road, no good at 70mph.

    My point is that as much as I want a repairable, simple thing (car, computer, etc.) we’ve developed so much technology that even when a thing is designed for repairability, it’s going to need specialized skills to some extent - can’t fix everything with a hammer anymore. Might need a torque wrench.

    The current wrangler is an idea of what a modern Willy’s would be like. It’s going to be a $40k vehicle.

    ETA - Ineos Grenadier is a modern take on the classic Land Rover. Similar concept, similar departure from simple an cheap.

  • What did you get fired for?

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  • Took 6 days vacation instead of 5 I had “accrued”. I didn’t get paid for vacation in any case. I was working in construction. Company folded a year later; I can’t think why.

    The other reason was “insubordination”. Can’t get into that with out sharing too much, but Texans are a special type of ignorant.

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  • A family member was a mechanic and spent all their time in the garage working on barely functioning cars. In retrospect, it’s probably their autism hyper fixation.

    My second car was pretty nice, but it was murderously expensive to have services done, and the internet community around it was fairly firm about doing specific preventative maintenance. So I did that.

    I’m not really a car guy anymore, because I don’t have the time to work on the cars like I want to, and I don’t have the space either. There’s too many other cars on the roads, which makes spirited driving dangerous. Now, I live vicariously through YouTube channels and mainly drive a toaster EV.

  • Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

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  • Absolutely determined to ensure that Copilot is a commercial success, at least until they can find something else to distract with.

  • JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters

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  • Maybe I should, to establish a pattern.

    But then I’d have to go to the office. Ew. HR is there.

  • JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters

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  • I feel like there’s some kind of middle ground between the notoriously insecure HID style building access card and providing biometrics.

    I wonder if this has anything to do with a RTO push and people badging in for others. But then VPN usage would show that…

  • Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

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  • I think both drivers and pedestrians using phones is a major factor. Also, the increased use of headphones and especially noise cancelling headphones. And anecdotally, electric cars even with the spaceship sounds just don’t get into peoples heads; people jump in front of my EV all the time in parking lots.

    But blaming pedestrians isn’t really the solution. There is also the fact that there aren’t tests in the USA for pedestrian safety while euro NCAP has pedestrian tests factored into the score. The Americans buy more big suv/trucks than anywhere else, have higher speed limits in pedestrian exposed areas and worse pedestrian infrastructure than anywhere else and then their cars are not built to minimize pedestrian injury.

  • What's a popular opinion on Lemmy that's unpopular in the real world?

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  • They just worked harder than the rest of us and had good ideas at the right time.

    Erm, no, that still doesn’t make their labour worth thousands of times more than the next person.

    People I talk to know millionaire workaholics and think that but for some timing that person would be a billionaire because they don’t understand how orders of magnitude work. 100k in the bank vs 1 million is a much smaller barrier than 1 million vs 1 billion never mind 100 billion

  • Working in a large corporation is a place where you get paid for

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  • “Let’s try to get this thing done with a ridiculous deadline, knowing full well that the work will be discarded because of overriding factor X but it looks good that the team got it done in the deadline someone set, so the someone will get their bonus”

  • Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins

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  • Someone should tell them that freemium doesn’t work well when there’s a linear increase in cost for every additional query, and when the business value for your exceptionally expensive product is nebulous at best.