Also don’t forget to remove the plastic film(s) they put on the CPU/Cooler and everywhere else!

I feel like we need a Redditor’s Anonymous community lol.

Hi I’m Swintoodles and I’ve tried to open reddit 3 times this morning. The site is sparse, so I only browsed for 20 minutes, but I know I can get better!

Wouldn’t be the first time a corporation says one thing to the public and the complete opposite to its shareholders.

Find me a community that doesn’t persist primarily on the same small set of jokes.

with the recent ability for kids to convert to a Roth IRA up to $35k with no penalties if they don’t use the funds, has that become the new golden number?

Unless your kids are getting close to college right now, I would not put much faith in any specific program being present in the future. Those sorts of deals tend to come and go with the political tide.

Personally I put less and less emphasis on colleges with each passing year of life. Unless your child has aspirations to be a mover shaker or aims for a highly specialized field, just about any accredited bachelor’s degree in the right field will work for them, ergo a cheap online/community college will get the job done, and possibly also fast if they’re a strong student.

I’d put a modest sum in, perhaps around your number, and then subsidize each child based on their goals. You might nurture a child with strong entrepreneurial aspirations, in which case that 529 is probably not going to help them, whereas 30k in seed money could set them up for great success.

Teaching and nurturing a child early on in life will pay far greater dividends than a college fund ever will in any case. Giving them the tools to advance spectacularly and have a drive to achieve their goals is going to make any other obstacle surmountable.

He also had a bit of controversy several years back when it came out that he was stealth-editing other people’s comments.

I was about to say, it’s the same system Reddit has just about, except instead of a corporation having your data, it’s just some rando with a server.

I haven’t dug into the Lemmy system at all, but would it not be possible for the server owner or other users to run a lemmy version of reveddit? Might not be a system by default, but I’d assume any system with direct access to the data can copy it over to a 3rd party no problem.

How would that even work? I assume that there would need to be a built in backdoor somewhere, since it’s clientside rather than the oldschool data pull from centralized servers.

That always confused me as a child, since it was super easy to just test it for yourself. Turned out salt tasted salty regardless of where on your tongue it was, the same for the rest of the flavors.

Wireless charging?

Only reason I didn’t go to lemmy.ml is because their top post was “please go somewhere else.” Lol

Isn’t Spez the guy that stealth edited some user’s negative comments about him?

Was going to make it a sort of central computer that could centralize all the computing for several members of the family. Was hoping to get a basic laptop that could hook into the unit and play games/program on a virtual machine with graphics far above what the laptop could have handled, plus the aforementioned spin up of more machines for friends. Craft Computing had a lot of fun computing setups I wanted to learn and emulate. I would have also had the standard suite of video services and general tomfoolery. Maybe dip into crypto mining with idle time later on. Lots of ideas that somewhat fizzled out.

Yeah, I was trying to go all the way when I should have compartmentalized it a bit and just had two computers instead of one superbeast. The server PSUs aren’t super expensive relatively speaking, 1U hotswap 1200W PSUs with 94% efficiency are like $100. Problem was that the power distribution board I had didn’t have GPU power connectors, only CPU power connectors, and tired me wasn’t going to accept no for an answer and thus let out the magic smoke in it. I got lucky and the distribution board seems to be the intended failure point in these things, so the expensive motherboard and components got by unscathed (I think, I never used the GPU, and it was just some cheap Ebay thing). Still a fairly costly mistake that I should have avoided, but I was tired that night and wanted something to just work out.

I really should get a new phone… didn’t realize they drop old OSes so fast from security patches lol.

Only way that would help is if you’re completely disconnected from the system and thus have nothing to take. They’re taking photos of you online and then deepfaking them into scenarios, so your adversarial system would need to be active from the beginning to the end of your existence on parts of you (your face) that you want to protect, since having it only nearby opens up the opportunity for the attacker to simply cut out the adversarial system before feeding it to the machine.

I wonder how much interference/potential damage these could cause. Last I checked microwaves can wreak havoc on electronics, even if it wouldn’t harm people. Not very helpful to transmit power if every wireless communication system had to turn off to avoid frying.

In any case it seems like a novel concept, but only really useful for situations that cannot be reliably hooked up to a terrestrial grid. Figure for the cost to get one system in the atmosphere, you could get a comparable unit on the ground several times over for the same price. Not a fan of even more potential space junk in orbit either.

I was trying to do some fancy stuff like GPU passthrough to make the ultimate all in one unit that I could have 2 or 3 GPUS in and have several VMs running games independently, or at least the option to spin it up for a friend if they came over. I’m probably not quite sophisticated enough to pull that off anyways, and the use case was too uncommon to bother with after unga bungaing a power distribution board after a hard day of work.

Social media sites that have been in the red, growing primarily through fostering good will in their customers, are finally trying to turn a profit, and there isn’t much available to profit off of without intentionally kneecapping some aspect of your product. Taking stuff away is the fastest way to pissing someone off.

I probably wouldn’t use them in any form for what they want to do with them, not a fan of plugging in that hard, but I could wear them for extended periods of time no problem. Can play video games with the big bulky Valve Index for hours on end without a break, I doubt this AR set is much heavier or hotter. Any sort of exercise would probably make it way too steamy to be reliable though.

Would be cool to get some sort of advanced vision system to augment my poor vision though. Start looking like I’m from Star Trek with that sweet visor.