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JaymesRS

@JaymesRS@literature.cafe

Nerd; Board, Card, Pencil & Paper Gamer; Avid Reader; to find me in other places: lnk.bio/JaymesRS

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Bah, like the Romulans could do any better.

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Arctic and Mlem for iOS.

Arctic is my primary, it was the first that I know of to include admin tools, the single developer is super accessible and on top of for resolving bugs and does a good job at supporting markdown both in the editor and the viewer.

Mlem is my backup if I need to access 2 different spots on the Lemmy-verse. It has a great viewer and interface but is missing a markdown editor.

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

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I don’t inderstand, my phone knows that when I type stormloght, what I really mean is Stormlowght instead. (This happened yesterday)

Auto carrot is amazing.

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For when you really want to set something on fire, but it’s just too far away.

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Fiskars the blade company also makes Gerber products. The knives, not the Baby food.

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You can eat anything, once.

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This very reason is why I cut off both thumbs. Can’t force me to unlock my phone with my thumb print now. Checkmate, cops.

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I can still beat an AI at the 100 meter dash though. Suck on that AI.

/Also, I can climb stairs, I bet Chat GPT can’t do that!!

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I love SwiftOnSecurity.

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We can remember it for you wholesale.

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He always strikes me as the kind of person that confuses his moderately deep knowledge of a limited topic set with the type of thinking that makes him an over-confident expert on a much larger variety of topics. Like when economists start making declarations about climate change science.

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I knew I was going to get every downvote I got. He’s got an Elon Musk-like cult of personality in some tech spheres and even implying that he’s not 100% right will get dogpiled by white knights.

I had the same experience as you and there were at least a couple opportunities where I had close acquaintances that actually knew more about topics that were more outside of his wheelhouse who confirmed that he was just regurgitating things that were common misconceptions or “close, but not quite”-type inaccuracies but doing it as though he possessed absolute authority. I’ve even seen others try to correct him on those in the past when they knew more and his responses were not the way one responds when you’re actually interested in fact over the art of the diatribe.

I don’t have anything real negative against him and he’s definitely done quite a few things that end result in a positive improvement, but I’m also thinking he’d probably benefit from a bit more humility.

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Has anyone investigated the consequences of all the sunlight that’s leaked into the environment because of this disaster? What sort of clean up are we looking at and how long will it take?

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I imagine it depends upon your phone and it’s support for USB drives, but I can use my kobo Libra and Clara directly connected to my iPad as a drive and drop the epubs and PDFs on it and have it recognize them.

There’s also a website that has released its code (so you can run your own) where I can push things through it via the Internet similar to send to Kindle.

There’s a whole bunch of other reasons that I think the Kobo has the current best eInk device having to do with its interface, but those that are more personal preference related and not the subject of your question. But I’m happy to share if you’d like.

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And to think, they stared with an app to identify if something was a hot dog or not.

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!arctic has good markdown support and if it’s missing anything the developer is pretty good at making sure the next update supports it.

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I tried to read this, but I got distracted by Candy Crush or whatever millennials are playing now, Royal Match maybe?

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EVs are significantly heavier than ICE cars. That’s why this is a problem. The Rivian R1S is over 8,000 lbs.

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I can too. I put my hand on the input device and the signals my brain sends translates that into the movement of the mouse to a specific location on the screen.

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I have been putting the rice in the phone. That must have been the problem.

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The other thing I keep hearing is that it’s a super expensive purchase that people don’t know what to do with once they’ve got it. I’m old enough to remember when they said the same thing about early home computers ($3000-$5000 in equivalent cost) from the late 70s and early 80s.

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Did my typical, set up an account to squat on my username so no one else gets it then signed back out to likely never sign in again…

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"is this butterfly" meme labeled "conservatives probably" with the text "fluorescent e. Coli" over the person and the text "is this gain of function research" over the butterfly

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There’s a stupid conspiracy that’s parroted by people in The US like Rand Paul that the US (in general and Anthony Faucci in specific) helped intentionally create SARS-CoV-2 by funding Gain of Function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Any duck duck go alternative that is better in privacy and security ?

I have always liked and used Duck duck go more than google but now i am considering if i should switch because of the shit they pulled with their app and yesterday when i clicked a link it took me directly to their newsletter subsciption page not even like a popup a proper page without any way except manually backing out . So is...

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I like DogPile. It lets you get results from Yahoo! directory, Lycos, Excite, WebCrawler, Infoseek, AltaVista, WhatUSeek, and HotBot.

AskJeeves works pretty well too.

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I guess you could say the same about AskJeeves since they rebranded as just Ask.

I miss those days of the internet.

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Based on last night’s dinner though, it appears gas production is way up. Wind seems to be breaking.

smiling pun dog meme

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Do I like this? No. But I also don’t like that any other entity can do this either. But if we’re going to ban the government from doing this, we should also be banning the sale of this data to anybody.

Computer scientist shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine, in election security trial: “All it takes is five seconds and a Bic pen.” (www.ajc.com)

Computer scientist shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine, in election security trial: “All it takes is five seconds and a Bic pen.”::An expert witness for plaintiffs seeking to bar Georgia's touchscreen voting machines showed a crowded courtroom how he could tamper with election res

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I think you’re thinking of Col. Jack O’Neill.

The 2 “L”s are important, you wouldn’t want to confuse him with Col. Jack O’Neil.

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You still need a multimeter, but the one I have (Treedix.com) has easily accessible electrical contacts for testing resistance.

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There were many times someone else’s comment stopped me before I read the Johnathon Turley opinion piece Artifact kept trying to throw at me.

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People even pay +$2K for concert tickets…

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