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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you think Chinese companies will pick up the slack when it comes to consumer RAM and SSDs?English
3·4 days agoDo you remember how much RAM it was?
All liquids and gels are edible all the time, no way you can’t fit a liquid or gel of all things down your esophagus. Some just have unwanted “side effects” on your body after it’s eaten. Like mercury.

Late night infomercials with high pressure sales tactics are where the real innovation is!
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Memes@lemmy.ml•There's no Trans Liberation without Class Struggle & Anti-Imperialist PoliticsEnglish
15·6 days agoAlso, “Hamas kills trans people which is why we should let Israel kill everyone instead, including the trans people.”
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•I've got 3 bottles of Drano. Information online says it's bad for pipes but the bottle says it's safe for pipes. What should I do with it?English
7·5 days agoAs a rule of thumb, don’t trust the packaging when it’s going out of its way to assure you it won’t cause some negative side effect. They have a massive conflict of interest because they want you to buy it, and more importantly they legally don’t have to actually prove it’s factual, the burden is on you the consumer to sue them and prove they’re lying in court if you think that’s the case, and they’re well aware the vast majority of people don’t have the time or resources to do that.
If an online source is telling you it will cause that side effect, I’d be inclined trust that more (assuming the site is reputable and they’re not trying to promote a different product).
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the worst crime/mischief your pet have done to you?English
3·6 days agoMy dog chewed a plastic bag containing the special proprietary cables for a computer display/input switch. I think she just wanted the bag and the cables were collateral damage, because she’s never chewed cables on their own before or since.
They refuse to sell the cables separately so it made the device itself useless unless I buy another one for like $100. Ended up not bothering and giving up on having a peripheral switch because I refuse to give them that much money again just because a $10 set of cables broke and reward their shitty business practices. I just manually switch the actual display and USB cables when I want to control another computer.
Also blew my mind just how strong a bite force even a small breed dog has. She totally crushed the metal casing surrounding the plug and shattered the plastic molding in the less than one minute she had it. I can’t even do that with my teeth (then again I’ve never tried).
I prefer Ghost of Christmas Imperative.
“Stop exploiting workers you bourgeois piece of shit.”
Or for the functional programming enjoyers, Ghost of Christmas Declarative. He doesn’t tell you what to do, he just passive aggressively defines what you should be.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the most painfully obvious thing you've seen have to be written out?English
5·6 days agoBecause human offspring are so damn needy and take so long to mature.
How ACAB works (for nerds):
public abstract class Bastard {} private interface DictatorshipOfTheBourgeoisie {} private class Cop extends Bastard implements DictatorshipOfTheBourgeoisie {}
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•I'm thinking about starting a community on Lemmy where 500-1000 word mini-stories will be published, is that a good idea?English
4·6 days agoInduced demand also applies to social media. Having a dedicated community for something can cause people who had not thought to post something (because there was no dedicated community for it and they don’t want to risk putting it in a community where it doesn’t fit) to post.
Related, I really think we could use a /c/whatever community, for creative works and posts that don’t fit into any existing communities. It will also serve as a good place to assess when a community should be created, since you can just see what a lot of people are posting.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•In what ways do you document your life? How often?English
3·6 days agoI take pictures of the architecture around me.
The mundane stuff that no one bothers to document and won’t make it into historical architecture books.
I have over a hundred gigabytes of liminal space photos I’m debating whether I should share on Lemmy or not.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the biggest case of planned obsolescence you've dealt with?English
73·8 days agoSealed in batteries on smartphones and Surface tablets.
The device will eventually reach a point where it won’t even boot (or shuts down randomly) when plugged in because the charger connection isn’t actually wired to power the main board without going through the battery first (most smartphones) or the device consumes more power than the port is designed to deliver (Surface).
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the oldest video game you still find yourself playing?English
4·9 days agoPMD Rescue Team
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search ItEnglish
9·10 days agoThey’d have to prove a lot in the first instance to warrant arresting you then and there
No? It’s been pretty clear they can arrest literally anyone and you’re lucky if you even get to see a judge before you’re shipped off to the concentration camps. Even in the cases where judges have gone out of their ways to file injunctions against the ICE on someone’s behalf they won’t give a shit and have no problems blatantly violating court order and disappearing them anyway.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search ItEnglish
51·10 days agoHaven’t things like Cellebrite machines been able to almost fully recover data even after a format since basically ever? Most phones aren’t zeroing out the SSD on factory reset AFAIK, might not even format the partitions.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search ItEnglish
4·10 days agoSounds like a good place for an API hook that executes whatever contingency script you want on entering of the fake password.






So the Raspberry Pi would be a better choice in this regard?