Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Is the Dell Latitude E7450 known to have severe battery longevity issues? I've owned mine for about 2 years and in that time it somehow completely fried 4 batteries. Granted, none of them were original ones but still I would think third party batts wouldn't be nearly this terrible..

At this point I'm not sure if I just got very unlucky with batteries or if my laptop is fucked. If it's the latter than this is really unsustainable and I'd start considering buying a whole different laptop..

Pls help?

As a reminder, modern standards of "cleanliness" for households were developed during a period when the wife in a family was expected to stay home and take care of the household full-time.

So if you are a single, or if you are part of a family where _both_ spouses work full time, and you just cannot seem to catch up with the household chores: Don't blame yourself! This is perfectly normal, and people and media telling you otherwise are putting pressure on you which is wholly unjustified.

Sure, households _should_ be cleaned now and then, but having them remain clean _all_ the time is an impossible standard in today's world for anyone who cannot afford outside domestic aid.

Can we acknowledge it's kinda fucked up that years of work went into Minecraft modding and it's still Microsoft's sole right to decide who can or cannot get to enjoy said mods.
And their right to profit off of all the value the modders generate without giving them a cent.
And that they charge approximately too much money for a single copy.

Oh Cards Against Humanity, I love you: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/cards-against-humanity-sues-spacex-alleges-invasion-of-land-on-us-mexico-border/

LOL this tho 😂

It really annoys me that the term VPN has been hijacked by companies like NordVPN, Tunnel Bear, etc. While they do use VPN tech as a core part of their product, what they're selling you is not a Virtual Private Network. Their selling you a network proxy, that provides dubious security and privacy improvements at best.

“How dare the user be allowed to install a rootkit on their device, that is the right of the manufacturer and the manufacturer alone!” — basically every single cybersecurity person

@xgranade I think I found it: https://web.archive.org/web/20121220041034/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/technology/data-centers-in-rural-washington-state-gobble-power.html

"In an attempt to erase a $210,000 penalty the utility said the company owed for overestimating its power use, Microsoft proceeded to simply waste millions of watts of electricity, records show. Then it threatened to continue burning power in what it acknowledged was an “unnecessarily wasteful” way until the fine was substantially cut, according to documents obtained by The New York Times."

Every number whose digits add up to 9 is divisible by 9.

Every number whose digits ad up to a number whose digits add up to 9, is also divisible by 9.

(And so on...)

You're welcome.

#math

this is the revolution that is transition. our revolutionary act is not dying. with every breath, we deal another blow, every time we are seen we help save another trans life.

our visibility is our greatest weapon. and they fear it. do not hide. make them hide from us. push their hate back into the shadows where it can rot, rejected and forgotten.

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