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bluGill

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    Where do I buy computer parts nowdays?

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  • https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/store/ is what I'm looking a for my next keyboard. I am typing this on a Keychron which I will agree with others is a great keyboard option for somewhat cheap.

    For general computer stuff B&H. Though if I knew of a local store near me I'd be sure to support them.

  • What's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?

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  • RAM is memory inside the computer, ROM is memory on the disk (5.25" floppy)

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  • Only for the moment. Spammers have already found us, but so far in small numbers. All the other bad parts of social media are already here too, just so far not in large amounts and so you can find useful content. But those who gain from the garbage are coming and decentralization doesn't help.

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  • If you must be on those platforms (because face it, that is where grandma is) don't doom scroll. I block all from the creator of shared memes on facebook - then when I block two I use that as a sign I'm done for the day. You should follow similar rules - make it clear that you want social media for social purposes and the memes, information (which is likely false or exaggerated), and everything else is not welcome to you. Alone you and I are nothing, but together we start to become a statistics that they will notice. Thus my plea that you follow similar rules as me in blocking the non-social parts and not doom scrolling - if there are enough of us they will be forced to make their platform more useful to keep us for one more ad.

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  • So why are we talking - nothing gives me any indication you are in the same community as me (odds are strongly against it), so nothing is being organized. The world needs more ways to organize communities not large groups who don't have a small communities in common to do something about.

  • Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis.

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  • Just like kde 4.0 and wayland were not marketed to consumers and yet consumers used them anyway and then decided latter releases marketed to consumers must also be bad.

  • If I bought a house with a parcel of land, and a local concrete company owned the mining rights to that land; is there anything I could do that would prevent them from ever using those rights?

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  • Unless you can buy them out assume dump trucks in your backyard. I'd refuse to buy with those terms. Worse than a hoa.

  • If I bought a house with a parcel of land, and a local concrete company owned the mining rights to that land; is there anything I could do that would prevent them from ever using those rights?

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  • What rights do they have. There is a big difference between they have (or plan to have) a tunnel under your house if the vein of whatever they are mining happens to go that way, and they have rights to knock down your house. Different states have different rules.

    Oil is a liquid so if they have a well on your neighbor's land they are taking "your" oil so it makes sense to make them buy out the entire neighborhood - but they are don't need to access your surface, the pump elsewhere is enough. Similar for underground mines, they follow the vein of mineral wherever, and don't care what you do on the surface.

    However there are other cases where their pit mine gets bigger and they need to take your land and your can do nothing about it since they have those rights they give you notice and a check (they probably have to buy your house, but maybe not!) and you have to leave in a few months.

    In between they can put a well or ventilation shaft in your backyard, but other than having to look at it forever, and the time when they build it there isn't much loss of your yard (some loss, but not much).

    The good news, in places where this is done all the time the courts and law have worked out all the details. The contracts tend to be 1 page that just refers to the hundreds of pages of legal documents saying how things are done. (by contrast if you lease land for a wind turbine it will be hundreds of pages - the legal details are not known so they have to cover all the details) You can go to a local cafe and ask a stranger and probably get reasonably good advice since everyone will know what really happens based on what happened to someone else. Or half an hour with a lawyer and get real information.

    The bad news, different states have different rules. Sometimes cities or counties also have rules. As such there is no way anyone can say anything without knowing exactly where you live.

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    Lemmy.ml and its moderation, am I getting something wrong?

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  • That Is one reason why I choose to join a kbin instance back in the day. Many lemmy devs are scummy people who support this.

    i try to block all .ml groups so I don't engage them. You should too.

  • Linux 6.14 With Rust: "We Are Almost At The 'Write A Real Driver In Rust' Stage Now"

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  • In a driver what else is there? Either you deal with c or hardware.

  • Why do you hate Teams/Why is Teams despised?

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  • I can still hate choices that are hostile to my ability to use teams. I still miss lynx which did much better for my needsi

  • Why do you hate Teams/Why is Teams despised?

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  • There is a tradeoff. When someone is sharing a screen I want to see more of their screen. A powerpoint should 10 lines mx of large font. A screen share often needs me to see what they do and zoom in loses useful lines - to teams things I don't even care about.

  • Why do you hate Teams/Why is Teams despised?

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  • It demands too much screen space. you can't rum less than full screen without losing important things. Even full screen I often can' see the presentation clearly because it shrunk the presentation in favor of avitars / videos of other people.

    now that I'm old I cannot see tiny text like I used to. I thus get really mad at useless spate while I'm strurgling to read the presentation. you will understand when you turn 45 too.

  • Popular Tesla model had 'raging high dump percentage' for mandatory safety checks in 2024

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  • brakes are not generally on the list for more than an inspection - which quick lube plates won't do.

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  • That depends on how they act. China right now is on a path where I'd oppose them replacing the US. However the EU has the ability to replace the US as the global superpower - they don't because despite some significant differences overall the US and EU get along well and so they don't see any point. By cooperating the EU gains the things they want from being a global superpower without the disadvantages. Part of that cooperation is the EU is in NATO (mostly?) and so they are paying some of the military costs of the US being a global super power.

    The US isn't perfect by any means, but we have done much better in many ways vs previous global superpowers. Right now I'd predict China would be worse so I oppose it. However who knows how things will change in the future.

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  • That depends on where you are coming from. English has enough German and Latin roots that most of Europe has a head start when learning English. (linguists will define roots different from what I'm using and say English doesn't have Latin roots, but there is still significant influence)

    If you are coming from an African language though it probably won't make much difference. Though in Africa there is a good chance your nation was controlled by Europe over the years and so you might know enough of some European language to make English easier.

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  • Former you mean. Well he might technically be president, I don't follow close enough to know the exact status, but he is politically dead in the country and there is just process left to formalize it.

    Which is how it should work. People abusing power is a given. If it isn't happening where you live than either you are ignorant of the truth (perhaps because you overall support what the abuser is doing and so choose to ignore small signs); or you are afraid of what would happen if you talked about abuse.

  • AT&T “complies” with law requiring cheap Internet by ending a service in NY

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  • Until a line breaks and you discover it costs money to have someone fix it. Or a router gets attacked be someone evil and now you don't have internet. Or ... There are a lot of costs to running internet.

    I don't know how the costs compare to what AT&T is charging. I doubt you do either.

  • I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff

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  • If it's outrage, then that’s exactly what you’ll get

    I don't know how fix this, but this is one of the things a good algorithm needs to prevent. Outrage does get my attention - but it isn't where I want my attention.