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From my experience using various (work provided) devices in outdoors agriculture use, I consider the lightning connector/port less prone to failure as well. If something was to break (from torque), it seems like the tab on the cable should snap or the cable just pull out before catastrophic damage to the port can occur.

Though I still had to replace cables because the cable itself developed a break somewhere, even with one that had proper stress relief at the ends.

Meanwhile most of the USB C ports on my Lenovo laptop from 2022 are barely working because somewhere along the line either the soldering broke or the port got too loose. Possibly from too much torque but I’m not sure. So the cable has to be at just the right angle. I’ve also done some android phone battery/screen replacement for friends, and had to do a few USB-C ports when it was possible due to the same sort of thing.

However all that is pretty much moot now, thanks to wireless charging and magnetic attachment docks. As such the only time I connect a cable anymore is monthly for cleaning out photos and other data. Previously I’d be connecting cables several times a day to charge in between fields as the battery went to shit. Honestly the “MagSafe” concept is the only change I’ve seen to smart phones in the past decade that I actually really like.

Yeah that part made me laugh. Clearly the work of Benevolent World Exploders trying to hasten the heat death of the universe.

Interesting. Found a GitHub issue that covers this bug: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/14290

The latest comment seems to be a nice summary of the root cause, with earlier in the thread pointing to ftruncate instead of fsync being a trigger:

>amotin

>I see. So ZFS tries to drop some data from pagecache, but there seems to be some dirty pages, which are held by ZFS till them either written into ZIL, or to disk at the end of TXG. And if those dirty page writes were asynchronous, it seems there is nothing that would nudge ZFS to actually do something about it earlier than zfs_txg_timeout. Somewhat similar problem was recently spotted on FreeBSD after #17445, which is why newer version of the code in #17533 does not keep references on asynchronously written pages.

Might be worth testing zfs_txg_timeout=1 or 0

It’s a personal taste kind of thing, where there’s decent arguments either way.

Proponents of having a loaded chamber value having the firearm immediately ready, because a situation where they actually need to draw on someone/something may not have time or space to use both hands to rack their pistol before someone/something is on them.

Those who want an empty chamber consider the increased safety vs potential malfunctions/accidents to outweigh the risks of being less able to respond to a small subset of threats.

“Structured water”?

I don’t know how to say this kinder than that you’ve been intellectually consuming trash, please pull yourself back.

They likely meant mortgage salience

Love the effort.

That said, these seem to be heavily biased towards displaying green, so one “sanity” check would be if your bot is suddenly scraping thousands of green images, something might be up.

Same. It is a bit curious, at first I didn’t care for them for some reason. Not outright against, just a bit negative on it. I can’t even remember exactly why.

If I had to guess, it’s because it’s so closely associated with the awful to use touch controlled center console. That and “new features” in general tend to take away from the ease of use and durability of the vehicle.

It may also have to do with now having an additional place to look during a stressful activity, which I’ve now fully adapted to.

I’m 100% on board with it now, if I had a vehicle without one I’d retrofit one. I also want side and front cameras.

I’ve got a big stupid truck (work provided) with a 140” wheelbase that I use for my agriculture job to transport my ATV (my real work vehicle) around. I absolutely hate the bloated, boxy, dangerous designs of modern pickups. Frankly they should be banned and forced to look stupid via visibility and child collision safety requirements.

>"Always show scrollbars” This is missing from my version (140.0.2)

New location is: about:config

layout.testing.overlay-scrollbars.always-visible

I’m reminded of how small changes in temperature can greatly effect the metabolism of things like crabs: https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/noaa-confirms-link-be...

Does ‘doas’ avoid these kinds of exploits, or is it just as vulnerable?

>Companies burning energy with llms to dynamically hide ads and bullshit on every pageload

>Individuals burning energy using personal llm internet condoms to strips ads and bullshit from every pageload

Eventually there will be a project where volunteers use llms to harvest the real internet and “launder” both the copyright and content into some kind of pre-processed distributed shadow internet where things are actual useable, while being just as wrong as the real internet.

What a future.

I wonder how many read the title, and assume it’s about being short. I certainly did.

I’m an agronomist and ~ten years ago attended an yearly industry meeting where there are various presentations that we sit in on and gain “credits” to maintain various state licenses used to legally recommend and/or apply fertilizers and pesticides.

The one presentation I recall from that far back was a bee researcher that basically said exactly what you posted, whenever his team investigated colony collapses from varroa mites (as opposed to poor treatment from being moved to California), they’d find markers for multiple previously unknown viruses. Honeybees were basically having to contend with previously isolated viruses they never evolved to resist, all at once.

I also remember the xerces society trying protest and interrupt his talk because they wanted to blame (and therefore ban) pesticides only, specifically neonicotinoids. I generally really appreciate the work they do, but in this case they really came away as being dogmatic instead of helpful.

