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dingus ,

I'm not sure if this is ADA compliant. It might be the reason why we don't see these very often. I had one of these at work though.

dingus ,

This is such a bizarre design. I wonder why they don't just make a bit of a longer "leash" attaching the cap to the ring. Because then the cap wouldn't detached but it also wouldn't be annoyingly in the way like this.

Here in the US, I haven't seen these bottles yet, but I wonder if we'll be getting them at some point. :p

dingus ,

It's not more convenient 95% of the time if you don't live in a place where you can just plug it in all the time. Until people are able to figure out how to get widespread adoption of EV charging stations in apartments and condos, EV adoption by the general public is significantly limited.

dingus ,

Isn't a salad wrap no longer a salad? If it's encased in breading then it's a wrap/sandwich, not a salad. It's like calling a vegetarian burrito a salad.

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Whenever I try switching to Linux, there is always something that doesn't work right and takes forever to finagle with to fix if it's even possible. I'm primarily a Linux Mint fan (daily drove it on my aging desktop until it died of old age a few years back), but I've also dabbled in a few other noob-friendly distros like Ubuntu (was really into it when everything was still orange and brown lol) and Pop OS.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love using Linux to breathe new life into older systems, but it just isn't a good option for me personally if my device hasn't gotten sluggish yet.

As an example, I have an aging laptop that started blue screening a bunch. It doesn't support the Win 11 upgrade due to it's processor not meeting minimum specs. So I thought it was finally time to see if Linux would improve it.

First of all, I had a hell of a time installing various distros without having them boot to a black screen after installation completes. Took absolutely forever to finally sus this out on the various distros I tried. Then I find that the couple extra buttons on my basic Logitech mouse don't work. These are essential buttons for me that I use constantly. I go through a million troubleshooting steps before finding out that it's a Wayland issue, so I switch back to Xorg and everything is cool. But then I start running into lag issues which never occurred on my Windows install. I also tried playing some games I had in my Epic Games library. I could not for the life of me get it to work, no matter which platform I tried. I get that Steam has better Linux compatibility, but not all of us have all of our games on Steam.

Finally got tired of the whole ordeal and switched back to Windows. Did a bit more troubleshooting and seemed to have resolved the blue screen issues and now it seems to work perfectly and much better out of the box than Linux. It's not an old enough device a Linux refresh to be worth it yet.

I get that Lemmings are die hard Linux fans, and I think Linux has some fantastic use cases...but for many users it actually isn't a good alternative. I find it works best when you want to breathe new life into older hardware or if you have every component specifically built to work for a particular Linux distro. But when basic features don't work properly without hours of troubleshooting (if you can ever get them to work at all), it's a little hard to just recommend it to your average Joe whose Windows/Mac computer works just fine.

This "everything just works" Linux experience a lot of people talk about on Lemmy/Reddit has absolutely never been my experience, even though I've been a casual Linux fan for over a decade now. Meanwhile, I've had the opposite experience with Windows (unless you're talking really old Windows versions like Win XP and older).

dingus ,

Also in terms of games...I know Steam compatibility is supposed to be great, but if you use other platforms, you might run into some issues. Most of my library is in the Epic Games store (I know, terrible to admit this online...but they give you a lot of free shit), and I just could not get it to work at all the last time I tried Linux (maybe 6ish months ago).

dingus ,

Yeah I am way too scatterbrained to pay all my bills manually lol.

dingus ,

It's all in the way you trim and neaten it imo. When people let their beards run wild, it tends to not look that great. But if you keep it trimmed neatly, even if it's long, it can look pretty nice!

Annoyingly similar buttons with very different functions (lemmy.world)

One of the buttons laps the stopwatch, the other resets the entire session clearing all lap markers and stopping the counter. Better not forget which is which, especially given that you're probably timing something in the physical world not paying much attention to your phone...

dingus ,

Dude I struggle with this all the time! The symbols are way too similar to each other and I occasionally find myself turning off the alarm when I meant to snooze.

dingus ,

Have you been running your stopwatch for 451 hours???

dingus ,

I felt bad for you in this post, but now you're sounding kind of like an asshole. You can have technically good stats on paper but it doesn't mean you are immune to doing something stupid. I also had really good stats in school, but I am of perfectly average intelligence. It doesn't make me any better than anyone else and it doesn't make me immune to stupidity. You did something stupid. I'm sorry, but it's true and it happens to everyone. Accept it.

dingus ,

If someone is savvy enough to have done this, surely they would have changed the password as well? Worth a shot tho, I suppose!

dingus ,

What? These things have been around long before zoomers.

dingus ,

Lung cancer speed run any%

dingus ,

Rather than prime adding value, it's simply providing the regular service, while they intentionally give non-prime members a manufactured worse service to entice them to pay.

I mean, I suppose you could say something like that. But the problem is that nearly every other non-Amazon online retailer has ungodly slow shipping and you often have to pay an extra fee for shipping on top of it.

I know Amazon is a horrifyingly large mega corp, but there isn't a decent alternative. They actually do provide a good service for the pricetag. (Unless we're talking their digital services which I've never used and are trash.)

Maybe I'm just lucky because I don't live in a rural area. So my packages actually come relatively quickly. Other retailers make me wait over a week and pay for the privilege to wait forever.

dingus ,

I'm assuming she had breast implants and she thought one of them ruptured. It happens and isn't life threatening.

I'm sorry that it wasn't the case though.

A rant about an experience I had with Google maps today.

I am currently studying in college and part of my college course dictates that I most do a work experience placement. I ended being placed in a charity shop. The first couple of days went well. Its a small little shop in a shopping center so there wasn't much for me to do. So they decided that today I'll do some work in the...

dingus ,

Idk. Google Maps has had the wrong location for my mom's address for what seems like forever now. Reporting it has done nothing. It's really frustrating because it means she can't get deliveries from anyone other than USPS, UPS, Amazon, or FedEx. Food deliveries are flat out not possible. It directs people to an entirely different neighborhood.

YouTube: 5 ads the norm now?

For context I'm in the US. The last time I used YouTube without an ad blocker, there were 2 ads back to back, and way too frequently. I tried watching on my PlayStation tonight, and not only are they more frequent, they've increased in quantity by 150%. It's also very common for the last ad to last 2 minutes to over an hour...

dingus ,

OP, I know exactly what you're talking about.

I was visiting relatives this Christmas and wanted to watch some of my YouTube videos on their SmartTV. I have watched YouThe with ads on occasion throughout the years...usually when watching some video on a relative's device or school or work computer or something. They are annoying, but mostly fairly manageable. So I started up a 20 minute vid from a youtuber I like.

I shit you not...within the first 5 fucking minutes of the video, there were 5 separate ad breaks. And each ad was going to play for minutes on end if I never hit the skip button.

Yep, you read that right. One ad per minute. I am NOT exaggerating. I counted them and watched the video timestamps.

I almost could not believe what I was seeing. My mind was fucking blown. Never have I ever experienced that egregious level of ads. It made the content I was trying to view literally unwatchable and I switched off the video.

To OP, I'd highly recommend getting an Android tv device like a modern Chromecast (not the old models...needs to run android). They are relatively inexpensive and make viewing content on TVs a sane experience. I think I maybe got mine for $40 or something. Install SmartTube Next and you'll have no ads. Works fantastic. You set it up once and never worry about it again.

dingus ,

Whoa, a fellow dingus! Hello!!

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