They were, factually, Indian. It says something about the exploitation of poorer labor to impress some San Franciscans with fraudulent tech

Yes. I did a brief search and got annoyed as I realized here was no way to reliably filter out c/3.5mm splitters and only find c/c. But I guess there’s no real point trying to pick the best amazon option

Ma’am, I’m going to have to ask you to please stop doing wheels in the locomotive and return it to a 4-4-2 configurarion

Definitely agreed on good chargers, but, regrettably, standards keep changing, so here’s my anecdotal experience/advice. I’ve had multiple issues - my pixel 3a charges faster than my Pixel 7 (comparable battery life) and my 7 doesn’t rapid charge on my ~2020 bricks. I have great cables, too (finally) and after swapping bricks/phones/cables, the problem stays with the brick/7 combos. Same for my SO’s S21 Ultra or whatever. So, after years of practice of reading wattage specs, I’m now stuck reading the bullshit product descriptions saying iphone 17/s24 compatible or whatever is contemporary to my devices. I charge slowly nightly, so the ability for proper fast charge is important for the random needs otherwise.

If you’re using a type-c device, you need a C brick and C-C cable. But, what I’ve recently discovered with my latest pair of excellent bricks, is that “dumb” type-C devices may lack the negotiation ability to get C-C power. I must use A-C in that case to charge my flashlights. Probably why they all come with shitty A-C cables. I already carry A-micro for my older devices anyway

This felt life changing at first. I don’t really know why. Maybe it was just the bulkier plug head that makes it feel more durable and the straight head style is more agreeable with today’s device/pocket arrangements.

However, it means I can’t charge and listen to my phone at the same time. This is more of a flaw of the phone design than headphone design and only really comes up during 2h+ phone calls. I suppose my laptop is also older, which is why it only has one C port. I can get a splitter, though it’s harder to find dual-c than c+3.5mm. I can’t plug it into non-C devices, since there are still 3.5mm jacks out there such as on planes and older phones (I carry my older phone as a dedicated movie/music device on said planes/travels). I carry Bluetooth headphones as well, but the latency is unbearable for movies. Probably a headphone issue more than a sole BT issue.

In summary of all my gripes, just review your devices for intended use. I still carry them when I travel and still use them for longer calls. It beats charge anxiety in most situations.

Map the physical area to a scale. Map the scale to the rainbow. Make chords a 2D representation of sound space. Make palm mutes drain the color. Make squealies vibrate the array. GIVE ME THE MUSIC VISUALIZER IN MY HANDS (and a blunt)

There is no significant loss in total skill with each newer generation. The paradigm is constantly shifting. Humans have always adapted and learned to manage whatever is readily available to them and how to maintain it. Your parents complain you don’t know their vintage skills. You complain they aren’t learning new skills. You complain younger people don’t know your “necessary” (vintage) skills.

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise” - some guy in 1907 summarizing Greek beliefs.

The generation that can navigate whatever it is kids navigate (flipper zero?) can’t modify an OS. The generation that can modify an OS probably can’t tune a carburetor. The generation that can tune a carburetor probably can’t change a horse shoe. Your skills are based on what you have to do every day. As technology removes the need to manage those things, the skill is lost and new skills replace it.

Yes, when temperature management was a proper skill. Now we drive cars with such sufficient cooling systems they never overheat! Imagine, just putting it in gear and driving through to your destination, no matter the conditions or duration. And fuel management! Gas stations everywhere? A fuel gauge? A range calculator? So lazy. Whenever that commenter grew up was the absolute peak of skill. laughs in horse mechanic

Yes, yes, this art is nice, but you know what it needs? Lights

Not /s

Native English speaker, but I’ve visited India, so I have a different, related topic. Of course, there’s two caveats: I have an outsider’s perspective and the British have a very lengthy history with the region. In major cities, spoken English seems as popular as Hindi. In Delhi, signs seemed to be entirely in English, although maybe I just didn’t notice the Devanagari script as much because it’s incredibly foreign to me. Kolkata had less spoken English, but still more English signs than Hindi or Bengal (I can’t tell the difference). Traveling to rural West Bengal, the advertisements have skewed towards Bengali (I believe) and road signs are dual language, but but I don’t think I’ve seen a single business sign that didn’t have English as the primary text.

I thought it was silly that English and Chinese became the main languages in Firefly (which, for the show, was English with Chinese words thrown in). Now I realize, not only is that possible, but it’s already here. English is the global standard for air traffic control and imperialism has pushed language influence far and wide. International business has made English effectively a requirement for competitiveness. I was just oblivious as an English-only speaker at the time. I’ve wondered if Hindi would now be a more accurate 2nd language for the Firefly future, but I’m not convinced because of how prevalent English is there, like it might have already reduced the power of Hindi on the global scale. Plus, there’s so many dialects there, Hindi is the most common but it doesn’t have a majority

Elite: Dangerous, the space ship game with a life-size universe. 1200 hours so far in 6 years. No real story, no campaign, just you, random players, and a trillion planets to find. Or perhaps you’d rather blast pirates. Maybe scrounge around for some plant scans. Whatever you like, I hope you also like 30 minutes of travel time because “fast travel” on an interstellar scale is humanly slow. Plus, it’s huge. All star systems are known, but few are visited. Visited divided by know, times total game existence predicts we’ll have it all mapped in 45,000 years.

