rekabis

@rekabis@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, most of the fridge is already there. You just need to disassemble, sandblast the metal and paint (if the paint is in poor condition), replace the insulation with closed-cell spray foam, replace the refrigeration system with a modern Freon-free system, reassemble and put new seals on.

  An old fridge can be quite simple, structurally speaking. It’s in the 70s and 80s when fridges started getting compact, difficult to repair, and disposable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fridge will likely operate far less efficiently than a modern fridge unless you have it rebuilt.

  With that said, a rebuilt fridge - with a more efficient cooling system and better insulation and all seals redone, etc. - does not cost significantly more than a new midrange fridge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My microwave is a 1977 Amanda Radarange. It can boil a cup of water in ⅕ of the time a modern microwave can.

  Now granted, it has zero fancy settings and a simple number pad that does nothing but set how long you want the microwave to run.

  But honestly, this simplicity is a large part of it’s charm. No connectivity needs, no features locked behind paywalls, no extraneous bullshit or never-used features. Just a tool that does only one thing, and does it exceptionally well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  C# has had string interpolation for, what - nearly a decade, now? It arrived with C# v6, which was released in 2015.

  Meanwhile Java just pulled their implementation out of the latest beta earlier this year because they couldn’t get it to work right.

  Don’t know about you, but I think that Java is largely resting on its laurels as of late. That the only real reason to go for it is it’s third-party library system, and not much more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  $325k for a 3bdrm 2bath detached SFH in good condition?

  Awww, that’s adorable. Even after taking the exchange rate into account, that would be like going back to 1998 in my corner of Canada. Right now, a house like that on a 0.21 Ac plot of land would be running you $1,300,000 CAD. In places like Vancouver? $4,800,000 CAD on average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a tube-based distribution system I started using during COVID to keep my distance from those plague incubators that came calling, and just never stopped using it.

  I live in a moderately cold climate, and Halloween evening nearly always drops to around -5℃ to 5℃. So it’s much nicer to just sit in a cushy armchair by the window with a warm blanket over my legs and drop candy through the tube. A surprising amount of adults, teens, and tweens are tickled pink by that system, although a lot of little kids need a surprising amount of direction to get their candy.

  And yes, I always drop either two pieces or - for those in dark hoods and carrying scythes - full-sized snickers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t consider that causing harm.
  but I still don’t give moral consideration to plants in either case.

  So you are species bigot, and a hypocrite for refusing to take the ideology to it’s logical conclusion.

  Cool beans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plants scream when eaten:

  • sciencealert.com/plants-really-do-scream-out-loud…
  • science.howstuffworks.com/…/plants-feel-pain.htm
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Any that’s the hypocrisy of Vegans. Milk and honey are the only two animal-based food sources that don’t involve the killing of animals. And in the case of most cow breeds, milking is actually needed as they have been bred to produce far more milk than their calves drink. And with careful management of the hive, you can harvest a lot of honey from a mature hive without negatively affecting the hive itself - it just delays/defers new queen production and swarming, which is desirable anyhow - no beekeeper who has hives primarily for crop pollination wants to have hives swarming each and every year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phoenix police beat and arrest innocent deaf black man who has cerebral palsy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ACAB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dream job⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The military will need skills like that once modern civ collapses later this century.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK there is a software that blocks remote connection tools used by scammers!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can certain remote connections be whitelisted?

  I have a number of non-tech family members that I remote assist and remote administer. Clearly, I need to be able to log in remotely via RustDesk whenever needed, and since RustDesk has no auto-updater, I would need to whitelist the website (and their GitHub page) as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great summary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Legally they cannot.

  gender supremacists:

  “Hold my beer and watch me do exactly that. Again and again and again without any censure or pushback, purely because I am being a gender bigot against men, and for no other reason. We have full societal and legal ability to employ open misandry, because opposition of any kind is misogyny by default.”

  domestic violence happens to men too.

  71% of non-reciprocal (only one person being abusive) physically violent (actually striking) domestic violence involves women striking men.

  As in, 71% of those victims are men.

  And under those same conditions (non-reciprocal physically violent DV), two-thirds of victims that were injured seriously enough to require hospitalization were men, yet almost 100% were also arrested as the “perps”, even though they were the only victims.

  Losts of people have problems with these facts. Wild how bad anti-reality ideological indoctrination has gotten.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are fake job postings.

  IIRC, there was one very recent (mid-2024) study of job ads that strongly suggested that 60-75% of them were never meant to be filled. As in, the company posted them for entirely unrelated reasons.

  It’s why these are called “ghost jobs”: they don’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Do not store guns in your oven’: Loaded gun stored in oven fires multiple rounds after getting overheated⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …Da Fuq?

