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  • In the era before cheap microwave ovens the electric egg steamer was my go-to dorm appliance!. I found a coffee can would fit in place of the cover. Then it could not only cook eggs, it could reheat Chef Boyardee and Dinty Moore stew cans.

  • do you think after the age verifcation bs computers will just have locked bios like phones and only boot windows?

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  • Only if Microsoft acquires a major CPU chipmaker. There has to be a lot of vertical integration under one company, the way it is with Apple products. Otherwise there are other OS like Linux that comprise enough of the market to ensure there will always be an unlocked BIOS option.

  • Few understand what this actually means

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  • Nope. Only two.

  • 👮 Neighbor called the cops on me for having weeds 🌿 -- how to work the system in this situation

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  • So are you going to fight the citation? Better have lots of pictures with botanical data on all the plants growing in your lawn. Seems the key element here is the legal definition of a prohibited weed. If you go to trial, give the officer some rope and see if he'll hang himself. Ask if he's an expert on identifying weeds. If not, how does he know your yard had weeds? Otherwise pursue his qualifications. What training is he relying on to identify weeds. Make him define a weed. If it's substantially different from your legal definition, ask whether he's aware of the legal definition. Introduce the legal definition and have him read it. Then ask if in light of his newly acquired knowledge, does he still maintain that your yard had weeds. If not, citation dismissed.

  • My Dream of a Home Router / Server

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  • You can do all that and more with an off-the-shelf mini PC running Linux. No need to reinvent a general purpose computer from a router. The chain of trust thing is above my paygrade, but I bet something like that exists.

  • Is it okay to leave a Windows laptop running with a black background image maximized for a long time?

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  • For LCD screens it doesn't matter. They use the same amount of power whether the screen is black or white. There's no way to damage the screen by displaying an image.

    OLED displays are vulnerable to burn in. So a bright static image left on screen for a long time can result in a latent image that's permanently burned into the screen. That's because the OLEDs degrade faster when they're brighter. But a black screen should have no effect.

  • Surgeons remove up to 100 magnets - which have been banned in the country but bought online on Temu - from New Zealand teen’s gut

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  • Where they banned in all their various applications? Because I had a scare when my 2-year-old granddaughter found a box with a magnetic latch and the magnet had been torn out. We thought she ate it. But after scouring the area we found it, and it's a thin neodymium magnet. Went through the whole house making sure boxes like that were out of her reach.

  • SD card died, now game that was installed on it can't be reinstalled

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  • Sounds like your SD card is defective. Try a new card.

  • You play a game where you have to memorize a random passphrase and recite it the next day for $1000, game repeats each day but with +1word and +$1000 prize; How many days can you continue this?

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  • Not as tough as it seems. People routinely memorize much more in shorter periods. Try learning the complete Kanji (Asian Pictograms) or heiroglyphics. It's not inconceivable to memorize 10,000 random words. Think of how many songs you can recite the lyrics to. I learned Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire" in a day. That's pretty much what this challenge is about - a random list of words.

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    How would you think a clothing optional society work, both initially and over time?

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  • As long as some don't want to see nudity in public, most, out of consideration, will also avoid it. Even if nudity was universally accepted, people would wear something to carry their phones, money, and keys. They'd want to advertise their social status. And clothes provide protection. Would you want to sit in a recently vacated seat on the subway if the last person was naked? Or imagine parking your nude bottom on a bench that's been in the sun for a while.

  • New Zealand MP Exposes Deepfake Threat by Displaying AI-Generated Nude Image of Herself in Parliament

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  • People have been doing this without AI for a very long time, even before computers were a thing. All AI did was make it easy.

    Genie is out of the bottle. All we can do now is make it illegal to possess or distribute, the same way we handle CSAM.

  • How the FBI Sought a Warrant to Search Instagram of Columbia Student Protesters

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  • FBI has resources to go after student protestors, but they still claim they don't have the manpower to shut down Internet and phone scams.

  • Looking for ideas: offline entertainment device

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  • Start by defining your available power. How many watt-hours can you generate? A small 100W solar panel can provide an average of 400Wh of energy per day in the winter. That's more than enough to run a 10-inch tablet 24/7 and LED lighting at night. I've seen 360W solar panels for under $100 on the used market. That's a couple of KWh a day. Even a 100W bicycle generator and a 30 minute workout would power a tablet for 8 hours.

    If power consumption is that big of a factor, perhaps separate devices for video, music, and reading would be beneficial. A dedicated music player can consume less than a watt. An e-paper reader requires fractions of a watt.

    I have a folding 100W panel, a 30Ah 12V LiFePO4 battery, and a charge controller that I use while car camping. It keeps all the electronics running for a group of 4 without relying on a noisy generator. The battery is big enough to compensate for a couple of rainy days.

    My backpacking setup is a 15W panel and a 30Wh battery. That kept my phone and flashlight charged for 2 weeks on the Pacific Crest Trail.

  • What would the world look like if every worker got together and Unionized for a universale wage that helps everyone? Instead of one country trying to screw over another?

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  • Impossible when events like Tienanman Square are the outcome in some countries. It only takes one to upset a global unionization apple cart.

  • If early humans ate raw meat and other raw foods before they discovered fire why haven't we evolved to be immune to bacteria found in raw meats and food ?

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  • Once we stopped being regularly exposed to pathogens associated with raw unrefrigerated meat, we lost our immunity.

    Think of it like traveling to a country with low water quality standards. If you drink the water, you get cramps and diarrhea. The locals have immunity and their babies have immunity because antibodies to the pathogens are passed in mother's milk. That gives the babies enough immunity to avoid illness when they start drinking the water. Frequent subsequent exposure to the pathogens maintains their immunity.

    But if a person with immunity moves to an area with higher quality water and then moves back after many years, they can experience intestinal distress from the water because they lost their immunity.

  • Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ...

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  • Die without an estate and tell your survivors not to claim your body. The government will take care of your final disposition.

  • Why are there four?

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  • You've got more than three. There's the A-hole, P-hole, V-hole, M-hole, two N-holes, and two E-holes. Then there are the manufactured holes: two H-holes when you make a fist, a TT-hole if you squeeze them together, a BB-hole if you're on the heavy side, and two T-holes for those with foot fetishes. There are up to 3 bonus holes if you have one or more of the various medical stoma, and two extra bonus holes if you're blind and have prosthetic eyes.

    But you can get by with only one if you tie those sausages together end-to-end.

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  • Someone wants me dead

  • [Gear talk] What is the purpose of the slot in the head of this tripod?

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    How to intentionally get terminated from a job without sacrificing unemployment benefits?