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TIL that Ferrari & Lamborghini no longer make cars with a manual transmission
  • I got my license in the early 80's, and at that time the cheapest cars were older american beaters with utterly terrible 2 and 3-speed slushbox automatics. The alternative were Japanese cars like Honda Civics, small, reliable, manual transmission cars that got great gas mileage and were way more fun to drive. All these years later I'm still driving a manual, currently a 2021 Toyota Corolla. It's paid for, it gets around 35 mpg, and with regular maintenance it will run until the end of time.

    I know American cars have improved a lot since the malaise era but you generally can't get them with manual transmissions, so I'll stick with the imports for now.

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    ABC Debate Debate
  • I'm guessing the Harris campaign wants muted mikes as well and are manipulating the very stable genius into going along...

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    This is the stuff that makes me want to abandon Lemmy and return to Reddit. Why does it do this? Is there a fix?
  • I used Boost for reddit for years, so I switched Boost for Lemmy as soon as it became available. It's not free, iirc it was $3 or $4, but it works well and I've had zero issues with it.

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    Manifest V2 phase-out begins
  • We've had the youtube premium family bundle for several years, mostly for android auto in our cars. I switched to Firefox around that time as well but found it didn't work as well for youtube. So I compromised by using Chrome for youtube and Firefox for everything else. I will continue this way for the time being, but honestly getting rid of Chrome completely would not be a big deal at this point.

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    Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile?
  • I used Boost for years on Reddit and switched to that as soon as the Lemmy version was released. It's stable and works well.

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    When you realized you forgot sudo
  • fuck() {
        sudo $(fc -ln -1)
    } 
    

    This function takes the last command and puts sudo in front of it. Actually used it in a zoom call at work without thinking and it took a second to realize why everyone was laughing. Not my invention--came across it years ago on stackoverflow or someplace and thought it was funny/useful.

    kmirl@tux:~$ ls /root
    ls: cannot open directory '/root': Permission denied
    kmirl@tux:~$ fuck
    [sudo] password for kmirl: 
    bin  debs  docs  Mail 
    
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    Portable monitor recommendations?
  • I like Acer 27" 1080p monitors in this price range. I got two for my wife's work from home setup a couple of years ago, no issues.

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    HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors
  • I bought an HP m281 mfp printer 3-4 years ago and disabled automatic firmware updates when I was setting it up. Not too long after that I read that a new firmware release prevented 3rd party cartridges from working.

    Anyway I bought new ink cartridges a couple of years ago after getting pop-ups saying the ink was getting low. Thing is, I haven't had to install them yet because despite the warnings the printer has been printing just fine with the original cartridges.

    So in addition to blocking 3rd party cartridges HP is also lying about how much ink their cartridges contain.

    F.U. HP.

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