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TimeSquirrel , in Probably New Zealanders too.
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

When you can drive for more than a week straight and still be in the same country, needing to know other languages is a lower priority.

Nepenthe , (edited )
@Nepenthe@kbin.social avatar

A low enough priority that the further I get in my efforts, the more it sinks in with me that I'm mostly wasting my time. It's a hobby more than a skill.

My attempts to learn my family's native language have hit a roadblock: now that I have a handle on the grammar, there is no one for me to speak to. It's frankly pretty upsetting and I'm very discouraged about it.

You're required to know at least a workable amount of English in order to live and work here, so no matter where they were born, there is absolutely no one in what feels like this entire NW hemisphere that I do not already share a language with. And only one time have I ever known before they said. All other times, they've just happened to mention they're from there after I say something about learning it.

Most immigrants I've met are perfectly incognito, and they speak more than well enough for us to understand each other casually. The point of language is to communicate. Goal achieved.

Trying to find a language partner in this situation is proving not only impossible, it's nigh-pointless to even do unless you're bored. It's the same online — nearly everyone already shares a language with me, you'd never guess most of the time, and even country-specific subs sometimes post things in english.

There's literally no one for me to practice on and zero need to practice unless I feel like going halfway around the globe pretty often in order to make the effort worthwhile. At which point they will still speak to me in english unless I'm lost in the super rural areas, and I will simply cry.

I've come to accept that going overseas even once in my life is never going to happen. Europeans seem to vastly overestimate Americans ability to afford to do that. Even if we could, we still have an entire hemisphere to get through first. Which costs significantly less, is almost just as fun, and doesn't take multiple years of work for a skill you'll only ever use once.

Kecessa ,

You say it’s your family’s native language and that you have no one to speak it with… I mean… Your family?

Uvine_Umbra ,
@Uvine_Umbra@partizle.com avatar

I kind of get it. My family is Jamaican and even so they haven’t cared to speak patois in the house for years nor do they really see the value in helping me learn (assuming they weren’t at work), instead laughing at me for messing up words here & there & still speaking US english.

Nepenthe , (edited )
@Nepenthe@kbin.social avatar

My grandparents were turkish and swedish, respectively, but neither took it upon themselves to teach either language to their children. My mother didn't even know her mom knew swedish til she was almost an adult, and the disconnected handful of turkish words was a result of trying to sneak ice cream past the kids. We were all 100% americanized and I feel horribly out of place even though I'm technically only second generation.

I do have relatives overseas, but I understand half of them are dead now. Since I was a kid when my own mom was ostracized, I barely even know any names and as I've said, I've never actually visited or interacted with them in any way. They may not even know I exist, tbh.

I could theoretically message my one remaining second cousin, I admit. You're correct. I have the sense this would be very awkward and I'd honestly rather speak to a stranger than explain who the fuck I am and why they should care.

Bonus points if they turn out to be super racist hypernationalists like my granpa so I get to be rejected by the one remaining relative that hasn't gotten around to it yet. Which isn't a thing that's physically preventing me, the prospect just popped into my head and makes me really sad and it would add to my therapy bills

Dee ,
@Dee@lemmings.world avatar

Europeans seem to vastly overestimate Americans ability to afford to do that.

This part, I’m struggling to stay afloat I can’t splurge for a intercontinental trip. I can, however, drive my car for a day or less and be in a completely different biome/culture. Each state is essentially it’s own country with it’s own laws and cultures. An overarching American influence but each place is definitely unique to itself.

I like to learn a language not so much out of practicality though because you’re right, we can speak to everyone here with English. I like to learn a language just for the mental benefits of training my brain and learning more about another culture.

brenno ,

I think it’s more related to the language importance than it’s size. We have continental countries (Russia, Brazil, etc) that you can also drive for a week without leaving and learning English is important there.

If the world had chosen another language for communication probably US citizens would need to learn another language still.

CurlyWurlies4All ,
@CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net avatar

Also when you genocided the indigenous people so hard you never needed to adopt any loan words from the native language.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

Tabarnac.

Tar_alcaran , in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

Hi, I work in waste handling, and I would like to tell you about dangerous materials and what we do with them.

There are whole hosts of chemicals that are extremely dangerous, but let’s stick with just cyanide, which comes from coal coking, steel making, gold mining and a dozen chemical synthesis processes.

Just like nuclear waste, there is no solution for this. We can’t make it go away, and unlike nuclear waste, it doesn’t get less dangerous with time. So, why isn’t anyone constantly bringing up cyanide waste when talking about gold or steel or Radiopharmaceuticals? Well, that’s because we already have a solution, just not “forever”.

Cyanide waste, and massive amounts of other hazardous materials, are simply stored in monitored facilities. Imagine a landfill wrapped in plastic and drainage, or a building or cellar with similar measures and someone just watches it. Forever. You can even do stuff like build a golfcourse on it, or malls, or whatever.

There are tens of thousands of these facilities worldwide, and nobody gives a solitary fuck about them. It’s a system that works fine, but the second someone suggests we do the same with nuclear waste, which is actually less dangerous than a great many types of chemical waste, people freak out about it not lasting forever.

EisFrei ,

www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxguides/toxguide-8.pdf

I didn’t know that before but it appears cyanide does have a half-life that is a fraction of nuclear waste.

That doesn’t make it or the other compounds less dangerous, of course.

Tar_alcaran ,

That’s uhh, not what that says. One of the two mentions of half life are your body converting cyanide into thiocyanate, which will kill you and depending on your last bowel movement, make your corpse into hazardous waste itself.

