Same reason flapping your arms really fast will never make you start flying. You don’t have the equipment. You can’t fly because that’s not what arms do.
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I’m always lost when people start using music terms. So a “beat” is just a song? Why don’t people just say that?
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Ways to Expose Services PubliclyEnglish
4·3 months agoLinode has a $5/month option.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What's your favourite thing to self host and why?English
2·4 months agoHubs/hubby are not aussi-exclusive.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•There should be a test in high school followed by regular 5 year examinations to grade you as a roommate
1·4 months agoThat’s housework. Homework is actually schoolwork that for some reason we’ve allowed the teachers to mandate that students complete outside of school time.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If _all_ social media was behind a paywall, what % of current users would actually pay for it?
8·4 months agoSo is most “social media” anymore.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should be able to change the sounds for electric cars.
10·5 months agoWhat do you mean “bring back”? At least with Android, any audio file you can transfer to your device can be used as a ringtone.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should be able to change the sounds for electric cars.
1·5 months agoThe only EVs that I’ve encountered (and knew they were EVs) are delivery vans. Other than those and other commercial/industrial vehicles, I’ve never heard a backup siren.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should be able to change the sounds for electric cars.
12·5 months agoBack-up sounds? On a consumer vehicle?
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should be able to change the sounds for electric cars.
2·5 months agoYou say that as if “whenst” is a word we would’ve encountered before.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should be able to change the sounds for electric cars.
3·5 months agoI think they knew what you meant. They’re saying that once a car is going fast enough you won’t be able to hear the chosen sound anyway, just the wheels on the road and the air being pushed by the car.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should be able to change the sounds for electric cars.
6·5 months agoMotorola put out pc software that allowed you to transfer any mp3 file you had to your phone and use it as a ringtone. AFAIK it only worked with their devices, but it felt awesome doing that and then checking how much money I didn’t just spend.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•You can watch yourself being born.
4·6 months agoWhich is not the same as zero.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do you remember every single scene and dialogue of a show or movie you just watched?
4·6 months agoBoth my parents have told me that I used to be able to do that with Aladdin (the 90s one, no interest in seeing the Will Smith one). I don’t remember being able to do that though, and I certainly couldn’t now.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10?
9·6 months agoSupport has been extended, but 10 is EOL, which means soon™ it’ll stop getting updates. Once that happens, any vulnerabilities that exist (discovered or not) will stop being fixed.
People use the mouse to switch windows?
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The 24-hour clock might be the only military-grade thing Americans won't buy.
51·6 months agoExcept we refer to that as “a fifth”.
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3DPrinting@lemmy.world•What software are you using for CAD/modeling?English
1·6 months agoSketchup was used in the real world? I remember using it in the mid 2000s to make a castle to add across the street from my house in Earth.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it rude to go through the car wash with a bunch of snow on your car?
4·9 months agoI have, but they’re essentially just pay per use pressure washers.



Not exactly. I’ve usually heard it explained as “quantifiable” vs not. If you can attach a number, it’s “fewer”, otherwise it’s “less”.
e.g. less money, fewer dollars