I would love to see someone say straight to his face “I’d buy you” “you can’t” “why not? You’re black” and watch him try to reconcile that. Idiot
Now if only those younger people would get out and vote. Part of the issue is making them realize that this election will have long lasting ramifications for most of their adult life.
I thought all solar power came from space? (Okay, I’ll show myself out)
The two things I see people forget when crunching the numbers:
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Cloud is a recurring cost. So you have to factor TCO over the life of the application which realistically is gonna be greater than 6 years. In those 6 years usually you’ve deprecated you’re on-premise hardware in 3-5, so those last few years are gravy, whereas with Cloud you’ll be paying the same amount year after year
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Application sizing and density. Quite often people will break out workloads on the cloud to offer better “segmentation”, but you’re paying for that division. On premise you can better utilize your resources through sharing at the hypervisor level. Couple this with people not sizing their workloads correctly (or at all) and they end up wasting a lot of money
Cloud is good for rapid prototyping, or if you don’t have the resources to spend yourself, but if you have the size and means, on-premise will almost always win the cost argument.
ETA: Another factor that businesses liked was that Cloud was a OpEx spend vs on-premise hardware being a CapEx spend and it props up your EBITDA, but that doesn’t really matter much unless you’re looking at selling your company or are a highly traded public company, but a lot of them got sucked in with that view too.
(Source: I did these calculations and pointed it out to my leadership years ago and now am finally getting the “I told you so”)
Cool cool, now realistically, do you have the time, resources and know how to find and contact every owner of every federated instance these comments have made to? Would you be able to deal with the legal resources of any number of jurisdictions to truly test whether that is actually enforceable?
My point basically is that it’s functionally impossible regardless of what the law says, and you should treat your comments and personal information as such that they won’t ever be able to be deleted or scrubbed.
Except that only applies to federated servers that exist in the EU. If your data gets federated out to a country outside of the EU, they don’t have to listen to your whines of GDPR as it’s not enforceable. And given that you could be federated with hundreds of instances across the world, good luck.
I said the same thing with AI scraping. All someone needs is to add their own instance that federates with everyone else and they can scrape data for AI training till their heart’s content.
It’s an alias account for Weird Al…
“Put Beaker in a bow tie next to me?”
wtf are you on about? The Winter Solstice is very much a verifiable fact (it’s actually the 21st so I was a day off) and marks the start of Winter in the northern hemisphere. Christmas is usually (I say usually so you can’t be pedantic about the minority outliers) celebrated on December 25th. That’s still only a few days after the solstice like I was saying.
This comic is talking about the Christmas season, creeping into Halloween and fall festivities, which is very much true in the northern hemisphere. I see your on an NZ instance which, yes the seasons are flipped there, but don’t go getting butt hurt if you can’t read context clues from the comic just because it doesn’t line up with you.
Here’s the issue I have. The Winter solstice (Dec 22nd) marks the start of Winter. Christmas is 3 days later, yet people expect it to be in the middle of winter, so people keep trying to move the season up. Realistically they should be trying to celebrate it in late January rather than pushing it back into Autumn. But they had to go and steal Yule and then keep wanting more time.
Aw man and those things are already designed to trap you.
But wait the original Addams Family was… checks IMDB … 1991…. Excuse me, it’s past my old person bed time.
I’d lean towards option 3. I view this site as an aggregator and I see plenty of broken images when scrollling through here. It’s not your job to host or proxy those images and working in infrastructure it lends to a lot lighter weight instance that’s easier for you to manage without having to worry about disk, or even worse, bandwidth costs.
The only way I would see option 2 being more beneficial is if it was truly a temporary cache solution where the image gets pulled in 1 time, served out to all lemm.ee users for a period of time (say 24 hours). This would reduce the chance that you end up rate limited, while allowing users to still see the image served via lemm.ee
The proxy on every request solution just seems poorly implemented to me for the reasons you say.
Is this retaliation for TSMC not wanting to buy Intels fabs?
Online is unplayable for the reasons posted but I’m more pissed they scuttled the single player DLC to focus on online instead.
Okay…. Layman question here. wtf would that eventually do to the lungs of anything that breathes it in over time or if it starts to settle back on the earth?
Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks?
You always hear the phase “9 to 5” and also the song with the same name. Assuming you include 1 hour worth of breaks (30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks), you’re only working for 7 hours a day which comes up to 35 hours a week.
Now it feels like you have to work 8 hours a day (for a total of 40 hours of actual work), plus your other time off meaning you’re really there for 9 hours each day (for a total of 45 hours). Am i looking at that wrong, or did expected times change, and if so, when?
Walking into a bathroom is a crapshoot. You either get cold crisp air, or you have your nose hairs singed off.
No pun intended
(Religious) What would i be labeled?
I’m curious if there’s a name to the belief I have. I wouldn’t exactly call it atheist, though i generally lean that way, but I wouldn’t call it non-theist. The thing is, I just plain don’t care if God exists or not. They could, or they couldn’t, it really has no bearing on how I live my life. For that reason along I think I go in the atheist camp, but I always thought that was used to describe people who don’t think he exists.
If you could sacrifice your life and have any wish granted, would you and what for?
