I buy the smallest phone I can find… But they keep getting bigger, there just aren’t smaller options available.

I love the idea of a flip phone, if only for the promise of increased durability, a more protected screen. But so far I think these foldable phones have been generally less durable than more traditional phones. So yeah, I’ll wait until the tech matures.

I mean, if nobody was using them…

The worst part is that for most of these services, the child accounts are still functionally useless for parents.

We have a kid who actively seeks out content they know they’re not allowed to watch, which means unfortunately a Netflix subscription simply won’t work for us because Netflix doesn’t allow you to actually password protect your profiles. So our kid can just select the parent profile, or make a new one if they want to watch whatever they want.

As far as I know only Disney+ allows you to put a login pin on parent accounts to lock kids out. That would be useful, except the Roku we use to watch things on the tv doesn’t password protect all of its channels, so we still have to be on top of him to make sure he’s staying within disney+…

I gotta be honest, I kinda miss cable tv.

You think that 727 you flew in last was built in the 90s? Heh, you don’t want to know how old they are. I’ll just say this, those passenger jets cost millions of dollars and airlines don’t like to throw things out. Ever.

A private twin engine plane could literally be built any time in the last 50 years, could be brand new too. That doesn’t mean it isn’t airworthy though, being old wouldn’t make it unreliable.

The Jewish community has been speaking up. The problem is that the global Jewish community doesn’t actually control the Israeli government, so there’s only so much that speaking up can do. Also, the population of Israel tend to see things quite differently from American Jews. It’s very unfortunate that Jews in Israel do seem to have forgotten the Holocaust…

That is not typically how Judaism works though. At least for the Jews around me, Judaism is a culture centered around asking critical questions. God doesn’t even enter the equation for a great many Jews, that’s not the point. The point is using the tradition, the rituals and the community to remember and better understand the past and to use that understanding to prevent the same kind of tragedy in the future.

Anyway, that’s the kind of thing we talked about at my sedar.

Could we please just say that bees are dying? When you say disappearing it makes it sound like a conspiracy, which it isn’t. The CIA has not partnered with bigfoot to kidnap the bees as part of a secret operation in the time war…

It’s not a conspiracy, they’re dying probably because of something we’re putting into the environment. And by “we”, I mean most likely the agriculture industry operating perfectly legally under current law. I specified “legally” to point out that it’s not the fault of farmers, they’re just doing their job, the problem is that we’re not regulating the use of chemicals carefully enough - and that is our fault.

And all that is to say, can we please just call this what it is?

How does formatting give it away?

I’ve honestly struggled a lot trying to figure out what posts are just chatbot trolls and what posts are people worth trying to create a dialogue with.

I mean, sometimes posts will say things that seem like they’re intentionally misleading or inherently malicious in some way and it’s like… Is this person for real? Are they trying to push some specific narrative? Or are they just misinformed? Or is this just a chatbot designed to upset people and disrupt online conversations on this subject?

At this moment, you can buy consumer motherboards with 8 ram slots. Filling them with 64gb dimms you can reach half a TB. It’s definitely more affordable than server parts, but it’s still pricey. I guess you’re looking at a $1500 system rather than a $20,000 system.

An inconsistent voltage is a bit of a deal breaker if it’s a significant swing. For example, AA batteries are supposed to be 1.5v. Typically you can measure them at 1.7v when they’re brand new, and that’s fine. The voltage will drop as it’s used and devices tend to stop functioning when the battery reaches about 1.3v.

That’s a fairly narrow range of voltage required to keep the device working correctly.

Yes

It’s not a Lemmy thing, it’s an Internet thing.

Truth be told, irony, sarcasm and nuance, are quite hard to do in a text format without being explicit. Hell, that’s the main reason emojis exist, to replace the facial gestures and tone of voice we use to cue each other in on subtle aspects of language like sarcasm.

Plus, you can’t trust books… with all those words…

A weird choice though… Who wants to spend another $400-$1000 on a phone? Thats not nbd…

Sure, but it also solves the second problem, where they just confiscate your phone and don’t return it. Do you want them to take the phone you use to access your entire digital life, or your $50 burner?

Consumer grade Linux Mint is impossible to differentiate from Windows/MacOS.

That sure is easy to say.

In practice, I tried to use mint for the os on a family computer and just couldn’t make it work. I’ve been an IT guy for years and have tons of experience with both Windows and MacOS, but virtually none with Linux. Long story short, trying to make that machine work with Linux mint was just taking up way too much of my time. I just needed to get a few simple features out of it (and maybe 1 hard feature, parental controls). But having very little Linux experience, it just wasn’t going to happen in a reasonable time frame. I eventually had to give up and put the Mac OS back on it (an iMac).

Anyway, mint actually has a lot in common with the Mac OS, it makes a very small set of controls very easy to use. And technically, you can do just about anything else you need to with the terminal, but that can be challenging to navigate.

Bam! Fucking mic drop!

Skip Scarface, I’ll give you a quick synopsis. Robert De Niro sells cocaine, business is booming, life is great, he’s the best and smartest criminal in history, what a good life! I guess on top of selling all the coke he should also be doing all the coke, wow, this is even better than before! He’s a genius! Oh shit, the feds found out about his operation, no problem he’s a badass, he’ll just take em’ all it with his AK! Oh, wow that plan did not go well at all… The end.

Now watch Goodfellas instead. And try to figure out if any of the characters (including the narrator) are “good guys”.

The 9/11 funders? Go figure.

You might not be that new Einstein…