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[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

The article linked above seems to roughly agree:

  • $6.5B state aid + school funding / life insurance payout shifts to state responsibility
  • $2.8B from the city via delayed pensions + taxes on second homes valued >$5M

Earlier this year, Ms. Hochul committed $1.5 billion in state aid for a host of municipal services. The state budget, which has not yet been finalized, is also expected to include a host of policy changes and revenue increases that will funnel another $4 billion to the city over the next two years.

The largest share — about $2.3 billion over two years — is expected to come from the city’s delaying certain pension payments, a change that requires state approval and buy-in from municipal unions.

The mayor and governor also expect another half-billion dollars to flow from the new tax surcharge on second homes worth more than $5 million that Ms. Hochul recently announced. But the city comptroller recently argued that number might be overly optimistic, and New York City’s byzantine property valuation system means that the new tax would come with substantial implementation challenges.

The city is expected to save another $1 billion over two years from several changes, including the state’s expected agreement to delay a class-size mandate in public schools (despite Mr. Mamdani’s support for the mandate as a candidate); more school aid from the state; and the assumption by the state of a larger share of death benefits for families of police officers, firefighters and emergency medical workers.

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 14 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I feel obligated to mention Logseq here. It's similar to obsidian, but FLOSS (AGPL-v3).

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's not how hardware works, like at all. I agree with the spirit of what you're asking for but you can't just wave a magic wand and put any software on any hardware.

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 8 points 1 week ago

Obviously spin is how the electron feels about being observed

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pedantry warning

Mamdani is mayor (city level), not governor (state level).

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Be careful what you wish for... My i7-1260p failed a few months ago.

I will say though, upgrading to an ai 340 is a serious quality of life upgrade in terms of gpu and battery life. Even the NPU is useful now with the latest drivers and kernel modules.

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Personally I have never had an issue with the build quality. I think that's more of a reviewer gripe than a real world issue.

They occasionally have great sales too. I've seen prebuilds for $650 with previous gen boards. With the pro launch I wouldn't be surprised to see prices for the older models drop over the next month or two.

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's bigger in both dimensions.

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 21 points 3 weeks ago

I propose a little cultural exchange. I'm sure Framework and Fairphone could stand to do a little cross pollination.

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 25 points 1 month ago

Great, now how about action against the murderers caught on film.

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 1 points 1 month ago

That's fair. Once you understand some basics though it's not too bad. There's a UI just like any router you might already be used to. The most confusing part for someone who is new to this would probably be setting up the VM hardware plumbing, and understanding that a passthrough means that hardware is unavailable to the host.

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you want a dedicated device, sure. Image it with OPNSense and it'll basically just work.

You can also take any desktop you already have, fire up an OPNSense VM, pcie passthrough your WAN NIC + WiFi card, bridge to a separate LAN NIC, go through the setup, and there's your router.

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Spotify Is Social Media Now? (newsroom.spotify.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by sunstoned@lemmus.org to c/music@lemmy.world
 

I've done it. I've finally reached my "old man yells at cloud" moment. Why, why, WHY is Spotify adding features straight out of the social media playbook?

Anybody have recommendations for alternatives?

In my head there's:

~~YouTube music~~ (google, gross)

~~Apple music~~ (no way they're not on a similar trajectory)

~~Bandcamp~~ (limited, but at least bands see some money from it)

~~SoundCloud~~ (weird reputation, though haven't come back around to it in a good 10 years)

Tidal maybe? Would love to hear some recommendations.

Edit: I neglected to mention why I don't like the messaging feature. I've never used it, yet with a few of my friends there are already dozens of song exchanges in the thread. It's clear that spotify has been using user-specific links for a while now to track who sends what to who. That's a pretty clear anti-feature for me, and is enough to make me jump ship.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by sunstoned@lemmus.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

I've been playing around with my home office setup. I have multiple laptops to manage (thanks work) and a handful of personal devices. I would love to stop playing the "does this charging brick put out enough juice for this device" game.

I have:

  • 1x 100W Laptop
  • 1x 60W Laptop
  • 1x 30W Router
  • 1x 30W Phone
  • 2x raspberry pis

I've been looking at multi-device bricks like this UGREEN Nexode 300W but hoped someone might know of a similar product for less than $170.

Saving a list of products that are in the ballpark below, in case they help others. Unfortunately they just miss the mark for my use case.

  • Shargeek S140: $80, >100W peak delivery for one device, but drops below that as soon as a second device is plugged in.
  • 200W Omega: at $140 it's a little steep. Plus it doesn't have enough ports for me. For these reasons, I'm out.
  • Anker Prime 200W: at $80 this seems like a winner, but ~~they don't show what happens to the 100W outputs when you plug in a third (or sixth) device. Question pending with their support dept.~~ it can't hit 100W on any port with 6 devices plugged in.
  • Anker Prime 250W: thanks FutileRecipe for the recommendation! This hits all of the marks and comes in around $140 after a discount. Might be worth the coin.

If you've read this far, thanks for caring! You're why this corner of the internet is so fun. I hope you have a wonderful day.

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