Preflight_Tomato

joined 11 months ago
[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Fun fact: decibels are exponential; A 180 db sound would be the loudest thing ever recorded (the krakatoa volcano was 172) and after 194 db it ceases to be sound and becomes a shockwave.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you mean abominations? lol.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Also isn’t LoRa proprietary/patent encumbered?

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I’ve noticed that too. Is it related to covid you think? As in it was like this before and now we’re returning to normal progression as people rebuild social connections and lose time. Or is it that the whole dev economy is changing with layoffs and such that devs are leaving the industry altogether? Or something else even?

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
  • gmail you can forward all mail to another account.
  • Youtube, you could try following your subscriptions via RSS/ATOM feed reader. It's honestly just like regular YT but without the recommendation engine.
[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Fair. I just learned about and like PeerTube so far (activitypub federated video hosting), but it's has even more infantile adoption than Lemmy does. I don't know that anyone I follow on youtube posts there, and if they do I don't know how to find them.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the panic around analog clocks comes from the scenario where you have to explain what clockwise and counterclockwise is. I have personally seen someone eventually removed from a workgroup because they couldn't understand it.

Not that analog clocks matter, but that was an easy way to teach direction in cylindrical coordinates. What can we use now for that?

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The choice paralysis is real. I chose lemm.ee because it was easy to type into the address bar, and I've stuck around because the admin seems pretty level-headed.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Idk if you can transfer likes comments and posts, but you can go to your old account from a new one and star everything with the new account pretty easily. So that at least can transfer.

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Ok, that's what I'll do. Thanks so much for the info! 😁

 

I'd like to store/seed important data (wikipedia, gutenberg, etc.), and read recently that it would be a good idea to store torrent files long-term. My questions are:

  1. Is it better to store torrent files or magnet links?
  2. Will a given magnet link retrieve the exact same .torrent file every initiation?
  3. Is storage of these files/links a good idea (especially if I have the files)?

This question is really about whether magnet links or torrent files are better to store long term, with a sanity check that this is something that should be done.

I've read these two StackExchange posts which were very helpful, and am looking to get more technical opinions and info:

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Welcome! Check out the communities list for some topics you may be interested in.

And if you see an inactive community you like, make a post/comment! Be the growth!

[–] Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Most just don’t know how to properly file their W-4 to not have taxes withheld in the first place.

How do you do this? How do you calculate what to personally withhold and pay? Is it simply calculating through the income tax?

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