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how much power does your system need?
  • Same here. 300w with 12 disks, switches, and router. But electricity only costs $.12/kwh. I wouldn’t trust having terabytes of data in the cloud.

  • I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit.
  • TBF he is still an exec. Just not an insurance exec.

    Wendell Potter, a former vice president for corporate communications at Cigna, is the president of the Center for Health and Democracy and writes the newsletter “Health Care Un-Covered.”

    The Center for Health and Democracy(CHD) is a non-profit organization led by renowned healthcare expert and insurance industry whistleblower Wendell Potter that works to transform America’s system of health coverage. The organization’s core belief is that healthcare should be driven not by industry profits and greed, but by the needs and rights of every American to get the quality care they need without concern for cost.

  • I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit.

    www.nytimes.com Opinion | I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit.

    Shareholders, not patient outcomes, tend to drive decisions at health insurance companies.

    Opinion | I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit.

    One story that we couldn’t keep out of the press and that contributed most to my decision to walk away from my career in 2008 involved Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old leukemia patient in California whose scheduled liver transplant was postponed at the last minute when Cigna told her surgeons it wouldn’t pay. Cigna’s medical director, 2,500 miles away from Ms. Sarkisyan, said she was too sick for the procedure. Her family stirred up so much media attention that Cigna relented, but it was too late. She died a few hours after Cigna’s change of heart.

    Ms. Sarkisyan’s death affected me personally and deeply. As a father, I couldn’t imagine the depth of despair her parents were facing. I turned in my notice a few weeks later. I could not in good conscience continue being a spokesman for an industry that was making it increasingly difficult for Americans to get often lifesaving care.

    One of my last acts before resigning was helping to plan a meeting for investors and Wall Street financial analysts — similar to the one that UnitedHealthcare canceled after Mr. Thompson’s horrific killing. These annual investor days, like the consumerism idea I helped spread, reveal an uncomfortable truth about our health insurance system: that shareholders, not patient outcomes, tend to drive decisions at for-profit health insurance companies.

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    State of the Sanderson 2024
  • Dude is a machine. Even so, it hurts to have to wait. Trying to find my next series to read and it had to be completed. Currently reading Empire of Silence but it still has one book unreleased. Luckily it comes out next year.

    Anyone got suggestions?

  • Anyone else here that stopped watching TV almost completely?
  • Tbf, all the well written shows of the last decade only made 10-13 episodes per season. This was one of the major reasons for the writers strike since they only got paid per episode.

  • The book is so huge!!
  • Damn! I also only use an ebook and thought about buying this book in print to read instead. That just looks like it would be unwieldy to hold when reading. I would have turned around and bought the ebook.

  • Today we ate Yakiniku in Okinawa
  • Since you are there you might as well try some Chanpuru. It is a stir fry dish with Goya but it can be a bit strange for first timers. Not sure on what’s there anymore, been 15 years. Yoshihatchi is probably still there, pretty good sushi joint.

    I also recommend that you hit up Peace Memorial Park if you can make it down to the south side of the island. Can’t remember if the tunnels are near that but those are interesting as well.

  • Most anticipated moments in the second half? (WaT spoilers inside)
  • I almost did the same thing. Kindle decided to pop up that it was the end of the book right as the postlude chapter started.

  • [Spoiler] You think firemoss is bad?
  • With you there on that. Luckily we do have Mistborn third arc in the next few years. But I can already see what the sixth book will be…

    Tap for spoiler

    While book will be about everyone but Kaladin, then the epilogue will be the Herald’s return.

  • Damn you George Michael...
  • Agreed. I still can’t believe that he doesn’t plan to release the next archive book until 2031. Long time to wait.

  • Damn you George Michael...
  • How you like the book so far?

  • Damn you George Michael...

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    UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
  • Hey, I would want to know if a pill is gonna make my taint tear.

  • Mozilla: DOJ's Plan for Chrome Risks Hurting Smaller Browsers
  • Thanks! So then the judgement is two fold. First to split chrome from google. Second to restrict google from paying to be the default search engine on any browser.

  • Mozilla: DOJ's Plan for Chrome Risks Hurting Smaller Browsers
  • Would other search engines be able to “pay to be default”? My understanding is if this went through then browsers wouldn’t be able to take money from any search engine to be the default.

  • Percentage of Each State Taken Up by Corn Fields
  • Yeah, 10%, 20%, and 37% should each be buffet different colors.

    Damn autocorrect

  • Farewell RealDebrid
  • 20gb elements are on sale atm. Lowest price I’ve seen them. They are easy to shuck if you only want the drive. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VCXWPQG

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  • Minisforum or beelink make what you’re looking for. If you are considering setting up a 10gb Network, I would recommend an MS-01 . I’ve been using it for the past year and love it https://a.co/d/iwNATJb

  • What's a good joke present to get your SO for Christmas?
  • Pizza rat became a thing after This

  • Damn spot! Now i want to buy the second car.
  • I thought cars in the last decade couldn’t have hood ornaments anymore ?

  • Is Reddit going to remain the primary space for this community?
  • Meh, I no longer participate but it still had a huge wealth of knowledge. Only time I end up on it is from a search engine.

