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kinda the same reason people suggest something like linux mint over slackware, gentoo, arch, etc… mint is easy to install and is preconfigured to be an easy to use user desktop environment. you can configure any other option to be have like that, but they tend to be a bit more “DIY”, which is great if you know what you’re doing!

dedicated NAS OSes will have good software out of the box that make it easy to configure and manage various common disk-related configurations (RAID, SMB, NFS, etc). you can certainly do all this yourself, but it might not have a pretty, unified user interface, or you might have to deal with software that isn’t compatible with some version of a library that’s in your distro of choice… all resolvable things, but they take time to solve: anywhere from installing a package manually to applying a kernel patch and recompiling the kernel to get something to work

i’d avoid BIOS-based RAID… it doesn’t really offer many benefits over linux-based raid like MDADM, and MDADM offers a LOT of up-sides for portability, repairability, diagnostics, etc

asia has the highest population in the world and i guarantee a lot of these people are also racist

yeah stupid people like most tech workers who just need their tech to work as expected rather than be “customisable”

there’s value in the “just works” when not working costs you hundreds of $ per hour that it doesn’t work

$2000 for a phone is nothing when it’s a professional device

i’m sure they learned plenty of things about the old game engine they built

and now they have a new one… which was the whole point

yeah i found it this morning entirely because of the ad block thing (i actually don’t ad block YT because i want to support creators, but i hate that now that’s not a choice, so i'm making the last remaining choice available)

“you know what worked real well? the metaverse! let’s copy their avatars!”

“ooooh yeah great idea bob! we don’t have any legs either so it’s perfect!”

it’ll definitely be replicated in a cargo cult way in every conservative area

or maybe that doesn’t count as cargo cult because they’d understand the reasons it works and specifically not do it that way to “prove” that it doesn’t work

not multiple bulbs no, but those bulbs have multiple LEDs in them… LEDs only have a single colour, but you can produce variable colour (or colour temperature) bulbs by mixing R/G/B or warm white and cold white

philips hue bulbs for example have red, green, blue, warm white, and cold white LEDs so they can mix any colour or colour temperature

to have variable colour temperature requires a warm white and a cold white LED that get mixed, so they’re always being used at 50% or less (because 50% emission on both is the same brightness as 100% of 1)… commercial fixtures are likely to not give that option and only include a single LED at fixed colour temperature to avoid 2x the parts

colour temperature is only changeable when you “mix” other colours in: usually you have cold white and warm white LEDs and you mix them to get whatever temp you want

for commercial, i doubt they’d double the LEDs so you could adjust them… the name of the game in commercial lighting is buy what you need, buy it cheap, and don’t pay for things you won’t use

it’s kinda exactly the same as someone on the street handing you a bit of paper with a rumour on it and you publishing it without checking that it’s correct

and you don’t need lemmy/kbin either, but yknow we like it

what’s your point?

the whole plan stinks of a man that doesn’t understand the value of money to 99% of humans

no, it’s not JUST $13; it’s a streaming subscription, it’s a nice dessert, it’s a couple of drinks at a bar

what apple offer is on no iphone ever has anyone had to worry about how much RAM their phone has… its literally irrelevant: it could be 100Gb, or it could be 1Gb for all i care… its just not something that needs thinking about

i just default to they/them for everyone unless i know for sure… nobody has ever been annoyed about it, and nobody has ever felt misgendered

i will never understand the US’s obsession with “consistent” housing

Would you like to add a tip for your robot defenders to this months subscription fee for AI Protection Max Ultra ™?

HTTPS is heavy when you’re talking about the extreme low power, bandwidth, and compute devices matter is intending to support

its also not a broadcast protocol - matter intends to connect many devices to many devices

those are off the top of my head; i’m sure there are more. HTTP is great, but new/alternate network protocols aren’t inherently bad: especially when you’re operating in a very constrained/niche environment

i wouldn’t say minimal, but it certainly just works with no intervention once you set it up… not torrents; start on usenet and you’ll never look back!

mental health doesn’t mean you’re suicidal… maintaining mental health is about your whole life and is something you do every day