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Cake day: August 7th, 2023
  • yojimbo@sopuli.xyztoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can someone explain leftist comedy to me?
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    4 months ago

    IMO the main difference between left leaning commedy and the right leaning commedy is that the left can make fun of itself.

    Example: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Biden catches Covid and his press secretary claims, that “despite his illness, the president is not slowing down”. Colbert finds it believable “because he does not thing it is physically possible to move any slower than Biden already is”. Whole theater is laughing.

    Imagine a right leaning commedian said that about Trump. He would get shot!

  • yojimbo@sopuli.xyztoTechnology@lemmy.world•Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after allEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I am not an expert - just an avid knife freak - but in my experience “Stainless” means “Stain Less” not “Stain Resistent”. Eg. s35vn is relatively high quality stainless knife steel - that does not mean it ain’t gonna pickup stains - all mine did… I suspect one of the differences between my knifes / Elons Cybertruck vs. your cookware is that your cookware is mirror polished while my knives and the cybertruck are sporting “satin finish” which looks quite esthetically first 5 mnts - but is quite inpractical…

  • yojimbo@sopuli.xyztoSysadmin@lemmy.world•How often do you make a back up?
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    6 months ago

    Backup on different levels, one of my clients who I would say has similar ifrastructure uses following approach:

    • backup on the vm level - backing up snapshot of the entire virtualization guest - at least once a week, always before update/upgrade. These can be big - consider ZFS pool w/ compression and deduplication active - but that is also hw intesive. On the other hand, I don’t think you need to keep more than last two successfull backups.
    • filesystem level - run rdiff-backup against the / of the filesystem several times a day. SInce it is essentially versioning, you are only backing up new changes. No zetabyte needed here, ext3/4 will do.
    • drop database somewhere ideally several times a day - even if there are no incidents, your developers will love you.

    The recovery strategy is as follows:

    • pull the guest out of the last vm backup
    • sync up the files from last rdiff-backup run
    • discuss w/ the developer DB recovery - or just recover the last backup and hope for the best…
  • yojimbo@sopuli.xyztoSysadmin@lemmy.world•bad battery?
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    6 months ago

    I use my laptop a lot (usually plugged in)

    Warning : I’ve used to fix apple computers back in the day when there were still things to fix, and if this had happened to an Apple device and it had less than 50 cycles on it and was over 6 months from purchase (meaning it went less then 50x under 50% of your full battery capacity), they would refuse to replace it saying it is user’s fault. Nbooks with NiMh batteries could stay connected to power forever, notebooks with Li-ion batteries need to “excercise them”.

  • yojimbo@sopuli.xyztoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?
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    6 months ago

    Full qwerty keyboard. I know I am a minority. I don’t need more screen estate, I need to be able to make notes in my diary whithout looking on the screen and not bumping into things while I am walking. I’ve tried the Uniherz offers, but the OS and the quality is really sub-par. I’ve jumped on the Astroslide train, but the manufacturing batches went south over the Covid and I don’t blame the Astro guys for not getting my device. Some US company did buy the BlackBerry licence and I was ready to pay any price for their phone - but they failed to manufacture anything. If only you could jailbreak BlackBerry Key 2 - I’d be carrying it proudly around till today. (written on Google Pixel 6 runnning Graphene with a collabsible pocket bluetooth keyboard - so I can type at least while I am not moving - best among terrible options).

  • yojimbo@sopuli.xyztoTechnology@lemmy.world•How to block posts about Elon Musk (or other custom string) on computerEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I would argue that anyone capable of dispassionately studying this subject can equally easily find that Elon Musk is not a reliable source of information (I’d dare say a liar) , eg:

    • the famous solar city presentation where Musk showcased several houses with solar tiles. The houses were a tv set for Desperate Hosewives, and tiles he was showing off simply didn’t exist. That can’t imagine a scenario where this could be an honest mistake.
    • the funding secured tweet from 2018 where he claimed he had enough money to take Tesla private at 420 USD / share. He got sued therefore we know he didn’t - even remotly.

    I don’t know whether Elon is a genius or not - but when somebody, who is proven to be somewhat creative with the truth, also claims that he is a genius - specially in the “I know more about manufacturing than anyone else alive” manner - I don’t think it is unreasonable to have doubts.