https://lemmy.today/u/doug posted on Feb 20, 2026 22:12
Um akshually, they’re made in the country of Taiwan.
TBF all hate towards China is justified. I used to think they were a tolerable evil, but they’ve been using their influence help elect people like Donald Trump, propping up Russia economically during the war, commitring genocides in Xinjiang and Tibet, the hostile millitant occupation of Hong Kong, and supporting dictatorships in Iran, Cuba, Indonesia, etc.
It’s literally just a number admins can use to sus out if a user might potentially be a toll. It’s basically reddit karma but hidden from everyone but admins.
Why do you tankies always lie
Why do I keep running into people calling others “tankies” who are very explicitly anti-“tankie?”
So rare to see such a pure form of “Everything I don’t like is tankies”
Last night was a frigid, totally clear sky night and the northern lights forecast said low solar activity. So I pointed our IP camera north and bashed out a few scripts to record continuously and create a long-exposure star trail photo, hoping to have a really clean star trail. Yes, I have nothing better to do at night…
Turns out, we did get northern lights - and some light pillars too. So technically my clean star trail is ruined. But the image still looks cool.
At least that gave me an opportunity to make a timelapse video of the northern lights with the source images I used for the star trail, which you can see here:
Aircraft probably. The airport is 20 mi south of here and quite a few airplane routes head due north.
Geosynchronous satellites
Tangled is also a new Git forge built on ATProto, the protocol used by Bluesky
Me neither, I only stumbled across this a couple of days ago. I don’t use Bluesky but I heard that it’s not really defederated because of the large amount of resources it requires. Not sure if it applies to ATProto in general. For now I’m sticking with Codeberg because what’s a federated network worth if there’s not much to federate with
Yeah Codeberg is cool. I’m on my own forgejo but it’s currently local only and that won’t change until federation works.
If you know anything about Linux’s history, you’ll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on “a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.” We know that the “hobby” operating system today is Linux, and except for PCs and Macs, it pretty much runs the world.
Did you ever wonder, though, how it went from being one person’s project to being a group effort? I knew most of the story because I’d been using Linux since 1993. But I thought I’d ask Linus, and some of the early Linux developers.
Did a quick search it seems that it’s called Shatner light. Very cool.
Even when it’s running Windows, you’re free to install Linux whenever you want. When that’s no longer true is when it stops being a PC imo
Following GNOME 50’s Mutter merging sdr-native color mode support for wide color gamut displays this week, another late addition to Mutter has now been merged ahead of next month’s GNOME 50 stable release.
The late change merged today to Mutter Git is supporting the Wayland color management v2 protocol. Mutter already was supporting the initial color management protocol but now is updated to include the latest adjustments to it found in the upstream Wayland Protocols spec.
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/47696001
This has nothing to do with the Steam legal case dealing with “unfair” business practices.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43381114
We have an 18” kettle grill (254 in^2) that my family of 5 has finally outgrown. We don’t need anything huge, I think 50% more cooking area would suffice. Our needs: - We mostly do quick-cooking stuff like burgers/brats - Less often we do chicken thighs - We use charcoal - I’d like to try cooking ribs - We’re not interested in smoking
My best guess as to a good fit for us is the Char Griller Wrangler (435 in^2). It’s bigger than our 18” kettle but not too big. I don’t want to have to use a ton of fuel each time we grill, I assume that would be true for a larger model. I also want something with a warming rack and this little guy seems to be a good balance of price/quality.
Are my assumptions correct here? I’ve only ever used kettle grills. Char-Griller has fancier models with fire access doors but I don’t really think I’d need to futz with the fire that much, even if doing ribs. I figure that with the simpler model I could just remove the grate over the coals in order to be able to add more as needed.
Thanks all!
Kind of a side note, but I’m a big fan of grill pans.
Assuming you have stove-top area, you can place them right on top of your spiral elements, and exactingly control the heat levels in ways which is more difficult with charcoal. There’s also far less elements, expense and cleanup involved, and you can cook inside year-round for those in colder climates.
