kersploosh
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- Comment on How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends? 19 hours ago:
Yes. About 75% of Google’s revenue is from ads. Most of their free products exist to feed the advertising business in one way or another.
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 5 days ago:
Not like commercial AM/FM radio stations playing music, but radio in the more general sense. 5G cell phones and satellite-to-earth communication systems use that frequency range, for example.
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 6 days ago:
2.4 GHz and 5 GHz are both “ISM bands.” These are frequencies that regulators have set aside for unlicensed use.
Fun fact: 2.4 GHz is free to use because of microwave ovens. Microwaves are really noisy around 2.45 GHz. Rather than try to regulate their radio emissions, or make people license their kitchen appliances as radio transmitters, the FCC allocated that patch of spectrum for free use. Any device that can tolerate the noise can use that bit of the radio spectrum.
- Comment on I would like to change the capitalization of my username 2 weeks ago:
It appears that Lemmy usernames are case-insensitive. So in theory it should not make a difference.
- Comment on I would like to change the capitalization of my username 2 weeks ago:
Your account name cannot change, but you can make your display name whatever you want. Though various apps/UIs may only show one it the other. My app shows “Smokeydope” as the author of this post, but shows “SmokeyDope” when viewing your profile.
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- Comment on In a hypothetical revolution who would secure the resistances comms? 4 weeks ago:
GPS devices only receives GPS signals; they do not broadcast any data. So carrying a basic handheld GPS device won’t give away your position to anyone else. However, a smarter device like a phone or InReach emergency locating device can relay your location to others.
For communications, lots of people would suddenly get really interested in VPNs and encryption (for using the existing Internet), private wireless mesh networks (for city- and region-level communication), and even amateur radio. Owners of mesh nodes or radios would need to limit their broadcasting time and/or do a lot of moving around to avoid being located.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 1 month ago:
Agreed.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 1 month ago:
I would expect an invasion order to be a breaking point that causes US political collapse and possibly a civil war.
The military brass might very well break the chain of command and refuse to follow an order to invade Canada. While I think that would be the right move, it would be a major constitutional crisis and there is no resolution that would not send one political faction or another completely off the rails.
- Comment on It was Steve 1 month ago:
Nobody was hurt.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 1 month ago:
-cartilage in joints can regenerate
-body can synthesize its own vitamin c
Other species already do these things smh.
- Comment on Microsoft refund problem 2 months ago:
Microsoft’s store is broken. I have had a similar problem with Minecraft.
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Want to buy DLC for my kid in Minecraft.
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Get forwarded to the Microsoft Store to process the transaction.
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For some reason the money goes into my Microsoft account balance rather than going toward the DLC I wanted to buy.
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Cash balance in a Microsoft account cannot be used to buy Minecraft DLC, and cannot be transferred to a Minecraft account. (Why tf not? Minecraft is a Microsoft property.)
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I now have money stuck in the Microsoft account that cannot be refunded, and I can’t get the DLC I wanted.
This sucks.
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- Comment on So many options, such excitement 2 months ago:
Also possibly bad lighting, loud noise, or staring at a screen too long. Getting old is awesome!
- Comment on nd snow 🥰 i love securing barren wilderness for oil 2 months ago:
Don’t forget half of them get jungle duty retaking the Panama Canal from * checks notes * a peaceful ally who has been doing a fine job of operating it.
God, every day feels less like reality and more like a fever dream.
- Comment on Listening to NPR news about mortgages 2 months ago:
Yes, each generation dies off and passes its wealth to the next. But the boomers are an unusual case because they hold a lot more wealth relative to their size. Boomers and millennials each account for about 20% of the population. But boomers hold 50% of the wealth in America, while millennials only hold 8%. The wealth transfer as the boomer generation dies off is going to be massive. And most of that Boomer wealth is tied up in real estate, which will have a big impact on the housing market when it becomes available.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/296974/us-population-share-by-generation/
(Gen z Z is somewhere in the middle and I’m skipping over them, as is tradition. They wouldn’t want it any other way.)
- Comment on 25 hours of snow. 2 months ago:
I wish you could send some of your snow over here. I love the stuff, and I usually have to drive to the mountains to get to it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Seems like the world has moved away from that
Assuming that the world was once just, and recently changed to become unjust, is completely flawed. History provides endless examples of people with power and money doing horrible things and facing little or no consequences.
- Comment on is "oh boy" considered a gendered term? 4 months ago:
In a similar vein, I’m curious about the modern consensus on “you guys,” as in, “what do you guys want to do this weekend?”
