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    The raccoon tail lets you fly. The Tanooki suit lets you turn into a statue, but also happens to have a raccoon tail so it also lets you fly.

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  • business Business Tupperware, company known for its plastic containers, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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    politics politics Protesters outside New York Times demand newspaper 'stop normalizing Trump'
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    worldnews World News UN votes 124-14 to strip Israel of right to self-defense in Gaza, West Bank
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    When it comes to Israel, they have very little incentive in changing their ways when the US refuses to join the rest of the world in condemning them.

    Still, there are 124 countries that made it clear that they think what Israel is doing is wrong.

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  • memes memes My gaming PC is a beast
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    Some games are also just well-optimized. Definitely more of a gaming GPU, but when I had a 1070Ti in my rig, I could run Doom 2016 at 4k at well over 60fps

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  • worldnews World News UN votes 124-14 to strip Israel of right to self-defense in Gaza, West Bank
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    2 days ago 98%

    The UN is a diplomatic organization. It is a forum to discuss things and literally has no actual means to enforce anything. Its goal is not enforcement, it's to discuss.

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    They did that to Hezbollah in Lebanon, not to Palestinians.

    Apparently they actually installed explosives into the pagers themselves.

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  • world World News Hezbollah blames Israel after deadly pager explosions in Lebanon
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    According to the article:

    But a former British Army munitions expert, who asked not to be named, told the BBC the pagers would have likely been packed with between 10g and 20g of military-grade high explosive, hidden inside a fake electronic component.

    I don't know what the actual truth of the situation is, but something's fucky. I can't imagine how Israel could plant explosives in those pagers. And overheating batteries would burst into flames rather than literally explode, so that would probably be mentioned somewhere.

    Israel's doing lots of fucked up shit lately, but I can't see how this one would be their fault.

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  • aboringdystopia A Boring Dystopia Wouldn't this mean that a majority of patients that need this are unable to buy it? Meaning that there's less customers? Just a thought
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    Because the insurance company already paid them way more than it's really worth. And if the insurance company has agreed to pay that much, it's because they're making more than enough profit off their "service" to everyone that they can afford to pay it.

    If your medicine used to cost $60 and now costs $5000 thst's because the insurance company knows they can get that money from its customers.

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  • greentext Greentext Anon explains the 2nd amendment
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    According to your own link, the USA is not even in the top 10, which are actually all in Europe.

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  • comicstrips Comic Strips That's what little curds are made of [The Buckets]
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    In Quebec we often call them "crottes de fromage" which literally translates to cheese turds.

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  • raccoons Raccoons Ever seen a partially shaved raccoon? Now you have!
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    technology Technology iFixit wants to fix the soldering iron
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    1 week ago 100%

    I've been using a Pinecil which is USB-C powered. It heats up in seconds and the temp can be adjusted easily. The big plus to me is how small it is. It's so much easier to handle than a standard iron, and the tips are push-in and can be locked with a screw so they're easy to swap.

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  • usa United States | News & Politics Whenever illegal votes happen, it keeps being a Republican
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    1 week ago 100%

    The only reason they might think it's happening is because they're wondering how they can get away with it themselves. They believe that if they're thinking about it, everyone else is too.

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  • privacy Privacy Ethernet port being used while PC is turned off?
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    Fast boot is just Windows logging you out of your session, then hibernating.

    Sleep is keeping the computer in a low-power state with RAM powered on..

    Both of these have been known to result in laptops powering on unbeknownst to their owners to perform updates and remain powered on afterward.

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  • privacy Privacy Ethernet port being used while PC is turned off?
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    Windows by default doesn't fully power off when you tell it to shut down. It goes into hibernation and keeps the network open for updates and will sometimes power back on to complete these updates.

    If you want to fully power off, hold the left shift key when you click shut down. Or turn the power off elsewhere (eg. psu or power bar.) I'm sure there's another way to do it, or to prevent the behavior entirely.

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  • retrogaming RetroGaming New Cheat Code Discovered in Sega Saturn Doom After 27 Years
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    IIRC Doom didn't have a skybox per se, just parallax ceiling textures. You could put that texture on floors or ceilings and it would show the sky texture that would not be attached to the walls.

