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  • The T14’s trackpoint created a pressure spot on my screen simply from being closed. I traveled with it only a handful of times, and when I did, I had it in a light bag with hardly anything else in it. Yes, I need a laptop carry case, but regardless, this really should not be an issue.

    I’ve since put a felt pad between my screen and keyboard for when I close it, but that should not be something I have to do with a $1200 laptop.

    Otherwise, it’s been great.



  • They weren’t so much assumptions about specifically your usage, as I wasn’t really speaking directly to you. Regardless of your specific situation, I still stand by my final point.

    Additionally, the availability of votes is largely a technical issue. It’s been explained better and more in-depth than I have time for at the moment, but the idea (as far as I remember) was that because of Lemmy’s instanced hosting nature, your votes are visible to instance operators anyway, and since that’s not a particularly tough boundary to cross (nature of federated web), they just left it extended to all users.

    Someone correct or fill in information I’ve missed.


  • It’s only ridiculous because you’re used to pouring your entire life into Facebook or Google’s servers.

    If you’re disturbed by it being public, I think you should be just as disturbed by it being in the hands of data farmers and merchants.

    The fact of the matter is, nothing you do online is private—and on the spectrum of “how private is it,” social media platforms are traditionally designed to put you at the near zero end of it. So separate your concerns if you want any illusion of separation from your actual life.




  • If this happened near or post-interplanetary colonization, I’m reasonably confident that they’d be named after or by whichever corporation buys and takes the largest influence over the planet.

    We all know Elon wants to name Mars Planet X, so let’s agree now to blow it up as soon as that happens.

    Earth’s name would probably be left alone. I’d imagine Google going after Saturn and maybe preserving the name too, maybe giving it a little name if they hadn’t blown every word in the English language on dead projects.

    Microsoft, in their lack of vision, would name Mercury Microsoft (if they’re still around by this point).


  • I remember there being something misleading about the “temperature” in pV=nRT, but yeah, I think I was getting confused because I was thinking about it purely formulaicly.

    But if the pressure drops and the volume of the gas increases, in order for it to cool, that would mean the drop in pressure is much less significant than the rise in volume?

    But yeah, I should’ve remembered that expanding gasses cool, because I know how aerosol cans work. It’s time to touch up on this stuff lol.








  • I feel like I have to put the disclaimer that, although I am spiritual, I’m not religious. Anyway:

    then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way.

    Correct. I don’t think many people, Christian or otherwise, really disagree with you here. I chose to drive 20 minutes to eat ramen today. Was that the only way? Well, only way to what, exactly? To feed myself? No—there are plenty of closer options with which I could’ve sustained myself, but in my picking the ramen, I now have satisfied that craving which I’ve had for a few weeks. Even though I won’t still taste the ramen two days from now, I’ll still be satisfied that I had some today.

    In the case that you are trying to make a legitimate criticism of the story rather than the vapid “Christianity is stupid” posts that dominate this platform, I’d prompt you to be much more specific in what you mean by “way.” The only way to what? What specifically are you positing was God’s goal in allowing the crucifixion of Jesus?

    Personally, I take the Bible as almost entirely allegorical. So if you want my subjective take on this post, it’s about as good as asking why Superman has to be weak to kryptonite.



  • The Legend of Korra spoilers:

    spoiler

    Korra doesn’t stakelessly get her bending back 15 seconds after losing it to Amon. They had the opportunity to give her the self-discovery arc that they tried to shoehorn into the post-Zaheer poison recovery.

    The series could’ve had much better footing, in my opinion, if Korra had wrestle with that just a bit longer. Instead, a bunch of bald people show up and say, “I got you, Holmes,” and then she’s good as new.

    It’s been a while, and I’ve lost some of my steam over this. But yeah, that’s the only one I’ve got the energy to type out right now.