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  • I have experienced the same login bug on the Mlem app as well. One of my devices stayed logged in and is working perfectly; my other device logged me out of lemmy.ml and I have not been able to log back in on that device.

  • What item have you been using on a daily basis for the longest amount of time?
  • Not daily, but weekly or so.

    My dad had a little leather zipper pouch with two or three nail clippers and files/blades in it; a small pocket sized nail care set.

    I used it weekly when I was a kid (every time I’d visit his place), probably from 9-17 years old, and then he gave it to me when I moved out on my own, so I’ve probably used it weekly non-stop for about 30 years at this point.

    Electronics are tougher as they just don’t last as long; I used a Dell 24” LCD from 2006 all the way until 2022, so 16 years? It even failed around 2015 or so (power supply died) and I ordered a replacement PSU, resurrecting it. That monitor was my PC monitor and TV in college, and just kept kicking.

  • Google Announces to Delete Inactive Accounts, All You Need to Know
  • They can leverage these terms if they want to. For example you’re also only allowed to have one account per person.

    Wasn’t it the Terraria dev who got his account locked and they used that as an excuse as to why he was locked out of his account? They said he had too many accounts or something?

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/terraria-developer-cancels-google-stadia-port-after-youtube-account-ban/

    They can enforce arbitrary rules when they need to if they wanna fuck you over; just like cops.

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  • Cutting Edge Engineering is one of my favorites. Basically an Aussie couple that runs a machine shop where they do very large repairs on parts for heavy equipment. Loads of lathes, milling, boring, welding, all explained and filmed perfectly.

  • Removal of Mazda Connected Services integration
  • Yeah but there are too many brands out there to choose from; as a consumer our only power is to speak with our wallets.

    Corporations don’t get to pick and choose which actions from them result in lower sales; all of their actions are judged, and by all potential customers.

  • What shitty things have your favourite bands/artists done?
  • Maybe not as bad as the others…

    I’ve been a NOFX fan for about 25 years; still am.

    Their whole Vegas shooting country music joke was really hard to wake up to & read as a fan. Also the ripple effect that had on the other bands playing with them; the shows getting canceled; it was all a huge shitshow.

    Having said that, I’m sure NOFX themselves have done more fucked up things than that joke, but the timing and lack of sensitivity was really a gut punch (not just to the fans, but the people of Vegas and the victim’s families).

  • Why does the drive thru operator change back and forth during my order?
  • Yeah I feel the same.

    So at least on an iPhone (I think Android does this too if I recall from when I had my Pixel 3XL) the payment uses a one-time use card number if you use Apple Pay; I didn’t have to sign up for an account, and the Taco Bell app only has my email & first name (pretty sure you can give a fake email too as it asks you to enter name/email each time if you have no account), and that’s it. The friggin’ Taco Bell app has less of my data than most apps actually.

    I actually installed it as a joke (my wife hates Taco Bell), and ended up liking the ordering process, go figure… it’s fun for a once in a blue moon fast food order.

  • Why does the drive thru operator change back and forth during my order?
  • I eat Taco Bell occasionally and I do like their system. Order on the app, use Apple Pay/Google Pay to actually pay for it in advance; roll up to the drive thru and give your name; drive forward and get food.

    It’s the most frictionless fast food experience I ever had ever had.

  • Why does the drive thru operator change back and forth during my order?
  • Sometimes the operator is in another state! There was an article I read a while ago about… maybe it was Carl’s Jr.? but they were saying that the drive thru operators were in call centers in states with a lower labor cost.

    Not exactly uplifting, but “yay capitalism” I guess.

  • Honda and Acura add garage door control to Apple CarPlay, Android Auto
  • Nothing about this story makes sense; you’ve asked a great question. Isn’t CarPlay/Android auto usually manufacturer agnostic when it comes to the features included? Wasn’t that the whole point of it?

  • what to do when there's no atheist in your locality.
  • I also grew up atheist in a country where it’s not OK to be secular.

    My only advice to you is this: Don’t talk about religion at all. Don’t try to find other atheists; look for people you get along with and enjoy being around; don’t talk to them about religion.

    I don’t love quoting NDT as he can be polarizing, but he said that non-golfers/skiers don’t gather and talk about not playing golf/not skiing (paraphrasing). https://youtu.be/CzSMC5rWvos

    The last atheist I met and hung out with at college had his whole identity wrapped up in atheism; it was uncomfortable; he also had some undesirable qualities that he used his atheism to excuse. I’m not looking for an anti-religion club, I’m just not religious; maybe you are looking for a “club” though, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

    Just live your life and surround yourself with supportive, good people whether they are atheist or not.

  • Honda and Acura add garage door control to Apple CarPlay, Android Auto
  • Chamberlain Group’s myQ Connected Garage service

    Ahh yes, myQ; the service that is randomly up and down when you need it the most.

    I had a Chamberlain myQ garage door opener and I hated it. I hated everything about it. It was slow, unreliable, the button doesn’t use a simple open/close contact for triggering the door (so you can’t easily DIY a solution with a relay board); and it just didn’t work half the time because “the cloud!”

    $129 for 3 years? For what? For < 10 API requests per day? That’s insane.

    Don’t most modern cars (the type that have CarPlay in them) also have programmable garage door buttons on the rear-view mirror?

  • What is the fundamental limit on game streaming?
  • For most of us, there is no difference though; you get what you get.

    I live in a nice neighborhood but I won’t ever get fiber… we have underground utilities and this area is served by coaxial cable. There’s no way in hell they are digging up miles of streets to lay fiber; you get what you get.

    My ISP latency is like 16-20ms but when sim racing it just depends on where the race server is (and where my competitors are). As someone on the US west coast, if I’m matched with folks in EU and some others in AUS/NZ, the server will likely be in EU and my ping will be > 200. My Aussie competitors will be dealing with 300-400.

    It’s not impossible to share a track at those latencies, but for close racing or a competitive shooter… errrr that just doesn’t work.

    The fact that I’m always at around 200ms for EU servers might be improved if we could run a single strand of fiber from my house to the EU sever (37ms!) but there would still be switching delays, etc. so yeah the speed of light is the limit, but to your point, there’s a lot of other stuff that adds overhead.

  • I made a website with a shortish url for low participation series

    I published a new iRacing site last night, maybe someone here will think it’s useful?

    https://whenrace.com

    I like racing in some of the low participation series on iRacing (Kamel GT, GT Challenge, Mission R, etc.) I wanted a site where folks could reference the SoF race times for their favorite series, and with a short URL that would be easy to share in iRacing text chat or even verbally. So I came up with “when race?” I used the list compiled in the forums by Ellis Spice as a starting point and will continue to evolve it as time goes on.

    When you choose a series, the URL updates too so you can share a direct link to a specific series: https://whenrace.com/gtc

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