A helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi crashed on Sunday, according to Iran’s state media and the country’s mission to the United Nations, but has yet to be found by search-and-rescue workers because of heavy fog.
Other sources are talking about a hard landing rather than a crash. Apparently they were already on the descent and wind forced one helicopter down in a wooded area not too far off the landing zone. Still doesn't sound pretty, but at least more survivable than an outright crash.
Was iTunes popular outside of the US? Everyone I know hated they intrusive software and DRM that prevented you from playing the songs elsewhere. Don't think I know a single person who actually purchased music there.
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
New here. Migrated from Reddit. Still trying to figure out Lemmy - what's everyone's experiences like coming from Reddit and does Lemmy serve as a good alternative? Pros and cons/differences?...
I've always hoped somebody would create basically a clone of Reddit, but without the politics and without being overly-policed. Where people aren't pushed away for respectfully voicing their opinion. Is Lemmy the answer?
If you block sufficient leftist/marxist instances and communities, you might not notice that this is essentially a socialist fanboy wannabe utopia.
I'd suggest to browse Lemmy by new, block a lot, refresh a couple times, and then eventually arrive at a curated, sanitized feed.
But Lemmy is far from unpolitical, merely a different color.
I've posted something today and somehow Sync gives me notifications in my inbox for replies to that post, but when I open the post, it can't find any. I can interact with them just fine in the inbox and in the browser. But in Sync on the post, the number of replies is shown to be 4, while the comment section states that no...
Comments are cached until you reload, to reduce the traffic. Open the comments view of the post and pull down to refresh, then you should be able to see them all.
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Sounds like mail.yandex.com should work for you. It's the Russian copycat of gmail, basically. But they allow anonymous signup with a "don't have" option for phone numbers, and they have next to no trackers on the website. That ones they have are easily blocked.
I gave up on the way of kings twice, 400+ pages in and nothing happens. I get that it's a massive saga that requires a ton of world building etc., but all of his other books are much easier to lean into.
Yeah they are shit, but aren't forced down your throat by the OS.
I hate teams with a passion. As long as you have to work with more than one organization, nothing works whatsoever. You are constantly logged out, have to go through their stupid authenticator app, can't save a second login (only a private one, not an organization), links open in the wrong org (even if you are logged in), etc. etc.
I've reached the point where I use teams exclusively in Edge, alongside with Outlook, because both of their desktop apps are utter crap.
Someone should face jail time for this piece of crap that I can't opt out of.
And OneDrive as well. That piece of shit installed itself as the default save as location, and after removing it from my system, the save as dialogue now hangs for 20 seconds. And the policy to remove OD as a save location doesn't work whatsoever.
I'm trying to use it as a water pump for my aquarium. I'm using a 6V 4.5AH battery with a DC step up convertor to power the pump. After about 5 minutes it gets really hot. Is this expected?
In the context of a game, let's say a clearly outdated graphics engine that everyone can agree on looks very dated. Or game-stopping bugs. Constant crashes. Etc.
Recently on Reddit there are memes after memes on election. Specifically, rather pro-Israel "No vote for Biden is vote for Trump!" If you open, you see a bunch of same-minded people complaining about anti-Bibi protestors....
Lemmy is just as political as reddit, just on the opposite spectrum. But yeah at least the memes stay in the meme communities, which I've all blocked. So that is nice, at the very least.
In recently purchased Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro with MIUI I see the message app isn't available for many popular apps, those messages usually show when the android version is old but I have android 13 so I don't understand why I see those errors so much in the play store.
MIUI is sort of a homebrew OS broadly based on Android. Some things work, others don't. I wouldn't be surprised if Xiaomi and OPPO will eventually go the way of Huaweii and develop their own custom OS to lock users into their ecosystem. It's a China thing.
And while I'm a big fan of Xiaomi products in general, I wouldn't use any of their phones without flashing the EU ROM first to ensure compatibility with free market tech. If you're willing to give that a try, the folks at xiaomi.eu are working hard to maintain compatibility.