What gets less attention though are the many dozens of native pollinator bees that also were/are hard hit and driven to full/near extinction. These species also have to contend with food source loss, because they are very selective about the flowers they will pollinate because the require a certain nutritional profile. I can’t stop viruses or varroa mites, but I can at least recommend planting wildflower mixes native to your local area.

edit Rediscovered some old blog posts I found looking into the issue at the time and found enlightening. It’s a great example of the observation work that makes a good agronomist. Bear in mind these are from 2012, so no idea if they’ve updated their thoughts to something different.

https://scientificbeekeeping.com/the-extinction-of-the-honey...

https://scientificbeekeeping.com/neonicotinoids-trying-to-ma...

I’m not against the pushback on the poorly made proposal.

I’m against people (in this very thread) taking the resulting out of context comments from Bazzite as a sign that the project is fickle or doomed.

1. The article is clickbait, leaving out important but complicated context of what sort of process is happening. If you want to understand what’s actually going on, watch this instead of getting alarmed at the article title: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XgabGSI82M0

2. These kind of change proposals are just that. Proposals only, by whoever wants to make one. Fedora is not about to suddenly drop 32bit support. Proposals are for discussion and consideration of how changes would affect things, they are not acceptance of the change or even a commitment to do so.

3. The comment on shutting down from the Bazzite founder is about what would happen if the proposal were accepted right now. Which isn’t happening. Outlining the consequences of a proposal is exactly what needs to happen. Dropping 32bit support would be catastrophic to multiple projects. But it’s not happening right now, and Bazzite is not about to shut down.

4. Things on both Fedora and Bazzite’s side are taking place such that removing 32bit support is reasonable and doesn’t break everything. This will take some time.

5. The proposal was badly worded, and is being redone.

For fucks sake.

Trump has been outrageously hostile to our supposed European allies, and is extremely petty, vindictive, and doesn’t give a damn about security or privacy. Furthermore, the checks that would normally provide counter this like congress or the Supreme Court are currently stacked such that he can do horrendous things without consequence. Our media and tech companies are also more than happy to avoid challenging him.

Other countries reliant on US based cloud giants are understandably alarmed at his behavior, and it is now a strong possibility that Trump will attempt to use their reliance on our tech companies to wring from them whatever he wants.

So the idea of escaping US tech monopolies has become very popular among those paying attention.

Going back further, from what I saw he had notoriety even back in 2003/2004 on 4chan.

It’s literally like those experiments that test the effect of electric shocks in rats for avoidance of something, and there’s a control group of rats that are just shocked randomly. The randomly shocked rats become highly stressed and neurotic.

The Pacific Northwest, where today’s humidity is 70%.

However that’s basically irrelevant because the place I rent has a 20+ year old central heating and cooling system, so inside the humidity can drop below 40% and I’ll get painfully dry sinuses and nose bleeds.

55-60% is my own comfort zone

I mostly use mine just for monitoring humidity (I use a humidifier, but don’t want the humidity going up past 60% or bad things can start to grow) and CO2 which I try to keep below 800-ish PPM by keeping the window slightly open (except during pollen season, which is now)

There was an initial effort of doing things and seeing the effects and eventually finding a nice equilibrium. I now have a feel for what’s needed and it’s not something I put any thought into. I basically check it when the seasons change. Rather than contributing to anxiety, I am now relieved of unknowns.

I’m quite allergic to pollen, and very sensitive to things like smoke, so I’ve already someone more focused on managing my environment than a normal person. A wick based humidifier (don’t use ultrasonic, those breed bacteria and launch them into the air) and large air filter with a big but quiet fan are the most important things in my room. Yes, even the bed.

These devices can also be a good way to catch localized air pollution that exceeds safety limits, though where I live that’s not an issue. Citizens capable of checking air and water quality is a positive in my opinion.

Pigeons are actually known for being very agile, and are able to do vertical takeoffs and evasive maneuvers like a backflip loop immediately after takeoff, which is precisely to evade predators like falcons.

City pigeons just tend to become fat, lazy and used to suppressing their flee response around traffic and people.

My recent experience being tech support for family and trying to make available some sort of digitized preservation of family photos/history, has been impressing upon me the need to get away from Rube Goldberg systems that only I could possibly understand and modify. My primary filesystem being ZFS already makes having my stuff be accessible to others after my death a bit unrealistic. (Part of my strategy, will be physical redundancy with archival disks and HDDs, and even paper for text information)

I’m forever intrigued by the promises of nix, but I have finally accepted that I am not the target audience for what they have built. The nix language is fundamentally at odds with general purpose usability. Even using the package manger on other distros is fraught with gotchas.

On an off topic note, I find it fascinating how both my father and grandfather, who are/were quite technically competent, seem to become increasingly and possibly willfully helpless about computers as they get older. I find myself wondering if at some point I will also experience exhaustion of whatever internal energy is needed to fuel technical fluency.

