randint

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Probably not. Even in China, where there's the Great Firewall of China blocking stuff from the outside, VPN is not illegal. Of course it's illegal to use it to connect to the outside, but the officials don't care enough to enforce it.

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Very true. I used to poweroff my laptop every day, but now, after getting into servers, I sometimes leave my laptop up overnight (even though the laptop isn't the server)

I see! Wow, sugarfree Coca-cola has no labels!? Yeah I guess it wouldn't get any of those five but I would never say it's healthy. Maybe they should revise the standards for the labels, especially if they're gonna make a snack marketed as healthy that gets 3 seals. Seems like being made from natural ingredients (such as cane sugar instead of sweeteners) and without flavorants or colorants (opposite of what Zero Coke did to not get any labels) is one of the big selling points of this chocolate bar, so perhaps it would be a good idea to account for this with the seals somehow. But then people might think the government is just changing the standards to their conveniences so I don't really know.

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Now I don't really know that much about their system, but I would assume that almost every sweet would get at least one seal unless it's made very healthy and not a sweet anymore? I don't really speak Spanish, but in the link you sent there is an illustration of a girl smiling and holding a bag of cookies with two seals and with sparkles on the bag. Maybe the point is to choose the ones with fewer seals, and not to try to go for none?

Haha not actually. In Chinese maybe when doctors talk with each other they sometimes will use the English term (by this I mean the Latin/Greek-origin one), but mostly they translate the word bits (morphemes) one by one to Chinese (低血鈉, where 低=low, 血=blood, 鈉=sodium). They never ever use the English term to patients. You won't be able to find anyone in China or Taiwan who knows what "hyponatremia" means unless they're in the medical industry or they're just very good at English.

It's conforting that I wasn't the only one who found this concerning. But anyways I don't have Google (the app; I do have some other Google services installed) or Gemini installed.

I lost it at "root it and install Graphene." GrapheneOS does not work with rooted devices, and rooting is considered a security risk by the Graphene dev team haha.

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can anyone explain why this post is funny to me? I don't know much about Interstellar.

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 13 points 2 months ago

loled at how the name of the Chinese guy is just "generic Chinese name" put into Google Translate

Yes, haha, I saw your other comment about this off-by-one issue. Interesting that it happens at all.

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is there any specific reason to using 31 random characters instead of 32?

Thank you! I'll try that out.

 

Photo taken yesterday (2025-02-08) at a supermarket in Kyoto, Japan.

Alt text: A picture of the eggs section in a Japanese supermarket. There's a 10-pack of eggs going for 215 Japanese Yen, which is about 1.42 US dollars.

 
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Remove text on TPE phone case? (lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

Hi. When I got a new phone a couple weeks ago, it came with this really nice, name-brand (not giving names here) phone case. It's really rugged and feels great on the hands. It's also one of the most premium phone-case options out there.

Unfortunately, the case is plastered with the text: Pixel. The only phone engineered by Google. I really don't enjoy being a walking advertisement for Google, but leaving such a great case lying around is quite a pity.

So I wanted to ask if there's a way to remove the text that would not damage the case itself?

The case is made of TPE plastic according to its packaging. I thought about just scratching it off cause it does seem to be some kind of layer on top of the case, but I'm worried it won't be removed cleanly and might even leave behind scratches.

Is there another way? Is there some kind of solvent able to do this job?

Here's a closeup if that helps.

Thanks!

Edit: I have decided to uncensor the words.

 
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Pansexrule (lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

Image description: A picture of a bald man in his 40s. The man is hugging a pan tightly and affectionately and smiling as if having this pan were all he could ever ask for. The pan is a grill pan, which is square in shape and has ridges on its bottom. This picture is printed on a door in a mall.

 
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