sometimes I wonder if I could set up a successful competitor to RTINGs that caters to the needs of eccentric weirdos instead of well behaved consumers
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sometimes I wonder if I could set up a successful competitor to RTINGs that caters to the needs of eccentric weirdos instead of well behaved consumers
the major snag is I would immediately get bored of it as soon as I scratched all my itches, and also I don't want to be a product reviewer anyway
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the major snag is I would immediately get bored of it as soon as I scratched all my itches, and also I don't want to be a product reviewer anyway
@aeva same energy as the guy who got hired by a company, fixed the bug he reported a while ago, then handed in his notice.
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@aeva same energy as the guy who got hired by a company, fixed the bug he reported a while ago, then handed in his notice.
@GyrosGeier i've wanted to do that so many times lol
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@Lunaphied @aeva I had a suspicion I knew exactly what they were doing, so I asked them exactly how they were testing Bluetooth latency.
They were loading up a Youtube video, in the respective apps for the mobile devices or on Chrome on PC, and measuring the difference between a known visual queue and audio playing over the device.
Which is exactly what I suspected they were doing.
Because the mobile apps have latency correction systems.
@bgolus @Lunaphied oh my god D:
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the major snag is I would immediately get bored of it as soon as I scratched all my itches, and also I don't want to be a product reviewer anyway
so folks I can't pursue my gonzo consumer product testing and reviews business idea after all, someone else already owns everythingisterrible.com
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so folks I can't pursue my gonzo consumer product testing and reviews business idea after all, someone else already owns everythingisterrible.com
@aeva somethingsarenotcompletelyterrible.com is still available though
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@aeva somethingsarenotcompletelyterrible.com is still available though
@rygorous which things, besides koss headphones
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so folks I can't pursue my gonzo consumer product testing and reviews business idea after all, someone else already owns everythingisterrible.com
hm, my runner up of midwestgarbagevortex.com is still available though
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@rygorous besides koss headphones and my ergotron monitor arm
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@aeva Some products that I do not hesitate to recommend to anyone who is in the market for them:
- Get a microplane grater for your kitchen. Brand doesn't really matter. They're inexpensive and you'll neither hurt yourself using them nor need to spend more than 30 seconds cleaning them; decidedly not true for most other kinds of graters.
- MoYu RS3 M 2020 Rubik's Cube. They're like $9 and not the _best_ you can get but really good. If you're not sure if you might like cubing, try this one. -
If I were to start such a business, I'd probably need to rent an office next to an ewaste disposal facility though because my product testing for laptops and phones would conclude with finding the exact amount of abuse needed to render the device unrepairable for most users starting with ordinary mishaps and gradually escalating to increasingly absurd treatment (this process would be filmed, of course).
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@aeva Some products that I do not hesitate to recommend to anyone who is in the market for them:
- Get a microplane grater for your kitchen. Brand doesn't really matter. They're inexpensive and you'll neither hurt yourself using them nor need to spend more than 30 seconds cleaning them; decidedly not true for most other kinds of graters.
- MoYu RS3 M 2020 Rubik's Cube. They're like $9 and not the _best_ you can get but really good. If you're not sure if you might like cubing, try this one.@rygorous I usually just use a knife to cube things
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@aeva Some products that I do not hesitate to recommend to anyone who is in the market for them:
- Get a microplane grater for your kitchen. Brand doesn't really matter. They're inexpensive and you'll neither hurt yourself using them nor need to spend more than 30 seconds cleaning them; decidedly not true for most other kinds of graters.
- MoYu RS3 M 2020 Rubik's Cube. They're like $9 and not the _best_ you can get but really good. If you're not sure if you might like cubing, try this one.@aeva - Keychron keyboards, which are well-built and reasonably-priced (you can do a bit better if you go more DIY, but if you just want something off the shelf, they're good)
- Lamy 2000 fountain pen, if you're a fountain pen user. Very no-frills Bauhaus style design but it's well-made, well-designed, and a joy to write with. There are nicer-looking/fancier pens if you're more of a collector etc., but if you want a nice pen _to actually write with_, this is great. (Not cheap but it's worth it.) -
@aeva - Keychron keyboards, which are well-built and reasonably-priced (you can do a bit better if you go more DIY, but if you just want something off the shelf, they're good)
- Lamy 2000 fountain pen, if you're a fountain pen user. Very no-frills Bauhaus style design but it's well-made, well-designed, and a joy to write with. There are nicer-looking/fancier pens if you're more of a collector etc., but if you want a nice pen _to actually write with_, this is great. (Not cheap but it's worth it.)@aeva (NB, if you've never done fountain pens before, this is not the first pen to get. But if you know how to use them and like them, it's a good one.)
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@aeva (NB, if you've never done fountain pens before, this is not the first pen to get. But if you know how to use them and like them, it's a good one.)
@rygorous I know how to get india ink all over the floor of an art studio with a nib pen, that's like basically the same general concept right?
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@rygorous I know how to get india ink all over the floor of an art studio with a nib pen, that's like basically the same general concept right?
@aeva You'll want to avoid spilling it all over the floor, especially when using document ink, but periodically inking up half your finger without knowing how exactly it happened is par for the course
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@aeva this is a speedcube. so it's more like if sonic had a knife
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@aeva this is a speedcube. so it's more like if sonic had a knife
@rygorous ooooo
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@aeva magnetic speedcube, I might add.
so if sonic had a knife BUT WITH MAGNETS
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@aeva magnetic speedcube, I might add.
so if sonic had a knife BUT WITH MAGNETS
@aeva you see where this is going? no? EXACTLY
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Salvini vuole fare pagare chi organizza cortei...
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@stefano I have never been a fan of systemd. Can’t see any advantage over using the good old tools that come with FreeBSD.
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@pressenza_italia https://www.fanpage.it/politica/abbiamo-scoperto-almeno-cinque-poliziotti-infiltrati-in-potere-al-popolo-i-documenti-che-lo-provano/
Secondo me erano provocatori infiltrati
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Per chi usa LinkedIn, si può disattivare il consenso all'uso dei propri dati per allenare la loro AI. Bisogna andare su settings/data-for-ai-improvement .
O almeno, le persone UE possono farlo 😀
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@WebAppsMagazine ciao, per le app alternative puoi rilanciarle nel gruppo @tecnologia dedicato anche alle app per smartphone
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Spent my morning figuring out why Nginx was dead on a server with many days of uptime. No reboot, no kernel panic. Just... down. Ubuntu 24.04.
The cause? An automatic unattended-upgrade of libc6. This prompted systemd to work its magic, wisely deciding to restart every running service to apply the patch. Fine.
The problem is, in the exact same minute, the systemd timer for certbot decided it was time to renew certificates.
The result:
- systemd stops Nginx.
- Port 80 becomes free.
- certbot, in standalone mode, immediately grabs it for validation.
- systemd tries to restart Nginx, which fails with "Address already in use".The web server was knocked offline by its own certificate renewal script.
I swear, this is the kind of cascading failure that has never happened to me in years of running *BSD. With a classic cron job, certbot would have failed, logged an error, and tried again the next day. The web server would have remained untouched.
Sometimes, too much automation and too many interconnected parts just create more spectacular ways for things to break.
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@unattributed yes, I know.
https://history.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_dropfiles&format=&task=frontfile.download&catid=211&id=289&Itemid=1000000000000
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@euractiv soluzione a due stati ma con uno stato solo
O soluzione due stati di Schrödinger
