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    What ya nerds set your thermostats to?

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    23-25 in the winter (depends on humidity), switched off in the summer.
  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zoneU

    Here to add that this is my problem too, and I have a therapist...

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    What popular TV show did not do it for you and you quit watching?

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    Came here for Buffy. I remember the film which was entertaining fluff, but then the series came out and almost immediately I hated it. But all of my friends loved it. Every so often one of them would try and persuade me to give it another go but everytime they did it was always by showing me the same fucking episode ('Hush', I think it's called) where no-one speaks. I guess I just don't enjoy looooong series which are more soap opera than they are story.
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    Does journaling really help to maintain a profound psychological state?

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    appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comA
    r/privacy [email protected] lol piracy vs privacy Nice spelling miatake. But it still fits and checks out. I'd assume sh.itjust.works is just primarily IT related communities
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    > producing back pressure and causing the testicles

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    That's nuts.

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    parents are hoarders, so they have an an infestation right now, the mice are too smart for the bait stations, only the naive young ones ends up eating it, and most of them dont even die from it. we recently bought these lulucatch glue traps from amazon for under 25 for 48, it has been very useful because we have so many of them. but mice will figure out the traps and avoid it at some point, the only way was they panic and frantically run into a trap. we did catch quite a few recently, only 1 breeding mice was caught so far, judging by the size of the mouse. Also make note, that mice will not fall for the same traps, or if they smell human scent on it, so dont reuse any traps. the glue traps we use are much larger than the ones we originally used, so more surface area for catching mice. glue boards work to, but much more expensive.
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    What do you miss from reddit?

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    the OG communities, that were banned in '16-'17 because the gop started labeling alot of platforms as violent. P45 caused so many people to be overly sensitive, that reddit started banning in large numbers to cull the herd. and most cities subreddits have been taken over by right wingers.
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    Is there anything people on the internet won't claim they are an expert in?

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    ai and crypto, to a lesser extent, it seems. edit: I misread the post and didnt see the word 'wont'
  • kolanaki@pawb.socialK

    I come here.

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    It’s going to sound dismissive, but I don’t go to others.

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  • klu9@lemmy.caK

    Name of exercise machine (?) with three concentric rings and a person strapped into the middle spinning in all directions?

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    Its called the insane-o-flex... At least in aqua teen hungar force colon movie for theaters thats what its called. I never saw any other movies with one but your drawing got me to realize aqua teen was obviosly doing a parody of them.
  • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT

    What are three questions you can ask someone new to know if they are friend material or not?

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    Enterprise D - I like the carpet. Heath Ledger. Immolate - I'm not a destroyer, but $20 is $20.
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    How many languages can you say Please and Thank You in?

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    I know some, I guess, hope I do not butcher them: German(native): Bitte/ Danke (sehr) or Vielen Dank, English: please/ thank you (very much), Japanese: どうぞ or おねがいします or ください/ (どうも)ありがとう(ございます) (Which is douzo (when you offer someone something, I think, onegaishimasu/kudasai (if you want something or someone to do something, which is following the request.)/ (domo)arigatou(gozaimasu), Norwegian: vær så snill / (tusen) takk, (Which is like "Sei so gut/lieb"/ "Tausend Dank" in German.), Romanian: vă rog or te rog (formal/informal)/ mulțumesc ((foarte) mult) or mersi (mult) (ă is a short a, I guess and ț is like the ts from "its", or a German z) French: s'il vous plait (that one I had to look up on how to write)/ merci Polish: proszę (bardzo)/ dzięki or dziękuję (bardzo) (Like proshe/ djenki/djenkuje)(ę is nasalized) Portuguese: faz favor or por favor/ obrigado or obrigada (male/female) (o is spoken like an u) (I do not know much Portuguese (like French and Polish), in my book (European Portuguese faz favor and por favor are used, but I do not know the differences.)
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    Where can I get news about today's 50501 protests? There seems to be frighteningly little news about this in the mainstream media.

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    The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox In four parts without commercial interruptions
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    What is something you learned in your line of work that other people wouldn't know

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    I have some gov contracts and I can confirm this. Also: the big complaint about working with gov is either apparently expensive stuff and/or apparently slow progress . Reality? We as citizens require a crazy amount of justified checking and validation from every part of gov because it affects people's lives that things take longer and cost more to do right ... and many times that to back out a fuck-up and not kill anyone. (Oh Hi Elon)
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    How did you choose your junk email address?

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    That's really poor OPSEC. I just visited your github and found the email, because you have no clue how git works. haveibeenpwned.com shows that this email is in 23 data breaches. Now, I can download the ParkMobile data breach and find your license plate and possibly phone number. If I would have the Slickwraps or Straffic breach then I would also be able to get your address. I can also download Collection #1 and get one or few of your old passwords. Your OPSEC can be broken in few minutes by a random internet stranger.
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    Am I a bad person? I have mental illness :(

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    If hurting a person makes you a bad person, then everyone is a bad person
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    If you knew the internet was going to be shutdown, damaged, or colossally enshittified what software would you archive for use locally and use for a neighborhood/town mesh network? Why?

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    I need 800 GiB to host a Gentoo distfile mirror. This is what I would do.
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    Maxtor Personal Storage 3200

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    So, my first goto with an unresponsive external would be to remove the drive from its enclosure. Typically these are retail internal hard drive that are put in an enclosure with a small circuit board that converts SATA to a USB or firewire and sometimes those die. If you "shuck" the drive and connect it directly to a computer internally via SATA you can bypass that board. Next step is put the drive in your freezer for an hour or so then pull it out and connect it immediately. Sometimes this frees them up and makes them work for a short while, enough to copy some of the data off. Drives not being recognized also sometimes happens if they corrupt one sector that's part of the file system tables and not the actual file system. The drive may be there but not have a file system for windows to read So there's some other tricks you can try using Linux tools to dump the exact bit for bit contents of the drive, and pass them thru an analyzer that will try to pick out what's likely of the file structure. However, still given the drives age, I'll almost guarantee it's experienced a full mechanical failure and there might not be anything to recover...
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    Don't you like a little apocalypse tease?

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    "I hate fun and having conversations with people" K