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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under the most ideal circumstances, how 'clean' is drinkable tap water by the time it reaches our taps?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, so much insanely cleaner than your food.

  Sewers are the giant pipes with all that air at the top.

  Your water pipes are filled almost the entire time, and the trunks are literally constantly flowing. There’s little to no air for anything to grow with, and at the very beginning there’s almost no bacteria since it’s treated water being pumped in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart Homes Are Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It stinks! It stinks! It stinks!

  First of all, the author states part of the issue, then bets against it at the end:

  Maybe the technology is still in its primitive stage, some breakthrough will come, and tricked-out houses will soon work seamlessly, removing friction and frustration from everyday tasks. But I wouldn’t bet on it.

  The technology is literally in its primitive infancy. Matter is the open smart home standard the first version only just launched a couple years ago, and it didn’t support a huge number of smart home device categories. They’ve been continuously working on it and adding more, but we are literally still in the 1.X era of the first smart home standard of any kind.

  And that’s just the backbone. That’s like the Edison/Tesla/Westinghouse era, where North America just established that we’re all going to use 120V AC electricity. It took a genuinely long time (decades) for light switches and receptacles to get as good and standardized and seamless as they are now.

  The forces of corporate walled gardens do tend towards a fragmented experience, but interoperable standards have prevailed before, and Home Assistant is the single most actively developed open source project and is a driving force for true consumer focused home automation.

  Secondly, a bunch of the author’s complaints are nonsense / just badly versions of smart home products.

  • Light switches without clear On/Off/Dim/Scene Select labels on the buttons, are again, bad design. It’s perfectly possible to have a smart switch that is very easy to understand.
    • You know what also sucks? Having to tear out drywall and do 120V electrical wiring just because you want your light switch in a different spot, or you want it to control other lights, or you want a three+ way switch.
    • You know what’s nice? Have a complete separation between powering the device and controling the device. It’s nice to be able to turn individual lights on/off/to different colours and brightnesses depending on what you’re using the room for.
  • Turning on the TV and it not turning on the streaming box, means it’s an old tv or someone disabled HDMI CEC. New TVs will synchronize with the streaming box and soundbar / receiver automatically.
    • And I would argue that just having it start playing a random commercial filled channel, is worse for your brain then intentionally picking something to watch, but maybe that’s generational.
  • I don’t know how the author, their mom, or the rental supplied tech guy couldn’t figure out how to look up the instruction manual for the dishwasher, because literally zero models of Miele dishwasher require wifi for setup or use.
  • Black glass oven buttons with opaque symbols have nothing to do with smart appliances, that’s just bad design, and the author chose and bought a badly designed dumb oven, then blamed smart homes for some reason.
  • Programmable thermostats have been badly designed since the 90s, and yet, literally everyone uses them. Why? Because if it’s your home, you look up the instructions, program to a schedule that makes sense, and then you don’t have to go and adjust it multiple times a day. Modern smart Thermostats do the same thing but are usually more intuitive and nicer designed. This is because the author rented and AirBNB (i.e. a home designed for people to live in) rather then a hotel (a home designed for someone to temporarily stay in).
  • The author seems to not like touch screen numpads on their alarm system instead of buttons, because they display the weather while idle. Like ok, again, it’s an AirBNB, not a hotel. The buttons are clear to someone who has literally never used them, but uglier for people who use them every day.
  • And with lag, yes, there is inherently more lag in a digital control device then an analog one but there does not have to be lag to the UI, that’s just bad hardware / software, and as long as they’re wired, the actual control parts of modern control systems have literally imperceptible lag, on the basis of <100ms.

  Honestly, my takeaway from this piece is:

  • Renting an AirBnB means dealing with a home designed for someone else
  • Owning a software company makes you stressed out and rage at every little thing that’s different
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next generation Xbox may launch in 2027⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, when you could convert Xbox Live Gold credits to Gamepass and get it for like $60 a year, it was genuinely a great deal. And that lasted for like 4+ years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a "buy nothing" community on Lemmy? Or an anti-consumerism comm?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like there’s three types of buy nothing:

  1. buy it for life - people looking to reduce consumerism by purchasing high quality, long lasting items that aren’t engineered to have limited lifespans. See lemmy.world/c/buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works

  2. second hand trading groups - people who want to reduce consumerism by creating vibrant second hand marketplaces and encouraging selling, trading, and donating of old goods. Lemmy is the wrong format for this, these groups tend to exist in geographically focused platforms like Facebook and Kijiji.

  3. true die-hard anti consumerists - want to never buy anything, including any items that are remotely consumable. Hard to find these communities as these people tend to head off grid, and / or self implode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a point you can find in history where we paid doctors, teachers, and nurses close to what they’re worth and more than professional athletes?

  It sounds like you’re nostalgic for a time that never existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do personal knowledge base applications like Obsidian have all these bells and whistles for querying and parsing metadata/frontmatter but nothing similar for the actual content of notes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because indexing a structured field with limited values is different from indexing a “structured” document with fields that can be anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in Ferrari crash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, that sucks.

  The studio head of Modern Warfare (all ghillied up), Titanfall / Titanfall 2, and Apex Legends. The guy clearly had an eye for taste / talent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, I am just being overly angry and hateful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not the same idea, as I didn’t advocated studying them when they were authoritarian shitholes who were actively slaughtering their neighbours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have to, I just have to name one better than Russia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  German culture and heritage was destroyed by the world wars. What remains is not what was there pre-WWII.

