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Why does every married man I talk to about marriage benefits seem to feel that staying single is better? in c/asklemmy@sh.itjust.works
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

He has arranged official papers tacked on his wall with all the information necessary for me and his family to proceed should something happen to him.

For it to be a legal Power of Attorney the agent usually needs to be named. Does the Power of Attorney he has prepared have your name specifically? Additionally many states require his signature to be performed in the presence of a Notary. You'd need to check the requirements in your state. Alternatively, you mentioned the niece. Does he have a Power of Attorney document naming her as his agent? I'm not bringing this stuff up as any kind of "scoring points", I just want to help him and you that the preparations he's made are sufficient to fulfill his wishes should the situation become necessary.

I’m in tight contact with his family, so really if something happens to him, they’ll come along and sort most of it out. But I know they’ll respect me, I can’t and don’t even want everything anyways. But I’m pretty sure they’ll agree the vehicle should rightfully go to me, as I do most of the work on it.

I really hope you don't have a negative experience, but a shockingly common thing to happen is that the wishes of the dead are promptly ignored on their passing as those (usually family) are set to gain from the passing.

But I’m here to keep him living as long as possible, I don’t want a damn thing except happiness and life for myself, my mother right down the road, my roommate, and basically everyone around me…

I hear ya. We all want that, or something similar. We hope for the best, but we need to plan for the worst. This is where good and proper legal preparation during the good times can be an incredible benefit during the bad times.

50 civilians in Sumy Oblast abducted and forcibly taken to Russia, ombudsman says in c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago

Why is Russia abducting the elderly? To use as human shields?

DIY in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

Everything is "sold separately" these days. The main kit doesn't even come with the Spear of Longinus?

I won 3rd place in the HOA xmas lights contest in c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago) (1 children)

Perhaps he won by simply having the 3rd fewest HOA violations.

Nice lights though OP, well done!

DeSantis Urges Men to 'Tear Down the Matriarchy' in c/chadmctruthstruth@lemmy.world
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 33 minutes ago (2 children)

For others that stumble across this community from the main feed, the article source is from here:

If this type of parody community is your jam, it looks like you've got a new home here!

There's plenty of real crazy GOP news, so I don't feel the need for fake crazy GOP news. For me its a Block Community and move on.

What's a time you stuck to your principles despite it being inconvenient to you? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

but I get stuck at the question of who is worth being there for and who isn’t.

I think YOU are worth being there for. If those interactions are taking a mental or emotional toll on you to have, then why are these abusive and toxic people from your past "worth it" and you aren't?

If instead you can have these interactions totally detached from yourself and you are strong and confident mentally an emotionally where there is no cost to you, then I don't see a problem with continuing.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter calls TSA 'unconstitutional' after pat-down in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Evita Duffy-Alfonso said on the social platform X that she nearly missed her flight after opting out of a body scan because she said she is pregnant and concerned about radiation exposure. She said she waited 15 minutes for a pat-down

If taking an extra 15 minutes to go through security is causing you to almost miss your flight, then you're already not arriving at the airport early enough. Shit happens. Gate changes occur. Overbooked flights are a thing. Long lines at bag check or security happen without any apparent notice or reason. Even something like unexpected traffic getting to the air port is common.

and that TSA agents were “rude” and “tried to pressure” her into walking through the scanner.

Welcome to the world the rest of us live in where the average citizen has to be the calm and collected one in the confrontation when dealing with law enforcement lest you earn their ire (or be shot because they're nervous or angry).

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter calls TSA 'unconstitutional' after pat-down in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm thinking its also confusion about the backscatter X-ray machines that were used before the millimeter wave scanners replaced them in most places. I had heard some small airports still use the backscatter machines.

I still take the patdown instead of the millimeter wave scanners when I'm randomly selected for more scrutiny than the bog standard metal detector.

Every Christmas I make sure to include a special message from Santa's little helpers. in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Its 2025. Write it in Mandarin for more authenticity. However, in another 10 or 15 years English will be applicable again though.

Why does every married man I talk to about marriage benefits seem to feel that staying single is better? in c/asklemmy@sh.itjust.works
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

First, I'll disclose I'm not a legal expert, but I just went through most of this recently when getting married and while setting up my revocable trust, so lots of this is still top-of-mind.

