I thought it was genuine. What did I miss?

Advertise more and sell harder. Who cares what kind of trash the customers end up buying, because only profits matter.

In a hot environment 3 is really pushing it. In a cold environment you can easily do an entire week.

Happy cake day!

@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world

With Linux related issues, it’s usually a good idea to include the name of the distro.

For example: debian apt unmet dependencies

or even: arch wiki nvidia

When looking for information about a particular rock, add the word “mineral” in the search query. If you forget to add it, you’ll usually end up reading about some mystical and magical properties you can still probably include in your next D&D campaign. If you’re feeling extra technical, try adding mindat or webmineral

Example: Chrysocolla mineral

Technical: Chrysocolla webmineral

As the nearest toaster store is just a 10 min walk away from where I live, I think I can safely continue to ignore Amazon.

Oh yeah, Americans had those too. Totally forgot.

When I ordered stuff from the local non-slave labor retailer, it takes a few days to arrive. Usually something like 2-3 days.

As far as computers are concerned, i have more than a few spare devices. Anything else though, not so much. If my toaster, hair dryer or printer dies, I’m totally screwed.

Here’s a more nuanced approach. Once this messages is posted, it’s public. during the same day, it will be copied to a bunch of servers across the fediverse. It’s easily available to everyone who cares to look for it. After a few decades, most copies of the message will be gone, but maybe one or two will still remain tucked away somewhere. It’s still technically public, but it’s getting a bit rare. That’s ok though, because nobody cares about 30 year old online ramblings written on some archaic social media that got replaced by the New Cool Thing.

After a hundred years or so, it’s highly likely that almost every record of this conversation is permanently gone. Maybe there’s a data historian who has a personal copy of the entire fediverse. What if that one historian forgets that their Crystalline Omni-Relational Uni-Protonic Tachyon storage, containing the only copy, was in the pocket of the trousers that went into the washing machine? When they hear the spaceship keys clanging inside the washing machine, they stop the cycle, but by that point, the ‘original manuscript’ is already gone. All you have left are some references, summaries, interpretations, translations etc. Nobody knows what the original actually said, but historians just love to debate and speculate about it anyway.

Yeah, that is a pretty good point. The attitude towards various electronics is entirely different. Probably really healthy too. If you stop having the ability to check doom and gloom news and anger inducing online debates every 3 minutes, it’s probably going to do wonders to your mental health.

Oh that’s a good point. Totally missed that one. Seems that there’s also a webapp for other platforms.

Best of all, you can also install it using winget. Yes, package management through the cmd in Windows. Well, as long as you’re the admin of that computer. Don’t expect this to work with all corporate laptops.

Qalculate is a fancy calculator available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. I use it for calculations that involve unit conversions, but it can do much more.

Recently, I watched a YouTube video about phones designed to minimize distractions. While they aim to solve the problem of smartphone overuse, their utility in today’s world is questionable. Essential tasks like using banking apps, navigation, communication, and parking apps often require a smartphone, making these distraction-free phones less practical.

The video mentioned some “smart” distraction-free phones, but if you need those features, why not just adjust the settings on your regular smartphone to achieve a similar minimalist setup? Ultimately, traditional dumb phones seem too limited for modern needs, while the smarter minimalist phones are essentially just smartphones with minimalist settings. It’s hard to see who the target audience for these phones really is.

I have a feeling that we’ll be seeing more news like this one. Like the phone thing is just one huge scandal waiting to happen. Looking forward to seeing that spectacular crash. 🍿

All of this spying and data hoarding has resulted in a finely tuned advertising machine that directs car ads to people who specifically hate cars with a burning passion. Peak of targeted advertising.👌

And people still wonder why I use every means within my disposal to block ads. Even if I allowed ads, they aren’t targeted enough to be much more than an annoyance. Even when they somehow manage to show me something I care about, I’m seeing an interesting product from the highest paying company. It’s not the best product in that category, nor is the one that would serve me best. It’s the one from the company that was willing to pay more than any other. Advertising is just so broken in every way you can think of.

Consider sharing that with !vibecoders@lemmy.ca. I’m sure they will appreciate it.

Only if the value goes so far below zero that you get an integer overflow.

It won’t disappear, but the version number will be frozen. I kinda prefer to have security updates on a regular basis.