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  • Virgin Framework vs Chad ThinkPad

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  • The T14's trackpoint created a pressure spot on my screen simply from being closed. I traveled with it only a handful of times, and when I did, I had it in a light bag with hardly anything else in it. Yes, I need a laptop carry case, but regardless, this really should not be an issue.

    I've since put a felt pad between my screen and keyboard for when I close it, but that should not be something I have to do with a $1200 laptop.

    Otherwise, it's been great.

  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • That's fair.

  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • They weren't so much assumptions about specifically your usage, as I wasn't really speaking directly to you. Regardless of your specific situation, I still stand by my final point.

    Additionally, the availability of votes is largely a technical issue. It's been explained better and more in-depth than I have time for at the moment, but the idea (as far as I remember) was that because of Lemmy's instanced hosting nature, your votes are visible to instance operators anyway, and since that's not a particularly tough boundary to cross (nature of federated web), they just left it extended to all users.

    Someone correct or fill in information I've missed.

  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • It's only ridiculous because you're used to pouring your entire life into Facebook or Google's servers.

    If you're disturbed by it being public, I think you should be just as disturbed by it being in the hands of data farmers and merchants.

    The fact of the matter is, nothing you do online is private—and on the spectrum of "how private is it," social media platforms are traditionally designed to put you at the near zero end of it. So separate your concerns if you want any illusion of separation from your actual life.

  • Weird Al's advice to a fan

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  • I am surprised that no one has started selling shell headphones for sleeping.

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  • I'm fairly certain dumbass rhetorical questions can qualify as shower thoughts.

    Whether it's worth posting is a different question.

  • If the eight planets of the Solar System were renamed, what do you think the new names should be?

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  • If this happened near or post-interplanetary colonization, I'm reasonably confident that they'd be named after or by whichever corporation buys and takes the largest influence over the planet.

    We all know Elon wants to name Mars Planet X, so let's agree now to blow it up as soon as that happens.

    Earth's name would probably be left alone. I'd imagine Google going after Saturn and maybe preserving the name too, maybe giving it a little name if they hadn't blown every word in the English language on dead projects.

    Microsoft, in their lack of vision, would name Mercury Microsoft (if they're still around by this point).

  • What are the fastest moving objects with some mass in everyday life?

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  • I remember there being something misleading about the "temperature" in pV=nRT, but yeah, I think I was getting confused because I was thinking about it purely formulaicly.

    But if the pressure drops and the volume of the gas increases, in order for it to cool, that would mean the drop in pressure is much less significant than the rise in volume?

    But yeah, I should've remembered that expanding gasses cool, because I know how aerosol cans work. It's time to touch up on this stuff lol.

  • What are the fastest moving objects with some mass in everyday life?

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  • This is my high school chemistry talking here, but don't expanding gasses heat up? Ideal gas law and everything? Is there something weird happening like the CO2 instantaneously pressurizing or something right before expanding?

  • The Vibe Coding Hero's Journey

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  • And to think all those times I cursed CORS under my breath. Doing God's work.

  • Anyone else on here a "Reddit refugee"?

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  • Same (I wouldn't have paid Reddit, but I did donate to boost), but this comment was funny because "The Big R" is what my friend and I call Roblox.

  • What Are Your Predictions For 2026

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  • The board lacks general scalability.

  • If God truly is ‘all-powerful’ and ‘omnipotent,’ then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way to ‘save us.’”

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  • The entire shower thought already accepts the premise of Christianity. Otherwise there's no conversation here. I already said that I'm not religious. I just know enough about the Christian faith and theology to entertain an argument under that premise.

    There's no way to rebut the argument you're trying to rebut without circular logic of "the bible is true because the bible says it's true".

    Also, yes. That's not a flaw of the argument—that's pretty much the fundamental idea of God as Logos. Look into it if you want to, but I'm not here to force anyone into any belief. I just encourage people to understand things before they criticize them.

  • If God truly is ‘all-powerful’ and ‘omnipotent,’ then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way to ‘save us.’”

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  • Additionally, I'd suggest that you look into the idea of God as Logos. Your idea of omnipotency has been criticized before, mathematically.

  • If God truly is ‘all-powerful’ and ‘omnipotent,’ then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way to ‘save us.’”

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  • I feel like I have to put the disclaimer that, although I am spiritual, I'm not religious. Anyway:

    then Jesus dying wasn't the only way.

    Correct. I don't think many people, Christian or otherwise, really disagree with you here. I chose to drive 20 minutes to eat ramen today. Was that the only way? Well, only way to what, exactly? To feed myself? No—there are plenty of closer options with which I could've sustained myself, but in my picking the ramen, I now have satisfied that craving which I've had for a few weeks. Even though I won't still taste the ramen two days from now, I'll still be satisfied that I had some today.

    In the case that you are trying to make a legitimate criticism of the story rather than the vapid "Christianity is stupid" posts that dominate this platform, I'd prompt you to be much more specific in what you mean by "way." The only way to what? What specifically are you positing was God's goal in allowing the crucifixion of Jesus?

    Personally, I take the Bible as almost entirely allegorical. So if you want my subjective take on this post, it's about as good as asking why Superman has to be weak to kryptonite.

  • Lucky enough, I am C++ Developer

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  • I presume "vibe coder" stands for Visual Besic?

  • You have complete control over your franchise of choice, what are you retconning?

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  • The Legend of Korra spoilers:

    Korra doesn't stakelessly get her bending back 15 seconds after losing it to Amon. They had the opportunity to give her the self-discovery arc that they tried to shoehorn into the post-Zaheer poison recovery.

    The series could've had much better footing, in my opinion, if Korra had wrestle with that just a bit longer. Instead, a bunch of bald people show up and say, "I got you, Holmes," and then she's good as new.

    It's been a while, and I've lost some of my steam over this. But yeah, that's the only one I've got the energy to type out right now.

  • Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within?

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  • I mean, in all of those circumstances I just hold my breath. I'm certainly not wanting to breath in a bad smell through my mouth.

    But if the question is can I elect to breath through my mouth without pinching my nose, the answer is yes. I wouldn't describe it as "shutting my nose," though, so maybe we're not talking about the same thing.

  • Your task is to blow a job interview in the first 30 seconds. What do you do?

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  • I start next Monday, what now?

  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    Oddly overwhelmed while sick

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Compliance

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    To those with 2+ monitors on your machine: What's your use case, and how much does it actually boost your productivity?

  • internet funeral @lemmy.world
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    Ticks.