WFloyd

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Zigbee or Thread does this. Example (now not that I use this one): https://us.aqara.com/products/led-bulb-t2-gu10

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Sorry, typo - I do not use these lol

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Hank the Cowdog

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What should I do with spare DDR3?

A few years ago I mistakenly bought some used ECC DDR3, 256GB (8x32GB) of the stuff for $110. Given the current memory shortage, is it time to dust it off and let someone else put it to use somehow? Or is DDR3 just too old to be worth it? I already have 128GB of DDR4 in my server and don't really need more for myself, but I have ...

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Yeah that's what I've seen too, probably worth moving it on, at cost if nothing else.

This model, as in my screenshot: https://memory.net/product/m393b4g70dm0-yh9-samsung-1x-32gb-ddr3-1333-rdimm-pc3l-10600r-quad-rank-x4-module/

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DDDDRR33™

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A Hundred Christmas Carols.
A Hundred Rooms with a Hundred Views.
The Diary of a Hundred Wimpy Kids.
A Hundred Games of Thrones.

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Gotta add a portion for taking a leak after all the drinks, and another for leaking things via Signal.

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I've had bad luck with Linux automatically using the dGPU even though I have to do this because I'm using a Tesla P4 which doesn't have display output.

United argues 'window seat' does not mean 'seat with a window' ( aerospaceglobalnews.com )

In August 2025, two nearly identical lawsuits were filed: one against United (in San Francisco federal court) and one against Delta Air Lines (in Brooklyn federal court). They claim that each airline sold more than one million “window seats” on aircraft such as the Boeing 737, Boeing 757, and Airbus A321, many of which are ...

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That's wild to me cos like... We didn't need internet to tell us this was incorrect.

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My first thought was how ears and noses look red when sunlight shines through them. If blood was blue, wouldn't they be blue or purple?

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If you look closely, the chats shared by Kolvet and (allegedly) Maguire have the same exact background (see the paw, the smiley faces, etc.).

Yeah no kidding, it's called WhatsApp.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d5ea52a4-a6f8-4e23-bf3e-792efd5547e9.png

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Context, these are cars that contained both Palestinian and Israeli people, that were destroyed by Israel due to the Hannibal Directive.

the IDF fired on Israeli civilian hostages while they were being driven by Hamas militants into Gaza

The IDF confirmed this to be true, stating

it would not be morally sound to investigate these incidents [due to the complexity of the situation]

TLDR: Israel felt it better to kill their own citizens than to let them be taken hostage.

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As funny as this is, it's also a very common logo, being a varient of the Penrose Triangle. Honestly more shocked they didn't spring for some better graphics...

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When wind speed doubles, the energy it carries increases eightfold,

Edit: I'm wrong, see edit below!

Huh? Kinetic energy increase is square, not cubic.

KE=1/2 m v^2

So every doubling of speed should increase the available kinetic energy by 4 times, not 8. 3 times the speed is 9 times the energy.
Granted there are probably some efficiency gains in excess of this at the low end, but as a rule that's just wrong.

Edit: Cool, I learned something new! I neglected to consider it in terms of power, just thought about kinetic energy.

So something like:
KE = 1/2 m v^2

= 1/2 ( rho V) v^2

= 1/2 ( rho A d) (d/t)^2

= 1/2 rho A d^3 1/t^2

Where
P = KE/t

Thus:

P = 1/2 rho A (d/t)^3

= 1/2 rho A v^3

Lots of other aspects I'm sure I have wrong, but I see how the cubic came to be.

WFloyd ,

Thanks for the correction! I got way ahead of myself.

Business Owner Mindset without Becoming a Finance Bro?

I need some advice on making the psychological shift from being a business employee to a business owner. I started a couple of businesses five years ago, and I'm surviving as it is, but I'm right on the lower limit. I can feel that it's my own psychology that is holding me back. I don't struggle with the practical running of the ...

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I have no business experience, but...

my problem is feeling like an exploitative schmuck because I’m charging people money for stuff

Congrats, you have a soul!

WFloyd ,

Hey, that's my bad. I should have put more thought into my reply!

It sounds like you're priced low in your industry vs the average - assuming your customers like you, and you have more work than you can do, I'm guessing they would rather that you raise your prices slightly and stay in business rather than keeping prices low and folding.

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That's good of your client, and I feel for you on this one. I made some physical products in college to sell over a summer, I ended up ~$2/hr once I ran my numbers lol. I just couldn't stomach raising my prices so much (in my case it was good resume filler, so no big deal). Best of luck!

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Is that the breast you can do?

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This is shown down, it drops entirely from the top though. So when raised you have the sill. Could technically set a bottom position hovering above the sill if you didn't mind a gap

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Also work in software, and still tweaking the smart home setup to be as intervention free as possible. The upside of the blinds is that I can leave the house and they automatically close to keep cool. When my morning alarm goes off it opens the top half to let in natural light - I'm a heavy sleeper so this is well worth it for me personally. Still haven't set up smart switches, but it's next on the list. Ideally a guest could stay and never even know it's "smart".

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Yup, it can theoretically do any position where this is true:
Top Limit > Top of Blinds > Bottom of Blinds > Bottom Limit

Controls can seem a little funky at first, but not bad. Once you have a preset you like it's just one button.

