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  • The earth is widest at the equator and it spins along that axis, so it's easier / closer to get up into space.

    Alaska probably just cause why not.

  • is "oh boy" considered a gendered term?
  • I don't think it's a gendered term, but you could switch to "oh snap"

  • Former B.C. premier John Horgan, Canada's ambassador to Germany, dead at 65
  • RIP, it seemed like he was one of our few good politicians.

  • If I live in an apartment, how can I put my food waste to compost?
  • Not if you're doing it right. Worms should eat things before flies have a chance. The air holes are too small for mice or anything.

  • If I live in an apartment, how can I put my food waste to compost?
  • It's just a bin in your kitchen.

  • If I live in an apartment, how can I put my food waste to compost?
  • You could do worms, it's easy to get started and I think low enough smell you could keep them indoors.

    https://learn.eartheasy.com/articles/worm-composting-basics-for-beginners/

  • Any ideas on how to make my kitchen more "cozy"?
  • What does it look like with the lights on? Try using warmer temperature bulbs. Phillips have some that change hue as you dim them.

  • How do you feel about the outcome of the US election?
  • Empathy at what my American friends are going through, and dread about our own incoming conservative wave.

  • Community feedback on handling malicious downvoters
  • Have you considered turning off downvotes?

  • Apple TV+’s ‘Sunny’ starring Rashida Jones cancelled after one season
  • Not surprised, it started off really strong and then went nowhere....

  • Any substitute chat chairs/pads to replace the admittedly warm computer?
  • You can buy little usb powered heating pads, just stick it under a pillow or blanket that she'd like. They also sell cat beds with them built in.

  • How do you track the "mess" you are doing with your system?
  • Don't make a mess, and do the changes you need with ansible. Effectively making its code your documentation.

  • Update on my plant. Unfortunately it might be sick, it has been getting worse ever since I brought it home
  • Do you have one of those moisture meters? They're on amazon for $20 or a local garden store will typically have them. They're great for checking the moisture of the soil deeper down.

    Just don't leave them in the pot or it'll ruin it. Stick it it, check it, pull it out.

  • pictrs - IO error: Permission denied (os error 13)
  • It's not the postgres db, it's the internal pictrs db.

    Fix your docker volume permissions so pictrs can write to the folder

  • Russia reportedly paid a former Florida cop to pump out anti-Harris deepfakes
  • Whenever I read about this stuff it seems to be such a paltry sum, like $10k. I don't understand why someone would do it for so little.

    If I'm betraying my country, I want at least my own fully staffed super yacht.

  • Nintendo's latest product, "alarmo"
    www.nintendo.com Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo™ - Nintendo Official Site

    Buy Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo™ and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

    Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo™ - Nintendo Official Site
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    Schematic problem - It gets hot and smells like burning

    I've been messing around with circuits my entire life but this design was time sensitive and I've never done my own PCB designs before, so I hired someone to put this together. After getting some test boards, when I plug them in the charger chip gets very hot and smells like burning....

    Circuit is just a simple li-ion usb charger and a switch. I've gone through the datasheet for the bq25302 more times than I can count and I'm missing something obvious here. Using it just for delivering power seems to work fine, the problem is only when charging.

    I do see R6 + R7 off TS don't have the recommended 10k values, but I don't feel like that would cause what I'm seeing. This is being connected to a 21700 lipo.

    Someone mind lending me their eyes please?

    bq25302 datasheet - https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/bq25302.pdf

    !

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    Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca Shadow @lemmy.ca
    Hexbear - Refederation?

    Recently I was asked if we'd be willing to reconsider federation with Hexbear, followed by CARCOSA reaching out to me to see if it was something we'd be open to.

    They made a post asking if their community was interested in refederating with us, similarly I'd like the opinion of our local users.

    Why refederate?

    Hexbear has a decent number of sizable active communities:

    • https://hexbear.net/c/games
    • https://hexbear.net/c/technology
    • https://hexbear.net/c/movies
    • https://hexbear.net/c/food
    • https://hexbear.net/c/vegan

    These all seem fairly well moderated, giving us access to more diverse posts and viewpoints. A lot of our feed right now is dominated by US centric communities, and it'd be nice to get some more variety.