Planning to enhance my professional qualifications and want to get a Master's in Education as I'm currently working in the education field, and I was wondering if this is one of the best options out there....
This is a genuine question, so please don't do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
I have a 4k TV and don't get it either. Watched the odd video in 4k and the colors are maybe a bit crisper, but that's about it. I'd have to compare movies side by side to actually spot the difference.
Not worth it IMHO.
Can't tell for screens though, I don't even know whether mine does 4k or not. Was part of the home-office package from my company. I'll have to check that tomorrow, only returning from a business trip tonight.
Maybe my TV is due for an upgrade then. Or the source movies I tried were 4k in name only but just some upscaled older ones... I'll do some more testing with more recent ones.
I see, thanks a lot! I don't have any devices that read physical discs, so it's been streaming and alternatively sourced content exclusively. I don't actually mind paying for media, but living in China significantly limits my access to unaltered, genuine discs that come with English audio tracks, unfortunately.
I'll see if I can get my hands on a full sized LOTR copy for testing purposes then. Thanks a lot for the lengthy response, much appreciated!
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
Back when it was a fiver, I could get the appeal and had a subscription myself.
At 11 bucks it comes at the price of a CD per month, every month. I didn't buy that much music annually, ever. So right now we are entering a territory where streaming is exceeding the price of my regular music consumption patterns. I'll go back to buying physical media and torrenting whatever old stuff is no longer available and can't be found on ebay.
I took her to the vet and found the owner. I also yelled at them for letting their old dog roam. She's a sweet old gal, and she shouldn't be out there. I'll be checking up on her. Thankfully, they're going to still let me see her, even though I chewed them out....
I live in a gated community where everybody is a dog owner, they all roam free most of the time. It's pretty awesome. We also have a whatsapp group with all neighbours, so when we want to know where they are, all it takes is a quick message into the group and the current food dispenser of choice will let us know.
The best thing about that is that we can also just travel for a week or two without bothering. Our dog prefers to sleep in our house, so the next door neighbor will open the door at night & then let her do her thing the next morning.
Wait, I'm in HK right now for business and can open it just fine from my hotel wifi. The website that is, I don't care about the platform and wouldn't use the app.
I could play videos just fine without login though. Anything I'm missing?
Era can be defined as a console generation, a decade, one specific year, whatever you want. I’d encourage you to give a list of your favourite games from the generation of choice and why it was the best to you. Nostalgia is a totally viable reason too....
Around the turn of the millennium. Games were designed for offline use and had way more immersive campaigns, were shipped by and large ready and bug-free, and so were add-on campaigns.
And since graphics were not as refined as they are now, additional efforts were placed on gameplay.
My top list (by release year):
Diablo II (1996)
Dungeon Keeper (1997)
Half-Life (1998)
Thief: The Dark Project (1998)
Thief 2 (1999)
Dungeon Keeper 2 (1999)
Heroes of Might & Magic 3 (1999)
Gothic II (2002)
Never had a console and don't get along with controllers whatsoever, so those are all referring to the PC versions.
I moved over to Proton from Google because I liked the idea of having an alias for each service. After two months and a Mail Plus trial, I now pay for Proton Unlimited. I use Mail (due to alias linking), Calendar, and Pass often. I don't really use VPN that much (although it is useful sometimes), and Drive is just too slow. I...
Why not use Firefox Relay? It's a mail forwarding service with 5 aliases in the free version, and unlimited in paid. I'm using that in combination with my gmail account and it works beautifully.
If you only occasionally need a vpn, the free tier in proton is probably sufficient (but you can't select servers, they will be assigned at random), and you could use windscribe as a backup (you can select servers in the free tier yourself, but traffic is limited to 10GB per 30 days).
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don't want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn't seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)...
Helicopter Carrying Iran’s President Has Crashed, State Media Reports ( www.nytimes.com )
A helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi crashed on Sunday, according to Iran’s state media and the country’s mission to the United Nations, but has yet to be found by search-and-rescue workers because of heavy fog.
