skuzz

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

100% this. From the marketing move they were never going to do, to the reversal and shift in "values". They were just doing the New Coke gambit to drum up business.

Other things to do, stop paying for streaming services and check out books and DVDs from your local library. Cancel expensive cell plans (since they are, unfortunately partially needed today), and switch to the cheapest MVNO that works. Downgrade home Internet to the minimum tolerable. Don't upgrade phone, car, tablet, whatever as long as one can hold out. Cancel services like Amazon prime and impulse buy less.

Find local businesses to shop at rather than corporate chains (which can be difficult, so just a little at a time.)

Pay off debts, save, live free. Let the corpos wither.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Find a physical therapist or a certified exercise instructor of some sort depending on your country. Exercise shouldn't hurt. Routines that cause growth or increase endurance will cause some soreness, but properly executed exercise shouldn't hurt.

Biggest lesson I learned that I wish any educator would teach kids early and often instead of, "durr, pain is gain!"

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

For what it's worth, that app can't access battery management stats at the system level. It just estimates based on factory specs and basic battery telemetry accessible to userspace apps like charge percent. The app power usage stats the OS provides is heavily flawed at the OS level, not all power consumption like modem behavior is captured accurately or at all.

So, tl;dr, just guesses and is of very limited usefulness. It does increase battery consumption slightly though, which... doesn't really help.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago

We're doing the same thing with all the AI LLMs being built as well. We want to ensure we are the dumbest nation on the planet.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 113 points 1 month ago (8 children)

The whole thread is mostly on semantics of firearms and their presence. Does it really matter if the National Guard was issued pink polka-dot pogo sticks instead?

It is still a military force present on civilian soil, which is in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act in the way they did it. The Federal government continues to violate its own laws, as well as the Constitution. The core issue of everything going on right now.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago

This is the way.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It did sell. And it seems the vendor's plan was to use it to promote their software platform and nothing more.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Good transitional way to do it too. I thought of similar for travel. Have a "travel phone" for flights, rental car, ride share, whatever. And it goes off as soon as you're far enough along to not need it anymore. On for return trip, then back in the drawer it goes.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

Use whatever I have for now, with less and less apps. Turn the device off when I am not using it. Start experimenting with project boards with modem cards.

OG iPad with a Bluetooth headset would have been a goto mobile device for most things in size, battery life, cellular reception. Never happened, of course, when they could sell you 30 devices kneecapped in various ways instead. So if what I end up building is a bit large, that is just fine.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

We are stuck in a time portal to 1929.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just clip a few USB port adapters to the end of one of your cords. Standard travel bag gear.

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