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- Comment on YSK: A single piece of paper towel can double the life of your leafy greens in the fridge. 1 day ago:
On a similar note, that’s something we seem to have lost with the move toward glass food storage. With plastic containers, there were always choices with a little rack at the bottom so something like a said can remain out of its drippings. But I haven’t seen anything similar for glass …. And containers big enough for a head of lettuce are heavy and expensive
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I welcome you!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
That’s a tough. Normally I would hope there’d be an easy choice, but things have changed really quickly.
I don’t know much about real life in China but every time the current American administration violates human rights or represses science sacrifices our future to line their pockets or attack our friends and allies, it seems like I read about the Chinese government moving in the opposite direction. The direction of “good”, the direction the US always claimed to be. They seem to be making a lot of smart moves for their economic, technical and scientific future, and for larger influence as a global citizen. I have no way to evaluate the current level of repression but they’re at least saying alot of the right things
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 days ago:
I can see a screen though, if only the consumer had control over it.
Think about the traditional calendar on the fridge - why not update that to digital? It could be a visible central place for lists or white board or notes. Maybe home status notifications or personal locations like the Weasley clock in Harry Potter?
But there are so many reasons for this to be a nonstarter from the manufacturer. Just no. What they should be doing is a modular set of hooks or brackets so you can choose to securely mount items of your choice? Such as a screen you control and can replace when it breaks
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Just keep On, keeping on. One day at a time. Anything for the kids. Then catch up on sleep 20 years later.
My youngest is now at college so I can finally just chill. But I’m “lucky”, he’s been calling me a lot since no one else answers after midnight. Struggling to get up for work reminds me of the good old days of getting up for diaper changes
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 4 days ago:
My grocery store has started carrying “hot dog pitas”! You can fit so many toppings!
(Or really just a lot of onions and chili)
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 4 days ago:
You could even call it windmilling
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 4 days ago:
Under. So the mustard is less likely to glop onto your shirt
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 6 days ago:
But the point of this video is whether the things you have control over make a significant difference.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 6 days ago:
You can if you just want the results but the value of a video like this is going over the process and the detail, so you know how much to trust it.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 6 days ago:
We just spend more and more time on our phones. I still charge every night. Each new phone I’ve gotten has had more battery life than the last but I also use the phone constantly, so it’s no more likely to last the day.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 6 days ago:
While that seems obvious, I’ll disagree
- phones have a charging curve that takes into account heat, battery level and probably more factors specific to battery health. Most of the additional charging speed is likely minimal effect
- You can have a battery replaced on even the latest iPhone for $99 or less, and I expect most phones to be cheaper. Yeah it’s not really diy nor replacement cost only, but it’s just not that bad relative to the cost of the device. Sure I’d rather spend $20 and replace my own battery, but if I’m spending $1,000 on a new phone, then $99 every 3-4 years for batteries is just not that bad
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 6 days ago:
That’s no longer true. As headlines focus more and more on outrage clicks straying further and further from the content, all too many can now be answered with ”n/a”
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 6 days ago:
I bet thats wrong, but I know ….
There’ve been usage changes
- iPhone has “Optimized Charging” where it predicts usage and tries to keep about 80% charge until it expects you to use it
- iPhone has “Adaptive Performance “. Maybe not charging but tries to gradually ramp to “low power mode” to be gentler on the battery
- all phones likely have refined charging curves to match battery technology
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 week ago:
It’s stressful and ineffective. Why do that to myself?
It works much better to block marketing where possible, poison data where you can, scrub personal data from the internet. While the beast is too big too slay, a little effort makes it a lot easier to deal with
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 week ago:
Reminds me I need to reset mine again. Big mistake to buy a “smart” air filter. I thought I was getting remote monitoring of air quality data, but I have something that makes too many assumptions about your home network so doesn’t work on mine, support that gave up, and a purifier that needs to be reset every couple weeks
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 week ago:
It’s not the particular surface that people are concerned about, but more frequent cleaning of that surface might reduce overall dust settling everywhere
- Comment on So sad to see a really old guy driving an expensive sports car 1 week ago:
Huh, that’s actually reasonably affordable. Looks like $11k-$20k in a brief search. Of course that’s pretty old and these are all high mileage…… but how well do they hold up? How expensive are they to maintain?
My daily driver is an EV, but I always wanted a fun car. I could be that guy in the meme
- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 1 week ago:
People go into stores to see what it’s like. They may leave for reasons like not finding what they wanted or being offended at being treated as a criminal. If I saw this crap, I can see my reaction likely being to just leave and go somewhere I’m more welcome
- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 1 week ago:
Unfortunately you have limited opportunity to make a fuss. Looks like they can claim the security guard can let you out.
Or maybe pull the fire alarm, idk. I don’t see how blocking the exits for an emergency is acceptable
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 1 week ago:
If current “personalized ” advertising is any indication m, the new ai ads will push
- whatever you most recently bought
- gambling
- something relevant to whatever demographic it’s hallucinating
But it will never do something useful like advertise things you’re searching for
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That would be the greatest day, when comedians mostly do jokes about dems. Imagine punch lines like “and the dem control all three branches”. Or we just love racist jokes, let’s do one about “the first dark skinned president since Obama, har har har”. And get a load of this one, it’s starts with appointing cabinet members for their expertise! What a maroon! And we’ll never get enough of “and then they passed universal healthcare and saved the environment”! LoL
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 weeks ago:
It can’t be that simple since you’d always be identifiable to anyone who knows the trick
I wonder if there’s a technical limitation to the number of extensions. If a number can have six or seven digit extensions perhaps someone could allocate those randomly, with forwarding to your real number
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Seems like Canada is making an impact.
It may not be official sanctions but If there’s any credence to the news, it seems like there are movements to fund more reliable trading partners. It’s tough to make an immediate impact but we’ll see over time how much we’ve screwed ourselves. Will Canadian snowbirds come back? Will China (or anyone) buy our soybeans? Will manufacturers, such as for automobiles, be able to stay in business?
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 weeks ago:
Nice. Too many kids have to be prompted to even use the incantation “trick or treat” much less pay attention to the words
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 weeks ago:
Or toilet papered
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 2 weeks ago:
Not so bad when you think about it …… Ring’s subscription isn’t too expensive and it gives you cloud storage and remote access. Bring on the hatred but I’ve found it one of the few worthwhile subscriptions
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 weeks ago:
I’m due to rebuild my lab this winter so I’ll make sure to take a look
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 weeks ago:
Personally I’m frustrated with always having to give a working phone number to accounts.
I have no idea if I’ve been at all successful in poisoning my data but all my accounts use unique generated emails in addition to generated passwords and fake profile info. It’s just habit now.
However all too often the one piece of real data I have to give is my phone number, and that would be really useful to cross-link all my accounts for data brokers building a dossier on me.
I have hundreds of fake emails but can create at most a couple phone numbers
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 weeks ago:
It is but only if you are targeted. I completely disagree with people who say it’s insecure because most attacks are remote and in bulk. Which your password they can login from any browser but are stopped by the SMS code.
For the SMS code they can use mostly automated social engineering to trick a certain percentage into giving it up.
However while A SIM attack may be easy enough for a targeted individual, I don’t think it scales: they have to do work that only helps with one user. It’s too “expensive” compared to automated social engineering against a million vulnerable users