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  • Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself"

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  • The driver’s side lightbulb on my wife’s Kia Soul is largely blocked by internal components. I found some instructions explaining how to remove the front bumper for access. Fortunately some guy on YouTube made a video showing a better way. Need to make some marks on parts so you can line them up properly when putting it back but with some tight contortions it was possible and only took a couple minutes.

  • The Issue With Wii U Gamepads And How To Clone Them

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  • Mario Chase in Nintendoland was always a popular one when we had parties, and not something that could be easily recreated on other systems.

  • Blackboards were the OG dark mode

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  • I’m cringing just reading this

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    Help this community in a new phase [meta]

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  • For the last point, I think listing PieFed and Mbin apps (are there any?) would be a good thing. Maybe changing this community from strictly Lemmy to the larger fediverse?

  • Microlandia is a "brutally honest" scion of SimCity that thinks of cities as "beautiful but insane machines"

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  • 1.4 change log: “A city is a beautiful, but insane machine that survives always in homeostasis and always in chaos. In 1.4 you get a little less narrative, a little more reality, the structures of everyday life exposed, greed companies, economy that doesn't forgive, even the broke. The night mode is a pleasant anesthesia; use it, but do not confuse ambience with robustness.”

  • Polish general fired after anti-tank mines found in Ikea warehouse

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  • Man, is there anything IKEA doesn’t sell?

  • xkcd #3191: Superstition

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  • Writing’s on the wall

  • Rascal loved the snow.

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  • That looks pretty deep!

  • This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000

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  • 300 km out of 24 kWh?

    Press X to doubt.

  • System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language

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  • Skimming through this lets a remote AI control my computer? No thanks!

  • It's hard to justify Tahoe icons

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  • It’s the kind of thing I was doing in the late ’90s with DHTML, copying random scripts off websites like Dynamic Drive

  • ImClone stock trading case

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  • On June 4, 2003, a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted Stewart and her former broker, Peter Bacanovic, on nine criminal counts. The government alleged that, by selling when she did, Stewart avoided losses of $45,673.

    I remember the case but didn’t know the details. A $45k loss would be pretty devastating to me but I suspect with her net worth at the time that wouldn’t have been a very big deal. I worked a data entry job during college at a small local brokerage and remembered they were regularly discussing selling stocks at a loss for tax purposes with clients, and some of them would’ve been in that neighborhood.

    Given everything this has cost her, it sounds like her broker should’ve just taken the loss and moved on.

  • Nvidia is reportedly bringing official Linux support to GeForce Now soon, not just for Steam Deck

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  • I don’t know about any background services; it’s their cloud gaming service. It would be a benefit for the people who want to switch to Linux but have a game or two they want to play that can’t be run on Linux, because of things like kernel level anti-cheat or whatnot.

  • We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird.

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  • Yeah, most of the cost of the TV is the panel. If you’re buying a replacement panel the part would cost basically the same as a new TV (or maybe even more).

    By contrast, my parents had a TV that started boot looping the morning after a thunderstorm and they’d had at least one lightning strike very close by. They got a local TV repairman out and he was able to get a replacement mainboard and the TV worked perfectly after that. I think the board was $100 or $150 and his time and labor was $100, coming to their house to do the work. If I remember correctly we could see scorch marks on the bad board near the Ethernet port.

    Getting the new board was a bit of a hassle; that manufacturer didn’t sell parts directly and I think it took him 3 tries to get the right board. It seems like they have the same board in a lot of models but they flash them for different screens, so even though they were labeled as being for my parents’ TV it took a few tries to get the right one in. I feel like that’s a problem that would’ve been easier if the manufacturer supported repairs better.

  • But birds in a giant blender is a more appealing headline

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  • Even the low estimate for birds killed by collisions with cars seems high to me. I’ve been driving for over 25 years and think in that time I’ve only hit birds maybe twice, certainly fewer than 5 times. Birds just don’t seem to fly at car height very often or for very long, and they typically get out of the way quickly when on the ground (George Costanza notwithstanding).