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 4 months ago:
Or result in US businesses moving their trade dollars from tariff-affectrd countries to others that could really use the money, like Mexico or Central America.
- Comment on Why do leftist blame the Democratic for sabotaging Bernie Sanders? 4 months ago:
Yes, voters choose the candidate when they participate in the primary. But before the primary ever happens there’s a lot that goes on in terms of determining who will run in the primary, and what resources they have to run a viable campaign.
Political junkies talk about the “invisible primary,” which Vox’s Andrew Prokop, in an excellent overview, describes as “the attempts by important elements of each major party — mainly elites and interest groups — to anoint a presidential nominee before the voting even begins. … These insider deliberations take place in private conversations with each other and with the potential candidates, and eventually in public declarations of who they’re choosing to endorse, donate to, or work for.”
Clinton dominated this invisible primary: She locked up the endorsements, the staff, and the funders early. All the way back in 2013, every female Democratic senator — including Warren — signed a letter urging Clinton to run for president. As FiveThirtyEight’s endorsement tracker showed, Clinton even outperformed past vice presidents, like Al Gore, in rolling up party support before the primaries.
Not only did the DNC go out of its way to steer resources toward Clinton, there were leaked emails wherein party officials were brainstorming ways to undermine the Sanders campaign with negative messaging.
- Comment on How do you unban someone from a community you moderate? 4 months ago:
Using the default lemmy-ui you first have to find a post or comment that the user made in your community. Then you should be able to use the pop-up menu for that post/comment to unban them. It may be helpful to go to the user’s profile and search for a relevant post or comment there.
If you are comfortable using the API directly, you can send a POST request using a tool like curl or a browser plugin like RESTED. The site below provides a reference for formatting Lemmy API requests. You will need to get the community_id and person_id, and set ban=false.
https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/post_community-ban-user - Comment on Ding, fries ain't done 5 months ago:
It’s a cropped frame from this video, right around the 1:31 timestamp. Here’s a screenshot I took on mobile. Not the best quality, but if you have urgent memes to make it’ll do.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 5 months ago:
something as simple as a variety of colors took hundreds of years of technological advancement
If anyone is looking for a rabbit hole to go down, the history of pigments is a great one.
- Comment on Weather in New York City - December to January 5 months ago:
Winter weather on the northeast US coast is a battle between cold, dry air blowing in from the northwest, and (relatively) warm, humid air from the Gulf Stream coming up from the Caribbean. The weather is determined by which of those two forces is “winning” at a given moment, and it can swing abruptly when the balance shifts.
Expect cold, windy, rainy weather. But don’t be surprised to get snow and ice if those Canadians send a strong cold front.
The comment comparing New York to Scotland is a good one. Dress like you are going to Aberdeen and you should be just fine in New York.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 5 months ago:
In some places that is a strategy to satisfy zoning requirements. The builder has to provide a minimum amount of outdoor area per dwelling unit. They could create a large ground-level courtyard, or they can create a bunch of tiny balconies that sum up to the same total area. The ladder strategy allows a larger building to exist on the same lot.
- Comment on Why hasn't American football embraced AR and radio tech? 5 months ago:
Something is terribly wrong!
- Comment on Why hasn't American football embraced AR and radio tech? 5 months ago:
I assume part of it is to keep things competitive. Like how formula 1 limits the tech that cars are allowed to use. If the richest team with the best equipment always wins, that really takes the fun out of it.
Too much technology also can spoil the fun by being a distraction from the rest of the game. A few years ago there was a game where Jared Goff was receiving play calls through his helmet radio but his radio wasn’t working properly. He would just stand on the field looking stupid and helpless for 20-30 seconds before every play, trying to listen to instructions. It looked bad and was a lame experience for the fans.
- Comment on If the Federal Government wanted to make a new planned city, would they be able to use Eminent Domain? 5 months ago:
This is basically how the city of Richland, Washington came into its present form. During the Manhattan Project the federal government took over the town and some adjacent villages, evicting about 300 people, and built it into a bedroom community that eventually housed about 25,000 people for the nearby Hanford site.
- Comment on Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world? 5 months ago:
Your first point is technically correct, but 24-hour days and 7-day weeks are a de facto global standard at this point in history. There are outliers, like the Javanese 5-day week or the experimental 5-day Soviet calendar, but they are few and far between.
- Comment on Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good? 6 months ago:
Hillary lost because she didn’t do enough to incentivize people to vote for her.
Hilary got more than enough votes. She received 2.9M more votes than Trump. Her problem was that her support was much too concentrated in a small number of states. The Electoral College math punishes candidates in that situation.
