CucumberFetish

joined 11 months ago
[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Ah, sorry, I misread your comment. I understood it as you'll never need a smart temp control as a static temperature is always correct.

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee -1 points 6 months ago

Audio quality reduction might not be noticeable to the average user, as long as they don't use the mic

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

FM on a phone is a banger. I used to have an old Nokia with a FM transmitter as well.

To be honest, the FM transmitter was more reliable and easier to set up on a random car with no aux than Bluetooth was.

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

SD cards are awesome, because a high quality 256GB SD card costs about $30, while a 256GB memory upgrade is at least $100 with no option to transfer when you get a new phone.

Cloud storage is pretty expensive and only as fast as your internet speed is, so for a lot of people that is not really that feasible. Especially considering that some have data caps as well.

3.5mm jack is just more comfortable to use for a lot of people, especially when they have multiple source devices and want to switch between them. I have BT headphones and it is way easier and more reliable to just replug the wire than to go through the BT disconnect reconnect dance.

The issue with dongles is that you'll have to find the correct aux dongle, some phones support analog passthrough, others require active dongles and so on

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If you have a home office or someone is at home 24/7, then yes. Otherwise it would make sense to reduce the heating/cooling of the house when no one is home and setting the correct temp again when people are about to get back. Saves quite a few bucks.

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wtf is a smart scale?

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, putting down a dog that bites people is sometimes the only option, but the way it was worded sounded more like "it wasn't a golden genius and I didn't like it, so I shot it instead of putting any effort into training it"

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago

Shameless promo for a paid service:

Most of Protonvpn addresses seem to not be in those lists usually. I haven't had any issues with anime sites, Netflix etc

That doesn't mean it will continue to be the case, it might just also be that I have gotten lucky so far

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

Get yourself a government funded (well, taxpayer funded) weather forecast page. Quite accurate forecasts for weather, rain, cloudiness (including simulated radar models). Also radar images for cloudiness and rain. And free historic data. Without ads.

But I guess that sounds too communism

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

When I set up my account, then during setup they asked if I wanted to get email notifications about their products and later it is also available and clearly marked in the account settings. I'd assume that if I turned those setting off, I'd stop getting those emails.

That being said, I have gotten 8 notifications from them over the last 3 months. I have all newsletters and promotional content enabled. This isn't much imo

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Nice write up. There is a guy that tried out how dangerous the microwaves are (tl:dr not very): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3hBRxwQXmCQ&pp=ygUgc3RpY2tpbmcgbXkgaGFuZCBpbiBhIG1pY3Jvd2F2ZSA%3D

Short term effects seem to be none so far. I wouldn't stick any part of myself into one, but his video is still quite hilarious

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