NateNate60
@NateNate60@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 1 week ago:
The required input for the computer is usually inscribed on the chassis at the bottom. However, the text is usually faint and can be easily rubbed off after the computer has been used for some time. Mine says 20 V 2.25 A.
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 1 week ago:
If you are using the laptop at the same time, there is a chance that the charger may not provide enough power to the computer to operate and force it to temporarily draw from the battery to supplement the power from the charger. This causes additional wear on the battery.
For example, if you plug in a 15 W charger and the computer wants to draw 20 W, it will draw it from the battery. Spikes in power consumption are not uncommon during ordinary use as the CPU will temporarily engage turbo mode during certain tasks, such as when it is loading a Web page or starting a program. Depending on your operating system, plugging the charger in may also cause the OS to disable battery conservation features which leads to more frequent spikes in power consumption.
None of this would be a problem if, for example, your charger delivered 45 W of power, because during those spikes, it just means the battery receives slightly less power as more of it is consumed by the computer.
If you are not using the laptop at the same
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 1 week ago:
Okay, so let me put it this way:
Housing might, in theory, be guaranteed in your home town. This is a strength of China’s system, I grant, and it’s one of the few examples of one of their socialist policies which actually somewhat works. Their national pension scheme is the other thing I can think of that functions decently well.
But it’s certainly no Soviet Union where if you go up to local officials and say “I have no job and I want to work”, they’ll find something for you to do pretty quickly.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 1 week ago:
I do have to agree with you there. Though too much urban migration does come with its own problems. Chief among them that I observe is that it severely depressed wages and lack of work. China is moving through its own sort of gilded age right now with rapid technological advancement and extreme inequality.
For a purportedly socialist country, China lacks a lot of state infrastructure that comes along with that. The USSR guaranteed work and bread, at a minimum (mostly), but in China, a curious sight emerged which I observed in some of the poorer neighbourhoods of Hangzhou: old people pushing around carts of discarded cardboard boxes and tin cans. They weren’t employed as cleaning workers. They were collecting these to sell for their recycling value. And even though the Westerner might laugh at the notion of making a living collecting literal garbage for pennies, it only takes fourteen pennies to make a yuan and ¥5 will buy a bowl of rice, fending off starvation for another twelve hours. Now, homeless people collecting rubbish to sell for scrap does also happen in the US, but the US at least doesn’t claim to be a socialist country.
China has no functional social safety net, government assistance is minimal, and workers are exploited by a ruling class of wealthy elites with minimal interference from the state, in a shockingly similar way to capitalist countries. You cannot even form a real trade union in China, because all big companies are already “unionised” with workers represented by farcically corrupt organisations which work in tandem with the capitalist bosses.
I will give one more example: Coco is a nationwide chain of beverage stalls which sell tea, coffee, and juice drinks. I walked past a location in Shenzhen which was advertising that they were hiring. Their offer of pay: ¥200 a day, for a 10-hour shift, six days a week. In one of the most expensive cities in the country. I took a photo of this but I couldn’t find it to post.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 1 week ago:
As someone who is Chinese and living in the US, Americans who have not been to China overestimate its shittiness and people who have been to China once or twice overestimate its glamour. Outside the cities, the rural areas can be real shit-holes. I’ve been to a tea plantation where there were a total of six electric plugs in the entire village. It’s not the level of rank poverty you see in many developing countries, far from it, but it’s a lot worse than even the poorest parts of Appalachia in the US, where at least people usually have electricity and running water.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 1 week ago:
Sorry, but I really am failing to make the connection between how learning a second language as an optional class leads to “freezing migrant families out of public sector jobs and services”. You don’t even need to speak English to access those most of the time. In my city, nearly all public services are available in English and Spanish at the minimum, and frequently Chinese, Vietnamese, and Russian as well.
- Comment on The size of Portugal compared to Spain 1 week ago:
Can’t believe Portugal is nearly the same size as Portugal
- Comment on Anon starts taking T 2 weeks ago:
“T” is testosterone, the male sex hormone. It’s commonly taken by transgender people transitioning to male. Testosterone causes many of the bodily changes associated with male puberty, such as the growth of body hair and muscles. Unrelated to its medical use, it’s also taken by biological males as a performance-enhancing steroid and is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned substances.
Anon is saying that after they started taking testosterone, they developed an “internal monologue”. Most people already have this; it’s the sound of your thoughts, such as when you lick and ice cream and think to yourself “wow, this tastes pretty good”. Some people do not have internal monologue. I do not know the medical reason for this.
Anon is expressing confusion as to why taking testosterone caused them to develop an internal monologue when they previously didn’t have one.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 3 weeks ago:
The definitionition of “American” is pretty flexible. If you move here, live here, and want to consider yourself an American, then you are an American. Some loud zealots may say otherwise (typical in any country) but most Americans literally do not think about this at all.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure all cultures adapt and learn from other cultures. That’s just how human culture develops. Vietnamese takes on French favourites resulted in bahn mi and Vietnamese coffee, both of which are very good. Poor Hongkongers wanting to eat like Brits resulted in Hong Kong’s famously weird “Cha chaan teng” food and Hong Kong-style milk tea.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 3 weeks ago:
Well, colonialism did bring tomatoes and potatoes to Europe.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 3 weeks ago:
I think the joke is that Americans like to adopt foods or cooking techniques from other cultures, then change them to fit local tastes. This is how a lot of “traditional American” foods came to be. There is also a stereotype that American cultural practices (gastronomy included) is “not real” or doesn’t exist because it comes as a fusion of cultural practices innotjer countries. The meme is poking fun at people who may hold this belief.
