Basically around the 2000s we had a WinXP computer and each time I wanted to use it, either my mom or my dad had to turn it on. However they had to strike the key to enter the BIOS. Everytime when booting the PC. Then they would exit the BIOS and so Windows XP would boot normally....
Some boards position their battery in really awkward and annoying places that force you to remove components to get to it. A real pain… don’t make me remove the CPU cooler just to get to the battery… >.>’
Please feel free to share your stories of how certain little self-care rituals changed your life for the better and have made you proud you started doing them.
“For men” feels a little reductive, I don’t mind painting my nails on occasion, listening to an audio book.
A nice walk in heavy rain with big droplets does wonders, shoutout for the pluviophiles. Or sitting in a quiet spot of nature and taking in the ambience.
Sometimes it’s as simple of having a cold beer and relaxing on the sofa with a good book or playing some couch co-op with my partner.
I used to enjoy painting my nails as a kid until my abusive grandma got around to that. I honestly would like to start up again but getting past those memories is pretty hard.
The only real cure is to pave over the top of bad memories with good memories. I love green and set my partner to work finding me decent colours for her/I to use, even her mother randomly got me some green polish for a birthday. They need to stop though, I do not use with any amount of frequency that I will get through it all.
I don’t live in the US… but if at a certain time the federal government decides to go backwards and wants to charge cannabis purchasers with federal crimes then you’re ready to be served up on a platter by your bank.
The context here is payment method, not your willingness to support legal cannabis dispensers.
Right, but that’s for your personal privacy, not your legal protection. If a weed company calls itself Cheshire Garden Supplies instead of Weed Weedersons Weed Emporium then that doesn’t stop the fact that you bought stuff from a weed dispensary from being a federal crime if push comes to shove. All I’m saying is that cash seems the naturally more sensible option either way.
You say that, but historically cannabis related charges in particular have been used to target specific parts of the population and individuals. It’s the sort of thing that could be exploited nefariously at a convenient moment. Perhaps I’m reading too much in to it.
Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying...
Awww… Come on… Bloodlines was built on something akin to a pre-release of the Source engine. Cut them a little slack on the bugs, it could only ever be a flawed gem.
Hey did you steal that? Did you steal that? Is that stolen? No don’t block my line of sight I need to see if you stole that. Did you steal that? Did you steal that?
“Police Benevolent Association” is such an ironically sinister sounding name… where was marketing?
From Wikipedia:
The PBA issues cards to its officers that read “The bearer of this card is a supporter of the PBA, and you should try to extend every courtesy possible.”
They get to give people cards that tell the police to be nicer to those citizens and let them off the hook…? The fuck?
“I see card after card. You’re not allowed to write any of them (up),” he told The Associated Press. “We’re not supposed to be showing favoritism when we do car stops, and we shouldn’t be giving them out because the guy mows my lawn.”
American law enforcement really is just a bad joke…
I can’t conceive of being a police officer, “accidentally” parking someone on a train track, by some miracle not getting them killed, and then thinking to myself that I should continue to be a police officer.
Also if we removed single use plastics, but didn’t dramatically cut back on everything we do that uses them, then we’d create more pollution with alternative methods trying to fill the gap. A global change is unavoidable, whether it is chosen or forced upon everyone by circumstance.
Yeah… we use single use plastics because they’re basically an industrial miracle production wise. Dirt cheap, super easy to use, innumerable applications… and all the drawbacks are post-production and someone else’s problem. A tough addiction to break.
You know those sci-fi teleporters like in Star Trek where you disappear from one location then instantaneously reappear in another location? Do you trust that they are safe to use?...
Do you consider your brain going in to sleep mode, providing you with filler content that you largely forget, and then waking you back again later to be the same as being vaporised in your original location?
They both involve a state of unconsciousness, but they are fundamentally different states. If you were under anaesthetic and, whilst under, they liquidised your brain and installed an exact copy of it in its place then you’d be cool with that?
No one would be the wiser and the original brain is gone, so no harm, no foul?
If the mechanism is that you are broken down in to your constituent matter and then that template is used to reconstruct you elsewhere, then how could it be anything other than a clone? Even if “the same matter” is used to reconstruct you, a copy is just being precisely pieced together based on your template. Surely?
If you were just scanned to build your pattern and then a transporter just spat out another you using that pattern, what would that other you be?
I would explicitly say that it was a copy of what I originally built, but that it is not my original build. What I consider to be me is the consistently maintained configuration of matter, primarily my brain, rather than the constituent matter. If I am unconfigured then I would consider myself dead, and then any further reconfiguration of me I would consider to be a replica of my original configuration.
Video game voice actors are fearing that the ability for generative AI to replicate their voices may cost them work and, more fundamentally, control of their own voice.
If anything, someone needs to create a more effective marketplace for actors to licence out their voices rather than just handing their livelihoods over in a single payout deal.
There’s an excessive perception that the US prison system is privately run. As terrible as the concept is, it is not as widespread as people think… however the US prison population is gigantic, so it still isn’t very small.
“While the United States represents about 4.2 percent of the world’s population, it houses around 20 percent of the world’s prisoners.”
Why would my parents always enter the BIOS when booting when I was younger
Basically around the 2000s we had a WinXP computer and each time I wanted to use it, either my mom or my dad had to turn it on. However they had to strike the key to enter the BIOS. Everytime when booting the PC. Then they would exit the BIOS and so Windows XP would boot normally....
Windows 11 is getting multiple monitor refresh rate improvements (www.theverge.com)
I hope this fixes my 7900xtx’s 100w idle power issue…
Bloke Builds ChatGPT-Powered Smart Glasses That Tell You What To Say On Dates (www.bosshunting.com.au)
First gen glasses connect heads-up display to AI
When IT insists on autogenerated email addresses… (lemmy.world)
What discontinued feature do you miss from phones or other technologies?
For me its the ‘Knock Code’ that LG had on their phones (I really wish LG still made at least the V series phones)...
Discord != Documentation (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
Lenovo Tab P12 Review: Lenovo’s latest tablet packs a massive screen on a budget (www.androidpolice.com)
An Android tablet with a 12.7-inch 3K display and octa-core MediaTek chip for just €399...
Family died in Rockies after trying to live ‘off the grid,’ official says (www.boston.com)
Self-care for Men? (lemm.ee)
Please feel free to share your stories of how certain little self-care rituals changed your life for the better and have made you proud you started doing them.
Mastercard demands US cannabis shops stop accepting debit cards (www.bbc.com)
Brands that don't buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification (www.theverge.com)
Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying...
Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher studio CD Projekt laying off 100 staff (www.pcgamesn.com)
Meta announces always online DRM for all existing and future Quest VR devices (mixed-news.com)
Meta sneakily introduced “Platform Integrity Attestation API” which basically calls home to see whether the user has a valid license to play....
Colorado Cop Who Left Handcuffed Woman on Train Tracks Says It was an Accident (www.theroot.com)
The officer claims she didn't realize a whole train was coming when she left a woman handcuffed in a parked police car.
Like a hot tub: Water temperatures off Florida soar over 100 degrees (www.nbcnews.com)
Would you use teleporter technology if it existed? Why or Why not?
You know those sci-fi teleporters like in Star Trek where you disappear from one location then instantaneously reappear in another location? Do you trust that they are safe to use?...
AI manipulation of Assassin's Creed character's voice stokes actors' concerns (www.axios.com)
Video game voice actors are fearing that the ability for generative AI to replicate their voices may cost them work and, more fundamentally, control of their own voice.
Texas charges prisoners 50% more for water as heat wave continues (www.tpr.org)