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- Comment on One Angry Man 6 hours ago:
Risky Weasel
- Comment on Replaced my electric resistance water heater with heat pump, dramatic reduction in energy usage 22 hours ago:
bravo! Double check if your city offers subsidies. Got $200 for mine.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 day ago:
Codeberg apparently
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 3 days ago:
I was excited to learn that homeassistant lets me bypass the atrocious Sonos app for controlling all my speakers from various music sources.
Though at the same time, I’m little disappointed that offTikTok is broken.
- Comment on paid subscription 4 days ago:
- Comment on Is there a good selfhosted service that can download and rehost tiktok links from a web ui? 5 days ago:
WARNING
The docker-down.sh script associated with offtiktok runs a docker prune -f and will delete any unused docker containers you have without warning.
- Comment on Is there a good selfhosted service that can download and rehost tiktok links from a web ui? 5 days ago:
Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for!
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- Comment on The nursery rhyme "monkeys jumping on the bed" gives children the impression that you can just call your family doctor who will pick up immediately. 5 days ago:
The phrase “snitches get stitches” makes a lot of assumptions about the availability and expediency of healthcare.
- Comment on Game reviewers boycott publisher CGE, for publishing more Harry Potter themed products 6 days ago:
Allegedly Rowling was not involved in the game at all. I’d think of it as an act of goodwill from the developers.
You’re required to meet her in the game, so it’s not like anything was snuck in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8k8DseLCl8
- Comment on Game reviewers boycott publisher CGE, for publishing more Harry Potter themed products 6 days ago:
Legacy literally has an explicitly trans npc in it.
- Comment on bird based storage 1 week ago:
It’s in the first minute of the video.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 week ago:
I’m curious about this as well. I think all the components are available, but nobody’s clicked them together yet.
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 1 week ago:
This is like a reverse Goldfinger plan. Could have an interesting impact on the gold market if it can be done at scale.
I’m sure most gold mining operations take at least a few years to get permitted and started and then there’s risk that you won’t find as much gold as expected.
Compared to a lump of gold that all you have to do is not lose it and it will appreciate in value all on its own.
- Comment on How We Conquered the Whomp’s Fortress Tower (in 0 A presses) | pannenkoek2012 1 week ago:
I remember watching the entire A button challenge video a few years ago. Did they drop an A press since then?
- Comment on White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation 1 week ago:
At least the Space Race gave us Velcro and Tang.
- Comment on Is the peoples deep interest in chemical experiment viral videos (e.g. liquid nitrogen in a pool) related to being shooed away from understanding real science? 2 weeks ago:
I have this shirt.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 2 weeks ago:
45-67Million Years according to Wikipedia.
Sharks are hundreds of millions.
Also somewhat relevant: xkcd.com/1342/
- Comment on Its a draw🗣️ 2 weeks ago:
There is no way they got a horse to draw that carriage.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 2 weeks ago:
Laughs in 1200 disc DVD collection
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 3 weeks ago:
“The loser in an argument about the meaning of the word ‘hoverboard’ is anyone who leaves that argument on foot.”
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 3 weeks ago:
beyond trivial issues
I’d argue that 10-15% of issues are trivial issues and are worth investigating even without a schematic if the alternative is just throwing something away.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 3 weeks ago:
I can top that. I got a broken $100 BlueYeti microphone for $10 on eBay. The USB cable they shipped it with was bad.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 3 weeks ago:
You don’t have to fix everything, but just doing stuff like replacing connectors and capacitors could probably save 10% of the shit that we throw away, and it’s not that hard to try.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 3 weeks ago:
pay to have the unit returned, spend valuable technician time diagnosing and fixing an issue and then pay to ship the repaired unit back.
My point is that in a better world, people could fix this kind of thing themselves. Like offer a discount for their trouble and have them or their mechanic aunt come by and fix it.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, my Wi-Fi router requires a PhD in reverse engineering just to figure out why it won’t connect to the internet.
I do think people in general could benefit from maybe $100 in tools and a healthy dose of Youtube when it comes to this point. My PC of 10 years wouldn’t boot one morning because my SSD died. There wasn’t anything too important on it that I hadn’t backed up, but it was still a bummer. I took it apart, and started poking around. Found a short across a capacitor, so I started cycling capacitors. Sure enough, one was bad. Replaced it. Boots just fine. (Moved everything to a new SSD just in case).
All I needed for this job was a multimeter and a soldering iron (though hot air gun made it slightly easier).
I think the “black box” nature of electronics is mostly illusory due to how we treat our devices. A friend bought a walking treadmill that wouldn’t turn on out of the box. She contacted the company, they told her to trash it and just shipped her a new one.
She gave it to me, I took it apart. One of the headers that connects the power switch to the mainboard was just unplugged. It took literally 10 minutes to “fix” including disassembly and assembly, and all I needed was a screwdriver.
Yet there’s zero expectation of user maintenance. If it doesn’t work, trash it.
- Comment on GET BRUSHIED IDIOT 3 weeks ago:
In the original, you pulled them out, but parents probably got sick of losing the teeth.
- Comment on GET BRUSHIED IDIOT 3 weeks ago:
The children yearn for crocodile dentistry.
- Comment on I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie. 3 weeks ago:
The best smelling one.
- Comment on I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie. 3 weeks ago:
Old Spice was not long for this woeld.