  Who… who does shit like this? Is it really that easy for any Cletus to own a gun in the States?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A vegan that keeps cats allows cats outside isn’t exactly approaching the situation from a purely vegan-based mentality.

  There, FTFY.

  Absolutely nothing wrong with cats that are 100% indoors, not only do they have no effect on the wildlife, but their lifespans are something like ⅓ to ½ longer due to the lack of accidents or conflicts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Who dreams this crap up?’: Kevin O'Leary slams new rule that allows employees to ignore their bosses after hours⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have watched more than a few of his CBC pieces. Where employees and work-life balance are concerned, the man is toxic AF.

  I mean, sure; if you are looking to become obscenely wealthy his attitude makes a lot of sense. But not all of us want to become parasites sucking the lifeblood out of other hard-working, working-class Canadians. Some of us just want enough to be comfortable, because smelling the roses and enjoying life is more important than spending a lifetime grinding to accumulating “stuff” only to die without having enjoyed any of it. You can’t take those obscene levels of wealth with you when you die, and all that accumulating those “brownie points” do is impoverish those from whose labour you coerced and forcibly extracted it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please pick a password starting with ad and ending with min⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  16 characters was the minimum length a password should be due to how easy it was to crack… something like ten years ago.

  Now it’s something like 20 to 24 characters.

  Seriously, if your company is defining maximum password length and demanding specific content, it is failing at the security game. Have the storage location accept a UTF-8 string of at least 2048 bytes - or nvarchar(max) if it’s a database field - and do a bitwise complexity calculation as your only “minimum value” requirement.

  Look at how KeePass calculates password complexity, and replicate that for whatever interface you are using. Ensure that it is reasonable, such as 150-200bit complexity, and let users choose whatever they want to achieve that complexity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't know what she's doing wrong⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We had one lady who got a security guard fired because she said he made her feel uncomfortable

  I have seen guys report women to HR because of actual, verifiable sexual harassment (physical touching, etc.) and be laughed out of the HR office because “women cannot sexually harass a man” and “men always want it”.

  They asymmetric societal standards currently in place are insanely misandric and bleedingly hypocritical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carebear countdown⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  where they help young adults and millennials deal with feelings of depression, disillusionment, and cynicism?

  You mean by eradicating the Parasite Class, dismantling vampire/vulture Capitalism, crashing the housing market by 75+%, and closing the wealth gap, thereby giving them a future that is not only affordable but also worth living and striving for?

  That sounds absolutely wonderful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dumbass⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. As much as I love to be accurate and pedantic, even I don’t touch this subject with a dirty barge pole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have AC but my apartment lease covers unlimited water usage and the water is very cold. How can I best use this to cool my home?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Find a pair of vehicle radiators that are as close to a box fan in size as possible.
  2. Zip tie them to either side of the box fan. As the fan blows: it will draw air in through the “second radiator” and blow it out through the “first radiator”.
  3. Hook the out of the first radiator to the in of the second using flexible hoses. Cheap garden hoses might even fit.
  4. Hook other hoses to the in of the first radiator and the out of the second.
  5. Run water on through the first radiator, out of the second. This makes the most efficient heat transfer possible.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  8Tb optical disks don’t exist. Much cheaper to just do spinning-rust or cloud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  when it wasn’t actively sexually harrassing T’pol

  I never understood that need. T’pol was already fiercely exotic, what with her flawless face and remote Vulcan disdain. They could have put her into a spacesuit for the entire series and she would have still been attractive AF purely due to her personality and strength of character. About the only improvement I would have liked to see is more of her character arc being in conflict with her Vulcan upbringing, particularly in trying to deal with those infuriatingly irrational humans, and her emotional entanglement with Trip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. The sooner the poison of religion is relegated to the dustbin of history, the better. The Abrahamic faiths are just the worst of the bunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you do with Nazi memorabilia?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The real trick is in finding the genuine collector, and not just another Nazi in a collector’s Trenchcoat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens if I never activate Windows?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you airgap the machine, Windows 7 is now becoming more and more insecure and out of date.

  It’s like using Debian 9 or earlier in production… not something you want to do unless you enjoy being pwned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens if I never activate Windows?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have always bought surplussed business hardware, which back in the day came with COA stickers still attached. My latest iron had two attached for some strange reason. So when Windows 10 came along with its “Upgrade Win 7 key to 10” plan, I fired up a VM (for this exact purpose) and went to work. Now (after moving them to 10 and then 11) I have a handful of Win11 Pro licenses for whatever machine I need to license.

  Slowly moving away from Windows due to their AI and spyware shenanigans, but hey. Likely always will run at least one Windows rig, even if I have to spend the first day or two after install castrating it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing: The Minimal Phone⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I wanted a truly minimal phone, I would go for the Rotary Un-Phone.