This is how you tell rich people have some serious mental health issue.

Decent people would rather a world where people worked because they enjoy that type of work rather than being forced to do it because they need money to live.

If you removed money, imagine where we'd all be as a society without the toxicity of money, wars and hate! :(

Ugh, most of mine are usually “I’m 23 and I made 3m on tiktok in 12 months…”

If you really made 3m then wtf are you making no quality tiktok videos instead of enjoying life are ruining tiktok even more by cluttering it up with even more god awful videos?

Because you didn’t… and this is the critical thinking no-one bothers to taught themselves so get easily scammed.

Like the “Voltage harmonisers” that “cut you’re bill by ½”. Anyone with 1 braincell would understand electric is charged by watts because its the value that doesn’t change when voltage or amps change!

I normally only watch tiktok when waiting for something to finish but I’m almost at the point now where it’s more interesting to watch paint dry than try find anything fun on tiktok. 😞

If tiktok videos where honest they’d be saying “If don’t have any conscience or empathy, you too can get rich by ripping morons off and conning them into re-selling your garbage so you don’t have to.”

I think so much posted online isn’t real as such and more fabricated and what I classify as ‘engagement bait’

TikTok is full of it and seems to have got worse now AI slop machine can churn it out en-mass.

If you aren’t running it yourself, you’ll always be held hostage by toxic companies!

Time and time again, from account closures to account locking… if you value anything, you should really look at self hosting it. Yes it’s a learning curve, but now is actually a good time because you have claude to help, but don’t expect that to last!

I am and will only ever use the free tier of claude but even that is actually pretty useful. Just don’t reuse the same chat, create new ones, delete ones no longer needed and you rarely hit the usage limits.

I’ve used claude to get my own AI server running on a low power beelink PC and while i’m still learning, it runs pretty well so Imcan now bounce between my own AI, to claude for the few issues I can’t solve.

And what do you do when its a requirement to buy food, submit tax returns, get healthcare?

This is the problem people don’t understand. We have the same issue now in the UK. People think a voluntary system is easy ro just ignore until everything you rely and need forces you to starve or submit.

And its not going to stop at just age verification, it’ll continue until all you get to enjoy is maybe a loaf of bread, and some pond water! 🤦‍♂️

I wasn't a huge discord use but I just removed all the channels before deleting the app on every device.

Not going to make a huge difference but if everyone does it, maybe it will!

Are people surprised?

They don’t care if AI is accurate, they just want another thing to blame the same way they blame religion.

“Oh my bad, the AI is highly trained but the camera must’ve blurred and confused the AI so not OUR fault”

But its ok, I’m sure they won’t abuse age verification to target people they don’t like. 🙄🤦‍♂️

I’m not sure I can answer that yet.

So what I’d suggest is sending me 10k and i’ll see if I take. However I’d also suggest we do multiple runs just to confirm consistency. I hear 100 times is a good number for checking consistencies.

Its not hard to see what they’re doing…

First they add negative comments, then follow up with a positive post to seem like they’re being Impartial!

It’d be interesting to see how often the negative comments are put before the positive comments though because i’d guess it’s a lot higher than the reverse!

[rant] The Internet is not FREE. Its just free at the point of use!

Just like ad funded websites aren’t free to use, they are also just free at the point of use!

People seem to forget where the all this ‘ad money’ comes from. It’s not growing on magic money trees, it’s coming from every product you buy and it’ll be interesting to see how much products have gone up against the sheer amount of ads that are shovelled everywhere now.

The reason the internet used to be great was because people shared information with no expectation of monetary gain. Just the love of what they knew and the joy of sharing information.

So the sooner everyone realises you’re all paying for the ads on every product/service to be shown already, and blocking them actually saves you money because the more ads that are shown, the more websites get paid, the more ad/tracking companies charge companies and yes, the more expensive you’re product and services get! [/rant]

I mean, the rich are benefiting from all the ad spending which is all that matters! /s

People really need to remember that you're paying for the ads regardless of if you see them. The only people who lose out are those who show the ads and giving the amount of websites these days that are solely built around showing ads, I really have no sympathy for them.

