DaGeek247

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[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 10 points 23 hours ago

You've never seen the after-effects of someone who actually got surgery to change smaller things. Those aren't obvious, but they are incredibly common. The rare few who do it so often that it makes them unrecognizable as natural just stand out from it all the more because of how successful it is for regular people.

The other part of it is that body issues often lie to you about what is good/bad about yourself, and they don't always stop doing that just because you changed it to what you thought you wanted. If you have the money for it, that can be a very vicious cycle all on its own. Don't get me wrong; I do things to alter my appearance regularly as well, you just have to be careful not to let the intrusive thoughts win where you can.

I think the rich people who make themselves that aweful looking through so many surgeries likely need help; I don't expect very many of them to be happy about the result at all.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

You'd just print the photo on the paper instead of that. Use the benefits of the medium to your advantage. Physical copies of photos has a history of working which is waaaaay longer than any current digital medium could ever match.

This is likely more for things which require digital data storage, programs, longer form text that space constraints mean you can't just print as a book, security codes, etc.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago

Goddammit I ate the onion.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)

So, the tweet isn't entirely true; my experience in the army was that we very much did irregularly do marches together, even after basic training. Every few months or so the battallion or brigade leadership would get an idea about a 'fun run' or whatever, and the start of those is always a march together. It inevitably switched to running together, but there was definitely a quick refresher on walking in step together on a regular basis.

What the tweeter missed is that there's tricks that every leadership command knows to do if they want a formation to look good.

If you wanted to put a military parade on that actually looked good you'd do a couple things prior to running it. You'd tell your various units to have a competition for who does it best, and you'd put up a basic-ass award for the winners and runners up. This ensures that any ladder climbers go out and find all the people who are actually good at this to put together a small super squad of people who actually know what they're doing. You then have them compete, and you pick the units that did the best to lead your parade.

We actually did this in basic training; my drill sgts had a little demonstration where they put the people good at keeping time together and the people bad it together. It was damn impressive how much of a difference just doing that made. One or two bad marchers can ruin a whole formation with their lack of timing.

None of this was done; at best they practiced for pt for a couple weeks before the event, but even that is iffy. They likely didn't bother to filter the parade members who can't march out, and that'd be good enough to turn this into a herd instead of a formation.

This doesn't rule out malicious compliance at all though; again, one or two bad marchees doing their best (or worst) job can completely throw off the timing of everybody behind and next to them. Same way as counting wrongly out loud can throw off someone trying to count up to 50.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's all read only, yes, but I just use a group specifically for NAS access and put users that need it in there.

I use the NFS version from the debian repository; not actually sure which one, and didn't even know that it mattered.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I had issues streaming directly from one device to the other without transcoding on WiFi. (I know you're wired! Heard me out.)

I found that, although it didn't fix the issue, it did help to switch from using SMB to NFS. Something about the way the protocol works meant that SMB had enough of an overhead that it worsened my stuttering issues outside of the spotty WiFi connection. For sure it significantly sped up scrubbing access times as well.

It may not be the issue, but it may be a step worth checking just to see if it is a part of the issue.

For what it's worth, 4k remuxes can have bitrate spikes well exceeding the limits of a single gbps wire. If you have a player with limited memory, or just limited cache settings, this may also be a part of the problem.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

The ladies I know use these; https://unclockable.com/. My sister recommends them and I haven't heard any complaints from my cousin about them either.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Love y'all, but this isn't news.

This happens literally everytime a unit goes literally anywhere.

Weekend exercise your commander put together last week? Sleep on the ground.

Month long training exercise you've been planning for a year? Sleep on the ground.

Deployment to a foreign country for nine months? You guessed it! Sleep on the ground.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I swear Stamets, you and I are on the same page of this and it's the first time I've met another person who wasn't a porn website commentor who agreed with me.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah. I grew up in a fundamentalist household and the first time I heard about Lillith was in Hazbin Hotel fanfiction.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

/t/fuckcars maybe? Our public project trains can't be too far out now, right? Right!?

 
 
 
 
 

I switched to windscribe last month because the proton CEO starting spewing politcal BS, and I wanted port forwarding that wasn't locked behind a shitty GUI.

As far as I was concerned setup was super easy, the VPN speeds were great, and port forwarding worked really nicely. The whole price for a fixed server and port forward, + unlimited data was a bit much (at $95/year) but for the ease of use and speeds I was getting, I was happy to stick with them.

My setup is a always-on server with a 1gbps connection, where yes, I fucking seed my shit, all of it. I have about 30TB of linux ISOs and counting, and it's rare that my combined upload speed is less than 1MBps, ever.

Which lead me to getting banned from windscribe with no notice or warning in the middle of last week. This lead to me having to spend tracker points to avoid HnR, and i'm also unable to grab any new ISOs until I find a new VPN provider that won't ban me for actually using the service full time.

I did shoot them an email (after talking' with their AI bot first), and they were actually helpful enough. The offered to restore support, so long as I promised to not torrent with them again (which, I honestly did promise not to. I'm not sticking with a VPN service that can't handle me actually using it for what it's advertised for) and they did unban the account. Whole email chain took about three days to get resolved.

My sticking point is that they still have instructions on setting up torrents on their own website, and that they specifically allow for unlimited data (with the plan i paid for) so long as it's just one user. I did not break those rules. After clarifying that in the support email, they still said that I was using too much data (despite the unlimited data advertisement) and that torrenting was not allowed on their service.

TL:DR: Windscribe bans you if you use a lot of data, and support says torrents aren't allowed, despite their website advertising such. Proof in the attached images.

If y'all have any other suggestions for a VPN that allow port forwarding i'd really appreciate it.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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