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  • Her tagline is, "are we square?" A cube always pays its debts.

  • How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse
  • Building your own keyboard is supposed to be fun. You do some research to figure out what you want. Maybe order some sample switches to try out, pick out a keycap set you like, and eventually settle on a kit.

    When you order your kit it'll include a case, a top plate, and a circuit board. If you get one with hot swap sockets you will not have to solder anything. You can literally just press the switches in.

    Then when you're done you screw everything together, put your keycaps on, and you have a working keyboard. Sometimes you have to flash the firmware as a final step but that's not rocket science. You do not have to know how to program.

  • How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse
  • You don't have to solder if you use hot swap sockets for your switches. Even if you never plan to swap the switches the hot swap sockets mean you'll never have to solder a thing 👍

  • Trump adviser green-lights 'states that want to set up full menstrual surveillance departments'
  • Republicans are all about the nanny state. Tracking periods, banning books, deciding who gets to have what medications/medical treatments (instead of doctors), trying to control what websites publish, etc.

  • Octopuses recorded hunting with fish — and punching those that don't cooperate
  • Punching fish == Surprisingly rich social life

  • Wisconsin mayor carts away absentee ballot drop box, says he did nothing wrong
  • Mayor: [shoots some black guy] "What? It's the same as the cops."

  • How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse
  • Just build your own keyboard. That's what I did (and it turned out fantastic) 🤷

    Mice are much easier to deal with since there's 500 million of them to choose from. Just pick a generic, no-name brand that doesn't need drivers and you're all set.

    Aside: Building a keyboard isn't rocket science. It's just a bit tedious (buy a kit). Unless you invent your own 3D printable keyboard switch and stabilizers from scratch then design an analog circuit board to work with them (also from scratch). Then it's a bit more like rocket science 🤣

  • What music do you use for concentration?
  • It's really hard to time it just right but the theme to Jeopardy 👍

    Concentration Game

    Get it wrong and it'll really surprise you!

  • Oxygen
  • God's keyboard

  • I find it cozy
  • The tortoise Doctor comes to visit from time to time.

  • Power budgeting for new PC build
  • I literally made (from scratch) the brightest RGB LED keyboard in existence (proof: https://youtu.be/iv6Rh8UNWlI?si=3Kj3-mY_7mN2ROXO) and it only uses like ~23W at full brightness (all LEDs set to white).

  • Swiss cow dies after cyber attack
  • Better headline: Swiss cheese security at dairy farm results in hackers trying to milk them for all they're worth.

  • I find it cozy
  • Giant Sulcata Tortoise. Rescued from a highway in northern Florida. We adopter her at the (desperate) request of animal control.

    The vet guessed she's around 20 years old. She weighs about 100lbs right now (was only 85 when we took her in).

  • Be more specific
  • Astronomers: The Sun is a recent development

  • I find it cozy
  • This is heaven for my tortoise. She loves pumpkins and we tell everyone in the neighborhood to bring all their old Halloween pumpkins to our place after they're done with them.

    Carved pumpkin getting a little wilty? She doesn't care. Munch munch munch! Delicious.

  • 'Can't even begin to speculate': Onlookers stunned that worse Mark Robinson story will hit
  • Hmm... This dude is so nasty he probably sucks his own shit through a straw every day in order to maintain the high degree of excrement that he regularly and publicly vomits from his mouth. What could make this guy so ashamed that he's going to drop out of the race? What would upset his base that much that it would amount to a serious betrayal of their ideals?

    Donating to a liberal cause?

    Housing poor people/illegal immigrants?

    He went to some socialist country for healthcare?

    He's secretly trans and got an abortion before transitioning?

  • Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains — study
  • I've used this term before in a different context: It's what happens when someone is about to do something that both scares and excites them at the same time. Like when a person suddenly finds themselves extremely attracted to someone and they want to make a good impression. That's when their brain seems to be both there and not there at the same time.

    When observing someone in this sort of situation you quickly come to the conclusion that the brain has gone but then later--upon reflection--it may seem like it may have actually been present. The only way to know for sure is to find out how the events eventually concluded; opening the box as it were.

    That's when you find out whether or not the person was a pussy.

  • Ohio sheriff suggests residents keep a list of homes with Harris yard signs
  • Use a robot to secretly paint "Kamala" on his lawn. For bonus points use AI to generate an image of him kissing Kamala and use that as the image (wonder what kind of resolution one can get on a lawn? 🤔)

  • Imagine a "woke mob": Who's in it? What do they look like? What would they do?

    I've heard this phrase used often by those on the right but every time I hear it I can't help but laugh because of what I picture in my head. But perhaps my image is wrong! I want to read everyone else's depictions.

    So as to not influence the responses I will not be sharing what I imagine a "woke mob" looks like.

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    Political Memes @lemmy.world Riskable @programming.dev
    Thanks Obama!

    Edit, since folks don't seem to get the joke: Obama's campaign slogan was "Hope"

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    List of eponymous laws

    This is the page you can learn about things like Cunningham's law which states that every program attempts to expand until it can read mail

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    Wilhelm scream

    If you watch movies and TV shows you should learn about this to maximize your obscure knowledge of every day things 👍

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    Political Memes @lemmy.world Riskable @programming.dev
    On this special day we must remember what Trump said about gun control

    > “...this is not a gun problem. This is a mental health problem, this is a social problem, this is a cultural problem, this is a spiritual problem." -Donald J Trump in April 2023

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    Political Memes @lemmy.world Riskable @programming.dev
    Project 2025 aims to eliminate the US Forest Service (USFS) powers to prevent forest fires and to increase logging on Federal lands which makes sense because it's trees that are the problem
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    Project 2025 aims to eliminate the Department of Education which makes sense because you don't need an education to become President
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    Political Memes @lemmy.world Riskable @programming.dev
    Project 2025 aims to eliminate NOAA which makes sense because all you need to track a hurricane is a sharpie

    A simple reminder of the incompetence, idiocy, and insanity that was the Trump presidency. Here's the original story, in case you forgot:

    https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/05/hurricane-dorian-sharpie-trump-1482839

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    Trying to get the hang of segmentation

    It's really hard to get SD to output something like a cat girl hugging a fox girl so I decided to learn how to use the "segment anything" extension for a1111. The first results were great!

    !Fox girl hugging bunny girl being hugged by cat girl

    Got the trifecta: A fox girl hugging a bunny girl who was also being hugged by a cat girl.

    But now I wanted to take it further: Can I get five different anime beast people's hugging? No, LOL. Now yet anyway 🤣

    That's supposed to be a a fox girl, a bunny girl, a cat girl, a frog girl, and a horse girl (like Pretty Derby).

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    Texting my wife while she's traveling... 🧐

    I have since learned that this "fact" isn't true... Turns out the source of that info wasn't understanding how tags work. There's actually just a lot of fanfics that include Astarion. Not necessarily for romance 🤷

    It's still hilarious though 😁

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    Garage door opener now uses Cherry MX Blues

    Manufacturer wanted $25 (+shipping) for a replacement garage door opener wall switch. 13 minutes of printing + 5 minutes of soldering + two leftover Cherry MX Blue switches (that I'll be use) and the problem is solved 👍

    Note: The wiring was slightly more involved than I thought... needed a resistor for the light (there's only two wires but it's got two functions: Light on/off and garage open/close.

    If folks are interested I could make a much fancier PCB-based version with screw terminals and whatnot. It's a very trivial schematic.

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    riskable Riskable @programming.dev

    Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

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