Showroom7561
@Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
- Comment on just got this captcha 1 week ago:
Is this a mensa entry test? 😂
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Ok, a quick update.
After posting, and a little soul-searching, I decided to install Ubunu and give things another try.
Installation failed the first time, seemingly right at the end! Tried again, and it went through.
Set things up, and things seem to be OK. I’m only running a browser, and needed to try a paid windows program through Wine, which installed and loaded up without any real issues.
I go for a walk during lunch. Come back to the Linux login screen (expected, as I’d assume it locks like Windows). Log in… blank slate. All my work was closed, and it was like a fresh reboot. What the hell??? No error messages or anything. I literally have the browser and like a few other programs installed, so it’s not like the system is a mess from years of bad software installations.
Sigh…
Then I try another paid Windows program used to convert video files. It seems to work, but it’s not detecting my Intel graphics card. As I look for help on how to do this (officially, from my Laptop vendor), I get pages and pages of things to try… all through the terminal.
I mean, this is stuff that just works on Windows. No messing with stuff.
I really want Linux to be my daily driver, and even I type this from Ubuntu, I can’t help but feel like something is going to catastrophically self-destruct at any moment, and that kind of anxiety is never felt while using Windows.
I couldn’t imagine setting linux up for my wife, if this is the experience I’m having.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
From Window’s perspective, there’s no need to dual boot. But I get what you’re saying. I’m not trying to defend Microsoft, and think that they’ve been enshittifying windows for years now.
But everything works without jumping through hoops. And if it doesn’t, the fix is usually very easy and done through a GUI 99% of the time.
But you are right. There are many flavours of Linux to try. Aesthetics aren’t my priority, though. I do need things to work without spending hours trying to figure it out.
I’m at an age where messing around on my computer for days on end is long gone. 😵
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Yeah with Linux if it doesn’t work you’re often just screwed.
This has been my experience for decades. Even if it works, something will suddenly stop working and I’ll have no way to fix it without hours of research and messing around.
With windows, I can fix anything quickly through the GUI. But haven’t had to in a very, very long time.
I’m going to look at other options. I want to stick with a distro that is fully supported by my laptop to avoid even more issues. But the options are limited.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
I appreciate the reply.
Fedora and Ubuntu are officially fully supported by laptop, so it’s Mint and a few others to a lesser extent.
I won’t use Fedora due to it being American, but the Fedora experience was quite nice the last time I tried.
I may explore other options through the Framework (laptop) community to see what else I can try.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Fedora is fully supported on my Framework laptop (as is Ubuntu and Mint), and I did have it working off an external SSD to try.
But… Sigh…
It’s American, so I won’t use it. American is one big reason why I want to quit Windows. Maybe I’ll just keep trying. 😮💨
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
My 15 year old desktop also “couldn’t do windows 11”, but you can bypass whatever bullshit limitations Microsoft puts on the installation process. That computer has been running 11 for several years now without any issues at all. Rock solid.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Man, I really tried today to get Linux on my Framework laptop.
I can’t believe how goddamn frustrating the experience has been, and I’ve dabbled in Linux for decades.
I try Mint. Install as a dual boot… Installation done. Reboot. Straight into Windows. Check partitions and nothing has changed.
Try again. All seems fine. Boot. Some error screen that won’t let me get into Mint.
Do this like four more times with no luck.
Tried Ubuntu. No easy way to install as a dual boot unless I want to mess around with custom paritions. Also, GNOME sucks ass, but Ubuntu seems way more polished than Mint.
I did get mint on a mini PC I have running through my TV. But audio wasn’t working, so that took a while to sort out. And the onscreen keyboard does nothing on the lock screen. So unpolished, and I have no idea why it’s recommended “for beginners” when it feels unfinished.
With windows, there’s no messing around. Everything just works. And I fucking hate that I feel forced to choose a miserable, hacky, terminal-based experience with countless hours of installing shit through commands… Or a smooth, reliable, easy one with bloatware and spying on the backend. Goddammit!
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 1 week ago:
Not everyone hates their family, Reid.
- Comment on How's them tariffs going 2 weeks ago:
Looks like a voter map. They get what they voted for 🤭
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Larry David would have appreciated those, right next to the black penis cake 😂
- Comment on pain plant 3 weeks ago:
Valentina is really tasty. Cholula is also nice.
None are HOT, though. 😂
- Comment on pain plant 3 weeks ago:
Is it ironic that those two sauces aren’t really that hot? 😂
Delicious, yes! But very low on the Scoville scale for hot sauce.
- Comment on Far-left French MEP demands return of the Statue of Liberty as the US no longer stands for its values 4 weeks ago:
Let him do it. It would be the most vandalized statue in modern history.
- Comment on I'm sure people fall for this type of greenwashing all the time... 5 weeks ago:
“Our small t-shirts use less fabric than our large t-shirts!” 🤔
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yup, we have UV flashlights, and yes, we’ve tested our own home.
You can’t escape stains, but there’s a huge psychological difference between stains that could only come from 2-4 people who likely aren’t doing crazy shit like jizzing on the ceilings vs. hundreds of random strangers doing god knows what in a place they will never see again! LOL
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
“Ignorance is bliss” 100% on this one!
