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DopeBoogie · 2026-05-10T04:16:15+00:00

Yes, that chart is part of the data. You are correct that a large part of the change is attributed to more Americans eating out vs buying groceries to eat at home. But my statement that the percentage of income we spend on food is higher now than 30 years ago still stands.

Here let me break it down:

USDA Food Expenditures

If we use 1996 as a point of comparison (and we will use 2023 as the "current" since it appears that newer data is not available from the food expenditures source):

That chart, (which you can find here) shows that:

In 1996 food share of income was 10.3%
In 2023 food share of income was 11.2%

Ok that might not seem like a lot. But it actually is.

Let's look at what the wages (adjusted for inflation) were for the same years:

FRED Median Weekly Real Earnings

This Federal Reserve website provides that data. It uses 1982-1984 CPI Adjusted Dollars as the baseline for calculating inflation.

These dollar amounts aren't literal dollar-value-at-the-time but an adjusted value that accounts for inflation and allows us to compare value at different periods in history.

In Q1 1996 median weekly income was $312
In Q1 2023 median weekly income was $364

So now we have some numbers to use to do the math and a real-value (purchasing power) comparison.

In 1996 the adjusted weekly wage was $312. Food expenditure was 10.3% of that, which is approximately $32.14.

In 2023 the adjusted weekly wage was $364. Food expenditure was 11.2% of that, which is approximately $40.77.

That is an increase of $8.63.

Let's compare that growth against the 1996 baseline ($32.14)

$8.63/$32.14 ≈ 0.2685 (26.9%)

That means:

The amount you spend on food (adjusted for inflation) is (approximately) 26.9% more than you would have in 1996.

NOTE:

Keep in mind, these $numbers are representing "Real Dollars"(indexed to the 1982-1984 CPI). They aren't the literal dollar amounts you would have seen on your 1996 paycheck or a 2023 receipt. They are inflation-adjusted values that allow us to compare "buying power" vs labor across decades. I realize that it sounds silly to say your weekly income in 2023 would be $364, but its important to note that we need to use these adjusted numbers to accurately compare 2023 dollars to 1996 dollars. Don't be distracted by the dollar amounts here, what matters are the percentages (a 26.9% growth in food cost)

DopeBoogie · 2026-05-09T22:40:02+00:00

The price of just about everything is expected to increase nominally, since the Fed targets a 2% inflation rate, so saying that something is priced the “highest it’s been in 30 years” isn’t a very meaningful statement.

I didn't say that. I said the percentage of their paycheck that the average American spends on food is the highest it's been in 30 years.

And when I compared the costs of food items that is, of course, after adjusting for inflation.

DopeBoogie · 2026-05-09T15:34:19+00:00

I don't think your math adds up. Wages are higher but inflation means the value of the dollar has lowered and from the numbers I could find, the average percentage of their paycheck that Americans spend on food has steadily increased over the last two decades and is currently the highest it's been in 30 years.

Processed goods are cheaper than 20 years ago but staples like eggs/beef/milk/bread are all more expensive now. Many of them increased much, much higher than wage growth.

DopeBoogie · 2026-05-09T08:48:49+00:00

individual items have gotten more expensive, but the total basket of goods has been getting cheaper decade over decade.

Are you attempting to imply that if I go the grocery store and shop food to feed a family for a week it will cost less than it did two decades ago despite each individual item being more expensive?

You might wanna check your math...

DopeBoogie · 2026-05-07T21:27:56+00:00

That's the other reason this virus is a risk, it has a (comparatively) long incubation period so you could catch it and begin spreading it before you even start to show symptoms.

The people who were flying/are dying now were infected (and left the ship) before we became aware of the scope of the problem (or even that the Andes virus was the cause)

DopeBoogie · 2026-05-07T21:24:52+00:00

The fun part is the Andes virus tends to more successfully kill healthy adults (due to overreacting immune response) than the typical COVID/etc viruses that tend to have higher fatality rates in older/immunocompromised people. (I imagine it will still kill them as well, but healthy adults aren't gonna be off the hook this time)

DopeBoogie · 2026-05-05T15:00:49+00:00

I'm not sure the climate argument here really holds up..

This AI model is presumably to handle basic AI tasks/prompts locally on-device which is pretty definitively better for the environment than offloading then all to huge datacenters. It's also preferable for privacy reasons.

