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  • I’ve found that if my VPN is disconnected when I first connect to Android Auto, connecting it after the fact won’t cause it to freak out.

    My VPN automatically turns on when I’m connected to anything but my home network, so if I start my car at home, when I lose wifi and connect to the cell network I don’t have issues.












  • entwine413@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyz2025 be vibin'
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    2 days ago

    Man, I hope so. I’ve been job hunting after my position with a government contractor was eliminated in February, and despite a decade of experience, I can’t even get to the first round of interviews.

    I think we’re going to see a big shift towards small to medium IT/dev companies, and a ton of freelancers. I’m one of those, because I’m about to start doing IT work for businesses in my small town.




  • entwine413@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzChemistry is weird
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    You’re wrong.

    Lithium batteries contain little to no elemental lithium. They normally contain lithium cobalt oxide, lithium iron phosphate, or lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide as the anode, and a lithium salt as the electrolyte.

    Water is about the only way to put one out because it’s an exothermic reaction (water is to cool it down so it stops), and two out of the three are self-oxidizing so you can’t just smother it.

    The biggest danger of a lithium battery getting wet is that it shorts, which can lead to a fire because it goes into thermal runaway. But this can happen if you have one in your pocket with spare change (most of the vape fires in the 2010s were this)





  • You’re better off locating a call center and checking with them directly. The one I worked for had all job postings on their website.

    One big plus of a call center is they love to promote from within the company. It’s often because they don’t want to pay market salaries, but if you treat it like an internship, it’s not a bad deal.

    I went from being an agent to being a senior server engineer in like 4 years, then jumped to a government contractor gig paying 3x what I was making there.