AnAmericanPotato

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[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bummer that they've gone downhill. Not sure what to recommend to people now.

Anker used to be my go-to recommendation for USB cables and chargers. All my Anker products have been working perfectly for 5-10 years now. But I don't own any of their newer products.

Lots of recommendations for groups, recommendations of random people to follow, and things like that. If these are paid ads, they are not clearly presented as such.

Though I just logged in (first time in a while) and I didn't see that, so...maybe it changed, or maybe my ad blocker is doing better than it used to? Not sure.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I honestly don't know how I could use Facebook that way. Seriously. I log in once in a blue moon, and half the stuff I see scrolling through the main feed has nothing to do with any of my friends as far as I can tell. And that's with an ad blocker.

I don't understand how anybody can stand it. Maybe it's a "boiling frog" situation, or maybe they've developed better counter-strategies than I am familiar with? I quit Facebook about 10 years ago and when I poke my head in now, it's completely different. It is terrible in ways I wouldn't have believed 10 years ago.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m not well versed enough in Android app development to answer whether or not one userspace app can even access the screen contents of another app without root or special permissions

This requires special permissions and explicit user approval every time an app starts screen recording, plus it shows a red notification whenever screen recording is active.

I think you could get by with a one-time user approval as a device administration or assistive app permission, which you'd need to manually grant in Settings. Unlikely anyone would do that by accident.

That might be different for system-level apps. I haven't bought a carrier-branded phone in 10+ years so I'm not sure what that's like these days.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Oh! I knew European outlets operated at higher voltage, but I didn't know the standard circuits supported such high current. Jealous!

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 41 points 1 month ago (28 children)

Almost has to be. 2400W would put it completely outside the consumer market. Consumer PSUs don't go that high. Home power outlets don't go that high unless you have special electrical work done. I can hardly imagine what a cooling system for a nearly 3KW system would look like.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kind of the opposite. It takes more effort to make a filesystem case-insensitive. Binary comparison is the laziest approach. (Note that laziness is a virtue.)

I'm on the fence as to which is better. Putting backwards compatibility aside, there's a perfectly good case to be made for case-insensitivity being more intuitive to the human user.

Apple got into a strange position when marrying Mac OS (case-insensitive) and NeXTSTEP (case-sensitive). It used to be possible to install OS X on case-sensitive HFS+ but it was never very well supported and I think they axed it somewhere down the road.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know OP's country or culture, but in most places I've seen, there's a pretty big gap between "technically legal" and "generally socially acceptable".

Yes, I loved classic Trek for showing a better a future, where humans have moved beyond our greed, prejudice, and self-destructive tendencies. That was the through line in TOS and TNG, even if it wasn't always 100% on-point and didn't always age well (you need to view TOS in its historical context to get past the baked-in 1960s sexism, for example).

There's a place for cautionary tales, and there's a place for aspirational tales.

I liked Discovery well enough for what it was, but I hated its picture of a future where good humans are the exception rather than the rule.

Nowadays, I think solarpunk is where its at.

Dating website: probably way too soon to share, just looks cringe

You might be right in this case, but I also want to point out that most dating profile fucking suck, and it's not because they are too "cringe" or immature; it's because they are all the same generic pictures. Wedding, gym, hiking, dead-fish, bar, dog.

This is the kind of thing I call a "loser filter". It stops the kind of people you don't want to deal with from entering your life in the first place.

Likely this. Temperature and humidity also affect your sense of taste and smell, plus they can affect a hot drink's evaporation rate.

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