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  • I have never come across a cache that requires a magnet on a stick.

    I have a pen on my keys. The one I have is extendable so it's comfortable to write with. It has saved my ass so many times from having to walk back to the car or buy more pens.

    This isn't the exact one I purchased, but it looks identical: https://a.co/d/0DV73WM

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    Questions about the safety of Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system are growing
  • There was an story a while back where it was discovered that Tesla focuses their efforts on the routes taken by creators (and other influencial people), to intentionally make self driving look better than it is.

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    What are some video games that you would show up to a local tournament for?
  • Me? None. I just play for fun, I'd lose bad.

    If there was going to be a game I'd show up for it'd be Forza Horizon, I've got the most hours in that and kinda do ok when I occasionally play online against randoms. Haven't been playing much recently though, so the former statement probably still applies.

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    Drivers Hate The Tech In Their Cars
  • I'd genuinely buy one of those, but they're just too expensive still. I'll just buy a car from the 90s for a fraction of the price.

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    Drivers Hate The Tech In Their Cars
  • The good kinda that can come to a complete stop and start moving again without input too, not the kind that doesn't work under 25mph.

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    Drivers Hate The Tech In Their Cars
  • Closest I've seen to that is BMW's offerings. It just felt like a BMW inside, which still means a crazy amount of tech of course, but it was very similar to BMW gasoline cars.

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    You can set text as a modifier in Orca
  • It isn't that bad. Just needs a bit of z-offset adjustment. Your comment isn't helpful as it's just an insult, not constructive criticism. Tell OP what they need to change to make their first layer not bad, don't just tell them it sucks.

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    Google denies reports that it’s discontinuing Fitbit products
  • Yeah, and as if anyone would know. They'll send out the announcement internally on the Tuesday before the next fitbit releases, then announce it to the public on Wednesday.

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    Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds
  • I have beat the game. I remember the gist of the solution, but I have no idea how to pull it off any more. I can't wait to play it again, possibly with the VR mod.

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    [PSA] The terrible tragedy of a stolen Steam Deck
  • Ahh, yeah, I'd guess the ecosystem isn't that large yet, as updates roll out to Android devices n such. I haven't really tested mine in the real world yet. I've been meaning to.

    One time I got a notification that someone was tracking me with a tracker. It was my own wallet that is registered to my account lol.

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    [PSA] The terrible tragedy of a stolen Steam Deck
  • Yeah, it's cool that Google has finally got their shit together with that. What's fascinating is that Google and Apple worked together to provide cross device notifications if an Air tag is following an Android or a Google FindMy tracker is following an iPhone.

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    [PSA] The terrible tragedy of a stolen Steam Deck
  • It works like Tile and Apple's FindMy network, mostly through Bluetooth I believe. Every single phone running android (and with the setting enabled) can ping the location of your trackable when nearby. It's just like Tile, except with a network of every single Android device instead of just Tile users. If you're unsure how Tile or Air tags work, then you might have bit more research to do that's outside the scope of this comment.

    I'm not sure what you mean by enable it, the first step would be to purchase a compatible trackable. Currently there are only two brands making them, unless others have started since I bought mine. Pebblebee seems to be the more popular ones, and that's what I went with.

    If you want to play around with the app, you can download it here, but there won't be much to do in it until you have a trackable.

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.adm

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    [PSA] The terrible tragedy of a stolen Steam Deck
  • Heads up, Google now has a FindMy network like Apple's that'll update much more frequently than a Tile due to the sheer number of users. The downside, as compared to a tile, is that it'll notify the thief that a tracker is following them.

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    What is the largest file transfer you have ever done?
  • When I was moving from a Windows NAS (God, fuck windows and its permissions management) on an old laptop to a Linux NAS I had to copy about 10TB from some drives to some other drives so I could re-format the drives as a Linux friendly format, then copy the data back to the original drives.

    I was also doing all of this via terminal, so I had to learn how to copy in the background, then write a script to check and display the progress every few seconds. I'm shocked I didn't loose any data to be completely honest. Doing shit like that makes me marvel at modern GUIs.

    Took about 3 days in copying files alone. When combined with all the other NAS setup stuff, ended up taking me about a week just in waiting for stuff to happen.

    I cannot reiterate enough how fucking difficult it was to set up the Windows NAS vs the Ubuntu Server NAS. I had constant issues with permissions on the Windows NAS. I've had about 1 issue in 4 months on the Linux NAS, and it was much more easily solved.

    The reason the laptop wasn't a Linux NAS is due to my existing Plex server instance. It's always been on Windows and I haven't yet had a chance to try to migrate it to Linux. Some day I'll get around to it, but if it ain't broke... Now the laptop is just a dedicated Plex server and serves files from the NAS instead of local. It has much better hardware than my NAS, otherwise the NAS would be the Plex server.

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  • https:// i.imgur.com /r78edAl.gifv

    The MCM arch holds the grinder handle in place which keeps it from flopping around, and keeps the grinder in the caddy. It's a really clean and easy solution for this unique problem.

    I talk more about the caddy in this video if you're interested - Timestamped Link

    On Friday a video will be out where I talk more about the final version (shown in the video attached to this post), but the function is quite similar, just with the correct measurements because measuring is hard...

    I would be happy to share the STL, but I haven't yet as I figure not too many folks have the exact same aeropress setup as I do with the scale and grinder, and I'm lazy (but honest at least!)

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    I'm at a friend's house for the night and was invited to an among us group. Installed among us and discord, had everything working (after a restart) within 10 minutes. I was shocked that simply adding a keybind for mute/deafen just worked. Yet another "it's just a computer" moment. I'll have to get that discord overlay thing working at some point.

    In addition, the mic seems to work pretty well without using headphones, though I can't hear myself obviously.

    I wasn't considering upgrading to the OLED because I didn't use the device enough, but man, I might...

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    I'm moving over from boost for reddit, and am missing the quick reply functionality. Am I just missing it, is it actually missing, and is it planned?

    Loving the app so far, it's made the transition easy.

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