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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

My $4k piece of carbon and $3k hunk of titanium would like to have a word...

I would bet just about anything that the only reason profit margins could possibly be higher for a car is due to volume


which, if everyone rode bikes, wouldn't be an issue at all.

Absolute profit, sure


cars are more expensive, so they'll win out.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We still use leaded gas for aviation, as does (I believe) the EU (I'm guessing RoW, too).

(Supposed to be banned this year in the EU but AFAICT pushed back until 2032.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 15 points 1 week ago

You can have a lot of smart functionality and remain local-only (e.g., Home Assistant). All my smart devices are on their own VLAN with no Internet access


if something breaks it's not the cloud's fault, it's mine.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fail2ban config can get fairly involved in my experience. I'm probably not doing it the right way, as I wrote a bunch of web server ban rules


anyone trying to access wpadmin gets banned, for instance (I don't use WordPress, and if I did, it wouldn't be accessible from my public facing reverse proxy).

I just skimmed my nginx logs and looked for anything funky and put that in a ban rule, basically.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago

And probably only the second half of the 2nd amendment.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 30 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The lack of logic is astounding.

These are the same people who think abstinence only education works. Safe to say they're a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Judging by the camera angle, OP may have been today years old when they learned this as well (I learned it well into my 30s, too).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 16 points 2 weeks ago

Our first was a girl. Second was a boy. Third will be a vasectomy.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.

With Windows, there is 1 current version of Windows (11), 1 "almost current" (10), 1 "outdated but you'll maybe see it" (8.x) and only a few "you'll probably only see this in obscure situations" versions. Linux has as many "parent" distros/package management systems (apt, rpm, pacman, etc.). This definitely complicates things, as each distro family does things slightly differently.

And we haven't even touched the window manager/DE choices, of which there are a ton (as opposed to Windows). "Combinatorical explosion" maybe isn't the right phrase, but you get the idea


Debian with i3wm is wildly different from Fedora Plasma.

This is all a good thing though, as Linux users tend to like the choice and flexibility


but it does mean that the "right way" to do something on Linux is very dependent on your particular setup, which isn't the case with Windows.

(I have used Linux for the last 20+ years, and it's definitely my preferred setup, and am lucky enough that I rarely use Windows for work, and never for personal use.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My favorite is Barry Marshall. He thought there was a connection between bacteria and ulcers, which was an unpopular opinion at the time. So he intentionally drank the offending bacteria, got sick as expected, and then people believed him.

More here, including (which I didn't know until now) cardiac catheterization.

I'm sure better sources exist but https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/these-five-doctors-experimented-on-themselves-and-made-big-breakthroughs

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Innovation, perhaps; progress...that's something else.

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