The other mention is hydrogen cyanide in air, which is lighter than air and will decompose back into cyanide eventually, scattering it over a large area. Which will technically make it go away from your site, but spreading toxic waste over the countryside is illegal for a reason.

EisFrei ,

Most cyanide in surface water will form hydrogen cyanide and evaporate.

As long as it has a surface to evaporate, it will degenerate.

Tar_alcaran , (edited )

Oh yeah, you could totally just leave it in a giant pool and ignore it. It’ll react, evaporate and eventually break down into cyanide again, rain down, subtly poison the area, react again, evaporate again, etc.

And that’s great for the owner of the big pool of cyanide, and very bad for everyone else. Stuff that evaporates doesn’t disappear, the cyanide doesn’t magically change into cookiedough. You’re just spreading it around more.

EisFrei ,

Hydrogen cyanide will turn into “cookie dough” in 1-5 years. Which is way shorter than “forever”.

The way you said it in your first comment made it seem longer lasting than radioactive waste. Which it isn’t according to the linked PDF. That is the only point I was trying to make.

nickwitha_k ,

… Hydrogen cyanide is literally what has been used to execute people in gas chambers and genocide during the Holocaust. The LC(Lo), the lowest recorded lethal concentration is 107ppm, resulting in death in 10 minutes. That’s, objectively, far more dangerous than the respective material that firefighters were exposed to at Chernobyl. You don’t want that in any appreciable quantity in the air around people that you want to continue living.

Valmond ,

Yeah but how is the Kremlin going to control us with their gas & oil if we have nuclear?

Checkmate uh pro democratic people I guess?

DadVolante ,
@DadVolante@sh.itjust.works avatar

They have more uranium than we do

veganpizza69 ,
@veganpizza69@lemmy.world avatar
anachronist ,

As a friend once said “benzene is what anti-nuclear people think nuclear waste is.”

Tar_alcaran ,

I mean, spent fuel is actually quite lethal when not packaged, but you get something like 300-400MWh out of a kilo of fuel. And that’s significantly more than I’ll use in my lifetime.

I’d gladly keep a kilo of dry-casked spent fuel in my house. It’d make an excellent coffee table or something, if a bit hard to move. I would absolutely not put a lifetime supply of benzene anywhere near my house.

Edit: it would make a shitty coffee table. 1 kilo of uranium oxide is just under 100ml

YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH ,

The density of uranium always fucks with me. How can something that takes up so little volume weigh so much?

StupidBrotherInLaw ,

It’s thicc.

oo1 ,

phat nucleasss

uis ,
nondescripthandle ,

Cyanide is used extensively in precious metal recycling too. So even reclaiming resources has a harsh chemical cost. Meeting workers from there I was surprised to say the least about how ‘casually’ they work with Cyanide. Clearly they have safty protocall but nothing like what I imagined something like Cyanide would call for.

Tar_alcaran ,

In addition to hazardous materials regulations, I also do workplace safety, and this doesn’t surprise me at aaaaall. People get really casual around stuff that kills you slowly.

kaffiene ,

Curious to hear you say this. I live in NZ and cyanide waste is always raised as an objection to gold mining.

Tar_alcaran ,

An unfortunate reality is that while we CAN store things safely, that doesn’t mean they always will be.

samus12345 , in Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

The irony of Homer Simpson representing safe nuclear energy…

MyOtherInstanceIsDown ,
uis ,

Well, it took much effort for Homer to blow up NPP

cyborganism , in Just use Firefox

I’m just so fucking furious at how every company I work for ONLY supports Chrome (and by relationship, Edge). And as soon as I get issues using Firefox their response is “we don’t support Firefox”.

Like what the fuck???

Our company just installed a proxy system on our PCs that fucked everything up in Firefox and when I called IT for help, that was their response.

land ,
@land@lemmy.ml avatar

Same with extensions. “We don’t have any plans for bringing xyz to Firefox.

brbposting ,

s/o to devs servicing the thousands* of us on FF

*allegedly <200 million vs. 3.5b Chromeadware users

NoUsernameAvailable ,

I work for an international corporation and we were told to stop using Chrome and use Edge only as it’s more secure. Firefox was out of the question and not even installed.

R00bot ,
@R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Lol. I have no idea how Microsoft convinces these companies that they’re the “secure” option. My workplace has banned any AI except copilot, because Microsoft told them copilot is secure.

brbposting ,

Maybe Microsoft signed on a line promising security. Hopefully another line isn’t a forced arbitration clause.

mexicancartel ,
MrSoup ,

use Edge only as it’s more secure.

Just try to look at its default settings. It’s really the worst option maybe even more than Chrome itself.

NoUsernameAvailable ,

It’s okay. They disabled profile syncing. Your credit card information is safe with us.

Lost_My_Mind ,

Why are you people soooooooooo worried about viruses? I think the last virus I got was on WindowsXP.

Pretty sure viruses don’t exist. I’m using a windows 7 pc for 10 years, and the only virus protection is whatever they put on windows 7 by default, with no updates ever, and I STILL don’t get viruses. I’m at a point where it seems like virus makers just gave up.

UnRelatedBurner ,

Edge and Chrome are the viruses.

TwoCubed ,

You get that idea because no one actually browses the internet anymore. All people ever do is use fucking social Media and that’s about it. No one’s using Limewire to download porn/music, no one’s using warez websites anymore, there are trustworthy porn aggregators so no one needs to visit dubious websites anymore.

