Every major agricultural product has failed. Animal products aren't well sold either. American wool was an entire industry. Tobacco we know why. Alfalfa is too expensive and killing feed. Crop after crop has gone away. We have corn and soy left which we have industrialized. They make extremely low quality sugars and oils. The lowest quality of those products tbh. They're excellent for nutrition in third world countries. Not so much for developed ones and we can all look outside at our neighbors to prove that. They're huge. Obese. Horrible health markers.

The cars are overpriced and not a good product either. The manufacturers had their lunch ate in the 1980s and now they look for ridiculous margins by selling the most oversized and inefficient vehicles possible to keep themselves alive. The government is the only thing stopping their full collapse, but the consumer is still demanding small electric cars from a different country. The government can't control consumer choice.

The great wave of cannabis got zero people raised up from low wages even though it was selling like crazy.

Software engineering and hardware manufacturing are long gone and we don't need proof on that.

Music simply isn't sold on a mass scale anymore unless it's generated by a hive and sung or performed by a person who is only a prop. Absolutely zero record stores around.

Furniture? Non existent.

Clothing? Only made for Hollywood and the rest from Bangladesh or Vietnam. Haven't seen a tailor shop in a few decades.

Toys? We don't have kids that "play" anymore so toys and toy stores are long gone. Even online.

Everything my eyes point to was made better somewhere else. I think it's time to admit that the system won't get us ahead. It's not doing anything for anybody. Give it whatever name you want but its our system and it doesn't work.

I switched to Linux a during the year of the Linux desktop (tm) and it's been great but I have one small issue maybe someone knows how to fix.

I have tried 4 different distros so far (currently using bazzite and kachy on two different machines) and they all do this: every time the computer restarts, numlock turns off by default. I use keyboards with a numpad and the numpads do nothing it seems unless I hit numlock first. This is compared to every windows or apple machine used previously where numlock is pressed once after buying the computer then never needs to be again.

Is this the most minor inconvenience ever? Quite possibly. But I still find myself trying to enter numbers often and being frustrated I don't notice right away. Probably doesn't help I have a bunch of them in my unlock password after every restart.

Tl:dr; how to get numlock to activate on startup

On reddit tons of people are like "hurr durr it was caused by a configuration error that propogated down causing failed health checks and remaining non-updated servers got overloaded durr" and that's the "techy" explanation.

Maybe that's enough for MS IT guys and no shade but, with e.g. crowdstrike we knew pretty quickly exactly what the cause was - an array out of bounds read because of an extra malware definitions file (or something to that effect i do not recall exactly).

It is suspect to me that this outage went on for this long, despite how much it affected, and how the recovery went along so haphazardly it seems. They are probably not done with RCA yet but i also wonder if it was a more negligent fuckup they want to keep under wraps to avoid bad rep and e.g. UK 999 system choosing a different tech corp to work with next time as some european govt agencies have already done.

What do you think?

Curious about the overlap. I wonder if its actually that much of what appears to be a consensus on Lemmy, or just a loud minority.

I'm on my second year of CS on southern Spain and I want to move to another country when I get my diploma. I also have low level autism and a B2 English level, in addition to native Spanish, and in the future I'm also thinking of getting some certs.

I want to see wether place I can just have a better future and if possible to make a startup

Hi all!

I am a northern American gal (I know that sounds cheesy) but I visited Canada 5 months ago and I just can't stop thinking about it!! Fun fact I actually have distant relatives that are from Canada (prior to settling there were from Norway and Sweden) . I am actually very interested in the prospect of moving and settling in Canada. I am in the medical field (in the process of becoming a doctor) and really want to know the honest truths and feelings of Americans moving to Canada. It's no secret that we are a shit show. But I resent visited (only for 1 week) but I couldn't find a damn thing to dislike about the place!

If there anything to consider or opinions that I should be aware of? As much as I would like to migrate, I wouldn't want to move to a place where I would be unwanted.

BTW one of my fav bands is Fion and I CANT WAIT for them to have a concert in America so I can go.

Thank you for the honesty in advance!

Me personally? I did not care for Game of Thrones.

As of thirty-ish minutes ago ALL commercial air traffic in the US is grounded until further notice.

Anyone got any idea what’s going on? There are very free details about the situation I can find online right now.

so yeah... idk why most people buy flagships phones only to open tiktok, facebook, etc.

I mean does anyone actually game on their phone regularly? Like an entire pubg mobile gaming session on it?

Or is it primarily a camera thing.

My cars always just had a lever for how hot you want the car to get. These new cars have specific temperatures you can set. What do you set it at for heat?

Been thinking about this and want to know if it bugs anyone else.

It's crazy to me that Twitter, Reddit and Facebook all cut off API access and people just went quiet on it. There was noise and complaints but no solutions. Usually when stuff like this gets locked down a counterculture shows up around it. Workarounds, open alternatives, people who make it their thing to keep it open. Like file sharing or ad blockers.

