CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Are my Frigidaire door bins installed wrong? (Pics in description) 1 day ago:
The model number should be printed on a sticker inside the door, somewhere.
Sorry, can’t help with that specific model but I came here to express my rage and frustration at appliance manufacturers who use a totally inappropriate plastic for door bins.
Also, cyanoacrylate seems to work pretty well. Doesn’t solve the underlying problem. Remember when fridges had metal? I do.
- Comment on Pi-hole client filtering without DHCP? 2 days ago:
Good; incentive to go learn something. Have a plan in place to deal with it though.
Firewall rules don’t replace parenting.
- Comment on Pi-hole client filtering without DHCP? 2 days ago:
Just create a dhcp lease in unifi.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
It’s only weird if you keep shaving them for him. Open conversations like that are a sign of great communication and trust!
I know that removing pubes can have a health impact for vagina owners. I don’t know if that holds true for penis owners. That may be something to investigate and advise.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 6 days ago:
Hitting particularly cold water makes it even worse.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 6 days ago:
You can improve a skill by visualizing your performance of the skill.
But you need to have the experience beforehand to be able to understand what you’re visualizing.
So - absolutely not.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I used my work address. My work is small enough that it’ll filter to me eventually if they snail mail me.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 1 week ago:
it depends
Jurisdiction is key, of course.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 1 week ago:
Income taxes disproportionately impact lower earners. Someone earning minimum wage likely devotes the majority of their income to cost of living essentials. Conversely, someone earning 10x minimum wage will spend a much lower percentage.
The exclusion level generally is set quite a bit below minimum wages, and the a progressive tax doesn’t always fix that, as cost of living/inflation can outpace legislation very quickly.
The other reason that it’s not entirely fair is that the wealthy don’t earn a salary. They earn dividends and do all kinds of things to avoid having an income. Someone who pulls down $1 million in salary either needs an accountant or earns an additional 10x compensation via stock grants, dividends, etc., which are (in most jurisdictions) taxed very differently than income. In the USA, for example, the top tax bracket (federal) for income is 37%, whereas a stock grant held for 1 year after vesting would be taxed at no more than 20% (and I’m grossly oversimplifying).
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 1 week ago:
- It’s still in use, but perhaps seasonally or infrequently.
- It’s gonna get fixed just as soon as I have time.
- It’s got parts for the other one I have.
- Might be useful someday. It’s got parts, and the hardware store is 20 miles away.
- Scrap metal value.
- Redneck decor.
- Comment on Popular sunscreens accused of greenwashing by Australian Consumer Commission 1 week ago:
They’re not.
- Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation 1 week ago:
The current situation with megabytes of JavaScript is pretty bad, but at the time, there was still a fair bit of dialup active, and mobile web was just starting to be a thing - on EDGE and barely 3G. It would take minutes to load.
Also, Steve Jobs had it in for Flash and that’s what ultimately killed it off, I think.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 2 weeks ago:
It may be that value prop of 1 with OLED is higher than 2.
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 2 weeks ago:
That $300/visit doesn’t go to the dr before it passes through several layers of bureaucracy, each of which skims their fee.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 2 weeks ago:
It’s not just industry. Now they’re killing the development of skills and knowledge in engineering (hardware, software) and design
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 3 weeks ago:
USA could have spent money developing an electrified economy but the republicans are focusing on bringing back coal mining and reshoring shoe manufacturing instead.
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 4 weeks ago:
I was a bit of not interested and not educated enough to know what a NDRI was while I was on it but it does make sense for ADHD and Depression symptoms.
The withdrawal from Wellbutrin was bad. I got brain zaps if I was 1hr late taking it; tapering and cessation was miserable.
- Comment on How do some fragance reppel bugs 4 weeks ago:
They don’t work that effectively. They make you smell like poison to mosquitoes.
DEET scrambles their senses so you disappear.
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 4 weeks ago:
Community gardens and Internet cooperative are the operating phrases you’re searching for
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 4 weeks ago:
“If it wasn’t for my medical leave, HP and Apple would be competing for the mobile market!”
It takes a lot of arrogance to be a senior executive; the way he tells the story justifies his position, that’s for sure.
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 4 weeks ago:
During this same period, he became laser-focused on acquiring Autonomy for $10.3 billion—a software company that fit his transformation vision perfectly. Everything else, including breakthrough mobile technology, felt like a distraction from this software-focused strategy. That Autonomy acquisition later required more than an $8 billion write-down,
Apotheker wrote down 9.2 billion in 11 months and that’s just the stuff the article mentions. I can’t achieve that level of failure in a lifetime.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 4 weeks ago:
You missed 2. Sell (IPO)company
I’m not sure what he actually did as far as divestiture, but evidently he wasn’t the current owner. I wonder to what degree unreasonable growth expectations flushed the company.
- Comment on Can shoes be made in the US without cheap labour? 4 weeks ago:
Automation, in low cost of living area, with red-state employee “benefits” is what it takes to possibly make something as basic as domestically-made shoes affordable. That, and it’s not a publicly traded company so it might still be relatively expensive.
Western reliance on cheap Asian labour is a problem, especially when the cheap labour starts to think they want more.
MAGA isolationism is certainly not helping.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 4 weeks ago:
They’re running generators to power the data centre.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 4 weeks ago:
It’s also a job as you allude to where early retirement needs to be part of the plan. It’s a good job but hard on the body and it’s hard to create an efficient way to reduce the amount of weight that they need to lift in a day.
I know a few who were union and pensioned off, retired in their 50s but that doesn’t change the way their joints feel.
Not sure if it’s better or worse than turd herding.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for including the 2000 Corolla. I forget how big they’ve gotten.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 4 weeks ago:
Look at the 1950 American cars.
One reason for the perception that cars look fancy or not is that you become accustomed to a design when you see it all the time.
Supercars are wildly impractical, and slapping that body on a Corolla chassis would make a Corolla that only seats 2 and has no space for bags, but somehow takes up a lot more space than a Corolla. Also, downforce is bad for fuel efficiency.
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 4 weeks ago:
They are so fucked up when they leave that they don’t have the capacity to do much.
And even so, the institutions are protected. The people who get out “have a track record”.
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 4 weeks ago:
I made it to chapter 60 over the last 90 minutes.
I can’t even describe how angry I feel about that. Expletives don’t fit. I’m not big on death penalty, but I think these people deserve it - more than some who are sentenced to death.
I also am feeling incredibly grateful that my parents didn’t get caught up in the scam.
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never paid with a credit card to charge my car. At home, overnight, is all I’ve needed.