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Cake day: June 30th, 2023
  • AbraNidoran@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco.
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    27 days ago

    That SMART acronym is for internal computer drives, has been in use since about 1995, and is a wonderful thing - the drive keeps track of how many errors it encounters reading, how many bad sectors on the drive, how many hours it’s been powered on, and a whole bunch of other stats.

    And then, you, the user (/sysadmin) can, while sitting at the computer, get a report of all these stats and notice if the drive is starting to fail so you can plan a replacement instead of it just dying unexpectedly.

    Someone might have made an acronym for “smart” light bulbs, but it would be completely unrelated to the internal computer drive acronym.

  • AbraNidoran@beehaw.orgtoPolitics@beehaw.org•Harris vs. Trump spoiler’s supporter says the quiet part out loud
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    4 months ago

    Nah, the problem is the fascists.

    The democrats are in a tough position. If they did come out hard against the actions of the IDF then the Trump campaign would pounce on that.

    Israel has positioned itself so strongly in people’s minds as the-same-as-Jewish that large sections of the democratic base would be uncomfortable voting for “the anti-israel party”.

    (not to mention all the actual Jew-hating groups out there who would 100% take the opportunity to do horiffic hate crimes and claim they were just supporting the Dems)

    Ugh, politics sucks.

    Keep working on harm reduction, y’all, in any way you have energy for ❤️

  • AbraNidoran@beehaw.orgtoPolitics@beehaw.org•Harris vs. Trump spoiler’s supporter says the quiet part out loud
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    4 months ago

    I’m not a US citizen, but I know people who are, and they’re mostly just pissed and fed up with democrats funding fascism and genocide.

    I know, it’s the US, this shouldn’t be surprising, the opposite would be more surprising, but in this particular case it hits their family.

    It’s like: option 1, your family is murdered, but no one in this country is affected by it, so no one cares (they sure haven’t cared much for the past 70-whatever years) Option 2, your family is still murdered, but maybe rise of overt fascism in this country will compel people to take action?

    Anyways, I’ve obviously spent a lot of energy trying to understand their perspective (I’m not going to change anyone’s mind), so I’m just sharing.