user224

user224, 3 hours ago

How is it different from raising them for food?

user224, 5 hours ago

WRONG!!!

Hard braking may increase your insurance costs: nytimes.com/…/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance…

TL;DR: General Motors was selling customer driving data to LexisNexis which provided them to insurance companies. Hard braking also contributed to a higher risk factor.

user224, 1 day ago

https://media.makeameme.org/created/i-have-no-5ad653.jpg

user224, 1 day ago

How it works for me:

Go to bed at 10PM.
Fail to fall asleep until 1AM.
Wake up at 4AM because now I have to.

user224, 1 day ago

What about this one?:
https://i.imgur.com/q34uA53.png

user224, 1 day ago

I can’t believe there’s no 💀

user224, 2 days ago

Operation: Verdant Terror - A Beginner’s Guide

Warning: Grass is a complex and potentially hostile ecosystem. Approach with extreme caution. This guide is for informational purposes only and does not guarantee your safety.

Pre-Mission Preparations:

Psychological Evaluation: Undergo mandatory psych evaluation to assess your mental fortitude for grass contact.
Gear Up: Don a heavy-duty biosuit with maximum puncture resistance. Grass blades are surprisingly sharp and harbor unknown microscopic horrors.
Assemble Emergency Kit: Pack antihistamines, tweezers, and a portable decontamination spray in case of allergic reactions or parasitic infestation.

Mission: First Contact

Location: Locate a designated “Grass Touch Zone” (public parks, backyards) during daylight hours. Nighttime grass is even more unpredictable.
Establish Perimeter: Scan the area for potential threats. Beware of territorial pigeons, playful (and potentially rabid) dogs, and unattended blades (rusty and tetanus-inducing).
Approach: Move slowly and deliberately, maintaining eye contact with the grass at all times. Sudden movements might trigger an aggressive response.

The Touch (Perform at your own risk):

Deployment: From a safe distance, extend a single, gloved finger towards a solitary blade. Do not touch in clumps! They may swarm and overpower you.
Observation: If contact is made, withdraw your finger immediately. Observe any changes in grass behavior (twitching, pulsating).
Escape: If the grass seems unreactive, retreat slowly and cautiously. Remember, even a seemingly docile patch may be plotting a surprise attack.

Post-Mission:

Decontamination: Upon reaching a safe zone, thoroughly disinfect yourself and your equipment following the provided protocol.
Medical Attention: Seek immediate medical attention for any unusual symptoms (itching, hallucinations, uncontrollable urge to roll in the grass).
Debriefing: Report your experience to the designated authorities. Your knowledge could be crucial in understanding the true nature of the Verdant Terror.
Remember: Grass is not your friend. Approach it with respect and fear. This guide is just the first step. Only the most courageous explorers venture beyond basic touch. Good luck.

user224, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Maximum, that is.

Thanks for stating that first. My dumb ass was thinking how you’d enforce that as minimum…

user224, 2 days ago

I’ve been taking the same route twice a day for the past 3 years.

No less interesting so far.

Actually, I am so weird I have the whole route recorded on my phone (from the window) like 4 times, and yes, I did watch it at home numerous times, in real time without skipping. Just like a movie.

No, it does not get boring.

user224, 2 days ago

It’s not really something you get to do nor appreciate if you’re driving yourself.

I mean, you do, but it may decrease your and someone else’s lifespan…

user224, 2 days ago

spare your free time

But it’s not free time if you’re not free to waste it ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

user224, 2 days ago

Definitely KDE Plasma.

user224, 3 days ago

Learning.

I am a lazy piece of shit.
I’d like to learn some programming, morse code, perhaps another language as well.
But I quickly loose any motivation. At least for the past 2 years. I do get some occasional bursts of motivation, but usually I often don’t feel like doing anything at all anymore. I wouldn’t even breathe if it wasn’t automatic.
Preferably I’d be dead. I’d have 0 issues, create 0 issues, have no regrets. It would be better for everyone, myself included.

user224, 3 days ago

You still didn’t answer the most important question of Lemmy, though. ^(joke)^

Do you use GNU+Linux?

user224, 3 days ago

Technically, every generation up until now contributed to modern tech.

