Lazz45

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[–] Lazz45@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well, if they just inherit their dead dad's debt, would that be a "good life?" Assuming a financial situation is why this occurred. If both parents die is the debt expunged or passed to next of kin? If the debt is passed, they would be forced to declare bankruptcy early in their life (destroying their credit), which destroys a lot of options like college, car ownership, etc.

By no means am I saying this is the better option, just seems like both were quite shitty outcomes to me

[–] Lazz45@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I torrented and seeded many torrents (its still seeding right now) and it can do at least 2 (havent tried more) jellyfin streams at once as long as I disable server side transcoding to reserve resources. I had the full arr suite of apps running along with ombi (gonna move to jellyseer, but imo ombi used too much ram on my 4GB laptop to be something I kept running). Is it perfect? No, it has quirks that will come up now and again but can I really complain when getting now 16 years of use out of a laptop I never thought I'd touch again once I built my desktop?

Edit: oh be aware, if you're using old hardware, DO NOT use the newest versions of things like Linux mint, it possibly won't have drivers that works for really old hardware (like wifi card, Lan card, etc.) and it won't be easily apparent sometimes. I solved this with a friend who had the same laptop as me but couldn't get internet once installing mint. It turns out he used a newer version of mint that did not have a way to support his wifi card and installing and older version solved it

[–] Lazz45@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I run some of my services (until very recently including jellyfin) on my HP pavilion G6 from 2007. It still runs my wireguard, backup pihole, heimdall, etc. I run it on Linux mint (it was familiar) and cant do most things on screen (lags hard) but I can ssh or VNC in just fine

[–] Lazz45@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

As a process engineer in a union steel mill, can confirm

[–] Lazz45@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Where are you getting the 45% number? I am seeing petrochemicals (plastics, resins, and petroleum based feedstocks) @12.12% of total oil demand in 2022. I see that road (all forms of shipping and transport on roads/care with petroleum products like tar/asphalt) is 49.24% of demand.

Diving deeper into the transportation sector, light trucks + other trucks make up 57% of the transportation sector's petroleum usage. Following with cars/motorcycles @21%.

I agree with the sentiment you raise, that industry accounts for a very large portion of crude oil consumption, and that isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I just am unsure where you saw your data or if its perhaps looking at a different region specifically?

Sources for my figures: -total demand%: https://www.statista.com/statistics/307194/top-oil-consuming-sectors-worldwide/

-Transport sector breakdown: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/transportation.php

[–] Lazz45@sh.itjust.works 30 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Yes, I should be able to play music, AND charge the phone without a 9 wire adapter like those universal charger plugs from 10 years ago. Wild concept. I wonder when phone tech will be able to support such a thing

[–] Lazz45@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I watch totally fine on my phone and pickup at home. It should sync to your log in account in my experience

[–] Lazz45@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Having been involved in plant shutting talks in the steel industry. You'd be shocked what companies are willing to do

[–] Lazz45@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

They very much can, will, and do for much less. Welcome to an "at-will" employer. The only thing that's illegal is discrimination

[–] Lazz45@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I would be jealous, if sitting at a desk didn't make me wanna hang myself with an ethernet cable. I'm a process engineer in a steel mill and holy sweet fuck did I wanna die when I was WFH as a desk engineer. Bored out of my mind and feeling like I'll never progress because I couldn't even network well with managers/engineers like you can in a mill/in person office.

That's when I learned at this point in my career, heavily WFH is not for me. I need challenged and I need hands on, 1 of those I very much cannot get at home

[–] Lazz45@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It is for most companies. You put the drive into a mileage calculator for your company and they reimburse you a certain amount per mile. You don't do napkin math, they need legitimate records for accountants, audits, etc.

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