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HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think that's fair. Plenty of people in this world do not know much about computers or the internet or anything in that area and just need a printer. So they go to their local big box store and there's the HP printers and they're a good deal, so they buy them.

Consumers do not get what they deserve when companies treat them like shit just because they don't have certain knowledge.

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How is my bedroom being heated? (lemmy.world)
 

I'm staying in an apartment temporarily and I have absolutely no idea how it is heated. It's a two-bedroom apartment. There is no thermostat. There are no vents. There is one radiator in the apartment's living room, at the front and down the hall from the bedrooms, and one radiator in the bathroom.

I have felt every wall in my bedroom. All of them are cool. The floor is also a normal temperature.

And yet, despite it being at or below freezing most nights in the past month, I can be in my bedroom without a shirt on and be comfortable. It might be nice to be a little warmer, but I don't feel cold or anything.

I am mystified. How is it being heated?

What movie is in your top list despite its absolute shit rating? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My friend Garrett Gilchrist has bee trying to restore that movie to something closer to Morton and Jankel's original vision for years now. I keep meaning to watch it because I do think that the movie had a lot of good ideas even if it was a mess.

https://archive.org/details/super-mario-bros-1993-the-morton-jankel-cut-extended-vhs_202207

People also forget that what most Americans knew about Mario at the time was that he jumped on mushrooms and turtles to rescue the princess.

But Morton and Jankel made both versions of the Max Headroom TV series. I absolutely give them credit.

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Infuriating update to the broken lift plea. Signatures were added two days ago. And now someone has added a note. (lemmy.world)
 
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"The insultingly low salary you would have accepted is still too high." (lemmy.world)
 
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Bonobos Can Tell When a Human Doesn’t Know Something (www.scientificamerican.com)
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YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. (blackfarmersindex.com)
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How can you explain a smell you've never smelled before? (lemmy.world)
 

I realize this is my second post in two days about smells, but it is totally unrelated, I swear.

I am in the UK, but I have been trying to explain this smell to my wife for days...

The bathroom in the place we are renting short-term has a really weird smell in it. It's not a good smell, but it's not a smell that makes me want to run out and never go back in. I would describe it as 'sort of unpleasant.' Like absolutely tolerable, but I wouldn't want to hang around.

It doesn't smell biological. It doesn't smell like human or animal or mold. It doesn't smell like some sort of cleaning or construction chemical either.

The closest I have come to be able to describe it is like the stale breath of a smoker, except without the burnt things part. Like everything else in old cigarette smell but that. Except that's not really right either.

This place used to contain (I think) a printing press and then was turned into apartments, so maybe it's something left over from that? I don't know, but I wish I could explain it!

Select a tip in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe it's your job to avoid patronizing places that don't pay their employees enough though?

"I know the perfect place for the ESP button! Right in front of the drivers knee!" in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
What are some exceptions to the standards problem? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

USB-C

Gonna have to disagree with you there. Try using a USB-C data cable to charge a device. Now try figuring out which cable out of five is the charge cable.

Hour 12 of a 15-hour trip emigrating to the UK from the U.S. with a teenager. (OC) in c/pics@lemmy.world
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hasn’t quite worked out yet. I still need to find a job (but I have interviews lined up) We came over a little early because we were worried that when the deportation start, everyone who can grab the first plane they came out of the US. We might never get out otherwise.

Hour 12 of a 15-hour trip emigrating to the UK from the U.S. with a teenager. (OC) in c/pics@lemmy.world
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I keep telling people, we can only fly 30 meters at a time.

Plus, Wonder Woman can fly and she has an invisible jet.

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Hour 12 of a 15-hour trip emigrating to the UK from the U.S. with a teenager. (OC) (lemmy.world)
 

Also, the first class tickets for the train were totally worth it.

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A Perfect Shot (lemmy.world)
 
It's in the eye of the... well you know. in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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It's in the eye of the... well you know. (lemmy.world)
 
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How the Real Grinch Stole Christmas (lemmy.world)
 
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Ísafjörður Airport in Iceland (lemmy.world)
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Gingerbread Man (lemmy.world)
 
Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Many of us who are old enough saw it as an advanced version of ELIZA and used it with the same level of amusement until that amusement faded (pretty quick) because it got old.

If anything, they are less impressive because tricking people into thinking a computer is actually having a conversation with them has been around for a long time.

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