Viruses are still a thing, and as someone already mentioned, chrome and edge themselves are spyware. Phishing is the more prodominant modus operandi nowadays.

stephen01king ,

Hard to argue with them not wanting to support a browser that only makes up 3.3% of browsers used worldwide. Actually, it’s probably not even their decision, but the decision of some higher ups that want to save development or software cost.

You might try convincing them by polling how many people in your company wants to use Firefox, though. There could be a significant enough proportion of you guys that do.

brbposting ,

Super sad

Wish I could undo my days of recommending Chrome to IE users. Hey, it had Adblock [Plus] ‘n’ tabs ‘n’ stuff…

stephen01king ,

If we all didn’t recommend Chrome, we would still be using IE now, probably.

brbposting ,

/mademesmile

Cheers Stephen zero one King

Lost_My_Mind ,

Am I the only person who’s been using Firefox for roughly 20 years? Fuck chrome, fuck internet explorer, fuck oprah, fuck edge, fuck netscape…actually netscape was kinda cool. I liked it.

But, this idea that it’s chrome or IE is baffling to me.

UnpledgedCatnapTipper ,

I’ve been using Firefox since like version 1.5 and never found a reason to switch off of it. I have Chrome as a backup for shit sites that refuse to work in anything else, but that’s all it gets used for.

edit: It’s also the only browser I tend to recommend to people and has been that whole time as well.

maccentric ,

Nope, I’m with you 100% on the browser front

Also, fuck Oprah

TrickDacy , (edited )

There is no fucking way Firefox is that unpopular, but actually yeah it’s trivial to argue that browser choice is hanging by a thread and it’s not a good thing

ulterno ,
@ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

A lot of Linux Distros seem to have Firefox telemetry disabled by default (even the minimal, one-time ping, telling Mozilla to know there is another user), so that might be skewing some of the stats.

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NovaPrime , (edited )
@NovaPrime@lemmy.ml avatar

100% feel you on the overall sentiment. I’ve reached an age these days where I don’t do anything other than work stuff on work equipment, which not only helps re-enforce the work/life segmentation, but also absolves me of having to worry about and be responsible for stuff like this. Gotta say, it’s very nice for mental health and sanity

OpenStars ,
@OpenStars@discuss.online avatar

I’ve heard web developers say that a lot of that is due to Firefox’s annoying (to them) choices.

I happen to know HTML, CSS, & raw JS even though nothing at all from the last roughly decade, and I guarantee you that I can, and have, written webpages that work on any browser. More to the point, Firefox does not fully support HTML5 - and while tbf none of the browsers do(:-P), it does lag noticeably behind. Then again, it has made major pushes forward in terms of security… though seemingly at the cost of its basic functionality, to the point where if you want to use some even moderately complex coding framework, then you pretty much have to use Chrome.

So what I do is use Firefox for personal use, and Chrome at work. I then also use Chrome at home for personal use, unless I want to view a commercial site (where ads make every experience not only slower but practically unusable imho). Sadly, that’s the only option I have, if I want to be able to “view websites”.

In the past, Microsoft used to encourage features that would work only in their shitty-AF browser. But I got the sense that this is not what is happening now, b/c it’s simply HTML5 - did Google somehow have some “in” with whoever designed that, hoping to give themselves an edge?

Anyway, I use Firefox, but I wish it was better.:-( I’m always so frustrated with it that I keep telling myself I will replace it someday, perhaps with LibreWolf?

mexicancartel ,

Well yeah. If you want features that screws up user privacy, then its already bad to do it that way. Use js obfuacation and webassembly so thay you can hide the js running, make more and more of device info availiable to the websites you use so that they can have a tiny little featute at the cost of privacy, etc.

OpenStars ,
@OpenStars@discuss.online avatar

Not the particular web developer I had in mind, who prefers raw JS and resents having to use libraries, but sadly yeah far too common it’s that, for basically no other reason than that - like, there’s other ways to make “pretty” and “functional”:-(. The web has truly enshittified, and I’m glad Firefox is still fighting against it.:-)

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

I believe it is because unlike Chrome and Edge, Firefox doesn’t have enterprise policies or it’s equivalent.

PlexSheep ,

Pretty sure it does? It says so on all my machines.

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Can you create a policy (not allowing users to install extensions, defining starting page etc) and roll it out to thousands of Firefox installations across the enterprise?

RmDebArc_5 OP ,
@RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yes

taxet_ ,

Wanna know what’s funny? I work for a company that develops web application for business use. Officially, we claim to support Chrome, Edge (this was pre-chromium Edge but the terms haven’t been updated), Safari and Firefox.

Unofficially? Most of us only test in Chrome and call it a day. I’m literally the only one in the company actively testing Firefox first, and then MAYBE checking if Chrome works. Because 99.99% of the time if it works on Firefox it works on Chrome.

Now, that has at times brought some problems to light that would have been undetected since from what I’ve understood, Chrome is big enough to start introducing ways of doing things that are not officially part of any standard and just… brute force their way to make it de facto standard. But each and every time someone tries to get away with using breaking non-standard things, it usually gets caught because I’m apparently the only one left who actually gives a fuck about the promises made to customers, as well as the web diversity. Even if we are a small company with a website that gets used mostly by Chrome users, I’m looking out to that 1% or whatever the most recent statistics for our user base was.

