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YellowJersey

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  1. Kijiji and FB marketplace for me. I try to avoid ebay whenever possible; it's always a last resort for me.
  2. Sorry Linus, I think the click-bait title on this one goes too far, just my two cents so I'm not going to dedicate more than a sentence to it. I would totally buy a Framework, but I'm a slave to the trackpoint. I just can't use trackpads. So I guess I'm stuck with Thinkpads.
  3. "No one enters their log in info every time they visit a website" Me:
  4. To answer your question, I'm actually not sure. If it is, I assume it means a lot of practice and being completely fluent in English. I'm Canadian and lived in Australia for a few years and actually started to pick up a little bit of the accent, so I think a large part of it is exposure. As for which English accent to go for, I suppose that's going to depend on who you're talking to. If you're primarily talking to Americans, than going for a "broadcaster's voice" would be your best bet.
  5. Ah TFW2005. My old stomping grounds. Posted there a lot up until around 2010. I still keep in touch with some of the people from the ol' boards.
  6. I've got three Noctuas and three BeQuiets (all 120mm) running in my rig. The BeQuiets are SilentWings 3 PWM fans and are on the intake. The pump and CPU fans are all Noctuas. For an all-air-cooled rig, it's pretty quiet, and what little noise it makes is a pretty ignorable white-noise.
  7. I love Alex' janky cooling experiments.
  8. My running commentary while I watch this video: -man, I find Adam's voice kind of grating. I like him a person, though -I probably would have stolen privateered way more stuff by now -"part time mother" lol -when Linus was blowing out the cat hair from the old PC, I actually thought he was going to drop it over the edge of the balcony -I love how completely unbothered Adam is by Linus' criticism -"Would you rather screw?" lol -This relationship dynamic is basically the same that I have with my SO -such sass -I want to see the kittehs!
  9. I would have loved some kind of counters at the bottom counting "Times viewer called Linus a ccp shill" and "Times viewer called Linus a western media shill" before the end.
  10. There are somethings that are inherently unethical. These would usually fall under the category of "obvious crimes." Your murder, theft, etc. However, there will always be a blurry line that is hard, if not impossible, to objectively find as two reasonable people with strong ethics can disagree on whether something is or is not ethical.
  11. I wonder if online content creation platforms are more prone to consolidations due to the convenience of having everything in one place. Part of the appeal of youtube is that, aside from porn, everything is there; it would be inconvenient to have to go to multiple platforms to get all the content you want. Online streaming is a great example of this. The appeal of Netflix was that you had so much in one place, negating the need for an expensive cable plan. Now, with so many competing subscription services, we're now back to essentially paying for cable on-demand if you want all the content, which kind of defeats the "one stop shop" model that Netflix had going for it until relatively recently. In a seemingly paradoxical twist of fate, competition in the streaming industry has actually been bad for the consumer since now you need a dozen different subscriptions to get all the content you want. Though, I assume the same could have been said about other monopolies. I dunno, just thinking out loud.
  12. This is a defence that I see rolled out a lot and, technically, you're right; private platforms owned by private entities can, largely, allow or disallow whatever content they want on an arbitrary basis. However, the question I've been asking for years, and which has become even more relevant since musk took over twitter, is should private platforms' policing of content be regulated? In an era when a handful of companies control the primary means we communicate with others, it seems dangerous to just leave it to private parties who only care about profit and are often owned by very unscrupulous people (musk, zuck, etc). I mean, the algorithm, may it's beneficence forever smile upon us, has the power to shape public consciousness like never before. Should private companies have that kind of power? I'd say no. Though, the question then becomes how exactly do you regulate these companies in such a way that isn't just replacing corpos deciding what can and cannot be said with governments deciding what can and cannot be said? I honestly don't know. The whole thing seems a bit of a mess to me.
  13. I can sympathise with @Sebendipitous here. All-too-often, people post a simple yes/no question and get everything but the simple answer to the simple question they asked. It's very frustrating. That said, when it comes to the laws and ethics debate, not all laws are ethical, so, no, something isn't unethical just because it's illegal. Hiding Jews to keep them from being murdered was illegal in areas occupied by Germany, but that didn't make the law right. Plenty of laws are extremely unethical. Being ethical requires a moral compass that goes beyond "is it legal?"
  14. OMG, I was getting motion sickness just watching this video.
  15. I think it's a legitimate safety issue. I can see why giving the cops more things to pull people over for would be an issue in the states where half of the time it seems to result in murder. But blinding everyone on the road is just a recipe for disaster.
  16. I personally hate courier services, UPS in particular. Reasons include: 1) Half of the drivers don't even try to deliver; they just stick the "sorry we missed you" tag on the door (This is not necessarily the driver's fault. I imagine they are potentially under a lot of pressure to make as many deliveries as possible and so every second counts. See Amazon's pissing in a bottle fiasco) 2) Brokerage fees (looking at you, UPS). I get that customs and duties are a thing, but I've always found brokerage fees to be excessive. 3) You either have to have them leave it at your door at the mercy of porch pirates or have to reschedule delivery. I actually much prefer things shipped via Canada Post as the duties are usually reasonable and, if I'm not home from from 9-5 because I actually have a job, I can just go to the post office to pick it up. Yes, it takes longer, but I find it far more convenient than couriers.
  17. I'm always unsure if people have their high beams on or if they just have really really bright headlights, but yes, I notice it all the time. Personally, I think driving with your high beams on within city limits should be a ticketable offence. I'd suggest that they [advertiser friendly content] instead, but I don't want to cop a ban.
  18. Ah yes, the classic sisyphian task of trying to define, "art." The problem with trying to define it is that you always will either end up including something you didn't mean to include or exclude something you meant to include. This is a topic my never-shuts-the-fuck-up brain has pondered many times. The closest thing to a definition I can come up with is: anything done by a person. That may seem odd, but hear me out. Some art is created accidentally, so you can't define it as something you put work into. Some art is disgusting and horrifying, so it isn't something that's beautiful. And so on and so forth. Art is in the eye of the beholder; it is utterly subjective. The question is not "is this art?" but rather "is this art to me?" Alternatively, the question is not "is this art" but is this good art to me?" Two people can look at the same thing (and it could be literally anything) and one can call it art and the other won't and both opinions are valid. But OP is talking about "beauty," which is not necessarily "art." The main thing I see beauty in is nature. It's a harsh, unforgiving beauty that wants you dead, but beautiful nonetheless... much like my ex-girlfriend.
  19. What I don't understand is why they called it "full self driving" and/or "autopilot" in the first place when it is neither. Just call it something else, like "driver assist" or something, ffs.
  20. Well, I have a song I'd like to sing about that. It goes a little something, like this: Yar har fiddle dee dee!
  21. You'd also be surprised how in-demand old components are. I pulled apart some old laptops before taking them to be disposed of and the the old DDR2 memory sold out before the DDR3 sticks did. Even though I was only selling them for $5 a stick. And hell, $5 is better than a kick in the teeth.
  22. I wouldn't say Windows 10 is "no nonsense." I find it full of nonsense, though that could just be because my neurons to are too old and clogged with tumours to keep up.
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