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Akad egy kis gond - Pakson sem tudják, mivel hűtik majd az erőművet A szakmai érveket figyelmen kívül hagyja, és nem veszi komolyan az Orbán-kormány a bővítés során a reaktorok temperálásának kérdését. Ez még a környezeti hatástanulmány szerint is gondot okozhat. Pedi...

What could possibly go wrong nepszava.hu/1145987_akad...

15.07.2025 18:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, “off” isn’t really off if it can be “turned on” using the remote, as at the very least the infrared receiver and related circuitry must be powered on at all times.
If it’s a “smart” TV, it just goes to standby/sleep like a computer bc it runs similarly complex software that takes time to start

11.07.2025 09:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh and the ABSOLUTE WORST was my parents’ “ultrasonic” rat repellant! I had to get close to my dad to tell him to turn it off, and at that distance it literally caused me physical pain! My ears were ringing for days, I was worried that I suffered permanent hearing damage >_< He didn’t hear a thing…

11.07.2025 00:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The PSU of my LED desk lamp emits a high pitched whine… when the lamp is off. So I don’t even bother with the switch, I just unplug it.

Years ago a coworker and I spent several minutes looking for the source of a whine, only to find a GoPro being charged on my boss’s desk.

10.07.2025 23:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hm, now I’m wondering whether certain electric/electronic products emit noises like that because although the engineers heard noises and wanted to fix them, the managers didn’t hear anything and decided to ship asap

10.07.2025 11:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That title will never not remind me of that horrifying Assassin’s Creed bug >_<

10.07.2025 09:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Official Nintendo Shark of Quality™

09.07.2025 19:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My technical understanding of the 1351 only extends to decades old vague memories of printing the POT values in C64 BASIC and seeing them wrap around :)

09.07.2025 19:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ahhh, okay, I thought Commodore maintained compatibility on those pins as well. Thanks for the info!

09.07.2025 17:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

:(

I have 9999 games for my VCS. Or something like that, can’t remember what the sticker lies about the number of built in games :D

09.07.2025 17:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, uh, disclaimer: it’s been 15+ years since I tried this and both devices were clones, so you might want to read up on it before you try it to make sure I’m not saying something desctructively stupid :D

09.07.2025 11:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The 1351 switches to 1350 mode if you hold down one of the buttons on powerup, and then it acts like a joystick. Some Space Invaders-ish game was more fun using the mouse :) 1351 mode uses the POT inputs, but with limited range, so it’s probably not very useful, and I don’t have any paddle VCS games

09.07.2025 07:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Hahaha, it’s fine :D

08.07.2025 11:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know (well, technically only two of them are, the other two are peripherals, and all of them are also used in/with other models (heck, I’ve even used a 1351 clone with a VCS clone) :P), I was trying to be funny about how they look like a bank card number together (and obviouly failed)

08.07.2025 11:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Expiration date and security code?

08.07.2025 07:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“unexpected” :D

07.07.2025 14:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I “””bought””” Korg’s M1 plugin a while ago and they didn’t even need to be acquired for their license validation to fail in completely mysterious ways

04.07.2025 14:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
A beige desktop with a CRT, showing the Disability pride flag

A beige desktop with a CRT, showing the Disability pride flag

We all like to joke about July being "Gay Wrath Month" but it's actually Disability Pride Month, so have the Disability Pride Flag from VGAPride and my AST Premmia LX MS-DOS machine

02.07.2025 00:14 — 👍 2857    🔁 1183    💬 18    📌 9
Text based thread from Tumblr discussing the ‘rarity’ of rare diseases, pointing out that something that affects only 1% of the population is still affecting 80 million people, more than the population of many countries. But it’s still so rare nobody is interested.
The final comment suggests this statistic applies to blindness, EDS, intersex variations and autism, just to name a few.

Text based thread from Tumblr discussing the ‘rarity’ of rare diseases, pointing out that something that affects only 1% of the population is still affecting 80 million people, more than the population of many countries. But it’s still so rare nobody is interested. The final comment suggests this statistic applies to blindness, EDS, intersex variations and autism, just to name a few.

Indeed.

29.06.2025 16:07 — 👍 784    🔁 335    💬 3    📌 1
A picture of a white 70s pontiac trans am with pink and blue stripes up the hood in trans flag colours. Trans Am. Trans Trans Am.

A picture of a white 70s pontiac trans am with pink and blue stripes up the hood in trans flag colours. Trans Am. Trans Trans Am.

Trans Am

02.01.2024 05:23 — 👍 2415    🔁 524    💬 35    📌 30
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Beijing court hands AI copyright violators up to 18 months in prison

Source:

www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202506/19/...

24.06.2025 03:21 — 👍 94    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

The most shocking part of this is the 17 years 👴🏻

18.06.2025 19:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No idea, sorry. I only tried an mk2 a long time ago and don’t really remember what the stick was like, and the newer models might be entirely different anyway. I just thought it might be something you might want to look into as it’s closer to a gamepad’s analog stick than to traditional wheels

17.06.2025 21:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Awesome!

Have you seen/tried the stick on the Akai MPK Mini series?

17.06.2025 15:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fine, I'll do it myself!

16.06.2025 01:11 — 👍 1488    🔁 432    💬 32    📌 17

Any chance of a rainbow to turn his parade into a pride march?

14.06.2025 22:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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happy pride specifically to them

14.06.2025 19:35 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Akkor csak nagyobbra tippeltem a fedelet a valóságosnál :)

14.06.2025 19:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jól látom, szintén egy fedelétől megszabadított tok? Én úgy használom a Paperwhite 2-met, mert elviselhetetlen számomra a hátlap tapintása

14.06.2025 19:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app is one of the most depressing places online Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app has become the saddest place on the internet with its public feed of personal overshares.

Meta launched a stand-alone AI app and now it is full of sensitive content from Facebook users who appear to be unaware that they have made their conversations public: www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...

12.06.2025 15:17 — 👍 322    🔁 160    💬 6    📌 50

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