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18107

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  • Flathub Now Rejects AI-Assisted Apps and Submissions

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  • Have you ever met an actual dumb person?

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  • I spent 20 minutes (I timed it) on the phone diagnosing a tech support issue and instructing the user on how to fix it. It took about 10 seconds for me to realise that number lock was turned off.

    The rest of the 20 minutes was trying to get the user to find and press "Num lock" on the keyboard.

    About 10 minutes in, they actually found and pressed it. Apon noticing that nothing had appeared on the screen, they tried pressing it again, then announced it didn't work.

    Somehow, just getting them to press the button one more time was not simple, as they now had to begin their logical left-to-right scan of the keyboard again to find this mysterious new "Num lock" button they'd never heard of before.

    This person (on another call) would say the name of each key as they pressed it. They would say "Caps lock, A, Caps lock, Enter" when typing a single "A" on a line, but didn't know what "Caps lock" was and couldn't find it on the keyboard when asked to press it immediately after having said and pressed it.

  • Meme Checkpoint

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  • Accepting Cookies

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  • Is anyone paying for Kagi, the search engine? What is your experience with it?

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  • It's not as good as Google from 20 years ago, but much better than Google today.

    I didn't choose it for the privacy, I chose it because I wanted to actually get results for my searches.

    Google gets me answers about 20% of the time,Kagi about 50%,and (generic - not Kagi) AI about 80% of the time.

    The problem with AI as search is that the other 20% is when it will confidently give me wrong answers and waste hours of my time, so I guess Kagi is still useful to me.

  • So, has age verification really become the new normal?

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  • Are you suggesting that all countries on earth will adopt this law, or that all developers in all countries will comply with the law of one country?

    Will all previous versions of all OSs be deleted? Will all OSs become closed source so you can't just remove the age verification part?

    Will you be the only person on earth who is willing to break an unethical law to have basic privacy?

    If yes to all the above, then you may need to start learning how to program.

  • So, has age verification really become the new normal?

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  • Take back control of your OS. Use a different OS if you need to.

  • Crazy how it does that

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  • Stand it up on one end?

  • I still have a bunch of them

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  • Magnifying glass + lots of typing ones and zeros.

  • Money Saving Tips 💰

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  • It depends on where you live, but in most places, even the most expensive rapid charger is still cheaper than fuel. That's not even including the lower maintenance costs of EVs.

    You do miss out on the convenience of home charging, and that is a pretty big deal for most people. The best part about an EV is waking up to a full charge every day and never having to stop to fill up.

  • Money Saving Tips 💰

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  • If you have enough money for the upfront cost, electric cars are cheaper over their lifetime.

    Not starting a war is both cheaper upfront and ongoing.

  • The ICE age is over: gas car sales drop 37% in world's biggest market

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  • My local grid frequently hits 100% renewable power, and has even exceeded 100% of demand from only rooftop solar with commercial solar and wind also producing at that time.

    The grid needed a few modifications, and there was some brief instability, but everyone survived it and the grid has been stable for over a year.

    I think we'll be fine.

  • What do you think about gambling?

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  • Gambling destroys lives. Making gambling illegal may be controversial, but I can't see any reason to allow gambling ads.

    If you want to gamble, then it's your own life to ruin. If you advertise gambling, then you are ruining other people's lives.

    Ban gambling ads.

  • The ICE age is over: gas car sales drop 37% in world's biggest market

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  • Oil refineries use so much energy that they quite often have a dedicated power plant. The energy required to refine enough fuel to drive 100km could instead be used to drive an EV more than 50km.

    Switching to EVs will have much less of an impact on the grid than it initially appears. With overnight or midday charging, EVs can even help spread the load throughout the day and help reduce the evening peak.

    V2G/V2H can reduce this peak even further, while only using a tiny amount from each car battery.

    Air-conditioning is also a big concern for the energy grid, but as with all new technologies, the grid will be upgraded to handle it. Unless you are employed by a grid operator to plan for the future, you don't need to worry about it.

  • The ICE age is over: gas car sales drop 37% in world's biggest market

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  • https://xkcd.com/3214/

    Yes, the higher range ones are quite expensive. Hopefully the second hand market will have a few reasonably priced in a few years.

  • Depluralize

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  • A lion and prejudice.

  • When Escalator Breaks, It Turns Stairs

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  • Multiple independent braking systems and adequate maintenance.

    A single failure may cause the escalator to stop working, but it takes 3 failures in a row to make it catastrophic. Regular maintenance catches this failures before 3 in a row can occur.

  • When Escalator Breaks, It Turns Stairs

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  • If any of the stairs are damaged and cannot stay attached correctly, there is a chance of falling into the machinery below, which will not stop just because a human is in the way.

    If the failure is in the braking system, it can quickly turn into rapidly moving stairs, which can be very lethal.Most escalators have multiple independent braking systems so that this doesn't happen, but some poorly maintained escalators have been discovered with 2 or even all 3 systems disabled.

  • How to deal with holding phone calls?

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  • I often do something else on the phone that takes minimal effort and can be stopped at any time.

    My normal choices are sudoku, crossword, 2048, or an idle game.

    These hold systems (except the ones with a callback option) are absolutely not designed for disabilities, and I doubt they were even designed for human interaction. Forcing someone to actively wait is either a terrible oversight, or intentionally harmful design (i.e. to reduce the number of calls they need to handle).

  • Uplifting News @lemmy.world
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    Accidentally range testing an electric motorcycle, and unexpected kindness

  • Chat @aussie.zone
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    Accidentally range testing an electric motorcycle, and unexpected kindness

  • Linux Phones @lemmy.ca
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    Dual sim

  • Self-hosting @slrpnk.net
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    Sanity check - NAS with backups

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Singing

  • Hydro Homies @lemmy.ml
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    Taste testing bottled water brands

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    How the mitey have fallen

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    I've invented a 100% efficient combustion engine

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    You might be bored