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  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What discussion you know you are on the wrong side of?English
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    7 天前

    It is an abstraction, an anecdote really. When ordinary people are collectively in dire straights, there is little time or voice for those on the edges that become collateral damage. It is like the military when an army is being pursued in the field by another superior force–the wounded and baggage train support that are unable to fight are left behind. The ethics of the primary force are only circumstantially applicable. No one cares about the disabled or outliers when the attorneys judge and jurists are in crisis mode. While those examples are poor in their applicable timelines and the medium scale big picture. If one abstracts another few layers higher, at the decades to more centuries and even lifespans of civilizations perspective views, the overall stresses and strain on a civilization alter the landscape of the philosophical and morality. Civil rights struggles had little meaning or traction during a world war. Martial law is a mechanism that extinguishes all civil rights in a single mechanism.

    I’m not taking sides to making excuses for the behavior of others. It is just my intuition and curiosity allowed to roam freely in the good and the bad without distinction in an attempt to think without bias.

    When someone tells me of an unprecedented population displacing event, I see the refugee crisis and disproportionate effects on the poor and disadvantaged. The larger the scope of the poor people problem the larger will be the numbers of people on the edges that fall through the cracks. The experience is empirical from someone that has fallen through the cracks.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is drawing furries profitable?English
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    8 天前

    Creative and traditional media is a tough sell. The primary issue is freedom of information. The gatekeepers are consolidated. Reaching any audience is a heavily taxed and, at the very least neigh impossible, feat. It does not matter what kind of business you attempt to start, search engines are not deterministic. Searching for you by name is irrelevant on nearly any and certainly all large platforms. Like I could do a ton on somewhere like eBay, but their margin is untenable. Amazon is a joke for fools. Their entire seller system only exists to mask their price fixing scam. PayPal and other payment processors online use a loophole to charge an order of magnitude more for payment processing compared to brick and mortar traditional retail. Social platforms that sell stuff take out what would be the entire profit margin of most products. Selling stuff online is a massive scam. I did it and have sold nearly $150k on eBay in 2 years of doing it professionally. It was not viable when I ran the real numbers. Total overhead was half a tick below 40%. Even at 50% ideal keystone retail (basis of traditional MSRP), 10% is not even minimum wage. The platforms will do nothing to promote you; only enough to barely string you along. It is by design. They are a means of exploiting the poor for as much as possible while masking their scams from regulations.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you think got way too much hate than it should've?English
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    9 天前

    Everything from Chrysler is junk. I worked for several dealers and general used car lots with my auto body shop business. Everything dodge/chrysler/plymouth was cut rate junk since the late 70’s and still is. At wholesale auctions, they are the joke cars people only bid on because they are so damn cheap it justifies playing roulette. Everything goes wrong with them.

    Like here we are nearly 20 years since I painted and I still remember there is a champagne/charcoal/silver metallic paint that came on Dodge/Chryslers. The color code was 4Q2. There were more unrelated variations under that color code than almost any other at the time. The only one I encountered that was worse was the charcoal metallic used on Chevy/GMC trucks and suburbans. That one has tone variability between yellow, red, and blue where getting it wrong meant remixing the color coat. With 4Q2 it was metallic grain size, tone between blue and yellow, and the flop characteristics (apparent color tone and clarity when viewed from an oblique angle).

    I remember many times thinking to myself that someone knew, if you have not figured it out, say “4Q2” out loud and fast… It was freaking personal, all those times I struggled with that color. Those cars were the dead inventory that was ever present on many lots I worked for, and they sat at the mechanics bays for much longer than any of the rest.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you organize your digital stuff?English
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    15 天前

    I’ve gone super organized to absolute dumped folders over the last decade. If you have a NAS, get organized. Everything on your computer, do more loosely.

    My rule with hobbies like electronics like PCB design prototyping and breadboarding, 3d printing, roadie bicycle stuff, etc., is that my collection of crap and organization scheme has failed when I forget what I have or can’t find it when I need it. I avoid the rabbit hole of making organization a priority project or taking it too far by only targeting what I need to do in order to prevent these situations of missing items.

    The same goes for digital storage. My organization must be intuitive so that a year or more from now, I know where to find the thing at a glance.

    One trick I learned from managing multiple connected point of sale systems for a chain of retail stores is to name your files in a way that sorts naturally. For instance, use year-month-day in file naming as opposed to nonsensical date standards. With bikes in the bike shops it was

    • "Bike-
    • MTB/RDR/TRI/HYB/KID-
    • XS/SM/MD/LG/XL
    • (Brand)-
    • (Model)-
    • (Year)"

    Without a sales staff performing any searches I wanted bike types and sizes to naturally sort. I needed them to see exactly what was in stock in their store without thinking about the computer. I wanted them to immediately identify the range of choices available so that they could easily tell the customer what choices they have for immediate gratification. This involved me normalizing bike sizing to fit within my naming constraints as no bikes are sized the same way across brands. This is still how I think about naming schemes, they should always have sorting functionality built in. But don’t take it so far that you can’t remember the way you organized stuff without refamiliarizing yourself with the details.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Using something else than Graphene OS is pointlessEnglish
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    17 天前

    The kernel started moving faster, but also the kernel for these devices are orphans. They can never be updated properly because the source code for the kernel modules is not available. The way the phones get updated in ROMs is by back porting changes from the present back to the old orphan. It requires someone super familiar with both kernels to do so. Eventually it becomes untenable. The whole scheme of Android is centered around this source code/orphan kernel scheme. Everything is setup so that hardware manufacturers never have to add their source to the mainline kernel meaning you can never own the device. There is not a single phone or mobile device that you can completely own and running on mainline with available source code. The pixel is all about the TPM chip.