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Why are the webcam/microphone switches red when the component is disabled and black when enabled (instead of the other way around)?
  • The red light on a camera also means it's "recording". Which is the reason the record-action in audio/video software is still a red circle to this day. This being about audio and video recording capability makes this another way to look at it, in a not complicated way.

    What in trying to say is that what's intuitive depends on your perspective. Most of all what you've encountered before that's similar. It had nothing to do with overcomplicating anything.

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    Satisfactory: PCGamer's review [90/100]
  • There's also mods in satisfactory. For example "satisfactory plus" is essentially a full rework, increasing complexity by 2-3x. Obviously needs to be updated for 1.0 first though... Just in case you need something until factorio dlc at the end of October.

    Edit: if you're familiar with factorio mods, it's similar to and inspired by bobs+angels.

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    Can somebody solve this puzzle?
  • Any password manager should be able to "type in" the password. Or be a browser plugin that doesn't rely on copy pasting, but use other mechanisms to inject it directly into the field.

    But yes, if that's their online portal, I am not kidding I would change banks.

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    Spotify wins case over 'billions' of Eminem streams
  • That story is genuinely hilarious. And from the judges summary judgement it really does sound like the license holder of the disputed songs did some legal juggling just to be able to play the victim and sue Spotify. What an odd business plan...

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    Reports that Capri Sun is phasing out pouches for bottles is ruining childhoods everywhere
  • Good job with reading you did there. Your didn't even make it 8 words in and already decided to comment. Maybe give it another go, if you dare, and try getting a little further this time.

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    Reports that Capri Sun is phasing out pouches for bottles is ruining childhoods everywhere
  • Good job with reading you did there. Your didn't even make it 8 words in and already decided to comment. Maybe give it another go, if you dare, and try getting a little further this time.

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    Reports that Capri Sun is phasing out pouches for bottles is ruining childhoods everywhere
  • That's not actually a solution when talking single-use either. Remaking the bottles from recycled glass is incredibly energy intensive and not an environmentally friendly process either. Multi-use bottles are much better, but the cleaning required also isn't that simple and also relatively energy intensive (far from remaking the bottles of course).

    There's also practical downsides to glass (heavy, breakable), but those are subjective and their relevance highly depends on the use case.

    Ideally, we wouldn't buy stuff to drink in any kind of bottle, but just use tap water. possibly just buy some concentrated stuff to then make your actual drink at home. Nothing beats the effectiveness of transporting water through a simple pipe, but that isn't even possible everywhere in the world due to drinking water quality issues...

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    How can I show that a given open-source project does not exist yet?
  • One of the basic rules is that "you can't prove a negative". You can only prove it by it contradicting something that has proof, which isn't gonna work for something like this. As a plain example: you can't prove you were not at McDonald's at 8 o'clock last night, but if there's video of you being somewhere else at that time it proves it only because it would require you to be in two places at once.

    So the best you'll probably do is promising really hard that you did your best to look for it? The problem is that it may well exist, but hasn't gotten any traction and might be a 1 person thing in some repo somewhere, undocumented and badly searchable with a bad project name.

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    Is this an accurate diagram?
  • The "key" of an m.2 defines what the pins mean, basically what signal they carry (PCIe, USB, ...). There's a nice table here, if you scroll down a bit. Some are extensions to others, and are pin compatible (meaning the things they have in common are on the same pins).

    A key and E key are very similar, while E just provides a few more interfaces, but importantly A doesn't provide anything the E doesn't. So any card that can work in A can also work in E. This is why A+E is so common: they don't require the Mainboard to provide E, only A, but both will work so both notches are present.

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    Heidelberg: Radfahrer überholen kostet 70 Euro
  • Definitiv. Rotes Fahrzeug links heißt dieses darf nicht überholen (zumeist ein Auto). Schwarzes Fahrzeug rechts ist das, welches nicht überholt werden darf (ebenfalls zumeist ein Auto). Ist also wirklich intuitiv, und insbesondere die schon genannten Varianten (Überholverbot für PKW oder LKW) sind auch recht häufig und üblich.

    Gibt echt keinen Grund, das Schild nicht zu verstehen, ob mir oder ohne Führerschein. Auch ohne muss man sich mit Verkehrszeichen vertraut machen, wenn man am Verkehr Teil nimmt.

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    Pi Zero Webcam
  • I think he meant you can use the android phone as a webcam for Linux. There are apps that let you connect via WiFi, and it essentially proxies the camera out.

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    Yesterday the price of electricity in Finland was negative 1.5 cents / kWh
  • "just export it" sounds so simple, but the required infrastructure is actually incredibly expensive. Also most of Europe is already pretty tightly connected and trade does happen to a significant degree, but I have no idea what the actual percentage is or if it's used to balance oversupply and/or shortages. Kinda hard to find reliable sources for that.

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    Critical 1Password flaws may allow hackers to snatch your passwords (CVE-2024-42219, CVE-2024-42218)
  • In this context "self host" can ironically mean using a cloud service for hosting. You can use a file based password manager and just sync the database. Solutions like KeePass have apps for many platforms, and they can often even directly load from cloud storage, like Google drive, OneDrive or DropBox. The password database is strongly encrypted, and even if your storage gets compromised, your passwords are still safe (assuming a good password or some then better security was used to encrypt it).

    You give up the convenience of having a single service and having to get each device to access the file. But that's it. It's not that hard and so much better than a password service, even if just for their attack surface, or the "likely target" these are.

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  • lemmy.world UPDATE! Fewer than 20% of Lemmy Apps display posts accurately - Lemmy.World

    > Updated! Updates are shown in quote text like this. Some scores are updated following app updates. # An Apps Experiment ## Introduction This is an experiment I performed out of curiosity, and I have a few big disclaimers at the bottom. Basically, I’ve seen a lot of comments recently about one app ...

    The linked post essentially performed a benchmark of lemmy apps and if they properly display the formating options available. Sync got 3rd last place, position 18 out of 20 apps, with a score of 6.9 out of 10. There's a comment that essentially contains the test set. I hope we get some fixes, cause some of the problems have been around for a while.

    In my personal experience the issues with spoiler tags, and some of the embedded images and their sizes is rather annoying. For example this comment shows perfectly fine on desktop, but becomes a garbled mess on sync (as you can tell by my comment, blaming the bot). Also note that while sync technically gets 3/3 for the images, the last image should be text-sized between the "arrows". It isn't, it's just huge (and consequently a pixelated mess).

    Edit: fixed link to example comment for spoiler.

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