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BigMikeInAustin ,

How do you not know what button 8407 does?

/s

Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?

It feels like Harris has to run a damn near flawless campaign just to BARELY beat this guy. Yeah you can bring up the current state of the country, but Trump mishandled COVID, there were over 200k deaths, BLM protest and was 2x impeached. And yet, Joe Biden BARELY beat him....

BigMikeInAustin ,

Because racism and sexism is still very prevalent in the US.

She is a minority. And she is a woman.

The news is a shit hole funded by the ultra wealthy who will benefit from Trump’s tax cuts for the ultra wealthy. Which explains the coverage.

Many voters are still racist and sexist. Which explains the polls.

BigMikeInAustin ,

I’m sorry about your confusion. Please start another thread, though, so people can focus on answering OP.

BigMikeInAustin ,

No. I see you making fun of someone for asking a question. They are trying to apply some of their knowledge to something new. What they have learned from some other good answers is useful going forward.

Sadly, it seems you need to learn more to be able to understand where this person is coming from.

BigMikeInAustin ,

If you don’t know you don’t need to reply.

What’s the purpose of making fun of someone for asking a question to try to learn?

BigMikeInAustin ,

“Sorry, I don’t get paid enough to afford a phone.” /s

BigMikeInAustin ,

If this only happens at work, then you can say, “Sorry, that’s against my department’s policy. We’ve had some incidents and my boss told us not to.”

BigMikeInAustin ,

So, hmm, um, nice job posting some random landscape photos… /s

BigMikeInAustin ,

Yeah, it did get me to stop also a dual boot with Linux. I’m mostly Windows, so I’ve just used Linux in VMs.

How is Lemmy better than Reddit?

I am a reddit refugee. Keep seeing that this is supposed to be somehow better than Reddit. As far as I can tell, it follows a similar format, less restrictive on posts being removed I suppose. But It looks like people still get down vote brigaded on some communities. So I’m curious, how it’s better?

BigMikeInAustin ,

It’s still pretty easy to get banned on Lemmy. It’s still just human mods.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Did you ask if people think Trump has been acting weird lately? Not an accusation, just asking a question.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Ha ha!

BigMikeInAustin ,

If you are a mechanic, you can blow some air from the compressor into your gloves every 10 minutes.

BigMikeInAustin ,

You and a coworker do a strong, aggressive handshake every little while.

BigMikeInAustin ,

What bugs has it made?

Anyone else feel like Trump has a much higher chance to win then Presidency than Kamala?

Idk, when you look at the entire picture, does Trump not have the far easier path to 270 this year? He only has to win 2 states (PA & GA) and that’s it, he wins. Kamala has to win at the minimum 3, and if she loses PA, it becomes even harder for her. Trump could just spend all of his money campaigning in those 2 states and get...

BigMikeInAustin ,

But then Black people might vote. America still hasn’t forgiven Black people for existing.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Yes. Same as when Hilary Clinton ran. It was Hilary, not Clinton.

Just social disrespect for women.

BigMikeInAustin ,

I hear her mom calls her Kamala. Doesn’t mean most people should, unless she specifically says for people to call her Kamala instead of Harris.

BigMikeInAustin , (edited )

There have been 0 presidents named Harris. Who else is running with the name Harris? What is more unique about Kamala than Harris?

Saying Kalama Kamala is unique is just saying, “Wow, look, a Black person. How exotic!”

BigMikeInAustin ,

We didn’t refer to the 43rd president as George since his father with the same last name was already the 41st president.

People did not get confused which Clinton was running in 2016.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Please explain.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Who was getting confused which Clinton was running in 2016.

If someone was switching between both in the same context, then it would either be Mr. Clinton and Mrs. Clinton, or Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.

BigMikeInAustin ,

How did you refer to Hillary Clinton before you saw a campaign slogan?

BigMikeInAustin ,

This is really going to up my commute time.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Looks like some good weather to be strolling about in just a short bathrobe.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Sorry about the negativity from so many people.

You do what works for you.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Ouch!

BigMikeInAustin ,

I’ve used them for probably 2 decades, getter in because of the $1/month for a year deal.

