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  • Europe isn't as brainwashed as the US when it comes to communism. The reasons the EU doesn't want to rely as much on China is because of the human rights violations, lack of ethics, lack of social provisions, environmental issues, broken agreements and abuse of power for example.

    It's a really nuanced and complex issue, just shouting communism bad seems like a strawman that has nothing to do with the real issues.

    Large parts of Europe have social systems that in the US would be labeled as communism. There are places that investigate and have run trials on things like UBI. There's more to the world than communism and capitalism. And for my own two cents, both systems are deeply flawed.

  • Aren't most Christians in the US Protestants? Especially the Evangelical Protestants he's always targeting? Does Trump even know what kind of Christians he's trying to please?

    I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't know not all Christians actually follow the pope

  • My kitchen faucet is like this. It's one of those with single little stalk to regulate both temperature and pressure. Not only do you need to get it precisely right for the correction temperature, you also need to get it right for the pressure. Not far enough up and you get a little drizzle, too far and it splashes everywhere. And the stalk is kind of sticky as well, as you push it there is no movement until suddenly it moves. So making small adjustments is really hard

  • When I saw the mirrors in Duke3D for the first time I wondered how they pulled that off. I had made a couple of Wolfenstein like tech demos at the time, going off the published stuff about the algorithms and techniques used by Carmack and Romero at the time (groundbreaking stuff). So I delved into it at the time and the way they did it was to have an identical but mirrored room behind the mirror. The mirror was just a transparent wall. And they had a sprite spawn in that looked like Duke and was controlled by the player.

    Mirrors in games are hard.

  • IIRC that was part of the mission? They wanted to push themselves to see what could and could not be done with a very strict budget and cheap commonly available parts and tools.

  • Yeah it is kind of the opposite. If you are the computer guy in your friend group or family, everyone asks you about it and expects you to help and know everything. No I design machines for factories, I don't know how to fix your printer.

    But with car people it's the other way around it seems, they always want to fix shit for you, even if it isn't really the best option.

  • Difference being I'm not a car guy, all the car people I know do their own MOT. I think a chief mechanic for an F1 team qualifies as a car person. And I still take it to people I know, I said the mechanic lives 2 streets over.

  • Whilst I 100% believe this situation can happen and people working around cars are sometimes very sexist, it's total BS.

    ALL the friends I have that work on cars, be it for work or for pleasure, do their own MOT. Not like literally do it yourself, only certified shops and people can do it. But you take it to the guy you know. Beforehand you know what needs to be done, cause everyone knows the regulations and what to look out for. Then when that's done, you take it to the guy, give him a case of beers and you have your MOT right there. If the chief mechanic wants to go get MOT for their car, she would take it to a shop where she knows everyone and everyone will know her.

    My father in law used to be a mechanic (now retired) and my brother in law is an engineer. They always get mad at me if I let some local shop work on my car. They say just bring it to us, we can do it for you. But they are about an hour and a half away from me and anything we do on my car involves me figuring out on my driveway exactly what needs to be done, taking everything apart and taking pictures and then buying the components. Then driving to them once I get the components in and spend all day drinking, talking and if I'm lucky we get the car done as well. It's a lot of fun, but sometimes I just want to get the car fixed without thinking about it. A local mechanic I know lives 2 streets over, so he picks up my car and uses it to go to work. Fixes what needs to be fixed and drops off the car when he gets home. My father in law says just drop off the car at his place and drive his car for a while, so he can work on my car. But his car is a restored vintage Mercedes and it's his baby, I absolutely hate driving in that because I'm scared I will break something. I'm a pretty good driver and I know how to handle old cars, and I haven't damaged it yet, but driving that car gets my butt clenched all the way.

  • When my grandpa used to visit every Tuesday, he would join us for dinner, then some coffee after dinner. We would sit on the couch and chat a bit and at some point grandpa would fall asleep. The rest of us just went about our evening, watching some TV, playing a game, just chatting or whatever. After an hour or so, he would wake up, slap his knee, tell us it was a great evening and head home.

    It was actually kind of sweet how that old man would fall asleep. That's why you don't fucking elect grandpa to run the country.

  • As a Nest owner I agree for a smart thing it's remarkably dumb.

    I love the way it looks and the UI is really good, for something you can only turn and push, the thing is very easy to operate. However when it comes to actual functionality, the "smart" thermostat I had in the 90s had more options.

