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Started a new job managing a retail store, so I'm trying to balance my new routine with my study. At the same time, I had to leave where I'm staying for a few days and figure out alternative transport. Tomorrow I only have study in the morning, so I've got some waking hours to myself for once ... I'm probably gonna crash on the couch hard. But looking forward to it!

Lemmy is like email, and lemmy.world is like your email provider. Sync is like Outlook

Pretty much all li-ion cells are rechargeable. It doesn't mean you want to recharge them. All the big 5 manufacturers grade their individual production batches. Only the "A" grade cells are used, the rest are either turfed or sold off to less reputable rewrappers/distributors whom don't mind having a cell of a lesser grade with their brand on it. That's how the vape companies got them, and why they often aren't able to be recharged in the product, which changes the risk profile of using them. The cell manufacturers don't want their cells in vapes, so they don't interact with the vape market directly.

Disposable vapes are a bad product and should be banned. As far as the underlying e-waste problem goes though, those cells already existed and were on the way to becoming e-waste before they were put in the vape. Disposable vapes don't worsen the problem and banning them won't mitigate it, only make it less visible in the west. The problem will still exist until we move on from li-ion chemistry in general.

Clancy as in Dan Clancy, CEO of Twitch, likely did have a hand in it. Not that the user's makes any sense, given this decision also negatively impacts Hasan

From around 2016-2020 the most popular devices were just a series of incrementally adding more pointless shit, which is why it's like that. They're not that popular anymore.

To address youth vaping. The outcome of that has been that youth vaping is significantly higher than in other OECD member countries, and kids are now getting them from the 'vape dealer' whom may have other illicit drugs available. Cigarettes aren't banned, only made unaffordable via progressive excise tax. That's had its own unintended consequences of launching a new market for "chop chop" i.e. illegally grown unprocessed tobacco, as well as black market imports that sidestep the plain packaging laws, and tobacco gang wars in Sydney and Melbourne.

The disposable black market & associated disproportionate rise in youth vaping in Australia results from the illegality of all vapes, not just disposables. It's hard to imagine it becoming a burgeoning black market predicated solely on that vapers find the highly available, better value, relatively environmentally friendly option untenable. Overall a sensible move I think coming from a pro-vape perspective

Wild Hearts comes to mind. Koei Tecmo PC ports are bad at the best of times, but many of the performance problems present in the Steam version mysteriously don't exist on the EA app version which released a few months later without Denuvo. Just like, buy the game again if you want your product to work I guess.

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This app live captions any output to your sound device locally https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions

Whether I mute my output device, or selectively mute a tab or app it still works fine.

There's a similar feature baked into Win11, not sure whether that is processed locally/privately though

Given you got it online, I assume you built it? Before buying anything, I'd recommend doing some basic retuning to ensure optimal tension and that everything is still positioned well, as things will move around over time. Installing a new groupset would be worthwhile for the experience, but I think you're better off saving for a new bike. With the entry level Shimano sets you're more or less paying for the brand name, and in my experience it's unlikely to make a big difference. You'll still have a cheap frame, likely with less than ideal geometry and materials used for its construction. That could bottleneck its performance regardless of your groupset, and the sets used on the more recent cheap bikes I've had weren't all that bad anyway. Provided you're able to get into most of your gears, prevent your chain rubbing on the derailleurs and don't have weird noise indicating energy being wasted or other specific performance concerns, it's probably fine as is. It might help tide you over if you're struggling with your current setup though.

On the other hand, it's not like we have 600lb bears charging around. Pretty much all kinds of attack by our land animals can be thwarted using the ancient & mysterious art of wearing enclosed shoes & pants.