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[–] john89@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Fewer parts means cheaper to manufacture.

Don't be fooled; they're only doing it to increase profits because our standards aren't higher.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sigh.

The grift continues.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

This is a consumer board at its core.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Good lord.

Imagine giving an institution like that your money.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Tuta won't let you check mail unless you give them a phone number or pay, if I recall correctly.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

At some point we need to adopt some fucking privacy laws. This is absolutely bonkers—is no one else fed up??

Look at you, trying to use the government to solve every day problems that face pretty much all of us.

Don't you know we only focus on gridlock issues to distract us from real issues now?

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

Yes. Don't forget your phone number will be exposed to the public when the business gets hacked.

Not if. When.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

which is baffling only until you realize

I stopped being baffled when I realized most people are dumb as shit.

It's just a fact of life, and we either see it or we don't.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (13 children)

This is actually good news.

The war on drugs is a load of bullshit.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Gravity bombs sound way cooler than they actually are. They're just bombs that fall to the earth normally with the force of gravity. No propulsion or anything.

Personally, I like reserving the name "gravity bombs" for a bomb that pulls things in.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

The problem is that the average person has been conditioned to live vicariously through these oligarchs and their children.

This generation has sold itself out. Being a useful idiot is cool. Fighting back against the disparity in wealth, I'm not joking, makes you worse than pedophiles in the eyes of the average consumer.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

while 44% of humanity lives on less than $6.85 per day.

Always gotta hammer that point home for the morons who say "$1 million isn't a lot of money".

 

So, apparently the chrome/geckodriver processes will terminate on their own if the user sends ctrl+c to the console. It will not terminate on its own if the program finishes running naturally.

If you're interested in terminating it on your own, like I also was, here is how I went about it.

use std::process::{Child, Command};

fn main() {
	let mut s = Server::default();
	s.start();
	s.shutdown();
}

struct Server {
	child: Option<Child>
}

impl Default for Server {
	fn default() -> Self {
		Self {
			child: None
		}
	}
}

impl Server {
	fn start(&mut self) {
		self.child = Some(Command::new("./chromedriver")
			.spawn()
			.expect("ls command failed to start"));
	}

	fn shutdown(&mut self) {
		input(None); // wait for input so you can observe the process
		self.child.as_mut().unwrap().kill();
		self.child.as_mut().unwrap().wait();
		println!("shutdown");
	}
}

pub fn input(prompt: Option<String>) {
	let mut input = String::new();
	match prompt {
		Some(prompt) => println!("{}", prompt),
		None => ()
	}
	io::stdin().read_line(&mut input).expect("Failed to read input");
}
 

The streaming sites listed on https://rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv#streaming have plenty of duplicates. Essentially, they're the same sites with different names/skins but the exact same content.

It would be beneficial to the community if we could consolidate these down into groups according to which ones are the same.

We can still list all of them, but perhaps do it together so people don't waste their time trying out the same site under a different name.

 

I've printed similar objects with a different colored PLA, but I ran out of it and switched to this.

Is it possible that this could be influencing the outcome?

I have tried reducing the printing speed by 50%, but this did not seem to have a significant impact.

[SOLUTION] The problem was a loose screw. The offending part as well as the new result are pictured below. It's not perfect, which I guess is actually a part of the model this time, but it's good enough for my purposes and way better than what it was before.

I figured this out by twisting the Z-axis thingy manually all the way to the top to see if I could feel any issues. Towards the top, it would start to 'skip', where I would turn and pretty much nothing would happen. I assume this has to do with the lack of lube at the top because my prints rarely go that high. I checked to see if the screws were loose, and sure enough, the top one was. I tightened it up and now my printer is printing like the beast I remember!

 

Isn't it enough to just enter your password once to login, then receive a warning whenever you're about to do something potentially dangerous?

If it's such a big security risk, how come the most popular and widely used operating systems in the world and their users seem to be unaffected by it?

I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.

 

Does anyone else think Gray Fox is kind of inconsistent? I just finished MGS1 (again) and he said fighting was the only thing he was ever good at, but at least he "always fought for what he believed in." Did he believe in killing Naomi's parents? What about all the other innocent people he's killed? I'm reading through the stories of MG1 and 2 to see if it would shed some light on this, but nope. It looks like Gray Fox is a legit madman with no morals that just wants to kill Snake. I mean, he even kills the lady he was engaged with and doesn't bat an eye. That really doesn't sound like "fighting for what he believes in," unless he's just admitting he's a shitty person when he said that line.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_Petroleum_Holdings#Paria_Fuel_Trading_Company_diving_tragedy

Of course, there is no direct admittance of "we knew it would be cheaper to let them die."

Instead, they say "we had no legal obligation to rescue them." That's the answer for the people who were born yesterday.

Big oil truly is a disgusting thing.

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