But I did also mention Safari is supported. That’s a different beast and I don’t think anyone in our company tests on that, since it’s mainly windows PCs all around. I had a chance to get a new work laptop just recently but didn’t dare to go for a Mac because our test automation code base might have still some windows dependencies and I didn’t wanna start dealing with those just yet, but next time I probably will. On another, newer project I work on I’ve picked Playwright as the test automation framework which has capability for testing on Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, so that should at least be covered. The legacy projcet could maybe be ported on that as well (currently using selenium on that one) but it’s a big hassle and there’s no way I’ll get the green light from higher ups to do so without proper justification and proof that it would improve something.

But yeah, when ever I test manually and go elbow deep into it? It’s Firefox first and whatever I have time for afterwards. It’s worked so far, can’t see why I would need to stop doing it this way now.

cyborganism ,

I really truly appreciate the effort. I don’t know why people stopped caring about these things. The internet has become so commercial that the open standards seem to have become an afterthought to most companies. It’s important to have people like you to ensure the standards are still respected.

jadedwench ,

Thank you. I admit I don’t use Firefox right now due to issues I ran in to during my trial run earlier this year. Once the battery drain issues are fixed on the Android client I can at least switch back to it on my phone.

My company surprised me last week as we did an install and things didn’t work right in Firefox for the customer. My boss and the team are committed to fixing it and doing better on browser testing. There was not a moment of hesitation on this decision. We of course told them to use Edge, Safari, or Chrome in the meantime, but by no means are we throwing it on the bottom of the “fix” pile. Team is almost done and ready to send to QA. Super proud.

ChonkyOwlbear , in saving lives is hot

Quick way of finding out if your date has any STIs.

Diplomjodler3 ,

And/or is a rapist

Cysioland ,
@Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Are sex offenders forbidden from donating in the US?

irmoz ,

No idea, but they’re certainly more likely to take advantage of someone who’s blackout drunk

ryannathans ,

Or is gay

ProdigalFrog , (edited )

Gay people can donate blood now! (In the US, at least) :D

Also @photonic_sorcerer

LethalSmack ,

Sort of. Still can’t donate if you’re taking prep (hiv preventative) or if you’ve had sex with multiple people.

Need to be off prep for 3 months and not have sex with new or multiple partners.

The no prep part is a tough ask. Especially with how healthcare is

Much better than it was but it still excludes a huge portion of the community

ProdigalFrog ,

Ahh, bummer :(

HenriVolney ,

In my country, men are asked the same questions and no one is allowed to give blood if they changed partners in the last 3 months. I imagine it is the same for women.

LethalSmack ,

Unfortunately it applies to gay men only. Our straight counterparts can switch up partners as much as they want.

Well, it’d apply to bisexual men who’ve had male partners as well.

I should also point out it doesn’t have to be new partners. Just if you’ve had more than one partner you can’t donate even if it’s an exclusive polygamous relationship.

QTpi ,

In the US, it is an Individual Donor Assessment and applies to everyone. Everyone gets the same question tree, regardless of sexual orientation. If you have had a new partner in the last 3 months or have multiple partners that doesn’t defer you, it sends you to the next tier of question: have you engaged in anal sex. Yes to anal with a new partner or multiple partners is the deferral. If you haven’t had a new partner or multiple partners in the last 3 months, you will not be asked about anal sex. Canada went live with their individual donor assessment a year before the US and has noted a slight drop in donations in straight donors because they are now being deferred for high risk activity when they were previously missed.

Prep is listed under a medication deferral. First responders that take prep for protection from workplace exposure are deferred as well.

(I’m a blood banker)

LethalSmack ,

I see what you’re saying but they are specifically worried about anal sex. You’re welcome to switch up partners as much as you want as long as anal sex isn’t involved, which is much more likely and much easier for the heterosexual community.

Same goes with prep. I’m sure that there are circumstances that would have individuals taking it that are not related to their sexual orientation.

I’m just pointing out that despite the major improvement it still excludes gay men quite thoroughly from donating blood.

zaphod ,

Not everyone lives in America.

stinerman ,
@stinerman@midwest.social avatar

On the internet, everyone is American.

Viking_Hippie ,
wreckedcarzz ,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

You called? I mean I’m not a dog but I am mostly canine so take it or leave it.

Viking_Hippie ,

I don’t know… Are you SURE that my vehicle will be safe with you? 🤔

wreckedcarzz ,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

turns around and tapes over my ‘Hello, I’m’ nametag before turning back “absolutely!”

CooperRedArmyDog ,

I am glad my secret is safe… I am sure no one can figure out my secret.

Viking_Hippie ,

Your secret is that you’re on the internet.

ProdigalFrog ,

What’s the situation with donating in your area? :)

photonic_sorcerer ,
@photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Oh, I didn’t know the American Red Cross made the rules for everybody in the world! Gee, thanks!

ProdigalFrog , (edited )

I was only offering what I knew to be true for my area locally, I didn’t want to speak on things I hadn’t researched. Looking it up, I guess it seems like it’s possible (with varying degrees of waiting period), in a pretty significant chunk of the world, so that’s even better than I thought, if still not ideal. ^^

photonic_sorcerer ,
@photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Sorry, that did come across a little strong.

ProdigalFrog ,

It’s all good :)

SnipingNinja ,

Would probably find that out before you decide on a date

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Or paid for sex

blanketswithsmallpox ,

… Where do you live that rape DNA has been sequenced any time in the most recent 10 years or so? That’s so much raping that could be hand before you get from donating blood.

