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  • yes the whole nation is in jeopardy because some warmongers arent getting their promotions

    The whole nation is in jeopardy because these leadership positions are being held open until Trump is reelected in a rework of the Merrick Garland SC nomination. Which should be terrifying. Jan 6 failed in part because some of the military top brass (Miley) put oath before Trump.

    Read up on Project 2025 if you haven’t. These “unconnected events” are anything but. It’s a strategy.





  • I expect today there’s a conversation going on between Terren, Yvonne and Linus:

    "Linus, you need to decide if you want to be the public face and final authority of LMG, or if you want to be the owner of a successful business that you occasionally participate in with limited official interactions outside the board level.

    If the company continues to have crisis moments and negative PR events on the scale we’ve had the past few days, you will be the owner of nothing but debt and depreciation. And frankly, I’m not going to stay here and ride the company down into disaster. You’re the owner, if you want to continue to run the company as it has been ultimately it’s your right but I will be stepping away. I implore you to make the right decision not just for yourself but all the employees at LMG who depend on their income from working here."


  • So, I am an engineer/scientist. Products that I have developed/contributed to development are used by billions of people. Most likely you, the reader of this comment are using it right now, because some of the products I worked on are telecom products, that are widely used to transfer information.

    You’re an employee, actors are (generally) independent contractors so the comparison breaks down. Most people who don’t understand the situation have been making this comparison.

    The closer analogy for you would be if you, as an independent engineer, created a library that Oracle licensed instead of bought. Something they are bundling into their latest database server.

    Should you, as a developer, take less per unit because Oracle starts selling through a new channel? Say the Windows app store instead of through their website directly?

    I mean, it’s ok if you feel like that’s ok but I don’t think most people would agree with you when they really understand what’s going on.

    The unions gave the studios a sweetheart deal in the infancy of streaming so that it wouldn’t smother in the crib. Now that it’s profitable, don’t the artists and writers deserve the same level of compensation for streaming as they get through other channels? Not more, just the same.








  • OP, couple things:

    The trigger for that fan on signal is going to be heat, not wattage. Granted those things usually go hand in hand but there are a handful of reasons that could be responsible for the behavior you’re seeing:

    • Your PC is exhibiting an unusually high draw on one depreciated rail and pushing that part of the PSU near it’s limit. Legacy components can be good for this, -12V is a great example of a depreciated power supply voltage.

    • You’re seeing heat from something else soaking into the PSU. GPU is a good internal example. If you’re an audiophile, headphone amp is a good external one especially if it’s sitting on the tower.

    • PSUs are designed to allow other case ventilation to pass through them for cooling. You’ve probably got another non-PSU cooling issue - clogged filter, dead or dying fan, negative pressure.

    Lastly, it’s hard for us to say whether that power draw is appropriate without knowing more about your PC. In general, for a desktop with a dedicated GPU it’s in the ballpark but again hard to nail down specifics. It’s a big ballpark. Things like what idle states are supported and enabled can easily account for 5W.


  • Real talk: those lenses aren’t worth basing your whole buying decision on.

    To answer the question you asked, the smallest camera Canon ever made in EF mount is the Rebel SL series. It’s a little pricey for its features even second hand. The EOS 800D (Rebel T7i) is only slightly bigger, has a much better low light AF system and is generally available for less.

    My recommendation though would be to sell those lenses and get something more in line with your photography goals. Do you really want interchangeable lenses? Because you can get prosumer point and clicks with better quality integrated lenses, and ditching the whole mounting system saves a ton of weight and space.

    If you want interchangeable lenses, look at something mirrorless. Canon, Sony, Panasonic. Find a good lens or three and base your body purchase around that. If your lens inventory value isn’t 5-10x the value of your body, you probably would have been better off with a point and shoot.

    On that side, look at the Sony DSC-RX100 series. And pay attention to the lens. At some point in the series, Sony switched from a 24-70 to a 28-200; if you’re looking at an old enough model that it’s got the 24-70, Sony makes a brand new “budget” model called the ZV-1 that’s basically an updated older RX100.


  • I actually took the other side of this argument when Lemmy was ramping up, that the concept of Federation needed to change to make the system more accessible to non-technical users. And I was told that my idea (federating the communities) was counter to the freedom that Lemmy was designed around.

    It can’t be both ways. It’s a cathedral, or it’s a bazaar. But if it’s a bazaar then we have to deal with the reality that sometimes people beat us to the places we want and have different ideas for what they should be.

    Nothing is stopping you from starting worldpolitics, globalpolitics, politics2 or politics on another instance.