nik282000

joined 1 year ago
[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.slax.org/ It's easy, is a full featured desktop, and has persistence on your USB stick.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dreams? What about when it locks up and plays a virtual 200db 5khz tone for the rest of your life?

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know the standard but if Google is involved you know they are going to be pushing people to use their own 'extensions' of the standard to lock both the hosts and users into their ecosystem. It's the same thing as Microsoft's ActiveX making sites IE only in the early 2000s.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Across all wages combined? What if you just look at people who make <100k?

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Most people don't have the manual dexterity or mechanical intuition to get into trades. Millwrighting, welding, plumbing and electrician-ing all require a person who is clever enough to understand and repair equipment that they have only just seen. Most people have a hard time applying a screen protector for a phone they have owned for months.

Domestic manufacturing is where Canada/USA should be aiming to create jobs. All skill levels are required and automated facilities still need humans. The positions are a lot more varied now, with most tasks being those that would require expensive vision systems or minor problem solving. Domestic manufacturing might help with some of the bull shit global supply chain issues as well.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The sites are broken, FireFox doesn't break them. They make the choice to use non-standard features.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, that gives me a direction for searching.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Good point, I'm running uBlock and NewTab. uBlock is blocking a single request/element from startrek.website but that's it.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Snip snip. No antenna, no network.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish the "Dark Web" hadn't turned into shit show, Just looking into it now gets you onto some fuckin watch list but it would have been a perfectly viable place to set up a proper censorship-free web. It also takes care of the user-quality issue by being slightly harder to use than a button that says "INSTALL APP NOW!"

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's one of my inappropriate set pieces. When I run into particularly uppity engineers who want to use 10 sensors and 5 motors to open a door, I give them the butthole monologue to point out that physical complexity != functionality.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

sigh

In industry there is something called "multi-phase flow" where you have a pipe that contains a mix of two or more states of matter like steam and liquid water, water and trash, sand and air. Handling multi-phase flows can be a real pain because you need to separate them but you don't always know how much of each phase is present and they may be very well mixed. In steam pipes, separators are used to remove any liquid water from the gas flow, in flows with solid components filters or screens can be used to allow fluids to pass but in all cases there are complex parts or consumables.

And so the butthole is an absolute marvel of engineering, with only a single moving part it can separate a multi-phase flow into it's constituent parts regardless of it's orientation in space (most of the time).

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