Wouldn’t it be wise to reduce our output, rather than pump something else into the atmosphere?
Why not both?
Readit NewsI get 5-10 robo calls a day, can’t blame anyone
Start answering them, tell the robot the right things to talk to a human, and say this:
“You have made an unsolicited call to a cell phone. Per federal law, you are required to tell me the NAME and ADDRESS of your company so I can sue you. Do so now.”
No idea if any of that is true, but my scam call rates have dropped to less than 1/mo.
I don't think its just teenagers. Unless I know the number or am expecting a call, I don't pickup either. Too many scam calls or sales calls.
I answer every call, and if it’s a scammer I talk to them as long as possible. They hate it. Haven’t gotten a scam call in months. I’m sure I’ve spent less time total this year dealing with spam calls by answering them vs. not.
rogerrogerr commented on Southwest Is Changing Its Rules for Plus-Size Passengers nytimes.com/2025/08/22/tr... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
I’d like to see airlines charge for carryons and allow checked bags for free.
Carryons are by far the best experience for a passenger - your bag is there with you and you don’t have to arrive at the airport early, nor wait around at baggage claim. All business and frequent travelers would pay extra for this.
Meanwhile, carryons are worse for everyone else, and for the airline! They massively slow down the boarding and deboarding process while you wait for people to heft their massive suitcases up into the bins.
Fewer carryons means faster turnarounds which means more profit.
Thank you for listening to my talk.
Airlines make a ton of money on cargo (those planes flying with one or two people on them during Covid? Full of paying cargo). It’s somewhere around 10% of revenue, depending on who you ask.
Carryons use space in the top half of the tube; checked bags use space in the bottom half of the tube where they’d much rather put a $10k pallet of stuff than 25 checked bags.
Oh darn, I thought they'd gotten Arch running on an M1 but they actually switched to a ThinkBook.
I somewhat regret my expensive switch from Linux to MacOS. MacOS is just so weird, it doesn't make any sense to me. For the first time in my life I feel like some tech-illiterate grandpa trying to figure out how to make his blasted computer do stuff.
Curious, what is it that doesn’t make sense?
rogerrogerr commented on How does the US use water? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/juliangamble
Absolutely, not to mention the difficulty people have in grasping the difference between a billion and a trillion.
What’s the difference between a million and a billion? A billion.
rogerrogerr commented on How to free up and automatically manage disk space for WSL freecodecamp.org/news/how... · Posted by u/twilight-code
I'm done with WSL. It just makes life too hard, dual disk is a problem, two network endpoints two firewalls, two different hypervisors you can choose from where some things expect one some the other.
I used to think a windows laptop would be better for hardware management, maybe it is but I just gave up and installed Linux. My life is so much easier.
Wish there was a good option in corporate environments where I can’t just install Linux.
rogerrogerr commented on Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors thedrive.com/news/modern-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
What fun is that?
That being said, "speed culture" varies a lot from state to state. Where I live it's assumed and expected that you will speed, and in other areas you can get a ticket for going 1 over.
The legal and cultural ambiguity means that someone who is unsure of the real, enforced, culturally-accepted speed limit may want to use a radar detector.
Yup, in Idaho you’re pretty much expected to do +5. I swear they figure out the proper speed and subtract five from it. Going the speed limit will get you run over.
rogerrogerr commented on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/whataguy
"Literally stop existing"? Having broken links and notifying everyone when a migration happens is for sure a hassle, but migrating a git repo is the easiest thing in the world.
That's kinda the whole point of a distributed VCS.
Migrating the repo is easy, migrating issues and MRs and whatever other ancillary features you’re using is not.
It seems like everyone who drives one is also incapable of turning their steering wheel when they blunder out of a parking lot into a street, obstructing two lanes at 3mph.