Off-and-on trying out an account over at @tal@oleo.cafe due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
I have a KitchenAid hand mixer that’s been fine. If you’re happy with your KitchenAid stand mixer, seems that it might be reasonable to get the hand mixer version. I mean, you’ve already got a picture of one posted.
Note that I’m assuming that “variable speed” here translates to “discrete number of speeds in a given set of increments”, and not some “continuous-variable speed where you can just move a slider” thing.
so I figured that using pipewire to co-ordinate this would be the easiest way forward, except it turns out that it’s a (GUI) user space process, which doesn’t make sense on a server with no GUI users.
I’m not entirely sure what you mean by “(GUI) user space process”, but if it’s that it’s a systemd user process (e.g. it shows up when you run $ systemctl --user status pipewire rather than $ systemctl status pipewire, which appears to be the case on my system, where there’s one instance running per user session), then you probably can run it as a systemwide process, where there’s just one always-running process for the whole system. IIRC, PulseAudio could run in both modes. I don’t know if you have concerns about security on access to your mic or something, but that could be something to look into.
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Sounds like it’s doable. Not endorsing this particular project, which I’ve never seen before, but it looks like it’s possible:
https://github.com/iddo/pipewire-system
PipeWire System-wide Daemon Package (Arch Linux)
This package configures PipeWire, WirePlumber, and PipeWire-Pulse to run as a single system-wide daemon as the root user. This setup is optimized for headless media servers, HTPCs, or multi-user audio environments.
every hardware website I’ve checked so far, either don’t have any mini pcs, nucs or similar, or they have zero information about the hardware.
Well, if they give you the manufacturer and model number, you should be able to look them up with the manufacturer.
On maybe a more-helpful note, I have no idea if it might have consequences for your system (spend time every reboot trying to reinstall?) but you might try doing something that’d cause the installer to fail. Whatever update mechanism they have might back off if the installer just can’t succeed. Maybe uninstall Copilot, then replace one of the files that’s associated with Copilot with a directory or something, and if the installer can’t handle replacing that directory with the file it tries to install next time it runs, it bails and backs out?
I’ve occasionally used that trick when some program writes massive log files and doesn’t have an explicit way to disable log file writing — just drop a directory in the way.
Okay, this one is kind of funny (Windows 11, but I ran into it when searching for an answer for OP, and chuckled):
Thomas4-N 13,070 Reputation points • Microsoft External Staff • Moderator
Nov 22, 2025, 12:47 AMHello Alex P, welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I understand how frustrating it feels when features you’ve opted out of keep showing up.
Copilot is now integrated into Windows and Microsoft Edge as part of the operating system design, so there isn’t a supported way to remove it completely. Even if you uninstall the app or hide the button, some components remain because they’re tied to system features and will return with updates.
Here’s some steps you can try to partially reduce its presence:
- Uninstall the Copilot app: Go to Settings > Apps > Installed apps > Microsoft Copilot > Uninstall, or use PowerShell. This removes the app temporarily, but cumulative updates or the Microsoft Store can reinstall it.
- Hide the Copilot button and sidebar: Use Taskbar settings or apply Group Policy/Registry changes to turn it off. Keep in mind that updates may re-enable these settings.
- Disable Copilot in Microsoft Edge: Open Edge settings > Sidebar > Turn off Copilot. This is separate from the OS-level integration.
However, in the whole picture, there’s no supported method to permanently block Copilot. It’s treated as a protected system component and will reinstall with cumulative updates and Store auto-updates.
If you prefer an environment without these integrations, switching to Linux is a valid option.
Warm regards,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_vult
Robert the Monk, who re-wrote the Gesta Francorum c. 1120, added an account of the speech of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095, of which he was an eyewitness. The speech climaxes in Urban’s call for orthodoxy, reform, and submission to the Church. Robert records that the pope asked Western Christians, poor and rich, to come to the aid of the Greeks in the East:
When Pope Urban had said these and very many similar things in his urbane discourse, he so influenced to one purpose the desires of all who were present, that they cried out, ‘It is the will of God! It is the will of God!’ When the venerable Roman pontiff heard that, with eyes uplifted to heaven he gave thanks to God and, with his hand commanding silence, said: Most beloved brethren, today is manifest in you what the Lord says in the Gospel, “Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them.” Unless the Lord God had been present in your spirits, all of you would not have uttered the same cry. For, although the cry issued from numerous mouths, yet the origin of the cry was one. Therefore I say to you that God, who implanted this in your breasts, has drawn it forth from you. Let this then be your war-cry in combats, because this word is given to you by God. When an armed attack is made upon the enemy, let this one cry be raised by all the soldiers of God: It is the will of God! It is the will of God![18]
I’m not saying that I approve of Hegseth’s deus vult tattoo, but I would point out that it’s quoting one of your predecessors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil
The problem of evil, also known as the problem of suffering, is the philosophical question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with the notion of an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God.[1][2][3][4]
I still cannot, for the love of AntiChrist, boot the thing. At. All. Not even from a usb. Attempting to fresh install windows and i have zero input from any devices.
I"m not following.
It sounds like you can get to a BIOS screen. Does “zero input from any devices” mean that you’re trying to use a mouse or keyboard in the BIOS or with the Windows installer up or what?