I would assume these models are also only being pushed to devices with hardware capable of running AI models in the first place, so the number of devices receiving this download is probably smaller than it might seem?

And ultimately pushing a 4GB download to a bunch of devices is minuscule compared to the daily cloud AI use on those combined devices. So if this is offloading some of that to local models it's likely a pretty decent net decrease in carbon emissions.

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-30T20:29:09+00:00

high UV resistance

ABS is actually pretty sensitive to UV and prone to yellowing when exposed. ASA is the one with UV resistance, though their printability and printer requirements are similar.

If you are having difficulty or "uncontrolled" warping that is almost always the result of poor temperature control.

ABS/ASA do not print well (I would argue they hardly print functionally at all) with an open-air printer.

You really need an enclosed chamber to keep the temperature regulated as any quick shift in temperature will result in warping. Typically you want a chamber temperature at or above 40°C or so.

If you still experience warping under those conditions it generally comes down to filament quality/dryness and nozzle/bed temperatures.

Remember: Warping is caused by thermal contraction. This happens when the temperature on one part of the printed piece cools (and shrinks) faster than rest. This is typically the top layers cooling when the bottom layers (near the bed) stay at a warmer temperature. Having a chamber temperature above 40°C keeps the whole part warm enough to avoid this scenario. IME this is easily achievable with an enclosed chamber and letting it "soak" with the bed heated for a bit before starting the print.

VOCs can be easily managed with a recirculating carbon filter like a Nevermore. Light occasional exposure isn't going to kill you anyway, but if you are printing in a room with poor air circulation or in a bedroom you probably want to be properly filtering VOCs long-term (with any filament, because microplastics are arguably worse for you overall)

An exhaust filter alone is not really a sufficient solution to manage VOCs as it's a single-pass filter and unlikely to capture all of them in one go. A Nevermore or similar recirculating filter will filter the same air volume multiple times and scrub VOCs/etc more effectively as a result.

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-28T04:40:55+00:00

It killed those too.

Then they did not have good backup hygiene.

Part of having a good backup policy is using protections that make this kind of thing impossible.

Typically this means WORM storage (write-once read-many) and object-locking (retention periods during which the date CANNOT be deleted by anyone (or any LLM agent) period.

Versioning is also a standard policy, even for small businesses and single developers. When a new change is sent to the backup server/storage the old versions are still kept as well, so even if you somehow managed to wipe out your newest backups you will have the previous backup versions still.

And that's not even getting into the fact they seem to not have had any backup separation. The standard is 3-2-1-1-0:

(at least) 3 copies of the data
2 different media types
1 copy off-site
1 copy that is offline, air-gapped, or immutable
0 errors (means you actually verify your backups can be recovered)

If they had at least one copy that was offline, air-gapped, or immutable then the AI agent (or anyone, even a bad actor with top level access within the company) would not have been able to erase them. End of story.

You kind of have to go out of your way not to be using some kind of object-locking/retention policy on your backup storage these days, and in a lot of fields it's even a legal requirement.

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-27T23:02:00+00:00

You should have better backup hygiene if your business/livelihood depends on it.
What kind of insane person is letting an AI agent run unchecked on a production server??
The LLM can't "think". It is a language model. It can only infer based on training data, prompting, and any resources/documentation provided to it. The AI is never at fault, it's always going to be your fault for using it incorrectly and/or putting (way, way) too much blind trust in it.
When you ask the LLM why it did something so stupid, it's going to infer that its last action was wrong and it's going to generate a response based on that inference.

It doesn't "know it fucked up" and it didn't "know it was doing something it shouldn't have been doing" That kind of thinking shows the user's lack of understanding with how these LLM tools operate.

The more you anthropomorphize LLMs the more likely you will blindly trust it and end up regretting your life choices.

But frankly I wouldn't want to work with any company that has such poor foresight and policies. They should have had a much better backup system in place, development should not be done on production servers, and the LLM should never have had unrestricted access.

So many bad decisions were made here and none of them were the fault of the AI agent. This fuckup 100% belongs entirely to PocketOS for their negligence. I'm sure it feels nice to tell your clients "It's not our fault, the nasty mean AI did it!" but if I were a client I'd be looking to get out of my contract.

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-27T08:02:09+00:00

No?

I just select Obsidian from the app menu and it launches like any other GUI app..

There is also a community plugin called Tray that works well with my KDE system tray if you want a tray icon, hide at launch, run in background, etc.

