SJW here and I just wandered in, but now I’m grabbing the popcorn and a seat

That’s a great first step.

Second step is popping back in the store and getting the cheapest bike chain locks, or wire locks for luggage, and attaching the trolleys, closest to the car, to each other and the coral. Three locks should do it.

Third step would be even more vindictive. Maybe crossing some line, IDK. But while in the shop, pick up some nails or thumbtacks. I’ll let what you do with the tacks be up to your imagination, but I’ll bet the driver won’t notice stuff on the ground behind the wheels in their rage over the locked trolleys.

Fourth step, move your car so that the situation is observable, and wait. Do not let the driver know about your existence.

A general “fuck you and the horse you rode in on” goes out to all car designers, who hide buttons beneath the wheel at all.

My car has a heated steering wheel, but the button is between the wheel and the door, in the second row on the left. Guess what I can’t see when I’m driving. Lane assist? Same. And it’s not like missing the button is inconsequential either, one button on that row is opening the charging port. Probably wouldn’t open while doing 90km/h, but I’d not finding out in the first place.

Meanwhile the center console has multiple blank place holders where physical buttons could be installed, and my car has all the options is fully optioned. Just move the buttons, that you could want to use while driving, so they are actually visible.

Worst offender I’ve found to date is Peugeot, which my job so wisely chose for our company cars consistently. I think the CFO was in a lodge with the local Peugeot dealer or something.

Over time I’ve driven the 107, 207, and the 208, as well as I tried to fit in the EV versions of the 208 and 2008 recently when hunting for a second car. To date I’ve not found a Peugeot that I can comfortably get in and out of, while also fitting without hitting the roof. Ended up getting a Renault Zoe, which seems like the same size as a 208. But even without height adjustable seats I can still fit in it.

Also, fuck car designers who hide buttons under hidden beneath the wheel at all.

Good! Only 4 more scalps and you’ve earned a Pripps Blå and a can of snus.

What about Portugal?

Brings to mind the old Liz Phair banger H.W.C. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DjYGxVzIxq4 In which case I agree, “beauty fluid” is cross … and probably overpriced, given about half of the population is able to produce it at home for free.

Extrapolating from pop science of the late 90s, drinking olive will make you immortal. Wash down some Provence herb seasoned whale blubber with copious amounts of red wine, between swiggs of olive oil, and you’ll never have to deal with Alzheimers or the flu either.

On cold winter days, we can average 6kW over 24h, but peak is more like 10 I’d 13. Not talking just about my space heaters with embedded computing power and TBs of storage, but the whole household.

Wow, the US education system must be improved.

I pay my electric bill by the kWh too, and I don’t live in the US. When it comes to household and EV energy consumption, kWh is the unit of choice.

1J is 3600Wh.

No, if you’re going to lecture people on this, at least be right about facts. 1W is 1J/s. So multiply by an hour and you get 1Wh = 3600J

That’s literraly the same thing,

It’s not literally the same thing. The two units are linearly proportional to each other, but they’re not the same. If they were the same, then this discussion would be rather silly.

but the name is less confusing because people tend to confuse W and Wh

Finally, something I can agree with. But that’s only because physics is so undervalued in most educational systems.

Fuck me, I didn’t notice it was tankie country, I swear one of these days I’m gonna block that entire instance from my feed

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How the fuck is this a thing?

Money

How are they allowed to control how I use my data?

You gave them permission when you signed the deal. Pretty simple.

It’s pretty common to buy phones from electronics stores in Denmark, without a carrier attached. So locking down the phone isn’t as common here, but that doesn’t mean that ISPs aren’t still up to no good. I heard about one company that would look at the IP header and if your packets came with a TTL of 63 or less, then the ISP would know that you had a tethered connection and would count the traffic differently.

System Tray Icon?!? What is this sourcery?

Sounds so futuristic. I mean I may be stuck in the 70s reading my electronic mail in pine on a pdp11, so that may influence my judgment.

Disclaimer: I haven’t read the article, my rant is entirely based on the title.

[a] Fork That Promises Better Features

Have they released anything yet? Or are we at the project stage, where they’re yelling at their CLI confused about git?

Promises are cheap, releases matter. I mean I could announce a project called Betterfox, promising to bring better features to a well-known browser. But in reality I’m by myself, overly ambitious, and going to leave the github page abandoned after the initial commit.

Classic DIY landlord story. Had a coworker who bought an all but derelict house, which he split into “apartments” and did all maintenance himself. For him, tenant turnover was pure profit - he’d grab the cheapest paint from the supermarket, slap it on everything (outlets included), give the floors a quick once-over, and pocket the full security deposit. Three months’ rent for a Saturday’s “work.”

His favorite scam? Convincing tenants to pay deposits in cash because it would be “easier to return” from his safe. Several times a year he’d pocket thousands in untaxed cash since there was “no paper trail.” Tenant turnover was his real income stream - much better than dealing with those pesky long-term renters always complaining about moldy walls, leaky faucets and unplowed snow.

Last I heard, he was trying to unload the place on Facebook Marketplace. Don’t know why, maybe the IRS (or tax daddy, as it’s colloquially known in Danish) got wind of his cash flow.

He should have gone to the Anne Frank museum

Wait, those games came on CD? I thought they came as ISOs with a nocd_patch.exe

Ok I think I get the idea… But even with me, who is definitely not well endowed, metal shears would take quite the effort. Giving me more of an opportunity to attempt to hinder the impromptu castration… Wait are we talking taking of the ball sack? Still, box cutters would be more efficient.

I still don’t get it. My metal shears don’t open enough for anything but sheet metal, and they’re definitely not suitable for anything hardened. I get the feeling that the reference is about using them on people, but I don’t understand how.