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Why do people who try to convince others to switch to metric focus so much on the conversions?

It seems like a weird point to bring up. How often do y'all convert your measurements? It's not even a daily thing. If I'm measuring something, I either do it in inches, or feet, rarely yards. I've never once had to convert feet into miles, and I can't imagine I'm unique in this. When I have needed to, it's usually converting...

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WHOOOO ISO-8601 FAN CLUB!!!!

[Cheers and goes running out the door]

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Look... Im sure this is not the first time the pope has been called the antichrist. It likely happened in 884, 964, 997, 1012, 1378, 1409, or 1418 to just name a few.

(This is not be taken seriously, I grabbed a bunch of years from the Wikipedia list of antipopes to make a point when the role was contested. In the case of the ones between 1378-1418, where a bloody mess is an understatement (I would rather read history on the war of the roses), there have been significantly fewer violent disagreements regarding the title/position since then)

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I just block the side-bar using Ublock Origin. Makes more room on the page and im not sold shit. If I want random videos ill hit the home page the post-screen after a video.

Keeps my time down on the site by a lot.

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Companies that can not be trusted to not add features their customers do not want can not be trusted to keep them disabled by default.

If the door to AI exists, we, the users, do not trust the organization to keep it locked.

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Sigh... We understand what your getting at, but choose a different word... Be better.

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Thats why FORD is actually an acryonym!

Fix
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Who?

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Yah, my mental default when reading anything released by the white house is that the reality is the opposite of what they are saying.

  • Strikes on "drug boats" = they were not "drug boats".
  • 47 denies being friends with Epstine = 47 was friends with Epstine
  • ICE is going after criminals = ICE is going after normal people
  • JD Vance denies fucking couches = well...
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Dont you put that evil on us Ricky Bobby!

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The problem is not that someone did that, its that there are two of them...

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Degoogling your self is a process and needs to be handled carefully. Realisticly, this quite difficult if your not a fruit phone user, but there is hope for people who arn't neck deep in Apples walled garden. GraphenOS announced last year they would be expanding their range of supported devices. [Link]

Once that happens, closing the ol' google account will be much easier or atleast use a modern smart phone without having it tied to the tornent nexus.

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Im so excited, Valve COOKED, I love the little blockhead minion on blue team and everything looks amazing. The only thing left on my wish list is a draft pick.

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Sir, the police are here.

They would like to speak to you about some irregularities in the pension fund.

‘Sometimes You Need a Dictator,’ Trump Says Following Threats to Cancel Election ( www.commondreams.org )

After weeks of authoritarian threats to crush protests with the military, cancel elections, conquer foreign countries, and send masked agents door-to-door to round up anyone who can't prove their citizenship, Trump on Wednesday told an already uneasy room full of world leaders that "sometimes you need a dictator."...

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Fine...

But they could have called it Star Command or something more sci-fi. Im giving them no credit for creativity to the point there is even a Netflix comedy show released that same year.

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I can only imagine the bellowing ghostly laugh of Erik the Red and Leif Erikson as yet another fool falls victim to one of the best jokes in human history.

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Perfectly fine, if your worried about the storage get a bigger one and reinstall what ever OS you want on it before you get comfortable (queue linux enthusiests here).

16gb of ram is the functional minimum for windows 11 and I would not push for an upgrade at the current time. Just be aware of your memory useage, Windows 11, Chrome and Office 365 services are memory hogs.

For the CS stuff, dont worry, your machine needs to run a terminal. You WILL be connecting to more powerful machines to do the heavy lifting. Leasing AWS time or using machines on your schools network is likely how all that will go.

Furthermore, its a Dell, so you can throw the service tag into their support site and get the exact parts list and specs (if the bottom is scratched off, its in the BIOS too).

If you need tech support, just let us know (nerds are always here to help).

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Boooo, companies need to fuckin stop that...

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Come give Warmachine a shot, army sizes are usually smaller and the rules are less "my rule book was published more recently, that means I win" (Plus the models are slightly cheaper).

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Oh no, anyway...

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This makes Alton Brown sad... But I guess its ok if it can handle Chicago deep dish or cake.

