dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️ @ dual_sport_dork @lemmy.world

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Just a black screen when I tried it.

You can't even boot with two 32x units installed, at least based on previous experience the last time I tried. So alas, this 256x assembly won't work.

Locale, and pedantry.

No you don't. I have one shower in my house with a window in it, and it's an extra special pain in the ass. Window frames and windowsills are full of nooks and crannies and accumulate mildew like you wouldn't believe, and require 600% more cleaning effort than is appropriate to prevent them from doing so.

That, and good luck finding any window treatments that are suitable for use while being constantly soaked. I resorted to making a "curtain" out of a modified shower curtain.

This is what I get for my house being a 1920's redneck abomination where everything is an addition, and what is now the ground floor bathroom is in the spot where the original kitchen was in the 1930's, with the window that used to be over the kitchen sink now directly in the center of the bathtub.

Minecraft has a long and storied history of cribbing features from modders and integrating them into the official base game. This includes hoppers, light senors, pistons, slime blocks, several of the types of trees, armor stands, displaying maps in frames, quite a few mobs, several of the current biome types, and probably a whole bunch of other stuff I can't remember offhand.

So yeah, stealing the idea (even if not the outright code) from shader mods would be completely on brand, and not at all unexpected. It's up to the player base to decide how they feel about this, but honestly it seems nothing short of kidnapping babies and setting them on fire would get any significant portion of people to turn away from Microsoft's stewardship of the game, given how hard they've tried to screw it up post-acquisition and yet it continues to print them money.

Sam: I hope there was nobody on that bus.

Max: Nobody we know, at least.

The final verse really drives the nail home just in case anyone in the audience somehow didn't get it:

Blame Canada
\ Shame on Canada
\ For the smut we must stop, the trash we must smash
\ The laughter and fun must all be undone
\ We must blame them and cause a fuss
\ Before somebody thinks of blaming us!

You can step up the scale of solvent molecular weights until you find one that gives the desired result, but I'm going to conjecture that regular old acetone will probably be quite sufficient.

Top Gear itself was not kind to the Tesla Roadster when Clarkson reviewed it back in 2008 or whatever it was, though.

But what about the trains???

Oh, right.

Similarly, Salvation Army is a whackadoo pseudochristian religious cult masquerading publicly as a thrift store. They're only about one degree removed from the Mormon church in terms of sequestering, abuse (sexual and otherwise), and manipulation of their members and those in their care. And of course also vehemently espouse the entire conservative fuckhead smorgasboard of homophobic, transphobic, sexist, anti-union views. They claim to do "good works" and superficially may even occasionally accomplish this, but it's always couched in their hateful religious bullshit which really rather undermines the point.

Yes, Chick-Fil-A is also a famously fundamentalist wingnut organization. Being for conversation therapy is only the start of it.

As is Hobby Lobby -- The nation's only retail chain whose owners were busted for attempting to illegally smuggle stolen religious artifacts from the middle East for display in their personal bible museum!

Very true, but at that rate I think actually nailing your target becomes a concern.

Unless your goal is to just spread fear and discord, in which case it probably doesn't matter much. Just load that sucker up with a brace of lawn darts and let it rip.

Well, one source I found with a cursory search indicates that California spent about $15.1 billion, with a B, on its police in 2023. So I can think of a good place to start.

Anyway, I was following on to the above poster's observation that electricity is already heavily taxed in CA. Just, none of that cash is allocated towards transportation (or at least in any significant manner insofar as I'm aware) I imagine because historically transportation and power consumption have not been intrinsically linked as they would become if electric vehicles become ubiquitous.

California already has the highest electricity rates in the country by a significant margin, and now they're also doing stuff like this, which makes you wonder just what the hell they expect to be doing with all that surcharge money if it's not modernizing their power distribution and soon-to-be electrically driven transportation infrastructure. In fact, incentivizing a switch to electric infrastructure including vehicles was supposed to be one of the stated intentions of that scheme, although it's dubious if things will actually shake out that way in reality.

One thing's for sure, the more they can structure their scheme so that it works via even collective contribution rather than making it appear to specifically punish individual drivers/owners, the much less pushback they're going to get on it.

The second paragraph I wrote, which everyone conveniently ignored with deliberate and apparently laser-guided precision, addresses exactly that.

I'll spell it out even more clearly since apparently nobody got it: The state already knows how much you drive your vehicle because they record your mileage every time you renew your tags. They just proceed to do fuck-all useful with that information. If somebody wanted to replace a fuel tax with a usage tax, that would be the blindingly obvious place to do it. Easily, effortlessly, and without the need for any gimcrack tracking arrangements, bolt-on hardware, privacy violations, snooping, or fuss.

But of course, the tracking and the snooping is, if not the actual point, at least a highly desirable bonus from the state's perspective.

Its almost like pre-made drones are locked down and tracked, and homemade fpv quads take like 20 hours of sim time just to keep in the air.

While I agree with most of your sentiments here, I think these two statements are a bit hyperbolic...

DJI drones are locked down and possibly "tracked," or at least they were up until recently. But my off-brand drone certainly isn't, and it's not like I had to do anything more special to get it than slouch up to B&H Photo/Video with my credit card.

Kit components for FPV drones are extremely capable these days and even entry level control boards are perfectly capable of keeping a homebrew flyer in the air or hovering stably without any skill from the operator required whatsoever other than reading the documentation far enough to run the calibration procedure before rocketing off into the sky. The only barrier to entry there is managing not to crash into stuff, or being smart enough not to yank the left stick all the way when you're directly under a tree.

I have a micro drone with absolutely no pilot aids whatsoever -- No obstacle avoidance, no GPS, no sonar, no head tracking, no nothing. It did not take me 20 hours of sim time to figure out how to keep it aloft. It took me about 20 seconds, after plugging the battery in and pairing the transmitter.

For example, my Fimi (Xiaomi) drone has a factory accessory specifically to enable it to carry and drop stuff. I've had it for years. They market this as a search and rescue thing, i.e. you can strap medical supplies to it or something and fly them out to a hard to reach location.

Any tit could just stick a grenade on it instead, but the rub there is that any tit is not allowed to just buy a grenade. The article above is full of breathless scaremongering about fiber optic tethers and guidance systems, but stops well short of specifying just what the fuck these imaginary bad actors are expected to do with the drone once they've got it over the presumptive target. If somebody's already got a bomb, the problem is that they've already got a bomb.

I originally migrated here to talk about motorcycles.

The other thing kind of happened by accident.

All of those are overhead-riddled runarounds that could be avoided entirely by the state simply allocating the tax dollars it's already collected in a different manner, which ought to be well within its capability to do.

Anyway, if all they cared about was your odometer reading they get that already when you renew your vehicle registration. They could just charge you then -- when you're already standing there with your checkbook anyway -- and not need to create and hire an entire new department to review people's potato pictures of their dashboards.

Mine came with one plated (with nickel, I believe) brass one and an entire spare hotend with a hardened steel one installed. They advise you to use the steel one for filled filaments (carbon fiber, glass, glow, etc.) and also high temperature materials.

I have since replaced my stock nozzle with an aftermarket polycrystalline diamond one, and it's been completely trouble free.

This is fair in those applications. I only run an ecommerce web site, though, so that doesn't come into play.