Android is one of those rare examples of a Linux kernel not being paired with GNU tools. I believe Android wrote their own versions of all the tools they wanted.
The kernel is also extremely locked down by default. They very intentionally designed the OS in such a way that every facet of the kernel is kept abstracted away from you. It’s about as black-boxed as you can get, to the point where the fact that it’s Linux underneath is almost meaningless.
Here’s my girls Charlotte and Emily, sisters from the same litter. Charlotte was all up in my grill because I was eating chicken and Emily was spawn camping while I was heating said chicken in the oven 😄
technically the catsweat thing is a running gag from the old Bloom County cartoon strip. cats dont actually sweat (maybe a bit through their paws), but realistically, no sweat.
Bloom County ran an arc where they extracted cat sweat and sold it as a remarkably effective 'hair growth tonic'.... until it later had the opposite effect and everyone who used it went bald
the word 'moist' just makes people uncomfortable, so of course thats what you name a social media server.
i went surfing for server applications about 8 months ago in an effort to replace my reddit addiction.
lemmy had 2 marks against it:
a. its fugly
b. does not interact with 50% of the fediverse... it cant use the 'microblog/twitter' side of the fediverse.
kbin at the time was one of the few products attempting both the Threaded forums, and Microblog posting, so i jumped in to that. a short time later kbin was forked for.. development conflict reasons. i went with mbin.
so i now have a fairly scalable, reliable reddit replacement where i can doomscroll all day and see nonsense tweets from george takei.
im hoping to provide the same for other reddit refugees
im not an 'app' person, so i have no idea. i do know there were several in active development, but i just have not cared.
firefox on my phone seems to do exactly what i need to with regards to mbin (or reddit even), so i have never, ever understood the need for a site-specific app.
i kinda thought thats why we spent 20 years making 'reflexive' websites designed to be scalable to different sized screens
Its just conveniant to use apps and when lemmy apps just take little to no space and can switch between account, have better UI, faster reflex as in backing clicking without needing to load it etc etc its just better to use it atleast in my opinion and some websites are not properly made for phones . But if it works for you no problem
i think my basic use of the sites negates the need for any app. i dont 'do' a lot. i could see maybe if i performed a ton of actions, or as you mentioned, using any alts.
ive never had/needed alt accounts so, also that is also somewhat foreign to me.
And I do mean that honestly, it’s not like he’s empowered by people making memes of him. He receives no benefit, there is no gain. If I used Hitler in a meme because he made a funny face, that isn’t an endorsement of his actions or beliefs, sometimes a meme is just a meme.
I know you weren’t asking me, but to chime in, it’s safer to say that the circumstances of memeing are actually way more complex than we give credit. I’d argue that it’s rarely the case that a meme is just a meme. Situations where an event or a person becomes a meme can be totally misinterpreted, reinterpreted or otherwise change from reality. Memes are used tools, many times as propaganda, and who is in a meme possibly, does have an effect. Memeing is actually a big complex part of the human experience! Especially since proliferation of the internet.
steven crowder, a far-right talking head who moves in the same circles as Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, etc. if rush limbaugh was vader then crowder is kylo ren.
Actually about 7% of those that have tried it are still alive and well! 😀 (Our current global population represents about 7% of all humans that have ever lived)
if we never get to expand beyond earth or are exterminated then yes but without any of those limiting factors the percentage would probably stay the same because exponential growth
Flat earthers ain’t never touched a globe out here like “yeah, Greenland is about the same size as the continental united states and most of northern Africa”
I bought an “analog” washing machine (I can’t believe I just wrote that) because of simplicity. The more complicated something is, the more difficult it is to repair, and the more potential points of failure there are.
Buy a used older model if you need a machine. Because it's cheaper, because it is more basic in its components, because those parts are probably cheaper to buy and replace yourself if need be, and mainly because someone is selling it at its age because it STILL works. Anything tied to a circuit board with a processor is a time bomb.
You will not get a washing machine without processor, let alone PCB. Processors also hardly ever fail. It is stuff like the voltage conversion which powers the logic side, the actual power switches for the motor, capacitors or simply stuff that corrodes.
Does an old school washer dryer that runs off timer relays / knobs / push buttons really have a CPU? I ask because that’s how mine is and I haven’t had to look at the controls but they seem dead simple to me. I get there’s different cycles but some simple ladder logic should be able to handle that, no? Half the world runs on simple machines like that.
Does an old school washer dryer that runs off timer relays / knobs / push buttons really have a CPU?
Nope, it’s just a timer-drive. cam triggering switches. The physical cam IS the CPU.
We have reached a point in time where there are adults who think everything that runs through multiple steps must have a microcontroller, because only really really old machines* do without.
*For the most part. I bought a brand new whirlpool dryer late last year, and it has a mechanical timer in it.
Thanks. I have an LG washer and dryer, electric. They seem to work great now but I can’t see them working well for years. It’s been about 3 years now. My oven is maytag and we love it. Def. Keeping this in mind.
My electric bill changed by less than $2 per month when I installed an “inefficient” washing machine. It was so little that I’m not sure the washer was the cause. That’s $72 over a period of three years. The machine it replaced was just out of warranty and needed a $200 drain pump.
Yeah but washing machines either use a really simple micro controller or a whole load of really complex voltage based logic and control board electronics that even the guy who designed it couldn’t fix without a lot of writing notes and doing maths.
