Ptsf

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From my time working at a law firm I can confidently say most mentally healthy people would be surprised at the amount of people that 1. Never grew up 2. Have no problem hurting someone they claim to love 3. Have no problem posting evidence of that onto public social media.

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There is such thing as good! It's just locked up in grandfather nurgles closet being used to test the latest and greatest plagues and sicknesses before they're welcomed upon a unprepared galaxy.

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I'd have never bought a computer with one of these keys anyway. They dictate enough about my device, the keyboard is where I'm drawing the hard line.

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If you specify "against stealing except food in times of starvation or hunger " it replies "utilitarian" instead. Just an FYI.

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I self discovered this years ago. Smoking regularly stopped night terrors I experienced since I was a kid, unfortunate side effect is I don't (seem to) dream at all, but it seems a small price to pay for not waking up drenched in sweat screaming and scrambling for the nearest escape.

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This comment right here officer. (Fwiw, I up voted)

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So wholesome. Now you've gone and got me all emotional, SatansMaggotyCumFart

If only the famously homophobic US military hadn't become less homophobic 10 years ago! THEN there wouldn't be centuries of history of homophobia in The Global South(tm) ( lemmy.world )

Goodness, I almost had a dangerous thought, like "The struggles we experience in Western countries largely have analogues in non-Western countries" instead of "Every Problematic Opinion(tm) held by non-Western societies is The West's fault"

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Wait.. So I can't identify as an apache attack helicopter, but I'm perfectly valid as a MQ-9A Reaper? 😤

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Bonus points if you only have to pay when you get caught. 🙄

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Sounds like a history of poor management. Wonder if that was a contributing factor behind the scenes.

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Careful doing just this. They actually track http request headers and look for desktop signifiers, so your best bet is to use a VPN in tandem with whatever setup you go with. (Tried doing this a few years back without the vpn, they sent me some very upset texts.)

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It is odd how we conflate the relatively small harms of a more harmful (% wise) operation with the large harms of a less harmful (% wise) operation. It's like we forget the downsides of scaling up to current insane population sizes. There really are ~8,120,000,000 of us, perhaps our brains just aren't ready to handle the reality of that.

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Most UPS systems of quality will come with software capabilities. You can leverage this and just use a daemon to check the charge status every minute or so. If it's ever off AC or reporting charge levels lowering, you can toss the system into a low power profile. This might accomplish what you're trying to do.

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I'd say I'm optimistic, hopeful, and we'll intentioned but it's been many a year since I've felt "nice". Something shifted in society during the Covid era and I just feel awful going out of my way for most people these days. Very much in the "every person for themselves" category.

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Their justification is that their base doesn't care to ask.

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When something becomes economic, non-profit or not, expectations from the userbase change.

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It's interesting Microsoft beat infostealer malware to the implementation. It's particularly crazy to me too because something akin to Recall has literally been my "worst fear" A.I. Malware implementation since I first learned llms could process images (imagine running the model using security footage from the hacked ancient cctv solution your company is definitely using) but they've gone and pushed it as a "feature" and baked it directly into the OS. The mind boggles. 🤷‍♂️

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The antitrust machine hasn't had its scheduled maintenance for a few generations. It's gonna take a little while to spin up.

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Same. Lol

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In a way, you’d be right. Anything can be bought in America with enough ad dollars. To be honest though they probably didn’t think the FTC had the balls to try it, so we’ve probably not seen the ad-dollar minsinformation macchine spin up quite yet.

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Who's gonna stop them? The anti corruption police? Sounds like another person that just needs bought off, and when you're exploiting so many that isn't a hard ask...

Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...

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Yeah! The practice is called drive shucking (kinda like Oysters) and you just need to be considerate of the limitations. The drives often end up cheaper, but lose warranty support once they're shucked. They'll also occasionally be slower than a normal drive or have an odd connector, but that is rare since it's usually cheaper to go with something 'off the shelf'. If you Google it though you should usually be able to find the handful of drive SKUs they'll use in whatever external you're planning to shuck.

