Trainguyrom

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Breaks require a sufficient stopping distance given the current speed, driving surface conditions, tire condition, and the amount of momentum at play. This is why trains can't stop quickly despite having breaks (and very good ones at that, with air breaks on every wheel) as there's so much momentum at play.

If autopilot is being criticized for disengaging immediately before the crash, it's pretty safe to assume its too late to stop the vehicle and avoid the collision

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah there's a reason I didn't even call that one out and just called it a bait. It's in flathub, frequently featured in flathub, and in the same article they spoke with a nonprofit that stated they preload older computers with Linux Mint now, which has a graphical software center that covers both Flathub and the Ubuntu repos

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

The sad thing is Roku's UI was pretty dang good before they added a row of ads at the top, a half screen ad on the left and replaced the background with an ad every 2 weeks, waiting a full minute for it to load the latest nonsense the highest bidder paid them to shove in my face. The ads absolutely ruin a good platform.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

That's literally what the representative from the charity said they did in the linked article

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

Hey if you're in the states, I ended up with a pallet of PCs from an auction I didn't expect to win and my wife would be happy to see one more disappear, so if you want to cover shipping I'd be happy to send it off to ya. They're just HP Elitedesk SFFs with 4th gen i5s, but there's a bunch of half-height PCIe slots and 3.5" bays and even a DVD drive so plenty of expandability to get yourself into trouble with

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

My last go-around with Linux gaming was pre-steam deck. I think it ended around 2018ish? So it's been long enough I should probably give Linux a real try again sometime

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 48 points 1 month ago (4 children)

However, Linux still lacks some popular applications, such as Microsoft Office and Slack, though alternatives are available.

Lol nice bait. Real talk though, just toss shortcuts to word.office.com, excel.office.com and outlook.office.com on the desktop and nobody will be any wiser

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly the biggest problem was not that I wasn't shown the interest rate, but that they carefully avoided any financial talk (I never actually saw the final price of the vehicle, only the monthly payment and only learned the exact details, including the several extra thousand dollars of extended service plans when I was going to refinance the loan at my bank) and carefully flipped through the paperwork to encourage jumping straight to signing without reading, even joking "oh no you don't want to read that" at one stage

Every car I've bought since I've been extremely diligent to read through all of the paperwork before signing anything, and one of the times caught the permission to sell data for marketing purposes form which I declined (the salesperson seemed surprised when I spotted that one and said "oh that looks like one to decline")

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My first car had a 23% interest rate on the loan. I had no credit history and was relying on people I thought knew enough about car buying with me to help me know if I was getting shafted. That dealership has remained on my do not buy list ever since, even after changing ownership due to the previous owners practices of fraud

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If there's money going in probably the best option in the very long term is to not sell/pull money out but to instead keep buying while the stocks are depressed. Buy low sell high as they say. If the entire US economy collapses we'll all have much bigger problems than worrying about what we selected to do with our retirement portfolios

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 0 points 2 years ago

Russia’s original pretext for the war is not about territorial gains. It was supposedly regarding Ukraine’s attack on Donetsk, Luhansk, and ethnic Russian populations in general (such as the Odessa massacre), what they also called “de-nazification” of the Ukrainian government, and Ukraine’s bid to join NATO. This is easily verifiable, but I can provide you a sources on this if you doubt me.

Is that the line this week? They've been moving the goalposts so rapidly they must be on wheels (and better maintained wheels than the Russian army)

The Russian propagandista changed their lines so many times it's blindingly obvious that there's no greater good and it was supposed to be a land-grab just like when they invaded and annexed Crimea

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