Window unit ACs work well when your windows open by sliding. Most US windows are that way, but UK windows are almost always hinged at the sides or tops which makes mounting a window unit effectively impossible.

So either you have to get an expensive fully plumbed-in unit, or a portable unit that stays inside the room and has vent hoses going out your window. Which are not ideal either.

It’s been the case to now that extreme heat has been rare enough and short enough in duration that everyone has simply dealt with it. When it’s 5 days in a year then you suffer a bit but quickly forget about it afterwards.

But times are changing, and we will have to soon change the way our homes are designed too.

e-waste straight from the factory.

I offered him the bottle, but he pushed it away with a tattooed hand. “Nah man, I got demons to slay.”

He reached in his jacket and took out a cigarette. A lighter appeared like a magic trick and he lit up, a plume of smoke on the exhale.

“I thought you were slaying demons?” I asked.

He laughed - a rasping smoker’s laugh that caught in his throat. “Well, better the demon you know.”

If huge tech corps are good at anything, it’s swerving around laws or simply deciding to ignore them.

They’ll argue that since you consented, it’s not spying.

And they’ll put something in the terms that it’s your responsibility to inform people around that your or their conversations will be recorded (lol, as if anyone would - but they’ll claim that as a defence).

And if they end up in court and get fined, even millions is just a slap on the wrist compared to how much they made from all that juicy data.

Laws will not stop them.

If we look at this on the basis of “how much does it cost to put a typical amount of RAM and storage in your computer?” then I bet we’d be going all the way back to the 90s.

Like seriously.

It’s about time I started blocking posts with ‘slams’ in their title.

If it’s software, you could just reinstall it.

Exactly, right!

As a FOSS person you don’t buy a used PC from someone, find it still has an OS installed and just start using it.

No, you wipe that sucker clean and install your OS fresh.

An open-source car would be exactly the same.

Seriously!

I was like “that’s one heck of a change, what happened in that step??”

They obviously did it because of our general preconception that “flowers point up” and “berries hang down” - but it really bugs me that whoever made the chart decided they were going to cater to that.

It may have felt like that, but I will trust the numbers from the company whose function heavily involves monitoring this stuff.

Revenue isn’t what defines a darling; it’s about being universally loved and a popular choice. The one who is always topping youtube review lists as a best-buy. And especially when they started small and are still growing.

Yes - that might in turn lead to becoming the dominant player with the most revenue, but the revenue is the result, not the cause.

With the original price as $250, a 100% increase would be adding the entire value to itself once (i.e doubling) taking us to $500.

A 200% increase is adding the $250 to the original two times for a total of $750.

So calling it a “200% increase” is correct.

It is true to say that “$750 is 300% of $250” or that “The price has tripled” - both correct, but the increase is only 200% because increase doesn’t include the original as part of the value.

500 series is absolutely the best looking, in my humble not-really-train-person opinion.

Yeah, they did do that one :)

The non-evil version unfortunately depends on nobody involved having any profit motive.

This is presumably the logic other social media platforms applied when deciding to remove separate visibility of downvotes.

By just showing the aggregate, the poster usually gets to feel better about themselves and still see a positive score (“People like my post!”) even if there are also some downvotes.

And so the poster keeps posting that sort of stuff.

From a commercial perspective this is good, especially because ‘controversial’ content with mixed upvotes and downvotes drives more engagement and more ‘clicks’

Hopefully on lemmy we can stay free from that revenue-brained thinking given we have no profit motive, and keep scores transparent.

(It seems many Lemmy apps already show scores as just a merged aggregate however. Perhaps they simply copied the look of the big players, thought it looked ‘tidier’, or didn’t even consider why it might be better if they didn’t.)

I just go full anti tech, which people find ironic since I’m in the tech industry, and they poke fun at that

It’s funny, because they’ve managed to draw completely the wrong conclusion. You aren’t anti-tech despite working in the tech industry, no - you’re anti-tech because of working in the tech industry.

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I did say “historically”

The thing about stereotypes is they tend to persist for a long time, even after they are no longer true (if they even ever were)

Glasses are seen as a sign of intelligence because intelligence correlates with having a good education - and (especially historically) so does being able to afford glasses.

Also consistent - and all very different from both Tenet, and each other:

Primer (2004) - American low-budget sci-fi darling that didn’t dumb itself down

Summer Time Machine Blues (2005) - Japanese comedy about a missing air conditioner remote

Timecrimes (2007) - Spanish mystery-thriller with twists