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@ clif @lemmy.world

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Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.

  • TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture

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  • But what about videos of DOGS farting?

  • I want that sticker

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  • In case anyone thinks you're being figurative, LITERALLY brand new printers. The Brother laser I bought last week is USB-B, as I expected it would be : )

    This replaced the HP laser I bought in 2004 which was, of course, also USB-B.

  • YSK that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the best engineering school anywhere in the world. You can take free courses at MIT online.

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  • We should start using "my friend Anna" similarly to "friend of Dorothy" but for books.

  • OP is shocked that an import tax is not paid by the exporter

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  • You must have skills to knit a sweater while watching tv. I can't even do a plain, no pattern, knit stitch only scarf without staring at it. I can listen to podcasts or something, just no looking away.

  • Day 555 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

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  • I recently picked up MCC on Deck for the nostalgia. It's been at least 15 years since I played the original and I don't think I played any of the sequels.

    MCC is weird on Deck - you have to install the games through the Steam DLC menu, not the "install games here like the instructions say" inside of MCC.

    I was super pissed I needed a Microsoft account to play, and that the login screen glitched repeatedly, but I eventually got in.

    ... Single player only for me.

  • Repurpose old smartphone

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  • I second Meshtastic. I haven't checked since the Android app rebuild but the old version worked on my Galaxy S5

  • I Am starting to actually get somewhat comfortable using emacs

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  • I decided to give it an honest try after somebody mentioned it on lemmy a few weeks ago.

    ... I really like it.

    I still pop open Theia if I'm just doing some research that has me hopping all around, or sometimes on a separate monitor for a referenced project/library associated with my work, but I do the actual work in Helix.

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • I mostly use the discord browser application but I almost never stream or video chat - I switch to the native client the once or twice a year I need that. On my computer the browser app uses about 700MB of RAM (Firefox) and the native uses over 1GB. I've been on an optimization kick lately (VSCode->Theia->Helix) so I went looking and found Legcord which used around 500MB and then Discordo that used... 26MB?

    I kind of like Discordo (TUI) but it's definitely not for everybody and you definitely don't get video/audio chat.

    Anywho, just wanted to post about alternative clients since I'd recently researched them.

  • Texas Courthouse Unveils Illegal Ten Commandments Monument, Inviting Legal Challenge

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  • Oklahoma, Arkansas, and I assume several others beat them to it oddly.

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • It's being pushed very hard by management where I work and I'm consistently seeing the same as above. I mentioned on another thread recently that I've heard "I don't know why Claude did that" multiple times over the past few weeks.

    It's infuriating.

  • How much is your monthly average mobile/phone data usage?

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  • You gave me the motivation I needed. I started the transfer last night. Thanks bud.

  • Americans are paying more than ever for cars. Cheap models are disappearing

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  • Don't get me wrong, they're currently still huge. But I saw a 2024 or 2025 Tacoma a few weeks ago that looked a fair bit smaller than the previous year models. I'm hoping we're on the rebound and that they're going to continue to decrease in size. Guess we'll see but I'm hoping so too.

    I will say that I love a (tiny) extended cab - Toyota calls/called them the "access cab" and on the old (early to mid-90s) S10's I had I think they called them a "king cab". Having space in the cab to store tools, camping/emergency gear, etc is really nice. There are ""seats"" there in the Tacoma, presumably to get around the chicken tax, but they are horrible to use as such. The ones in the old S10 folded up into the side walls which was awesome. They were out of the way but available for the 0.0001% of the time you needed them and those actually weren't too horribly uncomfortable since they faced the center of the vehicle instead of forward.

  • Americans are paying more than ever for cars. Cheap models are disappearing

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  • Cars keep on getting bigger,

    (US) I've noticed over the past couple of years that "small" trucks are starting to shrink again. Seems they finally hit critical mass.

