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[–] [email protected] 5 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

Good thing we have highly trained historians on Lemmy to tell us these things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I've dealt with storing energy from solar for a long time now, and from the deepest part of my heart: fuck lead acid batteries. The only thing they have going for them is being able to charge below freezing. But they're shit in every other way, especially weight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

555-1212 was the number where I was.

I still use it on websites that ask for my phone number for some gods unknown reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I've been stung about half a dozen times by wasps so far this year. They're beginning to piss me off.

And as an adult, my sister stepped on a hornets nest and damn near ended up dead. 150 stings had her in ICU for 4 days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

So... Britain?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Looking at his Wikipedia page, it looks like at one time this guy wasn't a complete asshat like he is today.

Age gets us all, but I hope I don't become an asshole before I kick off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

If Mitch is wagging his finger, you know it's staged. Because that fuck wouldn't back down from an insane powerplay when he was in the position.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

"It's OK, I'm Jewish."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Do anything you want, all the time."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I had an uncle that smoked like it was a cure for cancer and would sit over a sprayer tank pouring chem in there with a smoke hanging out the side of his mouth and no gloves on. Washed his hands with gasoline to get the grease off.

Lived to 95.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I remember my mom pushing me into the footwell when we were about to hit the ditch in a snowstorm, of course I wasn't wearing my lap belt, I mean, who did?

I wouldn't ride with her for a week after that, she was quite offended.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

OK, I'm selling everything and moving to a cave in the mountains, because if MTG is going to act sane for 5 minutes in a row, then some serious shit is coming down

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'll believe it when I see the vote.

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I'm not sure if this is related to Night Light (which I don't have enabled) or even just the monitors dimming in power settings, but I constantly have to go and bring my brightness back up from 20% when I sit down at my computer in the AM.

I have disabled Sleep as well, and the only thing left is the regular Energy Saving features of dimming after X minutes and Turn Off Monitors after X minutes, but I've set both of those to short timeouts and when it comes back, it's at 100%.

Edit: For some reason I was on X11. I've switched to Wayland and will see if that changes anything.

Any ideas what's causing this?

 

I need a few of these for rpi's around the farm. Tired of dealing with LoRa.

 

I have no idea how long this has been a thing, and maybe every clipboard works that way, not just Plasma, and I never realized it. It also lets you do things like Rt-click on it and do the regular operations like Search in Firefox. Spaces aren't preserved unless you specifically select them but search engines seem to be able to sort out the words usually.

I post this in case you haven't been part of the 10,000 this day already, like me.

Edit: seems to work in Firefox and LibreOffice, but not Kate or Okular. I'd love to see this as a general feature, it's handy as heck.

 

Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

 

Thank you for the great work, Vernor. You'll be missed.

 

cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/2164461

I have been keeping an eye on this series over in [email protected] and was intending to link the discussions for SF titles that I saw. The Handmaid's Tale is definitely an SF title that has seen it's share of fans and detractors. It has been banned or attempted to be banned in many jurisdictions including Western ones.

What is the communities thoughts on this book, does it unfairly extend Christian philosophy into questionable territory or does it not go far enough? Is it pornography, and if so, why? Let's hear your thoughts.

Bonus video: Margaret Atwood using a flamethrower on the unburnable edition of the book.

 

I got interested in SF because the librarian in my elementary was a SF lover. There were racks of paperbacks that I gobbled up and it's stuck with me for decades since. It makes me sad to think that kids don't have the same chance I did to get interested at an early age in the most imaginative genre of fiction. We all need to do our part to pass it on.

What are your suggestions for getting young people interested in science fiction?

A few I remember from that time:

Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series

Heinlein's juveniles like Podkayne of Mars and Have Spacesuit, Will Travel

McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern

Niven's Known Space books

 

Was there some sort of assurance that nothing was going to happen when the contract expired, and this expectation was changed? Freenom hasn't been registering domains since Jan 1.

It's seeming a little odd to me that this is catching people with their pants down.

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