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Patches ,

So the formula for nits to Lumen is below:

N=L/3.426

614,000 = L / 3.426

2,103,564 Lumens

Bruh…

1m² of the sun is 127,000 Lumen. This TV is at most 2 m². It’d certainly be the last thing you ever saw.

Lawsuit alleges Grindr illegally shared users' HIV status, sensitive data with third-party advertisers. (www.theregister.com)

Hundreds have joined a UK class action lawsuit against LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr, seeking damages over a historical case of the company allegedly forwarding users’ HIV status as well as other sensitive data to third-party advertisers....

Patches ,

How long before this gets acquired by Match Group? They seem to have infinite funds for acquisition.

Patches ,

Did y’all watch the same movie?

He, for sure, tried to stop the balrog from making the biggest mistake of his life. The Balrog just didn’t listen.

Patches ,

Significant rise in mental health issues among children and teenagers. That didn’t happen with TV, music or books.

There is a significant rose in mental health issues across the board. Could it be because we are more informed and mental health is less stigmatized? No. Could it be because we’re telling the children (rightfully so) that the world is dying and that they need to reverse it themselves? No. Could it be because they’ve lived through 3 once in a lifetime recessions, and too many catastrophes to count? No it’s…

Patches ,

Did we really need to prove a “once in a lifetime epidemic” decreased mental health?

Patches ,

That’s not true. Chickens are fantastic at getting rid of bugs.

Got a tick problem? Not anymore.

However you will now have rodent problems and require something to take care of that: Terriers are great at that. So are cats.

Patches ,

Will they eat the rodents? Yes. They will eat anything. edible or not.

Will you still have a rodent problem? Yes you will.

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Patches ,

Gold lining: Never go home for Holidays

Platinum Lining: Work from Home is even more commonplace, and no more random flights to the office, or on-site.

Patches ,

We are officially ON NOTICE

Soon be Blasted, Slammed, Potentially even Yeeted

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That sounds like a sex act.

God dam did you see that last night? She yoted him so hard in front of everyone.

Patches ,

You can’t drive to Alaska without entering Canada

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But why would anyone?

I have an MDM on my work phone and I can’t even access PlayStore anymore. It only allows Company Allowed Apps which is to say nothing. YouTube is broken because MDM somehow controls my DNS records. Firefox cannot be installed so Ads everywhere. Chrome only and it can only go to approved websites because Yahoo is safe but Ars Technica is not???

Why would anyone want that on a device they pay for?

Is my MDM different from their MDM?

Patches ,

Sounds like a win to me.

We don’t even use Cameras anymore for anything except explicitly scheduled one-on-one meetings like Quarterly Review.

Patches ,

Sounds like they’re respecting work life balance in a round-about way.

No Boss, I didn’t get that email sent at 11 PM last night. I don’t sit in front of my PC at all hours of the day.

Patches ,

The woman in the article is 65 Years Old. She is old enough to remember some of the third places that were free to exist in.

Which probably makes it worse…

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The “Oath” isn’t why they can’t go around assisting in suicides. It’s because they will literally go to jail in the same way as a murderer

Are you not old enough to remember Jack Kevorkian?

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I, for one, am looking forward to the $.0036 Check in the mail. While some lawyer pockets $97 Billion. Any day now…

Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court (apnews.com)

The scenes were emblematic of the crisis gripping the small, Oregon mountain town of Grants Pass, where a fierce fight over park space has become a battleground for a much larger, national debate on homelessness that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court....

Patches ,

Yes but this is the new “What the Fuck is a Precedent?” United States Supreme Court

Patches ,

If you had a Great Pyrenees (Dog pictured) - you absolutely would not be wondering. They are livestock guardian dogs and some of the most stubborn dogs you will even interact with.

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Yes he did. Right after he murdered his wife.

Patches ,

You add a Delay to the component and when the boss says ‘make it faster’ - you could spend hours optimizing - or you just remove, or make smaller the delays.

You look fantastic to your boss if you can remove a 1/2 delay.

I’ve got set timeout all over my websites for this purpose 🤣😭.

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Financial Problems are one of the biggest indicator for trouble when dealing with Security Clearances.

Very easy decision for someone to ‘share’ documents they shouldn’t if it means making rent, or paying their doctor, or not going hungry.

That’s why any job with a clearance should make stacks. But here we are…

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Only if you use Arch btw.

Patches ,

He mentions the good stuff and doesn’t even touch on TempleOS

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

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He knew he would be fired if he didn’t stop. He didn’t stop. That absolute legend.

