Old is a relative term, and Lemmy is an echo chamber of tech-literate people.

Strange how the sponsor is an electronics store whose “experts” built most of the custom HW but solid-state switching, which is obviously faster than mechanical relays, only gets an off-hand mention at the very end.

You can use the Wattz app to monitor current/power flowing into/out of the battery on some Android phones. Yes, 3 W is about the average in normal use. Unfortunately you cannot gauge the power consumption while charging unless you have a USB wattmeter too: the system only measures battery current because it’s required for battery capacity/percentages.

I know, and phone calls are more annoying for neurodivergent people like me, although I get the reverse is true for old people. I had a job that featured looking up data and for any given active company with employees in Czechia, there is over 90% chance you get an address you can visit (they are legally required to list one but there are obfuscation services), about 70% for some kind of maintained web presence outside the legal registry, and some 50% for a working phone number. The latter two are roughly reversed for one-person establishments.

What happened is that I heard a Czechoslovak emmigrant to the US rambling while visiting his homeland that “phone books are useless in Czechoslo- uh - Czechia because companies aren’t required by the Constitution [sic] to keep their data updated there”.

I heard that in the US, every business needs to have a publicly listed phone number, not to mention the number of times I see “TEXT … TO …” or “CALL …” displayed more prominently than the URL on ads. Why do they still do so much over the phone?

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It’s a vehicle with like 400 HP, duh

She said it’s incredibly fragile. This suggests it’s a flex PCB, and you can order similar-looking ones from JLCPCB and others.

Is your head in a reasonably consistent position relative to the camera or gyro/compass orientation, like the StreetView car? That could allow for an automated or semi-automated process.

I wonder what the procedure is for safely boxing up a still-entagled raptor, because that’s what I might need to do as a finder, before vets can do the rest.

Raytracing in Minecraft?

Also, the changing vertical size is a simplified representation, it’s more like changes in brightness.

I don’t know any bank that actually enforces stock firmware although it’s common in the ToS.

The video is at least ⅓ filler, and switches between content and nonsense every few seconds. Very brainrot-inducing.

And a single monitor? 2010?

It’s closer to $6.11. I do math :)

Unlikely to get locked-in and moving this quickly

There is an itch.io game inspired by it! Hated by Mastercard and VISA for minor gore.

https://neuroticfly.itch.io/interdimensional-vending-machine

Pretty sure most of Windows isn’t coded at the HQ, either

The ferret (domesticated European polecat) of the Mustelidae (badger, weasel) family is actually closer to canines, belonging to the Caniformia (dog-like) suborder that also includes wolves, bears, raccoons, otters ans seals.

You can’t say that, Shleem™ is a term trademarked by a recent startup.