ShortFuse

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ShortFuse,

Pixel 8

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What’s kinda crazy is we could reimplement the notification LED with blue OLED now just via software. Just no one has done it.

Edit: It’s been done, but a quick Google search says it no longer works. I might get bored and write one.

Edit2: This one seems to be working fine for me.

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All English is based on etymology which is why it’s such a hard language to learn. Looking at how a word is spelled always takes second place to where it comes from.

GIF was pronounced with soft g since it came out, back in the 80s/90s when it was shared on AOL and CompuServe. Year, decades, later it came back into social media with Reddit and Twitter, and people pronounced it based on what it looked like it would sound like, which is most similar to hard g like gift.

That doesn’t mean GIF never had a soft g. It just shows how old you are or when you discovered it when you use the hard g.

ShortFuse,

Say gigantic. Now what you’re going to do next is stop with your ANTICs and enunciate the gig the same way.

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www.olsenhome.com/gif/compuserve-big.jpg

Since it was announced in 1987, if they mentioned the pronunciation it was soft G. The inventor and CompuServe would tell you it was soft G. CompuServe’s applications would tell you if soft G in their docs.

It’s even in the documentation of PNG which came out 7 years later that says soft G is correct in GIF, and they wanted people to pronounce PNG as “ping”, not “pinj”. (Yes, really)

See www.olsenhome.com/gif/ for more examples.

I hope someday we'll find a way to pirated a car (lemmy.world)

In the end, the KIA car company made its cars into subscription models, I really hate this because in the end the car we buy with our own money doesn’t feel like it belongs to us. Should we finally buy an old school car ? so as not to be affected by this subscription models or is there a way to crack the software installed in...

ShortFuse,

I have a Telluride. I’ve been downgraded to Lite which gives you notifications if you forget to lock your car. But remote start is no longer available.

The way it worked seems to be polling since you could wait around up to a minute for the car to perform a command.

The worst part is the car does not have “local” remote start. I’d have to buy another piece of equipment for that and install it. It’s not available at all on the key fob.

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I don’t know why you’re bringing up Palisade. The OP clearly says Telluride and the text mentions Kia. I have the same car, 2020.

You either have remote start over Kia Connect or key fob. It’s either, not both.

And a Reddit comment goes further:

No 2020 Tellurides in North America had remote start on the key fob from the factory.

www.reddit.com/r/…/telluride_remote_start/

See also: kiatelluride.org/…/2020-telluride-remote-start.18… (outside of US has fob)

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You can’t remote start with the key (at least on the 2020). It’s remote cellular start that runs on a ~40 second interval or nothing (or third party).

ShortFuse,

The Civil Rights era is so entrenched in American History, I can’t imagine a Black person being forced (by society) to wear one. And yet that’s the header image from this article.

ShortFuse,

Lemmy may have fewer people, but Reddit has lesser people.

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Unless you only had component connections then you had to plug the Yellow into the Green port.

Yes, seriously: …nintendo.com/…/unable-to-locate-a-yellow-video-i…

Also, don’t pick the wrong red.

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Nessa? We channelling Jar Jar Binks now? (All in good fun, OP)

ShortFuse,

My old 3500lb death machine (2002 525i) just recalled for unsafe airbags.

ShortFuse,

They seem to have gone from Square => Squarf and then remodeled.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/406f0bad-ed36-4d9e-91da-15e6acf506eb.png

They did not embrace the Squarf.

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Yeah, this is from the Google Maps business page from last year. The E turned to F around 2020 based on other photos. I guess they remodeled the whole thing instead just fixing it.

ShortFuse,

PNG was built to replace GIF and TIFF.

The Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format was designed to replace the older and simpler GIF format and, to some extent, the much more complex TIFF format.

And it stands to this day, with the exception of animation:

One GIF feature that PNG does not try to reproduce is multiple-image support, especially animations; PNG was and is intended to be a single-image format only.

Though APNG came later, and we even have MP4.

www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngintro.html

Bonus:

No detail was too small for consideration in the authors’ quest for a near-perfect image format; yea, verily, even the acronym and pronunciation were major topics of discussion. The reason, of course, is the GIF format; some pronounce it with a soft G like giraffe, some with a hard G like gift, and no one really knows what they’re talking about. (For the record, the soft G is correct; it is how the author of the format pronounces it.)

“PNG” is always spelled* “PNG” (or “Portable Network Graphics”) and always pronounced “ping” in English, not “pinj” or “pee en gee” or any other multi-syllabic disaster. (For non-English speakers, the three-letter pronunciation is fine, however.)

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I remember that being a feature in my 2002 BMW. Unfortunately, a Double DIN stereo was more important than the native controls. So I lost the ability to schedule the auto start time.

Edit: “Auxiliary heating” is apparently what it was called.

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As the age-old adage goes, “If there’s koala shit, you must acquit.”

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I looked up the plate (TLC records are public info) and it’s still in service.

Neat.

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At first I felt this wasn’t right, and then I flashed back to Whomp’s Fortress and scrambling to pick up coins from stomping on Whomps (and then picking up the 100 coin star).

ShortFuse,

He was so sad he shaved his mustache.

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