What BIOS setting are you changing? Secure Boot?
IcedRaktajino
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Would love to have one of those. Guess I'll have to settle for 3D printing one and hacking up a Bluetooth headset/speaker to make it work.
I saw that, but it's November 19 already. So they've either not restocked or have sold out already.
I clicked a few of the "Where to buy" links from the bottom, but only the non-Bluetooth ones were available.
I have an old rotary phone / bluetooth "headset"! Though it's only technically portable.
It's a 50's wall-mount model that the phone company would have hardwired (no RJ-11). I've got it hooked to a Bluetooth -> POTS adapter that will decode the pulse coding. It rings when my cell rings, you can answer/place calls from it, and you can dial 0 to engage the voice assistant. Technically speaking, I can absolutely text people from a rotary phone.
Is it practical? No. Do I use it? Rarely. It's mostly decorative, but if I'm going to have retro tech as decorations, I like to make it work. Next "wish list" is an old payphone.
not amazing as a Bluetooth device. Microphone didn't pick up super-well
That's disappointing. Seemed to work well in that video, though it was quiet; I did wonder how it would fare in the real world, though.
A Bluetooth version of the TMP communicators might have better success albeit at the cost of having to hold your arm up for the whole conversation.
I've used smart watches for phone calls like that, and it was pretty annoying after not very long at all.
I could probably easily make a Bluetooth TOS communicator, but that would be two roughly phone-sized things to carry around, so not really practical.
OTOH:
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is circulating a draft bill to stop the implementation of a hemp THC product ban that President Donald Trump signed into law—saying it will “effectively turn out the lights on America’s legal hemp farmers, preempt the work being done in states to create regulatory frameworks for hemp products and restrict consumer choice for the tens of millions of Americans who use hemp-derived products.”
I mean, Nancy Mace is a lot of things I'm too nice to say (even pseudo-anonymously on the internet), but broken clocks and all that.
In my (non THC legal) state, there are two hemp companies, both veteran-run, that the hemp THC ban would effectively shut down. All of their products are lab tested and high quality. Such a shame. I, sadly, don't foresee my state's reps signing onto this.
Reminds me of a still from Portal 2.
I always assumed that ships would be outfitted with enough concentrated anti-matter to last the expected lifespan of the ship, or at very least the mission they're on
I was thinking something like that, too. Kind of like how nuclear submarines are outfitted today.
I'm more curious how they store the antimatter
That one we do have answer for. There are antimatter pods that have built-in containment fields to prevent it from reacting with normal matter. In today's tech, it would basically have the antimatter inside a magnetic field in a vacuum chamber.
That's dark matter rather than antimatter, but I still lol'd. Unfortunately, joke answers aren't allowed in Daystrom (otherwise I'd have posted to the main Star Trek community).
Not that this makes any of the other answers wrong, but the actual answer is that it was probably a 30-day temporary instance ban.
When a remote account is instance banned, it's automatically banned from any communities on the instance it has interacted with and uses the same expiration date and reason as the instance ban. Lemmy does that automatically in the backend.
If you're viewing the modlog from another instance, however, you don't see the instance ban (only the community bans federate) so it makes it appear the mod is having a hissy fit.
Again, and given the instance involved, this does not mean any of the other answers are wrong, lol, just incomplete.
I can't believe I'm tacitly defending Reddit, but I've seen equally or more disgusting questions in the "Ask" / "No Stupid Questions" communities here. Thankfully they got modded.
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"Smart" devices have turned me 180 degees from a tech enthusiast to quasi-Luddite.
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Can anyone help me identify this wifi antenna connector. Like U.FL but smaller? [Solved]
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Solved. Thank you @sandbo00@feddit.org . It's an MHF4 connector. Will leave the post up for future people with the same question.
I've been playing around with an Orange Pi Zero 2W the last week. When I finally got the point of putting a case together, I was going to replace the little whip with a U.FL->SMA cable for an external antenna. However, the U.FL connector is too large for this.
This connector is the same form factor as U.FL but about half the size.
Is micro U.FL a thing? My Google-fu is failing me, the acronym stew is thick here, and I'd really like to wrap up this project with a nice external antenna. OrangePi hasn't been helpful - they just call it "Wifi + BT Antenna connector" like that explains it all lol
The DVD screensaver was perfect: unobtrusive and did what it was supposed to do: prevent your CRT screen from burning-in an image. On top of that, it gave you something to look forward to when it would perfectly hit a corner (which some people thought was a myth; sadly the GIF version does not).
Now, any screen in your home is fair game for intrusive ads. Why make something simple, elegant, functional, and unobtrusive when that otherwise idle (or even in-use!) screen can be crammed with ads.
Laptop-style speakers may be just enough. It would be tight and maybe the badge would have to be enlarged slightly to accommodate it, though.
I did a deep clean of my laptop not long ago and was surprised at how tiny and flat the speakers actually were. They won't fill a room, but they're enough for light music or a Teams call at arm's length. Granted, it might not be good in a noisy area, but that would be a problem for the mic as well (not to mention public speakerphone use is kind of frowned on lol).