Preflight_Tomato

joined 9 months ago
[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the panic around analog clocks comes from the scenario where you have to explain what clockwise and counterclockwise is. I have personally seen someone eventually removed from a workgroup because they couldn't understand it.

Not that analog clocks matter, but that was an easy way to teach direction in cylindrical coordinates. What can we use now for that?

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Blue spray paint…

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ooo like higher powered rfid tags! The info could even then be relayed to the driver via the on screen display since theyre now all required.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

Many kinds yes, idk enough to say all. Docs take a sample of the cancer DNA, turn that into an mRNA vaccine, inject it into you, and your immune system precisely destroys the cancer.

It seems interesting for many cancers, and lifesaving for already metastasized cancers.

Only downside will be lifelong wage garnishment to The Company.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

+1 for syncthing.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 15 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Always get the version of the gadget with replaceable batteries unless you want a brick in 3-10 years. Additionally, prefer 18650, AA, AAA batteries, and keep some rechargeable ones around.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's not the biggest, but it still is a concern, and is exceedingly easily mitigated.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

It at least used to be adaptive because at one point it went to 500$ for me, then changed back down a couple months later.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

For privacy.com:

  • great for anyone in the USA
  • don’t worry about difficult subscription cancellations again, just turn that one’s dedicated card off
  • I have personally blown past the daily spend limit of 250$ without issue, idk if that limit is real. The 1000$/mo may be though I've never hit that.
  • I’ve used privacy.com for everything from Amazon to car insurance to gym memberships.

On credit freezes:

  • a freeze means that your consumer report will not be shared, which means applications for credit in your name will be denied
  • all USA consumer reporting agencies (data brokers) are legally required to freeze sharing of your reports for free upon your request
  • you can temporarily unfreeze when you get a new credit card, apply for rental property, etc.
  • don’t let them upsell it or try to direct you to another page with similar language, it is free
  • credit monitoring products need to request your report to see if any new accounts have opened. Don’t monitor it, prevent it by freezing the reports
  • freezes are required for any data broker, not just credit. This includes LexisNexis (job history), and presumably the ones that do rental and vehicle ownership history though i don’t know their names.
[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 25 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

My favorite was the password set screen allowing up to 64 characters, but login fails if the password is over 32 chars.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The choice paralysis is real. I chose lemm.ee because it was easy to type into the address bar, and I've stuck around because the admin seems pretty level-headed.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Idk if you can transfer likes comments and posts, but you can go to your old account from a new one and star everything with the new account pretty easily. So that at least can transfer.

 

I'd like to store/seed important data (wikipedia, gutenberg, etc.), and read recently that it would be a good idea to store torrent files long-term. My questions are:

  1. Is it better to store torrent files or magnet links?
  2. Will a given magnet link retrieve the exact same .torrent file every initiation?
  3. Is storage of these files/links a good idea (especially if I have the files)?

This question is really about whether magnet links or torrent files are better to store long term, with a sanity check that this is something that should be done.

I've read these two StackExchange posts which were very helpful, and am looking to get more technical opinions and info:

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Hey folks! I've been using MarkText for years, but it seems dead now. It still works fine, but I've been on-and-off looking for something that gets dependency updates and is less resource heavy (electron).

I look for the following in order of importance:

  • FLOSS license
  • WYSIWYG editing, not side-by-side
  • limited scope (edit docs, not trying to be 'A System for Managing Ideas')
  • low resource usage
  • LaTeX support is a plus

Do you know if MarkText has a trustworthy fork that is maintained? Do you know if something with similar user experience exists that uses a more lightweight code base?

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