How well does clipping the antenna actually work?

If my FM radio antenna rusts and falls off, my FM radio still works. Reception will be shitty but it’s absolutely still usable for nearby or powerful stations.

When the GPS antenna inside my much-abused phone came loose, GPS got very unreliable but still often worked in a glitchy way.

If I clipped the external antenna on a car’s cell modem, would it not be the same way? Based on my experience with those other kinds of antennas I’d expect maybe the manufacturer would lose the ability to track me while driving in remote or mountainous areas, but generally in cities or highways it would still connect. Is it not so?

Now do it with the new ones that have eSim

Oracle are not fast movers. But also this is not their first recent layoff.

Reddit went absolutely bonkers overboard every year with dumb April Fools posts to the point where it crowded out every real topic and made the site unusable for the day, even back in the early days when it was otherwise very usable.

I personally never saw that level of bullshit overload anywhere else.

One of the things I like about Lemmy is that it avoids (somewhat) the everybody-piles-on-same-joke plagues that swept through Reddit. I’m hoping we as a community can keep avoiding them (somewhat)

Sorry for all you beans and Stör enjoyers. This place is big enough for the both of us but sometimes it does get uncomfortable.

This shit is dumb. It was dumb on Reddit and it is dumb here. Why do we want to make ourselves suffer obnoxious fake news once a year?

Do you ever wear neatly crisply pressed and ironed business-formal shorts to work?

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I don’t know where you’re at but I got an eyeful in New York City a couple years ago.

People walking to work in the morning on Manhattan — women sheer and braless and obviously on their way to an office job. Multiple such women. 🤯 This is not how people dress where I come from but apparently it’s a thing now at least in The City.

Also men wearing shirt and tie and leather dress shoes with no socks and a kind of garment I can best describe as “office shorts.”

I learned on that trip that I am not a fashion person.

Edit: also this user violet08 appears to talk mostly about sexy shit so 🤷

High something Not Rich Yet — people who have a shit-ton of income but blow it all on whatever instead of hoarding it properly

Well, it’s 100% linked to your contacts in one way or another because when you install it Signal will happily alert you to which ones of your contacts are already using Signal. I can’t see how they could manage that without slurping up your contact information.

Man that video at the end of the view of the axle from underneath while driving — two separate fan enclosures with small sheet-metal straps and fiddly little electronics-case screws, all facing down toward the road and right behind the wheels?

This is not a place where you put fans, or big openings into the kind of electronics you need fans to cool, if you want them to keep functioning while driving through salty slush and mud.

Seems perfect for Southern California

• 300M half axles with 930 CV joints

!!! That is WAY TOO MANY half-axles and CV joints! You need to tone it down guys, TWO half axles with TWO CV joints each is plenty!!!

No wonder it costs so much….

USA perspective: I have a relative with that name (short for Clifford) who died in the ‘60s. Good name. Not common any more but ready for a fashionable comeback.

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I’m telling you there are teachers out there who are amazing because they approach teaching without regurgitation and grade based progress.

And you have to tell us that, because mostly we haven’t seen such teachers and wouldn’t otherwise know they existed.

I have plenty of FireWire cables but I gave away all the computers that they plug into. Now I need a Lightning -> Thunderbolt -> FireWire 800 -> FireWire 400 -> iLink adapter chain and it would be cheaper to buy an old FireWire computer instead 🤦

Presumably if there’s a switch to turn it on then there’s also a switch to turn it back off again.

Fuck 😢

February 25, 2025

Boiling it must kill the elastic on the white cotton underwear in fewer washes

And the elastic on the fitted sheets.

And… sometimes I like to wear underwear with blue penguins on it…

Granted it’s hygienic but the rest of the world appears to find regular soap and warm water to be sufficiently hygienic without boiling.

I’m not saying Germans are wrong I’m only saying Germans are exceedingly more German than other people are.