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- Comment on 👣👣👣 1 month ago:
Oh, and also, all the information in your CV that you also painstakingly rewrote into our forms, is going to be spread around to other companies who will use it to send you spam and phishing messages.
Good luck with your future endeavours of staying sane with others trying to get money out of you, that you don’t have.
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
Damn reasonable people pushing back the Nuclear Apocalypse, the Global Heating Armageddon, return to Dark Ages and all such major fun events/s.
- Comment on Preference 1 month ago:
Reading this thread, I kinda feel weird.
When I was a child, I use to take tablets for headache (no idea which ones. I was a child.) and almost every time, the headache came back more intense than before, when the effect wore off.
Later, I started understanding that headaches (and other pains) happen for a reason and it is better to find out the reason and fix it, than just turn off the alarm.
So now, even if I get hurt due to something, I say no to pain relievers. This has even saved me from re-injuring a previous injury a few times.
- Sprained ankle / back pain : exercise and yoga.
- Cramps from exercise: next time do proper stretching after exercise.
- menstruation: I have no idea. never had that. sorry. But I can say for sure, people around me don’t tend to resort to taking pills all the time. Even those that have it hard.
- broke a ligament: definitely don’t take a pill, or you won’t realise if you are about to break it again.
Over here, pain management pills seems more like a last resort and not to be used for something that happens regularly. So, reading about it being treated like cereal, feels pretty weird.
- Comment on Eureka 1 month ago:
The cucumber just fell out of a peddler’s basket who was moving ahead of the woman under the tree.
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
And finally I will be able to use eye protectors when cycling at night.
Right no, it just increases the lens flare and even getting expensive ones will, at most, not increase lens flare. - Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
Also, make sure that all reflectors are turning the polarisation by 90°
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
That requires the driver to actually care
- Comment on AskReddit 1 month ago:
Depends upon what your are hiding it from.
If the white male is a human and understands your language, maybe you can convince it to hide - in your closet / behind a tree / under a bed / behind some bushes etc.
- Comment on Transparent solar cell technology could allow smartphones and cars to self-charge 1 month ago:
Even having a panel covering your backpack would be a good idea.
- Comment on 29 games are getting delisted from GOG 1 month ago:
Nothing lost at linux gaming
- Comment on Actions speak louder than words 1 month ago:
You forgot the “right now”.
The “speech” as in a separate message, which likely came after she stopped being speechless.
- Comment on Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night - ISPreview UK 1 month ago:
I feel like we can do the same in other places too.
It just doesn’t make much sense for me to buy one of those, considering I don’t expect to be using a copper endpoint anywhere else I go.
I probably will get my own Fiber modem when viable (as in, I get a provider that doesn’t force their own modem on me).The major Fibre player here, requires use of their modem, of which, even the WiFi password can only be changed using their Android app. Said app connects to the internet and most probably tells their systems the new password to change to (which would of course, be in plain text), which then remotely changes the WiFi password.
Most probably, other major ones do the same.There are some smaller players (probably Tier2/3 ISPs), which would let us have our own modems after enough effort, so I’d probably go with one of those.
- Comment on Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night - ISPreview UK 1 month ago:
The malware argument is a bit weak
It’s much more than just a bit weak, unless you are somehow continuously monitoring it, so yeah, in most end-user scenarios, it would hardly make a difference to keep it on, even if there were no updates.
- Comment on Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night - ISPreview UK 1 month ago:
Not illegal, but the ISPs are seemingly under no obligation to give you those details. In Germany, there’s the “freedom of routers” embedded in the telco law. So they HAVE to give you everything you need to get your custom router online via their wire/fibre.
OIC, so, same as here. Germany seems to be having pretty well made laws in these cases.
Bridge mode is just using the ISPs router and bridge that into your router. It’s not the same - you still need the ISP’s access device instead of just yours.
Except that it is a layer 2 bridge and I couldn’t connect to the network directly, either way, because their line is copper ^[Image] and consumer routers/modems are usually RJ45/RJ11.
- Comment on Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night - ISPreview UK 1 month ago:
Sorry. I’m addicted to knowledge. I need to know.
- Comment on Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night - ISPreview UK 1 month ago:
you’re not supposed to get this kind of information from your ISP
Wait, do you mean, it’s illegal to ask for it?
- Comment on Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night - ISPreview UK 1 month ago:
Read the title and went: What? They want you to keep your network hardware ON, when unattended, to increase the undetected malware entry opportunities?
Turns out it as their own devices they wanted to push updates to.
I would really prefer to use my own device though and even better, configure it myself after learning how the ISP’s network works. But convenience is hat it is.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance. 1 month ago:
plugin/extension
that seems like the way to go for this
- Comment on Is your writing skibidi? 1 month ago:
So the last ‘I’ suggests that your writing should be possible to improve later.
Despite being the ‘B’ Best Effort and properly ‘I’ Investigated.Seems like, after putting your best effort into making it, you need to put in extra effort to make it such that it is imperfect, so as to leave room for improvements.
- Comment on Chemistry 1 month ago:
Dunno about now, but I had to pipette stuff in BTech. That’s less than 10 years ago.
- Comment on solar PV → heat pump → water heater; direct, no A/C or intermediate components. Practical? Feasible? 2 months ago:
It’s just easier to have all your home run on AC.
Nice point.
If all appliances had a DC mode, or even an AC+DC mode ^[smells of inefficiency, but I didn’t do the maths] by default, this would be something worth working up for.
But if you are doing it just for a single appliance, guess it’s better to just connect the Solar power output to your AC grid, the way others do. - Comment on Finland did 9/11 2 months ago:
If you look closely enough, you’ll be able to find the toes sticking out and use that to catch him.
But nobody thought to look for some toes sticking out of a forest. - Comment on Venom vs Poison 2 months ago:
Wait until you have to go out in the wilderness and eat snakes. Then you find a non-venomous snake with hypodermic poison.
- Comment on Venom vs Poison 2 months ago:
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 2 months ago:
Then what’s the Molar Mass?
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 2 months ago:
Mole
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 months ago:
And Linus says, OOM is user’s problem.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
Dungeon Party
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
DisplayPort not to be confused with display port, when someone asks you for a “display port cable” and you start going to pick one of VGA/HDMI/DVI cables instead.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
On desktop PCs, Depending upon the Motherboard manufacturer and model series, it could either mean nothing other than some gaming marketing jargon or…
When a motherboard has both red and blue ports, the Red ones could be those connected directly to the CPU lanes for USB, with the blue ones being routed through the PCH.
If there is just one red coloured USB A port, it might be designated for BIOS updates (unless they have another colour for that).
