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  • Avoiding the usual toilet paper and paper towel answers, Bluetooth speakers.

    Decent sounding ones can be had dirt cheap, but I've found that ones made by power tool brands tend to last longer and be more reliable when abused. I'm more than happy to pay double price if it will last me 4 times as long before it fails on me. I haven't had my current one very long, but the last one lasted almost 6 years of genuine abuse before it died after falling into a vat of used motor oil. The usual life span for bluetooth speakers is about 6 months (general abuse) to a year or two (battery failure). I'm a bit rough on my kit.

  • Matrix would probably be one of the better options, but xmpp is a pretty good choice as well.

  • If a bot isn't declaring itself as a bot, yes. Report it.

  • KDE default, so it opens the start menu, or launcher. Whichever you want to call it.

  • I think you may have posted this in the wrong thread.

  • That is a bit disturbing.

  • Take their money. Give your very best every moment you're at work. And find a job that you can better live with. Or better yet, build one.

    Your first priority should always be to take care of and protect yourself and your family. Build systems that enable you to be as self-reliant as practicable. You can't help others if you, yourself, are are constantly being knocked flat on your ass.

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  • I did notice there are no conservative subs

    They exist on Lemmy, though your home instance may be blocking them or their home instances, or you just may not have seen them. lemmy.world has a fair few instances on their block list. I've had to block a few of the more egregious MAGA communities myself.

    Remember, Lemmy (as a network) is censorship resistant, not censorship free.

  • In my experience, only a few care about size. Most, just care about whether a guy is able or willing to get them off.

  • If I had to guess, never having used it myself, is that it has a decent UI that simplifies sometimes complicated operations and it has been around seemingly forever.

  • Of course they did.

  • Well, I own, but what I would do is go ahead and rent the new place and then give notice on the old place. You’ll wind up paying rent on two places for that month, but on the upside your move won’t need to be a chaotic rush.

  • Usually nothing. When I do have breakfast it's either pancakes and eggs or milk and cereal. Every now and then I get a wild hair and have oatmeal.

  • 2,500 to 3000 miles per month. Mostly commuting to and from work.

  • Tidal uses a higher quality codec than Youtube. Personally, I can't hear the difference, but I also have nearly half a century of accumulated hearing damage. YMMV.

  • Middle aged me calls it a science trick and understands at a basic level how it works. 8 year old me would have said “Hey man! Hey man! Hey man! Check this out!” not having a clue how it worked, but it’s cool because it involves fire and magic. And promptly proceeding to set the town on fire.

    Ditto potato guns, soda bottle launchers (top half a soda bottle, a coffee cup, a little water and a firecracker), Mentos granades (coke and mentos), flamethrowers (just hairspray and a lighter), vacuum cannons and other things that burned, went boom or did something else exciting.

    Give the kids a break, they may not be able to communicate their understanding in standard language, but they understand far more than they, and their test scores, realize.

  • I think you may be thinking a little too large a hot air balloon. Think grocery bag sized. As for not taking the risk, have you ever met a kid, or more likely in this case, teen, that thinks through the consequences of their actions.

    And it is a very cool science trick. I could see a kid doing something like that, pretty easily.

    This was the first result in YouTube when I looked it up. https://youtu.be/mfOm6IOA9Og

  • There is another high probability possibility. It could be a tea light powered hot air balloon. You suspend a tea light under a lightweight plastic bag. The candle heats the air in the bag and it floats off across the sky. They look pretty freaky if you haven’t run across them before Especially at night. If the bag got hit by a sudden gust, it might twist into that shape and start to fall. Don’t see them very often due to the fire hazard.

    Another possibility might be a custom hobby r/c craft of some sort. That’s all the reasonable ideas I’ve got.

  • It’s an ambiguous photo. Probably faked.

    If the object isn’t an optical aberration or a faked photo and is in fact an actual object in the sky it could be a deflated weather balloon falling.They can get pretty funky looking. To me though it looks more like a wind turbine.

    My money is on it being a faked photo.