“Kei modernized their truck”.

Kei is a style of vehicle. This is like saying, “pickups modernized their truck”. So let’s try and understand what this misguided individual meant.

“The small vehicle that I saw had poor crash handling”. Perhaps, but that’s going to be on the individual vehicle, not a class, in the same way some small vehicles handle really well, and some fall over (remember the Mercedes A class, anyone?)

“The style of vehicle that is categorised by kei is impossible to secure, and all of them score zero”. I’d love to see evidence of this, if you’ve got any. A modern kei-style car, the Honda E 2020 has a euro NCAP 4* rating - not the best, but not zero, and that’s just the first one I found.

Sadly, kei trucks are not commonly for sale in the UK or US, so I can’t find ratings for them. There’s no reason they can’t be made as safe as other small vehicles, only a market preference for larger vehicles.

I’ve done that soul sucking job… You’re a saint. And I love those sorts of conversations.

I use Dashlane… It just handles all the user side of all of those for me, covering 2FA with the app/passkey nicely.

I’m with you, 100%. I haven’t read Shepherd’s Crown either, same reason.

GNU PTerry. Just got both biographical books for fathers day. I entirely expect to be crushed, given how big a part of growing up his books were to me, and how devastated I was to watch his decline and eventual passing…

I’ve hardly been able to read his books since, which is awful.

No, that’s fair. Coffee at pressure is about 93 - 95°C… No idea for drip/french press/v60 etc. as I don’t use those For Aeropress, I’d wait until the kettle stopped making noise, that seemed to be a good balance without burning the oils.

Coffee isn’t a tea, as you don’t boil it. If you boil it, you burn the coffee! That’s an extraction - you can steep it, but it’s better if you just push the water through at high pressure (which will royally screw up a tea).

Ah, pedantry in pedantry. So - now for Lemmy to tell me what I’ve gotten wrong :⁠-⁠D

Challenger disaster

Ah cool, no worries. Hard to tell sometimes, and it’s better to admit you’re one of today’s 10,000 than be forever dumb :⁠-⁠D

Ok, I’m gonna guess I got whooshed by not knowing the source material of your response gif

Caught a cold - has ice in her hand.

If the Queen was still alive, I’d have had to eviscerate you for that.

But nobody cares about Jug Ears.

According to the man(8) page, it will avoid touching any blocks that have the chattr -f flag set, which is XSR_XFLAGS_NODEFRAG… So I think if the docs are still accurate to the code, yes.

A lot of ifs in that assumption.

I understood that XFS automatically mounted SSD’s with XFS_XFLAG_NODEFRAG set? Is this not the case?

That’s because the drive was written to its limits; the defrag runs a TRIM command that safely releases and resets empty sectors. Random reads and sequential reads /on clean drives that are regularly TRIMmed/ are within random variance of each other.

Source: ran large scale data collection for a data centre when SSDs were relatively new to the company so focused a lot on it, plus lots of data from various sectors since.

I always remember that it’s eXtract Ze File, tar -xzf… But I’ll be honest, I’ve not used it in years and years

Point, well made.

Curse you autocorrect!

So that’s a no, because you didn’t overanalyze you’re response to that question, leading to me having to do it for you and therefore failing your implied social contract.

“just just” - another ohnosecond moment.

There was a related one where they put bananas (or other tasty treats) in an enclosure, just out of reach, with a group of 5 or 6 primates. Every time they went to get it, they sprayed them all with water or did something else to prevent them taking it. Eventually they stopped trying. Then, they’d rotate out one, and the new individual would go for the treat, and the others would then stop them, sometimes violently (so they wouldn’t all be punushed). The new individual soon stopped doing this. Then they rotate out ALL the primates, one at a time. Soon, they group is attacking newcomers, stopping them from doing stuff without actually knowing why they’re being stopped, just… “This is the way we’ve always done it.”

I know that there’s only one individual in this picture, so it’s not a directly related study, but it’s one that I’ve always thought about in interactions at work. Always ask “why” when people tell you things are done a particular way. Sometimes, it’s because the rules are written in blood - there’s a real reason, to stop you being stupid, hurting yourself or others. Sometimes, it’s because there was an issue in the past, but we’ve moved past the source of it… but haven’t re-evaluated the problem source to figure it out. And sometimes, it’s because some braindead middle manager not worth his over-bloated weight in peanuts decided it was to be that way, and everyone had to follow or be browbeaten into doing it… and despite that utter complete waste of oxygen being long gone, the mental anguish has eaten into the culture of the place, making it subtly toxic.