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I dont, I just assume you are all robots. Nice robots, who usually say smart or nice things, but unless I can drive to a place an punch you without breaking my hand... Best to just assume yall are to avoid the disappointment later.

As for proving to the rest of the robots that im not a robot... For Lemmy, I completely turn off spellcheck and amy grammar assistance. The frequency of errors, poorly constructed sentences and bad use of frequent AI tells is hopefully enough to validate that im beep boop not a robot.

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Hm... A likely story, a very human thing a human medical professional would say. Carry on beep poop.

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Do you do what Calvin & Hobs do where the draw a line through the peanut butter jar and only eat from that one side, then scoop from the bottom on the other side, until the last of the jar is the perfect untouched half on top?

Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

I used to self-host because I liked tinkering. I worked tech support for a municipal fiber network, I ran Arch, I enjoyed the control. The privacy stuff was a nice bonus but honestly it was mostly about having my own playground....

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Incorrect, a raspberry pi will run off of a phone charger (it will whine at you if it provides less than 2 amps).

And for some of the projects listed that are meant to be out in the field like Meshtastic, there are plenty of guides to get them hooked up to solar cells.

In addition, to avoid costs of the RAMpocalypse/data centers butt-fucking the local power grid, reduce, reuse and recycle. Older desktops can run hypervisors like Proxmox or other VM/container solutions to split the work load into a bunch of VMs. (Dell Refurbished has decent deals, if you dont mind scratched up cases, but its beena bit since ive checked them)

In my case, the same device hosts multiple services split into several VMs, and I just got the backup server taking nightly snapshots. Wont save my data from a fire, but if hardware issues happen, backups are being taken (still need to test them, but thats a problem for future me).

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I keep it intalled so every time I click a reddit link, the redirect gives me a 403: forbidden error.

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Those dense motherfuckers...

If its as rural as you say, next time you seem them ask them what the price of brisket is. Surely one of them is will remember the price from a year ago.

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-Gurren Laggan
-Trigun
-Code Geass
-FMA
-Tanya the Evil

For FMA, start with the original, because they spend more time during the opening chapters, and switch to Brotherhood at the exact scene when they vault the labratories fence.

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For Total Recall, the point was that the state of the film was ambiguious. Were the events on screen the memories bought and paid for, or was it a real spy thriller.

The remake answeres that question and ruins the entire premice of the film. This is a key example on why these Hollywoo "remakes" are widely panned, they usually miss the point of the origional art and audiences are dumber for it.

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Hey now...

That song rocks when its played by a proper brass band, it only sounds silly when you make it silly. Otherwise its a good march.

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I was thinking using this to practice making web apps again. Find me in a year if I actually do...

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The main issues a lot of the FF purists on this site take with Brave is-

  1. its a chrome fork, which is a hard stop for them, and thats a good enough reason alone to avoid a product given how anti-corporate and anti-google the residents of this site are.

  2. the systems in the opt-in list are still part of the application. There is an anxiety that the developer may decide at a future time that those features are not opt-in/enabled by default after an update.

So the natural response is to advocate for browsers that simply do not have those features and are open-source so that users can verify rather than trust the dev team to not put features like that in the product. Or rigoursly vet every update installed on your system to prevent that stuff from being installrd in an update, which is not viable for most people... (Run apt update/upgrade and manually approve every package change, we will see you in a few days).

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Who's on first?

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Oh please tell me its an official version for the advanced combat mod. Take those training wheeles off and lets get all souls-like up in Kher Moren.

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And some people like mods and options, or would you prefer we just use the classic retort "git gud".

The mod just made the game more challanging, resources were consumed in crafting rather than refreshing on rests, it set geralt's roll and step it to the camera angle, and made regen of stamina based on a % of current health.

Let people enjoy things and set your games difficulty setting to where you have the most fun, now sit down.

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Or people can enjoy their media how they want to. If I want to mod the hell out of my favorite game until it hurts, thats my porogative.

This crowd detracting from wishful thinking is a real downer... Yall need to grow up.

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Ok, ill bite.

