T156 @ T156 @lemmy.world

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Do the emoji in the thread name stand for something? They seem to be different every time I've seen them.

. (Actually, it's worse than that. Ask me if you want to know. It's its own rant.)

Mind enlightening us? It could be useful to compare against, for those of us who haven't used those kinds of apps before.

Basically. DEI (Diversity, Ethics Equity, and Inclusion, IIRC?) is the new "woke"/SJW bogey.

Having an woman (with exposed skin, no less!) is causing all entertainment to be ruined forever, etc etc, that kind of thing.

EDIT: Equity, not ethics, whoops! Thanks for the correction.

Bought a bike from cashies, but can't quite shake the paranoia that it might have been stolen and pawned or something, after taking it home, so that's been a fun damper to the day.

You also constantly shed skin, so any mould that tries to get a hold would have a difficult time staying on.

Video was nicer when you could buy a piece of physical media to watch your movie on.

Even then, you still had to contend with such nonsense as region locks later on. Can't have people watch the movie earlier than release because the production company decided to delay release a while. That would be apocalyptic.

A little sad to see the Lemmy winding down a bit.

Small victories, but learned to fry an egg, and get it cooked the whole way through without flipping it.

Still yet to figure out how to have it be slightly runny without being raw up top though.

Also kind of wish that they sold thicker cuts of bacon. A half-cm thick slice sounds heavenly on toast.

1. Naked wrestling...

That just sounds like a euphemism for sex, not an alternative.

Especially if they also misuse acronyms.

"Grandma died LOL 😂"

Or when the network that the car relies on no longer exists. My old e-reader's mobile connectivity no longer works because the phone company providing the service turned the 3G network off in the upgrade to 4G.

It's just 17 years old. People tend to keep cars for about that long. What happens then? Does it just become limited to basics only, or become a big metal brick?

A car is also difficult to ignore, compared to something smaller.

A small expensive device that stopped working because the company shut it down is annoying, but you can at least put it to the side and ignore it.

You can't really do that to a car that has functionally become a paperweight because the parent company has gone under.

Tumblr's codebase is also both quite old and infamously terrible, even if it's from being shuffled around companies a bunch.

Centralising its backend into one platform doesn't like too bad of an idea.

A few car companies seem to be doing that. Toyota(?) here are advertising their hybrid vehicles as "self-charging electric vehicles" instead of a hybrid, even though there's no way to plug them in and not have them self charge.

It has kind of come with newer laptops being driven to be thinner, and for newer devices, because the old SODIMM format is no longer capable of the throughput/latencies needed for higher speed memory.

From memory, 2.1Ghz DDR5 is where it caps out. Anything faster, like 2.8 GHz either requires it to be soldered, or one of the new formats like the one Dell has started using.

These days, the CPU probably runs Linux on itself.

Storage drive control boards are basically small computers in their own right, now.

Ironically, it's the other way around, since Apple has to share their RAM between GPU and CPU, where other computers typically have them separately.

So in normal usage with 8 GB, you're automatically down to 7, since at least 1GB would be taken by the graphics card. More if you're doing anything reasonably graphics-heavy with it.

Yes. Just as 4GB was barely enough a decade ago.

I usually find myself either capping out the 8GB of RAM on my laptop, or getting close to it if I have Firefox, Discord and a word processor open. Especially if I have Youtube or Spotify going.

Nah. We already have AI toasters, and they're ambitious, but rubbish.

Adding AI is just serious overkill for a toaster, especially when it wouldn't add anything meaningful, not compared to just designing the toaster better.

It's not so bad. You can just treat it as the dimming of the lights/countdown timer you see in theatres, in the lead-in of the film.

Especially for an event that might happen at most once a decade.

It's not like it happens every other month.