It’s a “currency” you can’t spend anywhere

Lol

It’s only purpose is a pump and dump scheme for early adopters.

This is exactly what many alt-coins are but Bitcoin is decidedly not.

You’re confusing “easy to mine” with “early adopter scam”.

I wouldn’t argue with that. I was mostly generalizing.

Bitcoin isn’t a scam. All non-bitcoin cryptocurrencies are scams.

People often hear about stuff like coins that are pre-mined, or proof-of-stake and the schemes and scans that come out of those, and immediately associate Bitcoin with the same thing.

I feel like nowadays there’s less forums or places people can ask help with

I’m sorry, what??

There are more places than ever to find support. The Ubuntu forums, EndeavourOS forums, Manjaro forums, NixOS forums, SUSE forums, etc. Just about every larger distro has it’s own forum and they’re all very active. Then there are general Linux, Linux “newbie”, Linux help communities on the various Lemmy servers and (whether you like it or not) on Reddit also. Then there’s Mastodon. General tech forums like Level1Tech, Hacker News, etc.

Why should Amazon be liable for stuff sold by third parties?

Even when proven dangerous products are reported to Amazon they continue to sell it.

Louis Rossman talks about it a lot.

https://youtu.be/eS698R-bxuc

It’s not a movie. It’s prophecy.

Using Relational DBs where the data model is better suited to other sorts of DBs.

This is true if most or all of your data is such. But when you have only a few bits of data here and there, it’s still better to use the RDB.

For example, in a surveillance system (think Blue Iris, Zone Minder, or Shinobi) you want to use an RDB, but you’re going to have to store JSON data from alerts as well as other objects within the frame when alerts come in. Something like this:

{
  "detection":{
    "object":"person",
    "time":"2024-07-29 11:12:50.123",
    "camera":"LemmyCam",
    "coords": {
    	"x":"23",
    	"y":"100",
    	"w":"50",
    	"h":"75"
    	}
    }
  },
  "other_ojects":{
     <repeat above format multipl times>
  }
}

While it’s possible to store this in a flat format in a table. The question is why would you want to. Postgres’ JSONB datatype will store the data as efficiently as anything else, while also making it queryable. This gives you the advantage of not having to rework the the table structure if you need to expand the type of data points used in the detection software.

It definitely isn’t a solution for most things, but it’s 100% valid to use.

There’s also the consideration that you just want to store JSON data as it’s generated by whatever source without translating it in any way. Just store the actual data in it’s “raw” form. This allows you to do that also.

Edit: just to add to the example JSON, the other advantage is that it allows a variable number of objects within the array without having to accommodate it in the table. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen tables with “extra1, extra2, extra3, extra4, …” because they knew there would be extra data at some point, but no idea what it would be.

Wouldn’t that be too soon? If they do world ending catastrophes too often it starts to lose its impact.

Tbh, I haven’t been following Marvel all that much since Infinity Wars. I’m genuinely asking if it would be too soon or not.

you ended the post saying that if you didnt have the truck now, you wouldn’t buy another one

Have you actually thought this through or is it just some automatic cognitive dissonance reaction from owning a truck?

I think it has more to do with your reading comprehension and thinking I said anywhere that I own a truck.

Maybe we can lay it to rest alongside Star Wars.

I think this argument is a losing battle on this community. It’s clear there is no room for nuance or reason.

if it’s a small truck then buy a small truck and not giant penis extender with no ability to haul a damn thing.

Ok, so is this whole discussion a misunderstanding?

I’m saying “there are valid uses for a truck” and (from what I thought) everyone else is saying “all trucks are bad, you don’t need a truck”.

But now you’re saying that the discussion is explicitly the exact truck that’s in the photo and small trucks are ok? Is that what you’re saying?

do you expect when you post anonymously about “needing” a gigantic truck with a extended cab

I never said “need” once.

Ever heard of double bagging?

Cause THAT’S environmentally friendly.

Or a trailer?

A bunch of assumptions there.

a burn barrel?

LMAO, that’d be a helluva fast way to get fined around here. I’m in the “country”, but it’s not in the middle of nowhere. It’s a neighborhood built just a bit out from a small town of 5000 people. It’s “country”, but kind of isn’t at the same time. I have to register with the county each time I want to have a fire in the fire pit. And burning garbage is a fast way to get in crap. And not to mention monumentally stupid.

And all I said was it’s not a good use case for a truck. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ok, fair. But I know people who need a truck because they have nowhere to store a trailer. A friend of mine works in construction and uses his truck for carrying materials, tools, hauling away garage, etc. And he lives in an apartment.

Agreed.

But I don’t have a truck.

if you’re worried about scratches to your vehicle,

I said “mess up the interior” with “leaky garage bags”. But yes, the inside is scuffed also.

maybe you should move back to the suburbs.

Thanks for gatekeeping where I live, you clearly know everything about me.

I don’t know the exact dimensions, but it’s big enough that I actually had to get rid of my 2015 golf because the front passenger seat became unusable. And I’m not exaggerating. The car seat barely fit with the front seat pushed all the way forward and leaned forward past vertical.

I know this is a common complaint with parents in the past few years in Canada. I don’t know if child car seat regulations are different at all in the US. I don’t think they are, I’m just not sure.

I’m not getting a truck. I’m not in the market for a truck. All I said was “here’s a good use case for a truck”. I’m not looking for suggestions or help. This wasn’t meant to be a round table discussion to fix my predicament.

It was just a counterpoint to “all trucks are stupid”.

I’m not arguing that. You have a fair point.

But my argument about a use case for a truck isn’t about MY truck (I don’t have one), it was merely about the valid use for owning a truck.

I’m getting by right now by wrecking the inside of my car (it’s already done). I looked at getting a roof rack, but the quote I got was around $1400. But that only would help with getting new drywall. Not broken up garbage drywall, and wouldn’t help with bags of garbage.

Well, for one, I don’t have a truck. Too expensive.

Second, child care seats in North America were revised recently to be larger so that they can protect children better.

To put it in context, putting a child seat in my 2013 Jetta makes it so that the front passenger can barely fit. Anyone over 5’ 6" has to srunch their legs to fit.