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Cake day: February 17th, 2024

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  • One tidbit the article neglects to mention: the rapid heating from a cold start often caused a critical failure in an old filament, which is why bulbs would most often burn out right when you turned them on. You’d get that quick flash, maybe a pop, and the light would be dead. First you’d flip the switch on and off a few times, then go fumble around for the bulbs (hopefully not in the dark), then fumble around replacing the bulb. And hopefully you left the switch off, or remembered to look away while screwing it in, else it’d blind you when the new one came on.




  • That doesn’t seem to be true, because I just set the default launcher to the pixel launcher, and it didn’t change at all. Maybe it is just an integration thing. Maybe if I use regular Play services instead of the sandboxed one.

    Edit: never mind, that doesn’t seem possible. Oh well, I can live without it.

    Edit2: apparently the app I installed was not the Pixel launcher app, because it’s not available as a separate app.









  • Here in Germany we are extensively educated about what happened in the 3rd Reich. It’s a big part about our education to learn and understand what horrible things happened and why they happened to make sure this never happens again. This kinda lead to the point where many Germans are deeply ashamed just for being a German (even though they’re quite far detached from what happened) and this is also a reason why you won’t find many German flags hanging here.

    Yeah, we didn’t do that. At the end of the civil war, Lincoln was assassinated, and Johnson just kind of said “yeah we good now” and good portions of the US still hold Confederate views.