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Do you guys charge your phone with laptop charger(type-c)?
Yup. Usually the device being charged can scale down the power throughput so it's not getting 60W+ if it's not able to handle it.
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Do you guys charge your phone with laptop charger(type-c)?
Yup. Usually the device being charged can scale down the power throughput so it's not getting 60W+ if it's not able to handle it.
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Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying, Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters
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Just curious, why do you think Biden has to do anything? There's teams of people in charge of enforcing laws that don't need the president to tell them what to do. A CEO doesn't tell everyone under him what to do. He just expects them to do their job to the best they're able.
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Israel exposed
This is the same format of "source" my buddy would show me when he rambled on about COVID conspiracies. Or flat earth stuff. His source was always someone putting random images and text snippets together instead of a legit news/research source. We no longer talk about stuff and stick to literally nothing controversial.
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First attempt at a Little Free Library, going live on 9/9!
Maus, HHGTTG, Snowcrash. You've got a great selection there, fellow sci-fi fan! Hopefully others who borrow appreciate it as well.
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Anyone else who used to be on Reddit in the early 2010s remember how it used to be a Wild West?
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Every country has some shit people. It's inevitable. Just gotta hope us good ones make it better.
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When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, then have a look at the Lemmy.world status
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Here's another GUI tool that I used to migrate to my current instance. Kudos to both devs!
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FreeTube for desktop.
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What is a product you'll pay a little more for?
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Framework FTW
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Trump is “absolutely” immune for “official acts” on Jan 6th, SCOTUS rules
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While that is interesting, you realize before the 4 years you mentioned, Trump did everything he's in trouble for doing. He also established the supreme court we have. If Biden randomly died his first 5 months, we still would be in a similar (if not the same) situation. Every person who made this happen, would still have their previously established power. Training someone new would not have stopped this inevitability.
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TIFU moving my desk and squeezed out all the handcream on the floor.
Can you please type out the sound it made?
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Do you journal?
I keep a daily journal whenever I go on vacations (especially trips abroad). While I do take photos throughout the trips, I'm not taking them constantly. So lots of little fun/interesting experiences pop up that aren't captured.
My memory isn't the best either, so when I think back on trips I tend to remember the big things versus the little ones. Journaling at the end of the day or in the morning helps me remember the little things. Also, what I was thinking throughout it all. Like being stranded in Rottenburg ob der Tauber after my train was cancelled. Or when a little dog in the park did a front foot handstand and peed backwards. I couldn't get my phone out in time, but I wrote that down ASAP.
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What's a show that should've gotten cancelled or ended SOONER than it did?
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As much as I love Castle, I hated the "I need to do this myself to save you" mentality. Took like three different versions until the last couple episodes and "ok let's work together". Then I think writer strike or maybe actor discrepancies and it ended in such a flat way.
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[OC] Meow Wolf Denver - Colorado
Not sure if the image you used is super low quality, or the site hosting it is to blame. But it looks like a picture being shown on my late grandma's flip phone (the generic Walmart brand).
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Burgers and hotdogs with fresh pico
I think the pico in the top-right burger will mostly be eaten with a fork after it falls off. But everything looks delicious.
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TIFU moving my desk and squeezed out all the handcream on the floor.
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Haha, that's fair. But I'll admit I was looking forward to a weird combination of letters strung together.
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So, this cookie alert on theverge.com is both refreshingly honest and depressingly disturbing
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I just implemented a cookie consent bar on my company's website and the agencies/vendors who advertise for us were giving me so much shit for having reject available right away. But thankfully our Legal department said keep it there... Or else. "Hands tied..... Soooooorry!"
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not actually simpler times
Maybe comic book stores look really similar, but that reminds me of Graham Crackers in the Chicago loop.
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French president is considering imposing a state of emergency in the territory of New Caledonia
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I thought, "New Caledonia, I wonder how close to the French coast it is..." It's closer to Australia and no where near France. That island should have had it's independence long ago.
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The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 10-08-2023
I spent way too much time yesterday playing Blackice. It's a FPS game in a tron-like world. Graphics are in line with the colors and blocky edges. It's not a super deep game, but it's really cool when all the colors are splashing around and monster/programs are everywhere. It's an indie built by I think just 2 guys. Plenty to explore, unique items and modifiers.
I've owen it for a bit, but noticed there were a few updates so I installed it again.
Also, Division 2 and Battlebit. There's a trend.
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Have you ever been under general anesthesia? What was it like? Did anything strange happen?
I actually just had strabismus surgery this past Thursday. I was definitely nervous before going into the operating room, but I've been under before for a tonsillectomy. As I was wheeled on my gurney into the OR, they gave me a "half dose" of something to calm me down, but I didn't really feel much.
Getting in, it was all about the prepping going on around me. Doctors, nurses, residents, etc. all doing their thing. I had these compression-type wraps put on my legs that would squeeze every so often to prevent blood clotting. IV was on the top of my left arm (so much tape and adhesive I now have a few bald spots from arm hair being ripped - I'm a guy if that helps). I had white circles placed on the front of my chest and top of my shoulders which I believe tracked my pulse and such (also took hair when removed).
Everyone was nice, but there was definitely an efficiency and routine to the whole setup. My type of surgery is done regularly in that part of the hospital, so it's nothing new for them.
When it came time to go under, I was given the "other half" of the sedating drug (not sure on the name) and an air mask was held over my face. I was told to keep breathing in deeply. I did it for like 2-3 minutes before a doctor told the guy holding my mask to "increase it, you're a bit low". Maybe that was nitrous? As they were doing that, my arms were being strapped down and I joked if I needed a safe word since this is my first time using straps. They said sure, pick one. Before I could say "pineapples" I was waking up in the post-op area.
Everything was very bright and I was definitely groggy, so I just closed my eyes and let myself come back to reality. The right eye was covered in bandages and a head wrap with sutures just dangling from the inside corner of my eye - that was super weird and caught on the bandage frequently. Eventually I could use my left eye without squinting too much. I was given ice chips and tissues to clear my mouth out from the gunk buildup. Movement was pretty limited with the IV still there and not being able to move my eyes much.
It took about 2 hours before my mom was let in (she was the +1), then another 30 minutes or so for the surgeon to come in to wash my right eye of blood and adjust the sutures. That was a 3x process which wasn't painful, but really uncomfortable. I'd look at a light, they'd measure the eye movement between left and right, then lay me back and tighten the suture. Rinse and repeat until the doc was confident. Another 1.5 hours or so and I was able to leave.
Not sure if it's normal but I'd say I was coherent and ready to wear normal clothes by the 1.5 hour mark after surgery. By the end, I could move, change clothes, talk, everything, but hospital policy was to wheel me out. If you want to know about recovery after, I'd be happy to share - I'm on day 4 now.