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As others have said, I’m sure this will do really well and is probably close to the final straw for Twitter. I just wish it wasn’t being produced by meta. I really hope that a non-meta competitor is able to gain significant market share.

I have a Garmin 265. I really like that Garmin doesn’t make you subscribe to any monthly service to get the full features of the watch.

So in many jurisdictions the city doesn’t actually take the properties. Instead they auction off a lien to a private company/individual and then that individual can foreclose if the tax isn’t paid. So this strategy might not work.

I haven’t really heard of Lemmy before. Do you have additional information about the creators support of China?

I would love to be a minimalist. Unfortunately I have a wife who is the opposite of that and a woodworking hobby.

Ok, that makes sense. I see the value in it cancelling it for you.

Do people really have that many subscriptions that they do not notice? I have seen a number of products advertising this ability to "find" monthly subscription. Is this a helpful thing, do people have so many transactions that they can't find a subscription?

I think this is a fair question. I guess the way I see the difference is that a google/Apple phone is more like a tool (say a hammer) where Meta is providing a public space (like a restaurant or public square). So I think that in real life we would say that a restaurant owner has some duty to prevent their restaurant from being used to kill people/encourage suicide/do sex trafficking, but we wouldn’t ask a hammer manufacturer to police how people use hammers (we still do require some basic things like that the product must be reasonably safe). So I guess the root difference is the difference between a tool and a platform. They both bear some responsibility, but we expect the platform/space to bear much more responsibility for what happens.

This is really hard to read. It fits in with what we know about meta’s content moderation in other instances though (see genocide in Myanmar). If you are an employee of Meta or even just a user of their products, I would ask you to take a step back and think about whether in totality this company is worth working for.

- doesn’t care that one group of humans is using their platform to plan to kill another group (Myanmar) - doesn’t care about child sex trafficking - doesn’t care that teen girls are committing suicide.

Even if you say it isn’t metas fault, don’t they bear more responsibility then they are taking?

I think of the hardest things to believe when I learned about it was that almost everywhere in the United States has laws that force anyone building a business to build parking. Often the parking has to be more in square foot terms then the building itself! In my town if you build a place that serves alcohol you have to build more parking than for any other type of building. It’s crazy to me that we mandate paving over large sections of our town. I used to blame Walmart for moving into an area and buying up local businesses and destroying them to build a parking lot, but now I know they were legally required to do that!

So this is a common argument, but I don’t think it holds true. Here is a video comparing the train system in Spain to the one in the US. Around the 8 minute mark he compares the population of the US east coast with Spain and their train system. The truth is that the population density in certain areas of the US is certainly high enough to support much better public transit that doesn’t exist.

https://youtu.be/wfxJhX8Y4QI

Not easily that I know of, the best way would be to use a defi application like compound.finance. You can deposit usdc and take a loan against it in another currency. Then you repay the loan later. However, that is just a normal short. The only real way to lever this is to keep depositing the loan money, and taking out more loans which is expensive in terms of fees.

I think this is incorrect. One way to think about it is that usually infrastructure costs scale with distance. So you need much less infrastructure per person in dense places. However, everyone pays the same tax rate (or more in dense areas because the property values are higher) which means that in reality the dense areas usually subsidize the suburbs.

There is a company (urbanthree.com) that does financial modeling and produces heat maps to show the net gain/loss of a city based on area. They routinely find that the denser areas are financially solvent and supporting the city and the suburbs are not solvent.

https://www.urbanthree.com/services/revenue-modeling/

I was in Denver yesterday and rode two scooters and a Lyft e-bike…

I agree with your comment, except the last part. I cancelled my f150 lightning order because they told me I wasn’t going to get a 2023 and they raised the price by $7500.

The year is 2023.

I've been using Sweet Home 3d for a bit now and it has grown on me. When I first started it wasn't very intuitive at all, but after a bit it got better. Currently, I just use it to do floor planning and get a rough idea, and then I use Fusion 360 to actually layout the technical parts of the project.

It does allow you to import 3ds/OBJ files. So that might be able to help some.

Currently you can get a variable rate of around 3% on compound finance. https://v2-app.compound.finance/ might be a cheaper way to do this.

Yes, but it doesn’t matter if the money you are losing to inflation is being lent to you for free. Although coinbase does pay a small percentage to usdc holders on their exchange I think it is one of the ways to convince people to switch away from tether.

To elaborate on the google play store if you go to play.google.com and you are signed into the phone with your google account you should be able to install apps directly to your phone.

This is how I did it. I borrow a phone that was the exact same model as mine, then hooked up a usb keyboard and memorized the exact series of steps needed to launch a remote screen viewing program. One thing that made this easier was using the google play store to remotely install the screen viewing program. Then I typed out the exact series of key presses that I needed to turn it on. Took me like 4 tries to type in the lock screen password and get the screen mirroring started.

But he didn’t take the money, meaning that at least his intent wasn’t to extort.

Edit: looked this up apparently Elon offered him 5k which he rejected and asked 50k instead. So I guess neither have the moral high ground.

Looks amazing! I recently built a 12x16 shed as well, but just a stick framed. I debated trying to do a timber frame and finally decided that I didn't have the time. I sort of regret that decision now.

This (and directly accessing my network card) is why I'm sad WSL1 is no longer being developed.

The typical solution is to use a heat recovery ventilator (HRV) or a energy recover ventilator (ERV). They exhaust old air outside and bring fresh air in, but they also attempt to transfer the heat of the outgoing air to the incoming air.

I hope that the inflation reduction act will help with lower income families in this regard. Up to $8000 back on a heat pump install at the point of sale. This could make the install only a couple thousand.

I think we will probably see a lot of minisplit type heat pumps being installed in the coming years. In addition to being easy to retrofit, they have really high efficiency ratings (20+ seer).

Use a VM when running random scripts.

Was going to make sure you did this. There is a high chance you will be able to get a lot of the files back.

You can use autopsy which is open source to carve for files. Or you might be able to use binwalk.