irotsoma

joined 1 year ago
[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Clutch must be depressed on most modern cars or it won't start, though it's technically not required if in neutral. And best to depress the brake pedal as well, again, many modern cars won't even start if you don't.

And although it doesn't matter what gear the shifter is in when the clutch is depressed, put it in neutral, so that if you accidentally let off the clutch after starting it, you don't move, grind gears, or lurch and stall which puts strain on the gearbox and brakes. I've done that many times before I started checking the shifter first. Many people put the shifter in first gear when parked as an engine brake in case the parking brake fails.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't think most of them were duped. It's been exceptionally obvious for years. I mean I guess some of them are dumb enough not to realize, but most are just taking advantage of the money and power.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Termius

Not just Android, I want a cross-platform ssh client that shares keys. Termius is probably overkill for that, but I haven't found anything else that works on Linux and Android. The real issue that made me stop paying for it is that for rpm based Linux I have to use the snap version and snap is buggy as heck with multitasking.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I mean arms dealers need to sell weapons, but better if it doesn't draw them in themselves, so genocides are better than two sided wars. And the primary export of the US is weapons, so...

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 129 points 1 week ago

But OpenAI not being allowed to use the content for free means they are being prevented from making a profit, whereas the Internet Archive is giving away the stuff for free and taking away the right of the authors to profit. /s

Disclaimer: this is the argument that OpenAI is using currently, not my opinion.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Better than the gas that Russia is using illegally that causes serious pain and often takes a long time to die painfully from.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Many places just lowered the speed limits so they could narrow the lanes and then put in the bike lanes and kept the parking. Or get rid of left turning lanes or make alternating streets one way so left turning lanes aren't needed.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Point isn't whether it's right or not. The point is that once the supreme court rules, there's no "higher" court to take it to. The lower courts can't rule differently on something explicitly ruled on already, and they can't "overrule" the supreme court since they are explicitly "under" them. So regardless of what Starlink says, they aren't going to change that, at least not any time soon. And X will either be dead, irrelevant, or significantly modified by the time the court changes enough to get them to change their decision.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Yeah, they're supposed to serve the people who bought the politicians. /s

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It absolutely should be talked about. All events in all of the world should be talked about as long as it involves factual information, which can sometimes be hard to come by these days . It's only extremists trying to create false narratives who would say otherwise. And mostly only because they don't want you telling the people they control the truth or they're so dependent using the lie to their advantage that even they don't want to know the truth.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Many times. It has been a fairly common theme. My dreams that I remember tend to be extreme emotional dreams. Either nightmares that I commonly had as a kid. Falling in love which was especially common as a teenager. And yeah, the extreme heartbreak is real. Music, which is connected closely to emotions for me and often manifests as beautiful symphonies that I wish I could immediately write down because damn I could probably make money off that s***. Flying or being under water and not drowning and the weight being lifted and the emotion of freedom tied to those. Etc.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Unfortunately, the US is now fully reliant on SpaceX for access to space now that they decided to rely on corporate spacecraft rather than building our own and Boeing has proven themselves unreliable since that change was made, and now that they finally have a craft they ended up stranding astronauts on the space station until SpaceX can rescue them due to defects. Plus we can't use Russia like we did after the shuttle program ended but corporate space travel wasn't there yet. And SpaceX isn't publicly traded to where it might be possible that enough investors could pressure Musk to cave.

So I doubt anything will come of it. Brazil will rattle their sabers. Musk will stand his ground, and the US will stay on Musk's side while pretending as much as possible to be staying out of it.

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