GrumpyDuckling

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Immigration Agents Clash Again With Protesters in Los Angeles | Federal agents carried out more workplace raids, squared off with protesters, using what appeared to be tear gas & flash-bang grenades in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 5 points 1 day ago

Don't place a car airbag under a manhole cover, it's very dangerous.

DHS memo details how National Guard troops will be used for immigration enforcement in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 11 points 1 day ago

"Support our troops" was a way to deflect criticism of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was propaganda.

Rep. Mary Miller loses it over 'a Muslim' speaking in Congress in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That bitch is from Naperville.

iFixit Says Switch 2 Is Probably Still Drift Prone in c/games
[–] GrumpyDuckling -2 points 1 day ago

It starts to separate the bottom half of the stick housing when you push on them hard all the time and causes it to drift. That's why shimming them temporarily works.

iFixit Says Switch 2 Is Probably Still Drift Prone in c/games
Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead by a driver in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 26 points 4 days ago

They've written vague laws about leaving children unaccompanied unreasonably. If you leave your 13 year old alone for a week then that's child abuse probably. So this is the outcome of those laws.

She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down. in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

There's a big difference between a passive surveillance camera and a network of devices that logs every time you go past one of the 83k+ spots or a car equipped with them. It's warrantless tracking and a constitutional violation. They've already been declared illegal in several criminal cases, but it hasn't reached a higher court yet. There is a lawsuit over these but I haven't heard anything about it in awhile.

Edit: It survived a motion to dismiss and is moving forward in federal court.

www.yahoo.com/news/flock-camera-case-could-local-190000699.html

How one company plans to suck carbon right out of the air (and make money doing it) in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 8 points 1 week ago

Illinois just banned this practice in certain areas where the only source of water is underground. ADM in Decatur Illinois has a project which leaked under the lake and ADM lied about it for months. The funniest part is that local politicians were shocked ADM would lie like they didn't make a whole movie about it starring Matt fucking Damon.

Illinois House passes bill allowing terminally ill people to end their lives with physician’s help in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Illinois does stuff like this all the time. They ended cash bail a couple of years ago, and legal weed

This arcade stick uses the forbidden type A to type A cable in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 1 points 1 week ago

The blue cable is actually a USB cable but being used for pcie

This arcade stick uses the forbidden type A to type A cable in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I did it once with a mid atx that had only two slots but needed a card to boot and I wanted to put a networking card in the full sized slot so used one of these for the graphics card.

This arcade stick uses the forbidden type A to type A cable in c/[email protected]
[–] GrumpyDuckling 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Those pcie x1 to x16 adapters also use one.

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Images take a long time to load (self.lemmyconnect)
 

Images load at a very low resolution and take 5-10 seconds or more to fully load. Something changed a little while ago as I wasn't having this issue before. I tried clearing cache with no change.

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young people, what is the newest song that sounds dated/old to you? (self.casualconversation)
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Fatherless Rule (sh.itjust.works)
 
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Windows are tiny on Bazzite ( Fedora Gnome) (self.linux)
 

I bought my nephew a used thinkpad as a gift and installed Bazzite as it was recommended by the community. The text was tiny so I increased font size by 1.5, but certain windows like steam updating are still tiny and impossible to read. I want to give him the best experience possible out of the box. What setting do I need to change?

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Best file partition setup for Proxmox with separate drives for security camera recording? (self.selfhosted)
 

I have a small ITX pc with a 256gb ssd and two nvr drives for recording my security cameras. I have a google coral installed to run frigate. I'm doing a fresh installation and I'm not sure what the best partition setup is. I'd like to have all of my vm's and containers on the ssd and mirror the two separate drives just for video recording. I'll run backups of my vm's, containers, and configs elsewhere in case the ssd fails.

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Suggest me an audiobook please (self.books)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by GrumpyDuckling to c/[email protected]
9 comments fedilink
 

Preferably:

Available on Libby

Nonfiction

Not a biography/autobiography

Not a self help book or pop phychology

The narrator isn't annoying/breathy

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How would you set up a loaner google tv box? (library as an example) (self.android)
 

I'm looking into setting up android tv boxes or sticks for a charitable organization to loan out to people or possibly for their locations.

I have an ONN box with f launcher, button remaper, smarttube, etc.

I'd like to set that up and then when it comes back the hardware reset button can just be held down and revert to what I set up without going back to the out of the box state.

I think I'm looking for custom recovery partition or something like that.

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Which project would be best for a local community hub? (self.fediverse)
 

Mastadon? Lemmy? It would probably have to be standalone so people would't be turned off from the content from the rest of the fediverse unless there's a way to prevent federated content from showing on the instance. Just a place to post local news and discussions, maybe a place to sell secondhand. I live near a huge college with a major cs program, so I should be able to get users.

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Installed Budgie DE in Ubuntu and now no output from gpu. (self.linux)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by GrumpyDuckling to c/[email protected]
7 comments fedilink
 

Only getting video output from the motherboard. It did this with Budgie on top of stock Ubuntu and with the Budgie "flavor" freshly installed.

I have an Intel A310 in an HP prebuilt, so that's probobly the issue.

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Ranking the best vintage video games (25 years or older) (self.retrogaming)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by GrumpyDuckling to c/[email protected]
260 comments fedilink
 

If you think a game should be higher or lower in ranking, then upvote or downvote it. If you don't see a game on the list that you think should be on the list then create a top level reply with the name and system.

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The inside of a snowman could be warmer than the outside. (self.showerthoughts)
 

If you built a snowman during the day the snow only needs to be below freezing. It can get colder that night or the next day by quite a bit. The exterior of the snowman would be colder than the inside even though they're both frozen.

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FTC Posts $20 Million Settlement With Dealer Group For Alleged Deceptive Practices (www.seyfarth.com)
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