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Starayo, in What inconsequential or surprisingly good thing can I get from Aliexpress?
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I got some nice keycaps when I was building my first mechanical keyboard. Aside from that… Soldering gear, 3D printer parts… Cat toys, preflashed smart bulbs (so I can use them completely locally with home assistant), magnets… And generally any time I see something on Amazon that clearly is just rebranded Chinese stuff, and I don’t need it quickly, I can find it on there for a fraction of the price.

tobiah, in What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp?

Continued drinking or gambling. They cause huge problems, but the individual tries everything to fix it except for stopping.

Pratai, (edited ) in Be honest: if you had the power to stop time, your morals would go out the window.

No, they wouldn’t. Because real life isn’t like superhero shows.

thenewred, in What inconsequential or surprisingly good thing can I get from Aliexpress?

Diamond sharpening stones. Still waiting on mine but they were cheap and I got the grits I wanted. Somehow I keep ending up putting new edges on knives, chisels, and other blades. I hear diamond stones remove material faster.

state_electrician, (edited ) in Spotify Wrapped 2023 is out, what's your top artist and top song for the year?

I’m in the top 3% of listeners for Sabaton, but my most played song was 59 times Another Love by Tom Odell. And I’m an alchemist because I create more playlists than other users. Overall I listened to 44 genres.

wafflez, (edited ) in What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp?

Choosing life over taste pleasure. We don’t need to commodify animals.

FireTower, in What inconsequential or surprisingly good thing can I get from Aliexpress?
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If you 3D print, heat inserts. You can use them to insert metal threads into a printed object with a soldering iron to allow you to use standard machine screws in projects.

deadbeef79000, in Be honest: if you had the power to stop time, your morals would go out the window.

Ah, the Christian argument.

Me, personally? My morals are not defined by my own ability to weild power. Except maybe where the power to make someone else’s life better is morally right.

The average person is a fuckingidiot and would expertly execute the “time travel” equivalent of taking a shit with their pants on.

Joker, in whats your november wifi usage??

September: 3256 GB October: 2909 GB November: 1851 GB

Bishma, (edited ) in What's your favorite compilation album?
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The non-soundtrack compilation that first comes to mind is The Duran Duran Tribute Album. It’s all covers of Duran Duran songs and, because it was released in the late 90s, there’s more than its fair share of ska.

There are a lot of great tracks. My highlights are Goldfinger’s version of Rio and The Wesley Willis Fiasco’s cover of Girls on Film.

This album made me realize that Duran Duran was about 20bpm away from being one of my favorite bands.

reddig33,

“His name is Dio. Ronnie James Dio!”

Bishma,
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Oh wow, “Dio” would be a great name for a Lemmy app. 🤘

PrinceWith999Enemies, in So Kissinger must have had use to someone? What did he do right and for who?

There’s a very good podcast called Behind the Bastards that did an extremely expansive profile on him covering (iirc) his childhood to his retirement.

Max_P, in whats your november wifi usage??
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  • August: 75GB
  • September: 94GB
  • October: 88GB
  • November: 80GB
QuarterSwede, (edited ) in whats your november wifi usage??
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Oct: 1.8 TB Nov: 1.8 TB Guess we’re consistent.

This is over 500/500 fiber and a family of 5. We could go up to 10Gb but we wouldn’t see more use out of even 1000/1000 so why pay more?

user224, in What inconsequential or surprisingly good thing can I get from Aliexpress?
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Probably the best thing I got there was clone of RSP1 with selectable band pass filters for €20. 10kHz - 2GHz range with up to 10MHz of bandwidth in Zero IF mode, although it seems it’s more like 8MHz that’s actually usable. It’s not sold where I bought it anymore, but maybe you could still find it.
It’s this one: https://i.imgur.com/ic2dflg.jpg

The only problem is compatibility, and the fact that I had to install some proprietary API from SDRPlay on my laptop as a SystemD service.

ultranaut, in What inconsequential or surprisingly good thing can I get from Aliexpress?

Ridiculous pillows/stuffed animals.

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