rtxn

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[–] rtxn 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Unless what it "looks like" disproves another conspiracy they've swallowed hook, like, sinker, cock, and balls; then whatever it "looks like" is a conspiracy to cover up "the truth"!

[–] rtxn 44 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Cybercriminals are creaming their jorts at the potential exploits this might open up.

[–] rtxn 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Surely you can. Modern electric stovetops use infrared radiation from a wire coil to heat cookware. The stovetop is covered with a ceramic that allows infrared radiation to pass through, and if you put something on it, it'll absorb the radiation as heat. The technology is also scalable to industrial applications.

I'll let Brown Jacket Man explain the principle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff04ecF9Dfw

(edit) My house has an electric water heater that was built in the Soviet Union. It uses a ~200-litre tank with a large heating element inside.

[–] rtxn 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)
  1. Better insulation.
  2. Heat pumps.
  3. By the time gas heating is eliminated, climate change will have solved that problem.
[–] rtxn 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In addition, the Earth's sudden stop means that OP's relative velocity is around 220 km/s because of the solar system's orbit around the galactic center. If OP is on the prograde side, they are launched through the air and evaporate before they have a chance to die in the cold of space. If OP is on the retrograde side, they immediately splatter against the planet with a kinetic energy of about 1.5 terajoules (assuming a body mass of 60 kg).

[–] rtxn 4 points 4 days ago

Now, if we were talking about one Nokia...

[–] rtxn 48 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Doctor Ignaz Semmelweiss in the mid-1800s suggested that obstetricians should wash and sterilize their hands before attending their patients to reduce the chance of postpartum infection. He was rejected by the medical community, ridiculed by colleagues, and eventually locked in an asylum where he was killed.

We're sliding back in time.

[–] rtxn 113 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Evaporated inside the Death Star's reactor -> Get Somehowed back into existence.

There's no superpower that compares to bad writing.

[–] rtxn 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] rtxn 25 points 5 days ago (5 children)

That's pretty much how he kept the public image of "eccentric genius" for so many years. I once read an article (can't remember where, don't care enough to search) that said that SpaceX had/has a team whose entire purpose was to babysit Musk when he had a temper tantrum. The team formed organically, like a cyst around a foreign object, and minimized damage to PR.

When Twitter was infested, it didn't have this immunity and now the world (or those of us who care) knows how much of a shithead he is.

[–] rtxn 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Riot was/is also a cesspit of sexual harrassment and discrimination, but nobody seems to remember.

[–] rtxn 31 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Embracer is a sickness, a malignant fucking growth on gaming.

 

For example, drilling or enlarging a hole can be boring, but fixing two pieces of metal together is often riveting.

 

It's a poor imitation. A mockery of the name. A GUI addict's idea of a CLI tool.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by rtxn to c/[email protected]
 

Not entirely accurate, the person on the side track should be a pile of money, but I'm too lazy to change it now. Also, imagine, like, flames coming from the bottom-right corner.

 

I recently switched from wireless to wired headphones (Samson SR-850, probably the best for the very reasonable price) and my chair's wheels instantly started eating its cable. Right now I'm using a small plastic hook that came with a face mask to keep it off the floor, but I'd like to hear other solutions.

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Important addition (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by rtxn to c/grimdank
 

Some things are just universally true.

 

I use this in Hyprland to quickly switch between the headphone jack and a USB wireless dongle. Executing the script will show a dialog that lists all available audio sinks, with the active sink selected. It requires pulseaudio or pipewire-pulse for the pactl program, and kdialog for the dialog.

 

In the alternate universe, Ford Renault is still a dick.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by rtxn to c/[email protected]
 

I think Starfield's main menu is neat. So I made it into a desktop widget. Files (including the stylized logo) here, wallpaper here.

I used the Chakra Petch font (AUR: ttf-chakra-petch) for the menu buttons, and Liberation Sans (with some editing in Inkscape) for the logo.

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"Shame on you!" - DT, 2023 (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 10 months ago by rtxn to c/linuxmemes
 

I'm not trying to attack him, but this is pretty funny.

Context: 11 days ago DT released a video where he called out the people who refer to Linux distributions as "Linux" as opposed to "GNU/Linux". Today he released a video where he did exactly that.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by rtxn to c/linuxmemes
 
 

I recently discovered that you can paste image data from your clipboard to a post or comment field, and it will upload the data and generate an embed link. I assume, since the clipboard is ephemeral, that the data is uploaded and stored on the server immediately.

What happens then if the embed link is removed and never used, but the file isn't deleted by the user? Does it just sit around in storage, collecting dust and taking up space, or is there some sort of garbage collection that detects unused files? What happens to embedded files if the post/comment where it is embedded gets deleted?

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