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  • news News Right-wing influencers were duped to work for covert Russian influence operation, US says
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    nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee?
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    politics politics Ken Paxton Threatens to Block Democrats From Registering to Vote
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    He doesn't think non-citizens are trying to vote, he's just trying to limit the number of people in majority-Democrat counties voting. The whole voter fraud story is bullshit. They just want their own uneducated people to buy it.

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  • politics politics Ex-Porn Shop Staff Say Mark Robinson [Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina] Was A Regular. He Denies It.
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    technology Technology OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
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    There are exclusions to copyrights accepted under fair use which could easily be tightened if major copyright holders (like Disney) have their way.

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  • youshouldknow You Should Know YSK: About The Sad bastard Cookbook, when time, energy, money, or skill is preventing someone from cooking their own meals!
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    If you're looking for a fun Youtube channel to folliw, check out Sorted Food. They do a lot of silly food challenge videos, but a lot of them have some really good lessons for the average know-nothing cook.

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  • youshouldknow You Should Know YSK: About The Sad bastard Cookbook, when time, energy, money, or skill is preventing someone from cooking their own meals!
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    youshouldknow You Should Know YSK: About The Sad bastard Cookbook, when time, energy, money, or skill is preventing someone from cooking their own meals!
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    You know you were gonna have a second serving anyway, may as well just skip the trouble and have both at once.

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  • technology Technology OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
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    It does. If the AI firms lose, the laws around copyrights tighten and major copyright holders profit. If they win, they get to do what they please and nobody can stop them. Either way, the public loses.

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  • monkeyspaw The Monkey's Paw I wish my house cleaned itself
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    asklemmy Ask Lemmy What's valuable, but not worth stealing even if you could get away with it?
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    technology Technology Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all
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    I was talking about Appx. I haven't used Windows in a while, but that was how I got rid of Cortana. The key part was the read-only file named after the folder that couldn't be replaced.

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  • technology Technology Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all
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    Windows does have its own command-line package manager. I don't know if it can remove Recall, but last I checked it could remove Cortana. It would just get reinstalled soon after, but that could be prevented with some file-naming trickery. If you give a file the same name as the folder used to have and make it read-only, it couldn't remake the folder and wouldn't reinstall.

    I wouldn't be surprised if you can still do that now.

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  • memes memes Power budgeting for new PC build
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    I just realized that my PC doesn't have any RGB. My previous one had it on basically everything but the RAM. Now it's just my keyboard which is set to white.

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    Gamescope and PS4 controller

    I just bought a nice OLED monitor and I'm trying to take advantage of it to play my games in HDR. If I run my games in gamescope, then HDR runs fine but my PS4 controller doesn't work. If I play without gamescope, the controller works, but HDR does not. I've been trying to figure this out for a bit, and some people have been having some luck with the -e flag, which does nothing for me.I've tried Steam Input and overlay in all combinations of enabled and disabled and I've tried in big picture/gamepadui. Either way I have to choose between HDR and the controller. Has anyone gotten this to work?

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    3DPrinting scutiger 1 year ago 100%
    Object proportions are off in the slicer compared to Blender

    I modeled an object in Blender intending to print it, but when I import it into PrusaSlicer or Cura, the dimensions don't quite match. In Blender, the dimensions are 178mm x 142mm, but when I import it into Cura or PrusaSlicer, it imports it as 180 x 138mm. I can manually adjust the dimensions, but why is this happening? And will it mess up my fit in the end? Who do I trust here? I don't want to waste hours printing for nothing.

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    Music scutiger 1 year ago 97%
    Khruangbin @ Villain | Pitchfork Live www.youtube.com

    I've been listening to this a bunch lately. This is the cleanest-sounding concert recording I've ever found on youtube.

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    Malaysian Food scutiger 1 year ago 100%
    Any chefs or connoisseurs to tell me if I'm crazy for this idea?

    I want to put grilled paneer, arugula, and salmon roe on a cracker as an appetizer or early snack. I feel like the salty/umami roe with the bitter/peppery freshness of arugula on the grilled paneer would taste nice. In terms of texture there would be the chewy/squeaky cheese, the crispy cracker, and the pop of the roe. I'm thinking a cracker like a triscuit, but I feel like they're too thick for what I'm trying to put together. Anyway, before I spend time and money to make a concoction that tastes like garbage, does anyone have any opinions or suggestions?

