TheIllustrativeMan

@TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck happened to YouTube!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using New Pipe, but they seem to have broken every 3rd party front-end within the last week or so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the real reason they disappeared - awnings cost money and don’t increase square footage. That’s also why every modern building is a boring box.

  We didn’t forget about them, it’s still covered in architecture school. You can even make them look really cool. But they cost money, and that’s a hard barrier to cross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta get creative to get any decent addresses these days. I’ve been trying to establish a company name (with an available, short-ish, simple URL) and it’s surprisingly difficult, even getting into weird TLDs. Really annoying, especially since a lot of them aren’t actually being used.

  Finally found a 9 character made-up word that I could get the .us TLD for, and I think that’s about as good as it’s going to get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day one and done⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, depends on the frozen pizza. 99% of them are worse, but there’s one brand I get at wally world for like $7 a pizza that is better than 99% of the pizza I can order (and we have some pretty solid pizza joints around here).

  Had to quit getting them though because they’re like 6000 kcal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many times will I tell you?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean you could kinda do that yourself with UV ink and an appropriate flashlight. Put some in the bowl and some in the tank, maybe even different colors to see which portion contributes more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many times will I tell you?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate soft close lids because they close too slow. The flush is over before it’s half down, which defeats the whole point of a lid. Sure, I could wait an extra 30 seconds, but at that point why not just do the soft close with my own hand?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sequel to jants⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This post was jest in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOOOOOOOOOOOO⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m probably going to try this, thanks for the write up.

  Just yesterday I looked at the calorie count for my favorite frozen pizzas (Detroit Supreme, ~2400) and realized I need to cut it out entirely. This might soften the blow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll never happen, even if there was the will to do it the city doesn’t have the money (or the tax base to bring in that kind of money).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I’m saying though, we got rid of those regulations, and it still doesn’t matter. Banks want parking. Banks limit height. Banks limit unit counts.

  The only solution is for the city to finance and build themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1: change zoning laws to allow more multifamily construction

  Our city did this and it hasn’t helped at all, because banks won’t finance it. No minimum parking, no height limit, no maximum FAR, no maximum unit count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this shortage is entirely caused by cities preventing construction of everything but single family homes So I work in a field closely related to this, and the issue is less cities and more banks. The regulations in my city are basically: “if it’s housing, no regulations”. No minimum parking, no maximum density, no height limit, etc etc. But the banks? Won’t finance over ~22 stories. Or over ~200 units. Or parked less than 2:1. So we end up with only these short towers that are 50% parking podiums, where units are expensive AF because they have to pay for $100,000+ of parking per unit, not to mention the astronomical land prices being less diluted.

  The only solution is for the city itself to start financing construction (and realistically doing the development themselves too), but that’s never going to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has google stopped working for finding anything?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I honestly didn’t realize Google had gone to shit, because I haven’t used them for anything in the last 5 years (which is wild for me to think about, because I used to be a huge Google fanboy in the G+/Hangouts/Google Now/Nexus era).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seek relief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say 2 liters is a lot… But then I converted into funny units and it’s pretty close to what I drink on the average day (sometimes twice that, sometimes half).

  Maybe also contributing to my lack of kidney stones?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You want them to break in for insurance purposes though, it’s a clear indication of unauthorized entry. Your policy should cover the door/window, but if your lock gets picked/bypassed you’re going to have a rough time getting things covered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A broken window is clear indication of theft for insurance purposes. If your lock gets picked, you might be fucked depending on how your policy is written.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember Xfire?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Ex-fire”. “Crossfire” was an AMD thing.