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LG C4 For Retro TV, Movies and Games
With LG’s 2024 OLEDs now going on sale to make way for the 2025’s, I wanted to review the C4, from the perspective of a retro-enthusiast. Also, since the C4...YouTube
Trump doesn't rule out seeking 3rd term. And, a revamp of the Smithsonian Institution
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/g-s1-57273/up-first-newsletter-trump-third-term-smithsonian-institution-overhaul-myanmar-earthquake?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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An impulse purchase on AliExpress and I have a Zigbee Moes Universal smart IR remote control.
Integrated quickly into #HomeAssistant via Zigbee2MQTT and you can capture codes as well as send them, IR transmission seems good at sending to awkward receivers.
Unfortunately I didn't think about the fan I wanted to control which only has power toggle and increase/decrease commands and there's no way to send a definitive On at speed 3 but it will probably come in handy at some point.
that is exactly how I did it (although I wasn't automating it. I would just run the script and look at the value to make sure it turned on or off - I only needed it for a couple of days)
But I'm glad I helped
I Vaccinated My Children. But Here’s Why My Neighbors Don’t. nytimes.com/2025/03/31/opinion…
Opinion | I Live Near the Texas Measles Outbreak. Here’s How We Got Here.
An important lesson amid a measles outbreak in America.Carrie McKean (The New York Times)
RFK Jr. Is Already Vindicating His Critics
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Please don't order lilies for your friends and lovers if they have a cat. Really... a gift of flowers for a cat owner is... I won't say it's *always* a bad idea, but consider if the cat owner has any house plants.
If they have no house plants there is a *reason* for that. It's called: The Cat. You can have house plants OR a cat but not both. Cats chew on plants, and they will chew on lilies and get sick and possibly die. No, they don't know not to eat these plants. They dig right in.
I'd already seen the image (and nodded soberly and thought "yup, good warning"). But for some reason, when I read the alt text, I suddenly busted a gut laughing. Something about reading the actual words "a cat photoshopped into a hazmat suit" just gave me a major dose of absurdity.
Anyway, kudos for the info and the excellent alt text!
DIY Linear Tubular Motor Does Precise Slides
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DIY Linear Tubular Motor Does Precise Slides
We’ve seen plenty of motor projects, but [Jeremy]’s DIY Tubular Linear Motor is a really neat variety of stepper motor in a format we certainly don’t see every day. It started as …Hackaday
Lawsuits and allegations are creating doubt around quantum dot TVs' use of QDs.
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Overblown quantum dot conspiracy theories make important points about QLED TVs
Lawsuits and allegations are creating doubt around quantum dot TVs’ use of QDs.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
31 March 1897 | A Pole Stanislaw Bytnar was born in Ostrów. A teacher, soldier of Polish Legions. Father of Jan Bytnar "Rudy" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Bytn…).
During the war, he participated in underground education.
In #Auschwitz from 13 May 1943.
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Shot during evacuation.
Making a DIY #Eurorack case from 3M screw rails, MFOS bipolar power supply, and scrap wood I found in this house I moved into last year. This is mainly a project for getting more practice using power tools. I lived in small rental accommodation nearly all my life so had little reason to own any until now.
Which way should I orient it? Power entering from lower right or from the upper left?
#synthdiy #synth #electronics
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It's quite funny to read articles like this that claim it's some kind of race/competition and saying Mastodon "... has struggled to grow its active user base". That's like comparing a diamond to a donkey and claiming the diamond has struggled to become sufficiently donkeyesque. What's wrong with these diamonds? They don't even have a tail. This one doesn't say eeeyoooore. It is clearly therefore not as good as this donkey which just kicked me in the balls.
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The hunt for the next Twitter: all the news about alternative social media platforms
X, formerly Twitter, isn’t in a great place right now, but there’s a lot of competition for Twitter-like social media platforms. Here’s our coverage of alternatives like Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, and more.Verge Staff (The Verge)
Seth Rogen and a fabulous cast highlight the satire 'The Studio' : Pop Culture Happy Hour
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/03/1242489333/seth-rogen-and-a-fabulous-cast-highlight-the-satire-the-studio?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Kernfusion ist ein großer Hoffnungsträger für künftige Energiesicherheit und wird weltweit in Forschungsreaktoren vorangetrieben. Deren Leistung präzise zu detektieren, erfordert Messsysteme, die auch unter extremen Bedingungen valide Daten liefern. Ihr Herzstück: die Bolometer des Fraunhofer-...
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The #FreeBSD #Laptop Working Group is really making some nice progress!
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The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out ...GitHub
How Much Will That Surgery Cost? Hospital Price Lists Remain Largely Unhelpful
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5342873/how-much-will-that-surgery-cost-hospital-price-lists-remain-largely-unhelpful?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Well, when #Trump is really "pissed off " there would be plenty of reasons to be) then he should use sanctions, not tariffs. US-Russian trade volume is a meager $1.5 billion a year. Tariffs would do nothing.
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French court finds far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty in embezzlement case
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Me, too.
I actually played parts of the first campaign as well, back in the early 1990s. But it's been so long that I only remember fragments.
What happened when Syria's conservative new leaders tried to shut 60 Damascus bars
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5343375/syria-damascus-bars?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Beloved historic landmarks navigate an uncertain future after the LA fires
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5336326/la-fires-historic-landmarks-preservation-gamble-house-zane-grey-estate?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Catholic Charities tests Wisconsin's unemployment payment system at Supreme Court
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Cesar Chavez Day celebrates a lifetime fight for justice for farmworkers
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5338828/cesar-chavez-day-farmworkers?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Marine Le Pen found guilty of misappropriating EU funds by French court – Europe live
French far right leader and eight National Rally MEPs found guilty in embezzlement caseJakub Krupa (The Guardian)
A folk legend gets a reunion he didn't sign up for in this melancholy charmer
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5338844/the-ballad-of-wallis-island-review-carey-mulligan-tim-key-tom-basden?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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6 things borrowers should know about federal student loans right now
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court vote is getting national attention and millions from Musk
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5338901/wisconsin-judge-election-musk-trump-abortion?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Expert says Tesla's best way to rebuild its brand is to ditch Musk
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5339818/tesla-brand-elon-musk?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I'm also backing up my stuff to a local SSD instead of relying on cloud storage, partly due to my slower internet connection as well. And #Kopia also has deduplication and compression BTW, which is useful 'cause my SSD isn't that big.