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  • jprjr@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlRigged system
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    1 year ago

    It’s all rigged, technically. If you go to a real life casino, slots are certified to pay out some percentage of plays. It’s like, 8%.

    If you play craps, roulette - the house always has the edge because there’s more results favorable to them.

    The only “casino” game where the house doesn’t have an edge is poker because that’s player against player. The house doesn’t really have a stake in any outcome, they’re just being paid to host the game.



  • I feel like every comment I’m reading assumes there’s only two options - either headphone jack + wired headphones, or no headphone jack + Bluetooth.

    I just use a USB-C dongle with a headphone jack on it. It’d be nice to have it built-in, sure, but the dongle is only a few bucks, small, doesn’t really add a lot of extra stuff to carry if I’m already carrying headphones.

    It’s not a deal-breaker for my if a phone doesn’t have a headphone jack because if it doesn’t I can easily add one.




  • It’s funny because the way I describe the concept of federation to people is to compare it to email.

    “You know how you can email somebody and it doesn’t matter if they’re using Gmail, Yahoo, Exchange, etc? Just apply that concept to other services and that’s what federated means.”

    So yeah you can host your own email just like you can host your own mastodon instance, Lemmy, Calckey, kbin, etc.

    I’ve been a professional sysadmin for years, including managing email systems covering tens of thousands of users.

    Don’t do it.

    Find a host you like and just use that. If you have to pay that’s probably better, that (hopefully) means you’ll have a better privacy policy, no ads, etc.

    Email as a concept goes back to 1981 with tons of bolt-ons and changes along the way. You’ll go years with everything working fine, then suddenly you’ll find yourself sinking a lot of time into it when something suddenly doesn’t work.

    Plus you can have the most modern setup in the world then find yourself dealing with a client that’s using the default sendmail config and refuses to change anything, now you’ve got to create exceptions, blah blah blah.