AllOutOfBubbleGum

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Same. Threw what extra money I had into some reliable stocks. Did the same thing during Covid too, and it worked out pretty well for me. It feels a bit like I'm a crisis vampire, but I just don't want to be working anymore when I hit 60.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It hides the problem or else it gets the hose again

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'd watch this. Not an anime fan, but I bet Simon Pegg would nail the comedy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Ah, interesting. Had no idea. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Interesting. I see bicycle pedals and a chain. Seems it'd function a bit similar to modern e-bikes.

 

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-dark-energy-rattling-view-universe.html

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the best place to post something like this, but here we go. The above link is of new findings from DESI (the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) that's been written about by a handful of news outlets this week, and the TL;DR is that the expansion of the universe might not be as consistent as previously thought.

My question is: Could it be possible for the overall universe to only look like it's expanding because the expansion is currently happening within our visible universe? And that in other portions of the universe, far outside of our visible universe, it might be stationary, or even contracting?

To put it another way, could it be possible that the universe as a whole is rippling or oscillating, maybe due to the effects of the big bang, and that our visible universe is such a tiny spec, that from our perspective it only appears that the entire universe is expanding?

I've watched a number of talks where astrophysicists have said that the big bang didn't start from a single point and expand outward like it's usually depicted, but that it happened everywhere all at once. So, from my limited understanding, it doesn't seem like that would contradict what we see from the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

Am I way off base here? Or is this one of those questions that simply can't be currently answered?

Thanks in advance.

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

For me personally, I think it might be for the best that a portion of them can't be bothered. I've watched the quality of Reddit posts and comments erode over the past decade or so. I think one reason is from the user base trending younger. Lemmy feels a bit more like what Reddit was back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Come on, this isn't Riyadh. They're not gonna saw your hands off, all right? The worst they can do is put you for a couple of months into a while collar, minimum security resort!

 
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was that kid in my high school years. Teachers were usually pretty cool about it, like they already understood.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Dude, no offense, but that water mark message at the bottom is so silly. There's gotta be better services out there that don't add their own messages. Have you considered just adding your water mark manually with photo editing software? Gimp is free and doesn't take much effort to learn for what you're doing with it. Also, if it's a matter of batch processing, Gimp has a plugin called Bimp that should let you automatically add your water mark to whole collections of images in one go. In any case, not trying to offend. Just hoping this is helpful.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Samba daemon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Some fast food places work a bit like this in the sense that you tell them how many meat patties you want. It doesn't change the diameter, but affects the height a fair amount.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I would say not much. If it's your own personal LAN, and only your devices are on it, and you're not hosting super sensitive data, then I wouldn't personally be worried. Just depends on your risk acceptance.

Edit: But if you are hosting sensitive data on an untrusted network, then definitely require a user with a strong password. Also, SMB3 and higher supports encryption (both in Windows and Samba for Linux). Encryption isn't enabled by default, though. So keep that in mind. Easy to setup on both Windows and Linux.

 

I go to investigate, and they had managed to plug the HDMI cable of one monitor into the other monitor.

 

Dunno if there are any anchovy lovers here, but these were excellent.

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