    Why not?

    They love trolling and I don't expect them to follow our rules when commenting (primarily "be civil").

    Just looking at their thread about us, there's a significant number of immature replies slandering us / Canada. I'm not confident their users will engage in actual discussion in our threads, rather than just showing up to throw out insults and memes.

    We can try to handle this by banning users / blocking specific communities, but that's going to increase moderation workload for both admins and mods. Hexbear is self admittedly quick to ban users on their side, but they also don't mind ban evasion - not ideal for us.

    So what's next?

    This is where we solicit your opinions, how does our community feel?

    Edit: Well, it looks like the community is overwhelmingly against refederation. Decision made, thanks everyone for your feedback!

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    Eminem - Somebody save me
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    Any way to find previously viewed posts?

    Sometimes I want to find a post I viewed a while ago. I can hide read posts, but is there any way to view read posts?

    I can't find anything in any menus.

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    Today I learned female bees have pollen baskets on their hind legs

    The bees love my garden but I'd never noticed these orange things on any of them before. I thought it might be a parasite but nope!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen_basket

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    Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca Shadow @lemmy.ca
    Lemmy.ca scheduled maintenance Saturday July 6th - Complete

    Hi everyone,

    We'll be undergoing maintenance on Saturday morning from about 11am - noon PST.

    We've been having some stability issues over the past few days that I've tracked down to database performance, so I'll be doing some tuning and also applying all our needed system updates at the same time.

    Cheers!

    Update: This is all done now!

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    cute dogs, cats, and other animals @lemmy.ml Shadow @lemmy.ca
    Besties
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    Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca Shadow @lemmy.ca
    We're now upgraded to 0.19.5
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    Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca Shadow @lemmy.ca
    We're now upgraded to 0.19.4

    Sorry for the brief bits of downtime here and there, I snuck in a quick upgrade of us to the latest lemmy 0.19.4 now that a few bugs have been patched out.

    More details here! https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

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    Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca Shadow @lemmy.ca
    Pictrs upgrade - completed

    I'm in the process of upgrading us to the latest 0.19.4 release.

    https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

    You might see some brief downtime during the next hour or so, pictrs is currently upgrading its database.

    Edit: Holding off on lemmy as Blaze was nice enough to flag some new bugs - https://lemmy.ca/comment/9660430

    Edit: Pictrs upgrading taking longer than expected after the migration crashed, hopefully wrapped up soon!

    Finally Done! We're all ready for the new lemmy version now, maybe once a patch release comes out.

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    Police recover 29 stolen vehicles in shipping containers at B.C. ports
    bc.ctvnews.ca Police in B.C. arrest 2 men after $2.5M worth of stolen vehicles recovered

    Two men from Metro Vancouver are facing more than a dozen charges each after police recovered 29 stolen vehicles, many of them found in shipping containers at British Columbia ports.

    Police in B.C. arrest 2 men after $2.5M worth of stolen vehicles recovered
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    InsanePeopleFacebook @lemmy.world Shadow @lemmy.ca
    Lawyer turned sovcit ordered to pay neighbor $30k

    Although it's not Facebook, I figured y'all would appreciate this

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    Vancouver is in a ‘full-blown crisis’ for housing affordability: Report
    globalnews.ca Vancouver is in a ‘full-blown crisis’ for housing affordability: Report | Globalnews.ca

    "It is becoming more and more difficult with first-time homebuyers as prices rise here in Vancouver," realtor Mike Stewart told Global News.

    Vancouver is in a ‘full-blown crisis’ for housing affordability: Report  | Globalnews.ca
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    Today I learned @lemmy.ml Shadow @lemmy.ca
    TIL some cities (like NYC) pump nitrogen into their phone lines to keep water out.
    hackaday.com Why Is There Liquid Nitrogen On The Street Corner?

    Any NYC hackers may have noticed something a bit odd this summer while taking a walk… Giant tanks of the Liquid Nitrogen have been popping up around the city. There are hoses that go from the…

    Why Is There Liquid Nitrogen On The Street Corner?
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    I've worn out the spot on my screen where the sync icon lives

    Ljdawson we need you now more than ever, you're our only hope!

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