turmacar

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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I now deeply want to hear the call to prayer sung in English in a heavy Minnesotan accent. Any accent really. LA, Texan, Georgian (state, not country; you know what, either).

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yes and no. The one the Nazis used was / is also a symbol used in Asia. (And really, everywhere. It's a fairly basic pattern.) The Nazis used it because of their obsession with Aryans. Sometimes it's at an angle, sometimes it's not.

Generally in the west, unless it's on a statue of budda, any swastika-ish symbol since the ~1930s is going to be a reference to Nazis though.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Modern specs are complicated. I vaguely remember something about a cryptographic key the driver needs to be signed with to successfully complete the handshake to enable all display options between the computer and display.

Not entirely unwarranted either, an unexpected amount of voltage on an unexpected pin because the driver / hardware is misconfigured damaging your TV would suck. (Still sounds like the Forum is being a dick about it though.)

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

There's a whole cycle of perverse incentives with University Press.

The underlying research is necessary and valuable but the marketing arm of universities blow everything out of proportion.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, fair enough. Though I'd probably swap Gideon and Ancillary.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm sure there are reasons but it's always seemed like a lost opportunity that the Steam app doesn't work as an app store for mobile games on phones.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (7 children)

~Halfway through atm and enjoying it, reminds me a bit of Ancillary Justice. Didn't know it was a series. What's your runner up?

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'd settle for something like the Red Magic 11 with better cameras from them. Saving a couple millimeters instead of having a bigger battery and flat back is silly.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Back-feeding the grid during an outage is the main concern. One panel isn't going to hurt a line worker. A neighborhood of them might.

"Normal" installations have a transfer switch of some kind between the house and the grid to prevent this. Which means a permit and electrician.

Don't know what's different about these panels / installations that makes them safe without that.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That might stop them if they cared enough to read.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

That's true, but I also think there is a stark difference between a low quality 'off the record' recording and standing at the official podium taking questions from vetted journalists to a live feed on every news network.

Anyone paying the slightest bit of attention has known he is, at best, an odious man-child for years. But a lot of people actively try to avoid paying attention because they've been trained that it's "just politics" instead of the infrastructure that impacts every aspect of their lives.

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