MrChilly - Slashdot User

Comment I'm not a smart person.... (Score 1) 67

by MrChilly on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:11PM (#63331221) Attached to: You Can Watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA Considers This Piracy

but, what's the difference? It's the same feed, correct? They don't remove commercials, nor screw with the service, so I'm at a loss other than it being a typical govt ignorance issue. They would still gather numbers from streaming info, and I would think it would boost audience numbers.

Comment Re:It isn't that hard (Score 1) 233

by MrChilly on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:09AM (#63304973) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Buy a Desktop PC That Makes Linux Easy to Install?

Why do you have to bring up the 3 weeks of hell with my surface pro 3? I'll be twitching in my sleep tonight reliving that fun.

Comment Re:50% Managers? that seems very bloated (Score 1) 51

by MrChilly on Thursday January 12, 2023 @11:27AM (#63202902) Attached to: DirecTV Lays Off Hundreds of Managers As Cord Cutting Accelerates

Most of the actual work is done by sub-contract labor, so this isn't surprising at all.

Comment I'm all for the research (Score 3, Informative) 142

by MrChilly on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @02:49PM (#63177064) Attached to: Legal Use of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Begins in Oregon

My uncle with ALS requested a mushroom trip after he became wheelchair bound. YMMV, but he was actually smiling and in a better mood for a few weeks after. As for myself, it has helped with my seasonal depression on the occasions I was able to get a few grams. Like a lot of other things in this beautiful world, as long as you take them in a safe environment in a safe amount, I'm all for it, esp if there are mental benefits. Quite a few results look promising for PTSD's, and I'm hopeful they find more uses.

Comment Re:So treating adult consumers as small children (Score 1) 78

by MrChilly on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:35PM (#63166196) Attached to: New York Breaks the Right To Repair Bill as It's Signed Into Law

What is this? Vat of acid again? - Morty For contractual reasons, I can't describe the customer/product, but they only put up guard rails AFTER an employee dies. 400-500 employees on 1 of many such sites. There's a duct taped piece of printer paper with "Don't Open This Door". The door is 30' up and has nothing but a dropoff onto machinery under it. But let's not trust a consumer to replace a screen or battery....wtfe

Comment Re:PostIt (Score 1) 187

by MrChilly on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:26AM (#63161210) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Note-Taking App Do You Use?

I've used a modified (meaning no frilly pics or artwork) bullet journal for years. My days are laid out, and with a few symbols like + - . * I can keep work and personal separate. Added bonus, since it's laid out chronologically, it's easy to quote a date when a customer mysteriously forgets things they've said during meeting and ignored follow up emails.

Zimbabwe Has Banned the Export of Raw Lithium (qz.com) 147

Posted by BeauHD on Friday December 23, 2022 @06:00AM from the cease-and-desist dept.

Zimbabwe has prohibited the export of raw lithium from its mines so it can cash in on value addition and stop losing billions of dollars in mineral proceeds to foreign companies. Quartz reports: The ministry of Mines and Mining Development on Dec. 20 published a circular under the Base Minerals Export Control Act that seeks to "ensure that the vision of the president to see the country becoming an upper-middle income economy has been realized." The government says it is losing $1.8 billion in mineral revenues due to smuggling and externalization to South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. Gold is the most smuggled mineral.

With continued high international demand, Zimbabwe is projected to become one of the world's largest lithium exporters, with the government hoping to meet 20% of the world's total demand for lithium when it fully exploits its known lithium resources. Mineral exports account for about 60% (pdf) of Zimbabwe's export earnings while the mining sector contributes 16% to its GDP, according to a 2021 mining report by the London School of Economics.

"No lithium-bearing ores, or unbeneficiated lithium whatsoever, shall be exported from Zimbabwe to another country except under the written permit of the minister," mining minister Winston Chitando says in the circular. However, according to deputy mining minister Polite Kambamura, mining companies that are building processing plants will be excluded from the directive. "If we continue exporting raw lithium we will go nowhere. We want to see lithium batteries being developed in the country," he said. "We have done this in good faith for the growth of industry."

Comment Re:Either that, or.... (Score 1) 157

by MrChilly on Friday October 07, 2022 @01:17PM (#62947231) Attached to: Americans Are Less Likely To Cancel Amazon Prime, Netflix Than Cut Spending On Food

I worked for a midwest Cable company for 15 yrs, 8 of which were house calls regularly. It's too early in the morning to go find the poll, but television/catv ranked higher in importance than gas, water, electricity in a household. Shockingly, houses that were in severe disrepair would have a new big screen tv. It was their only escape from reality that didn't include drugs. This really isn't a new phenomenon.

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