Thorry84

joined 1 year ago
[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 24 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Normally you need to put a coin in shopping trollies around here to take them out. When you properly return them you get the coin back. It's not a lot of money, usually 50 cents. And if you don't happen to have a coin on hand most shops will give you a key chain with a properly sized round bit of metal. It being so common, most people have one of those key chains anyways. I'd always thought it was a fine system, but people were pretty decent anyways.

Then during corona because of hygiene reasons shops could only reopen if they cleaned the trollies after every use and that meant not using the coin system. Later the cleaning part was delegated to customers using facilities from the shop and then got rid of entirely. But the coin system wasn't put back due to hygiene.

To my surprise people would just dump the trollies everywhere. They would not care one bit where they put them. Some people put them away neatly, some just shove them sort of in the right place. Others would just leave them on the parking lot or shove them aside to end up in a ditch.

As soon as possible the coin system was put back into place. Later some shops got rid of it again, because it's easier for customers. But only in select places where people are decent I guess, or the shop puts in the effort to monitor and handle the carts. You would think it'd be the crowded inner city parts where the coin system was needed. But near me in a rich part of town they use the coin system because rich folk just leave the carts in the parking lot, feeling like putting it back is beneath them or something. In a more crowded normal part of town one shop I go to doesn't use the coin system and I'm surprised every time. The carts there are always perfectly placed. Although that shop has an issue with people using the disabled parking spaces if they need to run in and out quickly, which is a terrible thing to do.

This whole experience changed my view of humanity. I used to think almost all or at least most people were decent. Trying to do the right thing, with only a few assholes spoiling stuff for the rest of us. It showed me that a tiny little coin, not really worth anything is all that stands between a functioning neat system and total chaos. And it's not just a couple of people, it's more like half of them. A lot of people are lazy and inconsiderate, caring only about themselves. If it costs them money, no matter how little, they will do what's required (because money is everything in this fucked up capitalist world). But if it doesn't cost them money, they will just do whatever and not care.

This experience, along with many other during the past 10 years have spoiled my view on humanity. I tend to assume everyone is a total asshole in some way or another, which is honestly kind of a sad way to live. So I make an active effort to give people the benefit of the doubt, but it can be hard and a lot of people shortly prove they are indeed assholes.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's not how orbital mechanics work

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 12 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Akshually cheetahs don't live in the jungle, they live on the plains. It would be pretty hard for them to run super fast in the jungle. Like a lot of cats they prefer to be in a more open terrain with not a lot of trees like plains, hills, deserts and mountains.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've had great experience with Axis in the past. However in the past they used to have planned obsolescence where the flash they used had a very limited number of write cycles. With the Linux based OS they run it writes to the flash all the time. This would cause the thing to start dropping writes and misbehave. When ran 24/7 they usually died after about 4 years. The place I worked at just threw them away and replaced them whenever that happened, to not have downtime for cameras. Once I asked if I could have a couple to diagnose the fault and I found out the flash was out of write cycles on all of them. Maybe they are better nowadays, but it was pretty fucked up to see such expensive cameras be destroyed because of a few cents of flash.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 8 points 4 days ago

Most anti-cheat doesn't take kindly to running in a VM as well, so if that's the reason it won't work.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Worf worked in security and got to be first officer of the Enterprise. After that became Strategic Operations Officer on DS9, which is command even though it's still ops related. As a bonus he became first officer on the Defiant as well.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And the name of that bus? Albert Einstein

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Also you fart too. So there's that...

So you're saying to solve climate change we need to remove the humans? You might be on to something there.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Sounds like the perfect plan to have Trump change the law so no woman can hold a high office ever again. It'll blend in nicely with their proposal to not let women vote ever again.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 points 6 days ago (5 children)

0 emissions? Methane from cattle is a large contributer to climate change. If we had as much horses as we have cars, the amount of methane would be too much to handle.

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Rescued old CRT (imgur.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Thorry84@feddit.nl to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
 

Rescued old CRT I put a lot of work in. Was totally dead when I got it, rescued it to be almost perfect again.

It still has an intermittent horizontal size issue and the power button has some cosmetic wear. But at least the power button works, it used to only work when you would hold it down.

Be sure to enable the audio for some good retro tunes coming from the monitor.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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