Umm, okay. I’ve never been married before, but apparently I’m registered as the person to inherit my roommate’s vehicle should he pass or fall under bad health,

Unless you're registered on the title to the vehicle with your roommate, your roommate's estate will have to go through the probate process before along with cooperation from your roommate's executor you'd receive the car, or possible not at all if the estate had debts. If you were married to your roommate you'd have no problem being put on the title and the car instantly is yours on their passing. No probate. All of this assumes a paid-off car. A car with loan still on it is more complicated.

amongst other things usually associated with family/marriage.

You can be legally compelled to testify against your roommate in legal proceedings. A spouse cannot be.

But I’m not married. But if needed, I could take power of attorney on his behalf. But his niece down the road would probably end up handling all that anyways…

As I understand it, your roommate would need to sign over Power of Attorney prior the need. If they were already incapacitate you'd have no ability to do the things needed for them that would require Power of Attorney. As an example, you would not be able to access their bank accounts to pay their bills while they were incapacitated. With a spouse you'd already have shared expenses and be able to service anything while your mate is not capable.

I dunno, hope he lives a good long life, he just hit 66 years old, been living together for like 7 years now.

I hope so too, but life moves quickly and, many times, without notice of what is to come.

Why does every married man I talk to about marriage benefits seem to feel that staying single is better? in c/asklemmy@sh.itjust.works
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Well, a bit more than just taxes. Being able to make some legal or health decisions for your spouse at times, and being protected from being used legally against your spouse are there too. Many private companies also extend benefits to spouses that wouldn't under any other legal constructs.

Why does every married man I talk to about marriage benefits seem to feel that staying single is better? in c/asklemmy@sh.itjust.works
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

Can I ask if all of those you're asking got married in their 20s? If so, I think I have a guess as to why they say that:

They weren't fully mature adults when they got married and have no concept of having to do 100% of "adulting" by themselves or this is true of the person they married. They may have a view of single-adulthood of a 20 year old, and that simply isn't applicable anymore in your 30s, 40s, 50s, or later.

In my opinion, a marriage is an equal distribution of the work of maintaining two lives. It isn't equal 100% of the time as there are ebbs and flows to life that one partner will have to carry more than the other at times. However, in aggregate it should be equal effort. If there isn't equal distribution for too long a time, then that can lead to resentment from the one carrying more of the load. If there isn't good communication between both, both could be resentful thinking they are carrying the majority as they are ignorant to what the other is carrying for the relationship.

The most important decision of life is picking the right partner to go on the journey with. You want someone that will be there for you when you need them because they love you, and someone you love so deeply you can't think of any other choice than being there for them.

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Asahi Linux after 3 days of use (lemmy.world)
 

TLDR; more things working. More confidence of this being a permanent go-forward solution.

USB-C 2nd port now working

Both USB-C ports are working now, and also with hubs (both USB3 and USB2 hubs) with devices off of them. I wish I could say it was up to my diligent work, but what seemed to do the trick was just a reboot. I’ve rebooted multiple times since that one time for other reasons and both USB-C ports continue to work. My USB-C (USB3) gigabit NIC is also consistently working, which is great.

Display

Still with my old DL-165 based Displaylink adapter, I’ve revered back to the default resolution of 1680x1050 at 60Hz. At the display adapters limit of 1920x1080 the desktop stitching seems to be unreliable where there will be overlap between the left and right displays by about 30 pixels. Additionally video performance is noticeably impacted for full motion video at the max res. The overlap is likely fixable, but I’m just going to source a modern Displaylink adapter instead of trying to get this one from 2009 working solid on a machine from 2022. The current config is still sufficient with the old adapter for my needs right now.

I’ve also dug quite a bit more into Displaylink technology in general to understand what is going on under the hood. It can be very CPU and RAM hungry. At one point I had a kworker thread taking 48% of the total system CPU and as soon as I unplugged the Displaylink adapter that thread disappeared. I’m also seeing much of the 24GB of RAM in this laptop being used by something and I suspect a its also Displaylink. I don’t know if its because of this old model, or if all Displaylink adapters would have equal resource consumption on the host system.