That didn't really happen this time and I can't figure out why. With all the propaganda and fake stuff out there right now, wouldn't being able to see what's spreading be important to understand? And isn't them shutting it down a pretty large signal that it is important?

Maybe there's a boring explanation I'm missing. But the part that gets me is the other possibility, that there's some kind of suppression force we might not even be aware of.

Is that terrifying to anyone else or am I overthinking it? Just curious what people who were around for it think.

Bonus points for examples from English and bonus points for any personal stories.

Linus and Lucy by Vince Guaraldi. If you've ever watched a Peanuts cartoon, you've heard it, but have you ever listened to the whole thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zypc_LhnM

there are 2 winners in my viewpoint: Peertube and Mastodon

While I'm taking a break from gaming (at least six months), I don't want my 3080 to sit unused. If you know of other projects that are both ethical and sustainable, please do share!

I'm on the middle of my CS Degree, and seems that every assignment I need to use a LLM, or is because short deadlines or the people in your group use LLM and without critical thinking of it. Some teachers seems to be fine with that, however my experience is that we make complex essays and complex class diagrams, a lot of code, however no one seems to understand or learn form what they are making and wend defending their work only can do it by reading a resume the LLM made, that make me hopeless and unmotivated. I what is yours experience and opinions on this matter?

P.S. Sorry for any grammar error with English, is not my main language. About AI I am not fully against AI. The Local LLM installed on my machine is helpful for a few things, but the amount that we are using on CS seems too much.

Moment of clarity? Embarrassed? Lost control of an antagonistic agenda?

I am in a rare position (for me) to finally get my hands on a switch 2.

I really want to play the zelda remake on the hardware it was designed for, Hookshot has been fantastic, but I want the physical game. also, I will need a switch 2 for the upcoming pokemon games.

so I'm gonna bite the bullet, and have saved up for a good while (laughably low income) but I am at a crossroads.

Do I buy a new in box switch 2, or a cheaper used one that is on older firmware that I could jailbreak?

I have always been one of those guys, forcing hardware to do things it was never designed to do, but this is almost 6 months worth of saving, and I usually experiment on hardware that gets donated to me. I have never bought parts for a project.

So, Lemmy, Am I being stupid in my sidequest of having a jailbroken switch? should I just bow to nintendo and play by their rules for the "best" experience? or is it worth it to risk having a jailbroken switch 2 so I have full control over the system? (moving saves, dumping roms, mig card)

Edit: bought the retail one, no buyers remorse yet, thank you all for your insights

Here's an analogy: Imagine your favorite restaurant that you go quite often. It's a simple place to have a nice meal & relax in. But it often feel like you're one of the few people who knows about the place. So you begin to tell your friends & family, and then they begin to tell more people. And this restaurant becomes more & more well known & gets more customers. Happy ending, right? However, getting a table begins to get harder, the place has more rules that they didn't have before, the food isn't as good as it used to be, and it's often too crowded to even relax while enjoying a meal. The place you once go to for a simple lunch, becomes a hassle to go to.

That's the analogy I wanted to go with to explain what I'm asking.

As for my real answer: Going to Little Tokyo & a shabu shabu place around my county.

Back in High School, I used to save up my allowance to take train to Little Tokyo. I would often go shopping for Gunpla & Japanese snacks, and then stop by my usual Ramen spot (I usually alternate between Mr. Ramen & Kouraku) before coming back. However, years later, Little Tokyo (let alone the train I take to get there) became way more crowded. The model kit shop I used to go to (Jungle), began enforcing a line policy, Manraku & Nijiya Market got more packed, and I often felt like stuffed sardines whenever I walked around the Japanese Plaza. Both my favorite Ramen spots remained fine though. Otherwise, I don't go as often as I used too, because it's usually packed (that and I'm often broke)

As for that Shabu Shabu place I talked about, I often go there back in college. Back then, it was only $30 on the weekdays. And for that, I would get a choice of 2 meats, a drink, and access to the buffet. But once more people came, they constantly change the rules. Weekdays now only included Mon-Thurs, Friday being treated like the weekend (which would cost $40) and then you would have to pay for your own drink separately. Luckily, it isn't as bad as Little Tokyo, but it's such a shame for the constant changes

Many of us have heard the deprecating characterizations of many countries. Like Putin described the UK as an "insignificant little Island", and Russia has been characterized as a "mob run gas station" or Trump calling El Salvador, Haiti and African countries as "shithole countries".

Let's flip things around for a bit of fun. After a heavy night of drinking with your country's head of tourism, you have one shot to give your best self-depricating characterization of your country for a new border sign.

I'll go first:

Welcome to Canada - Enjoy world class sexual assault in sport -- Come and play!