Mildly Infuriating user224 • Now • 97%

My refurbished ThinkPad (L390 Yoga) came with wrong rubber feet (too thick) not allowing it to turn into tablet mode.

They clearly show wear.  I am not sure if they were replaced from another older device, or the entire cover is from L390, but that one would have a plastic cover for where this one has a stylus. It doesn't seem like anything was snapped out of there. I couldn't find replacement ones online, and I am not sure if contacting the shop is a good idea. See, the L390 Yoga has a touchscreen with better colors and seems to be a bit more expensive (but not much). However, I bought this as "L390". I noticed the description said "Touchscreen: yes", which I realized meant they likely mistook the Yoga version for the base version. Indeed, that is the case. Currently they have one L390 Yoga in similar condition and same configuration, but the screen has some white spots (this one is flawless), ...and it's €46 more expensive. If you're curious, i5 8365U, 16GB RAM (single-channel), used 256GB Samsung SSD (I don't remember if SATA or NVME), €180 and 2 year warranty. Also, if you're wondering what that port with network symbol is, it appears to be a proprietary connector used on ThinkPads requiring an "Ethernet Extension" adapter to be usable.

Note: Newly loaded community

196 user224 • Now • 100%

My DVD+RWs keep turning into r(ul)ecords in these slim cases :(

Probably dust particles and slight rotation while in the backpack.

Canvas user224 • Now • 96%

Top 10 pixel placers (unofficial-ish from Canvas matrix chat)

Just from "a quick query" by the admin. >there'll be a better one later, this is just a quick query

196 user224 • Now • 100%

[Rant] Something's wrong with my ears for the past week and it's making me quite uncomfortable

Sorry, not sure if there's a more fitting community for discussions, but 196 doesn't have specific required content ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ So, last Sunday I suddenly got high-pitched tinnitus, mostly in my left ear. I thought it would be gone when I wake up next day, but it was still there. Then on Tuesday and Wednesday I had some pain and pressure in both ears. Unfortunately, I'd need to get referred to ENT by my GP, and she was on vacation. The substitute was there for "acute cases only". So far this was just... quite annoying. I tested for possible changes I haven't noticed with frequency generator on my phone. With medium volume, both ears went to 19.5kHz just fine. Thursday it improved. Or so I thought. The tinnitus got quieter. Later during the day I went to check again. I started with 16kHz at lowest volume. Suddenly, I could only hear it on my right ear, so I started panicking. Left ear fell from 19.5kHz to 15.5kHz in just 1 day. This was a fairly sudden change, and I am not exactly emotionally strong. I panicked and was crying and hyperventilating for about an hour.  So I decided I'll go to the substitute doctor next day to get referred to ENT. I set up alarm for the morning, but I didn't need it. I was too anxious too sleep much anyway. ##### So I got to the ENT right that day. She visually inspected my ears and throat finding no signs of inflammation. Tympanometry OK. Audiogram just confirmed my feeling of right ear being muffled with slight low frequency hearing loss, but nothing for my left ear, primary source of my concern. I explained the loss occurred in higher frequencies than I heard during the test. I asked what frequency they tested up to as it sounded fairly low. "6kHz." Apparently, even 8kHz (worldwide standard) is considered "experimental" in my country... I hoped for possibility of EHF audiometry (9 - 20kHz). Back to talking with ENT, I said that I could hear up to 19.5kHz on both ears ereyesterday, yet yesterday I couldn't even hear 16kHz on my left ear. She re-assured me that we normally loose ability to hear these frequencies with age (I am 18). I further explained that my concern is rather the **sudden unilateral** loss as opposed to gradual bilateral loss over longer timespan as it could continue worsening further. She replied with "Hearing above 6kHz is not important to humans." I wanted to tell her to resample all her music to 12kHz, then tell me how useless it was, but I didn't want to be rude. At last, I asked "What about the tinnitus?" with response being "Nothing." So, she just prescribed me vitamins B1, B12 and some Ginko extract pills for increasing blood flow to ears for 1 month which I still had to pay €30 for even with insurance. Welp, I just apologized for bothering them (non-sarcastically) as they had more patients and left no less concerned. _____________ I am pretty worried about this. I've been careful with my ears. I don't listen to music loudly, I don't go to concerts, hell, I didn't even have to go to theatre with school the last time as my current class teacher noticed I wasn't exactly OK with being in a room with lots of people, especially with loud noise. I can only suspect some issue with inner ear, perhaps inflammation. That wouldn't even be noticeable with just visual examination. However, I suppose that would also be accompanied by dizziness and vertigo. So I have no idea what's going on. At least I distracted myself while typing this.

196 user224 • Now • 100%

Balls rule

"at least"

Mildly Interesting user224 • Now • 97%

My earphones' cable has grown a pimple. It popped today.

Image on left is from 4 days ago, but the pimple was slowly forming over around 2 weeks. The goop was sticky, not oily. Earphones are Panasonic RP-TCM130. I was not able to find an explanation. Something to increase cable lifespan, lubrication, rubber disintegrating, sweat and earwax that somehow got into the cable, dielectric grease, SCP-1407, no clear answer. At first I thought the wires just somehow twisted. Nope.

Ask Lemmy user224 • Now • 98%

When you were little, how old did you think people used to get, and at what age did you consider a person old?

I used to think that age equated to percentage of life lived, thus I thought that most people live to close around 100. But it also made me think that people only get old when they're like 80. I mean like actually "old". The "old" adults were referring to. At that age I considered those 14/15 year old 9th graders old, just a bit different "old".

Ask Lemmy user224 • Now • 90%

Do Orbit chewing gums fall apart in your mouth when you stop chewing them?

