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  • Hazor@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldGet your new PebbleOS watch
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    13 days ago

    It was really only the OG Pebble and the Steel. It was resolved by using a different screen connector in the Pebble 2 and Time.

    I’ve had multiple OG’s over the years and each have developed the tearing issue. It’s a fairly easy fix if you’re comfortable opening electronics, but obviously that’s not going to work for every customer of a mass market product…





  • It’s simply because they’re stupid. They think they’re saving people from autism and that vaccines either don’t prevent illness or are no longer necessary. That’s literally all it is in this case.

    It comes from the hubris that they could possibly know better about medicine than the consensus of actual medical doctors and medical scientists. A lot of people buy into conspiracies because the feeling that they have some secret/superior knowledge makes them feel special, and here we are because RFK Jr just really wants to feel like a special boy and is too clueless to realize he doesn’t have a clue.






  • Pleasing the copyright holders. I don’t know how it is for the Dutch national library, but with a system used by many libraries in the US there’s a cost to the library based on the number of times it’s checked out, so more revenue for the copyright holder and the digital middle man. Allowing you to have the e-book indefinitely would be, at least in their minds, no different than giving it away. 🤷


  • And make it abundantly clear to everyone that you’re not suicidal. Record videos with date stamps. Send date stamped letters by mail to friends, with instructions to retain the letters indefinitely, and perhaps which are clearly marked “to be opened in the event of my death”. The letters should say something along the lines of “I am not suicidal. I do not want to die. I am not going to kill myself under any circumstances. If I die, it was not by suicide. I want to live. I have ABC reasons to live. I have XYZ plans for the future.” Etc.

    Keep multiple copies of the information in multiple locations, and make sure multiple people know where a copy is. Ideally, have a dead-man’s switch set up, or someone you trust to do it, to automatically send all the information to all the major news outlets if you do turn up dead, along with a statement akin to the letter outlined above to make it clear you were murdered.







  • That resulted in this weird situation, where the most prestigious facilities are just sport centers with a side hustle in education.

    When the football coach is paid literally actually 100 times or more what the average professor is paid, we’ve royally fucked up our priorities. Coaches are making millions per year while adjunct professors are struggling to make ends meet. It’s disgusting.

    Edited to add: the head football coach at my undergrad university makes 9 MILLION, PER YEAR. And his current contract runs through 2029. Let’s also not discuss how most of these contracts require they keep getting paid even if they’re fired for poor performance. Meanwhile, annual mean wage for a professor is like 80-90k.