Starbuck

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[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

I think that it’s more impressive to identify something that’s only 6.9x the size of earth, given that the smaller it is the harder it would be to detect.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Gabe Newell, the founder of Valve (Steam) had this to say

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem"

So many people are willing to pay if it’s a good experience. But if the experience sucks, people with money will find a better service, which in many cases ends up being free. If I wanted to have ads dumped everywhere while I watch videos, there are services that offer that “experience” for free.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (10 children)

It’s easier to get a warrant for his arrest from a grand jury for manslaughter because it doesn’t require motive, just a dead person. They can always upgrade that too murder if the investigation turns up something.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hate defending the guy, but let’s not make shit up. He’s trying to make a point about the cost of inflation on groceries

Trump began by highlighting inflation and hitting Harris on the cost of grocery prices as he stood between two tables full of food store items such as cereal, deli meat, milk, eggs, baby formula and bread with a sign saying, "Price Increases since Kamala Harris took office."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hold-press-conference-campaign-criticizes-harris-limited/story?id=112837924

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hate defending the guy, but let’s not make shit up. He’s trying to make a point about the cost of inflation on groceries

Trump began by highlighting inflation and hitting Harris on the cost of grocery prices as he stood between two tables full of food store items such as cereal, deli meat, milk, eggs, baby formula and bread with a sign saying, "Price Increases since Kamala Harris took office."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hold-press-conference-campaign-criticizes-harris-limited/story?id=112837924

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I think you can just ask most general purpose models to make a logo. I literally just asked Google Gemini “Create a logo for my starfinder company” and it created some reasonably good logos

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think this is something that is hard to overstate. Back in 2016, I went out to northern Pennsylvania to see a friend out there, and the amount of Trump shit I saw blew my blue state mind. Then I did another trip down to North Carolina and saw so much.

In 2020, I went out to both of those places again and there was a bunch of 2016 stuff out there, but not as much new stuff.

I haven’t been up to see my friend in a few years now, but driving through parts of North Carolina I don’t see anything, new or old. I think the rank and file are getting sick of him.

And on top of that, I think Democrats are genuinely excited about Harris Walz. Everyone I know in my blue state went from quiet resignation in voting for Biden to energized. Obviously it only matters if you actually vote, but hopefully everyone feels like they have a good reason this time to vote for someone instead of just against someone. It’s not enough to just win the presidency, we need to run up the numbers and take congress.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Vice presidents are by no means “next in line” for the nomination. It just happened to work that way this time, but it wouldn’t be weird if Walz was never the nominee.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

IDK man, it would be great if my crash cart or KVM only needed one cable. I can’t wait for USB-C on servers to be everywhere

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

That back texturing too. I still remember how it felt when I first took it out of the box.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aren’t the defaults set by your distro?

 

I know there was an avalanche of car manufacturers announcing the switch to NACS, but it looks like a lot of them are just giving drivers access to Tesla via a CCS adapter initially.

Has anyone announced a non-Tesla NACS native car yet?

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Surface noise (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Starbuck@lemmy.world to c/vinyl@lemmy.world
 

I have an older turntable, Philips GE 212 form the 70’s, that I got from a relative. I’ve had to do some modest repairs so far, and I’m still getting more surface noise than I think I should be hearing. Just an occasional pop every once in a while. My most recent project was replacing the needle I came with (AT DR300e) with a newer cartridge (AT VMN95e). I thought that was going to be then end of it. It does sound very good, a lot of depth, but I still get the pops.

I have a little record brush, and I don’t see any apparent dust. The air is pretty dry because it’s cold here and my heat is running.

I’m worried that there might be something wrong with how the cartridge is connected to the head shell, because it has these flimsy connectors that don’t hold tight anymore after 40+ years. The Philips 212 has a distinctive head shell, and I can’t find replacement wires. I wouldn’t be opposed to replacing the head shell next, if it’s necessary.

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