herrvogel

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[–] herrvogel 3 points 7 months ago (8 children)
[–] herrvogel 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

He could just pick up the npc. Not like he's never been shown to accelerate mere mortal fleshbags to relativistic speeds almost instantaneously.

[–] herrvogel 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That looks like a cable. Headphones or charging or, at this day and age, both.

[–] herrvogel 4 points 7 months ago

We're all heat engines on this blessed day if you broaden the definition enough.

[–] herrvogel 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but those heat engines don't rely on spinning things inside a magnetic field. Heat on one side, less heat on the other side, and you have current. No motors.

[–] herrvogel 9 points 8 months ago

Maybe there are "peak seasons" where everyone rushes onto the server to get something done hours before a national deadline or something? No appreciable traffic 50 weeks of the year year, but total chaos in the remaining two. Not an uncommon thing for certain offices and agencies.

[–] herrvogel 3 points 8 months ago

Yes. Your boss needs to be able to double click on an email attachment otherwise it's like you never even did anything.

[–] herrvogel 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The fact that akp's historically very loyal base decided not to vote is in itself a huge gain though. That means that their trust and loyalty is going away, that means akp's grip over the nation is seriously wavering. And now the opposition is stronger than they've been for 2 decades, and they have a few years until the next election to use their newly increased power and influence to further chip away at that trust and loyalty.

[–] herrvogel 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The opposition gained control of a shit ton of critical territory. Last term for example, the mayor of Istanbul was opposition but the city parliament was not. This time it's both opposition. A lot of large municipalities that used to belong to akp have now switched as well. That's quite a lot of resources taken away from Erdoğan, which is a definite gain for the opposition no matter how you choose to look at it.

[–] herrvogel 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Trying to set up home assistant for my parents' house, I started seeing the point of all the cloud stuff. My dad wants to have home automation but he completely lacks the technical skills to run and maintain a home assistant instance and he's completely unwilling to learn. Even after I've done all the difficult parts for him, he always manages to have trouble. The majority of those troubles could be avoided with a cloud managed service. I'm guessing there are way more people like my dad than there are who could be assed with setting up a 100% local smart home. Because that does require more than a little bit of technical inclination.

[–] herrvogel 4 points 8 months ago

Even that might not be enough soon. I know some manufacturers are testing the waters with some new ways of smuggling your data out, where your disconnected smart TV its wireless communication hardware to talk to another nearby smart thing, say your neighbor's smart fridge that has been allowed to connect to the internet, and gets it to send your data. Shady as fuck. If that tech becomes common, there will simply be no way to stop your data from getting out without opening your smart shit up to physically take their wireless equipment offline.

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