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Admiral Patrick
Admiral Patrick @ ptz @dubvee.org

I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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"Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"

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3 Americans held for years in China have been released, the White House says
  • is just smoke and mirrors to give anti-trumpers something to talk about so they don't fight the real issues.

    Yeah, true enough. But I just really don't want to hear the undeserved gloating from him or his cult.

  • Trump voters feel very differently about things now that he’s won, our new poll shows
  • Apparently I was unaware that "are" is now considered a contronym. lol

  • Trump voters feel very differently about things now that he’s won, our new poll shows
  • Sorry, can't not laugh at the Freudian slip here.

    But yeah, low-information and/or single-issue voters are a scourge.

  • Skill issue
  • me_irl

  • 3 Americans held for years in China have been released, the White House says
  • Lemme guess. T*ump's gonna take credit for that, too.

  • Too many of the same mods is bad for Fediverse
  • It's not immediately apparently exactly which removed comment in the modlog triggered this post, but one of your last comments told another user they deserved to be lynched because they disagreed with you about...lynching. Then you called them idiots for not "getting it".

    If you smell shit everywhere, instead of crying "what about?!", maybe check your shoe.

  • www.theguardian.com Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI

    Publisher Spines will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books edited and distributed with the help of artificial intelligence

    Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI

    Slashdot Summary

    Startup Spines plans to publish up to 8,000 books in 2025 using AI, charging authors between $1,200 and $5,000 for editing, design and distribution services. The venture-backed company, which recently secured $16 million in funding, promises to reduce publishing timelines to two to three weeks while allowing authors to retain full royalties. Co-founder Yehuda Niv describes Spines as a "publishing platform" rather than self-publishing.

    The announcement has drawn criticism from industry professionals. Independent publisher Canongate condemned the company for automating book production "with the least possible attention, care or craft." The Society of Authors urged writers to exercise caution, citing concerns about AI systems potentially trained on unlicensed content.

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    Maybe someone can help with Lineage and rooting
  • Hey do you think you can recommend a good utility to move apps to the SD card?

    Not really, unfortunately for a couple of reasons.

    My devices running Lineage have sufficient internal storage that I haven't really needed to mess with it on those or look for / familiarize myself with a solution.

    My daily-driver device running do-googled stock Android only has 16 GB, but it does allow moving apps to SD. Sadly, I've had lots of issues with using the SD card in "extended storage" mode. Like, consistently, after each reboot, all my app launcher icons were gone from the home screen for anything that was on SD. Another time (and this is what made me say hell with it lol), I rebooted and the SD card was just wiped.

    I've side-stepped the issue by using app-level options to store data on SD (with the apps still being on internal storage). e.g. I've got Organic Maps set to store the map files on SD, Nextcloud uses the SD card for its app data, camera defaults to the SD card, etc. It also helps that I don't run a lot of apps in general; pretty much most of my "apps" are just pinned web apps.

  • Maybe someone can help with Lineage and rooting
  • Glad I could help!

    TBH, my instructions were just my own phrasing of what I earlier read on XDA. I love XDA forums, and I've learned so much from there, but yeah, they do gatekeep pretty hard.

    Ah, yeah. I haven't used TWRP for a while since my last couple devices weren't supported and I had to use Lineage's own recovery.

  • Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds | Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment.”
  • "tide of anti-plastic sentiment"

    I'm not anti-plastics; I'm anti plastic waste and am tired of being lied to from the industry about plastics recycling (or lack thereof).

  • Ponchos are skirts for your top half
  • That has to be the two best syllables ever uttered on television. lol

  • Maybe someone can help with Lineage and rooting
  • Sideloading should be the same way you installed Lineage, assuming you used the official instructions and Lineage recovery.

    I'm doing this from memory, so the steps may vary a bit.

    Boot to recovery, click "Install", then choose "ADB Sideload".

    From your PC, run adb sideload Magisk.zip (assuming Magisk.zip is in your working directory).

    Then the phone should show progress; ignore anything pertaining to inability to verify. That's normal since the app you're installing isn't signed by Lineage.

  • Maybe someone can help with Lineage and rooting
  • Magisk needs to patch the boot.img file somehow.

