Good thing more and more people are choosing cremation these days.

I had active subterranean termites a couple of years ago which caused me to do a full bathroom remodel. 🫠 It turned out that they had come up through a crack in the slab. I did tons of research and ended up doing DIY pest control (since I didn’t have a termite control contract/warranty). I sourced all of my termiticide from domyown, which included treating the active infestation directly with termidor (and then leaving them alone for 2-3 months to ensure they were poisoned - note that they’ll move to another part of your house if disturbed too much), trenching and treating around the foundation, installing a termite bait system outside, and finally spraying the studs with boracare (which lasts around 30 years).

I have trauma over that shit, luckily my studs weren’t eaten much as they preferred the wood flooring.

jfc, why are you so angry?

While partially true, we have known that greenhouse gasses contributed to climate change since the 19th century:

In the late 19th century, scientists first argued that human emissions of greenhouse gases could change Earth’s energy balance and climate. The existence of the greenhouse effect, while not named as such, was proposed as early as 1824 by Joseph Fourier. The argument and the evidence were further strengthened by Claude Pouillet in 1827 and 1838. In 1856 Eunice Newton Foote demonstrated that the warming effect of the sun is greater for air with water vapour than for dry air, and the effect is even greater with carbon dioxide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_science

It is true, however, that our knowledge greatly increased in the 1960s and 70s.

The art of the deal.

I really dislike the name “Nothing”.

this combo fucks me up constantly

when we are interacting with AI our brains literally can not tell the difference between human interaction and AI interaction

I can certainly tell, at least a lot of the time. I won’t say all of the time, but LLMs are squarely in uncanny valley territory for me. Most of what they generate seems slightly off, in one way or another.

Eh, I at least partially disagree. I’ve noticed some of the modern models (such as Claude 4.0) have started to hallucinate more than previous models. I know you’re talking about image generation, but still. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but maybe it’s cause the models are beginning to consume their own slop.

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You can pry my vim and nano from my cold, dead hands!

^(I use an ide sometimes)^

So are the right wing nutjobs going to continue to blame “cloud seeding” now that it’s affecting blue states?

But I also don’t want to visit (and contribute any tax dollars), especially as a trans person.

I’m not alone! My local coffee stand baristas have an insane memory and know all of the regulars by name. I could never have that kind of memory (likely attributed to decades of smoking the devil’s lettuce)

The thing is, those things you listed can be found in many other places that aren’t Texas, at least in the US. I’d rather live in those places rather than Texas.

It’s going to take a long while for them to come back especially since they plan on laying off a huge amount of their engineers.

billions?? I don’t think you have any idea of how data recovery works. Yes, it wouldn’t be cheap, but it would not even be in the millions. It likely wouldn’t even break into the hundreds of thousands. And you’d likely get much more than a kilobyte. It doesn’t matter that you had a head crash, the data is still on the platters. Sure, some will likely be corrupt, but I think you’re vastly underestimating modern data recovery services.

Oh, I already have an OPNsense router, and my wifi router is running Merlin, so I’m all set there. I was just curious if the situation with Netgear has improved literally at all.

I like Herkimer from Seattle, because it’s great quality and a local (to me) business.

I’ve had nothing but trouble with Netgear previously. Have they improved at all over the past 3 or so years?