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It was a home hardware and most of the longer ones with nice features were inches only. There were a bunch of metric only ones, too, but it's nice to have both when some furniture descriptions have only one or the other because the tape then handles the conversion without having to remember if that 2.2 factor is inches to cm or kg to lbs or both.

Though it could be that whoever decides what products to stock at home Depot is just better at their job than whoever does it at home hardware, or maybe I'm in the minority locally of wanting both and preferring metric if I have to choose one.

Yeah, a good chunk of the ones available here only have inches, too. It was hard to find one with both when I bought my last tape measure.

I used to have the FF7 battle music as my ring tone. Because phone calls were random encounters. Certain ones got the boss battle music instead.

Hearing that randomly in public from someone else's phone would have made me excited to see a kindred spirit. Closest I ever did see was someone using the victory music, but that would have been more appropriate as a hang up tone.

I should do that again. It's funny because I think it was moving to a new phone and not wanting to figure out how to set custom ring tones that made me put it off until I forgot it, even though the phone that had it was a flip phone that I had to use a special connector to even hook it up to my PC and had to find a program to encode the song in the arcane format used by dumb phones and the phone that replaced it probably just needed me to drop the songs into the right folder or find out how to browse the file system when setting ring tone.

Edit: Just checked, out of curiosity.

On my graphene os phone, they have a list of ring tones it comes with and at the bottom of the list is a plus that opens up the file system browser.

On my Samsung phone, it's just a list. There's a plus at the top but that opens up some Samsung music app or something that I've never used. It looks like I can add songs to that by putting them in a samsung music folder, though I did have to look twice to see that and wouldn't be surprised if it only shows approved files that came from them, knowing what Samsung is like with software.

Separate rant but the other day I looked in the bixby settings and noticed there was a button to remove it entirely, so I did so, thinking I might finally get full control of that button. Nope, even less control now, it just launches a "install Bixby" screen instead of letting me set some other action for some of the presses (as long as one of them still opens the voice assistant I don't want and never asked for).

Yeah, I've wondered if the ones that come with heat sinks really need them or if it's just a gimmick to make people think the performance is better.

I want one of those heat cameras some use in hardware reviews. I don't need one, but Iwant one lol.

Hmm you're right. I just looked at a bunch of different pants, saw made in Portugal (cloth made in Italy), Vietnam (cloth made in Japan), Sri Lanka, and Canada (stopped looking at that point).

I just checked the labels on the two pairs of shorts and one pair of sweatpants I've got and they are all made in Canada.

I might have found them during a "not made in China" search rather than a "made in Canada" search. Thanks for pointing that out, though, because I had them firmly under the "made in Canada" label when I first commented.

Passive cooling could be enough. Even a bunch of ssd chips wouldn't take up all of the vertical space, so top of the case could just be a heat sink. Though it might need instructions to only install it in an enclosure that has a fan blowing air past it (and not use the spots behind the mobo that don't get much airflow).

A lot of motherboards come with metal styling that acts as a heat sink for nvme drives without even using fins, though they still have more surface area than a 3.5" drive and only have to deal with the heat from one or two chips.

But maybe it isn't realistic and that's why we don't see SSDs like that on the market (in addition to price).

Yeah, nvme drives show how little space the storage takes up. Just stick a bunch of them inside the 3.5" format, along with a controller and cooling, and that would be great for a large/slow (relative to NVME) drive capped by SATA speeds.

I don't miss the noise hard drives make, plus it's nice to not really worry as much about what kind of magnetic activity might be going on around it, like is my subwoofer too close or what if my kid somehow gets her hands on a powerful magnet and wants to see if it will stick to my PC case.

It's frustrating but it does give information to attackers. If an attacker just sees the login attempt was rejected, then they have no idea if it was because the password changed, the user entered it wrong in the phishing form, the user realized it was a phishing attempt and gave garbage to fuck with them, the password expired, or if the service provider is on to them.

If an attacker sees "your password has been reset and you must set a new one" then they have some information that could be used to social engineer their way into the account. Especially if it's a work account where the email is behind the same password.

Step 1: find phishing site
Step 2: find/write brute force script that doesn't stop on successful login but has longer random delay between attempts (so it isn't obvious it's a form of a DOS attack)
Step 3: poison phishing site data

Use proxies from areas that would normally use the service the phishing site is mimicking.

Bonus step: in case the phishers use the same proxies source, make enough invalid login attempts to the actual service to get the proxies IP blocked so they can't use them to test the large number of invalid logins to find if any are valid.

Reigning Champ is a made in Canada brand that makes good quality clothes. I spent about $130 on a pair of shorts and they immediately became my favorite ones (vs my old navy ones).

My first factory job was a workout. I spent all day taking bundles of ice cream products off a conveyor and placing them on skids. I liked that aspect of the job, or any job that involves physical activity.

The first week was brutal with muscle pain, but then my body got used to it.

I do white collar work now but kinda wish I could do that kind of work like one day a week or something.

Those captcha problems were difficult for automated tools to figure out a decade ago but it's getting close to a decade since some AI image categorizers have gotten better at the task than the average human.

Or it could be similar to how image generators generate text in images (by making things that look like text but is generally unintelligible nonsense).

Though if it trained on enough keys, it might have picked up on some of the correlations. I'd be surprised if they don't use a database instead of just a checksum to determine valid keys, but if it was just a checksum, it's possible that a NN could figure out how to generate valid keys.

A good portion of my failures in boss fights are due to getting the boss low and thinking, "I can just spam attack until he's dead now" and then getting caught by attacks I was avoiding prior to that.

And a decent portion of the ones left after eliminating those ones are due to not being used to the attacks enough to avoid them consistently.

Assuming soulslike boss fights.

In order to reduce the cost of space launches, executive order gravity to be smaller.

He didn't burn down the library, he burned down the tree so that Luke wouldn't find out that Rey had taken the library.

And it opened the whole plot hole of "if force ghosts can do that, why aren't they hitting Vader and Palpatine with lighting until the problem is solved?" Hell, even before it was shown that they could interact with more than just talking, why weren't they acting as the perfect spies for the ones they wanted to help instead of just showing up randomly to trickle out a tiny bit of information, argue with a master, or stare approvingly after victory?

Kinda like the whole "so this whole time, ftl jumps could have been used as a weapon? Why only that one time?"

And wtf @ light skipping? Sure, it makes for a cool looking chase scene, but just doesn't make sense on several levels. Maybe it would work if it was a force sensitive pilot who could sense the direction and timing, but even if they had done that, they went from Tatooine to Aldaran taking hours to suddenly they can almost instantly jump between a large variety of biomes all during one short chase scene.

Those movies would have been ok as their own thing IMO but were just bad star wars movie with lazy writing.

The same method is used to determine market cap of publically traded companies. Whatever the most recent trade price was * total number of shares = what the company is supposedly worth.

The important bit is to power one on first before the swap, then you'll have one setup where the pi was recently powered on and another setup where the connected devices were recently powered on. You might see the issue on only one of the devices, at which point you can say if it's the pi being off for a while or the devices that triggers the issue.

Oooh ok, I'll try putting it in the microwave for a bit, thanks!

Impressive engineering, but it comes with a curse.

Where it gets messy is you'd need to supply power on the PCIe rail as well as any extra plugs the GPU needs without powering on the system itself. And then even messier if someone powers on that system. Mad scientist shit.