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  • Nova launcher lets you customize the appearance and home screen further. There are several others on the app lounge, but that's the one I went with. Just for added security, whichever launcher you end up with, block the app's network access. I had one i tried out change hands and the new company was trying to use it to data mine.

  • Discussion - Potential piefed instance in the future?
  • I don't know a ton about piefed , but wouldn't that be more likely to divide the community?

  • Windows loses 400 million users as mobile, Linux, and Mac use grows
  • Because of w10 ending, and my unwillingness to keep dealing with their horrid bullshit, I'm switching every machine in my offices to Linux mint. I'm not thrilled to have to learn a new os, but so far everything I need works, and it's not that big of a jump outside of the file system structure being a bit less straight forward.

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  • I think most movies are dogshit, but the bad ones are fun to riff on with my friends.

    My criteria for what makes a good movie seem straight forward to me, but apparently I ask too much as shown by the vast majority of movies being frustratingly bad.

    I can suspend disbelief for lore and character, but not for blatantly dumb decision making, plot holes, or forcing a story event. Entire plot lines based on simple misunderstandings ruin stories immediately for me, as do hamfisted agenda pushing, or stories hinging on "common knowledge" that's known bullshit. (Looking at whatever that movie was a few years back that started with the narrator stating we only use 10% of our brains, fuck off.)

    Horror movies have their own indurating problems, which is too bad since it's my favorite genre when done well. For some reason, people always act like they're in a horror movie. Gotta check something in the basement? Better walk slow and look nervous, it's not totally unreasonable for someone to be afraid of their own fucking basement. Or the polar opposite, everything is fine no matter what, and I'm sure the several missing people are just playing a prank.

    Can this problem be solved with simple communication? We better find some bullshit way to get rid of cell phones. uh, the battery died. Uh, ghosts aliens and monsters block signals. Uh the antagonists is a tech expert who jams phones. Uh, they're in the woods, there's no signal. (I've been in the woods, there's a signal.) Or they just decide to give up and base the plot in the 80s.

    Lazy writing, in other words.

    This took too long and I've lost interest in my rant, but I'll post it anyway.

  • The "We Tried" Award
  • You're not wrong, but like, ouch.

  • North Sea Oil
  • That sounds great. I don't have any of that shit.

  • Cecropia Moth
  • These dudes hang out in my shed and scare the shit our of me when they suddenly blast off.

  • I have no info, yet I must meme
  • Between 35 and 51.if we assume a reasonable stacking technique for stability, every box not on top can be supported on 3 sides at 40.

    We also don't know that every box is the same size. With that format screw it could be as low as 21.

    This is why mechanical diagrams include an isometric view and xray lines.

    Edit: I see now it specifies cubes, so the number couldn't be 21, but it could still be less than 35. I'm not figuring that one out.

    Also why can't you see the trailer in the top view when it protrudes on the sides?

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  • She looks so weird in this picture I thought it was a screenshot from the game.

  • Intergalactic mosquito hunter.
  • Looks like a sick new risk of rain character

  • Songs with the same name?
  • It would be funny as hell to make unrelated songs with the overcomplicated names from fallout boy and panic at the disco

  • Songs with the same name?
  • Just thinking about that today, listening to creep by stone temple pilots. Creep was the first hit by Radiohead, and another came out by TLC

  • Date night tonight?
  • Yeah. Also it's full of beans.

  • Capitalism in theory vs capitalism in practice
  • My main office has 8 employees. We clean our own place. If you need a cleaner, hire one. If you're not big enough to support that, clean it yourself. Maybe you need phones answered, hire someone that can clean when they're not on the phone.

    If you needed to have a composer, they become part of your team, or you buy music from them. The composer wouldn't be a contractor from a company, but rather somene who produces their own art and can sell it as they see fit, or they work on the payroll for the project. This not only gives more power to creators, but cuts out every leech middleman driving up prices and lowering average wages. Mass communication through the internet has killed the necessity for giant advertising firms to get your name out there.

    For franchises, I would argue anyone running a McDonalds works for McDonalds. Hit that cap of 2500, and suddenly there's room for competition and innovation, instead of a sea of the same trash everywhere you go.

  • Capitalism in theory vs capitalism in practice
  • Easy laws that could stop this bullshit:

    1. A company can't own other companies.

    2. A company cannot have more than 2500 employees.

    3. A company cannot employ contractors, outside or temporary workers numbering more than 10% of it's total work force.

    No mega corporations, no buying out competition, no loopholes to employment standards.