Don’t be a fuckface just because you rape. Try to cancel it out by donating blood, we use rapist blood just as well as we use a frat bros.

zaphod ,

Not really how this works. Tests take time and they don’t test immediately, also they do pool tests, so multiple samples are mixed and tested. So even if they’d find something they couldn’t tell you right there, and then again even if they could they would tell you it would be handled so that nobody else could notice.

BenVimes ,

At least last time I donated blood in my country (Canada), you could discretely indicate “do not use” by applying a different sticker to the bag. This was done in case someone got peer pressured into donating but didn’t want to reveal something private that would have disqualified them otherwise.

FreshLight ,

Roughly the same here in Germany

saigot ,

Yes but they also test the blood and will call you if they have reason to believe you are positive.

emergencyfood ,

We (India) don’t have that, mainly because blood bags don’t grow on trees, but there’s a question about sleeping eight hours the previous night that always seemed irrelevant. Now that I think about it, it might have been added for this purpose.

chiliedogg , in a32 5g battery died and samshit wont repair it because of magisk, so i made this meme

That’s illegal under the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act.

Send them a certified letter. Inform them that they need to prove you caused the damage, repair or replace your device, or you’ll be taking them to arbitration.

They generally have to pay for the arbiter, so it’ll be cheaper to just replace your cheap phone even if they win.

INHALE_VEGETABLES ,

He voided his warranty.

Armand1 ,

You can’t void your warranty by rooting your phone. They claim you can, but that’s only their extended warranty, not that statutory one.

sphfaar ,
@sphfaar@lemmy.world avatar

Even in cars it’s the same thing, if you tune it they don’t know where to look since it’s no longer the same, On rooted android you can install things like Advanced Charging Controller to fuck your battery, and many software that manage performance/temperature.

chiliedogg ,

But under the Act, they have to show that what you did caused the malfunction. The burden of proof is on them.

It’s why “warranty void if removed” stickers on products are unenforceable in court.

Dempf , (edited )

Maybe so, but under the Act, the burden is on the company to prove that the modification directly caused the failure in question.

They can’t just deny deny for no reason. But that’s the tactic as consumers are largely unaware of their rights under the law, and they typically get away with it until the FTC sends a bunch of nasty letters telling them that they’re breaking the law. See “warranty void if removed” stickers.

There’s some good discussion of this very issue in this article from a few years back. They touch on the sort of “overclocking” situation that you’re talking about.

vice.com/…/jailbreaking-iphone-rooting-android-do…

In my personal opinion, even a modification that can be used to push the hardware to operate beyond it’s design limits doesn’t inherently void any part of a warranty if it’s not used for that purpose. Let’s think through a few examples.

Does obtaining root on a Windows PC void the hardware warranty since it’s now possible for you to install a kernel driver that lets you overclock?

Does the presence of MSI Afterburner installed on a machine void hardware warranties? Regardless of whether you use it for overclocking or just for graphing and monitoring?

Does installing Linux on a PC that you own void the hardware warranty?

In my mind, the car example is a bit different. I don’t quite know what you mean by “tune”, but I’m going to assume it’s something like ECU remapping. To me, remapping an ECU seems similar to the act of overclocking, since you’re modifying the physical inputs to the engine itself. And I can see how out-of-spec physical inputs could cause irreversible damage to an engine. But that doesn’t mean that every conceivable ECU modification would be grounds to deny a claim for engine failure.

(Disclaimer: I have no experience with ECU remapping so I’m making some assumptions)

As another example, let’s say your car comes with an ECU that has some security mechanisms to prevent reflashing. Could the manufacturer deny a warranty claim on engine failure just because you circumvented the security mechanism? Even if you never remapped the ECU parameters?

What if your ECU fails, and you decide to install a 3rd party ECU. The new ECU has no security mechanism preventing you from reflashing, but the map that it comes with, while provided by the 3rd party, is functionally equivalent to that in the stock ECU. Can the manufacturer deny a warranty claim on an engine failure, just because without the security mechanism you could have reflashed a new map designed for more performance than stock? Even if you didn’t? Could they deny the warranty due to the 3rd party map? Even if physical inputs to the engine stay within safe parameters?

I think you do raise a good point about the logical connection that Samsung could make between the modification (root) and the failure (battery). But the point I’m making is: the legal burden is on them to make that connection, and show how one caused the other.

On the other hand, some of the questions and examples that I raised are admittedly messy, and might not have a clear answer unless tested by a court.

I guess what I’m saying though is: if the cost to seek legal relief here is relatively low (e.g., arbitration or small claims), then if I were OP I would probably go down that route, personally, and make arguments based on Magnuson Moss.

IANAL

Edit: just saw elsewhere that OP lives in Greece. Looks like the legal principles are pretty similar when it comes to warranties in the EU. The burden is still on the manufacturer to show that the modification caused the failure in question.

fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230807-01.en.html

sphfaar ,
@sphfaar@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, by tuning I meant ECU remapping or installing aftermarket parts.

btw like anything to contest, legal action is only worthwhile if the profit at least covers the lawyer’s fees and the time lost, unfortunately.

NotMyOldRedditName ,

Wait, I knew they usually can’t void it without proof, but that’s NOT the case for an extended warranty add on?

BeardedSingleMalt , in fries are another $8.00
  • All the workers have forearm tattoos
  • At least 3 people are wearing beanies in the middle of summer
  • Bacon is $4 extra
  • The burger comes out on a bun drenched in butter and is so greasy/oily that halfway through it may as well have been served in a bowl
altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

It’s also a dry pretzel bun

pigup , (edited )

The biggest disappointment

Nacktmull ,
@Nacktmull@lemmy.world avatar

Also:

  • The waiter has a twirled moustache and wears a mesh shirt combined with a bowler hat
  • The $4 extra bacon is burned to charcoal strips
Khrux ,

God I wish my wish waiter wore a mesh shirt, where the hell is this??

