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Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.

  • Sounds like something fun to research either way - thanks

  • O, I fully intend to. Just wanted to ask for opinions who have done it or have tried other things while I'm sitting here waiting for an appointment.

    Plus content... Lemmy... Engagement. If nobody posts then there's nothing here

  • Thanks!

    I don't get to game much but have Satisfactory in my library, not Factorio. Every time I go to launch "that factory game" I look under the Fs and am always confused why I can't find it. 10 min later I'll realize I was thinking of Satisfactory... :P

  • I clearly haven't played long enough because I have no idea what the comments are referring to.

    I only ran into hostile alien life while gallivanting around and it was usually pretty easy to zap or run away from.

    That, or I'm confusing Factorio with Satisfactory which is extremely common.

  • Real headline is always in the comments. Thank you for your service 🫡

  • "Bugfixes and performance improvements"

    I see that one all the time from big companies because it sounds nice and tells you nothing.

    One of those updates a few years included embedding adware. So, thanks for that... jackhole

  • I'll never not upvote Veronica Explains. Excellent creator and excellent info on everything I've seen.

  • I haven't had squirrel dumplings in ages...

  • I learned the other day that a few people (devs) I know and respect have pet names and genders for the LLMs they use and converse with them regularly.

    I'm rethinking some of my feelings about those people.

  • Bonus points for no jailbreak required : D I didn't even realize there was a jailbreak for it (or what benefits there are to jailbreaking it... I should do some research but I haven't found anything I couldn't do with the stock firmware and it sounds like you generally came to the same conclusion).

    Mine is using the stock firmware, wifi off unless using Overdrive, but I plug it into my computer to charge and load it with books. It just shows up as a mass storage device like a USB thumb drive and you can copy/paste books onto it (or use Calibre). After disconnecting it will scan for new/changed files and auto-import any recognized formats into the reader application.

  • Also saying Kobo. I've got the Kobo Libra Colour and love it.

    It's the only ereader I've ever owned but I used the spouse's Nook and Kindle a couple of times in the past and the Kobo kills it. Granted, we're talking about a nearly new release of the Kobo vs a 5+ year old Kindle so it's not a fair comparison.

    Because of eInk and auto-sleep, the battery lasts me well over a month of casual reading (~30min before bed) with the occasional multi hour weekend session. Backlight is present and is totally readable in dark areas at <10% brightness; 100% brightness is like a supernova in your face. While the Libra Colour is not specifically a note-taking tablet like a reMarkable, it does just fine for quick notes/todo lists/etc but I did splurge on the ($60) stylus. There's a "notes" application that comes pre-installed.eBook support for writing in margins (or over text), underline/circling, highlighting, etc is really nice but occasionally the highlight is flakey when trying to highlight the end of a paragraph. That seems to have been specific to certain epubs rather than an "always" thing, but it happens in around 20% of epubs I've used.

    EDIT: Notes and highlights you do in an epub (and presumably other formats) are exportable to your PC via Calibre ("Annotations"). I love this because I like to highlight things I find interesting, particularly good quotes, and this gives me an easy way extract them while retaining a reference to which book it was and where exactly in the book it was. Example attached.

  • Not that I would know from experience, but I hear there are Calibre plugins that will allow a user to pull the DRM'd book (downloaded via Overdrive) to a computer and remove the DRM.

    I've read that it's a polite thing to do because you're able to return borrowed books much more quickly so other users can check them out.

  • I forget that there are large centrifuges (somebody posted about Stuxnet further down).

    Or, more accurately, I'm more familiar with the small ones (ThermoFisher calls them "Mini" and "Micro" centrifuges) for ~0.5mL samples and I had a hard time thinking that those would blow out a room. But the same link (ThermFisher) that I looked at to find the names also specifies 17,000g and 21,000g models which is just... fucking insane. I knew they spun fast, I didn't know they spun 21,000g's fast. Learn something new every day.

  • Look at the elitist over here that knows how to read : P

    I never learned and you can't make me.

  • I just set up a new home lab server and my first instinct was the latest Debian.

    ... Seemed fine to me.

  • I thought it was the same thing in the first frame : D

  • That's awesome... And also funny that it had to be added. Thanks for the info!

    I still want to know what happens on an old one without vibration detection or if it was "broken". I assume something like an unbalanced washing machine but on a smaller scale? It just going out for a stroll :)

  • First frame is a centrifuge that spins samples at high speed to separate the components in them (I think that's the purpose, not a scientist). But, the samples are on one side making it unbalanced.

    Second frame is turning the centrifuge on.

    Third frame is a funeral.

    I hear that if it's unbalanced, bad things happen, because you're spinning an unbalanced rotor at high speeds.

    I honestly was coming to check the comments to see if anyone had experience with it so I could ask how bad it is.

    The comic is insinuating that if you do this, you die.

    EDIT: an unbalanced weight on a motor is how the vibration function in your phone works... Along with other things that need to vibrate (yes, those things). At least, that's how they used to work.

  • Yeah, and it varies by station. I push all the buttons. Some times one works, some times not.