Jamie

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Speaking anecdotally here, I wonder if the banks are trying to push those super long loans, too. I bought my car last year, have excellent credit, and put 50% down. The only loan I was offered was an 8 year loan when I wanted 4. Out of sheer spite, I took advantage of the early payoff and paid it off as early as possible to deprive them of as much interest as possible, and it was much faster than the 4 years I asked for.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Also the average length of car ownership before buying something else is about 5 years, but the average loan duration for a new car is 7 years.

The car market in the US is just screwed.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

We've had an answer since the Internet was created: don't let kids have unsupervised access to it.

Instead we give toddlers tablets before they can read.

It's inconsequential anyway. This bill was never really about kids in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I just have a different partition for /home. For snapshots, you could set a partition up as btrfs and use btrfs snapshots

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ask your doctor if Boromir is right for you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

One thing is that the scam call centers usually pay very well there. From what I've heard, even teens can get in on it, and they can make as much as someone with a full college degree just working for a scam company. The owners are making six figure sums each year.

And the amounts aren't always small. Sometimes they'll find a particularly vulnerable elderly person and net thousands, or even tens of thousands.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Is there a particular reason you can't use apt here?

It's always preferable to stick with repo packages unless absolutely necessary, because performing a manual install could place your system into an unsupported state or prevent apt from updating it later, which can lead to issues especially if that package is something core like bash.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing is, MS made a command line package manager that allows users to submit configs for new packages via GitHub. But they haven't made a UI for it and don't tell anyone that it exists. You have to go out of your way to find out about it, which 99% of users are not going to do.

I use it when I set up new Windows VMs and it's a lot easier than manually navigating to websites for software installers.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

Sir, do you have a license for that power drill?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Well yeah, they asked the IDF to airstrike their offices in case they have Hamas breeding more terrorists in there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The relative lack of content on Lemmy, for me, has been a boon. I go through New, then Top 6 Hours, then Top 12 Hours, then I need to find something else to do. When I was on Reddit, I found myself bouncing between Reddit and YouTube for entertainment. With Lemmy not having boundless amounts of crap to scroll through and no algorithm, my tech usage is far more varied.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

unbearable due to the sheer amount of advertisement.

I spent 3 days in a hotel room this week, and while I did bring my Steam Deck and dock with me for entertainment, I got there to find that the TV had no HDMI ports. I was stuck with basic cable and the only saving grace being Showtime, which wasn't at extra cost and doesn't have ads.

But when both Showtime channels had stuff I was less than indifferent to watching, the advertisements on any of the other channels were horrible. The shows felt like they were 1:1 in terms of content to ads.

Don't get me started on the radio, either. I used to love listening to the radio, but now all they play is the same set of a couple dozen songs, with 5 minutes of ads that play every 3 or so songs. Also, no rock station in my area plays anything newer than ~15 years old, tops. They're all still playing the same music that I listened to on those stations when I was a teen, and I'm a little over 30.

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