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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 27 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Is this dumbass trying to load a jetski in the waves or something?

I have operated heavy equipment, mostly front end loaders. Beach sand below the water line is scary as fuck to me. Like no one needs to tell me that one, not even a little bit. That shit is instinctive. I'd get a little closer with an excavator if I had a few points of hard rock to push and pull with the bucket. A wheeled vehicle that creates vibrations of any kind... that is insane. Not to mention the effects of seawater and electrolysis will wreck that thing. These vehicles really do seem to attract some of the dumbest people in addition to the terrible ethics and politics of a Tesla. Like if Elon was on the moral high ground Left, cyberfruck would still be an idiot's billboard of a wheeled boat.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It is not about that. The pixel has a TPM chip (Trusted Protection Module). This is similar to how secure boot works in desktop computers. It is a special external chip that has a secret internal cryptographic key that can never be accessed by anyone. This chip can be used to create secured communications between devices. This is how it is possible to do over the air updates securely and how the device's security can be checked with a special app and an external device like an old Graphene phone. All files on the device can be hashed with the secret key to determine of they have been changed. Other phones do not include a TPM chip and this is the primary reason they cannot be supported directly by Graphene.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

Get off the train. A Pixel setup with Graphene OS never has such nonsense features. I even fully control my own notifications. A 2 year old device still has 2 days of battery life with lots of use, and I have no bloatware at all. It isn't like some difficult techie thing either. Updates are secure, automatic, and over the air.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

Last time I was in a cafe was ~2012 playing MW3, CS, and 2142. Seems like that was a good time to exit. Maybe one day games will exist again. I'd love to get back into some, but without clear and tangible ownership rights to what I purchase with no strings attached, I am not at all interested in any game. I expect all features and complete autonomy or I simply opt out completely and hope all the corporate pirates burn. I can only fix me, and talk about it to say this shit is not normal. It only exists because you allow and vote for it with your money. Things could be better.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

If I need to know who my kid's teacher forks when they go home at night, I think I should go take a dive off a cliff to free up some oxygen for better use

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

This is like the whole point in Lemmy for me. There are some advanced Linux people here that are knowledgeable, but most stuff I'm really interested in gets little to no interesting engagement and often results in negative toxic nonsense. This ain't tech support. Those that act like it are kids regardless of age. I expect everyone to act like they would with any stranger in public; just be cordial and nice to people. Look at this place like a grocery store checkout or DMV line in place where people casually talk and engage with each other. No sane person would start some smalltalk about the weather to have a person say, "hold up while I check the app for you." Same deal here, don't be a psycho because of digital anonymity. It is not harmless. Some people like me are disabled where this is all of my outside human contact and stupidity can have a real effect on me. It has a real effect on everyone, and always has. Children are just too stupid and have too shallow of a scope of self awareness to see and acknowledge their path of destruction. Real ethics come with age, and a person with real ethics is completely unchanged by anonymous interchange with anyone.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I've been hit by 7 cars in 6 crashes. Three caused only a few scratches and bruises, one made a wheel taco, one left the bike frame in two pieces, and the last cost me 8.5 of 9 lives to fight and total two SUVs. I can't say that I recommend any, but I will say definitely don't fight two at once

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

16 year old me did a clutch three times before fully understanding the mechanism. Particularly, I had a bad pilot bearing that was causing the failures. It is one aspect that was not in the Haynes manual, and not a part included in the "complete clutch kit". The second time I even faced the flywheel to do a proper job at the advice of a pro mechanic. I learned the pilot bearing on my own.