Platforms wonder why piracy is spiking ( www.skynews.com.au )
It's not even surprising anymore platforms do this & act all Pikachu face why piracy is spiking...
startyparty ( addons.mozilla.org )
built a new extension for the best start page for firefox - hope yall like it!
Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ ( www.theverge.com )
Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
Is Lemmy a good alternative?
New here. Migrated from Reddit. Still trying to figure out Lemmy - what's everyone's experiences like coming from Reddit and does Lemmy serve as a good alternative? Pros and cons/differences?...
Why does Sync not display some comments?
I've posted something today and somehow Sync gives me notifications in my inbox for replies to that post, but when I open the post, it can't find any. I can interact with them just fine in the inbox and in the browser. But in Sync on the post, the number of replies is shown to be 4, while the comment section states that no...
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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? May 14
A very busy week, didn't get to do any reading at all....
Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams ( arstechnica.com )
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Sells To Major International Buyers Ahead Of Cannes Premiere ( deadline.com )
EXCLUSIVE: Francis Ford Coppola‘s Megalopolis has sold to key indie buyers in Europe’s top five territories, we can reveal....
Germany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-olds ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
Sovcit got a letter. ( lemmy.world )
Best Lemmy App in 2024
Now that the Reddit exodus is about a year old and the client apps have matured, what's the latest state of the above question?...
Does mini 12V DC diaphram water pumps like this get really hot after running for 5 min?
I'm trying to use it as a water pump for my aquarium. I'm using a 6V 4.5AH battery with a DC step up convertor to power the pump. After about 5 minutes it gets really hot. Is this expected?
Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review in order to access the playtest ( files.catbox.moe )
On today's episode of "This shouldn't be legal"......
Euro bottles are so much better now ( toobnix.org )
I know they're supposed to be good for the environment but... God I hate those caps.
Chinese woman jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan to be freed after four years ( www.theguardian.com )
Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan’s search for the truth during the early days of the pandemic was seen as a threat by the authorities...
Reddit full of political bias
Recently on Reddit there are memes after memes on election. Specifically, rather pro-Israel "No vote for Biden is vote for Trump!" If you open, you see a bunch of same-minded people complaining about anti-Bibi protestors....
Why many Android apps are unavailable for MIUI phone?
In recently purchased Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro with MIUI I see the message app isn't available for many popular apps, those messages usually show when the android version is old but I have android 13 so I don't understand why I see those errors so much in the play store.
Based on recent events ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
~500 comments about our instance and admins in the past week. Talk about needing to touch some grass...
Is Open University (UK) a decent option for an online-only Master's in Education degree?
Planning to enhance my professional qualifications and want to get a Master's in Education as I'm currently working in the education field, and I was wondering if this is one of the best options out there....
Benefits of resolutions beyond 1080p
This is a genuine question, so please don't do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
18+ It’s not impossible for someone to have heard about assguard, looked it up, and then realized it’s “Asgard”.
I found this old girl on the side of the road, her name is Sunny! ( lemmy.world )
I took her to the vet and found the owner. I also yelled at them for letting their old dog roam. She's a sweet old gal, and she shouldn't be out there. I'll be checking up on her. Thankfully, they're going to still let me see her, even though I chewed them out....
TikTok sues the US government over ban ( www.theverge.com )
TikTok is taking the US government to court.
What's your favourite era for video games?
Era can be defined as a console generation, a decade, one specific year, whatever you want. I’d encourage you to give a list of your favourite games from the generation of choice and why it was the best to you. Nostalgia is a totally viable reason too....
Should I keep paying for Proton?
I moved over to Proton from Google because I liked the idea of having an alias for each service. After two months and a Mail Plus trial, I now pay for Proton Unlimited. I use Mail (due to alias linking), Calendar, and Pass often. I don't really use VPN that much (although it is useful sometimes), and Drive is just too slow. I...
How many communities do you have blocked?
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don't want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn't seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)...
Drew Barrymore Reveals She Accidentally Left Her "Sex List" at Danny DeVito's House ( www.marieclaire.com )