I got this 180° adapter for my Steam Deck and it fits perfectly with a StylthGrip case on using the original charger. The fit is tight but the charger goes in without any forcing. Couldn't find any info when I searched so I wanted to share. Any 180° adapter should work so long as it has at least a 13.5mm gap between the two usb c ports.
Kroxx 5d ago • 100%
Mint's sweet I switched from 10 a few months back. Biggest difference is getting use to the different file system, only 2 games have been unplayable (didn't try to make them work tbh).
Kroxx 2w ago • 100%
Ahhh I misunderstood your tone my bad, it's a bit of an emotional topic for me. I've been checking in on friends the last couple days to make sure no one's dead.... I thought you meant that last sentence as an "we're being censored!" Bit
Kroxx 2w ago • 25%
I'm gonna guess you're just trolling or unwell mentally, I am from WNC and a majority of my family and friends live there. There is one granite mine that supplies for chips and it is in a specific town called Spruce Pine. The government did not manufacture a hurricane that covered a third of a state so one town can give away mining rights
Verizon is stopping support for message+ and says to just use Google messenger. Fuck that I hate Google, can anyone suggest an app I can use to just text people and send pictures that works on and offline?
Kroxx 3w ago • 100%
The tone of this writing is bizarre, even for satire
Kroxx 3w ago • 100%
There are lines for grocery stores but it's mostly because the store itself is throttling the number of people in the store at the same time, gas is non-existent, no cell or Internet connection, many without power or water or both. I don't know if it's as bad as Katrina but it is certainly pretty bad and way worse than when the area was hit by multiple hurricanes in the late 2,000s.
Kroxx 4w ago • 100%
A Nation in active conflict cannot join NATO, you silly silly person
Kroxx 4w ago • 100%
RuneScape would like a word with you
Kroxx 1mo ago • 100%
Eh I'll take it, better than reading about candidates continuing to defend a fake news conspiracy about immigrants eating pets or whatever horrible thing they focus on next
As sad as it is, it's actually kinda refreshing to see a mundane headline regarding politics
Kroxx 1mo ago • 100%
Everyone of the people I know who have the sticker/tattoo aren't Nazis, they are big into guns and tend to be anti-government though.
Three percent is from the population% that supported the American revolution at its inception, at least that's what I've understood of it.
I'm sure there are plenty of Nazis that also claim to be 3%ers but I've never known it to be a Nazi thing, maybe they have tried to claim it.
Similar to the OK hand sign I will never see it as a symbol of nazism/white supremacy.
Most of those stickers aren't Nazis
Kroxx 1mo ago • 100%
Yeah it only being supported on pixel is what made me lose interest too but there is a good reason why it's specifically pixel phones, it's one of the only phones that doesn't have a bootlocker/ you can disable it. GrapheneOS can't operate on phones with a bootlocker. I could be a little off on this explanation but that's the gist I remember.
Kroxx 1mo ago • 96%
For reference here are inflation rates YOY since 2017:
2017 2.10%
2018 1.90%
2019 2.30%
2020 1.40%
2021 7.00%
2022 6.50%
2023 3.40%
Just to make up for the last three years of inflation they would need +16.9% instantly. Assuming +2% inflation over those 4 years (which is the average but not right now) that means from 2020 to 2028 inflation rose 26.3% so if they started a +25% increase over 4 years this year, the workers would have the same spending power they had in 2020.
Data is from the bureau of labor statistics
Kroxx 1mo ago • 100%
1.25×40×52= +2,600 per year before taxes, they would hit +10k after 4 years which almost certainly won't keep up with inflation. So at best they would have equal spending power to when the 4 year period started
Kroxx 1mo ago • 100%
Was getting submission errors when I tried to post this which lead to me tweaking and resubmitting which lead to me accidentally posting dozens of time. I am sorry for accidentally spamming the community.
