When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression

For anyone struggling, lemmy web interface added the colon into the URL for the blog post link. Here’s a clickable version without the colon:

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram

Yeah except one is a private entertainment establishment, and the other is a public transportation service.

The perfect consumer-facing example of this is Clear at the airport.

Instead of waiting in line to have your ID checked by a TSA agent, you let an iPad take your picture and then have an agent walk you to the TSA agent and vouch for you.

The whole iPad thing is marginally faster than just checking your ID by hand, so really they just found a way to monetize cutting the line. This provides zero net benefit to society except for extracting money from people for something that’s supposed to be free.

Also, when everyone has Clear, we’ll be back in the same boat with long lines and they’ll probably charge more for Clear+ or some shit.

Unfortunately the hunt for some of these eggs is ongoing.

Humans have the same issue, we just don’t have that same instinct for whatever reason.

Location is determined by the time-of-flight difference in the sound wave between each ear. So if something hits your left ear first, you know that it’s coming from the left.

You can’t do that when things are above/below.

More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oai7HUqncAA

ok, now do chroot

Heh forgot about the App Store.

Maybe a bad example, but there is certainly a trend recently of purpose built hardware with “free” services failing to justify the expenses of the necessary backend infrastructure getting turned into useless landfill.

Car Thing, Facebook Portal, and this dumb little treat dispensing dog webcam that I used to have come to mind.

Everyone hates subscriptions, but when it comes to hardware that needs to generate revenue to function, I think a token dollar or so a month is appropriate.

Edit: also thinking about it more, core OS software features that are arbitrarily linked to new hardware (like Apple Intelligence) are definitely designed to sell more phones over just selling more software on existing phones. I think it’s fair to say that there’s a revenue link there.

I’ve been using a Sunbeam flip phone for a year or so. Paid for the phone up front, and pay $3/mo for use of maps, speech recognition, and continued bugfixes.

Even if phones never got new features, dev time still needs to be committed to security updates, and services (like Siri) need to be paid for. The model of getting 100% of your revenue from new phone sales is starting to break. If I could pay $3/mo for Siri or whatever and never have my phone go obsolete, I think that’d be a good deal.

What camera did you get op?

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

He pardons specific offences, not entire types of crimes.

Funny that this came up in my feed immediately after: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/two-americas-one-bank-branch/

Just encrypt your data and don’t tell them the key that you’ve memorized. If you have trouble forgetting things, use a hammer.

As John Mulaney explains, you use your favorite doctor finder website and sort by fewest stars.

Thanks for the tips. I’ll definitely at least start with mdadm since that’s what I’ve already got running, and I’ve got enough other stuff to worry about.

Are you worried at all about bit rot? I hear that’s one drawback of mdadm or raid vs. zfs.

Also, any word on when photoprism will support the Coral TPU? I’ve got one of those and haven’t found much use for it.

Lucked out on eBay and got it for $50.

My new motherboard actually has a RAID controller for the M.2 slots. I know people frown on hardware raid, but given it’s the boot drive, it might just be easiest to count on it for daily operation and backup to the software RAID/something else every night.

Picked up a LSI SAS 9305-16I. I was always planning to do software raid, so I think it’ll do the trick for zfs.

I understand all of that. Sorry I didn’t explain it well.

I have a RAID6 for data and a single HDD for system files. I’d like to move the HDD to an NVME/SSD. I suppose I could make another RAID with an additional NVME, but I’ve found it easier to deal with booting off a traditional drive.

My solution for redundancy for the NVME is to just backup the bits that I need every night. These are usually just a few hundred megabyte database files. I’m curious if that’s a typical solution.

edit: to clarify, it’s a software raid with mdadm.

Do you connect to company WiFi?