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  • At some point we had to throw away all our plastic containers as it become insane to match them. We bought one kind only. Tr8ed to go for the perfect one size for all in good quality. No more issues ever since. Same with socks. We bough one kind black and one kind white. No more matching. I recommend it for everyone.

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  • I used to get it why people install chrome. It had a specific look and feel. It's no more, all browsers (except some startups making up the rules) look the same. Its a full page window with tabs on the top. Vanilla FF looks the same.

  • Sewing @sh.itjust.works dansity @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    Metallic thread jammimg

    I have trouble with a metallic thread. Superior Threads japanese brand wt40. Upper thread already set to no 1 tightness. Machine is Singer Legacy Any suggestion appreciated. !

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  • Google's approach of just monitoring your behaviour in the browser is still the most humane and it pisses me off that you literally have to serve all your data to them so they can even decide to serve you with their ads.

  • What is the easiest way to try all the DEs?

    As title says. Obviously I could setup different virtual machines or spend the time and install all the DEs in one VM if it is even possible without breaking the OS. I'm wondering if there is an already made iso or something that installs all the maintained DEs for trying.

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  • I'm in and out with linux for the last few years. It really boils down what do you want to do on your PC. If you are into online gaming or you need some specialized software for your work you are pretty much better stay on windows. However for general use its awsome. I have replaced many of my software even on windows to foss tools. There is a small learning curve and you will certainly need the terminal in the beginning but overall not terrible. For me it was a pleasant experience seeing mostly everything works without effort. The two most popular desktops (KDE and Gnome) are fairly polished and you question a lot of things in windows after using them. In general using linux a bit gives you a new perspective on how to use a PC.

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  • This is only true for webservers. If you check all the servers in the world windows server is leading. There are industries that work with windows mostly like factories, banking, any office business in the world.

  • U.S. weapons makers tell investors to expect big profits from Israel’s war
  • Any product fabrication is so much more than the actual product. For a weapon you need steel, machinery, oil etc. Technically the petrol station near the factory also profits from the weapon factory. Where do you draw the line who can profit from it? Until it is legal to produce any weapon someone somewhere in the chain will profit from it. In a capitalist setting this cannot just vanish.

  • Microvawe transformer spotwelder. Is there a way to improve it?

    Hi, I have built a microvawe transformer spotwelder, I have put a single turn of welder wire for in the secondary and I'm timing it with arduino. Worth mentioning it was/is a 230V transformer. Electrodes are sharpened copper rods. I believe the voltage is still high. The spotwelds it produces are slightly discolored and not as strong as you would expect. Is this design fundamentally borked? Is there anything else I can make to make it better? Photo from test stage before it was built into a project box, it is less "shocking" now. !

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    Someone asked how I make iced coffee. Here is my simplistic way

    Step 1: pull espresso on ice of your favourite grind Step 2: top up with milk Setp 3: drink ! !

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    How do you even start with breaking up with your gmail?

    I have this bad feeling daily that for whatever reason I loose access to my gmail. Don't think of anything shady but simply I just loose it. There is a very small chance to it but still. You can read the stories that people uploaded their family photos to google drive and the algorithm marks their kids photos CP and they loose their account. Or maybe your email is used to spam or anything similar. There is no way to talk to google support, it is an endless loop of help pages. I just can't live with this. I know billions of people do, but I cannot. My email address is registered to hundreds of websites including government and banking sites. You could literally destroy me financially or other ways by just gaining login to my gmail. Google could cause me HUGE problems by locking me out. I decided to start transitioning to an email with my own domain. I have the doimain, I have the email client setup. So what do you do with your existing stuff? Most websites dont even let you change the email. I have to take appointment in government offices to change my email. It seems like a giant task.

    Have anyone took this leap?

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    What do you do when a great book has an absolutely uninteresting storyline?

    I always say to myself that it is not worth to force books through. I do like 1/5th then I drop it if it did not catch me. Now I'm reading Pandora's star which is a great scifi book and sandwitched inbetween the great scfi chapters there is this uninteresting detective storyline with zero scifi, people talking to eachother about uninteresting stuff. I found myself forcing the book and questioned multiple times if I should continue. Then again a great chapter comes with interesting stuff I get hooked and within an eyeglance I'm back into this people talking each other for 30 pages. I will decide if I keep going or not, maybe I try to force it throgh the base storyline is keeping me hooked. Did you had any similar experience? What did you do?

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    Stereo audio only on MiBox S

    I'm running both plex and jellyfin on the same server with same media and same tv box. My hardware setup is ok, I have surround audio with plex on my avr via toslink. I'm trying to transition to jellyfin but I need to iron these out. Audio in jellyfin is stereo only. In my jellyfin server I have audio set to max 5.1 channels, on the android tv app the audio is set to direct. When I start a movie with plex the avr receives signal and switches to dolby digital or dts mode. When I start playback with jellyfin with the same media the avr switches to stereo. I cannot find any other settings to tweak. Please let me know what am I missing.

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