    Edit; forgot a main one

    1. The highest paid individual cannot make more than 40x the lowest paid employee.

    No c suite billionaires avoiding paying the workers.

  • Battery-free solar desalination system produces up to 5,000 liters of water per day
  • Well if we could get 44 million of these going 24/7 we could counteract the ice caps in Greenland melting.

  • Why is glass still the norm for amateur telescopes?
  • Ah, got it. I'm pretty focused on lenses just due to my day to day.

  • Why is glass still the norm for amateur telescopes?
  • Polycarbonate has one of the lowest ABBE values of any of the optically used plastics, so it scatters light pretty badly the thicker it is. As compared to eyeglasses, telescope lenses are really thick, so the poor light transmission would ruin the clarity. On top of that, poly expands a lot under heat, and so any coatings on the lenses will eventually start to craze and delaminate. Glasses don't need to last more than 5 years before being replaced, so it's not as big of a deal. If your telescope became unusable in that time, you'd be furious.

    Poly, while being impact resistant, is not nearly as scratch resistant as glass, and is nowhere near as chemically stable. Didn't realize there was dirt on your cleaning cloth? Ruined scope. Cleaned it with regular window cleaner? Ruined scope.

    There are other resins that would be better, but nothing nearly as simple and durable as glass comes close to the optical clarity.

    Eyeglasses would still be made from glass if they weren't so heavy and potentially dangerous, Not to ignore that nobody wants to wait two months for custom lenses to be made.

    Source: I'm an advanced optician running three offices and a lens lab.

  • nutmeg furniture with dong and cheesegrater, 179$

    To most people that would be a ridiculous statement. I stumbled across it and sent it to a friend who happens to need a fine set of furniture with a dong and a cheesegrater.

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    trying to find security cameras

    I want a security camera system that I can trust to be only my own. My requirements are not hugely unreasonable, but I can't find them the way search engines suck shit these days. I want a camera system with:

    Local storage

    No internet connection

    No phone connection

    No cables

    No cloud storage option

    No router necessary

    And the option that seems impossible with the others: No option of remote connections

    I don't want to see whats going on in real time on my phone, I want a completely private recording saved if I ever need to see if I got robbed. I don't want offline ability, I want cameras that can not connect to the internet at all, even through another device. I'm not worried about local network hacking, I want saved video that can only be viewed directly from the local storage. Longish life batteries so I don't have to route power, and no cables that can be unplugged. Solar powered would be nice, but isn't necessary.

    Why is that so hard to find?

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    why is my whisky evaporating?

    I have a heavy crystal decanter I've been using for years. A while back I was having some guests for a week, and thought I'd save some money and grabbed a bottle of Jim beam to put in it, as opposed to the higher end I tend to go for, because none of my guest cared about Bourbon. I noticed the level going down further than I had consumed. This has never been an issue before, so I figured someone had just nipped it while o was asleep. The next day, there was condensation on the inside, and the level had dropped further.

    Since I'd been using the decanter for so long, I assumed the frosting on the stopper had rubbed off and it no longer sealed.

    When it was empty, I refilled it with larceny, my standard, and to my surprise, it didn't evaporate at all for weeks.

    Last night, I refilled it with beam again, and this morning, it had dropped and there was condensation on the side.

    What really confused me, is Jim beam has a lower alcohol content than the Bourbons I usually fill the decanter with, so I would think it would evaporate as readily.

    Why does only this one brand evaporate?

    Quick searching gave me no results

    Tldr: Why does Jim Beam evaporate in my decanter while nothing else does?

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    Looking for what I can do with my android TV

    I've got a Sony android TV and it... Kinda sucks with the constant 'reccommended content's (ads). Every update just adds more scrolling shit I don't want to see.I want to know what different programs I can try out, and maybe a different os I can put on it. I'm looking at smarttubenext currently, and I want to know of other things I can use to customize my experience.

    Any recommendations?

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    Is it possible to clone my standard windows setup?

    I manage several computers, and every time I set up a new one I go through the same motions. Install w10, disable a bunch of shit, add the same list of programs, delete the same default apps, setup Firefox how I want it, run through Oosu, disable several services, and add some registry keys.

    Is it possible to have a USB boot media that will do all the tweaking for me? As of right now it takes close to two hours every time, if could just plug in a drive and run the installer, it would make my life a lot easier.

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    SadSadSatellite SadSadSatellite @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    How many fucking letters can I use? I'm sick of editing this shit, just fucking accept the bio, damn.

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