I have thoughts about this, but I’ll be civil. Let’s just say I was in a budget meeting with Len Downie.

When I took on a job as an editor for a paper in a tourist town, one of the first things I told the publisher was “what is going on with this map? This road doesn’t exist!”

Well, me being me, I decided we needed entirely new maps, and I was going to be the one who did them.

It’s got what plants crave!

It’s not the Voltaires that kill you, it’s the Ampaires.

I personally reduced trade-show receiving times by 75% per item by designing a Microsoft Form for warehouse employees to upload photos of shipping labels, where 10 lines of JS pulled all the relevant info from the sheet being populated by the form. This replaced hand-writing complex triplicate forms, allowed us to send reports before close of business, and the client was thrilled.

My boss absolutely hated the new workflow, as she couldn’t read code and therefore didn’t trust that my system worked, all client satisfaction to the contrary. Absolutely absurd.

And this before LLMs were a thing. “AI” is not doing significant automation that hasn’t already been being done for decades.

Always assume anything you post outside of some messaging apps has hit the public domain and will be used, sold and targeted. This is scarcely a Discord-only problem.

So, after reading several sources on this, it sounds like it’s going to be harder to access furry hentai, which one shouldn’t be doing on Discord in the first place.

That has never been a private space. You want E2EE for anything spicy.

I don’t use Discord for adult content, so it sounds like I won’t really be affected. But they’re sure as hell not getting my face or ID.

Imagine if we were still doing full-height 5.25" HDDs!

So, rebuild the array offsite after swapping in the good drive?

I only use my phone under duress. The screen is entirely too small. It’s a phone. It’s meant for calls and texting.

There’s a time and a place for everything, with apologies to John Lennon.

Lemmy is a great place for longform discussions, but the vast majority of my posts and comments tend to be of the one-line, weary-columnist snark variety.

Much of the news this days is “this is objectively bad,” making attempts at discourse difficult.

I mean, most services have decided to price themselves out of the business. A great example is fast food. I remember the 99-cent Whopper and $1 McDoubles. At that price, it was acceptable food. It got the job done.

That any chain claims to still have a “value menu” befuddles me. And don’t get me started on $3.79 fountain drinks.

The problem isn’t RTO, it’s that there’s simply no value anymore. Time was, grabbing a burger on the way home was cheaper than making dinner. Those times have passed, and if you have to drive for an hour, why pay $7 for something you can make at home for $2?

OK, but where are the data that they’re inflating claims? From where I’m looking, they keep iterating. Your approach feels like sinophobia. What are we doing here in the states? Certainly not announcing new batteries.

I’ve been living exclusively off Chinese-made solar panels and batteries for nearly two and a half years. I don’t exactly view them as liars.

Also, your link is irrelevant. We’re talking about CATL here.

I first ran into this story on /r/energy (yeah, I cheated on Beehaw because I had to see what was going on in /r/journalism with the Post news), and while most comments were useful, there was also a tinge of “but it’s China, so that’s bad.”

Well, we were on our way to building up production and infrastructure here in the U.S., which I know because I fucking covered federal grants for green-energy projects and battery production until being laid off Jan. 20, 2025.

I mean, this is like complaining that another kid has a chocolate bar on the playground and you don’t. China invests for the long term. The U.S. needs quarterly returns. We did a lot better at advancing the state of the art in everything when we had robust corporate R&D departments than we do going with share buybacks.

We have lost our edge. Period, graf.

And nothing of value was lost. Fuck Adobe. You want me to pay you monthly? Prostitutes have better terms.

Not that I’m bitter.

Oh, look at Mr. “I took advanced physics” over here! I didn’t go beyond first-year uni-level physics, so basically, when stuff like this comes out, I’m like “that’s cool.” No bearing on my life at all, but it’s fun to read new theories.

That’s awfully specific!

Basically, there are three possible outcomes. The preferred one when you flip that master switch is that everything works.

The second is that nothing happens, and now you have to figure out what the fuck has gone wrong.

The third is an electrical fire.