towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This isn't mainstream media.
This is capitalism.

This is a company making a product, selling it for a given price, then making additional money from embedded ads.
Whether that ad revenue is additional profit, or to offset the actual cost of the item - because the sold it at a loss to beat their competitors - doesn't really matter.
This is the consumer paying for something, and not getting a full and complete product

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Oh, a real engineer? ducks

[–] towerful@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What a great origin. I Googled it, and it now means "to add your opinion".

  1. Seinen Senf dazugeben

Literal translation: To add your mustard to it.

Actual meaning: To give your opinion on something./To give your two cents.

Where there are sausages, there also must be mustard. If you want to ask someone for their opinion and sound like a fluent speaker when doing it, you better invite them to add their mustard.

https://www.mondly.com/blog/german-idioms/

In the process, I found some other great German proverbs with hilarious literal translations.

Literal translation: To talk around the hot porridge.
Literal translation: To ask for an extra sausage.
Literal translation: I believe I spider. (Edit: I believe I spin, see comment).
Literal translation: To have tomatoes on one’s eyes.
Literal translation: I can only understand ‘train station.’.
Literal translation: You’re walking on my cookie.
Literal translation: The bear dances there.
Literal translation: Everything has an end. Only the sausage has two.

But, I guess that's always the case with idioms. Their literal translation/meaning is useless. Regardless, I find German ones particularly titular

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

At one point, blue LEDs were super expensive because of their difficult production.
So any product that has a blue LED was considered premium. I guess they were also considered futuristic and high-tech.
Somehow, this is still in the mind of some manufacturers.
All I want is a barely-visible-in-soft-daylight diffused/frosted red or amber LED.
But no, it's always some 5w lensed blue LED at somehow produces a tighter beam of horrendous blue light that's brighter than most flashlights.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm gonna sound like a fanboy, but the alternative is Tidal.
Better audio quality, better (imo) suggestions, and not wasting money of podcasts and weird AI bs.

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