Kroxx 1mo ago • 100%
It wasn't intentional, Lemmy was giving a submission error and I was trying to tweak it to make it not, while unintentionally posting this a shit ton
Kroxx 1mo ago • 100%
Yeah it kept saying submission error, I didn't think it was posting it and I messed with it thinking it was a character limit or something. All are deleted but one, Lemmy still has some kinks
www.washingtonpost.com
>PHILADELPHIA — Ever since President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign, former president Donald Trump has been sour and on the defensive. His new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, made clear in their scorching debate here Tuesday night that she will spend the next two months trying to keep him there. >If debates matter, this one should. But the overriding question in such a divided country is whether it will. >The final weeks of the campaign promise to be as contentious as the 90-minute encounter at the National Constitution Center and hosted by ABC News, with polls showing no clear leader and a nation hanging nervously on the outcome. If there were doubts about Harris’s ability to weather what will be a brutal stretch, they were at least partially answered with her sharp and steady performance on Tuesday. But given the state of the race, neither candidate can afford missteps or mistakes. >Harris, who was under pressure to define herself more fully to voters who barely know her, did so less by outlining her positions on policies, though she did some of that, and more by being vigorous and unrelenting in attacking Trump. She played prosecutor from start to finish. She called him a threat to the future of the country if he is returned to the Oval Office. She portrayed him as obsessed with himself rather than the people he seeks to serve. She detailed his criminal convictions and the indictments against him. She even needled him about crowd sizes. It was a dominating performance. Trump has not been challenged so directly and so consistently in his political life. No wonder he misses Biden. >Trump was ill prepared for this Harris. He previously had disparaged her personally, questioning her intelligence and her identity. When cornered at the debate, he used the issue of immigration as his crutch to counterattack, but he also went on numerous flights of fancy and outright lies, without success. His most loyal supporters will no doubt be happy with how he handled himself, with his relentless attacks on the record of Biden and Harris — especially on the economy, immigration and foreign policy. >But others, including some Republican elected officials, will see the degree to which he fell short. Maybe Trump recognized that as well. He showed up in the spin room after the debate, a rarity and an obvious sign of his need to try to make the case to reporters that he had failed to make on the debate stage. >His strategy, to the extent he had one, seemed to be to appeal only to his loyal base. Given how close the contest between the two is, he seems to be betting that’s all he will need to win in November. Harris, with her turn-the-page appeal, appeared more interested than he in expanding her support just enough to squeak through in November. >Ahead of the debate, much of the commentary focused on what she needed to do and the risks for her of a weak performance. By answering those questions on the strength of her presentation, she now will try to keep the focus on him. If this debate is any indication, the next months could find him in a constantly sour mood. >Barring a joint decision by Trump and Harris to meet for a second debate — Harris’s camp said Tuesday night they wanted one — Tuesday’s encounter could be the last major event of the campaign. As such it marked a pivot point in the election after an unprecedented two months that saw Biden end his candidacy, an assassination attempt against Trump, two upbeat national conventions and now the first head-to-head encounter between the two nominees. >From here forward, amid candidate rallies and a barrage of messaging, the campaigns will begin to shift their emphasis to mobilizing voters. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be poured into television and digital advertising, but with early voting starting in some states later this month, the priority now will be on banking votes ahead of Election Day and then maximizing overall turnout on Nov. 5. >But while their campaigns focus on voter turnout, the two candidates will wage an extended version of what Americans saw on the debate stage Tuesday night. Trump has proven resilient politically despite years of lies, an attempt to subvert the 2020 election and his undisciplined persona. Harris, new to the presidential campaign trail and less well known, must continue to demonstrate her durability. >But Harris has another mission, and it was on display Tuesday night, which is to continue to heighten fears about another Trump presidency. Democratic strategists say the more the former president is in the spotlight, the better Harris’s chances. >Trump did nothing to offer voters a new portrait. This was the same Trump who voters have seen for nearly nine years — an attack politician, one who thrives on personal grievance. He is as well defined as any politician can be, for those who love him and those who loathe him. The act is old — and to about half the country, it is disqualifying. Yet with nearly all of the other half in his corner, it has been enough to keep the race as close as it is. >It was Harris who perhaps surprised people on Tuesday. Criticized for failing to do many interviews, questioned about her ability to hold her own in unscripted moments, she made an impression on those who watched, especially women, according to one Democratic strategist who observed a dial group of voters. In the weeks ahead, Harris’s support among women could become the decisive factor in the outcome of the election. >The turning point in the debate came when the issue of abortion was raised. Harris had deflected an opening question about whether Americans are better off today than they were four years ago — the classic question posed by Ronald Reagan in his 1980 debate with then-incumbent Jimmy Carter. Instead of answering directly, she ducked the answer by laying out policies she said would help the middle class. >But when the moderators — David Muir and Linsey Davis — turned to abortion, she found her voice and apparent newfound confidence. From that moment on, she was in command. Trump, despite repeated attempts to unnerve her, failed to do so. >Still, this was but one moment in a campaign in which so many voters seem locked into their choice. For all the upheaval of the past two months, and for all that Trump has said and done, including his felony convictions and personal attacks on Harris, the 2024 election could hardly be closer. >With Biden’s