Look, if you don’t want to listen to some random dude who thinks reading is cool, fair enough. But if that random dude also runs level three diagnostics on the warp core and can swap polarity on the main deflector dish with one hand tied behind his back? Yeah…you should probably pay attention.

Interesting, TIL — thanks!

Books has become e-books.

To some extent — but have you been to a hip bookstore recently? They exist, and are very much alive.

Cashless requires power all the way from PoS to wherever the servers live.

Edit: see below

A lot of non-graphical utilities — basically the *NIX coreutils, plus stuff like rsync, ssh, compression/archival tools (tar, gzip, bzip2, etc.), grep, and the like. Git also comes to mind.

I think part of this is that the UNIX philosophy is “developer friendly” — tell a good dev they need to make a compression utility that follows this protocol, and they will make a compression utility that follows the protocol.

You ever been to a city that’s not San Francisco?

Of course; my point was never that it’s a ubiquitous practice in the US, only that it definitely exists in places.

One that’s newer?

Sure (Seattle is newer, for instance), but that’s obviously not what you mean.

I think we’re talking about different types of cities — new, rural, small incorporated cities are certainly very different than “capital C” Cities. I’m guessing this is the real distinction that we’re talking about…

Plenty in the US, too — I’m in San Francisco and there are tons of mixed use buildings, in both “sharp” and well-off neighborhoods alike.

My $4k piece of carbon and $3k hunk of titanium would like to have a word…

I would bet just about anything that the only reason profit margins could possibly be higher for a car is due to volume — which, if everyone rode bikes, wouldn’t be an issue at all.

Absolute profit, sure — cars are more expensive, so they’ll win out.

Fail2ban config can get fairly involved in my experience. I’m probably not doing it the right way, as I wrote a bunch of web server ban rules — anyone trying to access wpadmin gets banned, for instance (I don’t use WordPress, and if I did, it wouldn’t be accessible from my public facing reverse proxy).

I just skimmed my nginx logs and looked for anything funky and put that in a ban rule, basically.

Pretty sure that’s completely acceptable in parts of northern California (source: born and raised in northern California).

How do you make a small fortune?

Start with a large fortune and buy a boat.

I switched from raspberry pi and orange pi to a cheap Intel NUC, and I think it’s just a much nicer experience.

The pi is great fun, but the HW transcoding on a NUC “just works,” and the SSD and 16GB RAM opens a lot of doors. My N100 NUC was less than $150, and it included everything (case, power supply, 500GB SSD).

My pi found new life as an off-site backup: attach a big HDD, set up WireGuard, and have a cronjob do daily rsync and snapshots. I have it set up at in-laws, and it works great.

Ah, good point!

Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon seems like it’s trying to compete with the Air.

Oh I wasn’t complaining, I was making a bad joke (the cartoon is a stalemate).

Ugh, Lemmy is full of stale content.

(Edit: it’s a joke. Stalemate/stale content…I chuckled at, and upvoted, the post.)

I’m not mad at the huge amount I pay in taxes. I’m mad about what I get in return.

And over twice the GDP.

“Wow you signed the document in blood, you must be really hardcore.”

“No I’m just cheap.”

That’s…pretty believable.