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socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Is Kagi search engine worth it?English
429·10 months agoSome people like them, they do have at least some ties to a Russian company which is a no from me at the moment.
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•S1ngularity/nx attackers strike againEnglish
2·11 months agoI use bsd containers for everything but home assistant on my home server and love them! The downside for most people at the moment is having to set them up manually. I can export the thin jail and move the archive across computers as backups and the fine tuned control is beautiful. FreeBSD offers a way to check for security vulnerabilities in installed packages (pkg audit -F) that I run as a cron job and email myself daily to check for needed updates.
Problem is most people want a single docker install and it’s all set up, not something that needs manual configuration. Bastille has templates that can do this for bsd jails but there’s not a lot of services with templates.
Edit: also frustrating is a lot of new apps for home servers only offer a docker install so installing from source becomes a huge pita and makes bsd jails harder to use (looking at you gramps-web specifically).
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?English
71·1 year agoThere really isn’t anything I couldn’t replace my phone with a tablet that stays in the house for, and it has been a growing thought to switch back to a dumb phone.
No kidding. It’s been infuriating to see stuff on Facebook again, and I don’t appreciate that it’s been the only way I’ve gotten people to buy used stuff we needed to get rid of to free up space.
Or Craigslist/Facebook marketplace/wherever your town congregates to. My town almost exclusively uses Facebook so I’ll log in long enough to post items when upgrading and usually am not the only one offering pretty cheap used gear there.
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task [edited post to change title and URL]English
111·1 year agoI’d expect similar at least. When one doesn’t keep up to date on new information and lets their brain coast it atrophies like any other muscle would from disuse.
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environmentEnglish
5·1 year agoCould yes but they are definitely training new ai’s. So same as I’ve cut most meats out of my diet I’ll do the same with ai and talk loudly about how catastrophic their water and electricity usage is until it’s no longer true. Both are not good for the environment and both are completely unnecessary to our survival.
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environmentEnglish
71·1 year agoThey only raise beef once too unless you’re pretending there only one ai model ever trained you’re purposefully trying to create a false narrative.
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environmentEnglish
121·1 year ago*as long as we don’t count the shit load of electricity spent training the model.
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteerEnglish
70·1 year agoFor the tomatoes you might see if there’s canning groups on Facebook for your area? It takes a metric fuck-ton of tomatoes to make a can of sauce so they’d likely be able to use quite a bit of them.
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50%English
2·1 year agoThey sell a dock that supports up to 4K for tvs, I’d guess for that. It’s capable of doing that fairly well on less intensive games.
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.world•ELI5: Why does time slow down for something as it approaches the speed of light but then are suddenly fast when they are the speed of light or faster?English
7·1 year agoPerhaps a stupid follow up but what would this mean for things necessary for survival like food and water? Would I theoretically starve on that 4 year trip before I even realized I needed water?
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.world•ELI am 5 or 10 how a single person can easily balance a checkbook but the government seems to have problems with?English
11·1 year agoTo add on to this, it’s also why liberal talking points tend to really highlight savings from programs. As another easy example of good spending: if it costs $50k to send someone to drug rehab versus $75k to house them in prison for a year, with respective rehabilitation rates for 65 and 48 percent, you save and make money twice. Not only is it cheaper up front to send them to rehab, but the lack of a criminal record leaves that person more free when searching for jobs later which can make them a much more productive taxpayer from an input to the economy standard.
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.world•ELI am 5 or 10 how a single person can easily balance a checkbook but the government seems to have problems with?English
18·1 year agoIs there a specific item you’re looking at? The issue here is in a few different areas but largely breaks down to
- It’s not one person but multiple
- A checkbook is a terrible analogy that at least in the US is just used as a way to make political points.
To 1, imagine you and someone else who disagrees with you on basically every financial aspect has to decide how to spend income together. That is likely not going to be a short or fun process.
For 2, a lot of what they are actually talking about here is debt. Debt gets trickier at a nation-state level as it’s not as simple as how much can I repay. Economies all use at least some debt and that debt comes with economic complications. For instance, let’s say we take on debt that pays for roads that will improve shipping times by 25% while reducing vehicle deaths by 5%. Both of those are economic boons, reduced shipping times means potentially more money from in country sales and exports and removed the economic losses of both the death itself and the loss of future economic gains from that individual. This kind of debt quite literally brings in more money than it costs to service that debt.
On the other hand debt that say gets wasted say reopening Alcatraz is debt that won’t go towards any meaningful economic gain and we lose money on it.
Basically (for the US at least), any time someone mentions the term checkbook when referring to the government they are either purposefully trying to mislead you, or are not appreciating the full range of government spending in a way that is a massive detriment to the way we choose to run our government.
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty AdsEnglish
72·1 year agoWonder how much of a bonus the sick fuck who pitched that got for the idea?
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I'm committing to Linux, but it's so unstable. Any suggestions?
1·1 year agoIt would be worth a try since this seems to be mostly performance related glitches
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I'm committing to Linux, but it's so unstable. Any suggestions?
3·1 year agoOffhand anecdotes here as I only have Ubuntu on a 2012 MacBook.
That said the error post update is likely just a service that didn’t restart properly. Many of these are not necessarily critical, does it say what program crashed? A reboot would guarantee a fix here.
Unfortunately the issues with apps might be the snap packaging, this does slow apps down a bit which could cause pretty much all the remaining issues. I haven’t personally used it but might look up flatpak as a replacement and see if that helps. If others don’t explain how to do this I will try to come edit this later with an explainer or link or something to help.
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•US Treasuries sell-off deepens as ‘safe haven’ status challengedEnglish
3·1 year agoWe still had treasuries and bonds to help finance that stuff even when we had a more progressive tax structure
socphoenix@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•How to have a boring and low-maintenance system?
31·1 year agoFor as much hate as it gets Ubuntu (or kubuntu for the kde version) will feel very familiar in usage and will have a newer kernel. It’s my default it just needs to work distro if regular Debian isn’t an issue due to drivers or something similar.



Not just no vetting the odd time I’m in there I report that shit and they NEVER take it down. Just say they deemed it “didn’t go against facebook’s community standards.”