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Dinsmore @sh.itjust.works
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What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?
  • Yoo a lot of nostalgia for the Cybiko! My mom wouldn't let me get a gameboy but my sister managed to find one of these somewhere. That was my only way to do handheld gaming for years! The games sucked but it was better than homework =)

  • Fun fact: If you use your bank to threaten adobe, they will waive the cancellation fee
  • If you have a business like a law firm where it is VERY IMPORTANT that a PDF has certain qualities, free tools for PDF creation can be a big gamble, especially if you have to open a PDF that someone else has created and do changes to it. And the cost is pretty trivial compared to the cost of messing up.

  • PSA: Like tracking pixels, these users are transparent.
  • OK vote blue no matter who, give me articles from reputable sources regarding:

    • Complete ban on all fossil fuel drilling in any US territory
    • Medicare for all
    • Massive expansions of railways
    • US recognizing Palestine as a state

    Edit: thanks VBNMW folks for proving my point - meme says you'll give me 3 good sources showing he'll do all this stuff, instead you give a ton of downvotes. Aren't you guys the angry ones in this meme?

  • What industry secret are you aware of that most people aren't?
  • It likely won't be done at scale, but let's say you are wildly successful and are now in line for a high-value position, where vetting is common. Might look pretty bad if you fabricated your whole thesis. Recently, Bill Ackman basically bullied several schools into firing their head administrators on the pretense of not citing sources correctly in their thesis papers.

  • Disaster is nearing. Mass displacement. Mass starvation. Mass death. It is all imminent. Do you understand?
  • I also am not in Michigan, and don't own property on a lake. But it's also not a short sighted viewpoint when your original point was that "We and our children will drown in floods, starve in drought and burn in unbearable heat..." That's simply not true for a lot of people in the first world. In terms of personal politics, I believe that every oil executive should be shot, and people who think Biden is some climate savior have a screw loose. But clearly the green party isn't going to ever win any national elections (it does decently locally), so the US will keep chugging along and drilling more, but will export the consequences elsewhere, as it has always done. And of course the US will shut its borders and refuse climate immigrants - it's literally happening right now. We can all see what's coming. But life will continue just fine for many in the first world.

  • L.A. County wants to cap rent hikes at 3%. Landlords say that would push them to sell
  • I'm not the one downvoting you, but I think this is where you might lose me - I agree that people will buy housing and rent it out if they can make a profit, and we've had landlords doing that basically forever. But if the government gets involved and owners sell, I don't see how home ownership can be more unaffordable. Basically we have a hugely constrained supply of housing. If, say, there were 50 skyscrapers full of apartments that went up overnight in San Francisco that charged $1000/month, rents would have to go down everywhere else because there would be the introduction of so much supply that nobody would pay more than that cost (because that's the alternative to where they're living now). Obviously that's a fantasy scenario, but the various governments (city, state, and fed) all are not doing anything to move towards that goal, which would create supply equal to demand. If current landlords sell, then that would drive prices further down, not up - you're literally increasing the supply again, and also because they will be competing against each other to sell, it should drive down prices for those homes as well.

  • Toxic linux communities moment:
  • I'm no linux expert, but I think that issues like that are pretty common with a flash boot - based on BIOS boot sequences or similar issues, the drive likely doesn't have as many permissions or permissions in the right order as a ssd would. As an intermediary step, you could try partitioning your drive first then doing a full install on a small partition.

  • California is about to tax guns more like alcohol and tobacco − and that could put a dent in gun violence
  • Yeah, even 3d printed frames are even "good enough" for occasional use, especially if you buy all the other internals elsewhere, especially the slide/barrel, which are not covered at all by this tax (or by any other law in CA that I'm aware of, other than threaded barrels for pistols).

  • California is about to tax guns more like alcohol and tobacco − and that could put a dent in gun violence
  • So one of the most common handguns is the Glock 19, which can be found pretty easily for between $500 and $600 in any gun store. I have strong doubts that an extra $55-66 per gun is going to fundamentally reduce the amount of guns in circulation. The person who buys a single gun isn't going to not buy the gun, and hobbyists who have a lot of disposable income won't stop buying new stuff, but will grumble a lot.

    Anyone with nefarious intentions (cartels, etc.) would just buy in Nevada, Arizona, or other states anyways, where there aren't as many restrictions on firearms. If you ever see crime photos of people with glocks, it's pretty common to see 30-round magazines, which have been unable to be purchased in CA for years, showing that these guns and magazines are all coming from out of state to begin with.

  • Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be privileged and safe
  • Yes, let's keep punching left as Democrats lose even the moderates they exclusively cater to now.

    Instead, Mr. Biden’s losses are concentrated among moderate and conservative Democratic-leaning voters, who nonetheless think that the system needs major changes or to be torn down altogether. Mr. Trump wins just 2 percent of Mr. Biden’s “very liberal” 2020 voters who think the system at least needs major changes, compared with 16 percent of those who are moderate or conservative. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/politics/biden-trump-battleground-poll.html

  • Druid build?

    Hi all, wondering if people have suggestions for a druid build. The fextra life guide seems like more of a "what to expect" than a suggested build guide.

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    Electric Cars @lemmy.ca Dinsmore @sh.itjust.works
    arstechnica.com Ford’s bonkers new electric Supervan 4 is racing Pikes Peak this Sunday

    Could the 1,400 hp van beat Volkswagen's record? We'll find out on Sunday.

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    Electric Cars @lemmy.ca Dinsmore @sh.itjust.works
    www.theverge.com Cadillac’s electric Escalade will debut August 9th

    Cadillac is only showing a glimpse of its behemoth SUV.

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    Electric Cars @lemmy.ca Dinsmore @sh.itjust.works

    Mercedes-Benz unveils Vision One Eleven concept

    electrek.co Mercedes-Benz unveils Vision One Eleven concept with axial flux motors and 'unique battery chemistry'

    This week, we got a special invitation to Carlsbad, California, to peek behind the curtain of Mercedes-Benz’s International Design Center...

    New type of motor, new type of battery unveiled

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