JustCopyingOthers

joined 2 years ago
[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

To some extent it is accurate. Only a finite amount of knowledge can be applied to a task and excess experience doesn't bring any additional benefit on its own.

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

CNN is reporting that the truck was carrying a large amount of fireworks, gasoline and camping fuel. These appear to have been intentionally ignited. The truck drove past the site of the explosion an hour before returning. The truck exploded shortly after stopping.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/us/cybertruck-fire-trump-hotel-las-vegas/index.html

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It's a nice tea-towel, but there are more than four castles in Wales.

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

The coating on the inside of the tube can behave like a Leyden jar caps can accumulate charge over time even without an obvious power source.

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Some awful app needed to start the game that always needs a protracted update using administrator privileges every time I run it, (on top of Steam which does pretty much the same thing), doesn't really draw me back to their products either.

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Which part of Kent? I hope it's not hanging around the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery!

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

USB-C is an absolute shit-show. Half a dozen types of identical looking cables all with different performance and compatability. They can be power only, USB-2 only, USB 3, 3.1, 5gb, 10gb. Some can carry 5A, others only 3A. Some may support thunderbolt. Cable sellers and manufacturers can/will claim anything.

For people selling USB-C devices it's a massive support problem. It looks like the device is defective, but someone may just have swapped out the cable for their phone charger cable and there's no way of telling.

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For Firefox: uBlock origin (of course)

Privacy Badger - controls which sites are allowed to use cookies

Mind the time - tracks time spent on various Web sites

Video DownloadHelper - detects media and allows you to download and transcode it.

Bitwarden - password manager

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It looks a bit fancy but it was common for muskets to be used as clubs when they'd been fired and there was no time to reload. I guess bayonets are the modern variant of this idea.

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I wonder what made youTube decide to fix this loophole? These days the vast majority of people use phone apps or smart TVs to watch. The number of people using Firefox plus ad blockers must be quite small and it'll be a constant effort to keep updating their anti ad block algorithms.

 

Finally watched Tenet. After all the hype and discussion on Reddit when it was released, I was expecting some sort of neigh-on impenetrable profound piece of cinema, but it's just Primer with action sequences.

 

Has anyone tried growing A Bay Leaf plant as a bush? I'd like something about 4' / 1.2m tall. I'm in the south of the UK. The location won't get direct sunshine for much of the day and very little at all in the late autumn, winter.

 

At the moment, using lemmy feels a bit like docking at one of those outposts somewhere between Colonia and the bubble. There's not much here yet, but you know its going to grow.