Came across this post, which perfectly encapsulates a sort of pathological inversion of sunk-cost fallacy, where some people I encounter would happily let infrastructure rot and countless people suffer if it saves them pennies on their taxes, and are incapable of re-evaluating their position because “taxes bad” has somehow become such an ingrained/religious value that anything else is unconsciously and immediately rejected no matter the consequences.

https://old.reddit.com/r/goodnews/comments/1kuaasx/i_voted_f...

>>I posted this somewhere else ages ago, feel it's relevant

>I remember having a conversation with my ex's sister and their mum a few years ago, around election time. I try to not talk politics with people because it's a fast way to lose friends, but the topic came up between my ex and them over dinner and I just listened in.

>I remember them saying that the only thing they're interested in is tax cuts. More money for them. I had to chime in and ask what about the NHS, what about funding schools? They said they didn't care because they had private healthcare through their jobs (finance), so they don't need the NHS. The mum said her kids are through school so she doesn't care about funding schools, and the sister said she'll be sending her kids to private school one day. I was pretty gobsmacked at the brazen selfishness of it, and asked what if they lose their jobs - and therefore their private health care - or become unable to work, what if when you have kids you can't afford private school? Neither of them could grasp this hypothetical... it was as if I was speaking another language to them. They were just like 'but we do have jobs.' And what if you didn't? 'But we do.' It was just circular and they couldn't see themselves in any situation other than the one they were currently in.

>I can quite see why empathy is a hard concept for right wingers to grasp, it was like they just simply couldn't understand the concept. They weren't stupid either, and nor were they rich - the mum worked in admin for a finance company in the city, and the sister was being paid by the same company (mum got her in the door) to train as an accountant.

>I think about those two every now and then when I can't understand how the other side thinks. Because it seems we do literally think very differently.

Moths (and other insects) evolved to use transverse orientation to fly level at night by using distant bodies of light (stars, moon), essentially trying to fly perpendicular to light above.

Sources of light which are physically close disrupt this instinct.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44785-3

Yes, those exist and are very much used (and replaced as a maintenance item).

Unfortunately does not eliminate the slow accumulative injury of going over rough and tilted ground for decades.

It seems like more of an issue here in the willamette valley of Oregon than it was in southwest kansas. I think the steep hills limit what is reasonable for suspension to counter with spines held at an off angle for long periods.

If you are looking for future ideas:

While most vehicles used in ag are going to be combustion based for a long while, if you could apply the shock mitigation to a just a chair in spray rig (https://hayandforage.com/images/29-Thome_MR_38-WEB.7650.png) or fertilizer buggy, a lot of spines could be saved.

These vehicles are lighter and generally run faster than tractors, and applicators who run them for decades tend to be forced to retire in pretty bad shape.

I imagine that if this sort of bullheaded google policy persists, companies will start adding “piñatas” into their code that have no real impact and can be changed with barely any validation required.

This lets google beat the version numbers out of it at will.

You can take that as meaning “I’ve never had a noticed issue that was detected by extensive ram testing, or solved by replacing ram”.

I got into overclocking both regular and ECC DDR4 ram for a while when AMD’s 1st gen ryzen stuff came out, thanks to asrock’s x399 motherboard which unofficially supporting ECC, allowing both it’s function and reporting of errors (produced when overlocking)

Based on my own testing and issues seen from others, regular memory has quite a bit of leeway before it becomes unstable, and memory that’s generating errors tends to constantly crash the system, or do so under certain workloads.

Of course, without ECC you can’t prove every single operation has been fault free, but as some point you call it close enough.

I am of the opinion that ECC memory is the best memory to overclock, precisely because you can prove stability simply by using the system.

All that said, as things become smaller with tighter specifications to squeeze out faster performance, I do grow more leery of intermittent single errors that occur on the order of weeks or months in newer generations of hardware. I was once able to overclock my memory to the edge of what I thought was stability as it passed all tests for days, but about every month or two there’d be a few corrected errors show up in my logs. Typically, any sort of stability is caught by manual tests within minutes or the hour.

ZFS detects corruption.

A very long ago someone named cyberjock was a prolific and opinionated proponent of ZFS, who wrote many things about ZFS during a time when the hobbyist community was tiny and not very familiar with how to use it and how it worked. Unfortunately, some of their most misguided and/or outdated thoughts still haunt modern consciousness like an egregore.

What you are probably thinking of is the proposed doomsday scenario where bad ram could theoretically kill a ZFS pool during a scrub.

This article does a good job of explaining how that might happen, and why being concerned about it is tilting at windmills: https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-y...

I have never once heard of this happening in real life.

Hell, I’ve never even had bad ram. I have had bad sata/sas cables, and a bad disk though. ZFS faithfully informed me there was a problem, which no other file system would have done. I’ve seen other people that start getting corruption when sata/sas controllers go bad or overheat, which again is detected by ZFS.

What actually destroys pools is user error, followed very distantly by plain old fashioned ZFS bugs that someone with an unlucky edge case ran into.