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[–] 128 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Appliances and cars should never have an internet connection for any reason.

Also fuck touch screens give me buttons.

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  • [–] 88 points 1 year ago (9 children)
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    [–] 87 points 1 year ago

    Cloud-based. If a product won't work if my internet dies, or I can't access my data without internet or a subscription, I won't buy it.

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  • [–] 73 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    Search engines should not use locational data including IP address to provide "more relevant" results. Checking for restaurants or weather forecast? You should have to manually add the relevant search terms. Want results in a specific language? You should have to manually apply this filter.

    Convenience is not worth the potential harm of locationally biased search results.

    For example, where I live is like White Nationalist Central Station. My search results are thus far more likely to net me results with a pro-US/nationalist skew, thus potentially entrenching or normalizing harmful beliefs.

    Whenever I've tried bringing this up with Techlords, I get a feeble, "B-but then you couldn't say 'restaurants near me' UnU" and like ... good? It's not like it's hard to type city and state in the search field.

    I've never found a search engine that even has this as an option. Even Sear XNG instances net results that are clearly aligned with the location of the instances server.

    A Kagi dev even lied to me when I was looking into that as an alternative, saying they don't use location, when it's pretty easy to determine that they do.

    I also don't want a "good" algorithm. I also don't want to see big corporate sites prioritized either. If some backwoods nobody has a site that's more relevant, show it to me. I feel like pre-Google search engines were better, but that's another vent for another day.

    Now where did I put my false teeth and walker???

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    [–] 68 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Anyone who puts always-on blue LEDs in electronics deserve the oubliette. People who put such LEDs in electronics meant for the bedroom deserve an oubliette that'a slowly filling with water.

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    [–] 65 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    All dates should be formatted according to ISO 8601 standard (YYYY-MM-DD).

    Months should be adjusted so September, October, November, and December are the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th month respectively (so the literally meaning of the names accords with their actual meaning).

    Not cleaning your kitchen knife after sharpening is trashy and contaminates your food with metal shavings.

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    [–] 54 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    Pineapple is a legitimate pizza topping lol

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Sweet and savory is a god tier class of food IMHO. Pineapple on pizza is just the tip of the delicious iceberg. Have you tried peaches with rice and curry? Or raisins in rice? I also like sweet and sour sauce, especially with little pieces of assorted fruits.

    My girlfriend hates it, in her opinion the only way to go with savory is salt, although she tolerates pork and pineapple on pizza, since the salty pork overpowers the sweet of the pineapple. But I love it!

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    [–] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Using the term ‘assless chaps’ infuriates me and I will not let that aggression stand, man.

    All chaps are assless. Chaps with asses are pants.

    Fight me.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    what if I use the term to describe a group of unfortunate chaps who lost their asses in tragic accidents?

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    [–] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If a motorcycle has to be ear-splittingly loud for "safety", then it's too dangerous to be road legal.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    It's explicitly the opposite, scientifically, according to my safety class

    The deep rumble being loud overwhelms anyone's ability to properly locate the bike quickly, and they demonstrated this live. It's definitely harder to locate a LOUDER bike

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Pedestrians have the right of way. Most of the other hills are survivable.

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    [–] 45 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    It is NOT "habañero." If you pronounce a "y" in the word, you're commiting what's called a "hyper-foreignism" where you over apply something you learned a foreign culture does.

    It's just an N sound. Habanero.

    It's not even my culture/language but damn this gets under my collar.

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago* (6 children)
    void main() {
        //code
    }
    

    Is better than

    void main()
    {
        //code
    }
    

    Why would you want to put it on a separate line? Are you paid by the height of the source file or something?

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    [–] 33 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    There absolutely was a cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo. That is the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is. It wasn't on any table or in any thanksgiving decoration in my childhood, it isn't a popular thing to exist in media, it was an obscure item that was a main part of an underwear logo.

    Anyone that says differently is objectively wrong. I don't know why the logo changed and why besides a patent entry even the company itself denies it. I don't really care if this is an alternate earth or aliens or time travellers or an entirely natural quirk of existing in a quantum universe, but I know for an absolute fact the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is is because of my underwear, and not because my dick is coincidentally called the horn of plenty.

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    [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Using tabs for document management (f.e. Browsers, Text-Editors, ...) was a mistake. It would be way better if every document (website, text-file, image, console, ..) was in its own window, centrally managed by an intelligent window manager of the OS that allows quick and easy search between all documents like with a full-text searchable exposè-like view.