The bigger question no-one seems to ask is, how much cheaper would products be if they weren't spending trillions on ads in the first place?

Or you give the shares to people, but the company would still need to be managed by someone who no longer has a proportional incentive to make it succeed, causing the same result as if it was government run.

Would it? Give the shares to the workers and they have a huge incentive to run a company well. Right now a CEO’s only priority is to maximise shareholders return. A workers led company would maximise both shareholder return AND have an incentive and pride in doing a job properly instead of the low morale and poorly built crap we have today.

History has shown anytime control is in the hands of the few, it’s run into the ground in order to maximise the wealth for the few so giving control to the masses of workers in companies would lead to more compromises and might sound bad at first but would likely work better the more people required to make drastic changes.

And as said many times, no billionaire has ever ‘earned’ that. They’ve all gained it through exploitation and wage theft either directly or indirectly!

I can't comment on ZimaOS but I do use CasaOS to manage docker and it saves a lot of hassle for most things. Just being able to click the 3 dots and check for updates is worth it.

The only issue I have with CasaOS is that it doesn't have support for env files. Maybe ZimaOS fixed that. Next week I should have a HP gen9 arriving to replace my dying gen8 and looking at trying proxmox on that so might have to test ZimaOS.

Still really want to get into kubernetes but trying to get a useful tutorial that works and isn't a stupid video thats hard to follow is annoyny.

All I want is software that I can put DD’s and known regulars in and it can tell me how much I’ll have in 3 or 6 months time.

I’ve tried firefly, actual budget and most of the docker based ones but still stuck using the forecast app on the ipad.

They’re all just way to over complicated for what anyone I know wants and given how AI can’t get the simplest things right, I’d rather someone just work on simplicity that works, like microsoft money didn’t before they killed it. 🙄😕

Edit: Well I gave up trying to find something that was simple to use so I built one!

https://money.paulcdb.com/ is going to be free to anyone interested with the caveat that I’ve built it for myself, I host it myself and runs on kubernetes. At some point I’ll likely put it up on forgego for others to self host but right now I’m trying to see if theres any major issues.

My workflow is add any credit cards, add scheduled transactions, then link the payments to the card.

If you add in APR, 0% periods, etc, it should calculate it all and give you a “projected debt free” and warning: It isn’t pretty! 😳 If you add a 0% periods, it’ll also calculate how much you’d need to pay to clear it off before the period ends. Hopefully all these calculations are correct although if they are, it’s depressing looking at the graph! 😞

There’s also a demo login: demo/demome if you just want to experiment!

They aren't actually looking for smart people.

I’m not smart and still see through the corporate bs! 🤨

How do i get in on this?

I feel if they marketed AI better they’d get far more subscribers. Right now they seem to be focused on ripping off businesses which seems very short sighted.

I’ll offer all my marketing insights for just 10% of all new subscribers under my marketing campaign! 😎

I don't fully understand it but Big Clive explained it once while tearing one of them apart.

Erm… yeah, i’m not en electrical engineer but slapping capacitors on things still increases power use slightly because capacitors have losses themselves. So that doesn’t make any sense. I get the smoothing out voltage side but voltage and amps can change as much as they want but the watts is always constant. So I still don’t see anything they do can reduce the wattage.

But i’m an uneducated idiot so who knows!

Or gets murdered… so lets add weapons to the drones, just in case you ‘look’ like you’re about to murder someone!

And the worst part are people are too stupid to put an end to it!

Thats really the bit that pulls me at least down the most. No matter what “I” can do, (which due to health isn’t much) the majority will continue slogging away until death!

I have no idea if its possible since I have an ‘06 Audi but look into VCDS or VAGCOM. They are technically the same software but it allows you to enable features through the OBD2 port. If you look round the Audi forums, they often have maps showing people who have the dongle/software needed.

Since I have my own dongle/software, I only needed to replace the indicator lever (£15 on ebay) and change 2 settings in the ECU and I had cruise control working and you can change a ton of other stuff on the car.