  • The Great Push starts today!

    www.wowhead.com The Great Push Returns for Dragonflight Season 4!

    Blizzard has announced that The Great Push returns for Dragonflight Season 4 and this time, groups are REQUIRED to have a healer!

    The Great Push Returns for Dragonflight Season 4!

    Really enjoyed last years. Can’t wait to see how this one goes!

    For anyone unfamiliar with TGP, it is like NFL Redzone but for WoW.

    https://www.twitch.tv/warcraft

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    BAD PROXMOX UPDATE WARNING

    techhub.social Alex Kretzschmar (@[email protected])

    BAD PROXMOX UPDATE WARNING https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/upgrading-pve-tries-to-remove-proxmox-ve-package.149101/page-3

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/18367043

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    testing @catata.fish Billygoat @catata.fish

    test post

    another

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    Helldivers 2 CEO: Well that's depressing

    cross-posted from: https://catata.fish/post/7302992

    > Well that's depressing

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    Well that's depressing

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    Critical notifications in Home Assistant

    companion.home-assistant.io Critical notifications | Home Assistant Companion Docs

    The configuration and behavior of critical notifications differ between iOS and Android.

    Critical notifications | Home Assistant Companion Docs

    I just got a large batch of water leak sensors and was setting an automation to send a notification to my phone and I was worried that I would miss the notification. I found this page in the documentation for doing critical alerts. On iOS the notification stays persistent, even after unlocking the device. What’s really nice is that if you have an Apple Watch, the notification will also show up there and play a sound if the watch is on silent mode.

    Even though I hope I never get one of these notifications, I’m really glad that this functionality exists within Home Assistant.

    Just thought that was really neat.

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    Dynamic island swap tap and hold

    Any way to swap the actions for tapping vs holding? To me it makes more sense for a tap to expand it and a long press to open the app. Searches popped up results from last year that it is not an option but did they add it to iOS 17?

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    Router for multigig internet

    So I’m finally upgrading to multi gig (either 2gb or 5gb google fiber) and will need a new router. On att 1gb atm. I’ve narrowed it down to either the QNAP QHora-301W or the [TP-Link AXE16000 (https://a.co/d/2q0T4Ow). Curious if anyone else with google fiber is using either of these?

    Also, I’ve read conflicting posts about being able to use your own router to directly connect to the fiber(such as using an SFP module on the to link router). Admittedly I know very little about SFP and am trying to figure it all out prior to ordering in the next few weeks.

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    Riddles community

    I initially made this to test out creating a bot for lemmy but after some digging I noticed there isn't a 'general' community for riddles so feel free to post some good(and bad) riddles. Maybe Catatafish can use them for the next traveler seeking passage through the esophagus.

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    Catatafish Riddles - Catata.fish

    Answer these riddles and the esophagus will let you pass.

    Just a community to post riddles.

    Created this to test out making a lemmy bot and thought it would be nice to share them. Fair warning, some can be straight trash.

    [email protected]

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    Can't use swipe gesture to back on macos in proton mail

    So I'm having an issue where the two finger swipe to go back to the main inbox doesn't work when viewing an email. I can swipe forward from the inbox to go forward to the page that an email is on. This only occurs on Firefox. I tried both Chrome and Safari and both allow the gesture.

    Any clues as to what can be causing that?

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    Custom domain catch-all use

    So i've set up a custom domain to use with protonmail and was curious if anyone else uses the catch all in this manner.

    I was thinking that when a new account is created on $website I would use a custom email address that would then be caught by the 'catch-all'. So say the domain is catata.fish, and the website is target.com, then when signing up I would use [email protected]. Previously when using gmail I would use [email protected].

    Does anyone see any issues doing it this way? Thanks!

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    Well that was a wild end to TGP

    Holy hell, what a way for

    spoiler

    Echo to finish it out in first by one shotting Nelf Lair. Hats off to them.

    Group C was an entertaining weekend from start to finish.

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    main @catata.fish Billygoat @catata.fish

    test 3

    yep here we go again

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    main @catata.fish Billygoat @catata.fish

    Test two

    woah woah feeling good on a Wednesday

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    Would love to see this implemented for MacOS menu bar

    connect.mozilla.org Please animate the close, minimize, and maximize buttons in full screen on macos

    On safari and opera, instead of moving the tab bar down to reveal the title bar, the close, minimize and maximize buttons slide in from the left next to the tabs. This is similar to the design of firefox when not in fullscreen. The animation that shifts the tab bar down is horrid to look at and disr...

    Please animate the close, minimize, and maximize buttons in full screen on macos

    This is one of the small UX items that I feel would improve FF on MacOS. The shift when moving the cursor to the menu bar sometimes makes me miss click on a tab.

    Example here https://imgur.com/a/9tJBLCc.

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    Really enjoyong the Mythic+ Great Push

    This style of broadcast is perfect. It is like Red Zone but for 5 mans. Just non stop dungeon action.

    They need to start the stream with “Seven hours of commercial free Warcraft starts…NOW”

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    main @catata.fish Billygoat @catata.fish

    test

    Test

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