MystikIncarnate

joined 2 years ago
[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

Wayyyyyy more than that is wasted.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

If you got into the country, what's to stop ICE from picking you up and sending you to a prison in another country?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I think that's a positive. Americans, in the absence of law enforcement, will fight to defend themselves and their property (and vicariously, the property of others).

Stopping thievery, is, unto itself, a just cause.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I live in Canada, there's surprisingly little pickpocketing here too, and we don't have the same gun/weapon laws.

Like the Americans, we'll straight up beat you to a pulp if you try some shit, and we're very sorry about that.... You motherfucker.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hold up.

83% have a driver's license but 88% have a car?

So 5% of Americans either have a car for the hell of it, or they drive without a license?

And there's only 3% that are atheists? More people drive without a license than are atheists?

Excuse me?

If these numbers are correct, the US is more fucked than I thought.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My guess is hand/got holds for climbing up the cliff face. Basically an outdoor ladder.

I might be wrong

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Almost all of mine are lightbulbs, because RGB.

- Full time sysadmin and it support guy.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Long live gaben.

Honestly, I'm worried for what might happen if steam ever becomes dependent on how happy shareholders are with the amount of money they can squeeze from their users.

A lot of things on steam are not cheap, but the platform itself is really really good.

Keep it up chaps.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Listen. Apple has a vested interest in you buying a new device. They "fix" your phone, it'll be.... What? Maybe $100? .... They sell you a phone and it's like 10x that.

Most people have so little fucks to give and so little free time to fuck around and find out, that they just shrug and go with it. Apple knows this. If they "can't" (won't) fix it, then it must not be able to be fixed anymore; the thoughts of a typical normie Apple user with more money than sense (or shits to give).

This is why Apple is a trillion dollar company. They treat their customers like ATMs. Just keep beating that horse until it stops making money.

If everyone simply replaced the batteries on their phones, not using Apple's service (even when they're willing to do the work), then they probably wouldn't be worth a trillion dollars.

Since there's enough NPCs out there giving them money to replace perfectly good devices with dead batteries, it will never change.

When you "trade in" your perfectly working phone for a new one, Apple suddenly absolutely can replace the battery, and they do, and then they sell your "unfixable" phone to the next schmuck, and make even more money.

I feel like this shit is so obvious that anyone who buys into the line "can't be fixed" from Apple (or any other vendor), is insane, or mentally incapable of making rational decisions.

I fully accept that if I send my phone for service from the first party (in my case, Google), and they say it "can't" be done, that's not a hard no to fixing my stuff; that's them refusing to serve me. I need to go somewhere else because I've been abandoned by the very people I put my trust into when I bought a device.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Crime against humanity, and a crime against the planet.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

I've lived long enough to know that I need to have a system of: a place for everything and everything in its place.

..... Now if I could only implement that, that'd be great...

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

All fair. I'm not trying to say you're doing it wrong at all, quite the opposite.

And yes, redundancy is nice, but it really depends on the importance of the data on the system and the budget.

To be blunt: if Lemmy.ca goes down for any length of time, that would suck for everyone here, but nobody will die, there won't be any loss of profits or whatever... In business talk, the risk of what could be lost due to an outage is less than the cost of the hardware to prevent an outage.

I understand your position and an in warranty Dell server system isn't cheap.

What you're currently going is clearly working. So I don't have any complaints.

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