People also have a habit of describing the American versions of things to be “not real”, even if it never really claims to be. For example, fettuccine Alfredo in the US is an adaptation of fettuccini al burro (a real Italian dish), but is described as “not real Italian food” because it isn’t actually eaten in Italy. Or that orange chicken is “not real Chinese food” because it isn’t eaten in China. Which, to be fair, is true, but most American diners are aware that Panda Express, Olive Garden, and Taco Bell aren’t accurate representations of food eaten in China, Italy, or Mexico. They’re Americanised versions of food inspired by Chinese, Italian, and Mexican cuisine.
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 3 weeks ago:
Americans associate the orange colour with cheese so it’s more cultural than practical. Other than the fact that some cheese being orange and some not being orange helps tell apart different varieties. For example, bright orange cheese is usually young cheeses that are used to make sauce or for sandwiches. Duller orange cheeses or slightly brown ones are expected to have a more sophisticated flavour (e.g. aged longer or smoked).
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 3 weeks ago:
This is false, due to contaminants our air is legally considered dairy in Europe, and thus the average American actually consumes twice this quantity daily
- Comment on We must remember the simple wisdom of nature 1 month ago:
“Management” like there are ever more than 2 people working at a 7-Eleven
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m not underselling anything. I believe a quick napkin calculation will show that it’s roughly in the right ballpark.
- Private jet: 100 million USD each (reference)
- Superyacht: 500 million USD each (reference)
- Sports car: 150 thousand USD each (reference)
- Mansion: 10 million USD each (reference)
Total: 741 million USD
Most billionaires keep most of their wealth in actual investments (stock, bonds, Caymanian bank accounts,
swimming pools filled with gold coins). Though this information is not public, let us assume that only 10% of their wealth is contained within these “lifestyle” objects, which is likely an overestimation. This would give us a total of 7.4 billion USDGiven the actual average wealth of a billionaire to be 5.3 billion USD (reference), I maintain the objects I have described accurately describe what a typical billionaire would be able to afford (if not slightly more than they could afford, actually).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s not reasonably possible to own the stuff on the left without being a billionaire. All of that would cost hundreds of millions.
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- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 month ago:
I think this gets discussed in the context of the European Union whenever Poland or Hungary uses their veto power to block something important. Basically, the idea is to start “EU 2” and then not invite the offending countries. Then say that EU 2 replaces EU 1 and refuse to let anyone else tell you otherwise.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 2 months ago:
Now, I’m not one of those “muh free market” morons, but I also think that not every potentially-abusable business practice immediately deserves government regulation against it. By and large it seems that most customers really don’t care that much about this (myself included). The ability for customers to choose where they shop has regulatory power which I think a lot of people fail to recognise. If a behaviour is really repulsive, then customers will just not shop there, which provides a strong negative incentive against the behaviour in question, without any state intervention or enforcement resources required.
An example of this working in practice is the practice of restaurants attempting to introduce tipping in Australia (where it is not customary to tip). Whenever a restaurant frequented by locals tries to force them to tip or makes it awkward to not tip, there is an immediate and strong negative reaction to it from the customers which usually causes the restaurant to give up on the idea.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 2 months ago:
They can track what people are buying just as well without needing to know who is buying what. If all they cared about was making sure they are stocking items that are popular with customers, they could just monitor how many of the item were scanned at the checkout counters.
When you give your phone number to the store, it serves two functions:
- The rewards scheme encourages loyalty. Once you have spent hundreds at the store, they give you a minor discount on something small, which saves you only a little bit of money. You only need to decide to patronise this store one time over their competitors for this bribe to be worth it.
- By learning your shopping habits, they can offer you personalised advertisements to encourage you to buy certain products. For example, a grocery store chain which has a location where I live has learned that I always buy a certain brand of cheese, and so occasionally they will try to tempt me with something like a 50 cent discount on that cheese, or they will send me a message saying "Hey do you still want (the cheese brand)? We have it in stock!"
- Some people, when putting things into their basket or shopping cart, will see the large, advertised discounted price and think “this item is reasonably priced”, but then they forget to put their phone number in when checking out and are thus charged the inflated price. The store pockets the difference as customers are unlikely to notice or complain about it. Most people do not closely monitor the price of items as they are being scanned. They only look at the total price at the end before tapping their card.
- Comment on Foot In The Door 2 months ago:
I don’t know; if we get found out, we might be on the hook for a lot of value-added tax.
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 months ago:
What happened to blursedimages?
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 months ago:
It looks like a one-piece outfit in which case I think women tend to just pull it all upwards when they need to use the toilet
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 months ago:
Women do not urinate out of their vagina
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 months ago:
I thought the giveaway here was that the Pokémon is named “Bidet”, but all wild Pokémon are named whatever their species is (“Piplup”), meaning this one is already caught and was given a nickname by its trainer.
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 months ago:
I think this is rage bait but I think there is a difference between saying “X is weird” and saying “X should be banned”. That’s all I will say on the matter
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 months ago:
Why have I got the suspicion this is fetish content of some sort
- Comment on Hustle culture 2 months ago:
It’s easy to say this when you don’t consider the law an impediment to achieving your goals. That’s why junkies and rich people can always “make it happen”.
- Comment on Best meal ever 3 months ago:
Flour + water = hardtack
Flour + water + yeast = bread
Flour + water + yeast + butter = toast
Flour + water + yeast + butter + sugar = muffin
Flour + water + yeast + butter + sugar + eggs = cake
Flour + water + yeast + butter + sugar + eggs + chocolate = brownie
Flour + water + yeast + butter + sugar + eggs + chocolate + cream = cupcake
