pachrist

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I ran Fedora on my Framework when I first got it, a couple years ago, but the battery life and sleep behavior was just awful. Love Linux on desktop, hate it on a laptop. Should I revisit?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

And a $199 stand for it, sold separately.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Most standups are bad because they're not used as a quick collaboration tool, they're used as a demonstration to prove you're working, and then the least productive people talk the most because they're the most desperate to prove they're working.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Bart Starr was pretty cool. Seems like a nice guy.

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

I have a cool blog I made for class with lots of techy stuff. Can you check it out and tell me what you think?

http://localhost:8080

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

One of my favorite books is called Inherit the Stars.

Mankind is starting to reach out into the solar system, but finds a man on the moon entombed in a space suit, and he's been dead for 50,000 years.

It'd make a pretty good movie, 2 hours tops.

It does one of my favorite things, by strongly blending two genres: mystery, and sci-fi. A sci-fi show, movie, or book that's purely sci-fi is rarely good. Same goes for fantasy. Season 1 of Game of Thrones is good because it's primarily a mystery/drama story in a fantasy setting. A New Hope is great because it's a western, coming-of-age story in a sci-fi setting. Rebel Moon is garbage (for many reasons) because it's pure sci-fi schlock with no nuance.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I hate this approach to business.

Coupling subscriptions with forced obscolecence is a nightmare. If HP made the best printer money could buy, using it with a subscription model would be a hard sell. But they make shit printers that die at the drop of a hat, so coupling them with a subscription is asinine.

Logitech makes a decent mouse, passable webcams, and shit keyboards.

Just in case anyone from Logitech ever reads this, I own 2 MX Verticals, an MX Ergo, and an MX Master 2S. I love them all, but I'd rather use an OEM bog standard Dell mouse than pay for a subscription.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I like to frame Mr. Beast in the context of the NFL.

The Super Bowl had 123 million viewers this past year. A 30 second ad slot costs $7 million. This is something we can all wrap our heads around. It's a big deal, and that's a lot of people.

Mr. Beast puts out a video about every 2 weeks. Most get more viewers than the Super Bowl. Some almost double. If every video he makes essentially prints him $20 million in ad and sponsor revenue, I wouldn't be surprised.

That's why he can give away $1 million in a video.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean, if the choice is instant, painless death or decade after decade of your parents asking why you don't own a house, I guess death is fine?

[–] [email protected] 195 points 7 months ago (10 children)

I get that ads pay for a free internet. But that doesn't mean that 60% of my screen needs to be malware to read a local news article.

Until advertisers act in good faith, I block as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I think what Jobs really understood was that in a world of Ford, people crave a Ferrari.

Making the best be beautiful and accessible is hard, but you do it through focus and intentionality. Jobs, despite his many, many faults did that well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

No, no... slavery, like knitting or moderating a small forum space, is obviously just a hobby, or at worst, a side hustle. It's just a way to grow your personal brand, not the single worst atrocity across all of human history.

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