khannie

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I have to fly back home. My brother was forcebullay taken to the hospital for thirty days do to a mental attack. My quest is I have not carry on's or anything beside the ticket. Will the TSA target me in c/nostupidquestions
[–] khannie 1 points 4 hours ago

My dad used to say that all you really need when traveling is your passport, tickets and cash and that's true enough IMO.

It's brave though. At a minimum I always take clean t-shirt, undies and socks. It has paid off more than once.

What is the longest running side project that you still work on? in c/asklemmy
[–] khannie 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

How goes it?

What is the longest running side project that you still work on? in c/asklemmy
[–] khannie 3 points 4 hours ago

Good luck with it. Retro game corps does a decent overview of his setup which would probably help someone starting out. Pretty fascinating watch actually.

Recommendations: BifL Home hair clipper/trimmer in c/[email protected]
[–] khannie 5 points 1 day ago

I did this with a similarly old and heavily used Philips trimmer and it has lasted a good few years since. The Wahl ones are handy enough to take apart if memory serves so if you can I would also recommend going this route.

If you can get the casing off and post pics I'd be happy to offer advice if it's not something you're comfortable with.

AOC Snub Shows How Democrats Refuse to Learn Lessons of 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] khannie 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Too soon to expect that. They still haven't learned their lesson from 2016. A lesson from 2024 never stood a chance.

Footage of explosion in Moscow that killed Russian nuclear troops commander appears online in c/[email protected]
[–] khannie 1 points 3 days ago

As my old friend "backpack" would say:

Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom. Delicioso!

A bomb killed a Russian general in Moscow. A Ukrainian official says secret service was behind it in c/world
[–] khannie 15 points 4 days ago

SBU doing a superb job offing senior folks inside Russia. Hats off to them.

I somehow feel wealthy when my phone and headphones are both at 100% charge together in c/showerthoughts
[–] khannie 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The latest android versions on quite a few phones allow you to stop charging at 80%.

On my phone it's: settings->battery->charging limit.

It may be different on your phone so maybe just search for "80" in the settings menu.

I somehow feel wealthy when my phone and headphones are both at 100% charge together in c/showerthoughts
[–] khannie 9 points 5 days ago

Yeah spot on. Deleting.

I somehow feel wealthy when my phone and headphones are both at 100% charge together in c/showerthoughts
I somehow feel wealthy when my phone and headphones are both at 100% charge together in c/showerthoughts
[–] khannie 5 points 5 days ago

100% fair and I do generally follow that rule with my phone and mostly enable the "stop charging at 80%" feature but I've noticed two downsides to it:

  1. It occasionally needs a full charge / discharge cycle or it loses true 80%
  2. If I do it overnight I find the phone unusually warm in the morning which is quite disconcerting so I mostly manually manage it these days (OnePlus Nord 2T 5G). I'm hoping they fix that in the future.

I'm a bit more carefree with the headphones partly because it's harder to tell and partly because it's a much, much easier battery replacement.

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I somehow feel wealthy when my phone and headphones are both at 100% charge together (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 5 days ago by khannie to c/showerthoughts
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How tankies and MAGAts view the Ukraine war in c/politicalmemes
[–] khannie 2 points 6 days ago

Haha. That's great.

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What do you donate to? (self.asklemmy)
 

Coming up to Christmas I generally make some small donations. Some of these I ask for as Christmas gifts because I'm old and basically have very basic wants and needs so I'm hard to buy for.

Curious to hear if / what others do.

I've expanded my annual list to include:

  • Wikipedia
  • Lemmy.world (my home instance)
  • Mozilla (I'm not happy with how they spend their money necessarily but I'm very thankful to have Firefox)
  • Signal messenger
  • A few Ukrainian things (u24.gov.ua is the official site if this is your thing but there's a great lady on Reddit I give to occasionally too)
  • The guardian (I read so many articles from there linked on here that I feel like I should and I really appreciate the lack of paywall and easy cookie rejection but never use the site logged in)
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No! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by khannie to c/roughromanmemes
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Election results starting to roll in. This page will be updated constantly. (www.rte.ie)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by khannie to c/ireland
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Initial results look like a slight shift to the left. The candidates fielded on a hard right stance are taking a hiding which gives me hope for our little island.

Interesting about "the monk". That would be a cat among the pigeons if he gets in.

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Ukraine Sends Shahed Drones Back to Russia and Belarus Using Spoofing Technology (united24media.com)
 

95 drones were diverted using spoofing tactics that manipulate the satellite coordinates guiding the drones and missiles through Ukrainian airspace.

LOL

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What have we come to? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by khannie to c/roughromanmemes
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What's the longest you've ever had to wait in line to vote? Where in the world? (self.asklemmy)
submitted 1 month ago by khannie to c/asklemmy
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Me: Ireland - Approximately 2 minutes until poll in hand is the longest.

I've been seeing long lines for the US elections even for early voting. Seems completely unnecessary.

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Pashtunwali (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 month ago by khannie to c/wikipedia
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Pashtunwali (Pashto: پښتونوالی), also known as Pakhtunwali and Afghaniyat, is the traditional lifestyle or a code of honour and tribal code of the Pashtun people, from Afghanistan and Pakistan, by which they live.

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Moldova votes "Yes". (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by khannie to c/[email protected]
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They just crossed the line. Very tight race in the end.

Live tracker here.

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[Steam] Civilisation VI - 90% off (€5.99) (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 2 months ago by khannie to c/gamedeals
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Anyone ever buffed out small eyeglass scratches? What did you use and how did it go? (self.asklemmy)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by khannie to c/asklemmy
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Mine have built a decent number of very small scratches and they're getting annoying so I'd like to get rid if at all possible.

I've seen various things suggested including:

  • lens scratch repair kit (reviews don't look great on amazon)
  • baking soda paste
  • non-abrasive toothpaste
  • furniture polish (temporarily fills in the scratch from what I can tell)

I'm reluctant to try any of them without some first hand accounts. No lens coating on these so no worries there.

Thank you in advance!

edit: I just want to say thanks very much to everyone. I ended up getting my prescription emailed to me and buying a new pair for €17 (about $19 USD) delivered on a site that one helpful poster linked. Looks like they will take about 3 weeks to get here so I'll put up with the scratchy ones until they get here.

When they do arrive I will take some pictures and test the various methods I found online then post up what works and what wrecks the lenses.

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Me in 1993, first night in Moscow aged 16 having $2 "champagne" from the hotel lobby poured down my throat (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by khannie to c/oldschoolcool
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The stories from this trip are wild. edit: It was a school trip.

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