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  • Non sports fans is there a sport/aspect or player that you admire or respect for what is required by skill or ability?

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  • Most sports have some aspect that is impressive, I just can't stand watching them. Watching someone else play just bores the hell out of me 95% of the time if it's already a sport I've seen a lot of. If it's something new or something I know very little about, it will hold my interest for a little longer.

    I also get bored watching other people play video games.

  • Why don't companies that make computer chips cut corners at the expense of stability?

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  • With that in mind I think most of the time if a manufacturer cheaped out on making a less reliable component then the engineer designing whatever circuit it was going to be in would probably rather find a more reliable chip, create a different, more reliable alternative to the problem, and/or try to omit that feature entirely.

    This is pretty much binning in a nutshell.

  • I'm still new to the Fediverse. What are your favorite unique things that your instance does? What do you wish was more widely adopted across instances/federated platforms?

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  • Servers are fueled by renewables!

  • Do you wash your clothes inside out?

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  • Kinda depends: Usually yes, unless the label says otherwise or the exterior is super dirty.

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    Showers, morning or night?

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  • Personally? I prefer evening unless otherwise needed/wanted: I kinda just like it but also deodorant works better when you put it on the night before.

    A lot of the time I end up showering in the morning though because I ran out of time the night before.

  • Why don't companies that make computer chips cut corners at the expense of stability?

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  • They kinda do (look up binning - not exactly the same thing though, there is still QC there) but the problem with putting out unstable chips is that, unless all the other companies do the same thing, people will just start buying from the companies that make the chips/devices that function reliably. Nobody wants to use a computer that crashes all the time or is otherwise nonfunctional.

  • The voters have spoken

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  • I was just about to ask where it was posted...

  • How many Lemmy users post regularly (let's say daily)?

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  • I'm almost daily, I usually take a break on the weekend though.

  • Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next

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  • I am all for stopping it, but the politicians suggesting these bans have absolutely no idea what they're talking about or how damn near impossible it would be to actually accomplish: Fight it? Absolutely! It's stupid as hell and will be a complete waste of time and money.

    It will 100% not stop anyone with even moderate technical ability, but yes, it should still be fought against.

  • Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next

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  • They're not doing so great, but also, if someone really wants to use an encrypted connection there's ways around it even in places like Russia and China.

  • Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next

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  • They're legally banned but that has not stopped the use of VPNs in the countries that tried to ban them, there are already multiple ways around the efforts to stop them.

  • Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next

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  • This article seems a little misinformed: VPNs are still regularly used in business and are necessary for companies to function. That's still probably their primary use if I had to guess.

    People who are trying to ban them clearly have no clue what they're doing as banning VPNs would be an absolute disaster, not just for privacy minded people or folks who want to watch something region locked, but for the basic tech functions of just about any sizeable business.

  • How do you feel about the current state of Lemmy?

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  • Sounds like you should adjust your subscriptions?

  • Do you know the place where you've pooped the most in your life?

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  • Probably my childhood home that I grew up in.

  • TIL that Indiana’s House of Representatives once unanimously passed a bill to make Pi exactly 3.2

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  • So what? It's still a relevant tale of stupidity, perhaps more relevant than ever now given current US politics.

  • TIL that Indiana’s House of Representatives once unanimously passed a bill to make Pi exactly 3.2

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  • This is why you don't gut the educational system.

  • 3D printing in an unheated workshop

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  • Cover the printer to protect from dust and seal your filament in airtight containers with some sort of desiccant.

  • Did you drink alcohol when you were younger than me?

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  • I drank once when I was 17 but didn't really care for it (rootbeer and vodka, not great, not terrible).

  • What's the best thing made from potatoes?

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  • Hasselback^2