lka1988

joined 2 years ago
[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

"Our profits are in the RED, pls give money daddy govt 🥺🥺" but also somehow still makes record-breaking profits.

Remember kids, when a company says their profits are in the red, that does not mean they are losing money - THEY STILL MADE A PROFIT. Just not as much profit as last year.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 16 points 21 hours ago

I already don't like that kind of shit, it's an immediate turn-off for me.

But - I also know there's a whole kink around it, and as long as it's consensual.....who tf cares?

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

We're currently in a drive-thru pickup line, and my 4 y.o. is having an absolute shitfit because his older sister...

He has more empathy than Trump.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The cameras capture plate data, that's the issue. And along those lines - I don't know how long the retention period is for our particular area. They just started appearing.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I work in manufacturing and have multiple hardhats and hi-vis vests available to take 😂

I just need a white truck with a bogus govt plate now... Make sure to slap a big ol' Trump sticker on it for maximum stealth. Maybe borrow my sister's work truck... Pretty generic-looking white Dodge.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

“I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop,” the conservative think tank’s president told employees at an all-staff meeting, according to The Washington Free Beacon.

Oh fuck off and die already.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I addressed that already - there are three of them within 100ft of each other, and two of them are on the same post.

Here's a pic:

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[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (30 children)

Problem is that many are clustered and in high-traffic areas. There's a triplet of them in one area near my neighborhood, covering entrance and exit of said area, so it's impossible to avoid detection.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

That is something I did consider and am not exactly hopeful about.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 36 points 4 days ago (2 children)

All black and trans people fired? Sounds like a ripe lawsuit.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Americans are waking up and realizing "the cruelty is the point". Slowly but surely.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

My wife is allergic to the measles vaccination. She gets everything else she can, but if this reaches our area, we are essentially fucked.

 

I'm in the process of getting my Home Assistant environment up and running, and decided to run a test: it turns out that my gaming PC (custom 5800X3D/7900XTX build) uses more power just sitting idle, than both of my storage freezers combined.

Background: In addition to some other things, I bought two "Eightree" brand Zigbee-compatible plugs to see how they fare. One is monitoring the power usage of both freezers on a power strip (don't worry, it's a heavy duty strip meant for this), and the other is measuring the usage of my entire desktop setup (including monitors and the HA server itself, a Lenovo M710q).

After monitoring these for a couple days, I decided that I will shut off my PC unless I'm actively using it. It's not a server, but it does have WOL capability, so if I absolutely need to get into it remotely, it won't be an issue.

Pretty fascinating stuff, and now my wife is completely on board as well; she wants to put a plug on her iMac to see what it draws, as she uses it to hold her cross-stitch files and other things.

7 months later update:

I've expanded HA quite a bit and have a decent grasp on where my electricity is being used. Suspending my desktop has saved a shitload of power: under Linux, when suspended, it draws ~10W of power at any given time vs ~100W when idle. Also, I put smart plugs on the server cluster; the total usage of the entire cluster - 4 mini PCs, 1 SFF, and 5x HDDs (NAS) - over the last 7 months so far is currently at a whopping 465 kWh. That's ~66 kWh a month. Barely 5% of my monthly electrical usage.

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