    I’m assuming my experience is pretty typical, and the majority of my driving has been in environments where birds were pretty typically abundant. If we say I’ve hit 5 birds in 25 years (again, a number that seems high), maybe we can extrapolate that 20% of drivers would hit a bird in a year. With 242 million drivers in the US, that would be 48.4 million birds killed, and again, that’s using a number that seems high in my experience.

    I would be curious to see the source on those estimates and how they reached their numbers.

  • Microsoft CEO wants you to stop calling AI "slop" in 2026

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  • The statement is probably true, but the only quote in the article that mentions “slop” doesn’t really support the headline’s claim:

    ”We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,” Nadella laments, emphasizing hopes that society will become more accepting of AI, or what Nadella describes as "cognitive amplifier tools." ”...and develop a new equilibrium in terms of our “theory of the mind” that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other.”

    The article makes a lot of solid points about the AI hype bubble that Nadella is promoting in his year-end LinkedIn post, but it doesn’t seem like he was actually calling for people to stop using the term “slop.”

  • After 44 Years, MTV Is Officially Dead

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  • This move affects MTV’s dedicated music-only channels, not the main MTV network, which will continue airing reality shows and pop culture programming. In the U.K. and across parts of Europe, channels like MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, and MTV Live are being removed from Sky and Virgin Media lineups. In the U.S., remaining regional cable feeds that still carried music-only MTV programming are also slated to go dark as distribution contracts expire.

  • Reverse Proxy: a single point of failure in my lab

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  • I remember a TV station I worked at, that had a lot of good redundancies with 3 redundant UPSs that could keep a bunch of equipment on air until the big generator took over, one day had the UPS controller die and took all 3 UPSs out. I think it took the engineers a couple days to get everything back up and running.

  • Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter

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  • There was an article a few weeks ago about a developer who used a standard research AI image training dataset and had his Google account locked out when he uploaded it to Google Drive. Turns out it has CSAM in it and it was flagged by Google’s systems. The developer reported the data set to his country’s reporting authorities and they investigated the set and confirmed it contains images of abuse.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Maybe sprinkling 1337 into our online texts would make them less useful to AI training

  • Beavers @lemmy.world
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    Look at how proud he is of his work.

  • math @lemmy.world
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    First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself

    www.quantamagazine.org /first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/
  • Hockey @lemmy.ca
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    Anybody watching tonight’s Whalers at Nordiques game?

  • And Finally... @feddit.uk
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    Firefighters rescue man stuck in slide on Vernon [Connecticut] playground

    www.nbcconnecticut.com /news/local/firefighters-rescue-man-stuck-in-slide-on-vernon-playground/3626381/
  • Bun Alert System @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Photo by @JimsPhotos@ohai.social

  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca
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    Selfies of woman "dripping in diamonds" on cruise led to her arrest for jewelry theft, police say

    www.cbsnews.com /news/selfies-woman-dripping-diamonds-cruise-arrest-jewelry-theft/
  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    What English translation of The Three Musketeers do you like?

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Admiral Wonderboat

    Physical Media Forever

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Jim Benton

    fffft

  • Microblog Memes @lemmy.world
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    Found this old post. Wonder if they’re still using AOL?

  • IdiotsInCars @lemmy.world
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    Once again: “a bad driver never misses their turn”

  • Crazy Fucking Videos @lemmy.world
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    Moving Freight Train Hit by Tornado (2009)

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL The Hayes Barton neighborhood in Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh's birthplace

    www.britishexplorers.com /woodbury/hayesba.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired

    mobilesyrup.com /2025/02/15/blackberrys-expired-keyboard-patent/
  • Food Crimes - Offenses against nutrition @midwest.social
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    I believe Skyline Chili-flavored ice cream should meet the definition of a food crime

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so

  • Electricians @lemmy.world
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    Is this outlet okay?