In the second series, there’s a broader type of magic, and Merlin uses it to deal with his problems.
Yeah, that’s also a good point. What bugged me was in part was something common to fiction, where each story tends to get “bigger” and higher stakes, and at the end of the series plot, the universe winds up at stake. But…there’s another issue in that Merlin’s magic is far more versatile. It makes for something of a deus ex machina, where the author can pull some new magic mechanism out of a hat to resolve issues or advance the plot, and I didn’t like that as much as the much-more-limited toolbox that Corwin had.
Like, to have a good story, one has to have conflict to resolve. If you’re Superman, that conflict pretty much has to resolve around Kryptonite or something like that. It limits the kinds of conflicts that the story can do. If you can only shadow-walk, as with Corwin — certainly a potent ability — but can only do so with physical movement and a set of landmarks that you can see and so forth, there are ways in which it can be restricted. But if you can, say, call up an intelligent portal virtually anywhere that’s near-omniscient and can transport things anywhere, well, that alone kind of limits the sort of things that you can run into that are real challenges to overcome. And that’s just one of the tools in Merlin’s toolbox.
Also, at least for the first half of the second series, Merlin is naive and easily manipulated
Yeah…though to be fair, if the comparison is Corwin…a lot of the first book is just talking about how able he is to deal with situations and be cunning and see through intrigue even under extreme handicaps, like his damaged memory and with almost no information about what’s going on. That’s a high bar to follow.
I’m currently rereading the Amber Chronicles, by Roger Zelazny, and it’s like that. Arguably, it’s two stories of five books each, although there’s a thread from the first five that continues in the second. It’s a wonderful series, especially the first five.
I’d love to have a new Amber Chronicles.
I liked the earlier books the most, the ones that focused on Corwin, where the scale tended to be kept smaller, not universe-shattering stuff, but felt that the whole thing was a fun read.
But the first book ended POORLY
I can think of a few series that had books where I really enjoyed the first books, but felt that the series went downhill over time. The Dune Chronicles — I really liked the first book, but the later books just got progressively worse, in my opinion. Or Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
But I can’t think of any series where I had a bad first book and then the thing progressively got better.
Granted, that may be selection bias — maybe I just never complete a series if the first book is bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_incest
United Kingdom: Illegal
Prohibited Relationships:
- Parent, grandparent, child, grandchild
- Brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister
- Uncle or aunt (by blood)
- Nephew or niece
United States: legal (only 2 states: Rhode Island and New Jersey) / No Illegal (other 48 states, but in Ohio, only incest between parent and child or grandparent and grandchild is illegal, incest between siblings is legal)
Prohibited Relationships:
- Varies by state
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/incest-laws-by-state
In Rhode Island, the age of consent is 16 years old.
pulls up Rhode Island’s official tourism website
https://www.visitrhodeisland.com/things-to-do/family-fun/
Family Fun -> Family Vacations In Rhode Island
Rhode Island is an ideal family vacation destination.
gives meaningful look
For purchases that can be deferred without it being too painful, it’s probably a good idea on purely financial grounds, since some of purchases now are going to go towards taxation, paying tariffs. Trump’s earlier tariffs were overturned by the courts, but now courts are looking at the new, global, 10% tariff. Assuming that a future administration will roll back tariffs (or, I suppose, if courts overturn this and later attempts by the present administration at imposing tariffs) the same money would go further then.
OP, I think that you should probably flag the post as NSFW.
It doesn’t look fake to me, but if you want a way in which it might look different from similar images…
Cameras have changed over time. Like, I can’t list all the technical changes, but I can tell, when I look at an image, whether it looks like a photo that was taken in the 1970s or so.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4a41b101-86c7-4102-b7b0-8ca9d3d7a0cf.jpeg
I think that saturation on some things might be higher, gamma lower, film grain is present, might be depth-of-field differences, dunno. I’m sure that someone expert in photography could do a better job than me in listing technical differences.
Widespread use of image-editing software to do things like normalize images and change gamma to keep things from looking washed-out may be part of that (and cell phones, that do their own post-processing — redeye reduction, sharpening, etc may also be a factor).
The last time we had photos of people being hauled out of those capsules after coming back from Moon missions, those were the cameras in use:
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/93cf055a-31ca-4744-9734-482da219103d.jpeg
And so that might look “normal” and present-day cameras might not look “normal”.
I know that I get a bit of a shock, feels weird, when I see things like re-enacted American Civil War or World War 2 scenes shot with modern cameras, because most of the images I see of that, the photographs, are black-and-white and suddenly the world of color has collided with it.
I’m not on there, but you might have more luck in !localllama@sh.itjust.works
You might also want to list the hardware that you plan to use, since that’ll constrain what you can reasonably run.
DDLC is available on many different major platforms, including iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and more.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/698780/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club/
There are also some vehicles that permit turning the rear wheels a bit as well to get the turning radius down a bit more. My impression is that it’s kind of a luxury feature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering#Active_four-wheel_steering
And, of course, a short wheelbase helps.
I don’t really think that I’d want to be hauling around $330k in duffel bags. I don’t know how hard it’d be to open a bank account in South Korea, but I can’t imagine that it’d be that difficult.
Then deal with having the banks transfer it.