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Oof you're right, thanks!

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I can let light into a room but maintain complete privacy (especially on the upper level you just see the sky)

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These specifically

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In the same vein, I use Niagara launcher and a monochrome theme - I find it helps with the phone addiction.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6600da69-6c64-4966-92f5-7fe96a0b921b.png

Edit: This is just one tool, you also have to really want it to break habits.

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This is a New Zealand article, about New Zealand

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To be fair, it sounds very similar...

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We don't say "injection by wire" or "fuel by wire" though, we call it Electronic Fuel Injection.

A noob question about VPSs and bandwidth

Another Lemmy thread led me to thinking about getting a cheap VPS for my homelab. I'm double-NATted by my ISP, so I can't do traditional port forwarding. I'd like to get a cheap VPS, install Tailscale on it, and access my homelab from anywhere without having to have Tailscale on every device I use (at work where I can't install ...

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will all my Jellyfin traffic go through the VPS

Yes

and count as bandwidth used?

Yes, twice (download from home to the server, and upload from the server to the client)

I do the same thing - I have a 3TB limit, but usually only use 300GB, sharing Jellyfin to a dozen or so users.

Edit: I'm sure there are plenty of good VPS providers out there, I personally have been using NerdRack for a few years now (got a VPS on special and the rate is locked as long as I keep it). Looks like they'll do $11/year right now for a KVM VPS that's sufficient.

Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Ban Distribution Of Blueprints For 3D Printed Firearms And Curb Epidemic Of “Ghost Guns” - Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York ( www.gillibrand.senate.gov )

I have to wonder how New York plans to police the entire internet. This would appear to enforce a law that only those who weren't going to "break" such a law are going to follow anyway.

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Huh? This is from July 2023. There have been many of these proposed before, and possibly a few since. Looks like you need a license to distribute files these days anyway.

I spent a few years designing 3D printed guns for fun, none of them were effective or well known, and I never manufactured any myself. I did that that as a teenager, before there were laws, and it's what got me into engineering before I pursued a degree. This was pretty early on in hobbyist 3D printing, it was all super experimental. Ultimately, 3D printing is just one method of manufacturing - there are many out there, and honestly the barrier of entry is low regardless of what method you choose. If someone has the skills to run a 3D printer, they can buy the hardware store components to make a gun regardless.

The better bet for legislation would be to more comprehensively ban unlicensed manufacturing, whatever the method, and more strictly regulate which parts may be bought unlicensed (barrels, trigger assembly, magazine, etc).
On a personal note, I think it's too deeply engrained in American culture to shift anyway, but I hope we keep trying to change the world for the better l (stricter background checks, more stringent home safety requirements, etc.)

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Ostensibly, that's because the app wants Bluetooth and/or WiFi access so it can connect to the printer. Because you can use WiFi and Bluetooth to determine location (based on large crowd sourced databases of these data points that have been geolocated), the OS has to ask for location permission as well, even if you just need to see WiFi and Bluetooth.

That being said, once they have this permission, I have 0 doubt they log the actual location as well...

Mozilla used to run a free service for this, and collected that data in the background using mobile Firefox. A replacement is https://beacondb.net/, which is still building enough location data to become useful. Services like this aren't nefarious, they're actually really important in getting a quick GPS lock on mobile. Phone hardware actually have pretty poor GPS receivers, but if you can determine an approximate location prior, you get much better results, especially once supplemented with inertial measurements and snapping to mapped roads.

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As an apples to oranges comparison, here's a fun datapoint.

I just rented a BMW 5 series for a week, for a grand total of ~$300. That's a good deal, sure, but some very rough napkin math tells me a $60,000 car / $300 / week = 200 weeks of rental should pay for the cost of the vehicle (ignoring maintenance for now). So, let's say it's a $5k bike (implausible), that should really only be $25/week, or generously $4/day. The fact even the cheaper option mentioned is 6x this is terrible - bikes really shouldn't be this expensive.

I wish bikes were more cost effective :(.

Edit: I wish bike rental services were more cost effective/sustainable :(

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At risk of taking some bait...

I profess a faith as a Christian, but am not a theologian. Grain of salt and all that, but we do exist lol

Unfortunately sorting "real" Christians from posers is difficult, and that's how people can get away with using the "Christian" label, because who can judge but God?

That being said, when you think about whether someone is a "real" Christian who's just not doing a good job, vs a poser who's just using the name, consider whether they exhibit some of the very clearly articulated attributes of being a Christian, such as the Seven Virtues. If someone consistently calls themselves Christian, but makes no effort to improve in these ways, that might be a good sign they're not genuine.

So to your point, using Christianity for social gain is antithetical to actually being a Christian.

I'm terms of Organized Christianity, and cases in which it has shielded those who do evil, that's a big, messy topic. Sufficient to say, the church is wholely responsible for not taking it seriously for so long. It breaks my heart that it happens at all, and brings great shame that there are people who supposedly profess the same faith and yet allow these things to happen. The church can and should do better to hold one another accountable and to protect the vulnerable.

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I'm sorry if the church has hurt you before, truly, but I'm not seeing any reasoning behind your position. Care to elaborate?

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I see. You've added more context to your comment - thanks for the insight, I'll stop engaging for now, as it seems that wasn't your intent in making this post. Thanks for your time, and I wish you well.