Tippon
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- Comment on Struggling to get the service manual for a Beko washing machine 5 hours ago:
Most appliances just have the main parts available for replacement, rather than the individual components. You would just change the main board rather than replace a resistor, for example.
If you don’t know how to find the broken component on a board, that’s not something that the service manual would help you with either. There’s too much of a risk of someone hurting themselves for the washing machine companies to go to that level of detail.
At that point you would need to figure out which part is broken and either replace the whole thing, or take it to a repair shop, but that would probably cost more than buying the whole part as a replacement.
- Comment on Bombs Awat 2 days ago:
So, if I understand you correctly, what you’re saying is - given the quite large body of water about half a mile away from me, all downhill, I should get a giant catapult and fling some piranha.
I’ll go down in history, either for the best April Fools joke ever, or if my aim is off, the best Halloween prank ever 🐟🐠🐟😁
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 1 week ago:
“The sky above the port was blue, with a grey rectangular box with writing saying ‘No signal found.’”
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- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
I just pulled my back and broke my hips reading this, it made me feel so old 👴🏻
- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 1 month ago:
‘It’s got solid bones, but the inside’s a mess’
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
Uncle Benned, or Obi Wan Kenobi Benned? 🤔
- Comment on Which do you like better: Windows or Ubuntu? 1 month ago:
I don’t know, you can get Photoshop and Lightroom for £10 a month, which is very cheap when you compare it to a night out or a takeaway, and at the moment, they’re better than the equivalents.
I do need to have another look at DaVinci Resolve though. I’ve heard loads of good things about it, but it was overkill for what I needed when I last tried it :)
- Comment on Only 3% of UK 12-year-olds don’t have a smartphone. Here is how four of them feel about it 1 month ago:
I’ll keep an eye on them, thanks for the heads up 👍
- Comment on Only 3% of UK 12-year-olds don’t have a smartphone. Here is how four of them feel about it 1 month ago:
I’m a big fan of just carrying around one charger
Off topic, but I bought a handful of magnetic cables and a few different ends to match our devices, and now one cable works for charging everything.
It has the downside of not letting you connect the device to a computer, but because they’re magnetic, they’re breakaway cables. My kid has walked away with their tablet after forgetting to unplug it, and nothing bad happens 👍
- Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭? 2 months ago:
I have nothing to add but Cartman
(((>.<)))
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 2 months ago:
From the two photos you’ve posted, it looks like there’s a little bit of the grooves left in the top of the screw, but not enough for your screwdriver to grip.
Try the rubber band trick first, mainly because it doesn’t cost you anything other than a rubber band to try. The combination of the little bits of the grooves and the grip from the band might do it.
If it doesn’t, a sacrificial screwdriver might work. You basically need to file off the pointy tip of the screwdriver until it can reach what’s left of the grooves, and unscrew it with a bit of downward pressure.
Good luck 👍
- Comment on A symbol for the fediverse ⁂ 2 months ago:
I like it! 😁
- Comment on A symbol for the fediverse ⁂ 2 months ago:
I didn’t say that it was being used to represent anyone, or that it was being stolen, I said that it was already in use. To use your examples, I’d think that using Pi or the degree symbol to represent the fediverse would be a bad idea too, as they could also lead to confusion. The semicolon is punctuation, so there’s less chance of confusion with that.
If an astronomy group made a poster with the three stars, would the stars be representing star clusters, or advertising that they’re on the fediverse? Given that the fediverse is still relatively small, is there more chance of the stars being seen as an astronomical symbol?
- Comment on A symbol for the fediverse ⁂ 2 months ago:
Am I misunderstanding this - you want to replace a recognised symbol with a symbol that’s already being used by another group? That seems counterproductive at best.
