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Both can be true. The electrical noise just makes it easier for them to be heard.
Edit: I did not think I needed an /s for this…
Maybe people use their energy and creativity on something else
Like what? If personal messages on birthday cards aren’t it, where is that last little bit of energy going, huh? I doubt they’re going home to paint or sing or dance. If you don’t have the energy to write about a newborn child, you’re not being creative anywhere else, I guarantee it.
Hopefully not too much like that. Christine had a significant body count.
One of my favorites is Christine. What if a car were, like, super evil or whatever?
You know, they’re the home of CHALLENGE PISSING. Piss straight up six feet in the air and don’t get wet, they receive no down payment.
12·21 days agoI wish this had even a single grain of truth to it.
17·21 days agoInbox my beloved
37·22 days agoIt took lots of effort to get rid of them, but I see almost no ads anymore. Not on the internet, not YouTube on my phone or in my TV shows or when I’m listening to music. I’m practically allergic to them. Now when I catch an ad that made it past me, it gets a physical reaction from me from just how FUCKING LOUD everything is all the time. And not just volume, but audio compression, colors, camera angles, costumes, set pieces, all of it. It’s a goddamn assault. They all just want their little piece of your time.
Obligatory Bansky quote
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
1·22 days agoThis is absolutely the case with GenAI art. I get a lot of generated customer art now and I don’t even bother pointing out their obvious mistakes anymore because they never cared to begin with. If they want to hand me slop to print, I’ll give them just what they ordered.
I was just thinking the other day, not as a gatekeep but as a philosophical question: Can you make anything considered art without understanding pain? I feel like in order to even make pleasurable art you need to make it in
constraintcontrast to pain.
3·29 days agoit’s worth mentioning mine is over 10 years old and was that cheap when I bought it. If you can find a fanless design, these will last ages since there’s a few simple non-moving components that do the same kind of work all day every day and don’t take a ton of abuse. Even after all these years, the CPU on mine sits mostly idle even with heavy traffic. Modern software is just very efficient.
Another reason the router/firewall lasts is because I use a dedicated WiFi antenna. This is another part that gets the same work every day. I’ve upgraded mine twice, but it was almost double the speed each time, and I didn’t have to spend extra money on routing hardware that was still plenty powerful.
My setup consists of an x86 “network appliance”. They’re low-cost, low-power, sometime headless units that can run most any open-source software solution. Even with RAM as bad as it is, you can find these for less than $200 from multiple sources if you’re okay with 2.5Gbps. If you did need more than that, you’d have to build something custom likely, unless it’s a small-business class device.
If you’re just getting into the network software side of things, I recommend experimenting off-Internet for a while with a few different operating systems. Find which one has a user-interface you enjoy and can wrap your head around since in a personal homelab, they almost all meet the requirements. My personal choice for software ended up being OPNSense.
I run all of my other services that aren’t network related on separate hardware via a managed switch just to keep things isolated and the rest is up to you.
There are plenty of children and elderly who are not capable of body slamming your pit bulls and wolf hybrids.
To add to this, for those dogs that are behaved, I don’t know that. I have never met your dog before and assume all dogs are hostile until they prove otherwise. Just because you think your dog is okay with strangers, what happens if I happen to have my own dog on a leash who is not okay with strangers dogs approaching them.
Your choice to keep a pet should not be the burden of others to determine the safety of.
That’s way too much of a complicated system prone to wear and failure. A spring loaded pull mechanism is far more mechanically reliable and works at a wide range of scales.
Do you think they used real gold on those coins? I wouldn’t even be surprised if that was fake.
The one thing it seems to be okay at is parsing text that’s devoid of emotion. If you just need it to find and point out loopholes and lapses in judgement, it can do that. Just don’t expect it to be able to produce something coherent on its own in the same context.
2·2 months agoI was just thinking about this the other day. Now with the internet and accessibility to education, the “average” artist from today is leagues more capable in a technical sense than almost anyone from even 100 years ago. You can pick up the basics of character drawing in just a couple years with the right lessons when that would have mostly been trial and error before.