    Features I think it should have but simply doesn't:

    • Differentiate between setting a temporary temperature and something permanent till I tell it otherwise. Or with a preset end time. Now when you manually set a temperature and a scheduled temperature comes up, it overrides the set temperature always.
    • Multiple profiles and schedules. Including different eco temperatures. I operate my house very different in the different seasons, this makes having a single schedule annoying. Or for example with work from home where I want to switch for that day.
    • Being able to schedule temperatures on an actual date instead of in the set schedule. When I know I normally don't have the heater on because I'm at work, but due to a holiday or something I'm going to be at home and have friends or family over, I want to make sure the house is set to the correct temperature.
    • More UI customization options, it's fine I guess, but why aren't there like a dozen themes I can choose from? And why can't I choose what information is and isn't displayed?
    • Better integration with outside weather services, for example displaying the weather, but also driving the heater based on the weather.
    • Because I'm a nerd, more control over things like ramping speeds and technical integrations. For example my heater thinks a certain parameter is set by the thermostat, but the Nest thinks it's set by the heater. So it doesn't get set which can lead to weird behavior. I needed to set an override on the heater to set it from there. But I've also seen people put in special gateways to control it.

    That said I'm still happy with it, mostly because of how it looks and it works well enough. I have it setup in Home Assistant and that can do a lot of what I mentioned.

    Also the whole "smart" thing they advertised with saying it learns your schedule and perfectly automatically manages your home optimally didn't work for shit. At least for me it was just a mess.

    The thing is so nice and can do so much. But then in the software they just did the bare basics and called it a day. Probably different teams that worked on the different aspects and the people doing the design, hardware and software on the device did a much better job than the people who did the test of the software.

  • One thing to note, if you are using UEFI this is very unlikely to happen. It was designed from the start to have multiple boot options and Windows itself often has multiple entries. It is very rare for a Windows update to mess with any other boot options in UEFI.

  • You can just use an activation script. Even though technically Windows won't be activated using the OEM license in a VM, the license is still present on the machine. So legally Windows is still licensed. To get around the thing not automatically activating, an activation script is an easy fix.

    This is a good activation script:

    https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

  • Tip of my Joystick - Find games by describing it. @retrolemmy.com
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    Top down view racing game

    I've played a demo of this game or a Shareware version, I never had the full game. It was on one of those 1000 shareware games CDs. It's a top down racing game with a gritty sort of vibe, a bit dark. As you raced there were pickups and bonus items and I'm pretty sure you could fire weapons at other racers. It was a single player game. It was top down in that semi 3D kind of way, but I think the cars were meant as full sized cars, not a micro machines kind of thing.

    The one unique feature that never let me pinpoint exactly what game it was, was this very specific sound effect when getting a certain pick up. A voice would say "Booster", but it was pronounced more like "Boostah".

    There were jumps on the game and one way to kill other racers was to jump on top of them. I think the track had multiple routes you could take.

    I think because of the shareware version I had I only had one track, which was kinda dark, like maybe a cave. And the surroundings were rocks. I think there were als

    Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    The Truth About Climate Change That I’ve Avoided For So Long… | GEO GIRL

    cats @lemmy.world
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    Since we're posting cats, this is Pyxel

    She died about 10 years ago. I love and have loved all the pets I've ever had, but Pyxel was something special. She was very headstrong and did whatever she felt like, getting pissed off if you did something she didn't like. But when she was in the mood she would be the sweetest thing in the world.

    She was saved from the dumpster, along with her mother and brother. The mother had to be put down and a lot of the brothers and sisters didn't make it from being dumped in a trash bag. But Pyxel and her brother made it and we adopted them from the rescue when they were very young still.

    I remember Pyxel sleeping for hours in my lap, or in the cat bed on my desk. When I was working from home, she slept in the cat bed, till she got fed up, went for a drink and a snack only to get back and jump in my lap because it was her time and she would let me know it.

    Still miss her every day.

    Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    You know what you did

    RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Rescued old CRT

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    Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users.

    Rescued old CRT monitor

    Rescued old CRT I put a lot of work in. Was totally dead when I got it, rescued it to be almost perfect again.

    It still has an intermittent horizontal size issue and the power button has some cosmetic wear. But at least the power button works, it used to only work when you would hold it down.

    Be sure to enable the audio for some good retro tunes coming from the monitor.

    Risa @startrek.website
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    He is fully equipped

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    Never forget the mantra of every big company out there

    Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The only reason it's Wednesday, is because we all agree it is

    Lord of the memes @midwest.social
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    Having an elf in battle is OP

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    Imho the doctor is one sexy mf

    Risa @startrek.website
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    Girl talk

    Risa @startrek.website
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    Star Trek needs more cowbell

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    Which rule of acquisition covers memes?

    Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    Rip Tasha