I’m also wondering, have you spoken to anyone with poor eyesight? This is my reply to a comment below suggesting that the new symbol would be easier to read:
I’m reading this thread on mobile, and the fediverse logo next to the community name is much easier to see than the three stars. If I didn’t already know what the three stars were from the rest of the post, I wouldn’t have a clue what they were supposed to be in the body. They look like a blurry capital A. Obviously the fediverse logo is bigger there, which helps, but it’s not significantly bigger, and would still be clearer at a smaller size
- Comment on A symbol for the fediverse ⁂ 2 months ago:
I’m reading this thread on mobile, and the fediverse logo next to the community name is much easier to see than the three stars. If I didn’t already know what the three stars were from the rest of the post, I wouldn’t have a clue what they were supposed to be in the body. They look like a blurry capital A.
Obviously the fediverse logo is bigger there, which helps, but it’s not significantly bigger, and would still be clearer at a smaller size
- Comment on Be still my beating tastebuds 3 months ago:
How inspiring is guacamole?
- Comment on Experience with IONOS? 3 months ago:
I had the same problem. Luckily for me I found out before they went past the 30 day?* window, so I was able to renew and then transfer them away.
*I can’t remember the exact length of the window, but I think that’s right.
- Comment on Design patterns 4 months ago:
That’s a really good idea, thanks for the link :)
- Comment on Ebooks library (cross platform) 4 months ago:
Brilliant, thank you :)
I’m going to give it a go over the weekend and see what happens :)
- Comment on Ebooks library (cross platform) 4 months ago:
That looks ideal for me too, thanks for the link :)
Do you know if it works offline? So if I start an ebook or audiobook then lose my internet connection, can I carry on with the book?
- Comment on What are diabetic test strips made of? 4 months ago:
All the test strips I’ve ever used hold the blood at the opposite end to the machine. The blood is intentionally kept away and on something that can easily be disposed of.
As far as I can tell, the bulk of the testing strip is a conductor to take a signal from the end with the blood to the tester, which makes it seem like there’s some sort of reaction on the blood end.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Paddington, who is famously from "Darkest Peru," speak with a Spanish speaker’s accent? 4 months ago:
Top Gear was around in the 70s?
;)
- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 5 months ago:
Be careful with MediaMonkey, it can incorrectly change your files.
I’ve got dozens, if not hundreds of songs where it’s changed the track number to the play count, and I’ve got a load where it’s decreased the volume by a significant amount, presumably as part of the volume leveling function.
I don’t use anything else to play or manage my music, and nothing has permission to affect it this way.
- Comment on flashing ROM, is it that easy? 6 months ago:
Plus, part of unlocking is setting up a Mi account, accepting third party cookies, and syncing your data to their servers. Xiaomi are a shitshow
- Comment on There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and our favorite song might still be out there. 6 months ago:
Holy crap, that’s not Green Day
That’s kind of the point ;)
- Comment on There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and our favorite song might still be out there. 6 months ago:
Yeah, there’s no denying that it’s a fantastic album :)
- Comment on There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and our favorite song might still be out there. 6 months ago:
I disagree. When I was a teenager, I loved Green Day, Nirvana, The Offspring, and The Sex Pistols. I went through a heavy phase in my early 20s.
While I still like those artists and songs, there are other bands and songs that I like more now. (The Rumjacks are a great band if anyone’s looking for something new).
The music I listened to when I was in my teens and early 20s will always be special to me, and shaped my tastes, but now that I’m in my 40s, my life is vastly different to how it was back then, and other songs speak to me more now than those songs do.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 6 months ago:
Strongly disagree. I’m using SwiftKey, and the prediction has been awful for the last year or so. It constantly tries to force sentences on me and gives me multiple repeated words.
As an example, typing that last sentence, every time I started a word with ‘m’, it suggested ‘more’ and ‘more than’. If I long press and tell it not to suggest ‘more than’, then select ‘more’, the next suggested word is ‘than’.
I find that it often repeats the selected word too. Earlier I typed something like ‘I did it last year’ and the next suggestions were ‘year’ and ‘year ago’.
Microsoft have shoehorned a predictive AI into SwiftKey, and it doesn’t work properly.