Family first! I thank you for what you’ve done for reddit and sync for lemmy. The app still works great for me. I hope you find happiness in your work and I accept whatever decision you make to continue this at whatever pace suits you. It’s been really fun watching your efforts and enjoying the fruits of your labor over the last decade.

Just pass a damn privacy law already.

Or watch it on YouTube. Or look at it on Facebook. Or whatever.

I married a girl that is into LOTR extended editions… Can confirm that the marriage is still great. She’s also a big star trek fan. It’s great!

CCP lies about everything constantly, runs all businesses, and controls the media. This is extremely well documented.

Dell Optiplex… You can buy them used all over still. Find one with a decent processor and upgrade everything else. The fans are easy to find and replace. I’ve got a Linux based MCPC that’s about a decade old that’s still going strong. I’ve got one for my kids with Linux on it. I’ve bought several for elderly relatives and upgraded the ram and drive to ssd. They really just seem to go forever.

That would actually be a coincidence, but it’s not because it’s 50. Alanis Morissette is ignorant and so are the dudes that wrote the song.

Fiber isn’t that much. RDOF in the US is proving that it’s averaging about $1000 per home to lay fiber. Adjusted for inflation, that’s cheaper than copper was 100 years ago. At $80-$120 ARPU, the ROI is a few years at most.

I’d argue the issue is that these regulated monopolies are bloated to the point that they just don’t have the money to lay fiber.

Look at the cash sheets of all the ISPs… They all make the vast majority of their profits on the internet infrastructure and services, but blow it all on everything else they do… TV, VoIP, mobile VNO, sports teams rights, and other stupid crap.

I read that as DEI hires… 10 PMs for every engineer. The blood suckling corp I’m trying to exit has entire departments (plural!) of women, gay men, and poc that do nothing of real value. But the CDO really wanted to get all these “minorities” into tech! They run meetings with each other constantly and pass project status power points around like they are critical for the business to function. … The glass eye refers to their complete lack of knowledge of any technology.

Logic bomb. Ha!

They want Disney+ as the first word. Loses would be a better word than drops, but the writing style is more like an investor’s report or article for investors. Dropped is used to insinuate that Disney was expecting it and planned it, which favors the company… Which is ultimately the true intent. The writer is probably a robot anyway, if not literal then figurative.

We’re at the point where “journalism” is completely captured by companies that advertise on these news outlets. People are excited to see X fall due to advertisers pulling out, but consider that power against every news outlet. That’s the situation we’re in now. X is just proof that all news is captured, not a one off event.

Agree but also disagree. The IRS has some of that info, but not all of it. While it’s true that most (ie >50%) people the govt knows everything, there are plenty of free options. I filled out the 1040EZ for many years before I couldn’t anymore. It was less than an hour of my time. That’s still available online and in paper. The only thing missing is the govt prepopulating a few numbers, which isn’t much of a benefit.

The tax code could be simplified, but the argument being made here is that most people are forced to use tax software because it’s too hard to do your own taxes. But it’s actually the opposite… Most people are fine with the 1040EZ. The 25% or so that have more complex tax situations will always be happy paying $50 for x software to get a $3k return or pay an accountant $300 to do it.

It’s not just for the rich. I’m by no means rich but firmly in the middle class. I withhold the standard calculation based on the IRS’ own formula and i get a pretty decent refund every year. Mortgage interest, charity donations, and student loans (all things lots of people have) reduce tax burden a decent amount.

Over 90% of tax revenue is collected from less than 10% of the population. Tax the rich is a campaign lie. It already happens. About 50% of adults pay net 0% or get out more than they put in.

The middle class is shrinking and the wage gap is getting worse partly because of the progressive tax system. Only the top 0.1% have the ability to not care about taxes. And even if you taxed them at 100%, they have the tools and money to avoid paying taxes on the vast majority of their wealth.

Well, considering they don’t build their product (it’s contacted out), probably not.

My guess is ads don’t work in cached pages.

I’ve been in the Bezos balls. (Anyone seen the old Woody Allen sex movie?) Neat but no good reason for them to be balls. It’s just a climate controlled botanical garden.

I’ll also note that the place is jam packed with staff that constantly ask you if you have any questions. Well… I asked questions and no one had any clue. Great job.

There’s also a not great coffee bar inside. Underwhelming.

Well all they do is take in bulk shipments of, categorize, store, individually package, ship, and deliver products. I just really don’t see how you could call that “distributing” goods. /s

Leverage.

Drugs -> Money Sex -> Control the Powerful Plumbers protect the CIA.

i7 (mobile processor) with the built in Intel gpu. 16G ram. 120G ssd. It’s an optiplex. They’re pretty cheap on Amazon / ebay as refurbs. I bought it for the processor. Bought and upgraded the ram and ssd separately. I just have kodi on it (on Linux Mint). Everything is stored on my synology, which has an m.2 ssd cache. My TV is only 2k, so I haven’t tried pushing any higher res stuff. I was surprised a few years ago when I started playing h.265 videos. No issues playing it at all. I didn’t upgrade the ssd at first, but noticed the box got pretty hot by the end of a movie. That upgrade dropped the temp in the box a good bit. I don’t think I’m pushing it much. It just gets warm a little and utilization remains under 50%. The box is really snappy too.