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Indubitably.

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It's the same reason many unenforced laws exist. It's an entrance point. As the saying goes, they didn't get capone on his gang activity.

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It's lemmy! Create as many accounts as you'd like.

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Lol I agree with you somewhat, but I think you're too lost in the sauce here. There are plenty of egregious examples of Hollywood and movie studios doing what you dislike (Batman rings some bells...), but this ain't it chief.

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They don't brick shit, don't lie. It not booting until you swap the part back to a verified part isn't even remotely close to a full bricking.

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Amount of times Steam has made me have any semblance of concern for the continued playability of my library over 19 years: 0

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Although we don't see it, all of these developments do actually eventually make their way into battery tech. The batteries of today are not the batteries of 2014.

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Encoding engine basically requires it, so you'd need to implement a hack or something. https://www.reddit.com/r/IntelArc/comments/189cgsm/intel_arc_h265_encoding_performance_and_resizable/

New Class of Antibiotics Proves Potent Against Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria ( scitechdaily.com )

This study describes the identification of an antibiotic class acting via LpxH, involved in lipopolysaccharide synthesis having potent in vivo efficacy against bloodstream infections caused by the critical Gram-negative pathogens E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Further development of this class of antibiotics could make an...

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Goodluck with that.

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These batteries are likely far more complex in packaging, design, and thermal management that any consumer electronic cell. They'll likely "fail safely" if/when they do fail.

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The cesspool. It's leaking.

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"If you work here we're going to go hardcore." Okay, cool, we'll I want a job not a capitalistic cult lifestyle so I think I'll just apply elsewhere - this has been my thought process with any tech company, lol.

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There's a lot of reputable Chinese firms that lead in their field of manufacturing and production, often producing things that just couldn't be made elsewhere. It's a quite big country afterall.

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Let you in on a little secret. Nothing is forever. All panels will eventually burn in.

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It literally is. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_burn-in ctrl + f lcd, or live in ignorance forever.

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I never said they burn in equivalently. LCD technology has a much longer service life than oled but it will eventually burn in given the right circumstances. Also Pixels degrading over time is how burn in usually works with modern display technology. Nothing lasts forever and we should be cautious that our understandings reflect that in technology, especially when we're using those understandings to build preconceived notions.

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It rolls downhill from here unfortunately. :(

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Weight is also a factor. All these bottles/etc are often transported in very carbon intensive supply chains. Any additional weight scales that footprint and has to be managed.

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It's also worth noting that transport does not have a zero cost on the environment. It's why we did away with glass, it's so heavy it actually becomes carbon intensive to transport. Especially when you account for greater spoilage percentages (due to the glass being mishandled and breaking more often than alternatives). The equation isn't as simple as it would seem. The true solution is less likely single use drink containers of any kind and more likely some sort of reusable bottle you carry around with you and could fill up.

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There is a big difference between invading a foreign nation (Ukraine?) against established treaties and nuking a foreign nation. Mutually assured destruction is avoided by even those on the losing side until they're well aware they've lost and have been given a reason not to surrender.

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I'm not sure I'm giving them far too much credit when you've sort of already proven my point by bringing up the multiple times it has been ordered and yet still avoided. I'm sure the situation would have changed if the person's responsible for launch believed themselves and their families to be dead already, but a chance at anything else is better than nuclear MAD. There's a hell of a lot of reason not to press that button.

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I'd save a stranger, but between a cat and my enemies I can't say I'd be inclined to go out of my way for either.

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That would work if rust didn't beget conductive dust that'll short out your shit in short order...

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Not disagreeing with the sentiment, but that's a poor argument. The m3 has far better power efficiency than anything built 10 years ago and the battery life that allows is one of the leading drivers in selling anyone new technology.

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Your argument is provably wrong. Compare the battery life of any modern M series mac to it's windows equivalent and you'd find that the Mac is significantly better. The MacBook pro 16 even fits the maximum allowable battery size at 99wh.

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What a shit take lol. Kinda tired of catering to your addiction to oxygen.

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