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- Comment on In Air Conditioners, what are EERs and how can I use it to calculate my electricity costs. 4 days ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Seasonal_energy_efficiency_rat…
Wikipedia is almost LMGTFY for this type of thing.
- Comment on If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts? 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely not. If asked, just refuse to answer, don’t lie. But, I’ve been summoned a few times and they’ve never asked about that, so far.
- Comment on Sorry lemmy but I have to ask? 4 weeks ago:
On Android, install newpipe from f-droid and YouTube links should go to it automatically. No ads, lets you download videos, subscriptions are entirely local on your device, but right now display of comments is messed up. The last isn’t a big deal for me. Ymmv.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 5 weeks ago:
If it’s an android phone, enable dev mode, install adb on your laptop, run an sshd under termux on the phone, and you should be able to set up iptables to forward packets from the laptop through the phone. The phone won’t know that it’s being used for tethering. Although I hadn’t seen the stuff about packet TTL before. Maybe it’s as simple as just adjusting that.
- Comment on How do I get my suit tailored? 1 month ago:
I thought Jos A. Bank (stylized spelling of Joseph A. Bank) closed down a number of years ago. I remember getting some decent stuff on sale or closeout there very cheap. I was a bit sad to see it go. Maybe it’s still around under new ownership or something though.
The hole in the wall dry cleaning place across from me does alterations fwiw. You could look for places like that near you and ask.
- Comment on Trump Told Pence Certifying Election Would Be ‘Career Killer,’ Valet Testified 1 month ago:
I wonder what career goals Pence might have aspired to? What heights could he have achieved if only he had supported the rioters? It’s another of those tragic unknowns.
- Comment on Who owns the servers for Lemmy? 1 month ago:
Thanks. Lemmy’s privacy story is actually kind of bad. Like if you read a post, the instance retains that fact, to support features like “show unread posts”. But that means not only is your posting history public, but your reading history can potentially be exposed.
That’s the main reason I sometimes think of running my own instance. It would receive all the posts from every community without revealing which of them I bothered looking at.
- Comment on Who owns the servers for Lemmy? 1 month ago:
Yes, that should be fairly easy and I sometimes think of doing it.
- Comment on Who owns the servers for Lemmy? 1 month ago:
I’m of the impression that only the origin and destination servers see any given private message, but I haven’t verified this. Anyway, don’t expect them to be really private. It’s worry more about reddit since pm exchanges there can be intensely private, there is a single evil corporation saving them all, and the user population is mostly oblivious to that.
When I’ve had something private to discuss with a reddit user, I’ve asked them to switch to email. They are sometimes willing but not always.
- Comment on Who owns the servers for Lemmy? 1 month ago:
Theoretically there is community input but at the end of the day, one guy owns it and can do stuff unilaterally. There is occasionally drama over that, like recently the piracy community was removed due to concern over possible legal hassles. I’d say Lemmy world tries to be friendly and mainstream, while edgier stuff tends to live on other instances. So you can still find what you want.
Nothing stops you from using multiple instances of course. It’s no different from drinking at more than one café. But people tend to have a main one that they visit the most.
- Comment on Who owns the servers for Lemmy? 1 month ago:
Users are like coffee drinkers and servers are like decentralized coffee shops. Anyone can open a coffee shop and many do. It’s harder and more expensive than simply drinking coffee, but not that bad in the scheme of things, and within reach of average hobbyists with time on their hands and a few bucks to spend.
If the instance stays small, it’s cheap to run. If it gets popular you can ask users for donations and volunteer help. Lemmy.world is the current biggest, and stays afloat that way.
Right now there’s not much corporate presence, but that may change soon, unfortunately.
- Comment on Piracy related communities removal 1 month ago:
I didn’t notice it was gone. Most of what I remember from it was links to torrentfreak articles, which were completely above board. So yeah the silent removal is lame.
- Comment on Are the languages that can be fluently spoken only if you are descendent of a particular community/country ? 1 month ago:
I guess there can be cultural differences that are reflected in language but I still don’t understand quite what you are asking. Do you mean same locality but different culture?
- Comment on Are the languages that can be fluently spoken only if you are descendent of a particular community/country ? 1 month ago:
The human vocal tract is about the same across ethnic groups, if that is what you are asking.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Try physicsforums maybe. I don’t hang out there though, too iamverysmart. Same with lesswrong except even more. It seems to me that Lemmy, Reddit, and HN aren’t really set up for that kind of discussion.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy.world cracking down on VPN users? 2 months ago:
It would be preferable to return an error response in a json string, if that’s feasible.
- Comment on Do multivitamins actually expire? 3 months ago:
This is from Walgreens way back but I don’t see anything like it anymore. 365 pills for $8, expired 2016, so maybe 1.5x inflation since then.
- Comment on Do multivitamins actually expire? 3 months ago:
Can you even GET simple multivitamins any more? I remember they were fairly small pills (aspirin size) and you’get a bottle of 365. Now they are big pills in fancy packaging so you get like 30 in a bottle, and you have to take a whole pile of pills to get the same set of vitamins that used to come in 1 pill.
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 3 months ago:
No one has mentioned the good version of that site, lite.cnn.com – no ads, no bloat, works fine with UBO.
- Comment on I'm at a roulette table. I only bet on red. When I lose I triple my bet, when I win I restart. Is this a roulette strategy? 3 months ago:
The limiting factor is called “Gambler’s ruin”.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
I just bought a Moto G Stylus 5G 2023, $250 new, I’d consider it a midrange phone. Entry level would be the G Play which is $100 new. $500 to me would be a premium phone and $1000 is a flagship. My previous phone was a Moto G4 from around 2017. It was around $170 new and was positioned a little bit above where the G Play is now.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
Phones are cheaper now, it seems to me, other than the flagships which are an exercise in pushing the frontier of what people are willing to pay.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
Large battery yes, but non-replaceable just like the others.
- Comment on How can I clean my mouse wheel without taking apart my mouse? 3 months ago:
I didn’t know you could still get mice with wheels. I’ve only seen optical ones in the past decade or two. I don’t miss the mechanical ones.Oh wait, you mean the scroll wheel. In the old days there were mice with wheels on the bottom to sense the mouse positioning.For your mouse, I’d just take it apart if it is possible to do, and clean everything.
- Comment on How is it possible to start a business if you have no money and skills, but have an idea? 3 months ago:
Skills and money help, but it’s also a matter of personality, including whether you even want to be that person. And it could be that your particular idea is out of reach for you at the moment, but there are other businesses you can start with fewer prerequisites. It’s not clear whether your goal is “execute a specific idea” or if it’s a more generic “run your own business”. If it’s “run your own business”, rather than fixating on a single idea, look for an idea that you can afford to pursue. You can always get back to the other one later.
- Comment on What's the best way to read a book in a dark room? 3 months ago:
I thought blue light wasn’t considered such an issue any more. Certainly a few seconds to operate an audio player isn’t much. And maybe the player app (if you use an app) can be themed to not give off blue light.
- Comment on What's the best way to read a book in a dark room? 3 months ago:
E-reader is screen time. Wear a headlamp and read a printed book. Or possibly, listen to music or an audiobook through earbuds in the dark. Or even just sit quietly and relax your mind.
- Comment on What could be wrong with me? 3 months ago:
Long COVID might be another bad possibility. Anyway, as everyone says, see a Dr.
- Comment on Can this Bag Still be Fixed? 5 months ago:
Oh I see. I guess an ugly stitching/patching job with a strong thread then.
- Comment on Can this Bag Still be Fixed? 5 months ago:
Nylon repair tape. Won’t look great but it’s inside the bag so who cares.