If that email is actually from Logitech, it probably has some way to unsubscribe. Might have added you for some nonsense reason like a warranty registration, but I’ve never hit problems with a reputable company not providing a way to unsubscribe.

The random scam stuff…yeah, probably can’t do much about that.

One possibility I’ve wondered about is whether, someday, email shifts to a whitelist-based system. I mean, historically we’ve always let people be contacted as long as they know someone’s physical address or phone number or email address, and so databases of those have value – they become keys to reach people. But we could simply have some sort of easy way to authorize people and block everyone else. In a highly-connected world, that might be a more reasonable way to do things.

I mean, they’ve done this when places charge them money to index the news articles there.

It hardly seems reasonable to both mandate that they index a given piece of news media and that they pay a fee to do so.

Both the sheriff and the mother involved were women.

“I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident,” she says.

The sheriff disagreed.

“She kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or ‘anything’ could have happened,” recalls Patterson.

Even if his mother was walking there too, it’s not likely going to do much to stop a car from running him over. She’d just be some extra mass to fling.

Kidnappings – and a number of other serious crimes – are usually done by people who are known, not random strangers.

kagis

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/zmldiz/til_there_are_only_between_150300_kidnappings_of/

There are only between 150-300 kidnappings of children by strangers each year in the US. The other 200,000 kidnappings each year are by relatives.

Even more lopsided than I’d expected.

And as for “anything” happening, I’d imagine that “anything” could have happened at home, too.

Plus, even if you manage to never, ever have a drive fail, accidentally delete something that you wanted to keep, inadvertently screw up a filesystem, crash into a corruption bug, have malware destroy stuff, make an error in writing it a script causing it to wipe data, just realize that an old version of something you overwrote was still something you wanted, or run into any of the other ways in which you could lose data…

You gain the peace of mind of knowing that your data isn’t a single point of failure away from being gone. I remember some pucker-inducing moments before I ran backups. Even aside from not losing data on a number of occasions, I could sleep a lot more comfortably on the times that weren’t those occasions.

I don’t know how viable it’d be to get a viable metric.

https://www.goldeneaglecoin.com/Guide/value-of-all-the-gold-in-the-world

Value of all of the gold in the world

$13,611,341,061,312.04

Based on the current gold spot price of $2,636.98

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

He is the second wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of US$227 billion as of November 7, 2024, according to Forbes and Bloomberg Billionaires Index.[3]

So measured in gold at current prices, he’d have about one-sixtieth of the present global gold supply.

However:

It’s hard to know what the distribution of gold hoards are. One dragon might have an exceptionally large hoard.

It’s hard to know how many dragons we’re working with.

It’s likely that a world with dragons has a different value of gold.

That gold in our world isn’t actually accessible to Bezos at that price. If he tried buying that much, it’d drive up the price, reducing the effective percentage of the global share that he could afford to buy.

my thought was, '“oh am i going to have to do all this myself?” Idk why I would want to spend my time and effort doing what someone in Rimworld does without needing micromanagement.

Not really my cup of tea either.

I don’t think that Stardew Valley is really all that similar to Rimworld. Maybe Oxygen Not Included, Satisfactory/Factorio, Kenshi, or Dwarf Fortress if you’re looking for something similar.

You’re probably better off asking on !imageai@sh.itjust.works.

If you want to try there, I can throw some ideas out.

Asklemmy, despite the oft-confusing community name that generates a lot of these sort of things, isn’t really intended as a general “ask any question” community, but for “thought-provoking” questions. Their Rule 5 excludes stuff like this.

The mods tend to delete stuff like this; I’ve had a few questions that I’ve spent time answering and then had the post deleted with the answers, which is kinda frustrating if you’ve put effort into an answer.

If you ask there, I’d suggest indicating which system you used to generate the image, as it’ll affect the answer.

Well, for me, the selling points are:

• Versus earlier versions of USB, it’s reversible. This isn’t a game changer, I guess, but it’s definitely nice to not have to fiddle plugs around all the time.

• I don’t know if it’s the only form of USB that does USB PD – I’d guess not – but in practice, it seems to be pretty strongly associated with USB PD. Having USB PD isn’t essential, but it makes charging larger devices, like laptops, a lot more practical. I can lug around a power station that doesn’t need to have an embedded inverter.

I still feel that it’s kind of physically small and weak compared to USB A. That’s an okay tradeoff for small portable devices that don’t have the space for larger connectors, but I’m kinda not enthralled about it on desktop. I worry more about bending connectors (and I have bent them before).

So for me, I’d say that it’s definitely nice, but not really in a game changing sense. I could do the things it can do in somewhat-worse ways prior to USB-C.

venv nonsense

I mean, the fact that it isn’t more end-user invisible to me is annoying, and I wish that it could also include a version of Python, but I think that venv is pretty reasonable. It handles non-systemwide library versioning in what I’d call a reasonably straightforward way. Once you know how to do it, works the same way for each Python program.

Honestly, if there were just a frontend on venv that set up any missing environment and activated the venv, I’d be fine with it.

And I don’t do much Python development, so this isn’t from a “Python awesome” standpoint.

I called Hillary “Hillary”, but that’s to distinguish her from Bill Clinton, who I called “Clinton”.

Honestly, you have to be a very commonly-used name before I’m going to use a single name for general purposes at all rather than a full name, so the set of people who have the chance to get into the “one name club” is very small.

I call Trump “Trump” and Harris “Harris”.

At least, I hope I pinged them. I think that using the @username@instance syntax causes a user to receive a message…

Also, @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz and @Moxvallix@sopuli.xyz are the instance admins. Pinging to let them know in case there was a compromise of the instance.

@LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz, you’re maybe the heaviest poster there.

@lisko@sopuli.xyz, you’re a mod.

@doo@sh.itjust.works, you’re a mod.

@Burstar@sopuli.xyz, you’re a mod.

Any of you guys know what’s going on?

No, I wasn’t suggesting that, but mods can delete posts. I was thinking that maybe someone could have compromised a mod account and wiped all the posts, or been recently granted mod power and abused their position. Probably some people out there who don’t much like that community.

It looks like something broke on their system. When I try to view the community directly on sopuli.xyz, I don’t see any posts:

https://sopuli.xyz/c/ukraine

I see comments up to one hour ago.

EDIT: Note that there’s also the “War in Ukraine” community at !war@group.lt, but that gets far less traffic.

EDIT2: I don’t see obvious modlog activity removing posts.

EDIT3: Hmm. It’s specific to that community. !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz is functional: https://sopuli.xyz/c/steamdeck

EDIT4: The list of mods on that community has not changed since this archive.org snapshot of the page on October 7, so I don’t think that it’s a case of someone getting mod authority and wiping everything and me just not understanding how to see it in the modlog. Or at least if so, that account is no longer listed as a mod.

EDIT5: Also posted on that instance’s !main@sopuli.xyz community, which looks like it’s the one for instance discussion; hopefully that may catch someone’s eye.

https://sopuli.xyz/post/18836167

Drop the car off at the shop for maintenance, same as if Harris wins.

I mean, just because they’re talking about PC games doesn’t mean that they won’t talk about PS5 games unless they have something specifically excluding PS5.

Yeah, it kind of is throwing out a softball for that, I reckon.