Beacon

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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I've never EVER encountered a predictive system that is more of a help than a hindrance

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 2 points 20 hours ago

An ancient cheap small laptop would do it fine. Plex or Jellyfin software

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago (5 children)

You've misread. She is and has been in a mental health facility this whole time.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 16 points 4 days ago

Just to clarify, are you talking about preserving stuff that was already on the Internet, or are you talking about like paper cookbooks and other digital materials? Because for Internet materials archive.org backs up the entire web, including all the recipes.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

I know, it's horrible, but so is Alzheimer's and a zillion others.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I specifically said that it IS horrible, but so is dying from cancer, and so is dying from Alzheimer's, etc.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 12 points 4 days ago (5 children)

He died of AIDS complications, which isn't a nice way to go but it's not notably worse than many of the other typical ways people die.

EDIT

A couple of people seem to be misreading what i wrote. I specifically said AIDS is a bad way to go, but so are zillions of other common ways such as Alzheimer's.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What is a Mister device?

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 5 points 6 days ago
[–] Beacon@fedia.io 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

News Flash: Cause and effect exists. People don't pop into existence each day as a brand new slate unaffected by their past.

There may or may not be value to the study, but this pop-sci article is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.

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