COASTER1921 @ COASTER1921 @lemmy.ml

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Same here, I had both COVID vaccine and the flu shot on the same day this year. I ended up with a 102°F fever for ~24hr and had to skip work the next day. But unlike actually getting sick I felt 100% better the second day after getting them.

This comment is both higher effort and funnier than the post itself.

I have one with 65W USB-PD and it's a lifesaver for work travel. But lately I'm hesitant to take it anywhere outside of the US even though it's under 100Wh, airlines are cracking down significantly on power banks particularly in Asia.

Last time I was in China I noticed many power banks have integrated video game systems on one side (a basic NES/GBC emulator). I wonder if that's to get around the difficulty of travelling with them?

There are a few garages with validated parking in downtown Dallas. But ultimately charging for parking in a downtown makes sense, that same space could be used for economically productive purposes rather than holding a car. Mandating we build even more parking would only make traffic worse and lead to an underutilized downtown. If it's too expensive, DART stations have free parking and the train to get downtown is only is $3 ($6 for a day pass).

I do, in Firefox. But to browse Lemmy I prefer a dedicated app (specifically Connect). The app has its own built in browser which is more convenient when switching between an article and comments. Sadly the integrated browser appears to just use the Android system webview.

What a scammy website! I'd love to read the article but amid all the virus warning popups and redirects it's pretty much unusable.

Anyone know if Connect for Lemmy supports ad blocking? Ideally I'd rather not have all links open externally in Firefox.

Although they use milk, they consider egg a meat. They treat their cows like gods, so if you're vegan only for the reasons of animal suffering then I'd argue being vegetarian in India is philosophically identical

The verification is supposedly not linked to play protect at all. Presumably Epic will be a verified developer even without being on Google Play and therefore their apk's will remain installable regardless of distribution method. If Epic were blocked then I imagine they'd absolutely have grounds to sue.

I also always call him Dear Leader. We can't normalize these behaviors from a president, and using the "Dear Leader" title makes it unambiguously clear that his selfish actions are not presidential.

AI companies and investors are absolutely overhyping its capabilities, but if you haven't tried it before I'd strongly recommend doing so. For simple bash scripts and Python it almost always gets something workable first try, genuinely saving time.

AI LLMs are pretty terrible for nearly every other task I've tried. I suspect it's because the same amount of quality training data just doesn't exist for other fields.

An old PC is the best NAS, even if you choose a dedicated NAS box it's likely that you'll want to "upgrade" to an old PC in a year or two. Unlike premade NAS boxes you have full control over the software and can modify the hardware as needed. You can undervolt/underclock to save power too, so the main difference is only the physical space it takes. Having the ability to run docker containers and VMs on the same device is incredibly useful, and you'll get significantly faster transfers despite the drastically lower cost.

I suspect at least one comedian will cross some line but I also suspect that showing which lines are okay to cross now is the Saudi government's reason for doing this all in the first place.

Their government is in a super precarious position both economically and socially. Oil revenue is shrinking and the younger generation doesn't identify so heavily with the wahabists. But the wahabists historically held nearly as much power as the house of Saud and heavily oppose all social change. The pace at which Saudi society has westernized is remarkable considering where they were just 10 years ago, even if brought about by an authoritarian ruler consolidating power from religious fundamentalists. This is yet another step in the direction of pushing the wahabists further aside for the sake of westernizing their economy.

I really don't envy the position MBS is stuck in. He faces enormous pressure from the wahabists who criticize the limited social changes he has brought, he faces distrust from the house of Saud most of whom he essentially accused of mass corruption, and criticism from the West for Saudi's poor human rights record. And amid all of this the country faces the economic crisis of the world moving away from oil. It's no wonder the dude is focusing on stupid mega projects as that's just about the only thing he can do without upsetting a huge number of people.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Saudi Arabia were a democracy. I suspect their politics would be far more divided and heated than any Western country.

You can still request the old plates, but nobody does. DC residents who aren't in politics are incredibly politically homogenous. You would think the rest of the country would take that as a clue about how things actually work there...

Ah but don't worry they already told us our Dear Leader was only there because he was secretly working for the government to protect us!

I mostly seed stuff that's on the verge of being lost media and my ratio is often insane because there just aren't other seeds. Ironically for many old/unpopular films the Internet Archive is a lot better than any torrents.

The comment on this internet archive review in particular had me laughing.

Leaving ADB open to unverified apps is more than I was expecting. ADB is reasonably straightforward to use even without actually being an Android developer.

There was never any way they'd integrate it to play protect and still allow play protect to be disabled. I prefer this to being required to use play protect personally, though the services do seem somewhat redundant. Presumably the whole point of doing this is to create an Apple style walled garden (which is of course very profitable). Google likely doesn't want to fully lock it down and risk legal trouble, they just need to make it difficult enough that the masses don't bother installing unapproved apps that may not act in Google's interests.

I still hope the EU takes legal action against this anyway.

That's kinda the case here with Debian being on the extreme opposite of Ubuntu. I don't see any benefit of putting up with the stability issues and complexity of other distros when Debian "just works". And once you debloat Ubuntu you just get Debian.

I have no idea why Canonical moved Ubuntu to rely so heavily on snap, it's wasteful of limited system resources. Removing it sped up both my Ubuntu machines significantly (especially the one with only 4GB of RAM).

Graphene is only supported on Pixels for now, but by their own FAQ this isn't the plan forever. With Google blocking third party apps at their own discretion on Android, there will certainly be motivation to officially support more devices.

To add bootloader unlocking probably isn't going anywhere soon so at least you have the option to run something like graphene on Android devices.