nezbyte

@nezbyte@lemmy.world
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RCS was a dumpster fire for years. Only in the past couple of years has Google stepped up to be the centralized force in making it work as envisioned.

quick edit to say I agree this could’ve been avoided if Apple had made iMessage for Android, but I just wanted to point out the blame is shared by poor implementation across the board.

The manufacturer can save money by not including grills and if the speaker gets damaged they will make more money when you buy a replacement speaker.

Indeed, the article was written with Backblaze B2 as the S3-compatible storage used.

Requires an iPhone 15 Pro or an iPad

Assuming you can even win the bidding war to buy a house right now. Nothing worse than seeing a house you failed to buy have a For Lease sign on it the next week.

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On Wednesday, Maine’s legislature passed a bill joining a compact to commit all of their electoral votes, regardless of who won in their individual state, to whichever candidate won the national popular vote.

never give up, never surrender

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abandoning self checkouts because the machine is yelling at you and the workers are busy elsewhere. they say self-checkout lane 7 is still blinking to this day.

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They could be fined a small amount for cutting down the trees and then include a provision that the trees must be replaced with trees of the same size. If they were large trees, then that could get super expensive very quickly. There was a story about tree law on Reddit where someone cut down 32 trees on their neighbor’s property and were charged $1k each plus the cost of replanting, it ended up just shy of $2M.

Telegram has removed terrrorist groups such as ISIS before. See this 2019 Wired article

Might I recommend a book on the matter.

One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Rybczynski

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I’ve thought about installing one as well after reading this: https://bert.org/2022/06/02/payphone/

It’s a shame that Mythbusters isn’t around to turn this into a shark week special. I’m pretty sure the myth would be busted and the only risk would be of the batteries catching fire after the shark bites one.

If anyone wants more detail. The 2021/2022 capital expenditures for the British Museum totaled just over £25M. The digitization will take at least 5 years. So at worst a 10% increase per year in capital expenditures for them.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1093002/E02763183_HC_438_British_Museum_ARA_2022_WEB.pdf

The Combine will be driving combine harvesters.

Modular ports would be great. I’d love to have two USB ports on a phone rather than a USB and headphone jack.

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I can’t even give a firefighter a bottle of Gatorade without approval from my company.

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There were fighter pilots from 3 nations escorting a B52 on Sunday. The articles I can find for the Tuesday flight do not mention any fighter escorts.

https://www.flyingmag.com/us-japan-south-korea-conduct-trilateral-b-52-escort-exercise/

CSVs are supposed be comma-separated files. Microsoft deviated from the specification and decided some languages would use semicolons for CSVs.

Source: StackOverflow

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Tree Style Tabs user checking in. It’s not hoarding when you are organized.

Most developed Western countries set the retirement age around the age of 65; this is also generally considered to mark the transition from middle to old age. Reaching this age is commonly a requirement to become eligible for senior social programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_age?wprov=sfti1#Definitions

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Edge gets some points for having a horizontal to vertical tab layout switching button. It’s still no Tree Style Tabs on FF, but better than whatever Chrome ships with.

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you’ve never had 3am Waffle House chocolate milk?

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Serenity as a reaver ship is hard to beat

Driving in the summer heat with my windows down and the AC blasting always feels like such a rebellious act.

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You may get more bang for your buck by getting a comparable mini PC rather than a NUC. Some ThinkCentre Tiny machines are listed on eBay for less than $100 USD. HP and other manufacturers sell their own versions as well.

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The technical datasheet for Loctite 404 is surprisingly detailed.

I prefer to leave the bottle unattended.

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The up and down are used to go up and down in menus lists. It matches the animations as well. It would be infuriating if those buttons were on the horizontal.

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There was a programming search engine called Symbol Hound that allowed for searching for special symbols like << and &&. It was my fallback search engine while programming if I couldn’t find something on the first page of Google. Sadly, that site appears to have disappeared. Does this search engine have optional support for special characters?

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A-wing Interceptor from Star Wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-wing

For All Mankind S4 comes out next month!!!

I appreciate the short review format and lack of pop-ups on the website.

Disappointing to hear that Bombrush Cyberfunk didn’t live up to the Jet Set Radio expectations. I used to play JSRF all the time on the OG Xbox.

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Just be sure you have enough money to pay the shopkeeper, the in-game justice system can really set you back if you try and steal items.

Google’s RCS service is unique in that it is not telecom based. I would advise looking at the RCS Wikipedia article here.

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