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My smartwatch broke and I'm heartbroken
  • Okay i dont want to shill on lemmy of all places, but i personally use a very similar watch i chose for the same reasons as you: i wanted an actual, physical wristwatch, with basic smart functionalities and a long battery life.

    I settled on the scanwatch light made by withings. Looks like a classic wristwatch with a small black and white smart display as well as the standard health functions such as an activity tracker/reminder and pulse meter. The battery holds for 2-4 weeks on a single charge, depending on your use case.

    I have had it for about six months now and am pretty satisfied. Only drawbacks are the need for the proprietary companion app and the somewhat archaic charger you have to clamp the watch into, though due to the long battery life you very rarely have to deal with that.

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    We need to stop using /s unless there is a need.
  • Personally i just go with whatever conveys that i am not being serious, such as any of these 🙄🤧🙃🤔😏.

    Though i suppose i should say i am not 12 and have no idea what the cool kids use, probably 💀 or so

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    One big happy family.
  • "always" in this case is when you have two or more gpus in your system, which limits the ability to "just" run a vm considerably.

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    Is "retard" a slur?
  • This is important. While we as a society have learned to be more inclusive than ever before, behind all that pretense we forget that what people generally consider as "retarded" isnt desirable. It is a genuine developmental impairment that negatively affects the individuals cognitive abilities. Not one parent in the world is glad their kid is special. They may love and support them just the same because they aren't fucking ghouls, but if they had one wish no questions asked I'm sure virtually all of them would wish for their child to be "normal".

    And therein lies the truth/problem. We use retarded as a slur because it describes a condition of inferiority. Shifting the window of acceptable speech will not change this, only rephrase it. Policing language never truly works, eventually a different word for the same meaning takes hold, so all this does is spin the wheel of synonyms.

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    TIL: males have 25% more neurons in the visual cortex than females
  • I dont think we need to tread so lightly around this topic, since we already know that brain mass does not directly tie to intelligence from the simple fact that women have smaller brains on average but are not less mentally capable than men.

    Nobody arguing or even just reading this in good faith would try to frame this as women being mentally inferior.

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    They were just having some innocent fun
  • Wait, are you saying inebriated people can't consent to fuck, but can consent to get killed? That sounds like an incredibly stupid (legal) take.

    If people cannot consent to some overall inconsequential intercourse (any unintended consequence can be alleviated medically), why on earth should they be able to consent to get shot at, which can very possibly lead to permanent injury or death?

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    German inflation rate dips to lowest level in more than three years
  • The slowest loss of buying power in the last three years means very little when it was preceded by absurd inflation since around the covid lockdowns, is my point. Yes it is good news, but often deceiving good news. People dont have more money, their money is just worth slightly more for a slightly longer period of time.

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    German inflation rate dips to lowest level in more than three years
  • Price for arbitrary good x ("agx") three years ago: 10 currency

    Agx price two years ago: 20 currency

    Agx price one year ago: 30 currency

    Agx price now: 35 currency

    What good news 🥰

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  • Not defending the practice in a combat scenario because that's obviously dumb especially in the uber warfare that's happening in 40k. Virus bombs that can destroy entire ecosystems in proverbial seconds, rounds and shells with more diameter than a fucking bus, chaos sorcery of the worst kind is a frequent encounter as well.

    But for propaganda material it makes a lot of sense I'd say, the masses need to see their heroes' faces. There are also some marine chapters that use mutated or otherwise extreme gene seed when making their warriors, for example one chapter becomes a lot more animalistic in its physical characteristics and the helmet negatively impacts their altered natural senses.

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  • Akshully, a significant portion of them prefers to fight without a helmet where possible, for various reasons such as chapter culture or certain gene seed variants. The primarchs are also often depicted without helmets, but considering the lore is essentially imperial propaganda it might make sense to depict them that way for PR reasons.

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    Capitalist efficiency
  • But then why all the elaborate, intrusive and likely expensive (for the corp) user profiling? If the most effective advertising is just blasting random mildly related suggestions at the consumer that seems a huge waste of money.

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    House spiders
  • Speaking of, is there something natural that I could spray or put out to deter spiders from setting up shop in my place? I dont want to kill them or anything, and also know they are usually helpful in eating mosquitos and such but there are certain places in my apartment I want them to stay the fuck away from forever, like my bedroom.

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  • Hey guys, I am trying to get rid of my old Facebook accounts. I have not been using them for years, in fact I dont know their login data and for one i dont even have access to the email address any more.

    I am a EU citizen and attempted to instruct them to close the accounts per email, since logging in requires me to consent to them using my data or pay money (probably illegal here too).

    They sent me a quick response basically to go fuck myself, even after I offered to provide personal identification to verify I am the account owner and reminded them that I am an EU citizen and that my data is subject to those laws.

    How can i force these fuckers to comply with my request for deletion of the accounts and associated data?

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    Hey guys, I made the switch to Linux about a week ago and have mo complaints so far. Except maybe this: I can't seem to find a way in Linux to get proper loudness equalization like I got on windows.

