I’ve seen this in Abu Dhabi. A bit creepy but it came with inbuilt convenience like letting your party members each pay for their items or splitting into X portions (you can pay for n*X portions if you want). Sure it’s handy but just give me a paper menu for fucks sake, let me ask the staff for a recommendation

Years after education I still look at his Taylor series videos as refreshers. I’m genuinely gutted. He was part of the hopeful, tiny bit of digital utopianism I had in my brain

Seems to have been banned in Lebanon since 2010 (unfortunately not an effective ban). Better late than never, but the map isn’t showing it at all, I had to take a look to be sure.

I’m somewhat in favor of using yucky words for giving nuance as long as the rest of the text implies you’re not one to use the phrases in an earnest way.

I’ve had mixed results on Lemmy with words like “homemaker” when trying to discuss a specific kind of social expectation, and then got immediately told off for using it. I never use it. It was the right word in the moment.

Maybe write “what they’re gleefully call X” instead of “X” and it would keep the yuck factor of putting the word there without seeming like you’re taking the word at face value

I’m in the same boat as you with the twist that I would have been a bit impressed if they brought him in without announcing it. I know there’s billing rules about this stuff but Marvel is an unlimited money machine they can figure out how to make the contracts work.

Voyager’s main page has sections for All, Home, and Local. You can even select which one to open by default in the settings

Browse All. I never did this on Reddit but it’s the only thing I do here.

I used Reddit for over a decade and quit cold turkey when the API got removed. Nothing has given me the same feeling since, but frankly Reddit hasn’t either for maybe half of those years.

The site grew up alongside me and was an important thing for me to learn about tons and tons and tons of new things.

Lemmy has less content, and that’s okay. Open Lemmy, run out of content, like just finish for the day and then get up and do something else. We have about 75 years of functional brains give or take, your life won’t be meaningfully enriched by throwing an extra two hours a day into a link aggregator.

Welcome to the community community. Nothing will be the same as early Reddit and especially not Reddit, so don’t chase that high. You’ll be fine

Simple answer: making it do meaningful work will make it harder to rotate (kind of like increasing the setting on a stationary bike) and something this size won’t be enough to power anything useful.

Maybe one of those solar garden lights? But those already run fine on solar.

I’d say leave it and enjoy the free spins in the wind, those are more valuable than the tiny bit of energy this can give you.

I think those are where it started from but the BIFL sub degraded into a community built around obsessive buying of the “right” stuff.

I have a cheap nonstick pan. I use it like five times a year. I’m fine with that. Regular stainless pots and pans will last well over a decade unless you start dropping them on the floor twice a week, even if they’re not as fancy as the stuff that gets advertised as BIFL. It’s not that complicated

They drew a real kid to sell their product. Cringe aside that’s not cool, like even if they pay him

It’s very unintuitive but Barber Beats and plunderphonics in general are very effective at inspiring me to mess with making music

I don’t understand what these people think the kindest interpretation of “analyze and monetize user behavior” could possibly be

I pay for convenience all the time, to a degree where I feel like I’m being a wasteful person sometimes. But cooling down a hot beverage feels like something I would hate myself for not figuring out how to do for free.

If you usually make a kind of coffee where you dilute a concentrate (americano, aeropress…) you probably would have already thought of diluting with cooler water. Assuming you don’t want to play around with ratios I think your best bet is using the mugs you have and just making the coffee cooler before you pour it in.

Maybe make it in a chilled receptacle? Like if it’s a pour over or a pod coffee where you make it in a container and pour it into your mug. Glass might break though. Maybe.

Maybe have iced coffee? Or drop a solitary smaller ice cube into the coffee, if you don’t mind the dilution?

Maybe try drinking the hot coffee at your destination as the intentional routine instead?

Why am I now invested in this all of a sudden? I think I would personally drop a small ice cube in or pour a tiny bit of cold water or leave the mug in the fridge overnight if we’re talking like it’s still devil’s piss hot by midday

Pour it from high up into your insulated cup? Like pouring it back and forth once will cool it a surprising amount. I’m all for not buying unnecessary shit

Folding@Home being built into the PS3 might have been one of the last tech-utopian hurrahs I can think of experiencing. As opposed to everything tech now feeling too dystopian for one of any number of reasons

Oh if I was a student today I would be getting in trouble over those stickers. My sticker printing budget would be irresponsible.

I have a spare G604 in a drawer and my first one has new switches, a new scroll wheel, and a new 3D printed shell to replace the crumbling rubber original.

It’s damn near perfect for me, especially the device switching button being so accessible. Getting it to work despite the planned obsolescence isn’t that much effort all things considered.

I’ll admit the switch replacement surgery is unnecessarily complicated for a fucking computer mouse. Way too many interlocking parts. If you still have it in a drawer, I really think it might be worth looking into it.

I’ve actually posted about it to where else but Dull Men’s Club

Especially with the World Cup stuff that you can turn off with two clicks. Everyone and their dog watches football, this is the single most uncontroversial thing the nerd browser can add to appeal to new people

I never finished it but I jump into it every five or so years. It still gives me a bit of that open world magic that I used to feel. The world is just full enough of stuff to do without feeling like cheap padding, and the atmosphere is really nice. It just makes me feel like how I want these games to make me feel. The graphics and physics are dated but they are all I need for this atmosphere.

I think like a lot of people I wasn’t as enthused about the uniformed police missions. Especially because of the setting. The protests in Beirut and in HK had a lot of overlap so there was a lot of “tried and tested” safety measures we were getting directly from what was happening there. It’s not quite copaganda so it’s fine

Maybe I should make an effort to finish it already. I can’t keep relearning the combat every few years.

That’s bleak. How old was your account? I used my account after the API closed maybe five times, I sometimes wonder if it would be worth mentioning Lemmy there.