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Bluewing

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  • Trump Administration Withholds $260 Million In Medicaid Funds for Minnesotans

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  • The Republicans lost control of Minnesota back in the 1980s for state wide offices. The Twin Cites metro area holds the majority of votes and therefore most of the power in this state.

    Politically, the DFL has long abandoned the outstate.

  • Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

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  • I just asked Goggle Gemini 3 "The car is 50 miles away. Should I walk or drive?"

    In its breakdown comparison between walking and driving, under walking the last reason to not walk was labeled "Recovery: 3 days of ice baths and regret."

    And under reasons to walk, "You are a character in a post-apocalyptic novel."

    Me thinks I detect notes of sarcasm......

  • Your car is here.

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  • 3.11 you mean.

  • Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux

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  • The worst part of immutable versions is when you go searching for help, you need to be careful about answers that might be presented to you.

    For example, if I search for "how to install nVidia drivers in Fedora Kinonite 43, the first returns can often be for Fedora Plasma 43. Those terminal commands for Plasma won't work for Kinonite. And even updating is different. Instead of sudo dnf update for regular Fedora desktops, you need to type rpm-ostree update for atomic versions.

  • Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux

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  • Edge cases are well, on the edge and sometimes you just need to let them go. You can't always be everything to everyone.

  • Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux

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  • That's the rub isn't it. It's good, but not quite good enough all the time, every time.

  • Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux

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  • It's called collaboration. When I worked as a toolmaker, I needed to use SolidWorks, despite not being a big fan, because our customers used SW and they were often literally on the other side of the planet.

  • Smells

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  • Personally I use Naval Supremacy soap in the shower and Saw Tooth Deodorant. And my aftershave is Lilac Vegetal. And my cuppa tea this morning is Lumber Slut.

    **All real products. The soap and deodorant are Christmas gifts from my 2 of my Grandsons. I've used the after shave for years. And the tea is a ripe Pu Er that I really enjoy.

  • Intermittent fasting no better than typical weight loss diets, study finds

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  • So, tell me what's the most important meal of the day for people who burn more calories by noon than you do all day?

  • Intermittent fasting no better than typical weight loss diets, study finds

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  • Or if you do heavy labor everyday. Or if you're a student trying to learn. Or anything else that requires activity or mental acuity.

    Sitting in a cubical being non-productive, yeah breakfast don't mean so much.

  • Clawdbot farm owner shares his bots have a 0.5% ban rate so far on reddit

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  • They don't care to a certain extent. But there is a threshold that if you get too many bots, companies using your platform to advertise will notice a fall in sales. And if sales drop on your platform, the money stops. Because bots don't buy things, real humans do.

    What is the threshold? I don't know, I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Drops Bombshell: Trump ‘Fought the Hardest’ to Bury Epstein Files, Warns MAGA It Was No Hoax

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  • She's got other heavy baggage for sure. But you can still appreciate her efforts on this front. If she's willing and able to tear down Trump and all the other pedos on the list, don't turn down the help. We still need all we can get.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • I've had tinnitus since I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. A high end sound system is cool to look at, but wasted on me. Those $30 computer speakers are just fine.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • But morons with money to spend! The best kind of moron.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • I've put barbed wire up, I've taken it down. It ain't that hard. Just cut it into lengths you can easily coil by hand if you don't have a winding machine.

    Personally I think woven wire fencing is a bigger pain in the ass. All that grass and weeds growing through it and then rolling it back up.

  • GUIs

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  • I type like a blind chimp missing 3 fingers. And for some perverse reason, I seldom copy/pasta commands. I enjoy typing like monkey at a keyboard until I accidentally get it all right.

    Evidently, I have unresolved monkey issues.....

  • GUIs

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  • I don't really care. GUI or Cli, it don't matter. But sometimes GUIs are far better even in Linux.

    A real gripe I have with the Cli is when you install nVida drivers in Fedora from the terminal. Whether you are newb or a grizzled veteran of the Unix wars, you are going to enter, (or copy and paste for newbies), all the proper commands and things will go well until you get to the very end. When you are all done entering all the commands it says to reboot and you are looking at that blank blinking cursor, you would think you were done and ready to go.

    But if you are in a hurry and missed the 'fine print', you probably missed the part where it says to wait for a while like 5 minutes or more BEFORE you can reboot. And no one knows how long for sure because the computer is recompiling your new kernel.

    So there you sit, staring at your screen and a blank, blinking cursor without the slightest hint when the compile is done and wondering if it's safe to reboot. Me, I go make a cuppa and go look out over the lake for a while. But it catches the beginners at least once.

    Bring on the GUI and a bloody progress bar!

  • Open-sourcing CORE One CAD Files Under the New Open Community License (OCL)

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  • Just how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Or more importantly, how many demons can skate on a snowflake? How much purity is needed?

    The best licences protect everyone. This one seems to do a pretty good job of protecting both Prusa and the consumer. Is it perfect? No. But it's far better then Prusa getting raped and pillaged into nothing. And it goes a very, very, very long to protect consumers access to parts and design specifications.

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  • I always have told my wife, (who has what I think is a phone call and texting addiction), that there are only 2 reasons to call me at work:

    1. You've been in an accident. That happened one time in 40 years. And yes, I left work immediately and went to find them. Thankfully, no one was injured.
    2. You or the kids have been hospitalized. That never happened.

    And no, the death of someone was not a reason to call. I can't do anything for them now. So the news can wait.

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  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Hot on the heels of the H2S, Bambu Lab announces the seven-color, wireless nozzle-swapping Vortek H2C

    www.tomshardware.com /3d-printing/hot-on-the-heels-of-the-h2s-bambu-lab-announces-the-seven-color-wireless-nozzle-swapping-vortek-h2c