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It's a shame nobody's heard from Angle Grinder Man in a while.

I knew I carried that damn katana around everywhere for a reason when I was a teenager.

I keep plenty of stock of this stuff and use it on plastic screen covers and bezels, plus it also does wonders on motorcycle helmet visors, sunglasses lenses (provided they're not mirrored), and the Slipstreamer fairing on my Honda Shadow.

It does a credible job of defogging plastic headlight housings as well, but it takes a lot of elbow grease and a bitchin' long time.

Or, "We're salty because people have the audacity to comment on the threads in our little circlejerk sub!!!" I get this one on Lemmy occasionally, too.

Well, guess what: your shit made it to /all. If whatever lunatic thing you just posted can't withstand public scrutiny, don't post it to a public forum on the internet.

This is exactly the thing.

Whatever the dress may be in reality, the photo of it that was circulated was either exposed or twiddled with such that the pixels it's made of are indeed slightly bluish grey trending towards white (i.e. above 50% grey) and tanish browny gold.

That is absolutely not up for debate. Those are the color values of those pixels, end of discussion.

Edit to add: This entire debacle is a fascinating case of people either failing to or refusing to separate the concept of a physical object versus its very inaccurate representation. The photograph of the object is not the object: ce n'est pas une robe.

The people going around in this thread and elsewhere putting people down and calling them "stupid" or whatever else only because they know that the physical dress itself is black and blue based on external information are studiously ignoring the fact that this is not what the photograph of it shows. That's because the photograph is extremely cooked and is not an accurate depiction. The debate only exists at all if one party or the other does not have the complete set of information, and at this point in history now that this stupid meme has been driven into the ground quite thoroughly I should hope that all of us do.

It's true that our brains can and will interpret false color data based on either context or surrounding contrast, and it's possible that somebody deliberately messed with the original image to amplify this effect in the first place. But the fact remains that arguing about what the dress is versus how it's been inaccurately depicted is stupid, and anyone still trying that at this late stage is probably doing so in bad faith.

You're an adorable little urchin, Max.

I've never seen naptha (i.e. Zippo lighter fluid) do anything to any painted or finished surface, nor any of the plastics I've ever tired it on. I've been using the stuff in that context for decades, to the extent that I literally purchase it by the gallon. (I also use it in my lighters, because painter's naptha is like 2% of the cost per volume of brand name Zippo fluid despite being the same stuff.)

WD-40 contains nonvolatile oils that will leave a difficult to clean off residue behind and if you use it on anything porous it will soak in and possibly stain the surface while being functionally impossible to remove without using yet more solvents. For that reason it's not really a great way to get stickers off of things, especially things that you'd like to remain non-greasy or may need to stick something to again at some point in the future (paint, tape, etc.).

Naptha will evaporate entirely on its own given enough time, and you can even use it on paper and printed surfaces (excluding inkjet printed things, in my experience, which it will smear) with no harm done after it fully dries.

I have a strong suspicion this crowd would have voted for their fascist candidates regardless of whether or not Americans had gun rights at the time. Fascism (not to mention other broadly similar strains of right wing authoritarianism) has managed to rise in several places throughout history and all over the world, without the specific assistance of our deep south gun nuts.

Tons of liberal supporters are also in favor of gun rights. It's just that nobody's catering to them, because they're less lucrative of a voting bloc than racist rednecks.

I await with interest your explanation as to how and why private gun ownership "caused and supported" the current unlawful government, considering that the government is perfectly capable of obtaining its own guns and supplying them to its goons without our input or intervention. And has been doing so for a little over two centuries. Furthermore, gun laws are deliberately structured such that the police and various government forces throughout the country enjoy considerably less restriction (or even none) on the type, number, and nature of guns that they're allowed to own and use. Even if the individuals in question are retired or no longer on active duty.

Microcenter, Newegg, B&H Photo and Video.

Well, the one in the headline is so hilariously far out of scale that it could probably fire actual life-sized F-35's like missiles from its wing hardpoints.

If it is, their stupid model forgot a "more" in this passage:

Password compromise is no joke; it leads to account compromise and that leads to, well, the compromise of most everything you hold dear in this technological-centric world we live in. It’s why Google is telling billions of users to replace their passwords with much secure passkeys.

(Wow, much secure. Very password.)

If the law actually applied equally to everyone, both citizens and government thugs? Absolutely.

But we all know that's not how it works on the street or in the courts.

"Moooooom! They're looking at me!!!"

I personally do not trust ISP provided routers to be secure and up to date, nor free of purposefully built in back doors for either tech support or surveillance purposes (or both). You can expect patches and updates on those somewhere on the timescale between late and never.

Therefore I always put those straight into bridge mode and serve my network with my own router, which I can trust and control. Bad actors (or David from the ISP help desk) may be able to have their way with my ISP router, but all that will let them do is talk to my own router, which will then summarily invite them to fuck off.

Likewise, I would not be keen on using an ISP provided router's inbuilt VPN capability, which is probably limited to plain old PTPP -- it has been on all of the examples I've touched so far -- and thus should not be treated as secure.

You can configure an OpenWRT based router to act as an L2TP/IPSec gateway to provide VPN access on your network without the need for any additional hardware. It's kind of a faff at the moment and requires manually installing packages and editing config files, but it can be done.

Niko, cousin! Let's go bowling!

You can even skip step 2 by using one of the IoT editions (either Win10 or Win11) which come minus the prepackaged bloatware.

Microsoft is mostly interested in making everything bullshit for home users. If you convince them you're an enterprise customer, preferably by running up the old Jolly Roger, suddenly your life is a lot easier.

Not really, surprisingly. The "tab" terminology is a hangover from the typewriter days, when pressing the tab key would move your carriage to the left (i.e. sending the typing position towards the right) to the point where the tab stop was, which may or may not have been user configurable depending on the age or fanciness level of your typewriter. On mechanical models this involved sliding a little arrowhead shaped mechanical dingus up at the top over the carriage, a skeuomorph that's still present in basically every computer word processing application even today.

This was to allow operators to easily write tabular data, i.e. tables or columns, which would be inset from the left margin by a consistent amount, and typically much further inboard than the indent at the beginning of a paragraph would be. The latter was usually accomplished with a small number of spaces instead. And this is why the key is called "tab" and not "ind" or something.

This got carried over to word processors and then to computers kind of by default. But interestingly (if you're the right kind of nerd to be interested by that sort of thing, anyway) early 8 bit microcomputers that were not envisaged with word processing or a typewriter-esque paradigm in mind conspicuously lacked a tab key. The Commodore 64 and Vic 20, TI-99, Acorn Electron, and certainly the ZX Spectrum all leap to mind.

But the original IBM PC definitely had a tab key, which was almost certainly carried directly over from IBM's Selectric typewriters. So we've had it ever since. The notion of there being a "tab character" of some greater-than-space width lent it to being used for first line indents for a while, but the prominence of HTML and its dogged insistence on collapsing whitespace -- especially at the beginning of lines -- eventually put a stop to that and caused practically everybody to switch to double line breaks to separate paragraphs instead. Except for writing code, which can involve a whole bunch of indentation to many, many levels of depth.

Indenting the starts of paragraphs was an even older hangover from printing presses, and that's another whole damn rabbit hole anyway.