Nacktmull ,
@Nacktmull@lemmy.world avatar

In a place where touching the waiters is not included, sorry ;)

Nfamwap ,

Drinks are served in jars, and your fries, well, you get 8 fries in a rusty old can.

SubArcticTundra ,
@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml avatar

A guy is laying in the corner working on his MacBook wearing those brown Marshall headphones

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Also the heat is cranked up uncomfortably high. The air is muggy. The whole place smells of onion.

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

The place is being run by 3 bearded lumbersexuals in flannel and ball caps having the time of their lives and a chick in overalls and her hair in a bandanna who could not be more over it.

xX_fnord_Xx ,

The sound is provided entirely by a neglected Technics 1200 that nobody knows how to adjust accept the barback that only works on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Shenanigore ,

I hat that brushed butter bullshit. If you want a butter burger, it goes on the hamburger patty,

psmgx ,

At this point pretty much all BOH staff in any resto are packing tons of tats. Probably easier to count the ones who don’t

grte , in Spices too

The nightshade family also gives us a lot of important vegetables. Potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers being the most common but others as well.

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

And then there’s Brassica oleracea, where it’s not even a family, but one single species that brings us a heap of classic veggies including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, and gai lan. If you expand to its family you can add turnip, bok choy, radish, wasabi, as well as the majority of source vegetables in the eponymous “vegetable oil”.

KingThrillgore ,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Are you saying a vegetable fried this rice?

Frozengyro ,

Ah, the old lemm-a-roo

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

I don’t get it.

Ephera ,

Does this help?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switcheroo

It’s kind of an internet culture thing to respond like that…

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

No I’m familiar with the ol’ Reddit switcheroo. I don’t understand what exactly is being switched in this case.

Ephera ,

Yeah, it’s a bit of a stretch here. The comment is intentionally mixing things up for comedic effect, but it’s not a direct switch of anything…

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

Damn. I didn’t understand the joke the above user was making and was hoping that by understanding why it’s a switcheroo I could understand the original joke. But now I’m no closer than where I started.

Ephera ,

That’s an existential crisis I’ve had after starting to eat vegan. Suddenly everything in your cupboard is a plant, with the exception of salt and sometimes mushrooms.

It’s just like: I’ll now eat this noodle-shaped plant with this pureed plant and this protein-rich plant and I’ll also throw in some tasty plant shreds. Maybe I should also have some plant leaves with a dressing out of plant oil, fermented plant juice and this plant seed paste.

But then I realized that meat, eggs, cheese, milk, and even mushrooms, they’re all just processed/digested plants, too. So, there’s only plants and salt. Which really didn’t make the existential crisis any better, but at least we’re all in it together. 🙃

Zerush ,
@Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

All beings, including us, are descendants of the first single-celled being that appeared on Earth billions of years ago. We share 75% of our DNA with a potato (some people which I know, even more)

Damage ,
sagrotan ,
@sagrotan@lemmy.world avatar

Brussel sprouts? That’s not a vegetable, that’s heresy! Awful stuff. The rest can be good, depending on the context though.

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

For what it’s worth, though I don’t think I’ve ever had them in any form, I’ve heard that the poor reputation of Brussels sprouts is due to the popular way of cooking them in the '30s through '80s being to boil the shit out of them. They’re supposed to be quite good if you cook them the right way.

SilentStorms ,

They’ve also had a lot of the bitterness bred out of them since the 90s. The ones I’ve eaten recently are less bad than I remember as a kid.

They’re still bad tho

Kornblumenratte ,

They should never have been consumed bitter. When they are frozen the bitter substance is destroyed. In former times this implied being harvested only after the first night frosts in autumn, never before. Nowadays there might be some more artificial ways to achieve the same result more reliable. (Perhaps by breeding, too, I’m not sure about this part.)

Taste changes with age, too. The younger, the sweeter and the older, the bitterer people prefer.

randint , (edited )
@randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

So that’s why some vegetables sometimes have that wasabi taste to them.

menemen ,
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

Also my lovely Cucurbitales, from cucumbers over pumpkins up to melons.

Kalkaline ,

Don’t forget the brassicas too

lolcatnip ,

I love all those vegetables but if I had to give up allium or nightshades, I’d give up nightshades.

Denvil ,

I love garlic as much as the next guy, but I don’t think I could imagine food without potatoes

RizzRustbolt ,

The culinary history of humanity is just one long dare about eating the killer plants.

menemen ,
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks to all our forefather who ate enough poisonous squashes for us to enjoy squash soup and pumpkin pies.

Zerush ,
@Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

Tobacco is also in this family

Entropy , in Why?

It’s a leftover from reddit. A comment would be marked as “edited” if you changed anything after posting it, and since some people are shitheads and change their comments to say completely different things after people have already replied to them it’s just a way to inform people that the edit you made to your comment was just to fix typos and not anything significant

Dave ,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Lemmy posts also show they are edited.

Though I never wrote that I fixed a typo on reddit either. Only stating the edit if it was adding info or changing something.

Omgarm ,

I leave spelling mistakes once somebody replied and no comment about fixing it before that.

Dave ,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

I fix spelling mistakes once someone replied because that’s when I come back and see my comment again and notice the spelling mistake.

magmaus3 ,
@magmaus3@szmer.info avatar

I tend to leav leave both correct and bad spellings.

