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metalman
10mo ago
buy a mini pc ,sans OS,with whatever hardware features and install a linux flavor, or two,or three. buying from the duopoly is like hitting yourself in the face with a brick, it feels realy good, when you stop. the market is bieng divied up
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metalman
10mo ago
if it keeps on going like this, people will be forced to find other people who want to take there clothes off!
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metalman
10mo ago
in other news, interest in vintage cassette tapes continues to rise along side new vinyl record pressings and wired headphones how out of touch does a company have to be to think that they can sell spatial disorientation and nausea as featu
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metalman
10mo ago
the ancestors of the men pictured in the article are "responsible" for introducing yersenia pestis/the plague into the world and europe in particular, from there habbit of eating marmots, which are the original plague vector
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metalman
10mo ago
I think that this is far from the first experiment in growing crystals in space, so they must have good evidence for what properties to expect from single crystal silicon grown in space, my guess is that the purity is not so much which elem
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metalman
10mo ago
all/most materials can be foamed, ALL foam bubbles aproximate a very specific shape where each intersection is at the SAME angle, which is not 90° so at minimum there are two "universal geometrys", and yes there are natural r
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metalman
10mo ago
realy like the cattle analogy, and it can be extended further, Dexter cattle are dual use cattle, and the worlds smallest breed, so increadably popular for small acerages and single family cows, so in a way the type of thing that is terrify
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metalman
10mo ago
I will detail the evil anti machine from sears, combo washer dryer, drop the lid and it breaks the switch, the switch trigger is on the lid with a very long prong, dropped gently it works, fast it breaks, $150 plus service call, where it tu
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metalman
10mo ago
I am afraid of trying to lift to failure. never once been in a gym, or trained for anything except marksmanship, but have alwayse been physical, with a lot of what I call "dirty lifts" in the course of getting things done,pushing
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metalman
10mo ago
aviation occupies a great deal of my attention, and there is a logic to everything that is done, based on actual provable, repeatable results. anything involved in high volume passenger aviation has to pass reliability tests that will dry
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metalman
10mo ago
Your welcome! my comments are fair and balanced, my trust was lost, it's something that we all experience, and trust is a large portion of how we all make our personal technology choices, I shared that and am living rent free in your h
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metalman
10mo ago
short, sweet, got the zam. for toxic waste sites (superfund), and land fills this checks all the boxes. Given that many of the older developed areas that have contaminated sites are also building out solar power, and pushing electricity pr
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metalman
10mo ago
there are other areas where munitions were dumped, and somewhere off SF is a dumping area full of DDT and chemical wastes in drums, lots of it. one thing is certain, in that far future humans will be able to date goelogical strata of our er
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metalman
10mo ago
the nuisance of another charger, little fiddly bits that are easy to loose, discomfort for some and expense,can add up the stress to the fuck it level personaly I like a standard 1/8 jack, as it is backwards compatible with a huge amou
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metalman
10mo ago
.....the squeeky wheel....gets the grease
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metalman
10mo ago
sure! why bother lying when you can just rip someones head off my favorite anecdote from living in the left end, was that f to m tranies quite often cant handle the T (testosterone) they are taking and give up, often with a new respect for
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metalman
10mo ago
-40 to +70°c operating range means that for most locations and uses, the batteries will not need heating or cooling, not sure about ventilation, but if that is also unnessesary then incorporating the batteries intofull systems becomes much
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metalman
10mo ago
just? decided! those two words realy dont go well together without citing precidents.
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metalman
10mo ago
call it 10 million customers @ $50/month +- $ 6 billion/yr, now. and for the near future starlink will remain the only possible service for much of the earths surface. I considered starlink, but found another solution(cell booste
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metalman
10mo ago
it's an add for apps that cost as much as a box of decent used pedals and rack mount gear. though "linux musicians" does appear to be a thing, and the bot used to check if you are human, is amusing and fully automated. https
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metalman
10mo ago
in the greek https://www.internetculturale.it/jmms/iccuviewer/iccu.jsp?id...
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metalman
10mo ago
My thinking is that China does not want to cause a regional arms race and so will want a very short decisive action(hours), and then quickly dismantle the whole aparatus and then leave taiwan as a "semi indipendent" territory with
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metalman
10mo ago
there are adults alive now who not only have never eaten or drunk anything that was not packaged/contained in plastic, they are also afraid of unpackaged food certain "grey" zone tracking and fingerprinting methods could easi
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metalman
10mo ago
the guy must have started consuming media in the womb and has an amazing ability to capture iconic characters and moments with the smallest possible numbers of pixles, the proof of that is bieng able to identify many familiar characters, bu
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metalman
10mo ago
The other parallel to what you describe is that the shift of populations from rural, agricultural areas to citys, is over in the west, no more strong healthy polite civilised people with strong work ethics, who knew that hard work would pay
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metalman
10mo ago
Tolls and public transit fares are regressive. We have removed all tolls here in Nova Scotia,including for small car ferry's , were not rich or populous,but are building out our infrastructure bit by bit to facilitate ease of transport
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metalman
10mo ago
AI has zero knowledge, as to know something is to have done it, or seen it first hand. AI has access to a great deal of data, much of it aquired through criminal action, but no way to evaluate that information other than cross checking for
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metalman
10mo ago
yes,but you wont care.
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metalman
10mo ago
then, selling people a better understanding of why they find things valuable, is worth a lot!
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metalman
10mo ago
we are designed to survive in a complex reality where threats and rewards are imediate, and the vast majority of decisions are governed by a pragmatism. our current reality is one where there the feedback mechanisms are broken, or self impo
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