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@ comador @lemmy.world

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IT Nerd of 30yrs and avid hobbiest of genealogy, geology and science in general.

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    Since I got fed up with the bans and the Reddit mafias, well, here I am.

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  • Welcome to the less scrutinized, less judgemental side.

    I deleted my reddit content and account 4 years ago, zero regrets.

    Some suggestions:

    Bookmark direct reddit channels you miss and visit them a few times a week to start, but don't go to the main page, use your account or don't post.

    Don't feel bad if you go. Over time you'll be able to do without visiting most channels, but even I hit 2 channels about once a month because they're niches.

    Have fun, good luck and again: welcome.

  • Older tech workers are tapping out, taking early retirement

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  • Yup. They should go to 'Methford', Oregon instead...

  • Older tech workers are tapping out, taking early retirement

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  • quote: "Otteson and his wife plan to sell their home in Redmond and move somewhere with lower costs of living, such as Vancouver, Wash., or Hillsboro, Oregon".

    Not surprised one bit as this has been an ongoing trend for techies in the SF Bay area to Seattle for decades.

    It'll be less a problem with small offgrid farms and more an issue for rural to suburban areas with full utilities because most of these people have no clue how to farm.

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    Your Taste For Onions May Reveal Something About Your Future Health

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  • TL;DR

    "The team found that liking the smell and the taste of onions was associated with lower odds of developing either type 2 diabetes or having high blood pressure."

  • Fox to Acquire Roku in $22 Billion Deal

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  • ...in 2027.

    Gives users a year to find an alternative and dump their new 'Fox News' overlords.

    FYI: Roku intends to do mass layoffs prior to the sale in order to "save" $400 million.

    Off the shelf Plug and Play (Jellyfin is NOT PnP) alternatives in no specific order:

    • Apple TV
    • Nvidia Shield
    • Amazon Fire Stick
    • Walmart Onn 4k Pro

  • Shrimp Tacos with Cilantro Lime Rice

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  • sauce:

    1/2 cup mayonnaise

    1/2 cup plain yogurt (NOT greek)

    1 tsp fresh dill

    1 lime, juiced

    Mix together, serve with your tacos.

    Literally a Baja, MX tradition.

  • US-backed microreactor reaches criticality in major nuclear step

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  • Nothing actually. TRISO fuel is both meltdown proof and fusion resistant.

    Meaning, it resists melting down even without coolant and it resists fusion reactions to a high level bomb. This is because the fuel is about the size of a seed roughly 1mm in size and each piece is coated with layers of other materials to prevent such occurrences.

  • CATL claims its lithium-air battery has energy density similar to gasoline

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  • Prove it or shut up.

    CATL has in the past claimed, unsuccessfully:

    • $10 per kilowatt-hour batteries
    • 1-Million-Mile (1.8-million-kilometer) batteries
    • that CATL doesn't steal end user data without notice
    • that CATL doesn't use forced labor
    • that CATL doesn't steal international patents

    CATL is a shit company. Period.

  • Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power

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  • Yup, Tom's is the last of the originals still running (HardOCP, anandtech and sharkyexteme are all gone), but it's absolutely a garbage site now.

  • Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center in Just Months, Survey Finds

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  • They increase the cost of consumer electricity and water; they increase the temperature of the local area; they generate (in some cases) heavy metal pollution and (in most cases) sound pollution.

    What's not to love? ;)

  • GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

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  • Just wait until OpenAI and Anthropic get their IPO and the front slowly falls off. A recession will happen shortly thereafter.

  • 8====D

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  • Agreed

  • AI Has Ruined the Job Market

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  • IMO, those IPOs are going to result in a recession because once the market realizes LLMs are nothing more than unsubstantiated gains, the bottom will fall out just like it did on dotcom.

    Watch, they'll launch to great fanfare, then the prices of AI credits will go up.

    Companies will complain so they'll release something 'revolutionary' that costs a little less, but ultimately costs the AI companies more.

    Once the new LLM loses its fanfare, they will be forced to jack prices up to cover costs and ultimately fail.

    It's a tale as old as the markets.

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    Do you think my HDD is broken?

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  • I'm literally a subject matter expert (SME) on Enterprise Storage Arrays and can absolutely attest to 'hitting it' being an actual tier 3 support suggestion for spindle drives. It's still a thing and will continue to be one so long as spindle drives continue to exist.

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    Do you think my HDD is broken?

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    Do you think my HDD is broken?

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  • Been so long I had forgotten the freezer trick lol. Good memories haha.

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    Do you think my HDD is broken?

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  • Take it out of the Sabrent USB and directly connect it to the system, run lsblk to get the drive id and then check smartmontools using smartctl -H /dev/(whatever disk it is)

    This will tell you if the drive is hosed or not.

    If it is hosed, can always dead drop it from one banana worth of height on a table to see if the drive heads unlock, then try again.

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    GitLab to Cut 14% of Workforce as Part of AI Pivot

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  • Let the race to the bottom begin!

  • gg.

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  • chirp... chirp chirp... chirp.