confusedwiseman

@confusedwiseman@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Farmers Hiding Bird Flu Cases in Cattle from the FedGov⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought they already test the milk from each farm. Truck comes to pick up your milk and takes a sample to check quality and butterfat levels to pay out on. If you allow bad milk into the truck, you just bought the whole truck as it can’t be used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does portable bluetooth speaker with USB input exist?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you looking for something like the jabra speak 510?

  a.co/d/4fhFWxm

  It has a cord that wraps around the base for charging and it works as a speaker off the computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kagi! I can’t say it enough, it’s the new growth in the underbrush from the dumpster fire of google. Web archive of sites is there and tot can use context filters. You can even prioritize sites in results. I don’t to see Pinterest in results ever again.

  Yes it’s a paid search, but the priority is bringing quality results without ads. This is a reasonable trade off to me that, so far, keeps their interest in serving the searching end user as their customer, not their target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that anyone asked, but I’ve been really happy using kagi as my primary search engine. Qwant is usually #2 on my list.

  But if I’m trying buy something, I’ll use google if I can otherwise find it through the others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOJ Slams XCast with $10 Million Fine Over Massive Illegal Robocall Operation⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Slam blocked by uno reverse card apparently

  [quote]The order, which also imposes a $10 million civil penalty judgment, has been suspended due to XCast’s inability to pay.[\quote]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was surprised to see lemmy.world didn’t defederate. I hope it does. And, I hope a mod weighs in on the planned direction for the instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with buying single cans out of a multipack at a bottle shop? (Australia)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, I have rotation lock on so Mlem doesn’t accidentally refresh. I just flipped my phone upside down!

  Thanks for the answer!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Extract Broken Shelf Pin?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Finish mail from the other side?

  2. Small drill bit might bite enough to pull out

  3. Ez-out bit? (Effectively a left handed thread on a cone shaped bit used to remove stripped screws).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the spirit is what I’m after. It’s likely usually going to seem lopsided if I’m paying to have one meal delivered, but If in having a meal for a small group or the family with some leftovers expected, it likely seems more reasonable. The people doing the work shouldn’t be getting screwed, the business should get to cover cost and make a small profit, and the customer gets to make choices without having to do fee gymnastics for every different place with a sprinkle of guilt that you’re responsible to decide what to pay the workers via tip.

  I expect food delivery to be kinda expensive, you’re usually saving me 30-45 min to go get it, wait for the order, and return.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it too much to ask that I might be able to just pay for this service? Sometimes I want or need food ordered. If it costs $20 to have it delivered, and pay the delivery person fairly, sometimes that’s worth the cost to me. I wish tips were an extra for “thanks for doing something above and beyond or awesome”. They shouldn’t need to be expected.

  $1.99 convenience fee $4.25 app fee $3.99 delivery fee Oh, and don’t forget to tip your driver because none of this goes to them.

  ^^^^ this cap needs to stop. Just give me the $15-$20 delivery fee and be done with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like google when google was new. I’ve been using the summarizer more and reading the articles I send it to understand how it works. It definitely has its use cases

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It was the license that came on an Acer laptop. Completely non transferable per Microsoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I called support, they said no. Asked for a one time exception, still no. The key to my knowledge was only used once on the laptop when I bought it new.

  I wasn’t investing any more time in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There could be a bit of a caveat here. I when I purchased my laptop it had windows 10 installed. When I installed Mint, I could not reuse that key in a VM because it was “different hardware”. The license, could not be transferred under any circumstance. I had also purchased the upgrade to Pro through the windows store. That’s also lost.

  I seldom run windows, even in the VM, but it still leaves one a bit bitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the point. You can’t be identified. You will be stopped or harassed until you comply and be willing to be identified.

  Welcome to the brave new internet.