Patches ,

That’s when middle management gets involved.

Problem: There are 18 sources of truth for this information

Solution: There are now 19 sources of truth for this information

Patches ,

Corporate gets involved

There are now 18 (10 Old and 8 new but conflicting) sources of truth

We reduced departmental inefficiency by 50% (20 to 10). Round of applause

Patches ,

By who?

Patches ,

It depends on where you live.

Area with competition? No data cap

Area without competition? Data cap

Literally moved from one area to another, both AT&T within 1 hr driving distance from each other. One has a cap. The other doesn’t.

Patches ,

They literally say “Word beginning with ‘eu’ and ends with ‘genics’” inside the article pimping them out.

With a sprinkling of ‘Orchid doesn’t like us to use that word’ as if ‘Nazis do not like to be called Nazis’ is a valid complaint.

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No that’s literally what it means:

The practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the populations’ genetic composition

Science that deals with the improvement of inherited qualities of a race or breed and especially of human beings

The practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the populations’ genetic composition

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eugenics

Patches ,

I was very happy with my Mazda 3. It just didn’t work once I moved out to the country. The thing is like 3" off of the road.

Patches ,

Probably the most work an influencer ever performed in one day.

Patches ,

I don’t understand why everything by Onyx is so much more money than anything else on the market. I want to try one because Kobo Software is ‘meh’ but I can’t justify double the price for… ???

Patches ,

What do you need it for?

It isn’t up to snuff for reading Comic Books or Graphic Novels, and it’s worse experience than a good Non-Color E-ink display. Which is saying it’s worse for the vast vast majority of books you will read.

I’m not sure why it exists other than it has to - in order for a better version to eventually come out. R&D isn’t free.

Patches ,

Oyeah the E-Ink is so great for your eyes. Just like a book. I just meant Color vs BW E-ink.

Patches ,

My last Kobo was bought 4 years ago so it may be different but it was very slow compared to a Kindle bought at the same time. Searching for books took a very long time. Looking through your library was click next, wait 10s, click next, wait 10s.

Once you were in a book it was perfect.

I only use Calibre to push books on to the device so I can’t speak to their store. With that modifier - Kindle can’t do that well at all so it’s a non-starter.

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Calibre is a fantastic Ebook organizer. It can handle all sorts of file conversions, firmware updates and de-DRMing books you own. Whichever eRader you get - I would highly recommend it.

It is the iTunes to your iPod except for eReaders. It is also FOSS.

E.g. Here are 5,000 books available for free forever as part of Project Gutenburg.

That’s is download, and click Sync within Calibre. It handles all formatting, metadata, etcetera. Good luck accessing them without third party software. Kindle, Kobo, B & N do not want you reading free books.

Separately given the price differential these days. Get an eReaders with a back/front-light. eReaders are as difficult, if not more, to read as books are without bright light.

eReader lights point into the screen instead of at your face - it’s much different than a phone and much easier on the eyes. It’s like staring at a lightbulb (LCD Phone) vs staring at a newspaper lit from overhead.

I don’t know how much time I have spent reading in bed with-backlight-on not bothering my wife but it’s a lot. It’s where I do the majority of my reading. Not possible with a real book - she’s a light sleeper and any light bright enough to read would keep her up.

Patches ,

You can always drive to those things in the same way you can always drive to the middle of the forest.

Personally I like waking up and going out on my porch to see squirrels, and wood peckers, bunny rabbits, and occasional deer in peace.

Can’t get that in the city. I gotta drive to the museum, or the restaurant anyways. Can’t afford to wake up in either.

Patches ,

All of these honestly ought to just come with a small hole and bring your own ‘lanyard’/‘string’. I can’t imagine it would require much in terms of design to put a hole in a corner.

Patches ,

Are you saying the length of the cable from my phone to my ears has an impact on audio quality?

Why of course that is why OP only buys the finest MONSTER Vibranium-Plated Unobtanium-Engraved Analog Audiophile Cables.

Patches ,

Beware they are bone conduction headphones so they are not audiophile quality. I think they sound fine but my wife says I’m half deaf anyways.

I use them for Audiobooks and they are fantastic for situational awareness. I can hear everything all around me even while doing other tasks.

Patches ,

What are the better ways to address this?

Patches ,

It’s true what they say

You can’t outrun your diet especially when it consists of millions of human skin cells.

Patches ,

Yes but then you breathe them in. Bit like recycling, eh

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