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The notebook (A6) would always bend when I tried to bring it with me unless I put it in my bag, which is tedious to bring out in short notice

Assuming copyright laws don’t change by then, otherwise there is no way to know....

Is it Possible for an Appliance have Drastically Different Power Consumption Levels from a Similar Model?...

What caused the shift from calling things like rheostats and condensers to resistors and capacitors, or the move from cycles to Hertz?...

They keep raising prices, stating that it’s due to inflation, but then they keep having record profits....

We all know the story, so many passion projects are taken down by companies and most commonly not even for reasons that make much sense....

It doesn’t freeze here too often, but when it’s going to we’ll go outside and set our faucets to drip to prevent freezing. I just have to remember to do this, and I worry that I’ll forget. Do those faucet covers work? Any other options?

All our coffee is served with two shots by default. We’re not some fancy coffee shop, just a motorway service station that makes coffee to go. We have some regulars who order a decaff with an extra shot. I explain thats going to have three shots total, and they’re happy with it....

What’s stopping us from making smellulators, for games or movies?...

I came to lemmy months ago to get away from the rising reddit infection of hard right activist powermods that use their authority to harass their ideological enemies. For a while it was really nice, to be able to engage with a likeminded community without getting banned for saying things like ‘cheetolini is a seditionist’...

Hello everyone....

Part of me thinks there may be, but the way you sometimes see them used interchangeably also makes me think that consumer has taken on much of the same meaning as customer. Maybe depends on from which context you’re speaking, i.e. out/in business?

Every so and on we hear about crazy stuff by “far right government” stuff like...

I have a friend who is anti mRNA vaccines as they are so new....

Imagine the following scenario: On the 9th of January 2024 in the morning we wake up to news that President of the USA Joe Biden suffered a stroke and died in White House. The administration confirms that the death was entirely natural and no third party contributed to it. Even before the news reach all TV stations another one...

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I’m letting people who hurt me in the past live rent free in my mind....

I was thinking about large ROM hacks like Only Up 64 (Vinesauce’s Joel game play video here for an example of what I am talking about) that state that they can run on real hardware and it made me wonder about ROM hacks and homebrew that can’t run on real hardware....

I’m fine to have “reply to my comments” like on that website starting by R. However, having a notification for every comments on the whole thread feels like a lot (and I want to start some more “open discussion thread” to keep some /c I follow alive )...

Isn’t propaganda just a form of persuasion? What about propaganda separates it from advertising or interpersonal communication?...

Unlock bootloader (depending on vendor, you have to do an online verification),...

Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding...

Have any of you encountered the folk, typically in a work environment, that whenever they contact anyone, it’s always something along the lines of, “Insert monotone request or statement. Thanks.”...