But anyway, even if we consider just those who did directly, I am pretty sure you should still also include boomers and even the silent generation.
Check out the computer chronicles: archive.org/details/computerchronicles?sort=date

Seems modern enough already.

user224, 3 days ago

39 buried, 0 found.

user224, 3 days ago

If we’re speaking of the technology, depends on implementation. “VPN” is a fairly broad term.

user224, 3 days ago

Unless you want to install older apps on modern Android. Then you need ADB.

<span style="color:#323232;">adb install --bypass-low-target-sdk-block app_filename.apk
</span>

user224, 3 days ago

I felt that.

I actually like MIUI, I just wish I didn’t need to memorize many bugs and ways to get around them.

user224, 3 days ago

have fun adding repos

Have fun searching web for exe and msi files.

user224, 3 days ago

Yes, but it could have been solved with a warning.

Instead I believe it just says that the app is “Incompatible”.

user224, 4 days ago

I am afraid not.
It’s with you like race. You can’t change it.
If you’re part of any minority you’ll always attract these dumbasses.

Sorry, I’d like to tell you something better.

Oh, and the “Say something in Polish” may very well be meant well, even if it’s annoying. Nobody but you knows how often you hear it.

user224, 4 days ago

Why? Looks, voice.

If it’s not intentional, it doesn’t matter.

Like, take this picture of the friend for example, what gender comes to your mind looking at that

JPEG. A cooked JPEG. That JPEG isn’t well done, it’s congratulations.
(Can’t tell)

user224, 4 days ago

inch

Ew.

user224, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

I don’t think I ever managed to do that.

TL;DR: Occupy myself with something

At best I can just have a fake conversation in my head. Sometimes I also listen to taxi drivers with SDR. I can only pick up 2 companies, unfortunately. Fortunately though, they are just 0.15MHz apart, so I can listen on to both at once.
One of them even routes phone calls over their radios, so I can hear those as well.

But it’s usually boring. Just on new year 2022/2023 one of the 3 companies’ drivers were greeting each other. That was nice. Yes, 3, there used to be 3 of them I could listen to.
Actually, even before I had SDR I could listen to one on VHF because they were overlapping with FM Broadcast band. But that wasn’t the most pleasant experience. With regular radio I had no squelch option and picking NFM with WFM receiver I had to have volume fairly high. The result of that was faint voice followed by absolutely loud static.

Of course, it would be better to listen to hams. That would be far more interesting. But so far I only managed to pick up the end of 2 contacts on 2m. I don’t have much luck. HF is basically unusable where I am due to RFI.
The only stuff I can pick up is chinese AM radio stations, CW (but I’ve been too lazy to learn morse…), FT8, and the Russian-Ukrainian pirates around 7055kHz.

I don’t know how to monitor the 2m band automatically. If I know the specific frequency, in SDR++ I can just set up squelch and turn on recording with “Ignore silence”. But obviously that will also not allow me to listen to a real-time conversation because all silence is cut out.

Yeah, sorry, I got off-topic.

I can also play with random stuff in Termux on my phone. Right now I need to update nginx which will require also re-compiling the fancyindex dynamic module. I also want to try setting up Jellyfin and NextCloud in proot at some point.
I also want to download the 110GB Wikipedia ZIM archive and serve that with kiwix-serve after I free up enough storage, currently occupied by DVD ISO files and satellite signal baseband recordings. (Yes, on my phone.)
Of course this isn’t always without larger issues.
During one math class I took out my phone from the pocket, because it was starting to get too hot, only to find it stuck in bootloop. I forced it off and tried to boot it up. Thankfully, that worked this time. I found the internal storage nearly full. It seems when I forced it into recovery to turn it off, magically 17MB were freed which allowed it to boot up. Otherwise I’d need to fully reset it, most likely. I can’t access the data from recovery, and that’s good from security perspective.

What happened? NGINX error log filled up the storage. I am too dumb to properly manage that, so…

<span style="color:#323232;">error_log /dev/null;
</span>