For some reason this happens to me, but only with Orbit. At least the watermelon ones (I prefer chewing gums that leave minimum taste), I don't know about others. It just turns into a disgusting paste.

aww user224 • Now • 96%

Does my dog fit here?

Laying on his back, if the perspective seems confusing.

sdfpubnix user224 • Now • 100%

Relaying info from SDF relating this outage - 2024-05-29 (possibly a hardware issue)

```<> TACKER: membership (SDF Membership) SUBJECT: .. lemmy.sdf.org and old.lemmy.sdf.org are down DATE: 29-May-24 14:17:40 HOST: mx there looks to be a possible hardware issue with one of the nodes that hosts lemmy.sdf.org. a spare is being staged to take on the additional load. ``` Source: ``REQUESTS`` bulletin board on SDF public access UNIX system

Ask Lemmy user224 • Now • 86%

A bit of a weird question: Can modern medicine be a threat to humanity long-term by greatly reducing effects of natural selection?

OK, I hope my question doesn't get misunderstood, I can see how that could happen. Just a product of overthinking. Idea is that we can live fairly easily even with some diseases/disorders which could be-life threatening. Many of these are hereditary. Since modern medicine increases our survival capabilities, the "weaker" individuals can also survive and have offsprings that could potentially inherit these weaknesses, and as this continues it could perhaps leave nearly all people suffering from such conditions further into future. Does that sound like a realistic scenario? (Assuming we don't destroy ourselves along with the environment first...)

AssholeDesign user224 • Now • 98%

Soldered-on RTC batteries (with type covered as a bonus)

>This battery lasts the life of the router under the operating environmental conditions specified for the router, and is not field-replaceable. But who determines its lifespan? Knowing there is a battery set to fail and I can't simply replace it makes me physically uncomfortable. Enough so that I'd rather it not have RTC. Thanks Cisco.

sdfpubnix user224 • Now • 98%

From SDF about the (not only) Lemmy outage

From ``bboard`` ANNOUNCE BBOARD: ```<.> TACKER: membership (SDF Membership) SUBJECT: network outage in second cabinet DATE: 16-Apr-24 01:22:19 HOST: mx It looks that we're experience a network outage to our second cabinet this evening. A ticket has been opened to address the issue. This affects ryo.sdf.org, lemmy.sdf.org and ma.sdf.org Thank you for your patience. <ANNOUNCE.1.0/2>(87)[ <ENTER> follow thread, (R)EPLY, (F)LAG or (Q)UIT ] TACKER: membership (SDF Membership) SUBJECT: .. network outage in second cabinet DATE: 16-Apr-24 01:59:59 HOST: mx Confirmed that this is only a network outage to the second cabinet and is currently being worked on by our network service provider. Hopefully it will be resolved soon. Thank you for your patience. <ANNOUNCE.1.1/2>(6)[ <ENTER> follow thread, (R)EPLY, (F)LAG or (Q)UIT ] TACKER: membership (SDF Membership) SUBJECT: .. network outage in second cabinet DATE: 16-Apr-24 20:19:30 HOST: mx our network provider has reassigned our uplink port for the second cabinet and the hosts are once against accessible. (it even blinks! What!? Why?) <ANNOUNCE.1> Command: ``` Just relaying it here. ^Note:^ ^I^ ^am^ ^not^ ^affiliated^ ^with^ ^SDF^

Both received and decoded in SatDump on Android. The 321 composite PNG is 65MB, so I compressed it... and then Imgur compressed it even further so there's some extra compression artifacts, but anyway. And a note: Look4Sat app seems to have wrong TLE for M No. 2-4. Thankfully there was a similar pass to one shown, just 15 minutes later and more to the west. TLE on N2YO.com is right. Edit: Ran the decoder again with baseband. It removed the lines from middle.

196 user224 • Now • 100%

"I don't know."

Sorry for the lazy meme, I don't know what else to make this branch diagram in.

Lemmy user224 • Now • 95%

[SOLVED: Updated every 24 hours] Display name and Bio updates don't seem to be federating

E.g.: https://sh.itjust.works/u/testaccount789 https://lemmy.ml/u/testaccount789@sh.itjust.works I know in past I've successfully updated my display name, and it shows on other instances, so perhaps this problem is new to 0.19.x, but I am not at all sure about that.

First of all a disclaimer: I am not upset about the removal of manual server selection as this is a free service. They don't need to provide such services at all, so something is better than nothing. What happened: This morning I opened the ProtonVPN app on my phone and got greeted with a message stating free accounts can now only use automatic server selection and addition of free servers in Poland and Romania. However, I also noticed split-tunelling is now paywalled as well. Now, this is rather weird. Split-tunelling is already in the app and is something that works only on the client side, thus not putting any extra load on the servers. Quite the contrary, actually, as it allows some apps to not use the VPN, thus use less bandwidth. The automatic-selection-only allows for better load balancing, so that makes sense. Now to the workaround. They still allow manual OpenVPN and Wireguard setup even for free accounts, at least for now. To do so, login to ProtonVPN and go to [account](https://account.protonvpn.com/account). There's OpenVPN credentials which are used for OpenVPN authentication. Then go to [downloads](https://account.protonvpn.com/downloads), select appropriate options including the specific server and download the ovpn config file. Client: [OpenVPN for Android](https://github.com/schwabe/ics-openvpn) This app also supports split tunneling (edit config -> Allowed apps). ProtonVPN has an [article on how to set up this app](https://protonvpn.com/support/android-vpn-setup/), but it's really just importing the config and adding your OpenVPN ProtonVPN credentials which you grabbed before.