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Will my phone charge faster if I harness both USB charging AND wireless/qi charging at the same time together?
  • I dont want to summarize for all phones, but in general your phone should only prefer one method, and it should default to wired charging.

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    Best ad-free search results?
  • Oh really? Man, I thought I was doing good. I never see ads since I use uBlock Origin.

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    Best ad-free search results?
  • I'm curious to know people's thoughts on Startpage. I've been using it exclusively for a good couple months now and like it.

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    How America RUINED the world's screws! (Robertson vs. Phillips) | Stumpy Nubs [9:45]
  • As an American, I second this sentiment. Robbies for life!

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    What PCI cards do you use ?
  • Not a clue, I only use the built in TV tuner program in Linux Mint. I forget what its called, but it does a decent job.

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    What PCI cards do you use ?
  • I have a Hauppage TV tuner card that I use to get OTA TV and record certain shows. I'm pretty sure there are USB solutions, but if I remember, at the time I got this it was one of the only cards that my system supported or whatever caveat I was operating around.

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    If the order of events were different, what might we be calling smartphones?
  • Duuuude, mobidex has such a cool sound to it. Real star trek vibes. I wish.

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    friendly reminder rule
  • The only person to gain an exemption to this would be hulk hogan, for he calls everyone brother, and that's OK.

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    Environmentally friendly balloons?
  • Sorry for your loss

    Another thing that I'm not seeing people mention is helium balloons wandering to places like power substations and/or power lines, causing outages or even fires/explosions depending.

    I liked what someone else said about writing thoughts or stories and having them read anonymously.

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    I need to buy better band-aids
  • Thank you for this treasure, and I'm sorry that you had to endure such a thing. May no man need to deal with what adj16 has.

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    I need to buy better band-aids
  • You know we all have to know now. You can't say some wackadoo shit like that and not expect questions. Let's have it. Come on now.

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    Palworld is now the second ever game to hit 2 million concurrent players on Steam
  • Is this game really that good or is it just massively overhyped? I watched a videogamedunkey video about it, and I know he overly satirizes things for humor, but it just didn't look all that great.

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    Are zombies possible in real-life?
  • Thanks Michael Scott!

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    Skeletor wants you to be safe after the election
  • We had a guy throw spoiled meat all over the breakers one time. He was mad at us that the power went out and his food in his freezer all defrosted and went bad. He has a substation right behind his house, so he went to town. Real cool dude.

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    Based on the Reddit true story.
  • Don't forget your poop knife

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    deploy the boy
  • This might be a boy deployed, but its not dat boi.

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    Lemmy, what are some of your "oh shit" work stories?
  • I know most of these stories are going to be IT or food service, so I'll chime in with mine to change it up.

    TLDR: We caused some explosions on a transformer because someone didn't read test results.

    I work for a power utility. One night, we were energizing a new transformer. It fed a single strip mall complex with a major grocery chain on it, so that's why it was at night, as we couldn't affect the service while they were open.

    Anyways, we go to energize, close the primary switches and one of the lightning arrestors blows up. And I mean blows up, like an M80 just went off. Lit up the sky bright as day for a couple moments at 1 in the morning. The protection opened the switches and everybody is panicking, making sure nobody was hurt.

    Well after everybody settled down, the arrestor was replaced, they decide to throw it in again. Switches come closed, and explosion #2 happens. A second arrestor blows spectacularly. I tried to convince the one supervisor on site to go for a third time, because why not, but he didn't want to do it again. Whatever.

    A few days go by and we find out what the issue was. This transformer was supposed to be a 115kV to 13.2kV. Come to find out there was an internal tap selection that was set for 67kV for the primary, and not 115kV. So what was happening was the voltage was only being stepped down half as much as needed so there was like 28kV or so on the secondary instead of 13.2kV and that was over the lightning arrestors ratings, hence why they were blowing up. So the transformer had to have its oil drained, guys had to go inside it and physically rewire it to the correct ratio.

    We had a third party company do the acceptance testing on this transformer, and our engineering department just saw all the green checkmarks but didn't pay attention to the values for the test results. Nobody expected to run into this because we don't have any of this type of transformer in our system, but that's certainly no excuse.

    Moral of the story: read your acceptance test results carefully.

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    Nearly 40% of U.S. homes are mortgage-free, census shows
  • Does this account for all the investors and smaller corporations coming in and buying homes with cash out from under actual families? That's been an alarmingly high number of cases with many recent home purchases.

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    Mom fired as sex-ed teacher after being exposed as convicted prostitute, working escort
  • Fuck the puritans who fired her.

    Ironically, there's a chance that she may have been doing just that.

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  • The Room by Tommy Wiseau. I know it's like a cult classic for being bad, but the first time I watched it, I made sure to view it as unironically as possible. It's an atrocious movie for what a movie should be.

    If you want to watch something cringy and terrible to mock and laugh at, this movie is so much better. But if you watch this movie wanting it to be a proper movie that took itself seriously (which was its original intention) it is fucking terrible.

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  • I posted this on the Linux mint forums a while ago, but no traffic on the post and it's driving me crazy.

    Problem: I can connect the controllers just fine via Bluetooth, but yuzu and dolphin don't recognize them unless I've deleted them from blueman and freshly re-paired them. More details abd system info in the forum post, but this is the gist. Does anybody have any insight? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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    I understand the usefulness of the terminal and how universal it is for troubleshooting across distros. But can't there be a way to make a nice graphical tool for the various admin level tasks that need to be performed?

    Edit: Thank you to the outpouring of feedback on this. It has greatly opened my eyes to how much I don't know about. I did see a couple suggestions though, so I'll be sure to check them out.

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