    Using tabs for document-management was a bad but necessary workaround because Windows is a horrible window manager (despite its name, ironically).

    Tabs work best when there is a fixed amount of them (Like with game settings: Controls, Audio, Video, Gameplay).

    I could go on for quite a while on this, but I think this is where I stop.

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    [–] 31 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Niche pronounced with a "ch" sound is wrong and dumb and I hate you

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    [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pineapple on pizza is delicious, that is all

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    [–] 29 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    Time units are just as cursed as American units.

    Conversion between days, hours, minutes and seconds is a total mess. If you never have to do anything with those numbers, you don’t need to worry about it. The moment you need to do calculations or compare devices you run into completely unnecessary problems that would have been easy to avoid. Just think of pumps and fans with units given in l/min or m^3/h.

    Just pick the standard time unit and stick with it. Use prefixes to deal with big or small numbers.

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    I live in a pretty mountainous area, but I can think of a couple blind corners on small hills near me. So probably the one on the way to the bakery while running or biking.

    But I do a lot of ski touring so I'd rather die on one of the big ones.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The Office means the British version. The American office refers to the American version.

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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Time zones shouldn't exist. There should just be UTC time and you would go to work at the equivalent of your morning time.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Tabs, not spaces.

    I don't give a shit if your arguments perfectly align to the function. It's only semantic indication. Use the goddamn special character that has its own dedicated key.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    English verbs have historically had present form, past form, and past participle form, eg. go / went / gone. I'm sad to see the past participle form being phased out of American English. People I went to school with and who I'm sure were taught differently (not to mention innumerable podcasters and public radio personalities), now say things like: "By the time I got home I found he'd already went," eliminating the past participle and instead using the past form. Had saw is not uncommon either. I am old enough I refuse to incorporate this development in the language. If I ever encounter had was/were in the wild I might blow a gasket. Now entering my fuddy-duddy years :(

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Boneless wings are just chicken nuggets.

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    If a company has a bad interface on their electronic item I’ll not buy it. To me it’s a big hill but I guess it’s how you want to look at it. I’ll stop buying anything from that company if they keep doing it

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    If i need wifi, bluetooth, or an app to use a product that shouldn’t need it (eg a toaster, toothbrush) i will not buy it. i also won’t buy a wireless device (say a bluetooth speaker) if it requires an app. I would be willing to pay $500 more to have a tv with no smart features than a ‘smart’ tv. corporations: keep your shitty malware. my phone is a temple.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    A steel ball is not a ball bearing. A bearing is something that bears load and allows for motion, usually rotation. There are sleeve bearings which are just one material or journal bearings which have pressurized oil to separate the spinning shaft. A ball bearing is an assembly with rolling elements (balls, rather than rollers). Those steel balls are just called balls. The whole assembly is called a ball bearing. I used to work in bearing manufacturing and they were just called balls.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    The split between "Today" and "Tomorrow" is at midnight, not when one sleeps/wakes up.

    This comes up often after midnight when my girlfriend asks me about "tomorrow". Why discuss breakfast for tomorrow when we still haven't had breakfast today??

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Some computer nerd friends and I came up with a solution for this:

    Computer architectures typically provide separate instructions for "logical" and "arithmetic" bit-shifts. The details as to why aren't important, but we can borrow the nomenclature.

    When referring to "tomorrow" in the sense of "when I wake up from my next sleep cycle", use "logical tomorrow". When referring to "tomorrow" in the sense of "after midnight tonight", use "arithmetic tomorrow" (or "chronological tomorrow", if you really want to be pedantic).

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Thirteen months, 28 days each + one day. (Plus another day when there is a leap year).

    It would just work.

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    People who don’t eat the pizza crust have no backbone and won’t survive the zombie apocalypse. And even if they do, they won’t be let into my post apocalyptic fortress, because they have no backbone which they have proven by not eating their pizza crusts.

    In every job there is pleasure and pain. If you cannot stomach some doughy stumps or find a way to interleave the crust of your slice with the center of your next slice, you and I won’t be friends.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Having devices require a USB-C charger might be great for small devices, but it's awful for laptops. That thing is so flimsy it's only a matter of time until it starts having faulty contacts. I've had one for a year and now it connects/disconnects everytime I touch the cable. Gimme back my huge Dell barrel jacks 😭 😭 😭

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The word Himalayan is pronounced like Him-a-lay-an, NOT Him-all-ee-an.....

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