I think I’m on the top, or 2nd from the top, tier. Has unlimited disk space, but it’s not open access from the start. Every so many tens of GB you have to call to get the soft limit raised. They are trying to keep a bot from just filling the space up.

I use their hosted WordPress, so that they handle the upgrading.

I also have run a few wiki sites on there. Those install and run fine.

I wish I could figure out if I could install OwnCloud or such on there. I’m not great with Linux. You don’t have rights to the OS, but anything you access through a webpage or FTP you can put there. You should have access to chron jobs, but my skills aren’t there yet.

I mainly use them to host my own email domain, that I then access from gMail.

Biggest problem I’ve had with them is they will charge extra if you use a phased-out version of Python. So you have to make sure you keep anything using Python updated.

BigMikeInAustin ,

I do get a billing error about every 2 or 3 years. Usually something like they double bill a month, or the price for just 1 month is suddenly 2x - 3x the normal price.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Thanks for asking. I went back and forth in my head since I’ve never heard it said out loud and never looked it up.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Isn’t this just another type of insulation? Not saying it’s bad, just that it’s incremental, not revolutionary.

I wouldn’t call this geoengineering.

Ukrainian intelligence 'hacks Russian websites, replaces homepages with pig head pictures' (kyivindependent.com)

Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) claimed on July 16 that it had hacked nearly 100 Russian websites that support the Kremlin’s war effort, taking them offline and replacing their homepages with a picture of a bloody pig’s head....

BigMikeInAustin ,

Hack on!

BigMikeInAustin ,

You’ll be forced to use only Windows forever.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Sorry about the rude responses from some people.

BigMikeInAustin ,

I think they are pronounced shitiodms.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Exciting! Enjoy the upgrade!

Why do you still hate Windows?

I realize this is a Linux community, but I was wondering why you still hate Windows. I mean, I love Linux, but I will not argue that it’s more convenient to the average person in most use cases to use Windows, I recently had to switch back to Windows and I realized how convenient it all was and how I was missing so many things...

BigMikeInAustin ,

They killed Clippy! Those bastards!

BigMikeInAustin ,

Better question: Will the world rejoice in having a social media network without Americans?

BigMikeInAustin ,

Think of all the Russian jobs spreading misinformation on Tik Tok that will be lost!

BigMikeInAustin ,

It’s pretty simple, actually. A village somewhere in Europe that is completely in the shade all day for part of the year has already proven it.

Mirrors.

We just need a ring of motorized mirrors around the Earth.

At hour 0, the mirrors will rotate to show sun all across the entire Earth.

At hour 12, the mirrors will rotate to put all of the Earth into night time.

That lets the entire Earth have the exact same synchronized time synchronized with the daylight.

The mirrors will block the sun from parts of the earth facing during the night.

The mirrors will constantly be rotating to keep the proper amount of sun light facing each part of Earth as the Earth rotates.

The mirrors will be solar powered.

This will fix it, right?

BigMikeInAustin ,

We could keep the 0 hour as the “middle” of the night and 12 being the “middle” of the day (though I’m not sure if that’s really the sun’s high spot for the day for any places).

But with fully controlled mirrors, we could make it exactly 12 hours, so we could just then switch to the 0 hour being when the sun comes up.

BigMikeInAustin ,

It’s worked for Windows?

BigMikeInAustin ,

Open your computer and reseat any cables and components that you can.

Maybe even do a memory test with something like MemTest86(?).

Random electric noise and disconnects could cause random corruption issues like this.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Ha, exactly what I was thinking about the proprietary software updates for the recent models (2010+?) !

BigMikeInAustin ,

Those are some big bolts! I would think dropping nails on the road would be more dangerous than dropping bolts, though, for attacking enemy tires.

(City boy, not even a pleeb, so everyone else knows those are not just big bolts except me)

BigMikeInAustin ,

I actually do this with my TV infrared remote control.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Back to the future.

1955 Doc Brown on plutonium availability:

www.101soundboards.com/…/258968-im-sure-that-in-1…

BigMikeInAustin ,

A laser attack during a hurricane would really surprise the target.

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