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I can't believe this name wasn't already taken.
- Comment on From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services 7 months ago:
I never removed "_nomap" from my SSID. I doubt they even care about it anymore.
- Comment on What's going on with kbin.social? 8 months ago:
It finally just came up. Posting here from it now.
The admin last posted almost 2 weeks ago saying he was having a minor surgical procedure and hadn't publicly posted since. Hopefully he's okay and fixed this himself, but he's still silent at the moment.
- Comment on Can I Use my Multimeter to Test How Much Power my Appliance (TV) is Using? 9 months ago:
For all the reasons others have already stated, what you want is a Kill A Watt instead of a multimeter or another thing to buy. Plug this thing into the wall and then plug your appliances etc into the meter and leave it for a week. I will record total power draw over the duration so you can see exactly how much power is being used under normal operating conditions. With a little bit of math you can compare kilowatt hours consumed with your power company costs and figure out how much money it cost to use TV's etc per hour.
- Comment on Whats the best way to remove mold stains from clothes? 9 months ago:
From experience: sodium percarbonate. This is the active ingredient in oxy-clean powders and can be purchased online. In it's pure form it's commonly used as a sterilizing cleaner for brewing and bottling equipment. I've been using it in laundry for 10 years.
- Comment on Old articles are clogging up search engines 9 months ago:
I find it's the opposite: engines are so biased toward new content that older but still useful (or crucial) results are buried. I feel like an archeologist some days, carefully digging through the strata to find ancient hidden treasure.
- Comment on Beeper Mini team says a fix is ‘coming soon’ and promises to extend users’ free trials 11 months ago:
They had to build a notification relay server for those to work. They're doing more than riding on apples services for free. They had to build and run a notification relay server to make this work.
Same thing that's been in the news about some sharing info with police. The comment of the messages are ete encrypted but notifications of who is talking to who is not
- Comment on Are phone notification LEDs still a thing? 1 year ago:
I didn't realize the LED was no longer ubiquitous! I rely on mine, and I take it a step further with missed notification reminder for a repeating audio tone every few minutes. I don't like having to stare at my phone all day long looking for work messages.
- Comment on I have an apartment where the dumpster is a car's drive away, and taking trash down involves 4 staircases. What is the best way to ameliorate this situation? 1 year ago:
Something like this should do well as long as one doesn't mind looking like an urban granny.
- Comment on Oil companies are hiring TikTok influencers to court young people 1 year ago:
@ernest, here's a nsfw screenshot in case it doesn't appear for you. https://i.imgur.com/il0uZC4.png
- Comment on Why do some car exhausts drip fluid? 1 year ago:
If your engine is working very poorly. Unburned fuel in your exhaust is a problem large enough that you'll probably be experiencing a lot of engine trouble.
