LappingDog

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[–] LappingDog 47 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

I voted for Harris walz, but I think a lot of this is the fault of Biden for trying to run for reelection and sticking it out until July. I live in the south and I think the lack of a primary reallly hurt the ticket because a sizable portion of the people I’ve talked to felt like she was appointed instead of being elected, which is a bad move when public trust in our institutions is already at an all time low.

[–] LappingDog 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah that photo of the trail looks so dang good, makes it suck to have to work on Monday.

[–] LappingDog 7 points 6 months ago

Is there a number on the break even point where it’s better for the environment to buy a new EV than to keep driving an old ICE vehicle? I bike most days when I don’t need to buy more than a backpack of groceries or go more than 3 miles. Surely when you consider the carbon cost of refining materials and constructing a whole new vehicle, it doesn’t make sense in most situations for people who drive less than 30 minutes a day on average. This is of course assuming you have a current vehicle, new vehicles should have to be hybrid/EV in the modern era.

[–] LappingDog 0 points 9 months ago

Still more of a sport than esports

[–] LappingDog 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah a lot of people love their car or truck more than anything else in life. Which is crazy when you think there’s such a high risk of it being totaled at a moments notice with normal usage.

[–] LappingDog 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bought a Hisense and it had the option during setup to disable most smart features and leave it in “basic mode”. I was already going to put an Apple TV in it so I just left it there and I’ve been happy. Only thing a tv needs is settings and the ability to change inputs.

[–] LappingDog 2 points 1 year ago

How is it different from writing how you feel in a journal at night?

[–] LappingDog 1 points 1 year ago

Looks cozy as hell. I'm just waiting for things to cool down more in my neck of the woods so I can get out without being drenched in sweat while I sleep.

[–] LappingDog 1 points 1 year ago

I totally agree, the directions apple maps gives are much more Human-like compared to google maps. Google maps is really bad about telling you turn in .25 miles or 200 feet, which in most of the gnarly infrastructure of America is nearly worthless. Apple Maps is better about letting you know to turn at the next stoplight or past the stop sign, which is what a regular person would do. Additionally, apple maps doesn’t constantly harass and scream at you when your on the interstate for 75 miles like google maps does.

[–] LappingDog 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I’m in the same bucket. Once libreddit dies, I’m off Reddit for good. I still like to browse some of the communities that aren’t fully established on Lemmy yet there and libreddit is he only thing that makes it palatable. I can’t stand reddit deciding to only show you the first comment in a chain of 30 and asking you to log in to see the rest.

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I’m really looking into building a NAS for my Mac. I got the 256gb MacBook Air and currently back up the machine using a nvme drive over type c but having to plug it in to access video files and backup every couple days is not ideal. With how cheap physical storage is now, a NAS seems like a good solution. Does anyone have a NAS at home and can share the software and hardware needed to make it run smoothly?

[–] LappingDog 3 points 1 year ago

I feel like most pour over cones will work. I use a V60 (the plastic variety) and there’s no way I could foresee it breaking outside of being an idiot.

[–] LappingDog 2 points 1 year ago

Better voice to text. I’ve been acting like a boomer a lot more recently by dictating things into text fields and judging from the accuracy of the LLM models like whisper, I could seriously see myself using voice to text for everything that doesn’t need to be spelled out.

 

It's one of my favorite activities. I know they might not grow everywhere but every time I find a nice patch of white-dwarf clover I love just spending 5 minutes leaning over and looking through it. You can almost always find a 4-leaf one with some patience and a little luck, and it's such a calming task that gets you looking at nature in the middle of your day.

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