    I remember when the Toyota Tacoma was a truly small truck (up through the late 1990s, maybe early 2000s?). If I'm not mistaken, the 2015-2020ish Tacoma is the size of the 90s Toyota Tundra which was a "big" truck at the time. It's stupid. I need a truck but I don't need a $100,000 tank with a quad cab and a useless fucking tiny bed. About 75% of the people I know that buy those huge quad cab trucks actually need a minivan because all they use it for is shuttling their kids around but, of course, minivans aren't "cool".

    ... now I'm getting off topic but minivans are freaking awesome. Assuming the seats are stowable or removable, you get a ton of (enclosed) cargo space (more than those stupid quad cab trucks with tiny beds) and can optionally move a lot of people or a lot of cargo. They are fantastic for road trips if you need more space than a typical sedan.

    This is one of the things in life that makes me irrationally angry. Give us small trucks that are actually small.

  • How much is your monthly average mobile/phone data usage?

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  • tldr: Failed to mention that was total price for two lines. I added an EDIT to the original post, more info below.

    Unfortunately no, and that's with a 20% discount from my previous employer. Although I should have specified that that price is for two lines with the 6GB shared between them with rollover. I look at different plans at my current carrier every now and then but they're the same or more expensive for ""unlimited"" data (typically throttled at around 3GB).

    I really need to find the motivation to switch to a prepaid plan because those can be had much cheaper. Plus my current carrier is a shitass and I really shouldn't be giving them money. I've been eyeing https://www.phreeli.com/ lately...

  • How much is your monthly average mobile/phone data usage?

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  • $110/month for 6GB data but this is the US where mobile data is expensive as shit.

    I usually use around 300MB

    EDIT: $110 for two lines with data shared between them. The other person on the account uses more like 3GB/month and I find it funny to compare our data usage.

  • Definitely the safest source for advice

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  • One example I like to use is to ask it for the lyrics of an extremely well known song. It just makes shit up based on the title you give it.

    The online ones (Claude, chatgpt, copilot, etc) now refuse to do it for ""copyright reasons"" but the offline ones still happily oblige. I assume the online ones added that block because it was such an obvious way to prove they don't "know" shit.

  • A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad

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  • I'd agree with this. I'm a dev, I can make things work, I can't do art/graphics/assets/etc for shit. Give me 5 or 6 hours and I might be able to get you one image that is semi passable if the intended artistic style is "3 year old with crayons"

  • Finally figured out why I'm rule

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  • There have recently been attempts to ban fluoride in some municipalities. I wonder what they'd do if it was in an area where it's naturally occurring...

  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

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  • Glad to see this comment on the chain. I haven't tried it myself (yet) but I've got a friend that does and says it works great.

    It's on my list. Unfortunately, it's a really long list.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    DONE

    LUKS decrypt at boot over SSH!

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    LUKS decrypt at boot over SSH?

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Are we still posting weird eggs?

  • News @lemmy.world
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    ACLU sues over Arkansas Ten Commandments law

    www.ualrpublicradio.org /local-regional-news/2025-06-11/aclu-sues-over-arkansas-ten-commandments-law
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    Josh Duggar launches fresh effort to have his child porn conviction vacated citing ‘new strategies in the public discourse’

    www.aol.com /news/josh-duggar-launches-fresh-effort-115458654.html
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    Resolution would require Arkansas state agencies to implement ‘Gulf of America’

    www.kait8.com /2025/01/22/resolution-would-require-arkansas-state-agencies-implement-gulf-america/
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    Arkansas LEARNS school vouchers: More than 80% of new enrollees did not attend public school last year

    arktimes.com /arkansas-blog/2024/10/31/new-data-on-ark-vouchers-more-than-80-of-new-enrollees-did-not-attend-public-school-last-year
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    Police name suspect in 1995 Morgan Nick disappearance

    www.ualrpublicradio.org /local-regional-news/2024-10-01/police-name-suspect-in-morgan-nick-disappearance
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Topics for a Linux intro course