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  • Any good USBC female to USBA male dongles?

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  • USB A doesn't have Power Delivery, the highest it can do is 15W for USB 3.2 and 4.5W for USB 3.1 and older.

    But these dongles exist, I bought some and they work for charging (I haven't tried to use them for data)

  • where to buy retired sets

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  • I can't tell what the quality is because there is no brand name and they don't make any claims about the source of bricks. It's definitely not Lego, so not coming from a Lego factory.

  • PC ports need to be better in 2024 -- here's how | Digital Trends

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  • How would more QA help?

  • After a lifetime against, I'm considering joining social media. Any advice?

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  • The problem I'm having is that I don't exist online when people try to look me up.

    Is this referring to job applications or interpersonal relationships or both?

  • Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI

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  • I don't think intention or prompting matters much. If you type "Mario movie" into the YouTube search box and it shows you the Mario movie, YouTube needs to license that material, even if you explicitly ask it to do so and even if you don't redistribute it. An AI tool is in a similar situation, you still need to license content if you're making a tool.

  • Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI

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  • In the case of Mario, it's not literally copyright for the most part, but other IP protections such as trademarks, logos, etc.

  • Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI

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  • Why is that unsettling? People make money off of other people's ideas all the time. The boundary of when this is allowed and when it isn't is pretty arbitrary.

  • where to buy retired sets

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  • If you don't want it new, you can get used sets at places like Ebay.

    If you don't need the instructions (Lego lets you download PDFs on their website), you can order individual parts from pages like Bricklink or Brickowl. This is quite involved and can be confusing if you haven't done it before. You need to find a seller (or multiple ones) who have all the parts you need at the correct quantities and colors and who will ship it to your region.

    You can buy parts from compatible brands. I've used Webrick before, it works just like Brickowl, but can be cheaper for parts that are rare in the Lego world.

    You can also look for sets from compatible brands, like this one. Sometimes they are copies of Lego sets (which I find questionable), sometimes they are unique designs. The quality of those can be hit and miss.

    Alternatively, do retired sets come back into circulation again?

    Usually not, but sometimes it happens, like with the 2017 Saturn V (21309) and the 2021 Saturn V (92176).

  • How do you guys cope with the fact that the world isn't getting any better?

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  • I agree with your point on biodiversity and yes, climate change poses an existential threat to individual people, but not to civilization as a whole.

  • How do you guys cope with the fact that the world isn't getting any better?

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  • No, I'm certain that human civilization would survive.

  • How do you guys cope with the fact that the world isn't getting any better?

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  • I don't think this kind of catastrophizing helps. Climate change certainly doesn't "threaten the fundamental existence of organized human society". Sure, we should do more about it and future generations would be better off if we were to lessen the impact, but it is not an existential threat.

  • Fossil may have given up on Wear OS watches, ceded victory to Google and Samsung

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  • Have you tried Gadgetbridge? It replaces the Pebble app completely. I'm on Android 13 and it works really well (but requires a bit of tinkering to set up). Also, if it broke going from 13 to 14, I'd be interested to know what went wrong. I'm still using my Pebble every day.

  • 💲 Steam Winter Sale Deals and Recommendation! 💲

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  • If the game doesn't have DRM, you can download it through steam, keep a copy of the files and it will work without steam. AFAIK, Steam doesn't remove things from people's libraries, only from the store. I have a few games that aren't sold anymore, but you I can still download and play them just fine. It's the same on the Steam Deck, but playing a game through Steam is more convenient.

  • Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads

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  • It doesn't make sense for Lemmy (or Mastodon) to send your IP to other instances. Without that IP, all they have is your username. They can't really track you based on just the username.

  • Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads

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  • What a wild conspiracy theory.

    Legally, they can't collect and process any of the data unless you accepted a contract with them. Just by sending an upvote or a comment to their instance, you don't agree to any of this.

    And if they choose to ignore the law and just do it anyway, they still can't, because all they have is the data that your instance sends them. They don't have your geo-location, device Id, etc.

  • ‘You didn’t just succeed, you Exceled’: Sydney man dubbed the ‘Annihilator’ wins spreadsheet world championship

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  • What are some generational differences between millennials and Gen Z ?

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  • Now do the other generations!

  • Polls on reactions to Threads

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  • You can simply not follow people on Threads and you will have no Threads content in your feed

  • Twitch will now allow "Artistic Nudity" following the viral topless meta

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  • I've seen some people debate whether "meta" means "applying a concept to itself" or "most effective tactic available". In gaming, both kind of make sense. But in the context of business models for twitch streams, only the second definition works. (even though it originated from the word "metagame", where "meta" wasn't an acronym)