  And I’m not cancelling or destroying anything. I’m just prioritizing cultures worth preserving over those that have been poisoned by a century of dictatorship and death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Russia. Learn literally any other language. Let them and their brains dead culture rot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because we didn’t evolve to live in lands of abundance. We evolved in scarce conditions and are attuned to that.

  Food that delicious and high calorie would not be constantly available in the wild, so if we ever found anything close, it would be beneficial to eat as much as possible to store up calories and survive during periods of scarcity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems legit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can fit text-only wikipedia on a normal Blu Ray as it’s only about 24GB. You can also easily fit Llama 3.1 or any of the other open, offline capable ai models as they’re only about 4GB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  False equivalency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spongebob big guy pants okay⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they regrow their body or a new body made from the same parts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that there are billionaires is the sign that they’re not being taxed enough.

  Massive infrastructure / R&D projects like a space race is actually one of the more productive ways that billionaires could use their money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism can create innovation, but capitalism is not necessary for it. The very same innovation could have happened if the state spent a fraction of this money on R&D, without all the insane Terraform Mars T-shirts and 3 companies wasting resources to do pretty much exactly the same thing three times. Sadly the american government is not an effective redistributor of wealth, and any NASA budget comes with a million (dumb) strings attached, like spending it on certain projects that benefit the state senator who voted for it.

  In this situation, the state LITERALLY spent more money developing the SLS rocket, and it is going to be a colossal failure and waste of money compared to the rockets that can be reused.

  Three companies trying to produce the same thing is not a waste, it’s literally the defining feature of capitalism and why every government, including the Chinese Communist government, still uses capitalist systems. Multiple entities competing to do the same thing gives you more variety and diversity, and hedges your bets in case one of them is wrong or corrupted by flawed people in it.

  Also, I don’t know where you get that 50x number, SpaceX lowered the launch cost maybe by about 3-4x compared to contemporary chinese rockets.

  Compared to SLS, the literal state funded alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, you do realize that Starlink is literally the first time that most rural Americans have had reliable high speed internet right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You do realize that NASA has a fixed budget for the science missions they can run right? A d you do realize that when the launch costs for their satellites are 50x lower, that means they can run more missions more often?

  We all hate Musk, but it’s fucking insane to look at the equivalent of the first airplane company that could land a plane and didn’t just destroy it after every flight, and say ‘thats just a dick measuring contest, how could that be useful?’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Public contracts are not the same things as grants and subsidies. They are contracts for services to be rendered, and SpaceX quite frankly won them handily by being fundamentally better and cheaper then the competition.

  And most of their funding has come from private investment, and by building and running the Falcon 9 which is by far the cheapest and most reliable way for anyone to get stuff into space at the moment.

  Like Jesus Christ, you can hate Musk without being blind to the fact that SpaceX is legitimately doing things no one has ever done before with rocketry. The SLS is a traditional rocket that was designed by NASA and built by contractors and it literally costs orders of magnitude more to fly, has never actually flown yet, and at most could fly twice a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homebrew, de facto standard package manager for macOS, now forces Apple's $99/yr notarization bullshit for all casks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Code signing should be done though.

  You can disagree with Apple’s approach that maintains them as the only signing authority, but, at a fundamental level, code signing is the only way to distribute an executable and have the user be able to trust who authored it and what’s in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, night owl who likes to sleep in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I broke my hand and it never healed properly, I have pretty bad tendon damage in one ankle, I got shin splints like crazy when I started running, and I have previously herniated a disk, though not that major.

  I’m not saying every single major injury is recoverable from, but look at the history of most athletes and you’ll see a lot of major injuries that they were able to recover from.

  Again, not saying this is the case necessarily for your back, but I know people who have gotten relatively minor injuries, gotten terrified of them and/or used that as an excuse not to do any more exercise on that body part ever, and then got severely injured again because now the muscles and muscle control for that body part is severely undeveloped, putting more strain back on the tendons / ligaments.

  The general recommended approach for most injuries is physio, i.e. reducing your exercises back down to zero weight, but still doing them, and continuously adding weight to re-build and strengthen those muscles and joints, not to avoid using them forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Burnout isnt a thing, it’s just situational depression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly cannot fathom this. Are you pushing yourself at the gym? Are you eating healthy and enough protein? Resting enough?

  There’s literally never been a period of my life where going to the gym regularly hasn’t made me feel better. I havent gone for like 6 months because I’ve been brutally busy, but I honestly cannot fathom how you could be going and not getting something positive out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you force yourself to run a little bit one day, then a little bit more each day after that, then eventually 4 miles will feel like a short run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By forcing yourself to do stuff.

  It sucks at first, and you feel exhausted and like you’re not that effective and your brain will keep coming up with excuses and rationalizations as to why you should just rest, but you ignore them and force yourself to do the stuff you don’t feel like doing.

  Do that for a while and you’ll suddenly have a higher energy level and it won’t seem like a big deal.

  You’re basically at the point where you just took up a new exercise every day, and that’s just tapping you out. If you keep doing just that exercise and nothing else, your fitness / energy will eventually rise to the point of being able to handle it and nothing else. If you force yourself to do more, then eventually your fitness / energy level will rise to working + after work stuff being the baseline.

  Give yourself time and give yourself rest days, but most people online will advocate for too much self care and don’t realize that the only way to actually change and improve is to continually push yourself a little past your comfort zone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Edible Wood⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Edible, Non-Toxic, and Food form a Venn diagram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retina e-paper promises screens 'visually indistinguishable from reality'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, no, because that’s not a resolution, that’s a pixel density at a set distance.