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Teknikal Teknikal @lemm.ee
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Were zx spectrum +2 keyboards disgusting to type on?
  • I had a ZX Spectrum + and the keyboard was pretty decent was much better than the rubber of the normal one. The Sinclair ZX81 probably takes the cake for worst overall as it was just a very thin membrane.

  • EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them
  • I bought an expensive Samsung microwave thinking it would outlast the cheaper ones. The thing actually started to rust in the first few months something not even the cheapest microwaves have done on me.

    Last Samsung appliance I'll ever buy luckily I'm in the UK and got my money back.

  • A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back
  • All I want from an Os is to launch my programs of choice and not suck up my battery running unnecessary junk I couldn't care less about.

  • Fake video call fools UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron
  • Would be interesting to get the pm or someone else high up with a fake Rupert Murdoch I've the strong suspicion you could ask him to do anything and they'd immediately go along.

  • Do you prefer Reddit or Lemmy?
  • I use both but I'll ditch reddit as soon as I can't patch apps like Infinity with my own api key. Reddits more active but it's also horrible to use if you don't jump through hoop.

  • After its reputation went up in flames, Humane warns users its charging case may too
  • I remember being downvoted heavily on Reddit when I called this stupid mostly down to how limited it is and the silly subscription.

    Kinda hoping now all those downvoters purchased one because they deserve it.

  • More than 600,000 routers knocked out in October by Chalubo malware
  • I'd be more suspicious of the router manufacturer or even a disgruntled worker there than anyone else to be honest. An actual hacker I think would be more motivated to turn them into a botnet or similar.

    Can't think of why someone would want to brick them without another motive but I could be wrong.

  • You get to choose one super power you see on fictional media, What do you choose ?
  • I want the blink ability from the Dishonored video games. Basically a line of sight teleport but still it's awesome in the games.

  • Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage
  • And I was blown away the ps1 game Vagrant Story turned Into 90mb file as a chd.

    That said one of the games I enjoyed most even when I had an Amiga was a 48k ZX Spectrum game called Chaos.

  • PGSub - A Giant Archive of Subtitles For Everyone
  • A Stremio plugin using this would be nice I keep needing to change mine almost on a monthly basis for some reason.

  • Google's "Manifest V2" Chrome extension phaseout next month is expected to impact the original uBlock Origin extension, which still uses the V2 framework and has 37 million users
  • It's a bit too restrictive by default imo, good for privacy but you will need to change quite a few setting if you want to browse normally.

    Despite my opinion it's the browser I use most on my laptop.

  • If you were home and had five minutes to hide from foreign agents who were coming to hunt you down, where would you hide?
  • I wouldn't hide I'd ambush them and call every police force etc I could think of.

    I don't think anything else is really a sensible option except trying to cover as much distance in 5 min as possible and again calling every one who could potentially help.

  • Was this considered 'piracy' back in the day?
  • I had a friend whose family owned a video store, while it wasn't exactly legal he could get me copies of everything and they were completely perfect Pirates.

    I mean covers, labels and the actual tapes. They had specialised machines for all of it and they did it pretty perfectly.

    Ive tried doing it myself by linking two machines together and the results were watchable but not on the same level as the machines he was using.

  • if you ever dropped water or liquids on a notebook and placed it in a bucket full of rice afterwards, did the notebook work again?
  • I get it, ipa is good and fixes surprisingly a lot but only ever use it on boards, components and things like buttons and connectors. Keep it away from screens and batteries.

    I've always done this honestly maybe I didn't explain well. It does do a miracle job on water damage if done early enough though.

  • if you ever dropped water or liquids on a notebook and placed it in a bucket full of rice afterwards, did the notebook work again?
  • True I've had screens on smaller devices go very distorted for a few days after ipa was used elsewhere. They did actually clear and go back to normal mind you and I've never actually went near an actual screen with ipa intentionally.

  • if you ever dropped water or liquids on a notebook and placed it in a bucket full of rice afterwards, did the notebook work again?
  • It's when corrosion sets in things get unfixable. If you get to its insides before then some IPA and a decent scrub with something like toothbrush can clean it up.

    The exception to this would probably only really be the battery and yeah that should be disconnected as the first step.

  • Should we create a community for Euro 2024?
  • I'm the same really I used to follow Newcastle but lost interest when they got relegated. I do try to watch the big events though the only one I couldn't was the African World Cup were it was constant vuvuzella noise or whatever the heck their called.

  • Rabbit Gaslit Me, So I Dug Deeper
  • Pretty much everything AI is a scam, I mean it has its uses but isn't exactly as claimed yet. Pretty much every non phone AI gadget I've seen so far definetly is a scam.

  • What's your favourite F-Droid app?
  • Savertuner while it did make me use adb to grant permissions it did make a big difference to my phones battery life

  • DRM Hell
  • One of the reasons but not the main one I cancelled Netflix (to be honest I just thought the originals were bad and any I actually gave a a chance they cancelled almost immediately).

    But yeah their selling thing like 4k at a premium and making it almost impossible to ever actually use it. Better off just pirating.

  • What's your biggest scumbag move

    I mean everyone must have done something they aren't super proud off.

    As an example during primary school we had a class trip to the lake district (I'm from N Ireland) we were staying in an old victoriana style mansion (Rydal hall if I've remembered right.)

    Anyway every one of us kids staying there decided it was haunted immediately and the guy I had to share a room with was so scared he made himself a crucifix out of basically twigs and strings.

    I'm not sure why I did it but while he was sleeping I broke his crucifix apart and then put joke shop blood all over it. I woke up to him, crying this eyes out and just decided never to admit it was a joke or me who did it.

    I'm interested in Similar stories.

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    A feature I'd love to see implemented

    Basically I'm really missing the edit post option it was available on my previous client (voyager) so I think it's possible.

    Right now I make posts and realise in my probably drunken state I've made a spelling mistake and my only option is to delete the post at the point the app kicks me out of the thread and the post seems to be blocked from ever finding it again.

    The edit button would let me fix my idiotic errors and not get kicked from the post I was actually trying to reply to.

    Also I don't get why connect kicks you from the thread just because you delete a post and why it's impossible to find that post again that doesn't make any sense to me.

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