And not a monkey’s paw moment.
What causes a CFL to suddenly start working again?
I have a CFL in the bathroom that went out on me. I’ve been too lazy to change it because there are other bulbs that are working. Well after a couple weeks, it magically decided to turn back on. It’s nowhere that it would be jostled or anything, so I found that weird.
WYR: Be Invincible, Immortal or Invulnerable?
Invincible - Live a normal life span, can get hurt, but won’t be killed, still feel things
Immortal - Live forever (stop aging in your mid30s) still capable of being injured and dying via unnatural causes
Invulnerable - Live a normal life span, can’t get hurt or killed, but in return can’t feel anything (emotionally or physically)
Took a little liberty with some of the definitions to provide enough separation for the question.
How do historical parts of active cities end up so far underground?
I was thinking about Rome and there is one place that’s a 17th century church, on top of 14th century monastery on top of a 1st century apartment. And if you go to the Forum section it’s visibly below the surface of the current city.
For the fact that the city has been active for thousands of years, how do things end up getting buried? Does that mean the elevation of the city is higher now than it was in 0 AD?
Prank calls don't really exist anymore with caller ID and everyone sending unknown numbers to voicemail.
I was listening to a Weird Al song about prank calls and realized you can’t really do them anymore now. Also it was funny that he mentioned dialing 7 digit numbers instead of 10
Women of Lemmy, do you mind being called cute?
Or do you prefer other adjectives? Do you consider it to be insulting or do you take it for a compliment if it was meant as one? (Assume an amenable relationship between the two people, not a random stranger or creeper)
Texting has probably enabled more affairs recently
Due to its asynchronous and discreet nature, people don’t have to be in physical proximity or expect immediate responses.
I don't like sleeping in dark rooms
I don’t like to sleep in near pitch black rooms. It just feels unnatural to me. It may be more the fact that it prevents the gradual transition to daylight unless you’re using an artificial light, so that bothers me more because you don’t know when morning is. But even when traveling I love to keep the curtains open through the night and sleep to whatever the natural light level is around me even if it’s in the middle of a city.
Hidden Photos available via USB
Well this is interesting. I plugged my phone into my computer to pull some photos off of it and I just happen to start browsing it via Windows Explorer since the device shows up there. Imagine my surprise when I saw things that were in my Hidden folder show up clear as day. It seems that lock is only at an application level and just browsing the file system it’s there to see.
Does anyone else experience something similar? Is there a note I missed that it’s still be available via other means?
Feed blur settings no longer per account
In previous versions I could set the nsfw blur settings (Settings > Apperance > Blur NSFW) for my feed on a per account basis. This was good for having a nsfw and a sfw account that I could easily switch between. As of 2.12.4, it seems this setting is now global forcing me to have to switch it each time i switch accounts. This can also be problematic if i forget to re-enable the blur when switching back to my sfw account.
See all communities on another instance?
Is there any way to see a list of communities either on the instance you’re subscribed to, or better still a remote instance? I can go to Local and New posts to see what’s been posted, but that’s really about it. Even if there’s a way to see communities of an instance you have an account on, I wouldn’t want to sign up for multiple instances just to get a list on each one, then flip back to my main account to subscribe to them.
Does different parts of the world use different standards for water pressure similar to voltages?
In the US for example the standard is 110V for voltage and 80psi for water. In Europe, voltage is 220V, is water pressure different there too?
Tourists (and tourism) are a good thing.
Quite often you see people saying “tourists need to go home” or “we need less tourists” and there are some valid issues with how people can be, but overall, having tourists is a good thing. It shows that the middle class actually has means of traveling. It also tends to stimulate a local economy with additional revenue and can offset taxes for locals through hotel and other tourism fees. Those that do travel also tend to develop a broader world view then being in their own little sphere.
A reduction in tourism means that only the rich will end up traveling, and everyone else will be stuck only in the place they’re born, relegated mainly to pictures and videos “of a far off land” and will foster deeper divides of “well that’s just them over there” instead of getting to experience it firsthand.
How quickly do changes get pushed to the ActivityPub protocol?
Let’s say I hit submit on a post or reply, and then immediately notice a typo and edit it. Or I accidentally mis-swipe and downvote and then change it to an upvote.
In both cases, do both actions immediately get posted to the feed, or does the Lemmy instance wait a minute and combine (or overwrite) the actions so that only a single action gets published?
People who still wear masks (and aren't immunocompromised)...
How long do you plan on wearing a mask for? Will it be for the rest of your life? What will change your view?
This isn’t meant to be inflammatory. There’s someone at work who wears one everyday and I’m too afraid to ask them.
Men who shave...
How often do you shave? How long does it take you? How do you do it?
Just curious as it feels like a chore for me. I usually do a with the grain shave with a safety razor and no product since I don’t have a lot of time and that gives the least irritation, but it’s not a close shave. I see guys that get stupid close shaves and I often wonder how much time they spend on it.
What's with all the "weed" shops popping up?
Driving around town I’ve noticed quite a few places in San Antonio are offering free weed and are now selling it. Did I miss something being passed? I thought only Delta-8 (and variants) were available and that THC was still banned. Was there a loophole discovered or will the city no longer prosecute?