There’s more to go wrong on an old washing machine and each control board was unique to the machine so tracking down a replacement is hard - a nice simple raspberry pi Pico you can flash over WiFi would make it so easy to switch out one heater for another without too much thought about impedance or upgrade the turbidity sensor without desoldering resistors.
Plus it gives you infinite control over the program cycles allowing you to update up the best wash method for your detergent and lifestyle.
Of course you can only do that with an open source one. I think it’s coming, year of the open source desktop kitchen work surface coming soon.
That’s not really true though, the electronics is pretty complex and requires significant work to use different components - I’m sitting next to a pile of dissembled washing machines so i could talk you through a few of the complexities involved in reworking those if you like
There are washing machines without anything more complex than a switch in them. If you really had a “pile of disassembled washing machines” you’d know that.
Nothing to control the motor, nothing to control the heater, nothing to do timing or turn on and off water in and out?
Even a really shitty one has door lock sensor, temperature sensor, turbidity sensor…
Which means logic gates and transformers and things to shift voltages or control power flow.
That’s before you even get into the logic of controlled programs or advanced features like weight based energy saving.
A micro controller connected to a few relays and sensors could replace all the complex stuff and it’d cost far less, plus it could tell you which sensor is out. Plus it allows you to do otherwise very complex things like reprogram the current job while it’s running or to sync with other devices to limit max power load.
Extraordinarily unlikely, except in the fantasies of some Russians. If Trump wins, we wouldn’t get violent until he actually tried to suspend the Constitution, that would be the most likely instigating event. Not people voting for him and him winning, sadly, fair and square by the laws of our land.
The die-hard Trump supporters are too few in number to do anything if Biden wins. Civil war-wise anyway, they could probably manage a bunch of terrorist attacks if they were angry enough.
He lost the popular vote in his first election and it was just decided that he would get to play President anyway. I don’t know how much any of these people are going to care about what the voters want this time around…
He literally lost the election. Less US citizens voted for him and he lost, that’s not denial that’s what happened. The electoral college just decided the votes of the American public weren’t important enough to uphold because of “reasons” that I have yet to hear an explanation for
He barely lost the popular vote, and in the end the electoral college decides. It's complete denial to act like it was a landslide. Even if you agree the electoral college is problematic it was a bad election.
If you don't want to think about the electoral college, the popular vote has to be a landslide, not what it was in 2016.
You can even look it up and this isn't even the first time this has happened. it's the 4th time. It doesn't even get the most blatant discrepancy
Votes matter but you also have a system in place, and if you're necking the 50/50 vote point expect that system to matter. Going to lala land and imagining a system that isn't how your system actually works doesn't fix anything.
Get more people to vote
Discourage 3rd party bait picks that will never get elected because they don't even have a local/state/anything presence
As an added bonus, you'd probably need to get people more interested in house/senate elections if you actually wanted to do anything about the electoral college. Cause it's not being changed at the presidential level.
You should definitely take the time to learn how the election actually works in the United States. Nothing illegal or unprecedented happened. The electoral college decides who wins the election, and their allocation is determined by the number of citizen votes in each state. Each state has a different number of delegates, so picking up wins in key states with a lot of delegates is important. Key states can win you the election, even if you lose the popular vote, as it did for trump. We don’t live in a direct democracy, we live in a representative democracy, aka a republic.
And the way that the electoral college was made is very much reasonable if you consider the history of the United States. When you realise that in the beginning, the US was very much like the EU is now, a loose federation of states, the structures that are in place make a lot of sense. The problem is that the US now views itself like a single unified nation instead of a federation of states, and those structures stopped making sense.
I was just thinking a few days ago about how we have always been a unified country during my life, but how it feels more like each State is its own little country lately. Especially with States like Texas and Florida moving hard in one direction, and States like California moving hard in the other. The confederation of States doesn’t seem like a workable solution now though, because the federal government has amassed so much power. It would be sad to see us split apart too, after having been something fairly great for a long time. IDK if they still teach the Articles of Confederation in school anymore, but reading those really allowed me to understand our country’s structure a lot better.
People need to organize now, not just to prep for violence but to ensure there’s some kind of social safety net to fall back on when shit hits the fan.
For your local power utility in Rural America, that’s just your average Wednesday. Somebody gets mad about something and shoots out a couple transformers or yard lights. I’ve even seen someone actually hit and sever the line once, which is actually pretty impressive considering how small it is. Morons with guns.
We had a guy throw spoiled meat all over the breakers one time. He was mad at us that the power went out and his food in his freezer all defrosted and went bad. He has a substation right behind his house, so he went to town. Real cool dude.
The die-hard Trump supporters are too few in number to do anything
That’s not how civil war happens. What would happen is that elections results would be put in question (for example some states would challenge the results and there would be disagreement among legal experts as to what to do next), both candidates would start issuing orders and different parts of the military would start obeying different candidates. You weren’t that far away from this last time. Fortunately for you the military chain of command wasn’t compromised but the government was absolutely ready to abandon the democratic process and split. All that was needed was for Pence to commit to the plan.
Civil wars can happen in a lot of different ways, it’s any set of circumstances that leads large swaths of a country to fight other large swaths of it.
First and most especially the single most important factor: b/c I thought it sounded cool. 😎
Second, I googled "what does Zaddy mean" - oh wait that was earlier in the day, cough, I mean I googled "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", found that it was first aired in 1939, and so put that.
And if the two highest paid public servants in your state are the University football coach and the State football coach, what sort of government is it?
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