froh42
@froh42@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 2 days ago:
I find it so weird that parts of the words never moved away from the cheque system. I used my last one mid-90s or so.
SEPA bank transfers are cheap and real time.
On top that cheque system is so ripe for fraud.
- Comment on I bought a schuko plug adapter. They didn't read specs or even tried it: the diameter of the hole is too small! 4 days ago:
Oh god no. It’s not about feeding in 16A, it’s about consuming 16A thereby overloading the wiring. If everything else is OK, trying to consume 16A should trip the fuse, still - if that doesn’t work, you’ll get a certain (normally very small) fire risk.
- Comment on I bought a schuko plug adapter. They didn't read specs or even tried it: the diameter of the hole is too small! 5 days ago:
Yep this one still is very weird.
- Comment on I bought a schuko plug adapter. They didn't read specs or even tried it: the diameter of the hole is too small! 5 days ago:
If it goes into a 10A plug it should have the small holes, the Schuko plugs with the fat holes are rated up for more, 16A I think.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 1 week ago:
I think before babying my ice cube tray for a day I’d just buy 4 for $5.
- Comment on British police tries to arrest suspect 1 week ago:
The guy who was chased neither.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
Some stuff I like to buy used. This one is quite a few years old, and I was watching the offers for a good occasion. And it’s q common brand with decent spare part availability.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
My small pizza oven goes to 400C. Everything else is not enough for good pizza. Cooking time for a pizza is 2 to 3 minutes. With that I’ll get a nice leopard pattern on the dough.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
I have a cheap small electric 400C pizza oven, but that’s not something you’d use for frozen pizza. And I still wished it could get a bit hotter…
The pizza I make is still decent, however - already got the approval from a few Italian friends. It’s Neapolitan style pizza, not Roman.
- Comment on *laughs nervously* 1 week ago:
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.Philip K. Dick, Ubik
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
My ey wife and me divorced 13 years ago. As we have kids and will coparent and see each other for the rest of our lives there’s also no reason not to share streaming accounts. (And we share them with the kids anyways…)
- Comment on Always with the hidden fees. 3 weeks ago:
It feels like “chatgpt i need a ragebait reddit article”
- Comment on Set of various pitches of kazoos 3 weeks ago:
OH MY FUCKING GOD. You could use that with classical conditioning or even light hypnosis (if they agree). Make them get really subby on yakety sax. (that’s the title of the benny hill music)
- Comment on Set of various pitches of kazoos 3 weeks ago:
been there done that, it’s too much fun. Hilarity can be a means of domination.
- Comment on Set of various pitches of kazoos 3 weeks ago:
I have brought a similar but working device into a bdsm session and I can attest that humor in bdsm in one of the fucking hottest things ever. Nothing compares to laughing while dominating someone. Bonus points if the sub has a tickle fetish, hilarity is ensured.
- Comment on Engine auto-off 4 weeks ago:
I feel knocking the starter with a hammer is a universal 80s driving experience. Like changing the electric distributor contacts mid trip, and using starter spray when the damn thing refuses to turn on again.
- Comment on Engine auto-off 4 weeks ago:
Oil isn’t the problem, my car will turn on again before too much oil drains out of the engine and oil pressure sinks too low. Cooling is, interstingly, so they switched to an electric water pump for cooling - it will stay running during auto off so you don’t get too hot temperatures in the turbo for example. (4cyl 2l engine has a turbo)
There’s quite a bit of tech going into auto off since it first appeared. (Heh, my first car in 1989 had an aftermarket start stop switch to stop the engine at the traffic light - i never used it except once or twice for fun - still one cylinder exploded one day on the Autobahn)
- Comment on Engine auto-off 4 weeks ago:
Depends very much on the car. My car has auto off and starts up the engine as soon as the car in front of me starts moving (it detects that with the parking and radar sensors).
Or if I just move the foot off the braking pedal the engine will be fully running as soon as my foot reaches the gas pedal.
It’s at 2017 Mercedes, at the time they already spent some effort into that tech, for example I have an electrical water pump that keeps up the circulation even during auto off and the starter is different so it can start the car even while starting to move.
The only moment I turn it off (ok switch to sport mode which turns autostop off) is when I want to race someone at the light in order to change lanes in front of them later.
I normal operation you don’t notice.
Ah and last year autostop did not work for a few months as my battery was old, the car noticed and refrained from stopping the engine until I got a new battery (It will also do if I need aircon or the motor is too cold or a number of other conditions)
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer 5 weeks ago:
dance, monkey boy
- Comment on Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should 1 month ago:
I do not think this is a whole ass-pickle.
- Comment on Don't fuck with a working man's lunch. 1 month ago:
You deserved each other.
- Comment on I am not a high drug user. I mean I smoke and drink that's it. But it seems to me that the US president is using uppers midday and keeping him up at night and crashing half thru the day? 1 month ago:
At least he recognized a squirrel a week ago or two
- Comment on We dunking on England again 2 months ago:
In der Regel hatten die Wikinger rote Bärte.
- Comment on chesecak 2 months ago:
Käsekacke?
- Comment on ard 4 months ago:
Mallard ducks would be very confused about this post.
- Comment on do be like that 4 months ago:
Given enough thrust, pigs fly just fine. Don’t stand underneath, though.
- Comment on Like a bridge over fucking water 4 months ago:
Thank god no one pictured simon and furuncle.
- Comment on No, really, I will! 4 months ago:
Is that you, JD?
- Comment on Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable) today? 4 months ago:
What did the inventor of the wheel say, after they turned it for the first time?
“Friends, that’s a revolution!”
- Comment on They is dissin our possy 4 months ago:
Forgotten? Or was it just the shittiest shitpost?