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    3DPrinting scutiger 1 year ago 100%
    What can I do about internal walls that can't be seen?

    I have a model I want to print that has multiple layers of internal walls. They are useless and can't be seen in the finished product, like a hollow cylinder inside another hollow cylinder. I can't seem to figure out how to prevent the slicer from including those useless parts. I've tried with Cura and PrusaSlicer. Is there another tool I should be using for this?

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    Automating Spotify downloads?

    Is there a way to automatically locally save Spotify music as I listen to it? Or to access/convert the files that Spotify saves for offline playback?

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    3DPrinting scutiger 1 year ago 100%
    Need help with bed leveling my Ender 3 S1 Pro

    I just got my printer, got it all set up, followed all the instructions, and it looks like it should be working, but it's not. I've gone through the auto bed leveling, then adjusted the height with a piece of paper. Now, trying to run my first test print, the only thing the printer will do is attempt to auto-level itself. If I let it go, it will just do it over and over. If I hit the stop button, it gives me error message 203 (Probing Failed), the screen locks up, and the printer keeps attempting to auto-level over and over. The only thing I can do is turn it off. What am I missing? Edit: So it turns out the included test files are no good. I downloaded a benchy and it printed just fine.

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    3DPrinting scutiger 1 year ago 100%
    How do you bond parts together and hide the seams?

    When you make something that's too big for your printer, how do you hide the seams from bonding when aesthetics are a priority?

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    Hot Peppers scutiger 1 year ago 94%
    My hydroponic habanero experiment

    This is one of two habanero plants I started as an experiment a couple months ago. This one has about 40 peppers growing on it right now and a ton of open flowers. It spent most of its time in a tent, but I brought it outside about a month ago, and it's taking quite a liking to real sunshine.

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    Steam scutiger 1 year ago 88%
    Steam Link over wifi

    Anyone have any experience playing over Steam Link on wifi? It seems like no matter what I do, the performance is really shitty. Both the host and the client are in line of sight of the router, and I can get 500+ mbps and my latency seems good, but the performance is garbage. As soon as I go wired, I can get great performance at 100mbps or less. Is there a good way to mitigate this? Am I doing something wrong?

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    Subnautica scutiger 1 year ago 100%
    Spoiler - Got a quest line blocking bug in Below Zero, anyone see this before?

    I found the Kharaa antidote in the pengling cave, and I got the voice lines confirming it, but it never unlocked the blueprint for it and I can't craft it. Is there a way around this, or am I missing something else? I didn't want to look up spoilers, but I couldn't find the injectable vessel after I found the vaccine itself, so I looked it up and it said it unlocks after you find the antidote in the cave and you have to craft it.

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    techsupport scutiger 1 year ago 100%
    [Solved] PC partially powering off

    This is new since yesterday, I don't know what's happening. My PC has been partially powering off suddenly and without warning. My displays lose input, my peripherals turn off, and the computer stops responding to everything. It's still "on" with fans spinning and the power button's LED is lit, but won't respond to holding down the power button to force it to shut off. The only thing I can do is turn it off at the power supply or unplug it. I thought it was a one-time thing, but it happened again today. I've never seen this before. Anyone have any insight into what's happening? Edit: I ran a memory test which came out clear. I ran stress tests on CPU & GPU, which didn't cause any issues. My temperatures have always been fine, with nothing ever going above 75 degrees. Eventually, the BIOS lost track of the date/time so that pretty much gave it away. The computer eventually stopped booting entirely, so I replaced the CMOS battery and everything seems to be running fine for now. For the record, replacing the battery on an ITX build without taking the whole thing apart is somewhat of a pain.

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    Lemmy.world Support scutiger 1 year ago 100%
    Pages automatically scrolling back up

    If I open any post that has comments and scroll down, after about 5 seconds, the page just scrolls back up to the top of the page. I think the page is not just scrolling back up but actually refreshing. Is this normal behavior? It has only been happening for me for since today.

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    Steam scutiger 1 year ago 100%
    Steam has forcefully re-enabled my chat and I can't disable it again

    Does anyone know how to turn off chat so it doesn't pop up when I open steam? The latest update has re-enabled it for me, and the option to not open it doesn't seem to exist anymore. I have it set to not sign in, which it doesn't, but it still opens the chat box every time.

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