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Health-threat ‘forever chemicals’ removed from water with 3D-printed ceramic ink in c/[email protected]

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Ramenlith

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Help me: I'm imagining dating a guy who just got one of those dedicated AI gadgets. (hexbear.net)

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Youtube has been serving me videos of these gadgets that are like "personal AI assistants" for people who want to carry around an extra device that is just chatGPT with a voice prompt. It's a super weird niche because we already have phones that do the same thing. It just seems like maybe they're just kickstarter scams for gadget nerds who are bricked up over AI.

Anyways, every time I see one of these things, my cursed brain goes immediately to "god, what if I was dating someone and they had just gotten this thing after having preordered the kickstarter 6 months ago. Now they're trying to find every possible excuse to use it in order to justify getting it."

We're at a restaurant and he's like, "what are the best qualities in a carbonara," or whatever.

Please help me escape this mental prison. Why am I doing this to myself?

George Lucas did whaaaat??? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

What's the bit here? 400 views so I'm guessing this is your content or someone close to you. It says Lucas killed a bunch of people, but I don't really get the joke.

I feel like lots of 8 year olds like the letter X as well in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Most genX man calls everything X

Social media really discourages people from taking up hobbies out of fear of being 'bad' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm proud of you and your pepper OP.

I really like the tinker aspect of working with plants. It's fun to figure out what your little guys want over time and give it to them. I'll follow the instructions for sunlight because I don't want them to wither immediately, but reading a guide and doing an advanced setup from the start feels like playing a game with cheats on. Yield is nice, but learning about your plants by working with them over time is just so fulfilling.

Anyways, I want to see your herb box.

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Gunpowder in the catnip. (hexbear.net)

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An update is available... in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm back on Windows 11 for the first length of time in a while, after a hardware switch.

It's aggravating as hell with all the popups and embedded ads. My last update just straight up failed and had to revert.

I also don't get what Windows users are talking about when they say Linux is harder. Every time I have to change a minor setting in Windows, it feels like I'm picking through 20 years of legacy dialogs, and I never know which layer of legacy it'll be buried in.

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Cursed food ideas that worked out? (Wine ketchup) (hexbear.net)

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You ever try something ridiculous in the kitchen that worked out?

I ask because I just reduced a bunch of red wine and put it into my ketchup bottle.

It's actually pretty good. It did about what I expected and gave the ketchup a fuller body.

What is the best linux alternative to OneNote? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

10+ years ago there was something called Basket Note Pads that had the same blank canvas style note taking that onenote has now.

My heart broke in two when the project died because the metaphor wasn't popular at the time. It'd be so well positioned if it had stayed in development until today.

What's your preferred DE? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Gnome. Mostly vanilla except for some extended tiling for when I need it. Also sped up animations.

I bind Activities to an extra mouse button. But I'm also comfortable without that.

I've used a lot of stuff over the years. Started with the kde 3 series. I just don't really want to do a lot of fiddling anymore, and find the default Gnome workflow to be a really good fit for me.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It looks like Verhoven made that front page. Picture of our brave soldier with a puppy, "THE BUGS DECAPITATED 40 QUINTILLION BABIES"

Beyond parody

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:rizzed-up-bojo: (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

i-76. Mostly forgotten battle-driving sim where the cars feel heavy. Plays more like an old tank sim than gta. Retro 70s theming.

Captain's Chair Build in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Cool. I'd love it if you post the final product when you're done.

Seems like a cool project. It always felt like a captain's chair to me.

Captain's Chair Build in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Holy moly, I have a very similar chair but in red. I just got it so I could have a robust chair at bar-height.

My problem is that removing the footrest portion leaves mounting brackets poking out at whichever point you remove it. So I'm particularly interested in your process for chewing through any metal bits around there.

I don't have trek-thematic advice, but I can tell you that little chrome armrest bit is the perfect size to rest a normal-sized trackball.

I want to find a cringe bedding for when my friend visits. Any suggestions? in c/[email protected]

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I want to find a cringe bedding for when my friend visits. Any suggestions? (hexbear.net)

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I'm looking for queen size. Here's the best I could find so far:

Any ideas what else to look for?

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My nephew is crying now, because he didn't like my drumkit. (hexbear.net)

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ingrate. my sister is mad at me now.

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Wild what people voluntarily disclose on social media. (edit: check his replies in the body too.) (hexbear.net)

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omg his followups are even more grotesque

Don't worry, it was god saving him actually

goes on to compare her to a donkey

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Has Google navigation made cities worse? (hexbear.net)

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Real question, I'd like to hear takes.

For years I lived in the same place so I knew how to get around. I also got around on bike/foot/transit. I rarely needed a navigation app.

But I recently moved to a new area, and the logistics of the move required me to get a car. With all the new places to learn, I started leaning on google nav more.

But every time it makes a route for me, it seems like it's fighting against city planners. It will constantly direct me through little 1 way streets through residential neighborhoods if it thinks it can save .1 mile or 30 seconds.

As a concrete example, in my neighborhood the city planners have set up one road as the obvious exit, all the other roads have no lights or restrictions on turns. Navigation never uses that route, and prefers darting across lanes of traffic and turning during times it's not allowed.

My partner and I joke about how many uturns it suggests. There's a route I sometimes take where it suggests I make a 270 degree turn off a highway exit across 4 lanes of traffic.

In short, google drives like an asshole. It makes erratic decisions. And it routes people down roads that aren't meant to carry lots of traffic.

I'm sure there's some counterargument that this kind of navigation is load balancing and more efficient. But to me, I feel it makes things unpredictable and less pleasant to exist in a neighborhood.

is there any consensus on this stuff?

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Glory lost (hexbear.net)

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