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Iced Raktajino

@ IcedRaktajino @startrek.website

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I'm beautiful and tough like a diamond...or beef jerky in a ball gown.

  • Texas Judges No Longer Required to Marry Same-Sex Couples

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  • Because the law is optional in Texas.

    I'm guessing the entire point is to goad someone into suing so it makes its way to SCOTUS and becomes optional or worse nationwide.

  • 'American Horror Story' Is Going 'Avengers'—and Adding Ariana Grande, to Boot

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  • It was, yeah. But they somehow got her to come back for a cameo in Season 8 where she played Constance again.

  • Excel vs database

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  • A database can be used to plug into any number of applications that run on top of it as well as be easily shared by multiple people and centrally backed up. Auditing, logging, and row and table level access controls, and other measures can be easily added.

    Excel files (or even MS Access files) as "databases" are often just people emailing around a file or accessing it from a shared drive. You end up with a split-brain situation at best and at worst you're dealing with constant file corruption from multiple people thinking they can access it from a shared drive at the same time.

    Then you get vendor lock in and are forced to keep MS Office professional licenses because Shawn created some stupid Access "app" 10 years ago which is "THE DATABASE" and no one understands how it works.

  • 'American Horror Story' Is Going 'Avengers'—and Adding Ariana Grande, to Boot

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  • I legit enjoyed the first two seasons of AHS and then whatever season "Cult" was, but otherwise it's become something of a guilty pleasure.

    Genuinely cannot believe Lange is coming back. From what I remember reading, she was done with it and it took a lot of cajoling to get her to even cameo in season 8.

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • To me it is the ultimate gamble with one's own thought autonomy, and an abandonment of truth in favor of false comfort.

    So, like church? lol

    No wonder there's so much worrying overlap between religion and AI.

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • I'm about that same age but am so glad we've largely abandoned the "www" for websites.

    On my personal project website, I have a custom listener setup to redirect people to "aarp.org" if they enter it with "www" instead of just the base domain. 😆

     nginx
        
server {
    listen              443 ssl;
    http2		        on;
    server_name         www.mydomain.xyz;

    ssl_certificate     /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/privkey.pem;
    ssl_dhparam         /etc/nginx/conf.d/tls/shared/dhparam.pem;
    ssl_protocols       TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
    ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:10m;
    ssl_session_timeout 15m;
  
    ...
    
    location ~* {
      return 301 https://aarp.org/;
    }
}

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • The only one I didn't hate was the jingle:

     
        
🎵 "F-R-E-E that spells "free"
credit report dot com, baby". 🎵

    😆

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • Yeah, but they should take that pissing contest out of the UX.

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • I was an adult during that time, and I don't recall it being anywhere near as annoying. Well, except the TV and radio adverts spelling at you like "...or visit our website at double-you double-you double-you dot Company dot com. Again, that's double-you double-you double-you dot C-O-M-P-A-N-Y dot com."

    YMMV, but it didn't get annoying until apps entered the picture and the only way to deal with certain companies was through their app. That, of if they did offer comparable capabilities on their website but kept a persistent banner pushing you toward their app.

  • Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag

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  • The baguette cushioned his fall and the striped shirt scared away any predators. The beret was just a beret, though. Even if you've fallen down a 130ft ravine that's no excuse to look dowdy.

    (None of this is true...probably)

  • Linux laptop that sleeps (S2 vs. S0ix)

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  • My X1 Carbon does now. But it used to drain to empty after a day or two even if it was turned all the way off. Drove me crazy.

    The problem ended up being the always-on USB setting in the BIOS. For some reason, even with nothing connected, that would drain the battery until it was completely flat. Once I turned that off, it'll sleep for weeks like you said.

    OP, maybe check the BIOS settings for "Always on USB" or similar and disable that?

  • I Powered My House Using 500 Disposable vapes

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  • Yeah, I didn't watch this video b/c I'm at work, but I have seen his ebike video so I'm assuming the construction is similarly well thought out.

    It's just that all the fuses and BMSs can't protect against a dodgy cell that decides to self-immolate. For cheap, disposable devices that are only meant to be charged 5-10 times or less and then thrown away, I'm super wary of the batteries that are chosen for those. Have seen too many things burst into flames and even expensive well cared-for devices turn into spicy pillows.

  • Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like

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  • Not that I'd own a smart fridge, but if I did and they started shoving ads on it, it'd look like this later that day:

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • I predate both of those events by multiple decades lol.

    Printers were well established even on the Trash-80 I grew up with. The bloatware drivers aren't really what I'm talking about. I suppose Clippy could be considered prior art to the whole "shoving AI in your face" but at the time I was a WordPerfect fanboy.

  • I Powered My House Using 500 Disposable vapes

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  • "Home Insurance Companies Hate This One Simple Trick"

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • I learned a long time ago to never install manufacturer printer drivers. Or, at least, never install them from the provided Setup.exe.

    They've always installed a bunch of bloatware (HP has always been the worst but other brands are just as bad).

    If you look in the setup folder, there's usually the raw drivers you can install from Device Manager. If the driver package is just a single .exe file, you can usually unpack it with 7zip and get at its inner contents.

    If that fails, the system-included HP LaserJet 4200 PCL driver is about as close to a universal print driver as you can find lol.

  • I Powered My House Using 500 Disposable vapes

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  • That guy's got some brass ones, lol.

    I've upcycled disposable vape batteries for lots of projects, but never anything that draws significant amounts of current. Usually powering ESP8266/ESP32 projects that draw a couple hundred mAh at most.

    While I'm all for keeping thing out of the landfill, I would be absolutely terrified to put that many questionable quality lithium batteries into an array let alone try to draw any substantial amperage from them.

  • Underappreciated top

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  • Underappreciated top

    That was my nickname in college.

  • Please no, just stop

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  • I get a twitch every time I see the damn sparkle icon/emoji.

  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online
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    Antoine Dufour - Spiritual Groove

    song.link /y/uNw9YaXemlM
  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online
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    Disturbed - Stricken

    song.link /y/pfWMx3V0TQI
  • Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related @lemmy.world
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    A Pill for Sleep Apnea Could Be on the Horizon

    www.nytimes.com /2025/07/23/well/apnimed-sleep-apnea-clinical-trial-ad109.html
  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online
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    TOOL - The Pot

    song.link /y/civuoU_NE38
  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online
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    Godsmack - Voodoo

    www.deezer.com /us/track/914224
  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online
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    Linkin Park - Papercut

    www.deezer.com /us/track/676159
  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    I missed the memo that today was Yar Day. Did I make it in time?

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Hands-On With the Minimal Phone: Week 1

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Rain barrels are the exact opposite of "Saving it for a rainy day"

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    For anyone else who has shed a tear today after hearing about Ozzy's passing...

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    Remastered in HD

    "Shut Up, Wesley"

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    I'm tellin' ya, man, I was this 🤏 close to spiritual enlightenment and the nature of existence

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Me when I'm already drunk at the first bar and the group asks if I'm ready to hit up the next one