Lovely, I’m glad there’s more than one of these hellplants.
SolSerkonos
I’m Sol.Orion on SJW, but I’ll likely not use that account anymore.
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An actual answer: you very quickly learn to pull in a way that prevents your fingers from slipping onto the prongs
…Do you, though? Because this thread is the first time I’ve considered this as a problem- which I agree it could be better designed in general but especially for child safety purposes- and I’ve been around American plugs my entire life. I’ve never been shocked, unless we’re counting the time I grabbed an electric fence because I was an idiot teenager being goaded by other idiot teenagers.
You just… grab the plug by the plug part? It doesn’t really require any kind of special technique to not touch the metal bits. Maybe I just have big hands? Realistically, I probably couldn’t fit between the wall and the plug while it was still inserted enough to be live.
I’ve always heard them called sand spurs, and they’re the devil. Nothing in nature needs to be that sharp, ffs.
At least chestnuts have the decency to be really localized and large, despite being spikey balls of evil. These little fuckers are miniature, everywhere, and can hide in carpet for a solid six months before you notice them the one time you decide to go barefoot.
I’m so glad we don’t have these where I live.
Well, shit. You’ve got me there ngl.
People always talking about how extremely hot metal looks tasty.
I’m an amateur blacksmith. Glowing metal looks like pain.
I don’t need to make sense of error messages. Which is good because I usually can’t.
I just need them copy/pasteable cuz that shit is going in Google and I’d rather not manually type it.
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•The Outer Worlds with ray tracing can't hit 60FPS at paltry 540p resolution with an RTX 5090 and 9800X3D - ray tracing 'performance' mirrors Borderlands 4 fiascoEnglish
3·24 days agoI’ve been playing on an RX 6600 @ 1440p with zero problems. I didn’t even bother turning it on, so terrible RT performance is news to me.
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Technology@piefed.social•No matter what car you drive, the glory days of CarPlay may be numbered.English
4·24 days agoI’m fine with cars having bluetooth. But I don’t need a touch screen and a shitty smartphone on the dash.
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Games@lemmy.world•Capcom doubles down on its decision to go pay-per-view during the Street Fighter League despite the fact that nobody really likes itEnglish
2·1 month agoRainbow Six Siege has had a pretty strong competitive scene for pretty much the entirety of it’s lifespan- it’s definitely fluctuated a bit in popularity, but the prize pools have always been reasonable numbers, and it’s always had decent viewership.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Best general ebook reader for Android?English
3·1 month agoHa, I didn’t remember what I used so I grabbed my phone to try Librera FD, and realized I already use it.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Sometimes people like to complain about windows and iOSEnglish
8·1 month agoThey definitely exist, but it feels like stubbornness at that point. It absolutely isn’t a lack of capability, it’s a lack of willingness.
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RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•For a game called "Dungeons & Dragons" there is a shocking lack of both dungeons and dragonsEnglish
10·1 month agoYeah, my DM threw a young white(I think) dragon at us pretty early in the campaign. It wasn’t meant to be a fight we won, we were only meant to drive it off and possibly have a sidequest type thing to go loot it’s lair later.
It tried to fly away. We teleported into the air after it, and I clung to it’s back and kept dropping divine smites in it until it died. Was fantastic.
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Games@sh.itjust.works•GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons programEnglish
61·1 month agoidk that GoG does need to license them that way? I assumed they just operated as a storefront and take a cut of the listed price like Steam or Epic. As for having their own staff, usually these kind of things have a community solution already it just might be a pain in the ass. I assumed they were either getting permission from modders to ship their fixes, or they were basically using them as guidelines to make their own. Either approach would take their development costs down.
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Tech@programming.dev•Microsoft's Gaming Copilot watches you game and captures that data for 'model training'English
13·1 month agoWhat could that possibly help AI do? Cheat better? Simulate videogames?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a good FREE music streaming service that isn't run by the devil?English
9·1 month agoThere’s a comm on lemmy.dbzer0.com. Alternatively, google FMHY. When I bailed from Spotify, I just used SpotDL to download all my music a playlist at a time. Worked fine, but might be a bit beyond your skill level to set that up.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•I'm finally going to get to work on downloading all my music and abandoning streaming services. Any tips and/or advice?English
1·1 month agoIt’s really just storage space that’s the limiting factor for me. I’m already uninstall/reinstall juggling a few games as it is so carving a partition to play with Linux hurts.
At some point I’ll grab a third SSD and make half of it a linux partition or something.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Full list of areas in the UK targeted in ‘dodgy’ Fire TV stick crackdownEnglish
1·1 month agoUh, really? The English version is pretty convincing that it is- it even lists three different methods they used over the years. The sources seem convincing, but I’m quite literally judging the book by it’s title there.
I haven’t, but I’m very intrigued and will have to give it a shot.




And off of them if you fuck up, I’d imagine.