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I'm just this guy, you know?

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There are people with a vested economic interest in making sure we don't help others, that's for sure.

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That's yet another thing I love about them. I decorated my kids' rooms with just some LEDs on tape and it looks awesome, and they can change the colors, and it was super cheap and easy.

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Yeah, I avoid anything internet connected unless absolutely necessary. However, there's a ton of LED bulbs with neat conveniences but no internet connectivity.

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Yep, and you can even trim it with scissors and connect pieces together. It's pretty neat stuff

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The thing I like most about LEDs isn't the reduced energy usage or longer life, though those are super nice. My favorite part is now that they're running cool enough we can add some brains to the light bulbs. Motion sensors, timers, color changing add a lot of convenience and you get it in the same form factor you're used to.

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Green ones are only used for decorative reasons, so the suppliers may make fewer green cords thus driving up the price.

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This is actually pretty cool:

The colleagues reported in Cell Reports Physical Science that by building a structure out of DNA and then coating it with glass, they have created a very strong material with very low density.

They use self-assembling DNA to build a lattice, which is then doped with microscopic glass. It's kind of like reinforced concrete but at the molecular scale. Scaling it up will be the hard part but the technique is pretty innovative.

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This map is why buying a spread of land near Banff has been my goal for a long time.

Also I like the word "Banff"

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When did skywriting go from analog to digital?

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My younger sister is FTM. She's always been a loud asshole, and I had hoped that maybe living as a man was the cause of it. Nope, still a loud asshole. Just with different hardware. Love her to death, though.

Way better than my crackhead Trump-supporting older sister.

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Trailer Park Boys. Something about that theme is so soothing

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I got sick of it and made up my own pledge:

I pledge my cheeses to the hag
of the untied snakes of harmonica
And to my public, the Richard Stans
One nation, under Zod, invisible
With liver, tea, and just us for all

What are the hardest hitting, aggressive songs you know about? (piped.video)

Dear community, often, when people mention they listen to “hard music”, I just don’t feel the energy in what they show me. Many times I get to hear just monotonous, noisy, wannabe-hard sounds, but they fail to “transport energy” to me. I am looking for absolute bangers, no matter the genre. Pretty much the pinnacle of...

What's with the corporate obsession with customer feedback?

If you contact the customer support of your utility company, phone carrier, bank, or other service provider you’ll likely be flooded with requests to rate the experience and provide feedback. Likewise, corporate websites and email communications often solicit feedback via embedded buttons or links to online forms....

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NPS is a way for lazy managers to avoid having to actually interact with customers. There's no way one number can encapsulate how a customer feels, but they're going to try because it's easier and cheaper.

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Considering the stranglehold that huge platforms have on users, it makes a lot of sense for organizations to have their own fediverse servers, with communities and access they control.

For example, a lot of governments use Twitter as a way to communicate in disaster situations. But since Elon lets anyone with a credit card have a check mark and bans people on a whim you can't trust that the account is a real one or that it won't be cut off in time of need. A Mastodon server would solve both of these problems.

What can a senior desktop support tech do who is burned out?

I am wondering what kind of career moves I have available to me because I am over the bullshit of desktop support. I have been brushing up on my Linux skills, learning docker, and doing a whole bunch of networking-related things. At this point, I am 46 years old. Would it benefit me to go back to school to learn a skill to help...

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Users are definitely harder to train than turkeys

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