Was reluctantly on Hinge a while back (was 31M at the time). My sibilings twisted my arm to make a profile and helped design it (I dont take pictures of myself so it was challanging to make). Overall expirence was negative to neutral, over ~2 years of minimal useage just to the profile active, threw 15$ at the app to see if it changed the algorithm (it does). IIRC ~12 replies, 3 first dates/meet-ups and 0 second dates. Cant say I put a ton of effort It so I wont lose sleep over anything.

The shocking part of the whole thing was compairing results with my sister. She functionally did not need to go to the default feed, dozens if not hundreds of contact requests... We had a joke back when she was in college that if she felt like it, she would never have to pay for a dinner (obviosuly that would be a dick move, and she never took advantage of anyone, but the data was there).

Once it became obvious that the platform was full of bots, dumby accounts, and was noticably trying to prey on desperate people with credit cards, I just moved on. Over all advice, if you find an app thats very new and not owned by match group, go for it, you will likely meet people earnestly trying to make connections. Otherwise, dont bother, go find a date the old fashioned way, outside.

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  • BEANS, CORN, ONION

Our memes feel very old internet and I miss those times.

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Its the secret to cooking for guests. Everyone is like "wow, your an amazing home-chef", and im just hoping noone notices the entire diced onion and minced garlic I carelessly threw into the meal.

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The latest patch reduced the file size dramaticly, so it runs a lot better.

And as stated by others, for best expirence, play with friends, sweaty players tend to bounce off it as there is no rankings or ratings and global progress is slow. Have fun, Freedom and managed-democracy await your support.

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Yep, thats corporate monitoring software for you. Everyones got it, if you dont see it, assume its there. If the PC is not yours and or built with your own hands, assume its bugged or key logged. This goes for school PCs as well for the youngins, this is not to make people paranoid, just manage expectations on privacy. If you didnt make it, assume its recorded.

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You know you can stand up your own Matrix-Synapse server as part of your home lab, its the "we have Telegram at home" answer.

What is your most important tool?

I don't just mean a wrench, unless thats it for you. I mean any tool you regularly use for work that you consider your most important. If you're a software person name whatever digital tool you guys use. Whatever the career everyone uses tools I dont care if they are digital, verbal, physical or psychological. For me its...

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My Fluke Intelatone copper cable tracer and pin mapper. Had one as a company tool back early in my career. Bought one for myself when I moved and just carry it around in my magic bag of tricks. It is just the best at finding its other half, so much so that ive had multiple employers buy their own because I use my own and wanted me to stop using the shitty cheap ones they get off amazon.

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No, im of the opinion that the Amsterdam model is the most ethical response (so far) to drug abuse and mental health assistance. If addiction is a factor, punishment is not a deterant (and atleast in The US, an excuse for authorities to abuse the carve-out in the 13th ammendment). Treating people as patients instead of criminals provides the most good to society.

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WELCOME TO THE OFFICE OF SECRET INTELIGENCE SAMPSON!

[Co. Gathers jumps out of the plane without a parachute]

Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox ( www.theverge.com )

Mozilla is in a tricky position. It contains both a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the internet a better place for everyone, and a for-profit arm dedicated to, you know, making money. In the best of times, these things feed each other: The company makes great products that advance its goals for the web, and the...

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Given what Microsoft is smoking these days, no AI would be a selling point, and Mozilla does not seem to realize they are playing with fire. Their userbase chose their product instead of using the system defaults of Chrome, Safari, and Internet Exploder. Their users, just like Lemmy, are tech-litrrate and more socially concious than the masses. If an alternative or fork appears, with sufficent support, and Mozilla does not put the breaks on their AI train, were all just going to jump ship. We do it every time a new OS is installed, there is no Firefox loyalty, only lesser evils.

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I was in the trenches for that nonsense fixing stuff daily because of them. Oracles wacky tacky shit that kept their users locked to Java 7.21 for a decade past the support date. Bloated language packs and not being able to keep up with basic HTML tags... You dont know how good yall have it today.

I dont care how much MS dresses up Edge, we know its just Chrome in a poorly fitted suit. The old addage still holds true, Microsofts default browser (formerly IE, currently Edge) is the best browser to use to go download another browser.

[This concludes grumpy old tech speech]

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I like that reference, im stealing it.