AngryCommieKender ,

Lemmy even shows ninja edits. On Reddit you had a few minutes to get a quick edit in before it would be marked as edited. Lemmy gives the mark even if you edit within 5 seconds.

Like so

gtaman ,

Easy solution; show edit history.

Peppycito ,

Seems like the perfect answer.

KmlSlmk64 ,
@KmlSlmk64@lemmy.world avatar

The only problem is if you accidentally include some personal information or other type you don’t want to be out there and you’ve edited it out, you probably don’t want it to be accessible.

gtaman ,

I mean, u can still delete whole comment

Sotuanduso , (edited )

Or people can change their comment and leave in “Edit: typo” to throw people off their trails, like I just did.

What, did you think I was gonna be deceptive?

EDIT: Typo

NewNewAccount ,

Hey man I didn’t know that and that’s super helpful. Thanks for sharing!

GrievingWidow420 ,

«Or people can change their comment and leave in “Edit: typo” to throw people of their trails» indeed, my friend

pressanykeynow ,

So you can edit something significant and just add “edit: typo”.

Kusimulkku ,

It’s funny how people think writing “edit: typo” is more “transparent” and whatnot.

These people don’t know about lying.

Appoxo ,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The same is literally here? You will aso got a mark for an edited comment.

almost1337 , in Almost that time of year

The older you get, the more excited you get for socks as a present.

omgitsaheadcrab ,

My dad gets us happy socks for Christmas lately, it’s awesome. I don’t need to buy socks anymore

plague_sapiens ,
@plague_sapiens@lemmy.world avatar

This. While being annoyed by one of my grandmothers giving me bed sheets as a birthday present when I was around 10. I now totally understand and like it. Haven’t really bought much clothes since ever, cause my mother and sister are currently fullfilling my grandmother’s task for years now xD And it’s nice to use the money I would have spent on clothes to buy me more tech stuff I really want.

Kyle ,

Yeah! Who’s getting more sad about getting socks every year? As soon as I moved out I started appreciating the gift 😃

If people ask for gift hints I often say “fun socks!”

shiroininja ,

I get tired of it, because I don’t need socks every year. My stuff lasts. I end up with too many socks. It’s like buying me a new pair of shoes or something. Like uh no, those last me 3-5 years. Those are utilitarian purchases that are made less often

Th4tGuyII ,
@Th4tGuyII@kbin.social avatar

Exactly. Thought it dumb when I was younger, but now it's a great thing!
Makes me wonder how old OP is?

tdawg ,

Only if they’re comfy tho

HurlingDurling ,

Fuck, I must be old then. I love socks as a present

Ultraviolet , in Almost a shitpost.

If Mexican food gives you the shits, you need to eat more fiber so your digestive system doesn’t immediately panic on contact with beans.

kautau ,

My guess is it’s the cholula, or Taco Bell, or ordering deep fried chimichangas, or other Tex-Mex, most freshly made authentic mexican food is simple ingredients that should definitely not cause someone to have the shits

gkd ,
@gkd@lemmy.ml avatar

Japan has Taco Bell so that’s definitely an option if you want to really make use of those toilets.

daltotron ,

yeah, but their taco bell kind of sucks major ass because they don’t have access to the same ingredients, or something along those lines, I can’t quite remember.

kautau ,

It wouldn’t surprise me. Japan does rice and beef very well. But tomatoes and lettuce are far less common in Asia. I’m actually traveling to Japan early next year at some point. Will try Taco Bell and report back

daltotron ,

Tell me whether or not they have any good black bean tacos. I’m interested in their bean variety, because I’m not sure to what extent they have the same beanage as over here. I have to expect that they have some level, as otherwise you’d get no bean paste pastries, no miso soup bean stock, yadda yadda. I expect a full report on my desk by may 2024.

BarrelAgedBoredom ,

Some people are sensitive to an enzyme in beans as well, I’m blanking on what it’s called atm. But I’m a vegetarian that eats beans like 3-5 times a week and my poops are legendary the day after eating them. Lentils too, to a lesser degree

punkwalrus ,
@punkwalrus@lemmy.world avatar

I lack that enzyme genetically. I am allergic to alcohol, and so when my stomach can’t digest beans corn, or even eggs, they sit in my intestines, start to ferment, and I am in a world of hurt.

BCsven ,

There is that Beano enzyme product, a few drops with a meal

Holzkohlen ,

But good shits are the point. Fiber takes on water in your gut which increases the volume of the shit in question and it makes them super soft or lose shape entirely. Pretty much all my shits are like that because of my high fiber intake.

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Man, it ain’t the beans, it’s the peppers and/or spices.

Seriously, I’m not fucking with you. Beans are great insoluble fiber, and they reduce the effect of the other ingredients to some degree. This is a widely used way for IBS sufferers to reduce the impact of the effect. Extra beans, as long as you aren’t sensitive to the beans themselves (which is a thing), or added dairy (again, if that isn’t a trigger for you), and doubling up the tortillas all help to some degree.

If the dish is also fatty, that’s going to end in your end not ending well. Since what a lot of people think of as “Mexican” tends to be like what you get at Chipotle or Taco Bell, the fattiness is assumed.

zeppo ,
@zeppo@lemmy.world avatar

I eat hella hot sauce and peppers and… yeah. They’ll do that to you. My mouth is fine with any amount of spice but when it contacts any other part of my body (or I inhale a tiny bit!) I realize holy shit, this stuff is caustic.

