On the computer that still recognizes it, get all of your data off of it NOW. Now is one of those times where you need to do a full and complete backup before proceeding.

Drivers are not going to affect something in this manner.

You have a failing drive, and something in your friends computer (a stronger 3v3 Line, etc) is causing it to be able to attach. Do not trust this drive for anything important any longer. Get everything off of it immediately.

In fact, prioritize your data extraction. Start with the most important things to you; because the drive could die at any moment. It could also die 2 years from now. But this is almost surely signs of a hardware failure, and you need to warranty it as soon as you get your data off.

I really hate how many people haven’t really picked up or understood the profound difference that gyro aiming makes for controller players.

Tell me you aren’t really falling for this crap. Because this is saaaaad. Every article from this site reads like a 10 year old making fun of his bully in a private journal.

Get the ones with the strip LEDs that look like they’re trying to emulate a glowing tungsten filament. I can’t remember where I got the information; it was like the Technology Connections YouTube channel or something, but I remember them saying that since they put the LED lights in series on those bulbs, they have a much higher voltage requirement to drive them, and much less circuitry is needed. It’s the circuitry that burns out, and many of these filament-style LED lights literally only have a resistor as their main component.

I’ve swapped to these kinds of LEDs like…5 years ago, and haven’t had one burn out yet. Probably have like…15 of them across the entire house.

https://youtu.be/fsIFxyOLJXM?si=4wz0wa355Wd9gkUP&t=1389 – YEP – Found the advice. Starts at 23:09 BigCliveDotCom also says the same in his episode about Dubai Lamps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klaJqofCsu4

Throw it in my pocket with my keys and my spare pocket sand. It’ll be destroyed.

In this world, we obey the law of thermodynamics. I’d love to know how this 3 bottles of water is “consumed”. Because more than likely, the water is simply being used for cooling, which doesn’t consume it at all, it just makes it warmer.

because fuck people who link paywalled sites

If there’s one thing Americans have in common with much of the developed world, it’s that they’re frustrated by the rising cost of housing. But there are a few outliers. In Japan, for example, most people are actually quite satisfied with housing costs.

That’s according to Gallup’s annual World Poll, which surveyed more than 37,000 people across 38 OECD countries between April 2023 and January 2024. The survey asked respondents whether they were satisfied or dissatisfied with 11 topics, including their standard of living, opportunities to meet people, the quality of healthcare, and the availability of “good, affordable housing” in their area.

Housing stood out as the topic where respondents were the most frustrated, according to a Financial Times analysis. The Gallup data shows that in 24 of the 38 countries, respondents were more likely to be dissatisfied than satisfied with the quality and cost of housing.

Israel, Turkey, Slovenia, and Portugal ranked last in housing satisfaction. The United States was tied for No. 21, with 39% of the more than 1,000 respondents saying they were satisfied, down from 61% in 2020 and 71% in 2013.

The only country in which more than 70% of respondents were satisfied with the availability of “good, affordable housing” was Japan.

In recent years, rising rents and home prices driven by a severe housing shortage — coupled with elevated mortgage rates — have caused Americans’ housing costs to soar to near-record levels of unaffordability. In response, politicians have pointed to various solutions for bringing down housing costs, including building more homes, cracking down on abusive landlords who use algorithms to collude with each other to jack up the rent, and aiding first-time homebuyers.

To be sure, solving a decades-old housing shortage will take a multi-pronged approach, experts say, including cutting red tape that limits construction.

Some experts have pointed to Japan, where housing costs are lower than peer countries, as a potential model for solutions the US could adopt. While Japan’s abundance of housing isn’t entirely a positive story, when it comes to Tokyo, housing experts say there are many lessons the US could learn from its ally. Why Japan doesn’t have as severe of a housing crisis as the US

Japan is something of an outlier when it comes to housing affordability for a few major reasons: population decline and deregulated, standardized land-use policies.

Japan’s low birthrates and restrictive immigration policies mean its population has been shrinking for decades, which has left about 10 million homes vacant across the country. That falling demand, of course, means lower home prices and rents. At the same time, the country’s population is becoming even more concentrated in its big cities. Many small towns and villages are at risk of becoming abandoned ghost towns.

Tokyo is the exception. The city’s metro area is home to about a third of Japan’s population, and it’s growing. But the megacity has managed to keep housing quite affordable, as Business Insider reported last year, in part by consistently building a ton of new housing.

Unlike many other industrialized countries, Japan’s national government controls its land-use laws. This means zoning regulations and other rules that determine what gets built where are relatively simple, consistent, and not subject to much community pushback. Because local elected officials don’t have control over zoning, they can’t be swayed by their constituents’ NIMBYism — the anti-development “Not In My Backyard” thinking — which so often stifles development in the US.

Those uniform, national zoning regulations tend to allow for more mixed-use neighborhoods, denser and more multi-family housing, along with faster and cheaper construction. Additionally, developers aren’t held back by burdensome regulatory processes that slow down construction and inflate costs. It helps that most Tokyo residents don’t own cars, so parking doesn’t increase the price of housing as much as it does in the US.

