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Why millions of Americans give up control of their thermostats
  • I'm not in Texas, but on a similar plan. Initially it got me a free ecobee thermostat, now I get I think a yearly credit. It's not much, but in the 3+ years I've had it I think I've noticed them adjusting it twice. Certainly not 9 times a day. And I don't think they shut off heat/ac just adjust the temp a few degrees.

  • Anon quits their job
  • I guess there's a limit here too. I've never made enough when having to reley on unemployment to hit the max. I just looked it up though and looks like its a bit over $800 for the weekly max.

  • Anon quits their job
  • Maybe this is a difference between countries, but is fired for cause and laid off treated different? Like I can understand and appreciate the protections if your position is eliminated or something. In the US we have unemployment insurance where you can get I think 3/4 of your normal pay if laid off. But if you get fired for cause then you're on your own.

  • Abortion Law Tier List
  • No where did I say we shouldn't be working towards better. That's always the case. We will probably never eliminate murder either. That doesn't mean I think murder should be legal, or that we shouldn't try to prevent it.

    Laws have to reflect reality though and not an ideal that can either never be achieved, or is very unlikely to be achieved. And that means women need access to safe legal abortions right now. In your ideal future, if it were to happen that we were able to completely eliminate the need for them by advances in medicine then you could look at changing the law if needed.

  • Abortion Law Tier List
  • Considering S and A are pure fantasy, that leaves safe legal abortions or unsafe illegal ones. Even if you created a pill that would make you 100% infertal for life with an anti pill that reversed it when you wanted kids and forced it on everyone at puberty you'd still have people that want to have the child but can't due to complications and be back at safe legal or fuck off and die illegal.

  • Fur-pit
  • Those cost as much or more than the breeders now. Still recommended, but not cheap or free. I just look at it as a donation for them to keep saving lives. Our most recent was found on the side of the road in a pillow case.

    She's doing much better now.

  • Sony. What are you even doing right now? PS5 Pro Announcement
  • Ok, xbox is confusing with the one, one x, series x. Etc But PS is PS5 and ps5pro. And I guess whether you want a disc drive.

    PS has kept their naming consistent enough that it's not hard to figure out. Ps4 and ps5 are obviously different gens, one x series x doesn't inform you in any way what's better.

  • Sony. What are you even doing right now? PS5 Pro Announcement
  • If you think the ps5 game selection is bad wait till you see what xbox doesn't have. And everything exclusive to xbox is on PC. Sony has been absolutely mopping the floor with xbox this gen, which is probably why they think people will spend $700 in the pro.

    And how's your internet? Because I've never thought the videos on the store were bad enough to complain about. Might not be 4k but its never been blurry for me.

  • "universal and free electric service is the floor if we want to keep the green transition going"
  • I took it as shortened version of Asian Americans. Is that not right?

    Ok, I looked it up and it does seem to relate to people in the USA. Makes no sense. US Americans. Where does the "ian" come from? Americans seems logical without confusion. Canada is on the same continent and are called Canadians, Mexico, Mexican.

  • Check kiting
  • I did this 20+ years ago after a bank stole my money with bogus overdraft fees and refused to reverse them. Rent was due. Wrote myself a check a withdrew my fucking money from the ATM. Never got in trouble but it was a few hundred not thousands like those idiots. Opened a new account elsewhere before check systems or whatever its called flagged me.

  • California Votes To Approve $150K In Taxpayer-Funded Home Loans For Illegal Aliens
  • Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula (D-Calif.), the author of the bill, has claimed that the legislation would still require applicants to meet federal requirements, which includes providing either taxpayer identification or a Social Security number, both of which are things that illegals are generally not supposed to have.

    So which is it? Helping illegals get a home, or helping those that are legal according to the federal government?

  • [Playstation Lifestyle] PS Stars Points System Is Changing, But Not for the Better
  • Yet another check in the box of reasons not to renew plus. I'm still on extra until July, been a plus member since ps3, and would always buy a year during black friday sales. With the massive price increase and now this, I'm actually logging what games I play off plus to see if the cost is still worthwhile.

    As far as the earlier expiration, I always just redeem for the $5 store credit. No point in saving up more, you don't get better deals for saving and redeeming for the $20 credit.

  • Anyway to easily show hidden read posts?

    I by default have hide read and mark read on scroll and browse new. Sometimes a post that I want to go back to gets marked as read, and it seems the only way to show the posts again is to dig through the settings and disable hide read. In the action bar, there's a hide read option. Is there any way to put a show read as well, or have the hide toggle depending on whether read posts are being hidden or not?

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    PC locks up or dpc_watchdog_error bluescreen.

    Edit for solution. Ended up being the cpu. Bought a 5600x that worked flawlessly, and my 5900x was still under warranty. Just got the replacement back from amd and it's also working good.

    Longshot here, but maybe someone can help.

    PC either hard locks or blue screens. Ryzen 5900x 32 gigs ram 2080Super EVGA 750w power supply

    Did all the driver suggestion online. SFC memtest etc. Stripped down to single stick of ram, tried both individually in different slots, GPU and ssd. GPU and ssd have been used in another pc without issue. Windows 10, 11 fresh installs. Tried pop os locked up during install twice. Just replaced my motherboard and the boot ssd and it was working for a few days, and is now doing the same lock up or dpc_watchdog. At this point, the only hardware that hasn't been swapped out to test is the power supply, cpu and case. And I've disconnected everything from the case save the power button.

    I've been building my own pc's for over 20 years and have never encountered such a difficult to diagnose problem. Could it be the power supply? CPU? This is 90% brand new now and still giving me the same issue.

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    Any way to group communities?

    For example I'd like to browse all of the gaming communities at the same time. !gaming@lemmy.world and !gaming@beehaw.org etc. Something like all or local but for custom user created groups. This wasn't really an issue on reddit, but would be useful the way lemmy works.

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    Anyone having battery issues

    Never got this warning on the reddit version. Its a Samsung S10+

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    Distro suggestions?

    Currently running Kali on my laptop as that's all it was used for. Looking for something more general purpose. Mainly steam for light gaming and being able to install the tools from Kali for stuff like tryhackme. Mostly familiar with Debian, as that's what Kali is based on, but willing to try something else. Laptop is this Acer.

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    2FA issue

    I did the check for adding 2FA and got the pop up saying to save, scroll down and do something. But didn't see the info on the page after so I unchecked 2FA and saved again. Now any time I try to log in, I'm being asked for my 2FA token, which I don't have because I never finished setting it up due to not seeing the link to complete. I'm still logged in via liftoff, but don't think I can change that setting here. Any way to fix this or will I need to create a new account?

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