ITGuyLevi

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[–] ITGuyLevi 1 points 2 months ago

I want so much to ditch my Jeep Grand Cherokee for a truck (I drive to work once a week but pull a camper on the weekends), sadly a lot of them might not fit in my 1970's garage.

[–] ITGuyLevi 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think mine might be that old, Sony PRS-505. It's still in great shape with decent battery life (though the cover is massively flaking).

[–] ITGuyLevi 2 points 2 months ago

I'd say it depends, do you believe that you could live as a vegan? Not everyone can, and nothing is wrong with that. I view some animals as yummy and others as not, I've never tried eating an oat tree, but I'll tear up some carrots.

I like the idea that consciousness is experienced by all living things and am totally okay with a certain amount of it ending during the natural progression of my life.

[–] ITGuyLevi 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Define "freeloading" for me. They don't have access to big social services (TANF, SSI, etc) due to not having documentation, roads are funded through fuel taxes as far as I'm aware (so if they're pumping gas, they're paying for the roads), dog parks are usually paid out of local sales tax (again, only as far as I know, I live in GA and we're a fucked up state a lot of times).

Income tax is a big one, but not on a small scale (like municipal level)... Hell, I haven't ever had a local income tax that I can remember.

[–] ITGuyLevi 7 points 2 months ago

The rolling ones are the way to go. Saves enough time for the price, no way I could justify the cost of the fully automatic ones.

[–] ITGuyLevi 1 points 2 months ago

This is the first time I've heard about a "human feeling" scale so sure, 50 must be perfect.

[–] ITGuyLevi 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Why would you pick 50 for the perfect temp? Genuinely curious why land on that number.

[–] ITGuyLevi 3 points 2 months ago

I remember it being iffy when I used it back then, the 8320 didn't have GPS so it was trying to use cell towers to figure out the turn by turn. It was slower, but not as slow as the connection speed would seem because every page load wasn't dependent on a thousand different CDNs and a hundred different trackers.

A dedicated GPS was essential for cross country (if you didn't want paper maps or printouts).

[–] ITGuyLevi 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Do you mean the Cisco iPhone from the 90s or the Brazilian iphone from the early '00s? I'm totally just taking the piss though, I know you mean the Apple one from the later '00s but it wasn't that rare to have mobile internet before it, they were just riding the wave that was already breaking across society.

Apple had a major advantage though, lots of people were already eyeing their popular mp3 player, if a phone could be a phone, internet, and a good music player you can sync easily, it won for a lot of people. I couldn't justify the price and really liked physical keyboards, by the time those became rare I disliked Apple too much to try them.

Somewhere I have my old BB 8320 from 2007, it was awesome because it had WiFi so much better speed when WiFi was available.

[–] ITGuyLevi 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hated yaml with every fiber of my being when first had to use it, but I really wanted to use HomeAssistant and see what I could do with it. I hated it a bit less when I started using docker compose. I started loving it when I started using it as a way to explain json to non-programming IT types, trying to explain it without braces and brackets seems to get across easier. I guess its more human readable, but as a result formatting has to be spot on (those indents and spaces replace the need for brackets and braces).

One useful trick if you truly hate it but need it, write it in json, then just use a converter to change that into yaml.

[–] ITGuyLevi 2 points 2 months ago

I'd agree, everyone has a price; I'd also have to say not everyone's is monetary.

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