"ChatGPT, write a letter to the community that says I am looking after this issue with untrusted BLOBs and it is of high importance but do not be specific about anything."

Dammit now I have to reduce the block size of my discord-based cold storage filesystem.

Immediately switches to google play to turn off auto update for Nova Launcher

1. Replace CMOS battery.
2. Get small UPS.
3. Discover that small UPS's fail regularly, usually with cooked batteries.
4. Add maintenance routine for UPS battery.
5. Begin to wonder if this is really worth it when the rest of the house has no power during an outage.
6. Get small generator.
7. Discover that small generators also need maintenance and exercise.
8. Decide to get a whole house battery backup a-la Tesla Powerwall topped off by solar and a dedicated generator.
9. Spend 15 years paying this off while wondering if the payback was really worth it, because you can count on one hand the number of extended power outages in that time.
10. In the end times a roving band of thugs comes around and kills you and strips your house of valuable technology, leaving your homelab setup behind and - sadly - without power. Your dream of unlimited availability has all been for nought.

Conclusion: just replace the CMOS battery on a yearly basis during planned system downtime.

"Outdated", or "impossible"?

I can read and skim documents for salient details at 500 - 800 words per minute.

And then someone links me to a twelve minute video on YouTube where 800 words are spoken in total , 300 of those words are "um,so", and all we're looking at is either the narrator , or possibly a static slide with a few paragraphs on it... and also an inset of the narrator, narrating.

This appears to be more the angle of the person being fed an endless stream of hate on social media and thus becoming radicalised.

What causes them to be fed an endless stream of hate? Algorithms. Who provides those algorithms? Social media companies. Why do they do this? To maintain engagement with their sites so they can make money via advertising.

And so here we are, with sites that see you viewed 65 percent of a stream showing an angry mob, therefore you would like to see more angry mobs in your feed. Is it any wonder that shit like this happens?

Send them a letter via registered mail stating that upon receipt of said letter they waive their right to waive your rights.

Dreams of a cyberpunk future where the sum total of the world's knowledge of any subject can be just a thought away

Most likely reality:

Popup ads are now intrusive thoughts. 40 percent of your implant's processing power is spent looking for cues in your environment to better serve you "curated content" (i.e. advertising). Knowledge is still somewhat freely available but just after this quick shout out to our sponsors.

When you're looking for something specific it's a coin toss whether you get actual knowledge or an AI hallucination and you can't tell the difference. You can pay $279.99/mo for premium access to verified sources, but if your licence expires you forget everything.

when you can help people live in discord.

That live support is super handy when you're 8 timezones apart from the maintainers.

• Hey there, how do I get this thing to compile?

11 hours later

• Ok just need to make sure you have this list of prerequisites installed and then we can walk you through the compilation process.

6 hours later

• Nevermind, I built and installed another project.

Battery chemistry produces fixed voltages depending on what you use. It depends on where the active components sit on the electronegativity table.

The typical ones are:

Zinc-carbon and alkaline - 1.5 volts per cell.

Lead acid - 2 volts

Nickel Cadmium - 1.2 volts

Nickel Metal Hydride - 1.4 ish.

All the Lithium ion combos - 3.4 to 3.7 volts.

The arrival of Boost for Lemmy did it for me. So now it's a case of stumbling around and finding the communities I like, and beginning to post, and that always takes a little while.