If there’s no on/off switch, it means it just goes to sleep and never truly turns off. Low power mode is nice for people who forget to turn things off, but it’s still draining the battery to monitor the sensors, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense for something that’s not used frequently.

The calipers remind me of my earbuds, which are always jostling in the case and disconnecting from the charging pins. I can be in the car and my music will suddenly stop playing on the radio because my earbuds came loose, connected, and took bluetooth priority. It’s irritating, and if anybody has a fix, let me know.

Okay, so as a teenager I was a super nerd and got into swords. I took olympic style fencing lessons first, then got into the ren faire and also did some stage combat. Sadly, I have health problems and I couldn’t keep my knees in place, and had to quit. The difference between those is probably the same difference between WWE style wrestling, and BJJ. One is done with choreography, one is a competition.

They’re both sports. I don’t understand why people think the choreography somehow means it doesn’t have skills or rules? It was the same skillset, different rules. Stage combat was unpadded and used heavier weapons that left more bruises when we fucked up the choreography. They’re different, sure, but the amount of overlap is underappreciated.

Because they need to sell papers?

That dog knows the donkey is in charge

Yeah, mania can present as rage.

No, he just doesn’t carrot all.

We had a sock basket when I was a kid!

Somehow Walmart is leading innovation, launching a butthole logo in '07. Truly ahead of their time.

You can’t just say you made a youtube rant about it without posting a link.

Weren’t they dubbed as ‘donuts’ or am I having a Berenstain Bears moment?

Yes, because it’s so great that they’re trying to run the nation like a business right now.

I will never be able to afford an EV. The last used car I bought cost $2k, and the one before that was $500. Used EVs are ten times that.

Yeah, and while the gas company probably doesn’t charge full price for the installation, they make their money back pretty quickly, so it all comes out in the wash anyways.

In my state, the gas company charges the property owner installation fees on installing a gas line to the property.

So they’re not really out much if a homeowner changes their mind.

And the other other half are Jennifers

Nope, it’s gatekeeping. I installed Ubuntu on my partner’s machine instead of paying for windows, because he only uses webapps. Learning CLI isn’t required for browsing the web, and trying to force it only makes people think it’s useless for basic shit.

What internet? The one algorithmically controlled by the oligarchs?

TIL that Lemmy isn’t part of the internet

Why do people need to learn CLI to watch youtube and write emails? That’s all the average computer user does.

I’m in the middle of pulling a chat friend out of his programming. His only real problem was being raised in Texas by a Good Ol Boy single father, and once he got out from under his dad’s wing, he started to realize that what he was taught simply isn’t lining up with reality.

He started out as an incel, but now he’s in therapy and has a girlfriend.

I think of it less as ‘converting’ and more just holding his hand while he figures out that his dad’s advice was complete horseshit. It takes forever, and not everybody has the spoons to pull it off, but I do, so I will.

And once people put AI images with their article, I start to wonder how much of the article was written by a LLM. I’m too used to arguing with idiots that use GPT to generate a list of studies to support their view, only for those studies to be complete hallucinations or unrelated to the topic.

I’m completely electric, in a building with code standard insulation, and my power bill still goes up by $100 each winter, contradicting the headline’s ‘every time’ claim. That makes me feel even stronger that this article was probably completely generated, and I’m not giving it my clicks.