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@ IcedRaktajino @startrek.website

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I'm beautiful and tough like a diamond...or beef jerky in a ball gown.

-- Titus Andromedon

  • What is the best laptop you can get for under 650€?

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  • Ah, well, that limits things a bit then.

    I have refined tastes when it comes to laptops, but I'm also cheap, so lightly used high end models are right up my alley. Unfortunately, I can't think of any [brand new ones] I would stand behind that are in that price range other than maybe a Macbook Neo, but you specifically ruled out ARM (they're also not supported by Ashai Linux yet, either).

    Sorry.

  • What is the best laptop you can get for under 650€?

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  • Are you married to a new one?

    I pretty much exclusively buy used ~3 year old Thinkpads which meet all of your specs and then some. My last two were X1 carbons (7th gen and now a 9th gen). Each cost me about $450.

  • Pastrami egg and cheese.

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  • Same. I'll have to try it with pastrami sometime.

  • What are the most interesting user tags you have?

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  • Interesting or useful?

    I don't think I have any really interesting ones, but the most useful one I have for people is "Always On".

    Basically when I see that tag, I can mentally prepare myself and roll my eyes before reading. Basically it's for people who just do nothing but preach at you regardless of the topic being discussed. It's...pretty useful.

  • Pastrami egg and cheese.

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  • Yum! I usually do similar with roast beef.

  • In a sense, Fediverse is the worst of both worlds

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  • Ever lived in a small town? Drama and gossip is fun

    Yes, I have, and no it's not. It's just all there is except for high school football, making more kids, and the same drama and gossip but on Facebook. IMO that's why small towns are so toxic once you get past the thin veneer of "small town charm". Couldn't wait to leave the one I grew up in.

    And after re-reading OP's opinion, I starting to see the parallels.

  • Who does the algorithm(s) think you are?

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  • Hank Hill, apparently.

    I don't use Facebook and use all the ad blockers, but apparently I'm still tracked by IP.

    When my SO and I started dating, he hooked to my wifi one day and immediately started getting ads on Facebook for various lawn care products. He'd never had those come up before, lived in an apartment all his adult life, and has never searched for any kind of gardening supplies.

    I, on the other hand, do have a lawn that I take care of and frequently shop for various landscaping stuff. But he gets the ads for them.

  • Unreasonably pleased when I can charge from excess solar

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  • Lol. We had ours set to 74 during the previous heat wave. Wasn't sending any power back to the grid since we can't do net metering, but we weren't drawing any from it either.

  • Unreasonably pleased when I can charge from excess solar

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  • Nice!

    I don't have an EV (yet!) but the last couple of days have been fairly cool for July and haven't had to run the A/C much. The house batteries ended up charging fully by about 2 in the afternoon. Since we can't do net metering here, any excess is just wasted right now.

    When I do manage to get an EV in the next couple of years, I'd like to setup something similar to charge it when I'm producing an excess.

    (Hopefully this is OK for this community. Not news, but could be a nice highlight/discussion. If not, glad to find another spot to share it.)

    !solardiy@lemmy.world would probably love to hear about your setup.

  • What do you call a dinosaur that's read Wuthering Heights?

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  • I feel like this is the kind of joke Frasier would have told Freddy when he was a kid.

  • guys batteries were on sale

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  • Wait, what?? Those are a thing?

    I've seen some rechargeable smoke detectors but never had a reason to trust those. Everything else has used the old school 9v.

  • Interview via MS Teams? How about NO.

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  • Literally this.

  • Interview via MS Teams? How about NO.

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  • Twice a year I fill in as DBA when our lady graybeard Oracle DBA takes vacation. This month is one of those times. Yay me.

    For my org, it's just the massive in-house developed line-of-business application that's tightly coupled to Oracle that keeps us chained to it. It's technical debt from top to bottom, and has been accumulating steadily since the early 2010s, but no one seems willing to start replacing it.

    The new projects typically go with Postgres, MariaDB, or if all else fails, MSSQL. But the Oracle monster in the closet isn't likely to leave any time soon.

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    Today is a beautiful day

  • guys batteries were on sale

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  • If only 9 volts were that price, I'd stock up for the smoke detectors for the next 5 years.

    For everything else, I bought a bunch of rechargeable AA and AAAs a while back and those have been great. Haven't used a D battery in years and a C battery for decades. I assumed they stopped making C's.

  • Powered USB hub hat?

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  • The only tricky bit is forcing the Pi's USB port into host mode by default. I thought the hub was defective but it worked when I put an OTG adapter into the micro USB port. The default auto detect behavior doesn't work with this since it doesn't connect to the OTG pin.

    I had to edit /boot/firmware/config.txt and add under the [all] section:

     
        
[all]
dtoverlay=dwc2,dr_mode=host

  • The Fediverse should require a deposit fee to sign up

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  • They can browse for free to see what it's about. That's how ArsTechnica works, and I've been a subscriber there for 10+ years.

    Sometimes a little bit of friction and slight gatekeeping is a good thing. As my massive block list can attest, not everyone who signs up here makes the fediverse a better place.

  • The Fediverse should require a deposit fee to sign up

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  • Still get the benefit of the determined people funding the instances they're using.

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    The Fediverse should require a deposit fee to sign up

  • Anyone done this?

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  • Powered USB hub hat?

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  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01K9IVUYM

    I bought that earlier this year. Works great. Have two RTL-SDRs hooked into it along with a Meshtastic node. It mounts under the Pi Zero so you still have your headers available for other stuff.

  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
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    Column 1 straight down for me.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    When someone forwards you a long email thread with only the words "See chain"

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Write-Up: My Multi-Purpose Travel Server

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    I'm finding myself aggravated with all definitions of the word "cloud" these days.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Shitty YSK

  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
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    When people squat and drop templates that take up 2/3 of the canvas 10 seconds after the event starts, it just makes me not want to participate at all.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    PettyMillion: One million tiny complaints from around the world

    www.pettymillion.com
  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    "Lance" isn't a very common name these days, but in medieval times, people were named Lancelot

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Remember SCANTRON? How did that work?

  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
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    (Gestures broadly and vaguely in all directions)

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL Rosa Parks was in an episode of "Touched by an Angel"

    www.imdb.com /name/nm0663005/
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    My tools while I'm on the roof installing solar panels

  • me_irl @lemmy.world
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    me_irl

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Does anyone know what happened to the 2012 game "Syndicate"?

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syndicate_(2012_video_game)
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Project

    DIY Steam Machine for Under $200

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Online Shopping

    When "shipping label created" is treated as the item being physically shipped

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Deep Space Network: How To Contact The Voyager 2 Probe

  • STO Alliance @startrek.website
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    I've finally done it. I've equipped the rifle and gotten out of the armory in the tutorial