departure, Harris went from understudy to lead Democratic actor overnight and rode a wave of enthusiasm out of her convention in Chicago last month. Beginning at a time when Democrats feared Biden could not win the election, Harris has moved the polls by four to five points in all the battlegrounds, according to The Post’s poll average. >She has done a good job of consolidating Democrats around her candidacy, in contrast to Biden. Yet all that accomplished was to turn the 2024 election into a dogfight. >Nationally, with eight weeks remaining, the contest is a statistical dead heat. The seven battlegrounds that will decide the outcome — Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona — are seemingly even tighter, based on poll averages by four different organizations: The Post, the New York Times, RealClearPolitics and 538. >North Carolina and Nevada are tied, according to these averages. Harris is up an average of two percentage points in Michigan. Georgia and Arizona are somewhere between tied and Trump up by a percentage point. Pennsylvania, which many analysts see as the key to the election, shows Harris with a lead of one to two percentage points. >The only battleground state where one candidate has a lead of more than two percentage points on average is Wisconsin, where Harris has on average a three-percentage-point edge. But in four of the past six elections in Wisconsin, including 2020 and 2016, the winner’s margin has been a percentage point or less, suggesting a down-to-the-wire contest there. >For Democrats, the mere fact that they are back in the race has been a morale boost. But there’s a warning from past elections that continues to give them pause. In both 2016 and 2020, Trump outperformed the polls. In his first campaign, that was enough to win. In 2020, it wasn’t. >In the three northern battlegrounds, pre-election polls understated Trump’s eventual support by three points in Michigan, three points in Pennsylvania and five points in Wisconsin. At the same time, the RealClearPolitics averages show Trump running ahead of his support this year compared with four years ago. >Democrats are judged to have a powerful ground game, as they proved in the 2022 midterms when they performed far better than polls and predictions had suggested. Their get-out-the-vote operation is fueled by thousands of volunteers, some working at the direction of the campaign and others taking the initiative by outside groups or on their own. >But when Trump is on the ballot, he has proven to be a powerful motivator for the Republican base, even in the absence of state-by-state infrastructure. Democrats know they have to work to get their voters to the polls and worry that Trump’s supporters will get there on their own. >In an election this extraordinarily close, everything matters — debates, messaging, advertising, enthusiasm, where and when the candidates campaign. Harris has claimed she is the underdog and given the surprise Trump pulled off in 2016, that’s probably the right posture to take. She came to the debate ready to prove something and did, and on the biggest stage to date. But she cannot let up. There is no margin for error.
Kroxx 1mo ago • 75%
Blocking hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml
Yeah that'd for sure step one for blocking some extreme views. It's actually kinda nice that they all aggregate to a couple instances, just have to find an instance that blocks both or filters them out. I don't block them personally but it's fairly easy too.
Kroxx 1mo ago • 100%
Won't even outpace inflation at that rate nor does it fix the past 4 years of hyper inflation. Just as tone deaf as you'd expect from a company that cannot produce reliable air travel after being able to provide it for decades before.
Kroxx 1mo ago • 100%
That guy is way too cute to be a recluse, he looks like a sweet little jumper.
Kroxx 1mo ago • 50%
You should see the data for people improperly using cars or medications or alcohol. Pretty scary stuff, I think everything should be illegal.
I've been trying to help kick start this community off. This is my first time really posting, I was always a lurker. I was trying to think of things I could post about daily and was planning to do an in-depth series of guides on ball vapes(which I will continue to generate). The problem I have with that is ball vapes are still very new, with them still pretty early in development there many dents to hammer out. They don't appeal to everyone and it's 100% understandable, I was turned off by the complexity when I first saw them and pretty much wrote them off (glad I looked back into them though). So I wanted to try to throw posts up on a variety of dry herb vaporizering topics, this one will appeal to people who want a heavy hitter ball vape adjacent device without any of the downsides of ball vapes. The Vapor Brothers VB1.5 **I DON'T OWN THIS DEVICE** **At a Glance** + Easy setup, plug-N-play whip desktop vape +Safe, very shielded from burning anything + Pure convective heating +Can leave on all day + Reliability, vapor brothers has been around forever and make a good product +3 ball materials (zirconia, alumina, or boro glass) and 2 ball size options 3 or 4mm +Can retrofit VB1.0 -Hits very hard but not as hard as a ball vape -once you select your material it doesn't look easy to change it out -Can't set exact temp, uses dial instead -Can't have a portable head, will be entirely desktop This is basically just the OG Vapor Brothers desktop but they changed the steam to include balls that you choose (see above for materials/size) so it seems like a hybrid ball vape/desktop device. Reviews seem solid, people report it hits almost as hard as ball vapes. This seems like a great middle ground bridging desktop and ball vapes, unlike ball vapes though this is a plug and play device with little to no safety concerns comparatively. It looks like you can pick them up for around $300 depending on what you choose, not a bad price point imo. You could get cheaper ballers but you could also get way more expensive ones. They can also retrofit an old VB1.0 and convert it to the VB1.5 for $125 which I thought was pretty neat. I don't think the stems/balls can be easily changed out but I could be dead wrong on that and of course no things that are for ball vapes will work with this. The only other downside I see to this is no precise temp control, other than this looks like a phenomenal device! Image from vaporbrothers.com/VB15
I saw this picture of the internal heating elements of the mighty. I hadn't seen it before so I wanted to share! Pretty neat: you can see the thermocouple in the bottom left of the heating chamber to track temp, the air path spirals up the element picking up convective heat, and you can see the hottest spot is in contact with the herb bowl which gives it the conductive heating. Superbly designed device!