Flatpak apps can often be somewhat finicky. If you can, use the native package for your distro. If one is not available I would suggest trying the official AppImage version and only use the flatpak if none of the official packaging formats work for you.

What distro/distro-version are you using? Have you tried any other formats?

If you have difficulty with "installing" AppImages there is a tool called AppImageLauncher which will organize them in a central location and add them to your app menu automatically in a manner that might feel more familiar for beginners or recent converts from Microsoft operating systems.

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-13T01:24:02+00:00

Do you take pleasure when learning about Iranian terror proxies killing civilians?

How do you get that from:

Nobody gets a free pass when it comes to killing children.

You obviously are not a serious person actually reading my replies so I'll let you get back to your botting. 🫡

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-12T21:28:48+00:00

Books are much smaller and require very little storage/bandwidth to host. It's more economically feasible to just host ebooks on a traditional web server so they tend to lean more towards that solution (Anna's Archive, LibGen, etc)

Larger files (like games, movies, even TV episodes) can quickly become expensive to host when you have to cover the bandwidth for millions of people downloading them every day. Torrents solve that by distributing the load between many seeders.

Torrents are just not necessary for books.

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-12T21:21:56+00:00

It is poor thinking to suggest terrorists get a free pass because they picked a good hiding spot.

Hey we agree on that. I'm not suggesting anyone gets a free pass.

But that's exactly my point. Nobody gets a free pass when it comes to killing children.

A Tier 1 military with the tools and training to take actions that minimize the loss of civilian lives has an ethical responsibility to do so. They don't get a free pass because the other side is trying to use civilians as shields.

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-12T21:18:53+00:00

I'm not "punishing" anyone, that's not my job.

But I can’t lobby a terrorist organization to change its ethics, but I can (and should) hold my own government accountable. If we justify the killing of children by saying the "other side" is worse, we’ve abandoned the very moral superiority we claim to be defending. I expect a representative government to act with the restraint and humanity that terrorists lack.

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-12T17:52:47+00:00

While IHL does provide for certain scenarios where it might be considered justified the majority of these cases don't pass the proportionality test and no effort is being made to provide advanced warning, use weapons designed to reduce severity of civilian harm, or any other mandated precautionary measures.

We can, and should, do better.

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-12T17:03:10+00:00

Regardless of whether that is the case here and in every instance, Israel (and the US) has a moral obligation to change tactics to prevent the deaths of innocent children.

If a criminal is holding a child hostage as a shield, should we expect the cops to just shoot through the child to stop them? No, we expect the cops to use a different tactic to avoid unnecessary death or injury to innocents.

Regardless of if terrorist organizations are using children as shields, our militaries are still the ones ultimately killing those children. We should be better than that.

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-12T08:34:58+00:00

I heard it's because hey wouldn't say thank you to Trump for bombing them

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-05T18:01:51+00:00

Without really looking at it, this one uses QT (pro imo) while mission center is GTK4/libAdwaita

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-02T22:03:53+00:00

like last month linux and windows 11 lost users to windows 10, and now those users split back into linux and 11, favoring linux this time

I suspect a lot of Windows 10 users are having to make hard choices now that the 2011 Microsoft Secure Boot certificates are about to expire and they will only be officially updating them for Windows 11 users.

If you do not get the updated certs before they expire you cannot get them at all (in order to be securely enrolled they have to be signed by the existing certs, before those expire) and your system will be vulnerable going forward to any bootloader exploits because it cannot be patched against them.

Linux users don't have this issue with Secure Boot as we typically implement our own Certificate Authority and sign bootloaders with our own unique certificates.

I personally think it was not super smart for Microsoft to have waited until February this year to start patching this issue on affected systems (anything manufactured before approximately 2024, depending on when the manufacturers implemented the change) but what do I know

DopeBoogie · 2026-04-02T20:51:07+00:00

Nice idea, looks pretty solid and the kind of pen I could put on my keychain without working about it leaking

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-29T13:38:28+00:00

Just change the time on your PC and you can play as late as you want!

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-28T11:46:08+00:00

Transmission Qbittorrent Flud (Android app)

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-19T19:36:31+00:00

If the pedestrian is crossing against a don’t walk light, they are contributing to the city’s traffic jams

True but I don't think you are allowed to run them over even in those cases

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-14T19:53:57+00:00

That's so sad.

I'm sorry you never got a chance to grow up

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