Good luck finding a used one that isn’t barely on its last legs from being poorly OC’d/cooled, or is just an outright brick that burned out in a crypto mining farm and is now being resold by a shell entity of a shell entity of a shell entity on Amazon or Ebay.
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89·2 days agoSemi-Related:
Kathy Lueders used to be a high up at NASA.
She personally chose to make Starship HLS variant be the thing that delivers Artemis astronauts to the lunar surface.
She also wildly misrepresented SpaceX’s capabilities and rigged the ‘request for proposal’ process heavily in favor of SpaceX a few years later.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hAEYtaB3R7Y
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NSZlZegPnl4
… And now she works for SpaceX.
https://www.space.com/spacex-hires-nasa-human-spaceflight-chief-kathy-lueders
It’s basically a comedic parody of the kind of regulatory capture process, the incestuous relationship of people jumping between the private and government sides of a public/private partnership… and its all right in the open, actually real.
This kind of shit is the actual deep state, the actual unelected, quid pro quo, ‘subject matter expert’ asshats that cause waste fraud and abuse.
That is fucking amazing.
Please tell me this ‘cybersecurity manager’ was… fired, or drawn and quartered, or something.
11·3 days agoI didn’t say these were at feature parity and frankly I don’t care for half those features.
I’m fairly sure you can still set up a TS channel to automute everyone and have that act as a chatroom or chat channel, and I’m also fairly sure you can ping user groups with a pop up or TTS message for announcements, unless TS has radically changed.
You can also set up small html/xml pages per channel if you want to keep some pertinent info posted, and ping people when an update to one of those pages occurs.
There is media viewing in the client itself.
Host an image somewhere, throw it in a channel or server page description.
Yep, there’s no built in, automatic, free image hosting in the chat feed or video livestreaming.
Discord is enshittifying and mtx monetized because it has massive serverside costs from hosting everything, streaming everything, and thus must seek revenue in increasingly shitty ways to pay for it.
They’ll be selling all your data, introducing advertisements, monetizing even more, and moderating/censoring within a year or two of going public on the stock market.
If you want to host a teamspeak server, you pay the basically negligible cost of running your own server, and you make your own rules.
I’d say this is more like pitching a motorcycle to someone who takes the bus to work, but the busses are all getting privatized and will have their fares go up by 500% and they’ll require a blood sample upon every embarkation and debarkation.
1·3 days agoDamnit.
Yeah, ok, that would work.
Congratulations, you have invented a new spice, made of mostly microplastics and a dash of metals, a few of which can bioaccumulate and cause organ / nervous system disruption.
… I …uh…
I dunno how you’d be able to actually accomplish that.
You could poo in multiple places over the course of a few days… but chances are the actual remnants of the sd card would come out in the same poo.
3·3 days agoYou know, apparently this is heresy in Seattle, but I’m not a big fan of Sriracha.
Its… ok?
Too sugary for me.
The Seattle Dog.
Basically, a hot dog with cream cheese and sauteed onions.
Its not as common as it once was, afaik you can only get it from street vendors in a few spots, or maybe way overpay for one at a restaurant or two.
… It is from Seattle, Washington State, USA.
Ah ok, I appreciate the clarification =D
Autism strikes again lol.
Hrm. Well… right.
Is … the nickel acrually sentient at all?
Or is Cosmo just needlessly gendering non gendered things?
Like, if you can ask the nickel, then yes, do that…
But if the nickel is in fact… just a nickel…
???
Philippa, or some approximately close spelling of that, is a fairly common feminine form of Phillip in many languages, and it used to be in English as well, but largely fell out of fashion in particularly in present day American English.
Goes all the way back to Greek, then Latin, then the Romance languages, etc.
My favorite dumb joke of all time is from Fairly OddParents:
Cosmo: The good news is I named my nickel Phillip!
King Gripullon: What’s the bad news?
Cosmo: It’s a girl nickel!
… Cosmo is so fucking stupid lol.
Smash it with a hammer for a minute or two, then microwave the chunks.
That’ll probably do the trick.
Alternatively, smash it, eat it, shit it out later at not where you live.
Reminder that TeamSpeak still exists.
Windows, Mac, Linux clients for TS6, Win, Mac, Lin, iOS, Android clients for TS3.
Mumble also still exists, less official support for mobile clients tho.
Used to make $80k a year (before taxes) as Co-Lead of a Data Analytics department.
Managed databases, did analytics (regular, structured and custom one off SQL queries), reporting, general software development (basically my team and IT, 2 or 3 people, were the only people in the whole org more computer literate than ‘can respond to an email, maybe’), API construction/management, process documentation, coordinated with every other team.
I enjoyed the work, loved my team, though the technical and general incompetence of many other employees was challenging to deal with.
As an example:
In doing process documentation with one team, I interviewed 5 different people on that other team, including their lead, and all of them described completely different processes with maybe 20% agreement…
But, then I got assaulted, crippled, lost my job, got evicted, car got stolen, eventually got SSDI payments to kick in after spending a year homeless (my family are abusive and dysfunctional, my ‘friends’ didn’t care) and now live off of about $22k a year, still recovering, still doing PT.
If Elon and Trump gut Social Security, I’ll die homeless and starving.
The place I used to work at was a non profit housing and aiding the homeless, by the way.
Go Team America.
2·6 days agoLast place I was at had birds nesting in the walls.
Told the maintenance guy, brought him in so he could hear them, and his response was ‘yep, not much we can do’.
He had the same response when I pointed out the black mold, easily visible all over the bathroom, and that the AC/heating unit didn’t even have a filter, nor a cover, and regularly spit out chunks of … presumably wall insulation.
Took em 6 months to finally get rid of the bed bugs too.
It’s wild how much ads ruin your load times.
And burn through your data cap if you’re poor and/or on a mobile device.
I want Klein Bottle Earth.
sigh
This has also been my experience with non profit c suite.
I used to be co-lead of the data department for a non profit that dealt with PII… including medical data… spent a lot of time making sure we were doing things right.
… And then one day, one of the board members asked me to implement blockchain security on our postgres databases.
I buried my head in my hands, looked uo, and told her “No, the blockchain is insanely insecure, its easily de-obfuscated… and it would make our systems run somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 times more slowly… if its even possible to implement postgres running through or on … some kind of blockchain.”
She did a fake corpo smile and ‘politely’ ended the meeting.
… I wanted to strangle her to death.