    My issue is that I have a bunch of media, especially shows and movies, that are suffering from way too loud gunshots, explosions, music and so forth and really quiet dialogue. I know this is because sound engineers make the audio fit for cinemas and not my living room, it is a problem nonetheless.

    Under windows there is a simple toggle in even the most basic sound cards and settings called loudness equalization, that corrects those perceived differences quite effectively, which Linux is lacking. A bit of web search led me to the term ReplayGain, which seems to be the proper name for it, and I enabled it for my media from within the player apps. However it doesn't really work like i am used to.

    Sounds and language constantly change volume mid sentence, which is very irritating to me. ReplayGain also doesn't really help avoiding those sudden bursts of loudness, I still blast awake my neighbors on accident when watching a move later at night.

    Is there some way to get at that windows audio codec or whatever they use, that works so much better?

    Thanks for reading

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    Hey guys, so i just now pulled the trigger, formatted my windows installation and installed Linux for the first time. I went with bazzite, which seems very gaming friendly and idiot proof with its rollback functionality.

    Now to the issue: I have 3 drives in my computer, one 500gb SSD which i used for the OS. This one can be accessed fine as expected. The other two, a 2tb SSD and 1tb HDD however, dont. I cant seem to find a way to access them, and i have all my media on there / want to install games onto them.

    How can i access them, and tell the OS that these two are also part of its system?

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    Hey guys, I am somewhat new to android (went straight to grapheneos) and am a bit annoyed with this widget.

    It looks good, but the skip buttons are tiny and my gorilla fingers have trouble hitting them reliably. Is there a way to change to a different layout with bigger buttons or even gesture support?

    I am aware that most music apps come with a widget for the home screen but I specifically need the one shown on the lock screen and pulldown menu to change.

    Thanks in advance!

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    I hope this is the proper place to ask, though probably only indirectly on topic for this community.

    What I am looking for is a way or tool to extract from a YouTube playlist the information which of my saved videos (usually very niche music from about a decade ago) are no longer available in it (so that I might procure them elsewhere).

    With google being google, and the condensed information of "x videos are no longer available" that is displayed, I am fairly sure the information isnt gone gone, just hidden from the user.

    Is there a way to get at that info?

    Thanks in advance

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    The civics were a tossup between shadow council and police state but I really couldn't justify not using one of the other two, they fit so well.

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    So i recently got my first android phone after having been an iphone user for years. So far i am really happy and especially enjoy finding foss alternatives to as many apps as possible.

    However i cant seem to find a gameboy emulator, one oft the things i missed on ios all those years. Mostly for gba games, maybe gbc too. Does someone here have a recommendation? All the ones i found on fdroid were incompatible.

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    I was wondering if you could add alternate icon support for the Android version, so it can be themed properly.

    Obviously this is purely cosmetic, but it would be a very nice addition

    Update for future readers: the functionality actually already exists, choose one of the themed icons for voyager from the list.

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    So it just occurred to me that during the TNG production era there is a shift in ship nomenclature:

    • TNG: The Enterprise
    • DS9: The Defiant/Yukon/Danube/etc.
    • VOY: The Voyager
    • (ENT): "Ennurprais" is all that’s left.

    Seems towards the later shows they stopped referring to the ship as a, well, ship and just addressed it as a character? Why?

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    So I recently doomscrolled imaginarystarships, and saved a few posts I liked. When I wanted to revisit those I discovered that saved posts are sorted by when they were originally posted, not when I saved them, causing some of the older images I saved to be very far down the list. This is very annoying to deal with if you (like me) sometimes go on a saving spree regarding a specific topic and would like those saves to be logically grouped together.

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    Question about the federation system

    I noticed that some instances seem to sort of shadowban users from what I presume is any instance not on a whitelist.

    This might sound like it might be regular defederation at first, but I can see or interact with their content just fine from my all feed while anytime I attempt to interact with communities on there in any way literally nothing happens, as if my contribution were invisible.

    No replies, up or downvotes, no deletion or ban. Just shouting into the void while everyone around you (from that or other whitelisted instances) is having lively discussion.

    Granted there is also the possibility that my contributions were uninteresting but my general experience is that people love to argue, or at least downvote whom they disagree with.

    Is this a thing I should be aware of? That some federated instances have unilateral shadowbans in place?

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    So I am hoping to finally get around to installing Linux for the first time. Ideally I would like to eventually replace my win10 installation with it, but for now I plan on dual booting until I am comfortable enough on Linux. This leads me to a couple questions:

    • which one is best suited for gaming? I do a couple other things as well but I would expect that any OS could deal with those. I know vaguely about proton / the steam deck improvements that trickled down, but don’t know if and how that affects different Linux versions.

    • I read some days ago that ubuntu is being used by Microsoft, does that mean it is more compatible with their other applications?

    • I also read that amd is better suited to linux because nvidia refuses to support it, which would be a happy coincidence for me because I just recently built a fully amd computer, is that actually true?

    • And lastly, provided there is even a definitive answer to my first question, where should I look to get started? I have never dealt with Linux before but would consider myself reasonably tech / computer savvy.

    Thank you

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