But at the end of the day, it’s all about listening to lovely spaceship sounds. Graphics are nice. Sound is amazing.

I enjoyed the Tokyo Drift achievement in Sea of Thieves. I was running from a larger ship and naturally thought of going full steer around a rock and dropping anchor. It worked! We lived.

Presidents are men. Legislators are predominantly men. Representatives are predominantly men. Movie writers are predominantly men. Cartoon writers are predominantly men. Religious figures are predominantly men. Podcasters are predominantly men. Business executives are predominantly men. Doctors are predominantly men. PhDs are predominantly men. Police are predominantly men.

Homeowners are predominantly men. Vehicle owners are predominantly men. Earners in single-income households are predominantly men.

Violent criminals are predominantly men. Nonviolent criminals are predominantly men.

You are not the victim of feminism. You are in a country run by men, for men. Successful men are telling you “men can’t be successful” because of other citizens asking for equality. Successful male podcasters are telling you women are the problem while they profit off your viewership, promising to guide you to success. Successful male politicians are telling you being a man is a problem while actively eroding supportive programs as they profit off your vote, promising to fix the system. Would you trust financial advice from a loan shark? No, you’d assume the loan shark wants to keep you as a payday loan customer. These men are doing the same.

Men are not uniquely in jeopardy in the US. All citizens are. The country was a manufacturing superpower through the 1960s because they other industrialized nations were still rebuilding from being bombed. Once the others rebuilt, the US was only competitive, not dominative. Once transportation and logistics hit a point where global trade was truly reasonable, these countries all moved to exploit poor nations. This wasn’t an accident, this wasn’t a surprise. This was a calculated profiteering move by men. You are not the problem because you have a penis. You are the victim of multiple systems designed to keep you down, all while blaming someone else stuck in the same sinking ship. They’ll tell you China stole manufacturing when it was companies that gave it away. They’ll tell you illegal immigrants stole your job when it was business owners that knowingly hired undocs for less than minimum wage. They’ll tell you America was great in the 1950s and 1960s when it was the only industrial power not bombed in the 40s. They’ll tell you the economic decline from the 1980s was the globe’s doing when Americans specifically caused it.

I am sure your post was not deleted as anti-usa, but as pro-manosphere superficially put in a post about international studies. That smells like a bad-faith post. Those get deleted here, too. Sure, you can go pick a different instance and hop until you find that echo chamber again.

But ask yourself.
Who is the problem?
Who told you they’re the problem?
What doea that person stand to gain from that belief?

On android, I use Aurora Notifier for general alerts as well as user-reported sightings shown as dots on the map. I also use Aurora (Pro) for a nice map with current prediction overlay. I’ve gotten many alerts over the last ~2 years with very little viajble activity over my lower attitude. However, the notice that paired with the 10/10/24 event was about substorms. Those give ~30 minute warning.

Whatever you do, there’s a lot of false alarms. We’re headed back to a lower activity part of the solar cycle, but I’m still eager to keep an eye out because it’s still ~5 years before it comes back up to the current activity level.

The data used to create that image of the black hole had a transfer speed of 14GB/s because ~700TB of it was captured in Antarctica and spent 14 hours traveling by plane

That’s very fair. Not necessarily the screen itself or the mental effects, but the associated activities. I commented a bit blindly because I’m locked into a screentime lifestyle. Can’t do my job without 8 hours at a screen and the cheapest hobbies tend to be on another screen. I forget what I’ve had to incorporate into my habits to fight that sedentarianism. I’m still not great at avoiding it.

Are screens bad or are the primary ideas about screen time based on when screens solely offered content to consume without interaction?

By me, the overnight temperature rises have usually come with precipitation behind it. The opposite has happened where temperatures drop after 9am with drier winds. I can’t exactly say it’s normal or that I’m particularly knowledgeable on the matter, but I’ve independently theorized it’s really just standing out now because I frequently look at hourly forecasts. Between hobbies and maintenance, I’m now interested in such a granular report. I didn’t always have to care this much and got by just fine with morning/afyernoon/evening/overnight

Is there lint packed into the bottom of the port? It’s not just dust on the contacts making a bad connection, it’s dust shoved into the bottom physically preventing the plug from inserting fully. I out my faith in smart ports and use the metal Sim eject tool, alternating with air. Canned air is best, but I’ve done just fine with a hard cheek-loaded puff. Both my type-c phones (pixel 3a, pixel 7) have shiny port floors (the 0) so it’s pretty obvious when I clean it properly

I figure everyone on Lemmy knows, but C is prone to dust collection. Any time I think the port is wearing out, a cleaning of the port with a Sim tool brings it right back to life. It’s not tired retainers, it’s a plug stuck a millimeter out