I heard it on a BBC radio interview yesterday. The original creators were angling to create a way for Craiglist personal adds to have videos of people pitching themselves to potential dates. It turned out to be a flop, so they steered it toward general videos of any kind.

(edit) found it

I would love to find a proper app for Lemmy, ideally non-graphical. I tried Neonmodemoverdrive and it was broken out of the box. I think I heard there is an emacs mode for Lemmy but didn’t keep track of it. I would love to find something that maintains a local copy of threads of interest and which synchronises with the server whenever I am online.

Seems like a good approach for the scale. It’s quite thin but I’ll see if I can add a mechanical switch.

No I did not change my browser. But today it works so it seems they fiddled with an anti-ai-scraper mechanism and now it works again.

I use Tor so my IPs would be all over the place, perhaps even changing across the same session cookie.

I was forced to use Alexandrite for quite a long time because the stock client was unusable on Ungoogled Chromium. But in the past couple months the stock UI has been working again with the exception of this thread. But that’s fixed as well, today at least.

Today is my first visit since the OP, and it’s all good. So somehow it is fixed.

refreshing made no difference for me. Tried a hard refresh (control-shift-R).

I cleared the cache and did a hard refresh (control-shift-R) and this makes no difference.

BTW, I am able to reply to you only by hovering over the area where I expect to find a reply button, and the mouseover text says reply.

i might try this for the calipers. But the battery cover for the scale uses a screw… so i might opt to hack that to use external power of some kind.

Interesting… I had no idea. Must be hard to find because I’ve never seen rechargeable button batteries or devices to recharge them, at least not locally (and I only shop local).

(edit) my kitchen scale battery compartment is screwed down (thus extra hassle). Perhaps it makes more sense for me to drill a hole and mount a barrel connector, then wire up a universal 3v ac/dc adapter.

So email is actually fine, but some companies which offer email services are highly problematic and should be avoided.

“some companies” includes MS and Google, which likely covers at least 75% of the world’s email recipients. While most of the other ESPs pull the same shit as MS and Google.

So no, email is not fine in any general sense. You can carve out an exceptional case where it’s fine if you can twist your correspondent’s arm to use a rare non-problematic service, but that’s unsurmountable in most situations. You cannot demand that your gov switch to Disroot email to contact you using non-problematic email.

I don’t want to imagine using fax and paper for distributed software development.

I don’t want to imagine a world where everyone is forced to share sensitive information with an ecologically harmful surveillance advertiser.

I don’t quite follow the connection between retailer size and planned obsolescence. Do you have a Cliff’s Notes? Youtube has become a shitshow since Google now treats Invidious and Tor with hostility. We can no longer consider YT videos to be openly reachable. I am essentially blocked from YT.

(edit) I was able to find a rarely working invidious instance and fetch it. will watch it later.

Concur with all of that. I’m not vegan yet but took these easy first steps:

• meat 1-2 times per week, instead of daily. The frequency is dropping from one year to the next.
• refuse to pay full price for meat. Wait until the meat is about to expire and buy it after the grocer is forced to mark it down (30—50% off). This helps quite a bit because you dramatically cut down the profits that drive the meat industry (your portion of those profits). Since beef is the top problem, I insist on a near-expiry markdown of 50% before I will buy it.

Better than vegan: steal the meat. Vegans are just neutral. They neither contribute nor cause detriment to animal agriculture. If you shoplift the meat, you cost them money and make the business case even less sustainable than vegans.

Another option: hunt wild game and eat that in place of farmed meat.

This thread is more about Sony’s feature phones, which need the PC Companion software.

Not all Xperia phones are Androids. The Xperia X1 ran Windows. I also suppose if you connect a recent Xperia android to PC Companion, you’re still fucked by Sony for the same reason: Sony dropped the ball on their servers. You can hack the thing but let’s not give Sony credit for that.

Oki (formerly Okidata) has always had the ethical higher ground, above Brother, AFAICT. Brother does partake in ink waste shenanigans with their inkjets. IIRC, the only negative with Oki is they write that non-Oki toner voids the warranty – but don’t they all?

⚠ But note that you cannot be in the US. Oki pulled out of the US marketplace.

This is click baity. Have a look at some of the laws:

https://pirg.org/media-center/release-all-50-states-now-have-filed-right-to-repair-legislation-over-last-8-years/

Things like wheelchairs, farm equipment, and cars. Very narrow.

I’m not the least bit impressed and hope these examples are not used as an excuse to encumber the badly needed progress to fix things that matter apart from wheelchairs and veg. farm equipment.

IMO, Trump is more of a right to repair motivator because all the trade wars will make consumerism less attractive and thus inspire repair.

I mean, it would be an accident on Trump’s part and he will want to intervene to thwart r2r. But consider as well that the GOP is theoretically all about shifting power to the states and reducing federal power. This will be a source of cognitive dissonance for the retarded tyrant.

If all options feed baddies, I often go without. T-Mobile is a clear lesser of evils compared to VZ and AT&T, but if I think I need mobile phone service, my “needs” probably need an adjustment. Which the Tyranny of Convenience essay helps with. Of course in the unlikely case that mobile phone service is trully a need, then the lesser of evils wins my business (T-Mobile, perhaps via an MVNO).

Indeed Hershey would not typically be a lesser of evils. Apart from child labor Hershey is also an AIPAC feeder.

What if you want to sell the house

I’ve not read the contract yet. Considering they include removal an reinstallation labor for free if someone renovates their roof, they theoretically might as well relocate them to another house when moving within their service area (which is constrained as well by the region of the green certificates).

What happens when you want to exit the contract within the 30 years?

Certainly you can buy the gear. And if you buy all the panels you are out of the contract. Price per panel as they age is something like this:

• years 0-5: €850
• years 5-10: €750
• years 10-15: €650
• …
• year 30: €0

If you want to exit the contract and return the panels, I have no idea. But since these prices seem to be heavily inflated to cover their labor, I imagine it’s quite uninteresting to return the panels because they likely factor in the labor.

When the sun is shining at peak brightness, what’s the guarantee that you get to use all of it?

All the boxes have LCDs. The 1st box shows the power generation. Then another box shows what of that you are consuming. I don’t recall what the 3rd box shows but I can only imagine it’s the energy fed to the grid. I assume the original electric meter is still installed, in which case it might be possible to check the math.

There could still be shenanigans because it’s probably hard to verify. I think as a low consumer I might be better off buying the panels and getting an i/o meter (not sure what the correct term is but something that compensates me for what is fed back to the grid).

Anyway, I appreciate the reply. I’ll have to mirror some of those questions to the supplier.