Japan’s penchant for building is also born of necessity. The country is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes, which means that newer homes that abide by safer building codes are more attractive. While American homes tend to appreciate over time and are thus seen as key investments, Japanese homes tend to depreciate as they age and become non-compliant with building codes. This means Japanese homeowners aren’t as invested in keeping supply low and home prices high.

So what, if anything, might the US learn from Japan?

Birthrates in the US have steadily declined over the past two decades, and unless immigration makes up the gap, the country’s population could grow more slowly in the decades to come and potentially decline later this century.

While a population slowdown could help moderate housing costs, some experts believe a substantial population decline would have big economic consequences in the long run. A significant drop in immigration would also hurt the housing sector, economists say, as immigrants make up a disproportionate number of US construction workers.

But the US could learn a lot from Tokyo’s approach to building. While housing policy is largely controlled by states and local governments in the US, housing experts say the federal government should do more to incentivize construction, while simultaneously subsidizing lower-income renters and homebuyers. And American states and cities could adopt looser land-use laws that facilitate the kind of rapid home construction they desperately need.

Yeah, see that’s the kicker. Calling this “computer nerd stuff” just gives away your real thinking on the matter. My high school daughters use this to finish their essay work quickly, and they don’t really know jack about computers.

You’re right that old people are bailing - they tend to. They’re ignorant, they don’t like to learn new and better ways of doing things, they’ve raped our economy and expect everything to be done for them. People who embrace this stuff will simply run circles around those who don’t. That’s fine. Luddites exist in every society.

So you got the wrong information about an app once. When a GPT is scoring higher than 97% of human test takers on the SAT and other standardized testing - what does that tell you about average human intelligence?

The thing about GPTs is that they are just word predictors. Lots of time when asked super specific questions about small subjects that people aren’t talking about - yeah - they’ll hallucinate. But they’re really good at condensing, categorizing, and regurgitating a wide range of topics quickly; which is amazing for most people.

Holy BALLS are you getting a lot of garbage answers here.

Have you seen all the other things that generative AI can do? From bone-rigging 3D models, to animations recreated from a simple video, recreations of voices, art created from people without the talent for it. Many times these generative AIs are very quick at creating boilerplate that only needs some basic tweaks to make it correct. This speeds up production work 100 fold in a lot of cases.

Plenty of simple answers are correct, breaking entrenched monopolies like Google from search, I’ve even had these GPTs take input text and summarize it quickly - at different granularity for quick skimming. There’s a lot of things that can be worthwhile out of these AIs. They can speed up workflows significantly.

This is the kind of shit I’ve seen all my life. I’ve learned damn well that people are animals deep down inside and will never, ever, meaningfully change.

http://www.pbnation.com – They have shit still up on that forum from 30 years ago. It’s wild.

It’s the internet - so unless you’re under Texas’ jurisdiction, then it’s likely going to just simply be ignored. Lemmy doesn’t have an interest in making money in Texas or anything, so it’s not like they can go after bank accounts, or otherwise retaliate in any manner other than blocking Lemmy in Texas…so…nothing lost.

Cats are carnivores. It’s as simple as that.

The problem with that, is you can find a scientific study that will give you almost any result you want. Scientific studies exist at all ends of the spectrum, contradicting each other constantly. It’s rather hard to actually get unbiased information today. Additionally, it’s pretty common knowledge that cats eat meat in the wild; no scientific reviews needed for that one.

Yeah, it was definitely Animal abuse. Switching carnivorous animals to plant-diets to satisfy their humanitarian urges, is straight up abuse.

When I argued sanely over there I was basically just called a carnal apologist and banned. Shit was wild. Glad Lemmy picked up this stance; because what they were advocating was entirely wrong.

My younger self would be impressed with how much I know about circuit design and repair. My older self knows I could have done so much better if I had just applied myself instead of getting distracted by women.

If you don’t have kids, get out. If your wife isn’t sleeping with you, isn’t supportive of you, then what the fuck is she other than a roommate at this point? Don’t sunk-cost fallacy this thing - You had 10 years to learn what not to do. You don’t want her to sleep with other men, and she clearly wants to. It’s destroying you, and she sounds like she’s already done with the relationship.

You’re supposed to be there for each other. That’s clearly not happening. You’re being taken advantage of, and she’s gonna end up getting pregnant with some other dude’s kid, and rely on you for the paycheck. I’ve seen it a million times.

You said you’ve been together for a decade, and it’s been sexless for 6 years. The relationship has been over for that long. You had a 4 year long marriage, we all make mistakes, but if you keep putting your energy into this you WILL likely end up in psych.

My business partner was in a similar situation, luckily he hadn’t gotten married yet. He’s been much happier after ending that relationship, and managed to find a woman that seems to care a lot about him and his needs, just as much as he cares about hers.

I regularly implement “Never attribute to malice, what could easily explained by stupidity”. It doesn’t sound like it was an “ooops, I accidentally banned this person!” type of situation.

Givesome pointed out that it looks like their mod log is full of bans of people who aren’t subscribed in the first place.

That’s what you get when you allow moderators to see what people up/downvote. Unfortunately, this is simply human behavior - and you have to implement things with the expectation that they are going to be abused.