Years back, I had that happen on PayPal of all websites. Their account creation and reset pages silently and automatically truncated my password to 16 chars or something before hashing, but the actual login page didn’t, so the password didn’t work at all unless I backspaced it to the character limit. I forgot how I even found that out but it was a very frustrating few hours.

Radical unschooling?

Well maybe they’re running out of money because they spent all of it developing their game :p

I know this might not be the most convenient solution, but learning to resolder mouse switches means you can just replace the faulty components (and maybe the sliders too) and just keep using the hardware that works for you. As long as you don’t have a mouse with that awful rubber that de-vulcanizes after about 3 years, and don’t mind the visual wear from your hand on the shell over time, you’ll easily 10x the life of most products manufactured with planned obsolescence. Logitech almost always cheaps out on the switches for their gaming mice, unfortunately. After replacing the switches on my g pro wireless when they started double-clicking after 2 years (almost exactly), it’s been smooth sailing ever since.

ifixit almost always has comprehensive teardown and rebuild instructions for popular peripherals. Bonus points is that whenever you take apart something to do a repair, you can clean out all the hard to reach places that collect random dust and debris. Can be kind of gross but is also pretty satisfying. Additional bonus points for being more sustainable with your consumer habits and minimizing e-waste in landfills!

If you’ve got a mechanical keyboard, you can do the same but it’s generally a lot more tedious since most have the switches soldered on, and LEDs double the amount of joints you have to deal with. I recently did just the WASD and a few other high-traffic keys on my board after one one of them failed, and it was a several hour process

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This limerick has to be forced to have a decent flow. Who emphasizes the first syllable in “assured”? Lines 3 and/or 4 would probably flow better with an extra syllable, but are otherwise ok and have consistent feet.

Final verdict: 5/10, needs work

Also, the little logo at the bottom is trying way too hard

We could assign it to any point within a recognizable region in the Cosmic Microwave Background, which would probably be the most universally-applicable reference available. One just needs to be able to filter out the noise from surrounding celestial bodies. The CMB does slowly change over time, but so too does the position of stars within galaxies and galaxies relative to one another.

You’re telling me that the solution to systemic voter suppression is a massive urban exodus to spread out the voting population until it’s homogenous?

That’s the solution, instead of I dunno, forcing the Texas government to stop suppressing voters?

Complete side note, I saw your pfp and checked your profile to confirm my suspicions. Thank you for your work on OpenRGB! It’s been a great tool for managing the LEDs on my computer.

Texas is gerrymandered to shit, and employs pretty nasty voter suppression tactics in populous (see: blue) counties by having very few polling stations per capita in those areas and making it a crime to give water/food to people waiting in line to vote. Big Texas cities are blue for the most part (maybe a few exceptions in the DFW area)

If you look at pretty much any of the cities within Texas on the latest map, you can see that they consolidate the core of the city into one or two solid blobs, then split the rest out to be diluted by rural areas. See Dallas/Tarrant County, Travis County, Bexar County, and Harris County for the most obvious cases of these.

https://redistricting.capitol.texas.gov/docs/88th_Senate_Tabloid_2024_05_20.pdf

On a population level, Texas is basically a blue state held hostage by a red state administration.

Life is suffering. Once you accept that fact wholly, you may ascend

Here in the States, standard practice is to “correct” visibly intersex births into being either male or female. Often they let the parents choose. Often, these operations have lifelong consequences for the child, and they have absolutely no say whatsoever.

If this practice is done in Canada as well, it stands in direct contradiction to the notion that “God doesn’t make mistakes”. Anyone who makes this claim should be pressed for comment on intersex “correction” surgeries.

While tans identities and intersex status aren’t the same thing, usually a person’s dismissal of intersex conditions is a bright red flag for their views on trans issues.

Oh yeah, it’s pretty terrible. Sometimes you can order meat from a deli/butcher counter and get it wrapped in wax paper but there’s the extra time spent to order it that way, and there’s a possibility that the wax is actually just plastic lining anyways.

Regardless, if you can find an alternative that works for you, any reduction in plastic is a good thing. It all exists on a sliding scale.

A lot of times, matters such as these should be seen as more risk management/reduction than risk elimination. A plastic lid has much less contact area than a whole plastic bottle, and single use bottles tend to shed more microplastics than reusable ones.

True 😔

We should try and convince them that the Luxor in Las Vegas was actually built by an ancient civilization, but was hollowed out by the CIA in 1945 in order to hide its historical significance. To keep anyone from being able to see it before it was opened to the public, it was hidden from view via sophisticated curtains.

Does it make sense? No. We can just say they’re trying to cover up history.

Everyone on the internet is a bot except you

At least they admit that it doesn’t make sense

And road design factors into the average driver’s speed far more than a sign with with a number on it

It’s like a Swiss army knife of biological features

And thus the political compass came to be, deciding that one axis on a sliding scale wasn’t enough to capture the nuances of political ideologies, but two axes was plenty!