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

It’s usually the reaction to spices not the fiber of beans.

TheBlue22 , in Double standards or something, I don't know...

You can’t compare these 2 conflicts at all.

Everythingispenguins , (edited )

Why? Because the west supports the occupied in one and the occupier in the other? Don’t forget the west expected Ukraine to be an occupied state with a gorilla insurgency within a few weeks at the start of the conflict.

Edit: because I am getting the expected hate. The Palestinians didn’t start out as Hamas. The extremism of Hamas was born out of the lack of action from former moderates. People will always become more extreme when they are met with a lack of action. That goes for the left and the right.

So ask yourself if someone came to your house and told you to leave how angry would you be? If you don’t understand this look up the actions of the Israeli settlements.

TheBlue22 ,

Because Ukraine is not committing brutal crimes, not lobbing rockets randomly, hoping to kill anyone, civilian or not. Not hoping to eradicate their enemy (that is the stated goal of Hamas). Ukraine government is not in power because of violence, but because they were voted in. Hamas is in power only because they have weapons and other palestinians don’t (given to them by other extremist Muslims, who want to see Jews die).

So let me say it again, this conflict is not fucking comparable.

Everythingispenguins ,

But Israel will do exactly that. If you want to condemn the killing of innocent people. You need to do it to both sides.

jpost.com/…/UNHRC-IDF-may-have-committed-war-crim…

www.nytimes.com/…/gaza-israel-children.html

hrw.org/…/west-bank-spike-israeli-killings-palest…

TheBlue22 ,

I am not pro Israel. You are just assuming that for no fuckig reason.

Israel is committing what could be easily called genocide in Gaza. Moving settlers in, pushing palestinians away from their homes, killing their kids, their fathers. Doing who knows what else.

I am against Zionist Israel and against Hamas.

I am for a state for both Jews and Palestinians.

You can have that position.

Unlike the Ukranian conflict, both of the fighting sides are in the wrong. There should be no fighting to begin with. Only innocents suffer.

Album ,
@Album@lemmy.ca avatar

Yup don’t let them gaslight you buddy. This is how they do it.

Everythingispenguins ,

Well then just ask yourself is a meme about the conflicts themselves or about the west’s condemnation of one powers imperialism while supporting the imperialism of another?

Phrodo_00 ,

I know what you mean and I also find western support of Israel appalling, but the meme is literally about the lack of support to Hamas, which makes sense given how they also like to randomly kill civilians.

BustinJiber ,

How does the meme have anything to do with Hamas?

Jakeroxs ,

Because timing probably

BustinJiber , (edited )

The meme has total of four words. How are you arriving at any conclusion on what the meme is about? It’s not even proper spelling according to Google translate.

TheBlue22 ,

Did I make the meme? Am I the west or something? For all you know, I could not even be in the global west.

Not once have I supported the imperialism, I called what’s Israel is doing a genocide for crying out loud.

Get a fucking reality check buddy.

Everythingispenguins ,

Why are you so angry? I am not or ever attacking you. I never said you made the meme or where you live. Sorry for presenting you with an opinion that differs from yours.

TheBlue22 ,

Not angry, simply annoyed. Mostly because you keep assuming shit, preaching stuff that’s incredibly well known, especially in leftist circles and conflating 2 completely separate conflicts together as if they have any similarities.

Unlike you, I did think about the meme, and it makes absolutely no sense in reality we live in.

Everythingispenguins ,

I never assumed anything about you and I definitely didn’t swear at you.

azulavoir ,

objectively false

Manifish_Destiny ,
Gradually_Adjusting , in Would that be a.....snail trail?
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

That’s a green flag

NegativeLookBehind ,
@NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social avatar

“Hold on, I need a squirt from my lube snail”

takeda ,

Yeah, don’t even need a strap on for pegging ;)

Gradually_Adjusting ,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t

But other people probably do

sickday , in Twitter, Reddit, Unity, Blizzard... who else?
@sickday@kbin.social avatar

Wizards of the Coast

Demuniac ,

Oh I’m so done with their shit.

seitanic ,
@seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

What is it this time?

Demuniac ,

Well nothing in particular, I’ve been done with the rate of MTG product releases for a while now, hate the universe beyond as for me it damages the feel of the game significantly, and the overall price increase is just rude at this point.

snor10 ,

Despite previous promises that they would not, they did something similar to Unity and tried to retroactively change their Open Gaming License to force creators of Dungeons & Dragons derived products to give up ownership of their products unless they pay exorbitant sums.

They also sent the Pinkertons to intimate a guy who got shiped some unreleased Magic the Gathering cards by accident.

ndru , in Totally make sense

When native English speakers complain that changing pronouns is too hard 🧐

moosetwin ,

man I have that issue but it’s not (just) me being an asshole I actually just suck at remembering that people have transitioned

Ozzy ,

Jerma PFP spotted, massive W

moosetwin ,

bruh has a -3 on their comment the people hate jerma

brockpriv ,

People like jerma. Op was just cringe

captainlezbian ,

Best move I ever made was leaving for college and coming back with tits. That shock stuck in my friends heads

GlitchyDigiBun ,
@GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Home-grown or store-bought?

moistclump ,

“If you can’t grow your own, store bought is fine.”

MrBakedBeansOnToast ,

I wish it were that easy in German!

BigNote ,

Old English used to have feminine, masculine and neuter like most of the other Germanic languages, but we lost it for various historical reasons.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

The reasons: it’s dumb

Embrace the THE

Rai ,

Based THE enjoyer

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