Yardy Sardley

I’m gonna join in with everyone and recommend completely zeroing all the drives (make sure you unmount them before doing it). It will take a while but at least you will have drives in a known state and can eliminate that as a possible issue.

Asking out of genuine naivety, why do you do that?

I love listening to solo piano or ambient music while reading. Any other type of music is too much for my brain to handle.

It’s an adjustment I had to make when everyone started working from home in 2020, and I find it works well on transit too. Might just be that I’ve trained my brain to go into focus mode when I hear that type of music.

This reminded me of Long Long Man

Ads are a bigger business than you might expect. Get enough eyeballs in one place and brands will be tripping over themselves to give you money just to mention their name. Take the superbowl for example. It’s usually the most viewed event every year in the US, so naturally there is a tradition of advertisers pulling out all the stops and making high-budget bombastic commercials for that specific occasion. You can imagine how attractive it is for brands to want to put their ads on big social media sites, where psychological tricks are used to capture as much attention as possible at all times, instead of just once per year.

Then there’s the user data angle. The big sites all have millions of users who constantly give away personal information without even being prompted, and that makes it really easy for the companies who run them to analyze what makes each user tick and serve ads to the people who are most likely to click on them. This elevates the rate brands are willing to pay even further.

Those two things, along with a suite of anti-competitive practices, are enough to get sites to the point of being mostly profitable. Venture capital and hype-based market speculation get them the rest of the way.

Does anyone remember the spongebob edits people used to upload in the early days of youtube? Idk if they’re still around but I remember watching the pizza delivery one about 10 times in a row and just dying laughing.

I wonder if any of those videos are still funny, a lot has changed since 2009

Linus himself uses a macbook, I’m sure the mainline kernel has decent support for somewhat recent hardware

Not gonna lie, the performatively anti-vegan rhetoric is cringe af.

Not sure why it’s so popular on lemmy of all places, but there’s been some really terrible behaviour towards vegans whenever I’ve seen the topic pop up. Just flooding the platform with hate particles for absolutely no reason.

Yeah, I really wish people would be a little more tactful when they go on performative tirades like this. It’s giving “old man yells at cloud” energy. Ridiculous behaviour when you think about it. People can block clouds, yelling is worse than useless.

To be totally fair, nostr’s whole thing is that users can delete all of their federated data if they want to, so it makes sense if they are upset about having their data copied to a place they can’t control.

Not sure how realistic that is with the data being publicly accessible via the web, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the they have some kind of license that gives the dmca request the ability to hold a nonzero amount of water. Then again, I wouldn’t be suprised if completely fails, either.

Best I got is being in a glider that we had to ditch in a corn field. Hopfully I never have to witness anything worse than that.

I love Jon Stewart but I think he’s a little off base with this take. Are we supposed to not call out the overtly fascist stuff the government is doing? Will that get more people to listen the next time we have to call out an overtly fascistic act or will we have to hold our tongue then, as well? How many grannies need to be eaten and impersonated by wolves before we’re allowed to move past the “ooh what sharp teeth you have” crap?

With fascism especially, if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. The people going through life like everything is fine are implicitly supporting the fascism. I’m not going to stop yelling about how a pack of wolves has taken over the government, just because some people think the word is overused.

If it’s through steam, I wouldn’t expect there to be any issues.

Just make absolute certain you have a backup copy of any save files before deleting your current OS, for the sake of your relationship… I can only imagine how many hours someone might have put into a game that came out in 2009. Definitely not speaking from personal experience haha

If both engines failed, that means they would have lost hydraulic power too, which is probably the reason they couldn’t extend the landing gear or try to go around a second time.

One of the theories floating around is that a bird strike caused one engine to flame out and the pilots pulled the cutoff switch on the wrong engine. It wouldn’t be the first time something like that happened.

I don’t know, but aiming for a short runway with a wall at the end doesn’t seem to work.

The more it hurts the more it shows you really care, right?

Making the best bed of what you have.

Remember when everyone thought putin was bluffing about Ukraine? Now would be an appropriate time to learn our lesson from that.

Next thing we know, trump will be launching a special operation to ‘defend’ the culturally american regions of alberta. Although he won’t have to do much, considering who’s currently in charge of the province.

I do not understand where they are making a profit

I think you’re overestimating how much money it costs to produce this stuff. Economies of scale and certain other practices in this specific industry allow retailers to sell stuff at a significant markup even when it seems like they’re giving customers a heavy discount.

But even with relatively large markup percentages, the low price point means retailers have to move incredible volumes in order to make enough money to stay open. So they end up using aggressive marketing tactics to get people to come in the door and start impulsively buying stuff.

My intuition is that those shirts are simply from last season and didn’t sell well enough or they’ve gone out of fashion. The store is using it as an opportunity to put a big 80% off sign out front and whip potential customers into a frenzy. Could also be a scheme to recover costs from online returns. But I really doubt there is anything wrong or even different about those shirts.

Source: worked in clothing retail for a several years

Did cats domesticate humans, or did Toxoplasma gondii domesticate both of us?