It's even sillier than that - 5x as much is 400% more. 399x as much is 39800% more.

Pipe dream, but I really wish we would make it illegal to use the terms "Buy" or "Own" for digital goods that can at some point not exist outside of your control.

I give you a dollar and get a DRM-free video file? That is buying.

I give you a dollar and can watch a video file an unlimited number of times in your app? That is not buying, and it should be fraud to claim that it is.

I'm in the same boat - zero ads in Sync for Lemmy until this last update. I just assumed the purchase from Sync for Reddit had carried over, but I guess either LJ changed his mind or it wasn't intentional.

If I remember correctly, they are allowed to have a thumb throttle if it's capped at 6km/hr (which is still very handy for starting, especially on a cargo bike). On a generic Bafang/similar motor controller, that's a purely software limit that anyone with a programming cable can change.

It depends on what you're building. If you want a normal rectangular house, 3D printing will be incredibly inefficient and pointless compared to traditional framing techniques.

On the other hand, if you want curved walls, traditional framing becomes incredibly complex and expensive, whereas 3D printing takes exactly the same materials and labour regardless.

I think 3D printing an entire house is just a gimmick, but it will still be an incredibly useful tool, even if only used for simple things like making rounded foundation pads or retaining walls that follow the landscape or curved hallways connecting modular buildings.

I'm mildly surprised OP's laptop keeps the bluetooth radio powered up while asleep, but I would be a lot more surprised to find one that doesn't work with USB HID.

The kind without pedals? "Balance bike" for the modern version kids use, or "Hobby horse" (I think) for the historical version that pre-dates pedal bikes.

I use a dumb 433MHz wireless doorbell (apparently this one on Ali Express, but the exact one doesn't matter) with a Sonoff RF Bridge running Tasmota. It's far faster and more reliable than anything with the smarts built into the button, and the battery lasts at least a few years.

I've got it set up to take a snapshot on the front door and driveway cameras, send a push notification with the front door camera, announce on the speakers that someone's at the door, and turn on the outdoor lights at night.

The doorbell was $8 shipped, the RF Bridge was somewhere in the mid $20s but I already had it for some door sensors, and if you don't already have a camera, a decent Reolink is under $150 shipped directly (or under $250 from a physical shop in NZ like PB Tech).

As long as the punishment is fair and not unduly harsh, I don't see any real problem with criminalising misinformation in general. It's already illegal to lie about facts in a great many contexts (e.g. fraud, perjury), and reasonable people don't have a hugely difficult time distinguishing a fact from an opinion.

As a trivial example: "This is mine and you can have it for a dollar" is not an opinion someone can be entitled to, it is a statement of fact that is either true or not.

Close guess - rocket engines are so loud that launch pads and test stands almost always need a water deluge system to stop them from self-destructing. If you have enough water in the way, the energy from the sound waves gets dissipated to a more reasonable (but still probably fatal) level.

I finally managed to convince my siblings to join me on a bike ride and we went over to Hunua on Sunday and did the easy ride from the top of Moumoukai Hill Road down to the Clevedon market. Highly recommend if you're in the area, and it was a ridiculously beautiful day for it.

It's the first nice day for a bit, so I rode the push bike in to work today. Forgot how slippery everything is in the wet and had a brief lie-down in the mud, but still made pretty decent time. I'd call it a fairly decent start to the day.

We had good weather for once, so I went for a reasonably long (43km or so) bike ride and then climbed [a very small mountain] (https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/auckland/places/mount-william-area/tracks/mount-william-walkway/) that we've been meaning to check out for a while.

I did the same except I did the lazy way for idiots: added a cheap USB network adapter to Home Assistant and connected that to a separate network switch. Reolink cameras have been rock solid and haven't complained about being air gapped from the internet.

tips on soldering

In addition to the other comments - if you're soldering to something that can sink a lot of heat (a great big copper connector, or the ground plane on a circuit board), you will probably need a fairly broad tip. A finer tip can't transfer heat fast enough, so you end up having to hold it in contact for far too long to get hot enough to melt the solder and (counterintuitively) you end up melting plastic or overheating components. Doubly so if you've cranked up the heat to help.

I figure it's just entitled people using them to stop someone else parking there when they leave.

Underneath the rocket for a launch, so probably less noticeable than all the fire and smoke.

Nothing special, any copper wire should work.

It uses induction - the base station sends a signal around the loop and the mower picks it up with a coil. The signal is inverted when the coil is on the outside of the loop.

Do you think your company would give you 5 weeks off ?

I just asked for an extra week of annual leave instead of a tiny annual payrise back in the early days of COVID and they didn't even bat an eye.

Assuming you have the ability to unpaid leave once your four weeks are used up, five weeks is the equivalent of a ~1.9% pay rise. It's a trivial cost in and of itself, though that is ignoring those jobs which are difficult to find cover for and might need hiring a temp or similar overheads.

It's not quite that bad (yet...) - it has reasonably clearly labelled subscription and non-subscription cartridges. So when you cancel the subscription, you just throw the non-subscription cartridge back in.

If you're printing quite a lot, but not enough to justify a laser printer, then they can work out okay. The vast majority of people would indeed be wasting money though.