[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 hours ago

The Controlled Opposition Party strikes again. Can't wait for them to write another strongly worded letter while begging for more donations smh.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago

Did you know those AC units are the perfect height for their sharp lower corners to reach the top of a kid's skull? I ended up learning that fact the hard way.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 18 hours ago

So a reincarnation based religious system that spans countless realities, creatures, and millennia is somehow beholden to this reality's 76 year old country led by a dictator? Makes sense.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

How are you enjoying The Republic of Thieves so far? None of the books after The Lies of Locke Lamora have hit the same high note since. I'm still waiting on the Thorn of Emberlain to come out but after so many years I fear the author's run out of ideas on where to take the story next.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

I'm almost done with Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb. I'm contemplating jumping over to The Magic of Recluce by LE Modesitt Jr or maybe The Scholomance series after this.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

Now this should be the quote of the year. America fucking blew it. It got high on its own farts and basically elected an idiot - twice - to destroy all the soft power this country built over a century. We deserve what's coming to us. America needs to be humbled by having its former allies turn its back to it the way America did with Ukraine.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

You bring up a good point with culture and expectations. The job required occasional unpaid overtime since it's a salaried position.

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I just finished a preliminary interview for a medium sized engineering company. The interviewer was impressed with my background and asked to proceed with my candidacy but wanted four additional rounds of interviews and a 30 minute technical presentation about how I solved a problem. I turned them down and said I don't work for free, the amount of time it would take to gather my notes and thoughts on a slide deck would be too much. She quickly soured and we ended the call soon after. I feel like I dodged a bullet going through a gauntlet of work for the high chance of ending up with nothing.

What are Lemmy's thoughts on preparing presentations for lengthy job interview processes? Would you have considered going through with it?

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago

The US uses up the entirety of the Colorado River. It's an arid riverbed by the time it reaches the Mexican border. These water treaties need to be overhauled before wars start over them.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago

This country has a major reactionary problem. Too often we see blue and red waves as a reaction of either conservatives shitting on Democrat presidents on TV/social media or reality punching common people in the gut under Republican administrations. There has to be a way to keep voter's disgust of Republicans in place year over year.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

So shakedowns and show trials should be only for the lower classes? No, let the rich have a taste of their own medicine for once.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 days ago

You leftists sure are a contentious people.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

"Brave words. I've heard them before, from thousands of species across thousands of worlds, since long before you were created. But, now they are all sausage."

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Perfect Grades are awesome (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Just finished installing the under frame. I'm so reluctant to add on the armor and have been taking weeks having the figure sit in the back of the kitchen table while admiring the details when eating.

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My handsome boy Dio (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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What reliable bow string would you recommend for a 62 inch recurve takedown bow? The string that came with my starter kit frayed by the third session and I've heard some strings can last up to three years with regular use if properly maintained.

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The vambrace design is still a WIP though.

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Hello, I recently bought an old Lenovo Thinkpad X130e (ca. 2012) and tried installing Linux Mint ver. 22.1 Xfce edition into the laptop's HDD and received a "Linux Mint unable to install GRUB in dev/sda" error that only let me boot into a GRUB terminal after rebooting. Is there an easily available installation guide/manual for this laptop I could take a look at? I've tried adjusting the BIOS' UEFI/boot settings but haven't had any luck. I figure there's a way to manually configure the HDD to have a bootable partition during installation but I'm not sure what I'm doing exactly.

UPDATE: Finally fixed the issue. I rebooted on the USB stick iso after the latest GRUB install error and ran the Boot Repair utility from the start menu. It automatically fixed the issue and was able to successfully boot without the USB. Hopefully this helps someone if they run into a similar issue later.

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Back in the 80's, Atari had a monopoly of games and charged absurd amounts of money for titles that pretty much had no quality control. The cost of each cartridge would easily go over $100 in today's money and gamers began to pull back on purchasing anything. This eventually culminated in the infamous E.T. movie tie in that led to pallets of its unsold cartridges ending up in a landfill and crashing the industry.

Now that Nintendo's signaled to the rest of the industry it's okay to sell digital titles at $80 each, how soon do you see gamers collectively hold back on their purchases that will eventually collapse the AAA market? Will the current trade war play a role in the hardware side of things with the collapse? Will all major companies save Nintendo suffer the downturn?

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I'm planning to go to a rural spot that has a Bortle class 3 night sky around Southern California. Can anyone recommend a beginner friendly telescope with decent magnification for around $200? I'm not interested in using an accompanying smart phone app to go with it either. I'd like to see nebulae and galaxies the most. Thank you.

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Lemmy Sorting Hat (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

There should be a kind of "sorting hat" personality test to attract the interest of prospective Lemmy joiners. People who love solarpunk stuff, for example, would easily find their home in slrpnk.net. Set a link to it on sites like join-lemmy.org to make the fediverse more approachable to casuals.

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I followed the maintenance guide and applied belt lube as instructed. Friction eventually caused the motor to overheat. Support said they meant to include using all 4 ounces of lube that came with it at a time. I'll be getting a new drive board to replace the burnt out one soon. Yep.

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