[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~~A big ding to your credit score itself is actually a low amount of lines of credit, I think 10+ is considered "good" which is ridiculous~~

Apparently I was wrong, and learned something new today. Your score comes from:
35% - payment history (everything paid on time, etc)
30% - amount owed
15% - age of credit history
10% - how many new lines of credit
10% - credit mix (just credit cards vs credit cards, auto loans, etc)

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/credit-education/score-basics/what-affects-your-credit-scores/

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I can skip the search engine and go right to the bad suggestions, finally!

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

Looking at your posts and comments makes me want to soak my brain in bleach from all that antisemitism, racism, and general hypocrisy. Just seeing the first handful of things made me feel like I walked by an open window of a gop convention

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago

The first lever I see in each group.

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago

It's not can't, it's won't. Tax companies like TurboTax pay a lot of money for lobbying to keep the IRS from making it free and simple

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 88 points 6 months ago

Why is it liberal media when wall Street journal is right leaning and Adam Kirsch doesn't have any posted political affiliations?

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago

Good old overwatch

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 78 points 8 months ago

If the web integrity API goes live and I can't use some sites because of it, it will be very nice to have a very clear filter on what websites are complete garbage for using it. Vivat librewolf + VPN!

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 71 points 8 months ago

Pro tip: transactions are your friend

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 51 points 9 months ago

Honestly, why risk duplicate passwords even then? I have one strong password that I use for accessing my password manager, and let the password manager generate unique random passwords. Even if I had an easier password that I duplicated with some small changes, I'd still use a password manager to autofill it anyway. I use bitwarden personally, you can also self host it with vaultwarden but it seemed like more trouble than it was worth imo

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

We have someone at my company who has been here for 30 years that gets to do whatever he wants basically - but what he builds is great. He doesn't even have a BS degree or anything related, he started as a paralegal who wanted to make his life easier, and has built several iterations of the software that the entire company uses. He's now my boss, running the data engineering and science department and I gotta say that he's genuinely great. The only bad things I've run across that he's built are things that he explicitly told management were meant to be just a quick bandaid fix to a problem to buy time for a full fledged solution... and they kept it as the full fledged solution. The stuff still works, it's just awful to make updates or change to

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by finestnothing@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

I've been trying to find a game that I played probably 10 or so years ago. I thought the name was digiminer or digimon or something like that but I know it's not those games.

The game (from what I remember) was about mining as a robot or in a ship of some sort. It was 2d. Whenever you mined areas it dropped pixels to be picked up that you had to fly/jump/move over to. I think it had a vacuum that you equipped to grab everything? You could upgrade and such to mine faster/larger and have a better pickup area. The mining area was mainly on the right side of the screen I think, the left side was all empty. The game was fully free, and I'm pretty sure that to run it you had it all downloaded in a file then ran the .exe.

I could be getting some of the ideas wrong, it's been a long time since I played or saw the game If anyone can help identify this game I'd appreciate it! I've been trying to find it for a few years, I remember it being a fun time sink

Edit: the game was dig-n-rig by digipen

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by finestnothing@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I've been using Linux for the better part of 4 years so I'm not new to it, but I've always learned stuff on an as-needed basis. Today I ran into an issue that I want to prevent in the future since I had a mini heart attack thinking about how my last backup on this system was... Never since I'm an idiot who forgot to set it up like I have on my laptop. Here are my steps:

  • Ran sudo pacman -Syu; sudo pacman -Syy like I do every few days
  • packages updated
  • restarted computer
  • can only boot into emergency mode

The journal was really long so I moved past it and went to the pacman logs, linux had updated from 6.4.3.1-1 to 6.4.3.1-2. Nothing else was important enough to cause the system to only boot into emergency (gcc, vbox, some libs) so I did a quick pacman -U to the cached 6.4.3.1-1 version for both Linux and Linux headers and rebooted - hurrah it was fixed! But I have no idea why it happened, or how to prevent it.

Has anyone else ran into this issue when updating? Any advice for preventing future crashes or issues like this so I don't fear updating?

Edit: Thanks to everyone for your advice! I ended up following multiple bits of advice. I reinstalled arch to get btrfs as the filesystem (didn't have anything important other than some docked-compose files and books yet) and grabbed the linux-lts kernal as a backup as well. I haven't configured snapper yet, but it's on my list of things to do.

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Expanding from just torrents - I highly recommend looking into usenet! Downside, you have to pay for a good indexer. You can get a one time purchase depending on what site you go to, mine is ~$80 per year. After that, set up your nzb/Usenet download client (I recommend sabnzb, these are all free), then you can troll through that for movies, tv, etc like a torrent site. Generally it's more reliable, and if you find something on there you can download it and it'll max out your download speed (if you let it) instead of getting single seeder torrents that get stalled.

Want to get (slightly) techier but much better? Get Radarr for movies, Sonarr for TV shows, lidarr for music, and readarr for books. (There's also whisparr for porn, mylar3 for comics, Bazarr for subtitles and others, but I haven't felt a need to run these yet) Basically you can find movies, tv, etc that you want and "monitor" them, and let the program do the rest. They scan multiple sources (Usenet and torrent sites) that you setup for the content you want, compare it to filters you put in place (quality, number of seeders, age, number of other downloads, etc) and download it for you. New movie that isn't hd yet? It can grab a webrip or lower def version for you, and automatically replace it with a 1080p version when it's available. You can also grab prowlarr to manage your indexers (nzb site torrent sites) across all of your apps so you have one source of truth.

My setup:

  • Indexers in prowlarr Nzbgeek (paid, mentioned above) 1337x Pirate bay (Some other misc torrent sites)
  • Download clients Qbittorrent (for torrents) Sabnzb (for usenet)
  • Frontend apps Radarr - movie manager Sonarr - tv manager Readarr - book manager Lidarr - music manager - no longer use, switched to paying for Tidal Plex - media server to aggregate and stream the video files from above Calibre - media server for ebooks only

I may be a pirate, but I do it with class and comfort.

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