spongebue
@spongebue@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 2 days ago:
Generally speaking, people who contribute to society.
I don’t see “gambling on the right cryptocurrency” as a contribution to society. I also don’t see how “individuals that own the overwhelming majority of dollars, euros, etc.” wouldn’t simply become “individuals that own the overwhelming majority of cryptocurrency” by virtue of working with that
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 2 days ago:
Ahhh yes. Some of them are just made up things that people say is totally money, while the others are actually just made up things that people say is totally money. Huge difference, I’m sure.
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 2 days ago:
If by “a big cut” you mean maybe a few percent, and that most businesses take electronic payments anyway because there are advantages (people are more likely to buy stuff when convenient, accounting is easier, less risk of theft/loss than physical cash, etc) then sure, I guess.
If you think the solution is to make up a new kind of imaginary money that takes a shitton of energy to maintain, which has tons of different types (Bitcoin, Ethereum, whatever one was referenced in the initial comment) and would happen to greatly benefit those who happened to be early adopters (TOTAL coincidence, I’m sure)… No.
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 3 days ago:
Why would it have to be a crypto donation? Their bank accounts are in USD. Most of their readers have USD. People can transfer USD. What does some arbitrary crypto thing you want to pretend is money add that makes it better for those “most people”?
- Comment on The US population only accounts for 4.2% of the world. 3 days ago:
It’s funny because Rhode Island is so smol that you need 3 of them to make a mile!
- Comment on Every time I get an email about 1 month ago:
Or just… Not have 500000 partners in the first place
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
A friend was telling me he pays that much in Hawaii, but you’d probably expect as much on an island like that
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
What kind of electric mileage do you get? My Bolt gets about 3.5 miles per kilowatt hour, and my electricity costs $0.12 per kWh. I figure a car like that would get about 30MPG if it were an ICE vehicle. To go 30 miles would take about 8.5 kWh, which would cost about a dollar. Yes, your electricity is 4x the price (ouch!) but 8x the gas equivalent?
- Comment on USA: The Minimum Wage Should Be $24 per Hour Not $7.25 1 month ago:
Then there wouldn’t be as many CEOs or C-suite executives 😢
- Comment on Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. 1 month ago:
Cargo shorts were in style at the time, so there’s that
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 month ago:
no significant competition? Is that a joke?
For the type of service they are (hosting random one-off videos and series that anyone can load and optionally kicking back a portion to the content creators) - who are they competing against? If you go on the street and ask random people to name 3 streaming services that do that, you’ll likely get YouTube, “ummm”, and “I dunno”
- Comment on Microsoft and IBM make MS-DOS 4.00 Open-Source 2 months ago:
So should it not have been done at all because it wasn’t enough for you?
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
Zero arguments there!
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
Ah yeah. I deserve that but to be fair the OP story (not the comment I replied to) is about what’s happening in the US!
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
“Hello, we are ClickClock, a totally different (😉😉😉) social media company hoping to fill the void of that one social media company that recently went under. As a matter of fact, with their recent layoffs we were even able to hire much of their talent and stuff. But totally different!”
That’s about how trivial it would be to get around this if the legislation was too specific
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
This has been discussed way longer than 10/7/2023.
- Comment on Reddit Is Taking Over Google 2 months ago:
The most professional content I’ve seen lately is things like a spaghetti recipe that explains the history of spaghetti, and my kids don’t normally like spaghetti but they took seconds of this one because it’s so good!
Now, let’s talk about your choices in water here. You could go to a nearby spring and collect your own, but I find storebought water is just fine. You want to boil that water, which works best under high heat unless you want to wait forever!
- Comment on If you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable | New updates address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to charge 2 months ago:
There’s that midway sound setting that only makes noise if you screw up, but not every little turn. That also alerts for those things in my experience. It also welcomes me when I cross a state line which I think is sweet 😊
- Comment on Do You Trust Your Cheap Fuses? 2 months ago:
I’ve seen a little 3A fuse of that style on a furnace control board. It actually saved the day when a thermostat/wiring had a short at a neighbor’s house, so there’s that.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
Fl. Oz are actually nothing to do with weight. They are volume.
Well yes, but also no. It is a unit of volume, but it comes from the volume that an ounce of fluid (specifically water) uses. Not at all unlike a gram being based on a cubic centimeter of water, which we also call a milliliter. Imperial just makes that a little more transparent, which also makes things a little more confusing.
- Comment on Does mucous have calories? 3 months ago:
It’snotmuch
- Comment on Why does my printer suck so much? 3 months ago:
I probably count as that type of person you describe. I found a model on Lemmy that I really wanted to make and ended up buying an Ender 3 v2 cheap with a coupon at Micro Center. Has it totally been trouble-free? No. But I got it for a hundred bucks, plus a few addons (auto-level, flexible magnetic bed). I’d have to pay significantly more for a nicer one, when this is just an experimental hobby. I don’t care if I have to fiddle around a little more to get my occasional print going. In a way fine-tuning part of the problem solving and tinkering I’m really looking for. I don’t care if the quality is less than what another printer can do. I don’t need a Cadillac when a Geo gets me to the grocery store just fine.
Oh, and most of my years were caused by shitty filament. Once I went from some weird stuff on Amazon to the Inland I’ve had better success with, things went way better. I’m surprised that’s not mentioned more actually.
- Comment on Creating parts on demand 3 months ago:
My great-uncle never learned how to use a computer (well, other than the TRS-80 he got before he retired). He was pretty mechanical though. Even if he probably wouldn’t understand much about how it worked, he probably would’ve appreciated 3D printing if used for a car part or something!
- Comment on Nissan To Deactivate Key Features From Early EVs 3 months ago:
Through the WiFi-equipped EVSE. Or heck, give the car WiFi. Pretty much everyone has WiFi these days, and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi mini desktop PC has a 3D-printable case and plays DOS games 4 months ago:
It is! So many of these projects have grand plans and… Lackluster results. But this has gone so well! Definitely some trial and error and frustrations with some brittle subpar filament I got on Amazon… But Inland seems to work well! Even my wife (who enjoys crafting but isn’t really nerdy) is intrigued by this. I’ve already made her a couple boxes to store tea bag packets and may have to try that octopus… They actually had a really big one at Micro Center next to the printers as well so I can imagine it!
- Comment on Raspberry Pi mini desktop PC has a 3D-printable case and plays DOS games 4 months ago:
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I miss the days when people used punctuation
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 4 months ago:
I hear the same argument about EVs, where many charge to 80%. Sometimes you need that extra juice, and by all means use it. Other times you’re only going to the grocery store, or sitting at your desk all day, and you can stay plugged in and you don’t really need that 20%. It’s no real skin off your nose either way.
Then, years from now when you need as much energy as your battery can give, you haven’t lost it to degradation and you really haven’t lost much along the way.
- Comment on Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? 4 months ago:
Although “so much” would probably be a better fit anyway
- Comment on 200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone." 4 months ago:
HIPAA does have some exceptions to allow giving relevant information for crimes that occurred on their premises, but I’m not sure there’s anything that could be applicable here.