The fetish jokes were just fun with friends that hung out or helped while I worked on the car and figured it out as I went. Teasing macho friends lying in intimate tight spaces is fun, especially when they have underlying prejudices about LGBTQ+ stuff. I've always been an asshole like that when anyone is prejudice. Over the decades I've learned every detail about how engines and drivetrains work. The transmission is full of parts to joke about, but I can make anything metaphorical to surfeit abstraction.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

or anyone with a manual when they find out they are forking with a long trans mission stick, pumping a tight annular spring via their thrust bearing with the primary trans shaft buried deep in the back of their crankshaft through the self lubricating pilot bearing to buffer all the rough asynchronous screwing

synchro gigiddy mesh gettin your bottom shaft up to speed to fork with fineness without double pounding the annular

A pressure plate clutch "diaphragm" or annular spring:

 

I don't care about the kids under 30. The funnier the better, and the older you are the more I want to know: what would you like to be when you grow up?
Achievable goals fall short of true potential.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Fentanyl is great though. It is the most peaceful way to cope with the USA's disgusting lack of disability support and far better than the standard treatment of dying homeless on a cold rainy night in a gutter somewhere. Compared to those very real ethics endorsed by every american that does nothing for the homeless directly, fentanyl is relief from a culture that is more cowardly than Nazis that still fed and housed people in camps before gassing them to death quickly instead of using nature and a policy of feral primate abandonment, repression, and torture. Attacks on homeless camps are the theft of these people's last belongings, and any hope of employment, documentation, or future. There is no fentanyl problem. There is a culture with no moral backbone and absolutely no trace of ethics that drives the fringes to escape tyranny through a peaceful end to the misery, exploitation, and abuse.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Semantics, but did 47 do the techbros or did the techbros do 47

 

Or is there maybe a way to set the pager for all help related queries to some command? I'm using bat and would like to pipe all --help through | bat --language=help by default for the syntax highlighting and colored output... Or if you know a lower effort way to color the output of --help let me know.

 
 

Adjective
recherché (comparative more recherché, superlative most recherché)

  1. Sought out and chosen with care; choice; exquisite.
  2. Exotic; of rare quality, elegance, attractiveness, etc.
  3. (by extension) Precious, pretentious, affected.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recherch%C3%A9#English

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sycophant (lemmy.world)
 

Noun
sycophant (plural sycophants)

  1. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
    Synonyms: ass-kisser, brown noser, suck-up, yes man
  2. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
    Synonyms: parasite, flunky, lackey
  3. (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.

Derived terms:
sycophancy
sycophantic
sycophantish
sycophantism

Verb
sycophant (third-person singular simple present sycophants, present participle sycophanting, simple past and past participle sycophanted)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
  2. (transitive, rare) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
 
 

I have OP magic. I can reverse time and take my money back from your future. There is no escape from OP Magic Lemmings.

You have 1 year. What do you do with this small sum of money?

 

"How many toilets do you possess?" This interview question works both ways in many cases.

 

This is the best explanation of the chemistry and properties of plastics I've ever seen from an edutainment YT channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bycVtx07f0w

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opprobrium (lemmy.world)
 

Noun
opprobrium (countable and uncountable, plural opprobriums or opprobria)

  1. (archaic) A cause, object, or situation of disgrace or shame. [from mid 17th c.] Synonym: (obsolete) opprobry
  2. Disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour; ignominy. [from late 17th c.]
    Synonyms: obloquy, (obsolete) opprobry
  3. Scornful contempt or reproach; an instance of this.
    Synonyms: blame, castigation, censure, derision, invective, (obsolete) opprobry
  4. (archaic) Behaviour which is disgraceful or shameful.
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cogent (lemmy.world)
 

Adjective
cogent (comparative more cogent, superlative most cogent)

  1. Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
  2. Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.
  3. Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent.
    The prosecution presented a cogent argument, convincing the jury of the defendant's guilt.

Synonyms:
compelling, conclusive, convincing, indisputable

Antonyms:
debatable, irrelevant, uncogent

Derived terms:
cogency
cogently
incogent
uncogent

Related terms:
cache
coagulate
squat

 

I have a small hard drive that is making a constant high pitched sound that is typical of the drive, and not very noticeable to the average person, but I have pain induced noise sensitivity. I am curious about how to calculate damping potential. As an initial guestimate, the frequency is very near to my maximum audible range and likely around 12kHz-16kHz. It is a little higher than the switch mode power supplies that I can also hear if it is dead silent in the room, although the drive is a higher amplitude. Addressing the noise with a solution is probably beyond the scope of anything I would actually do, but knowing how to solve it is far more interesting to me. (ELI15 )

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