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  • Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause

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  • I have 3 cordless drills and 1 corded. Every time I need to use one, the cordless ones are out of batteries despite charging them before putting them away. The battery pack is stored for a couple of months between projects. These are the second set of batteries and they weren't cheap.

    Oh, and I'm cursed for batteries. I've had two instances of a brand new car battery failing after a few months due to fused plates. The mechanic says that it never happens.

    I'd love to get an electric car, but feel that that would be tempting fate.

  • What is your New Years resolution?

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  • Who downvotes this without an explanation? Even if you think that racism is good, it's somebody else's resolution, so...?

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    Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?

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  • I'm self hosting to learn. I've been hacked before and I lost stuff and then I refined my technique and started over again. Nothing I do is "mission critical", so I now have the mindset that it will fail, I will lose data and time and I will get hacked. Honestly, it's helped me to be better at home and at my workplace to have this mindset. Always plan for failure (and keep backups).

  • Is the US currently in a recession or entering one?

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  • The US is not in a recession as of this posting date. I read something recently from Fidelity Investments that suggests that the US is heading toward a recession.

    Your exact question was found on the Q&A page

    Supporting evidence Key takeaways

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              The US economy continues to grow, although it is sending some mixed signals.
  
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              Corporate earnings remain strong even as consumer expectations sag.
  
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              US tariff policy remains uncertain, and much of the impact from tariff hikes is still ahead.

    Additionally, you may find this page interesting. It charts the business cycle across countries and quarters. If you play with the selections, you'll see that countries' economies do not always progress forward, nor are the rates of change consistent, so the page is not a predictor of what's to come.

    FWIW, a financial advisor that I know said that his company is recommending that their investors shift to a portfolio with more foreign investments.

  • The People’s Answer to ICE: Crowdsourcing Community Defense

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  • Not 75%, just 3.5% is needed (probably).

    source

  • Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

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  • You have a lot of good points and I may have missed the intent of the article, but a knee jerk reaction of "lower traffic = AI is bad" is not helpful either. My point is that I frequently find myself hitting a page just to check a reference, quote or remember something. AI search results can be useful here. It's no different than how DuckDugkGo has a sidebar if the results are from StackOverflow. It's nice to get quick answers. I would like to see a fair solution to the content creators being able to stay in business.

  • Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

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  • This will be unpopular, but hear me out. Maybe the decline in visitors is only a decline in the folks who are simply looking for a specific word or name and the forgot. Like, that one guy who believed in the survival of the fittest. Um. Let me try to remember. I think he had an epic beard. Ah! Darwin! I just needed a reminder, I didn't want to read the entire article on him because I did that years ago.

    Look at your own behaviors on lemmy. How often do you click/tap through to the complete article? What if it's just a headline? What if it's the whole article pasted into the body of the post? Click bait headlines are almost universally hated, but it's a desperate attempt to drive traffic to the site. Sometimes all you need is the article synopsis. Soccer team A beats team B in overtime. Great, that's all I need to know..unless I have a fantasy team.

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  • Electric heaters are wasteful. How about spending that energy wisely while also generating heat?

    https://fedia.io/m/nottheonion@lemmy.world/t/2828343

    (Sorry for the full link, I can't figure out how to reference an article on another instance on the mobile app.)

  • Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet

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  • You just described most tech stocks.

    As Cory Doctrow explains:

    the fundamental duty of every CEO of every high-growth tech company: explaining how his company will continue to grow. These growth stories are key, because growth stocks trade at a huge premium relative to the stocks of "mature" companies.

  • This guy is basically my dad 😢

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  • I'm imagining every strenuous lift resulting in a toot!

  • What are your "must-watch" movies?

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  • I scrolled way too far to find this.

  • AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools

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  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • I came here to see if it was the early signs of the demise of YouTube. I secretly want all these content producers to move to a privacy-respecting platform, especially those who produce tech or privacy related content.

    Now, for why I don't watch videos anymore, the medium isn't as easily consumed by me. I prefer text. At home, it's noisy and I get interrupted every 90 seconds. I lose interest quickly and fast forwarding isn't as easy as scanning text for a topic shift. My mind wanders on some topics, internally exploring that topic deeper. With text, i can just stop reading. With video, i need to realize that I'm processing a thought and hit pause, then rewind a bit. I get interrupted a lot. On the bus, I need to remember headphones and I hate when people shoulder surf. That's harder to do with text. Give me a plain text RSS feed that I can read anytime.

  • why do you people delete your posts?

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  • I expected the whole comment thread to be like this.

  • Pi NAS for multi-location backups

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  • I came here to say the same thing except that I have a pi locally and one at a relative's house. I back up to the local pi and a nightly cron starts rsync to pull my local copy.

    I chose this so that i could control the rstnc start time, bandwidth and stop time but also so I could leave the remote network vanilla with no open ports, etc. With bandwidth limiting, it may take a few days to catch up from full backups, but a differential is same day.

    Be sure to use a RO filesystem or overlay FS on the Pi card. I've had them go corrupt.

  • Devils Panties 08/26/2025

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  • Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

    There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

    Frank Wilhoit 03.22.18 at 12:09 am

  • Health insurance

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  • I'm not disagreeing with the rest of your post, but the grocery store destroying the food is for liability reasons. A local grocery store would throw out expired food that they could not sell and someone dug some cooked rotiserie chicken out of the trash out back, ate it and died from complications due to food poisioning. His family sued AND WON because the grocery store was negligent in not destroying the food, which "lured" the hungry man to eat it since it was still in it's on the shelf packaging and did not say that it was spoiled.

  • What are some active online communities that are entirely oldschool forums?

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  • I'm interested in the second part, how # users are determined. Lemmy is federated,instance so if i setup a community instance physically I the UK and cap users at 9999,flying just under the threshold,but i federate with everywhere, my instance don't have enough users to require compliance, right? What if i set up 5 separate instances,each capped at 9999? There's got to be a loophole...for the children.

  • What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?

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  • Apps and web sites can also apply custom pricing based on the individual's ability to pay. Payday? The parking spot costs more.