That sucks.

Happened with my previous laptop and couldn’t find replacement parts unfortunately.

It’s tempting to opt for telematics/black box insurance because of the initial cheaper prices but the privacy violations and potential downsides make it not worth it.

You can be the best defensive driver in the world but sometimes you’re just going to have to brake hard to avoid an object that may jump on you, dinging your driving score and raising your premiums.

Contrary to what this post’s image says, I’m reading online that these apps aren’t perfect at differentiating between who’s a driver and who’s a passenger.

Have fun fighting with your insurance to get them to remove anything from your record.

Last week a squirrel decided it didn’t want to live anymore and jumped into my way while I was driving. It was on an empty slow street at night so I was safely able brake hard to avoid killing the poor thing. If I had spyware insurance they would’ve dinged me for it.

Bop!

Indeed. This is RAM and replaces SODIMM.

Adorable!

Ryan Gosling is excellent each time he’s on SNL.

He uses an aisle of chips at a Walmart to store data.

He took “Hello world”, compressed it using Huffman coding, then arranged the aisle of chips in binary. Bag of chips facing forward is a 0, facing backward is 1.

It’s a silly video by the channel for April 1st and is purely for entertainment.

I’ve been using SecureTether https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.panjava.internet.sharing.tethering.mobile.hotspot.secure.wifi.securetether to get around it. Requires a bit of setup but works without issues after.

I dont believe something like this is possible on iOS.

I enjoy Rush Hour 3’s version of this skit as well.

Is it on the Play Store? Would you happen to have a link for it?

My Pixel phone comes with a feature called Emoji Workshop, allowing me to make custom emoji wallpapers.

This one is my lockscreen:

Ease of use.

With your one Discord account you join all the servers you care about and interact with online/IRL friends.

There are downsides that people at Lemmy will find dealbreaking and I absolutely agree with them, but the convenience of it being a chat, forum (almost), voice/video calling and gaming platform for free with (currently) no ads triumphs all of that for the majority of people, and that’s what makes it popular. It’s also cross-platform so no one’s left out.

If you aren’t familiar with The Password Game, I highly suggest giving it a try: https://neal.fun/password-game/

^{I am not responsible for any increases in blood pressure caused by the game…}

I’ve been making a post daily in !nytconnections@lemmy.world and !crossword@lemmy.world for 4 months now. Whatever small community we have there, I’m grateful for it. We’re also happy to accommodate many more people and grow.

If there isn’t a community for something you care about, make one. People will come.

If you’re into photography, I highly recommend subscribing to the channel.

On his website, he has a museum of weird lenses.

Yeeeeeee

The last time I flew I got a free upgrade to the exit row seat. They needed someone to occupy the seat in case of an emergency. Raised my hand immediately as soon as they asked for volunteers.

There’s Pixelfed which is a fediverse alternative to Instagram, but I don’t use it currently as I don’t share my photography online as LCP.

Peertube is a YouTube alternative but I’m not using that currently as well.

Other than them, there are other fediverse platforms that are basically Mastodon-like or Lemmy-like.

Things are fairly wonky right now, but I believe with time, effort and funding many if not all of the fediverse’s issues can be resolved.

Which Lemmy communities are you a part of that are currently tiny? I can lend a hand in posting/commenting there and keeping them active.

“Oh yeah that’s Pikachu right there”

For Mastodon, you gotta find the hashtags about the things you care about.

For Lemmy, you gotta put in the work to raise the communities you care about. If there are existing communities, post and comment in them. If there isn’t a community about your interest - and if you’re willing - create and maintain them. The people will come.

I’m all in on the fediverse, and want to watch it flourish.

I admire all of his work. Pinnacle of creativity, expression and experimentation on YT.

A while back I tried to see what he had been up to since his last video, but didn’t find anything. Would love to see him upload again.