bss03
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- Comment on If it fits... 1 day ago:
I agree that it probably should be legal-ish. I think maximum curb gaps are a great idea, and minimum curb gaps are probably a good idea in areas where curb cleaning might frequently overlap with parking. But smarts and cycles should almost already be allowed to double-up within the same F-150-sized space.
- Comment on If it fits... 1 day ago:
right wheels need to be within 12" of the curb
park nose first
rear passenger wheel still more than 12" from curb -> ticket.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 5 days ago:
women are too stubborn to pee with the seat up
I think that’s sarcasm, unless you actually meant to communicate that women are stubborn.
In any case, I think due to Poe’s Law, you’d have gotten better votes if you included “/s” or “j/k” or another marker. (But, votes might not be a concern to you.)
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 5 days ago:
Ah, the old PieFed RooSwitch!
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 5 days ago:
^ /s ?
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 5 days ago:
I too prefer the commercial oval/egg bowls to the to residential round bowls.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 5 days ago:
Video is unavailable in my region, but thanks anyway.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 5 days ago:
I’d have to re-watch those segments. The part that remains stuck in my mind is that they found fecal particles on a toothbrush that was in a closed drawer.
I don’t believe closing the lid helps that much, and I grew up with (and still have to deal with) a toilet that sometimes but not always needs a second (or third) press of the handle, so I keep the lid open so I can be sure the water really got flushed. (It drains the tank into the bowl, but sometimes it just slowly, but steadily, flows through roughly maintaining water level instead of crossing a pressure (?) threshold and flushing out the bowl and then refilling.)
But, I’m all for closing the seat and the lid when you are done. It keeps pets and dropped items out of the bowl, if nothing else. If we have to leave the lid up, I still say seat down; that’s the “ready to use” configuration for all female and some male uses.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 6 days ago:
Mythusters found fecal particles everywhere even when the lid was down. There’s no escape from gross, just finding an acceptable level.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 weeks ago:
… the best kind of correct.
Are the new winners listed of the Indie Game Awards site?
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 weeks ago:
I’m not going to uninstall or demand a refund, but I fully support the Indie Game Awards decision on this and will not refer to CO:E33 as a winner of any of the Indie Game Awards. I will still call it IMO the best JRPG in many years, but I thought that before it started receiving awards.
I hope this event serves to scare game studios of all sizes from the mere appearance of using AI at ANY scale or part of the process. Hell, I hope it causes the whole damn bubble to burst, but it’s just not that important.
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 3 weeks ago:
What? The green revolution doesn’t deserve anti-aircraft capabily?
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 3 weeks ago:
Ho, ho, ho. Ho.
This Santa has one extra.
(j/k)
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 5 weeks ago:
While I do have some control over my DNS and can create arbitrary TXT entries, I can’t to that in an automated way easily. I’m using Gandi.net to host my DNS rather than running my own DNS sever(s).
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 5 weeks ago:
Probably the comment has federated to lemmy.world, but the deletion of the comment hasn’t yet.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 5 weeks ago:
Looks like autoincorrect did a s/CRLs/Carla/ for you.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 5 weeks ago:
Technically my renews aren’t automated. I have a nightly cronjob that should renew certificates and restart services, but when the certificates need renewal, it always fails because it wants to open a port I’m already using in order to answer the challenge.
I hear there’s an apache module / configuration I can use, but I never got around to setting it up. So, when the cron job fails, I get an email and go run a script that stops apache, renews certs, and restarts services (including apache). I will be a bit annoying to have to do that more often, but maybe it’ll help motivate me to configure apache (or whatever) correctly.
Debian Stable
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, I don’t even like using the word “cheat” to describe customizing a single-player gaming experience in a way not blessed by the developers. Terrafirmacraft (and maybe even just Gregtech) isn’t cheating at Minecraft; certainly the experience isn’t “easier”.
So, yes, I will play the game is whatever way makes for the most fun for me, whether that’s “cheating” or not to you.
For experiences that aren’t single-player, including (e.g.) anything with a global leaderboard (even at third-party one), I can understand why someone might choose to cheat, but I think I could deny myself those temptations. But, I’ve never been a “simple” cheat away from the top of a leaderboard or any other sort of acclaim or reward.
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 5 weeks ago:
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition to meet the Dessandre Family
- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 5 weeks ago:
Enshittification will continue until morale improves.
- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 5 weeks ago:
The first one does tell you how to “completely remove Gemini from your smartphone” under that heading. I do not have the Gemini app installed.
The second one says:
Can you fully disable Gemini on Android?
No, and that’s by design. While you can turn off activity tracking, revoke permissions, and even uninstall the Gemini app on some devices, Google is actively replacing its Assistant app with Gemini.
But, I’ve also disabled Google Assistant across all applications, so I don’t share data with Gemini/Assistant. I had to lose some features to do so.
Overall, your reply serves to confirm for me that I have disabled Gemini on both of my Android devices. Still, I appreciate the links!
- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me either way. There IS a lot of telemetry and other BS that is definitely still on my phone, included in OS updates, and not uninstallable (I can “uninstall updates”, but that would also give me back any security issues). But, I don’t think that it is Gemini, or at least predates that naming convention.
To get free of Google telemetry, I’d have to install a non-Google ROM, and I haven’t ever tried that.
Telemetry certainly can be abused, and Google should be legally (by regulation) required to provide a simple opt-out. BUT, telemetry really is a fairly normal thing to include in “web-scale” deployments and is primarily used to discover issues that have escaped into production without affecting a testing environment–or, at least, that what the telemetry systems I’ve interacted with as an software developer were for. So, I’m not too worried about non-personalized data collection.
- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 5 weeks ago:
Do you have some sort of evidence for this claim?
- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 5 weeks ago:
I’ve lost features that used to work without Gemini, but I believe it is disabled on both my Pixel 7 Pro and the Pixel 8 I have access to.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 1 month ago:
I’ve basically only been seeing the “blowing bubba” meme stuff, but I expect that we will at least get more evidence that Trump got handjobs from women that could not legally consent and were coerced into those acts. There’s long been testimony to that effect.
I hope it torPEDOes this whole Presidency, but I’m a bit tipsy just now.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 1 month ago:
Aw. Quesaritos are my favorite thing. I might never eat at a Taco Bell again.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 2 months ago:
Depending on the year model of the car, it might not make that sound. It wasn’t required on some of the earlier EVs, which could be eerily quiet. I believe it’s required by law on newer models. Pre-2016 Volts has a “pedestrian horn button”; 2016 and newer Volts play a noise continuously as lower speeds. (My Uncle says it sounds like the warp drive hum on the original Star Trek Enterprise.)
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 2 months ago:
My parents would say you just haven’t been hungry enough. Their parents lived through the great depression. I wouldn’t know, but I hear people are having to make food/medicine trade offs, which seems more dire that flavor/texture preference tradeoffs.
That said, I don’t know a protein source that’s as available and cheap as beans, but you might try insects if cheap is the priority or poultry if availability is your priority.
You can buy a large bag of frozen vegetable blend and steam it fairly simply. You can either steam single serving and keep the rest frozen OR steam the whole bag in bulk, and refrigerate for up to a week, reheating single servings as you need them.
Best of luck.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 2 months ago:
Yeah, no. I cooked my own beans from dry and I was still overly gassy for a bit.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 2 months ago:
Best sloppy joes I ever had were mostly TVP. It is really great at absorbing the lipids from the meat AND spices.