I cleaned my glass for the weekend (ignore down stem haha) and wanted to share a picture of my daily driver setup! Just a TM2, glass bowl with 14mm connector, and an Orb water piece. I hope everyone is having a relaxing weekend!
So there was some speculation whether Valve delisted the 177 (now 180) countries to protect itself legally or if Sony had done it for Sony reasons. It appears that Sony has been confirmed to be the one who delisted it
So I've used portables for years and desktops a few times. The last couple years I've kept reading about ball vapes and they sounded cool but honestly I got intimidated and stopped looking into it. There are so many options and components and you have to worry about compatibility etc.... Well I hope to make a series of posts addressing all of this to help other people be more comfortable approaching getting a ball vape! **At a glance, what is a ball vape?** Simply put a ball vape heats up an e-nail, that then heats up a metal or glass housing, that houses hundreds of 2-4mm balls (where the name comes from). These balls are made from materials that have good heat retention properties, silicon carbide(SiC), ruby (corundum), alumina, zirconia, and many more. These balls heat up as well and when you draw air though the balls the air heats up and passes though the herb vaporizering it. **What's the benefits?** The reason small 2-4mm balls or jewels(lil diamond shapes) are used is because they have a large surface area compared to larger (5+mm) shapes and you can get a higher packing density(more balls/volume). This heats the air passing though very uniformly, leading to a much more uniform extraction (less green and black ABV). It also allows for a very open airpath, while being able to maintain temperature. The housing and balls (often referred to as a head assembly) have a huge thermal mass so you can rip the hell out of a ball vape and the heat will keep up! A ball vape offers a one hit extraction from flower, kinda like dabbing flower if that makes sense. There are three main components you need to start a ball vape setup: -PID controller -a coil that is compatible with the PID -a head assembly that fits the above coil and balls The rest is a bowl, bong, and any adapters you want. These depend on injector vs difussion style but that goes past the scope of this post. All of this is just a very general picture of a ball vape written as succinctly as possible. I will dive much deeper into the setups, parts, and adapters in future posts. Image from tools420 site in comments, I just wrote over it.
Just a quick guide to help anyone understand some of the differences between conduction and convection vaporizers. Hopefully it helps people make informed decisions on what types of vapes they want! **At a glance**: Convection +More even extraction +Better flavor +Lower combustion risk +Better for on demand large rips +Less stirring needed _______________________________________ Conduction +Larger clouds +Better heat retention +Designs are more compact +Cheaper +Better for long vape session/ sharing _______________________________________ What's the difference? **Conductive** **heating** is heat that is transferred though being in physical contact between solid objects. Thus a conductive vape is a vape where flower is in direct contact with a heat source. By contrast **convective heating** is heat that is transferred though gases. Thus convective heating heats the air that then travels through and heats the flower. Most portables and devices in general are hybrids where some part of the bowl heats up and the air that passes though the herb is heated, the mighty perfect example of a hybrid device. Pure devices exist of course, the Tinymight 2 is purely convection. Pure conduction is a little rarer or at least I haven't personally come across as many pure conduction devices, I believe the starry 4 is a pure conduction portable. *That is not my picture, I got it from the Wikipedia page on heat transfer.
Someone posted in Trees the other day that they missed the old r/vaporents and r/cult. I do as well, I want to try and foster growth in the cannabis space on Lemmy. I love vaporizering (cannabis too of course) so I want to start making some content for vaporents!
I want to see this community grow so I want to start creating some content here. What's everyone's favorite vape here? Could be model specific or vague like portable, conduction, analog, etc... Preach your favorite way to vaporize!
I am currently on win10 but have been toying with mint and liking it. I intend on fully switching over soon. I have also been toying with the idea of some simple 3D modeling, like making custom parts for projects around my house. Maybe using a CAD software to generate stls for a 3D print or using it to spec out parts for a design made out of aluminum extrusion (like 8020) little things like that. I was thinking about getting a solidworks hobbyist license for 45 a year but solidworks doesn't support Linux. I could keep a Windows dual boot HDD, but fuck that. Any suggestions on a CAD software that fits? Have a gaming PC with a 3060 and some beefy hardware.