XTL

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maynard’s Dick?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTrKmP7oU9U

  In the t shirt business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tesla, funnily enough, is also quite subtle. As is Alfa Romeo unless you count the entire scudetto as a logo. Ferrari. McLaren. Lamborghini. There might be a pattern there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  same watts and volts but more amps

  Laws of physics: defeated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You won’t have any of the electrical or software info for any of the components unless you’re a manufacturer and most parts aren’t really salvageable separately but are essentially one big glob on the board. Even with the skills, you’d need to reverse engineer some of the most complex and hard to use components ever manufactured for consumer use and somehow fit them in places they were never meant to fit.

  And yes, software. The board support for the SOC, mostly. Maybe starting off with a pinephone or something might help, but I doubt even that is open and usable enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do the math. See how rational the fear is. Whatever the result, admit you’re afraid and decide if you also want to be brave and act despite the fear. Make a plan. Start working on it. Hopefully things are better on the other side, but either way that fear will pass.

  Fear is a natural part of human life. Often useful, but also often not. But as long as you can manage to act despite your fear, it won’t harm you.

  Ok, cortisol and stress exist, but you have bigger things to worry about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fret, check your spam folder⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I apparently also need the most comfortable chair ever. Which just makes me think of this C&H www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHKiGl02NmU

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That rule might not come from English language and what was translated to “meat” doesn’t necessarily mean all animal flesh. Even English had words like “beef” and “pork” and “poultry”.

  If you want to gotcha lawyer culture or religion, you’ll need the actual sources. I’d suggest avoiding that, since it will just make you behave like an asshole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And how many of those houses are mouldy, rotten, or otherwise non habitable?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Badgers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Finnish name for dachshund is literally badgerdog (mäyräkoira) btw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Brave is a series scam company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you store lots of spools?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean lets the moisture in. If your spools have massively more moisture than the environment, that sounds fishy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TV pixels were also generally not square. And if the device was a TV and not an actual video monitor (both were used with home computers), it was a little slow and blurry. And overscan existed. There’s a lot of things that will be a bit different when you look at an emulated display.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In practice? Constantly changing hardware with soc vendors that publish nothing and device manufacturers that (have to) keep pushing out new models on a short cycle. Plus many of them have extra shenanigans to keep the bootloader locked so you can’t install a recovery (presuming you had a working one) so you could replace the os. There are some rare exceptions, but the hardware is rare and tedious and not many people can or will work on installable Linux on them.

  If you just want to run some Linux userland, there’s ways to do that on top of android, though. Want to get to a Linux like system or run a program? Might be as close as installing a terminal or running adb shell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Project Analyzing Human Language Usage Shuts Down Because ‘Generative AI Has Polluted the Data’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds bs. Unless their only source was actually Reddit or quora or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yandere AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably locked her in a basement and forced her to write articles instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student dorm does not allow wifi routers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  4/5g is exactly the allowed alternative and what refusing to allow infrastructure use leads to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setting up a printer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guesses are clog (99% of all extrusion problems), heater problem, wrong filament diameter or broken extruder (check for slipping and cracked arm, spring etc).

  I don’t know if twerking helps, but it doesn’t hurt to try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A few ideas to consider in this kind of situation:

  If you watch broadcast TV, consider stopping. Is it really of any use? Could your time have better uses? Maybe you’ll never need that ad stream.

  If all you need is a display for console/computer/media box, get a display instead. No tuner, no networking, no ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_(video_game)

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game)

  Depends on how you constrain that idea. Open worlds were a very early idea, but old computers were somewhat capacity limited in how much content you could have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you bought a 3D printer for personal use, was it worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Ender probably wasn’t. It was a lot of effort, and mostly not the interesting kind, and fairly little reward. Although when it worked, it was really good. In the end. Sometimes. And it’s way too big.

  The Kingroon, very much yes. It’s cheap, kind of trashy, but compact. Just prints stuff. Parts detach great. Works just about every time. Quiet out of the box. Just kind of annoying to preheat at the start and end of the session to load and unload filament. Very annoying touchscreen. But those are minor things and I’m not tempted to fix it or upgrade anything. I have actual projects to do. Too many actual projects to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trouver des données sur les transactions de ventes immobilières⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spam doesn’t care

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debian Sarge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sarge came out 2005. I thought it would have been a bit older, but looks like the 90s releases were longer. I’ve probably been an admin of every release at some time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Kind of weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty good. Except the heat wave is really exhausting and some nights it’s hard to sleep. A little back pain one day and a day at the beach on another. The usual.

  Ok, the warm water was a rare treat. One thing I love about the summer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are they to stand in the way of climate change‽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What cellulose do they use then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except for the corn part. Sugar sources vary around the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HDD data recovery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve once had a hard drive of some particular vintage that wasn’t able to start. I did get it running with a hammer tap. Got the remains of data out and replaced the drive. It was nothing special, a Unix system drive with nothing that wasn’t on tape, but I just had to see if I could fix a hard drive with a hammer.

  I also remember one admin who would often be seen walking between computer maintenance room and workshop wing with drives and a blacksmiths hammer labelled “format”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s Your Oldest System?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Psions were pretty amazing. Can’t believe they ran a whole operating system like that on a couple of batteries. Iirc, turning on the LCD backlight doubled the idle power consumption. So the whole system was as heavy as a couple of LEDs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ¿Por que no los dos?