[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

Ironically the hazardous (to people) goods may well be better for the ocean than most of the rest. Ethanol should disperse well enough and not cause much issue. Fireworks are mostly cardboard. Still a horror show though.

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 5 points 5 months ago

It's not actually especially difficult. People who produce more than their kid needs will sell or give away the extra to people who are struggling to produce enough. Also... Some hardcore body builders buy it as well.

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago

I'm confused by the it in your last sentence.

Using a screen recorder (there's a built in one in the Xbox games app depending on version of Microsoft, or if not, people always seem to use FRAPS) to capture whatever is in the window to get more information could help.

Someone else will likely be along shortly with more helpful info.

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

People are colder now, looking like maybe around 97.9 average. But you're still chillier than most.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/01/human-body-temperature-has-decreased-in-united-states.html

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On a mostly unrelated science note:
Whatever compression happens to that thumbnail, on my phone at least, does some wild things to the rats face. Interesting how the different fur size/texture/focus interferes with the the compression.

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

A related article linked inside that one that lists the most expensive keywords to buy ad space for is absolutely shocking.
Imagine paying Google over $1000 because someone visits your website.
Kinda makes me want to Google some maritime accident lawyers and who knows, MLMs and essential oil charlatans and sow a little mayhem. Although is siphoning money from scummy MLMs to scummy Google even a net bonus?

Article:
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/most-expensive-keywords-google

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

It's always hard to decipher poor English, but that does seem possible. If you have a multimeter, plugging the socket into a cable would at least allow you to verify the ground and +5v easily. The data etc pins should be doable too, by using a USB A to C cable, and doing a continuity check to the pins inside the USB A side, which would be easy to look up reliably.

As far as swapping the wires around in the plug, that's one of the easiest plugs to do it with. If you do need to, you'll be able to.

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

If the wires are indeed arranged in the wrong order, but would otherwise be work, popping the individual sockets out and rearranging them is actually quite easy. You just need to either pry the little plastic tabs from the the outside or stick a sewing needle inside, and they should slide out fairly easily. If implementing the sewing needle, it often bends the little metal tab out of the way, and you'll want to tweak it back with the needle before reinserting in the right slot.

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 85 points 1 year ago

The fact that phones haven't been able to to this easily/natively/what have you is wild. Similarly, the fact that you can't use old tablets as external monitors without, in my experience of quite a few, significantly buggy software that's got significant lag in the best of times, is pretty wild. Sure, the technical hurdles aren't small, but damn.

I've got a reasonably high end newish tablet (Galaxy S7+) that I can use miracast to use wirelessly as an extra PC monitor. It works quite well... if I'm near to a high quality new router. But can I just plug the tablet in and use it as a monitor with my laptop? Not remotely well.

It's been a year or two, maybe I should check for new software again.

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

The cool thing is that they're floating because of gravity. Specially, the thing they're floating in is heavier than they are, so the float medium gets pulled underneath the object.

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

By free search allowance, do you mean the one time trial of 100, the 300 per month if you're paying $5, or something else?

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