awhile back i saw a toyota prius hybrid with ‘collector’ plates that are used by classic and antique car owners (and cheapskates that want the cheaper plates in exchange for some use limits).
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Back when I used them, they were about meeting people,
back then they didn’t suck (as much) because they were still in the ‘acquire users at any cost’ phase.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Amazon Kept Trying to Sell Me Used Pillowcases for a DiscountEnglish
1·2 days agoamazon’s web site has been horrible its entire existence.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the OLDEST surviving meme that YOU still use today, regardless of format, either with or without an image?
1·2 days agoi haven’t had a handheld or pocket calculator in over thirty years, when i was last in school. so the “still use today” bit is not on an upside-down calculator.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Streaming Is Raising Prices Faster Than Cable Ever DidEnglish
6·2 days agowhich is why you’re seeing more shows releasing as weekly drips instead of season drops.
but it’s still the way to go. one at a time, one month at a time, only when you need or want ‘new’ stuff. the drips you skip over because the whole season hasn’t been posted means you’ve got more time to see if stuff gets renewed, or at least logically-concluded, before investing your own time in watching.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the OLDEST surviving meme that YOU still use today, regardless of format, either with or without an image?
3·2 days agogood luck. see ya next week.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the OLDEST surviving meme that YOU still use today, regardless of format, either with or without an image?English
17·2 days agoeight million, eight thousand, one hundred and thirty-five.
aka 8008135
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you reply to people saying "i have nothing to hide?"
2·2 days agoyou, yourself, don’t even need a facebook or google account (or others) for them to have all sorts of data on you.
but are those normal, bun-length, or ‘foot long’ hot dogs?
[ is it tires? ] -yes-> [ inches ]
both for car and light truck tires. inches for wheel diameter, millimeters for tread width,
someone’s never played q-bert or the sims
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Technology@lemmy.world•LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devicesEnglish
5·4 days agoit may go around your choice to not configure a network and connect to an open wifi or one in a shared network that some providers run via secondary ssid on their CPE
i just pick a folder or an existing playlist and hit random. but the best things for me because they help mask noises (yes, the ones in my head mainly) are musicals (such as annie) or movies with lots of background music (disney movies are good for this) or old-school multi-camera sitcoms for the laugh track (newhart, mary tyler moore, patty duke, etc)… the other common thing between them is it’s all stuff i’ve watched a lot so it’s very familiar. if it isn’t–i’m more apt to try to watch than to doze off.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral.English
2·5 days agoin some neighborhoods, you could literally have a cart corral next to every single parking space and somehow these lazy morons will still leave their cart in a parking space or driving lane.
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Technology@lemmy.world•There’s a new “Google Jail” for independent wikisEnglish
151·5 days agoit didn’t take long for search engines, including google, to pick up wiki.warframe.com though, as it was just a sub off an existing and long-standing domain… the hard part was getting pages on the new address to rank higher than the old one that fandom won’t delete.
what you should do for any wiki is add the wiki’s search as a search engine in your browser. firefox makes it easy to do. just go to the wiki (i.e. wiki.warframe.com), right-click in the search box on that page, choose ‘add search engine’. add a ‘keyword’ to make searching it easy (e.g. wf), so now all you have to do to search the warframe wiki is type in firefox’s address box, example: wf void trader
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Technology@lemmy.world•TiVo Plans to End Free Automatic Commercial Skipping in November, Tests Paid Premium Replacement ServiceEnglish
10·6 days agoat their peak, the auto skip didn’t even exist… just the manually-activated 30-sec skip that you had to enable yourself like a cheat code in a video game.
replaytv got sued out of existence due to the same basic functionality. dish’s hopper still exists but i think they made a deal with the networks (we won’t sue you if you delay the feature for a number of hours).
the networks will sue as soon as tivo makes it a specific line item on a bill for the specific feature of automatically skipping commercial breaks. and that’s on top of subscribers leaving due to the rug pull… but where tf they gonna go? alternatives kinda suck and are not as easy to set up or use.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - EngadgetEnglish
19·7 days agoit’s 64gb so you can run local ai models to ‘re-clutter’ your windows experience.
“Well, then what’s the bad news?”
“We’re going to name the disease after you”
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Games@lemmy.world•White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With BitcoinEnglish
3·8 days agoE.T. the dipshit is et, and because the fucking game is bugged, we can’t get rid of him.



that’s what trixie’s netinst defaults to when i set up new desktops using encrypted lvm… root and swap volumes inside that, unlocking together at boot. my use doesn’t hit swap much, so it’s nbd. i just leave it like it is. only where an installer doesn’t support encrypted swap partitions do i use a file or ram-based swap instead.