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- Comment on This means I close the tab, regardless of what is on the site. 2 months ago:
Incredibly hostile design. I generally avoid, but like Reddit they have hostage to some info I desire sometime so wipe my way through it… Close the browser, rm -rf /, and wash my hands.
- Comment on This means I close the tab, regardless of what is on the site. 2 months ago:
Sounds like fandom.com
Even when disabled at a high level, their sub checks are still there and there are hundred of them. Deceptive BS.
- Comment on Favoirte indepth youtube channels? 2 months ago:
So what benchmarks would you define as in-depth? In-depth this decade is not what is was 2 or 3 ago, due to content consumption, but your comment made me realize how cultural the concept is. On the spectrum between a 5 bounce video to a PhD leaves a lot of room.
- Comment on Favoirte indepth youtube channels? 2 months ago:
Another great list.
Practical Engineering is beloved. I used to like Smarter Everyday about the same, but Grady is just so much more consistent and interesting on the infrastructure world.
And Jenny is a geek I can get along with. The Starwars hotel failure was fascinating. Wish there was a bit more economic context, but she’s great.
Looking forward to some binges here.
- Comment on Favoirte indepth youtube channels? 2 months ago:
Lots of good ones in there. Thanks!
B1M is great, Mega Projects and others of Simon’s channels are good (some better then others). Wendover is amazing, I just wish he out more out, but the production quality is probably to high to increase the rate.
I’ll have to check the rest out. :)
- Comment on Favoirte indepth youtube channels? 2 months ago:
He is indeed a great find. His Dubai lights was one I was just thinking about due to another post.
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- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 2 months ago:
True, but worth reading their about page and privacy page. Not saying it’ll stay this way, but the way they are running is something that makes more sense then being sold as a product to Google. And you aren’t getting much of an incognito these days with all the fingerprinting they are doing.
I will admit kagi search isn’t the highest performer, but it’s viable. DDG, Start page, etc. Might give you more privacy, or not (hard to tell with DDG these days), but it might be worth trying a different model for a while.
I miss the days when the internet was truly free, but in lieu of that we have to have something better. Kagi is a start.
- Comment on When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking? 3 months ago:
That’s an interesting example, I’ll have to look it out and see if the context bears it out. I say that as although yes he might have only gotten 43%, the question is how many registered voters didn’t vote and how many eligible but unregistered voters there were.
Vermont has a fairly high voter turnout, but looking at Vermont’s Secretary of State 2016 had a voter turnout of 63% of Voting Age Population from census population. So that 185k of 505k thousands people who didn’t vote.
Also if I have the right numbers from Vermont’ SOS, that’s 43% of the state total 63% who voted.
I’ve read other demographic breakdowns on those who don’t vote which is worth looking into, but it’s hard for me to see someone say that there isn’t a mass when we have this huge population of American citizen who don’t vote. Something between 35-45% of the US just doesn’t. That’s a huge swath of disenfranchised people.
- Comment on Transponder Landing System enables precision approaches at McMurdo in Antarctica 3 months ago:
Glad the MLS is no longer used.
- Comment on With the death of the Hamas leader people are saying we are on the verge of a regional war. What is a regional war and what does it look like? 4 months ago:
Take Simon with a grain of salt, but this Warographics on What a war might look like along side the context of RealLifeLore background on US, Iran relations might give some further understanding if you are after some short intros.
- 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:
Feasible if you found one at a junk yard, but copper tubing is $20-30 and some fittings makes a tubing idea sub-$100 probably. An AC is about $300, a new radiator without fittings starts at $70 and are built for cars not box fans so it might be more challenging to get to work.
With that being said, environmental, energy, and other contextual concerns might out weigh the cost. A mini-split heat pump is probably the most sane thing to actually install, but that’s a big ask.
- 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:
As a kid I used tubes, a box fan, a cooler, and bucket with a siphon to cool me down.
You could easily set that up with just the water from a sink and some hardware store parts.
Search for ‘diy fan cooling tub copper coils’ as a start.
As an example: Homemade AC - The “Copper Coil” Air Cooler! - (Simple "Box Fan …
Copper coils have the best thermal efficiency, but plastic tubing would also work.
- Comment on lemmy test how ur client handles long posts 5 months ago:
Potato Achieved!
- Comment on Boeing's starliner docks at ISS after five thrusters unexpectedly shut off 6 months ago:
Lines Boeing does not want on it’s investor reports, especially after the FAA has been hounding them.
** June 6, 1:27 p.m. ET: ** Starliner’s docking has not gone smoothly, the spacecraft developed trouble with its reaction control system thrusters.
- Comment on Designed to Crash: the story of Antonov An-28 HA-LAJ and its demise 6 months ago:
Is there any Lemmy bots for admiralcloudberg? Miss his stuff!
- Comment on How does dog pee ownership work? 1 year ago:
Yea, is there a ‘best of’ yet?
- Comment on I hate using mobile to read articles 1 year ago:
The last Firefox on android that really worked for me with the about:reader?url=http://… Ability to force pages into it was 68, which I keep around for that reason.
Can 117 do it on all pages?