RagingHungryPanda

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Proton and its services have been pretty good. Some things to know about proton mail:

  • Search is only for titles, as content is encrypted
  • You can do search in the body in your browser. It downloads your email into the browser and searchers locally. It takes a while to do this and build up indexes. I haven't had too much issue searching for things though.
  • Since they don't read your email, no automatic calendar events if there isn't a .ics

The VPN had been great

The storage isn't enough for me to be able to move off of my main cloud provider. There also isn't a way to pin a file on Android for it - and the 500gGB of space is less than I use

The Pass app is handy and it's easy to make aliases, though it often doesn't know to fill in, doesn't do it, or something, and I need to open the app to copy paste. Pretty trivial though.

I'm sticking with them. I don't really have a reason to leave. The aliases are really nice, the catch is that it's not easy to have them go to a sub email address that I use - it has to go to your primary email. Not a huge deal though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

During Christianity - Post Christianity

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Renewable biomass: burning forests before you turn them to coal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

No, as an American, you are only permitted to talk about events within the boarder of the land that you are in. For this reason, Americans are recommended to get summaries of recent events in any country they plan an extended stay in. Failure to comply can result in imprisonment, or event death.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

If you asked me to pick a state for that, Oregon would not have been it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

While they likely do have the capability of doing that eventually, there are only two places in the world that have the capability of doing the super small nm scale chips: Netherlands and Taiwan. These machines are insanely complicated and precise. I wouldn't be surprised if China was a decade or more away from doing it themselves. I could be wrong, but this scale of chips is an entirely different monster.

Now, they could be closer, but this particular job isn't that simple.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I've been using it for forever and also used it for DnD, based off of..what's his name, one of the bigger DM guys on YT. It works great.

I'm using Obsidian for work since cloud note apps are blocked and I don't like it as much. It works, but I'm not as wild about it.

One issue I recently had with one note is that I wanted to export a section to share on the web and wasn't able to do it and the web interface doesn't really let me do the management that I need. My work machine is my main one right now, so I'm stuck with what I've got. That all being said, aside from privacy, there isn't really a direct reason to change.

But I'm not super wild that MS is reading my notes since I've also used it as a diary at points. I'll have to figure that bit out later.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Well, I wouldn't call it a strictly impulse purchase, but I did get a steam deck because I was missing gaming and I'm glad I did. I haven't played in maybe a week or so, but I've put a good number of hours into BG3 so far. You'll enjoy it. I'm glad I got it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Capital demands growth. It doesn't care how you do it. It doesn't track or reward whether you did it by making the world better or by creating death squads and working with the CIA to kill thousands of people and overthrow a government that wanted to charge you taxes and limit the amount of land you could have.

It's been this way, and worse, for a long time. But bear in mind that Twitter gave us the ability to see how billionaires think. Modern media made them more accessible. They didn't change, our knowledge of them did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If it means anything, my parents have been going to a lot of specialists lately as they age and have had issues, and it's pretty much the same story:

  • set appointment with a doc - soonest you can get is in a few weeks or a month
  • go see a doc, get a recommendation another doc
  • they're full, wait 3 weeks
  • huh, maybe this other doc?, etc
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

a lot of AI is really just fancy statistics stuff. Years and years ago, I was doing an introductory lesson on some AI tools and the example given was predicting the price of rent or the price of a house. There's likely a mixture of the statistics part to predict and the algorithmic part to increase the amount and see if people bite.

It turns out, most will when everyone is using it bc being homeless kinda sucks.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

No, the general idea is that people took out 0%/ low interest loans in yen to buy assets. The rates went up and a bunch of people sold, causing a 12% drop, but then it went back up 10% the next day.

There are other things going on, like the jobs report in the US, but that was the big thing.

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