I want to figure out how to see how much of the shared memory is being consumed for the integrated graphics, and for the Displaylink frame buffer but having found a measurement point for either yet.

Power Management

I’ve done some work with ACPI and power configuration on x86 systems and assumed much would be the same. That was NOT a good assumption. At least Mac silicon doesn’t use anything like BIOS, EUFI, or ACPI. Instead it uses a Device Tree initialization which is something I’ll have to do a lot of reading on. Further, I’ve read some of the documentation from the m1n1 developers regarding the SMC where I’m guessing all of the power management sensors, data, and many of the controls reside to improve the power management of the hardware under Linux. The 1400 different values, with many being read/payload returns show me that the folks working on this have already done a HUGE amount of work, and there is still so much left to uncover with no documentation from Apple.

General

I’m doing more tweaks to the desktop environment. Learning the keyboard shortcuts, and uncovering small nice features (like “limit battery charging to X%”). I now have the unit only charge to 80% before stopping to save wear and tear on the battery from deep cycling.

The unit is plenty fast for my need and I have room to grow in it. My thanks again to the Asahi developers both past and present as well as the Fedora Remix maintainers!

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Asahi Linux after 24 hours of use (lemmy.world)
 

TLDR; So far so good! I'm not seeing any dealbreakers yet, and the prospects look good for a permanent solution for me.

I have never been a Mac owner prior to this (but have used them for work numerous times). My (new to me) used Macbook Air M2 arrive in the mail yesterday. After making sure all the hardware was functional in OSX, I used the curl based Asahi Linux installer, choosing Asahi Fedora Remix with KDE.

The install:

Very VERY easy! The installer was probably the best Linux installation experience I've ever had. Of the 2TB storage I reserved 500GB for OSX, allocated 1TB for Asahi, and leaving 500GB unallocated (plans for later).

The good:

  • The desktop experience is fast and responsive. - I was worried now that I was in ARM (aarch64) architecture, applications I wanted to use would have issues with compatibility. I have zero issues installing and running from simple "dnf install" commands. So far all have aarch64 native builds.
  • I have a functional external display
  • The macbook hardware is high performing, low weight, and great build quality.
  • Battery life looks decent enough for my needs

The bad:

  • External Display: While I mentioned I have a working display, its via an old DL-165 based USB 2.0 Displaylink adapter. It appears to be very finicky with which DVI to HDMI adapter it will work with. Additionally, on first use it doesn't appear to set up the display properly for the 1920x1080 resolution (the limit of this adapter) but instead defaults to 1650x1080. I've been able to fix this with a kscreen-doctor command on the CLI though. I may have to do more to automate this in the future, though.
  • Power management/hibernation: I learned that Asahi not only doesn't support S4 hibernation (my ACHI sleep profile of choice), but its not even on the development roadmap. I've seen a couple of the developer notes as to the difficulties, and it makes sense with the limited resources, so I agree with their path. However, that leaves me with concerns for the life of the hardware. In the days ahead, I'll explore what I can do from userland to reduce impact on the hardware and cycles on the battery.
  • USB port behavior: The Macboook air only has 2 USB-C/Thunderbolt ports. I understand Thunderbolt isn't supported yet, and I'm just fine with that. USB3 is plenty for all of my needs at this point. However, the two ports on the unit don't seem to behave the same. The USB-C port closer to the charging port works with my USB-C hub, USB2 DisplayLink adaptor, and USB2 100Mb/s NIC, and even my USB2 headset/mic. None of these work on the second USB-C port on the Macbook. I would have written this off as bad hardware, but USB-C charging works fine on this port. I need to do more checks from OSX to validate hardware functionality, and more investigation on /var/log/messages to see if I can find a reason for this difference. I did see a developer note that one USB-C port on the Mac is more functional for development, but I don't know what that means yet.
  • Community: I haven't found THE PLACE where Asahi users congregate to talk about issues or solutions. I see there's a Reddit subreddit which has the most (but I have chosen to not post to Reddit anymore, and avoid it as much as possible). There is a Fedora community with some Asahi posts. Lastly, today I found this Lemmy community with a handful of users. I hope to find THE PLACE to best be able to learn from others and share what I've learned.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, but if I could choose one, I'd really like the one in His Dark Materials (lemmy.world)
 

No spoilers in my post here, but I can make no claim about what others may respond with:

The thought of living consciously for infinity can be just as existentially terrifying as winking out of existence at the moment of mortal death. There's a really pleasant balance that Pullman created in this series that is incredibly appealing.

