It was advertised as “2 TB (64 GB Extended)” at a local clearance sale (not AliExpress), which was basically correct though I would prefer “64 GB but misprogrammed so everything can get corrupted at any time”. When buying it, I didn’t yet know if I could reprogram the chip but the low price was justified for the pretty aluminum case with a USB-C port and place for a custom PCB. I decided to buy it also to prevent another, less technical person from using it and losing their data. The store was getting rid of inventory for very cheap and would close soon so no more fake drives would be ordered.

Well, depends on how much you’re OK with some problems. I knowingly bought a “2 TB (64 GB Extended)” flash drive, tested its sectors and reprogrammed it to 32-in-64-GB for wear leveling and bad sector avoidance because it was still a cheap 32GB USB drive. I made sure to label it for “non-critical use” such as movies.

As for camping lanterns, ones charged from mains might have a nasty habit of shocking their users. (The YouTube channel contains a huge number of cheap Chinese charger teardowns and most don’t meet safety criteria. Usually, there is just 1 or 2 layers of thin tape between mains and the output you can touch.)

Sometimes, counterfeits or unknown brands are so similar to the real deal that it barely matters. I’d say that basic electronics (alarm clocks, kitchen scales, calculators, SD security cams) or even RAM is fine. With appropriate expectations, parts like video or USB cables, hubs etc., small home improvement items (hooks, screws) are fine too. Avoid categories where a lot of items have fake specs (storage devices, LED bulbs, anything that claims a runtime on a Li-Ion battery). Power electronics (especially if using mains or non-tiny Li-Ion batteries) can be downright dangerous. For novelty items and electronics modules, it’s usually easy to find text or video reviews on other websites because they’re easy to uniquely describe. Remember to consider ways in which the product can be utter crap despite high reviews citing good first impressions; it also helps to have practical knowledge of testing the properties of the items and fixing common issues.

Well, honestly the administration is more than a single person, which is why the other points raised by @DandomRude@lemmy.world are important.

Too bad a hundred million people are still too detached from reality to acknowledge this. The unfucking of America will take at least the better part of a century.

The sad thing is, he will end up winning more than 20 states despite this.

I know but there are few female leaders, past and present, in public consciousness. Theresa May? Queen Elizabeth II? Angela Merkel? Ursula von der Leyen? The fifth president of Slovakia was a woman, for example, but she’s just one in six, and not many people will remember her a decade later. If Harris gets to be fondly remembered as a president, she will undoubtedly help alleviate the gender gap in elected positions.

That’s the point. Dissatisfaction drives change, change drives paradigm shifts. We need a young president again.

I’m glad Trump hasn’t stepped down. A more conventional candidate would quite possibly beat Harris but his continuous blunders are paving the way towards the first female president of the US. It’s unfortunate that he’s been allowed one term but after he showed what he’s like, with him as the alternative a woman has a great fighting chance. I believe Kamala wins and will come across as competent, and we are going to see more women as state leaders worldwide.

I have Bluetooth headphones that crack open when they hit a hard surface (have surviveed so far) and the battery is a little Li-Ion pouch on soldered wires. They probably don’t last as long as sealed ones of the same size but it’s very easy to find and install a replacement battery. Just check disassembly guides before buying.

unironically, your votes have great influence on the fate of posts

I thought Pride was mainly by and for people of the generation that would rather disable the “call” function of their phones entirely, and “give us your phone number and we’ll tell you who we are” is very much the opposite of how they want organizations to interact with them.

TEXT PRIDE TO 70785

Why are ads and campaigns like this? Is there something I’d get that I couldn’t get from a website, beside “my phone number potentially leaked and used for robocalls”?

In 2016, Trump supporters, even women, would say that Hillary as a woman cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. I hope they’ve abandoned this narrative.

Edit: found the video

The song is Hold On, I’m Comin’ from 1966.

I don’t think copyright should last that long but if it’s what it takes to take down the Trump “empire”, whatever.

That thought experiment unleashes multiple cans of worms.

(Warning: “Quoted” bits are imaginary strawmen but I believe you will find Republicans holding these positions.)

“Life begins at conception”

Do pregnant women cast more votes? Is there going to be a pregnancy test at voting stations? Or ultrasound to check for twins?

“Parents have a bigger reason to care about future, as their kids will live in it.”

— Kids aren’t copies of their parents… why not decrease the voting age instead?

“No, older people know better”

Depends. Schrödinger’s cat is a famous thought experiment and so are various other fun theoretical science bits like the multiple “paradoxes” in general relativity (twins, ladder, rocket string…). (Obligatory mention that Schrödinger would deserve a beating but because he was a pedophile)

What do you mean? Will that make her step down? Or are we going to get a younger mayor thanks to deepfakes?

If they can’t respect a recipient’s consent, they deserve it being a little harder to deliver to people using that mail server.

Incompetent/convicted felon/authoritarian, too, but that word/phrase is too long to go viral because social media addicts stop listening halfway through.