saigot

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[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Make a plaster mould of the exact shape of the inside of the handle so it's really annoying to take out

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Does it?

user A uses their full bandwidth from 2am-4am when the network is empty then watches a 720p video at 5pm (or whenever the networks peak is).

User B watches an 8k video at 5pm and nothing at any other time.

UserB clearly contributes to congestion on the network more than user A despite user A using more data. Furthermore throttling user A does less to resolve the congestion than throttling user B.

IMO If the network needs to throttle then the people the most data at that instant in time need to be throttled and the network needs to start upgrading its infrastructure or amending its marketing materials.

Really the current internet model is a little weird, it should be pay to use with on and off peak hours the same as other utilities, and throttling should be seen as a major failure that needs immediate attention.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Outer wilds felt really good to play, optimistic nihilism and a happy lonliness. One moment that really stood out to me was when I followed a certain object out of the solar system, spent pretty much 20minutes drifting in space listening to the other astronauts play together planets apart and watching the stars

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Watching the stars slowly blink out and realizing that I won't be able to save the sun, that it's the whole universe going away. Givining in to the inevitability of it all ending and just watching everything end.

It's one of the most peaceful times I've had with a game, and playing it in the middle of covid I cried happy tears. Go in as blind as you can.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I quite like influencer I think it's good that they are called what they are being paid to do and not trying to hide. It's surprising honestly from a very dishonest industry.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago

It's pretty hard to be open and transparent when 2 men with guns and black suits are sitting at your kitchen table.

We don't know if that happened, but given the speed this happened and the us being the us...

If it breaks that they had a long runway of knowing this had to happen, then sure bring out the pitchforks, but imo we should default to this happening under heavy pressure to act immediately.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

For the curious you'd make 970million in the 532years. Jeff bozos net worth is about 200 billion. You'd need an annual interest rate of about 2.12% to reach 200billion over that period, assuming you spend none of it, if you took an annual income of 20k then you'd only be at 135billion at the end of the period.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 weeks ago

I checked their site, you can't buy parking using just the website, even a monthly one. But you sure can pay your parking tickets! (although even that requires a credit card it seems)

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

This article is very repetitive, but they never mention what the activists allegedly tried to do. Without that information or any charges laid it's pretty much useless information.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Im no fan of generative ai, but this argument drives me crazy, there are a lot of things that are easy to verify but hard to come up with, quite famously in fact.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Spotify is trying this with their audiobook subscription service.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 73 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I keep a bouquet of dry pasta on my desk that I absentmindedly munch on while I work.

Sometimes I'll eat a whole head of cabbage over a day peeling it leaf by leaf.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Where I live it's illegal to have them expire. They can:

  • Provide a spending limit for a vice
  • frees the user of the need to spend it responsibly
  • a safer way to spend money online and an alternative to a credit card.

I don't mind getting a steam gift card or an lcbo (liquor store) card, I know what liquor and games I like more than the people gifting. An Amazon gift card is much more annoying because it's an everything store, it's money that has to be used unethically. A costco giftcard is a nice hack to allow you to shop at the store without a membership, I used them like that until I reached a point where the membership paid for itself. I think they have a place, I also think they are often abused and should be regulated more than they currently are where I live. If they have an expiry they are a scam.

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