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How Many Phones Sport a 5 and 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One. (hackaday.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/66094

It all started with a sarcastic comment right here on Hackaday.com: ” How many phones do you know that sport a 5 and 1/4 inch diskette drive?” — and [Paul Sanjay] took that personally, or at least thought “Challenge accepted” because he immediately hooked an old Commodore floppy drive to his somewhat-less-old smartphone.

The argument started over UNIX file directories, in a post about Redox OS on smartphones— which was a [Paul Sanja] hack as well. [Paul] had everything he needed to pick up the gauntlet, and evidently did so promptly. The drive is a classic Commodore 1541, which means you’ll want to watch the demo video at 2x speed or better. (If you thought loading times felt slow in the old days, they’re positively glacial by modern standards.) The old floppy drive is plugged into a Google Pixel 3 running Postmarket OS. Sure, you could do this on Android, but a fully open Linux system is obviously the hacker’s choice. As a bonus, it makes the whole endeavor almost trivial.

Between the seven-year-old phone and the forty-year-old disk drive is an Arduino Pro Micro, configured with the XUM1541 firmware by [OpenBCM] to act as a translator. On the phone, the VICE emulator pretends to be a C64, and successfully loads Impossible Mission from an original disk. Arguably, the phone doesn’t “sport” the disk drive–if anything, it’s the other way around, given the size difference–but we think [Paul Sanja] has proven the point regardless. Bravo, [Paul].

Thanks to [Joseph Eoff], who accidentally issued the challenge and submitted the tip. If you’ve vexed someone into hacking (or been so vexed yourself), don’t hesitate to drop us a line!

We wish more people would try hacking their way through disagreements. It really, really beats a flame war.

From Blog – Hackaday via this RSS feed

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Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus) being adorable and a great model (infosec.pub)
 

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/35602634

This little guy was more than accommodating when I wanted to take photos.

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Crown Royal bottler in Amherstburg closing, shifting work to Valleyfield, Quebec (globalnews.ca)
 

I saw this in another community but it impacts locals in the Windsor area. I'm sorry to see these workers loser their jobs.

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Gunpla kits found in the trash! (infosec.pub)
 

I'm not the finder. I have no idea why but Youtube recommended this video to me of a guy that is a trash picker and he found these with a whole bunch of Blu Rays and DVDs Youtube video here

Don't worry, he picked them up and saved them from the junk yard

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I never knew how much you put into your hobby! You guys are dedicated! (infosec.pub)
 

This isn't my hobby, but I can't help but be inspired by the dedication of some of the frequent posters to this Lemmy community.

I happened to be in a place recently where these were being sold and got to see them for sale in the boxes for the first time. I had no idea how expensive some of these got! The silver one in the center frame was $99 and I saw others there price at $170! So not only is there a high cost to get the kit, but then all of the work you guys put into assembly (and painting?).

You've got something here you like doing. Keep being your awesome selves!

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You mean to tell me... (infosec.pub)
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‘Severance’ Creator on the Season 2 Finale and the Show’s Future - Rolling Stone interview (www.rollingstone.com)
 

Warning: Season 2 finale spoilers here!

This is an interview with the show's creator. I'll post my opinion on it in the thread.

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Chief O'Brien has the most wholesome Holosuite programs (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by partial_accumen@lemmy.world to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
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So wholesome!

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Comedian Tom Smothers, one-half of the Smothers Brothers, dies at 86 (apnews.com)
 

Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers and the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium, has died at 86.

The National Comedy Center, on behalf of his family, said in a statement Wednesday that Smothers died Tuesday at home in Santa Rosa, California, following a cancer battle.

“I’m just devastated,” his brother and the duo’s other half, Dick Smothers, told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. “Every breath I’ve taken, my brother’s been around.”

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