- Comment on I'm sure people fall for this type of greenwashing all the time... 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, game changer for sure!
- Less weight.
- No plastic waste and the packages are nearly always 100% recyclable.
- They take up next to no space.
- They are often safe enough to work well with handwashing clothes.
- They still clean clothes!
- Generally made from better ingredients.
- I find that many brands are also from smaller companies who haven’t been corrupted by greedy multinationals, so that’s a bonus. LOL
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’ll never forget the one trip I took with friends, and someone in the group thought it would be a great idea to bring one of those UV flashlights to inspect the hotel rooms.
What started off as some funny discoveries quickly turned into a crime scene of piss and other bodily fluids EVERYWHERE… walls, ceiling, bed, carpet, sofa, kitchenette area, you name it!
And this would have been a 4-star hotel at the very least.
Since that day, I’ve never felt comfortable in a hotel.
- Comment on I'm sure people fall for this type of greenwashing all the time... 5 weeks ago:
I’ve already corrected my OP and admitted to my overreaction.
But…
Is the text “ULTRA CONCENTRATED” not clear?
No, it’s not. That’s a marketing buzzword.
“Ultra concentrated” means absolutely nothing to a consumer without knowing more, like how is concentration level determined in this product? How does it compare with other liquid laundry detergents? And how does it compare to their 64oz version?
Whirlpool says that most brands list the concentration level on the bottles in the form of 1x, 2x, 3x, etc., but that’s not on the bottles in the OP.
All we know that we get less volume, fewer loads, and a slightly higher price per load.
Less plastic? Sure, but with fewer loads in the bottle, it’s not an equal comparison from the start.
That’s like saying, “our ‘ultra compact’ size 8 shoes use less rubber compared to our size 11 shoes!”. 🤔
- Comment on I'm sure people fall for this type of greenwashing all the time... 5 weeks ago:
It’s not the same product being sold, despite the labels looking the same… these are two different products being compared as if they were equal.
- Comment on I'm sure people fall for this type of greenwashing all the time... 5 weeks ago:
See my reply to the other guy above. I was applying the logic (possibly flawed) to how food is sold: 900g of pasta is more food than 750g of pasta, regardless of the difference in packaging. If you need 900g, then you’d need to buy two of the 750g, which is even more wasteful.
But I guess my problem is that they are comparing two different products, in two different quantities (loads per bottle), but linked together with how much plastic and water they use.
They didn’t make the same product with less plastic or water, it’s a new product with the same label.
- Comment on I'm sure people fall for this type of greenwashing all the time... 5 weeks ago:
Wait until they hear how little water and packaging detergent strips use! (which is what I usually buy… this liquid just came up in the search).
- Comment on I'm sure people fall for this type of greenwashing all the time... 5 weeks ago:
You’re trying very hard to make this an issue but it’s really not.
Probably.
I was viewing this in the context of shrinkflation with food items.
For example, if you’re used to buying 900g of pasta, because that’s what feeds your family out of a single package, does it really matter if the replacement 750g size uses less plastic and packaging? Because now you need to buy two packages instead of one, which creates more plastic/packaging waste than before.
So… seeing that you get less loads per bottle vs the larger one, it reminded me of the pasta scenario. Probably flawed logic. 😬LOL
- Comment on I'm sure people fall for this type of greenwashing all the time... 5 weeks ago:
how did you arrive at the larger bottle being 90% more detergent?
24.3 oz vs 64oz. When I say “detergent”, I’m talking about the product itself, not the specific ingredient, which isn’t listed by a means from which to compare them by.
It’s EXPLICITLY clear that the concentration is higher in the smaller bottle.
Explicitly??? You’d only know because you can compare the two bottles. But someone shopping would see the same brand, same coloured bottle, same label, but smaller size (at nearly the same price). The marketing only focused on plastic and water, which to me, seem to benefit the manufacturer more than the consumer (lower shipping costs while selling at the same price per load).
Why not match the load amount per bottle if you are marketing this as a better replacement from what they offered before?
- Comment on I'm sure people fall for this type of greenwashing all the time... 5 weeks ago:
If you were using the larger bottle, would you know that the smaller one had more loads? You’d only know that it uses “less plastic” (per load, not per volume).
- Comment on I'm sure people fall for this type of greenwashing all the time... 5 weeks ago:
If it does, they really need to make that more obvious! The smaller one is “ultra concentrated”, but is it more expensive per load? Is the assumption that someone who used to buy the larger bottle would even know that the smaller one is “better”?
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- Comment on Trump revokes collective bargaining rights at TSA to crush union 5 weeks ago:
🫢 Like I said, room for improvement.
But context matters:
However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that airport security misses 95 percent of threats that pass through: The TSA red team is specially trained to detect weaknesses in security at airports throughout the nation.
So your run of the mill bad guy isn’t going to sneak by so easily. And one can only imagine that most bad guys aren’t some elite team of security experts… Unless they are in a Hollywood movie.
- Comment on Trump revokes collective bargaining rights at TSA to crush union 5 weeks ago:
Except the TSA has never shown to be remotely effective at doing any of that.
So, we’d all be OK if these 6,000+ loaded firearms PER YEAR were allowed to pass through unchecked?
There’s always room for improvement, but the idea that everything needs to be abolished, rather than improved, seems crazy.