    Here's how I did it:

    • Download the Magisk apk from Github
    • Rename it from Magisk.apk to Magisk.zip
    • Reboot into Lineage recovery on your device
    • Sideload Magisk.zip and let it install
    • Boot back into Lineage
    • Open Magisk and it'll likely tell you it needs to install.
    • Click through, and it should patch the boot partition in-place
    • Reboot
    • Open Magisk and make sure it shows as installed.
  • Trump’s promise to loosen crypto regulations may be boon for extremist groups
  • Adding that to the list of reasons I dislike crypto and its fanboys (as if I needed another).

  • What really are the flaws of allowing anyone to euthanize themselves or relatives like we do sick animals?
  • For the record, I'm all for the right to medically and painlessly end one's own life if they so choose. That said...

    It could potentially be abused in situations where someone has power of attorney or some other situation where they can make medical decisions on your behalf. That seems like a pretty easy thing to guard against, though.

  • Ponchos are skirts for your top half
  • You don't need to sell me on ponchos; I'm already a fan.

    Poncho!

  • *I finally escaped, and now life can return to norm-*
  • The newline is actually intentional. I use a different markdown renderer, and it needs it apparently; otherwise, it doesn't detect the closing tag. The Photon dev recommended another markdown library that works well with Svelte (which is why I switched from markdown-it), but I haven't had a chance to look into integrating it.

  • *I finally escaped, and now life can return to norm-*
  • Thanks. I'll take a look.

    Not an issue I would have thought to check since you should always close the tags you open lol 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • TOS is willing to be remade/rethought. TNG is not. How come?
  • I know what you meant, though. The actor who played kid Picard was only for a one-off episode while the rest were for whole series or movies. I just really like being technically correct. 😆

  • T'Pol DGAF about your Risian vacation

    ENT 2x07

    So much of ENT is serious business that it's kind of hard to meme.

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    West Virginia native Emily Calandrelli becomes 100th woman in space

    Cross-posted from "West Virginia native Emily Calandrelli becomes 100th woman in space" by @gedaliyah@lemmy.world in !news@lemmy.world

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    Blue Origin’s New Shepherd vehicle launched into space Friday morning with Morgantown native Emily Calandrelli on board.

    Calandrelli was the biggest name on board, known for her science programs “Emily’s Wonder Lab” on Netflix and “Emily’s Science Lab” on YouTube. West Virginians also know her as an ambassador for the state. She’s from Morgantown and graduated from West Virginia University before furthering her education at MIT.

    She is the 100th woman to travel to space and among the first from West Virginia.

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    Kitchen Nightmares - Amy's Baking Company

    Even years later, this episode is still a trip.

    Like, the first time I saw this episode, I was absolutely giving her the benefit of the doubt until 1/4 into it.

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    90's Music @lemmy.world Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Ace of Base - The Sign

    Not my favorite song, but it takes me back nonetheless.

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    Me when I put vitamin gummies in my vodka

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    Nico Borie - Happy Together (Cover en Español)

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    Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine

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    Children of Bodom - Lake Bodom

    It's like the video game water level but for your ears.

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    Manfred Mann - Doo Wah Diddy

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    90's Music @lemmy.world Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Bush - Machinehead

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    Ray Charles - Hit the Road Jack

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    Deftones - Digital Bath

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    Children of Bodom - Bed Of Razors

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    90's Music @lemmy.world Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy

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    90's Music @lemmy.world Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Our Lady Peace - Starseed

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    90's Music @lemmy.world Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

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    Or maybe a type of golf club?

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    arstechnica.com School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules

    Student “indiscriminately copied and pasted text,” including AI hallucinations.

    School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules

    Student "indiscriminately copied and pasted text," including AI hallucinations.

    > A federal court yesterday ruled against parents who sued a Massachusetts school district for punishing their son who used an artificial intelligence tool to complete an assignment.

    > Dale and Jennifer Harris sued Hingham High School officials and the School Committee and sought a preliminary injunction requiring the school to change their son's grade and expunge the incident from his disciplinary record before he needs to submit college applications. The parents argued that there was no rule against using AI in the student handbook, but school officials said the student violated multiple policies. > >The Harris' motion for an injunction was rejected in an order issued yesterday from US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. US Magistrate Judge Paul Levenson found that school officials "have the better of the argument on both the facts and the law." > > "On the facts, there is nothing in the preliminary factual record to suggest that HHS officials were hasty in concluding that RNH [the Harris' son, referred to by his initials] had cheated," Levenson wrote. "Nor were the consequences Defendants imposed so heavy-handed as to exceed Defendants' considerable discretion in such matters."

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