Exactly.

It’s not “randomly recommending an operating system”

It’s noticing when people have problems, and providing a solution.

The second one un-killed you

The temperature range is quite something

You need to check on tenancy laws in your location.

It might not be considered trespassing, but it could be something else.

Here in the UK tenants have a right to “quiet enjoyment” as it is phrased in law, which means your landlord is not allowed to bother you unannounced, and if they want to come to the property they must give reasonable advance notice (usually 24 hours)

You may have something similar.

Then again, the landlord having remote-control over your A/C sounds like absolutely psycho behaviour already, so good luck with that.

I’d go even earlier I think, to pre-smartphone.

Around 2007, perhaps.

You could message your friends and family on your feature phone and keep in touch, but the Internet was still something you had to sit down at the computer for.

Social interactions were uninterrupted by apps, and it was still impossible to cheat on pub quizzes.

Capitalism hadn’t worked out yet how to make money from the Internet.

Forums and imageboards were in full swing, and the web was a glorious mess of bizarre small sites with niche content. IRC was the peak of online chat.

It was the best of times.

I’m fine with everything about this except being on your phone while flying.

Like okay they advertise those roombas as ‘self-flying’ but there have been a lot of accidents.

Do POS systems automatically capitalise the first letter of every word for custom notes?

I can only assume so, from this.

In which case, TIL.

International foods might be “low interest” for many consumers, but for me it’s the most interesting aisle in the supermarket.

Nothing I like more than finding some unusual (to me!) stuff, so I’m happy they put it all in the same place.

As far as price goes, it’s all over. You might find a bottle of Japanese Kewpie mayo for way more than speciality Asian supermarkets ask for, but on the other hand find a huge bag of pistachio nuts for way less money (by volume) than they’re charging for nuts in the ‘regular’ nuts section.

It’s genuinely as if supermarkets know they need to sell this stuff, but haven’t quite worked out what to do with it yet.

Certainly.

The placement of the ceiling lights is messed up and doesn’t correspond to where the light beams are hitting the walls

Window unit ACs work well when your windows open by sliding. Most US windows are that way, but UK windows are almost always hinged at the sides or tops which makes mounting a window unit effectively impossible.

So either you have to get an expensive fully plumbed-in unit, or a portable unit that stays inside the room and has vent hoses going out your window. Which are not ideal either.

It’s been the case to now that extreme heat has been rare enough and short enough in duration that everyone has simply dealt with it. When it’s 5 days in a year then you suffer a bit but quickly forget about it afterwards.

But times are changing, and we will have to soon change the way our homes are designed too.

What?

There’s no personalised algorithm on Lemmy. What content you see should be entirely unaffected by what you upvote or downvote.

e-waste straight from the factory.

I offered him the bottle, but he pushed it away with a tattooed hand. “Nah man, I got demons to slay.”

He reached in his jacket and took out a cigarette. A lighter appeared like a magic trick and he lit up, a plume of smoke on the exhale.

“I thought you were slaying demons?” I asked.

He laughed - a rasping smoker’s laugh that caught in his throat. “Well, better the demon you know.”

I don’t do strictly fixed, but I do relative, for example my terminal is left of my IDE, my browser is right.

Using workspaces as instantly switchable ‘screens’ also helps make presentations and demos really slick, i find.

You can screen-share the whole monitor and then flick between your deck and code and a browser very cleanly with no window fumbling.

This is the way I always did it on Mac, and now do it on Cosmic.

Almost always I want windows to have the full real-estate of the screen (editor, browser, etc) so tiling rarely makes sense for me and instead I want to be able to rapidly change between windows.

So using whole workspaces as a side-to-side carousel where I can flip back and forth between adjacent ones in a moment has been my go-to workflow for 15 years already.

Thanks for the tip. In this case it was fine as the glued part was going to be completely covered by the new pads so any small mess was inconsequential to both the looks and the operation.

Music concert - everyone recording with their phone out.

Fireworks display - everyone recording with their phone out.

Bride comes down the aisle - everyone recording with their phone out.

It’s just pointless. You ruin your own experience of the event because you’re watching it on a screen instead of experiencing it directly, and you ruin other people’s experience too.

And the wedding one I’ve seen far too many times.

What do you think the official wedding photographer is there for? When the bride and groom watch their wedding video back they want to see a room of their happy family and friends, but instead they’ll get a video with rows of people staring at their own little rectangles and pointing them at the bride as she comes down the aisle.

Do yourself a favour and live in the moment sometimes, please.

That post looks like it’s mostly people who already hated Nintendo (i.e most of Lemmy) taking the opportunity to meme about it and make jokes rather than genuine criticism from the perspective of people who actually wanted to buy a Switch 2.

And that’s kinda a big difference.

One genuine thing to remember though is Nintendo are making absolute bank on games, because every game on the system goes through them.

They can take a loss on the console and still make money later. That’s not necessarily the case with the steam box.

At one time, 800x600 very much was.

Heck, the first monitor I had which could do that resolution I turned back down to 640x480 because the higher resolution made everything far too small!

Nowadays even 1920x1080 is feeling cramped at times because there’s so much padding and chrome and bloat on every application there’s hardly room left for content

Lol, yes. It’s probably the same example of a secure password it gave to a hundred other people.