SoleInvictus

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[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I think their metaphor is referring to ease of use and the knowledge required for use. I have a few personal anecdotes as examples.

I'm an eighties kid. My first PC was a Commodore 64 and my first car was a 1966 VW Bug. Neither was reliable nor easy to use. I had to learn to utilize interfaces that were more finicky and complex than modern equivalents, and I spent a great deal of time learning how to make them work when they glitched out or were broken. The alternative was not having them at all. It was hard to get BBS advice when your PC took a dump and no one else you knew had one you could use, and then where would you get car advice? Certainly not from my dad!

A kid growing up with an Apple anything and driving a 20 year old car doesn't face the same kinds of difficulties. Many things just work more reliably and aren't as difficult to use. One can easily buy gaming systems now where we often had to build our own to get what we wanted. My buddy's 23 year old daughter had never even heard of CLI. That's all I had!

It doesn't make one generation better than the other - younger people today are skilled in ways I could have only dreamed of. We just have different opportunities for excellence.

Sorry, late night me brain forgot to provide the context for my comment! My concern would be occupational usage if it does produce any ozone, especially in the small business sector, which often doesn't use as much caution around chemical exposure as one might want.

It might also be a non-issue. I have half a mind to build one of these and do some testing.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Chronic ozone exposure is a big deal.

https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/what-makes-air-unhealthy/ozone

Ozone reacts with various molecules in the lung to produce free radicals, highly reactive species of atoms/molecules that cause tissue damage.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0891584994901724

On the bright side, you're right about being able to smell it. The permissible exposure limit in the United States is 0.1 ppm (over eight hours) but the concentration most people can detect ranges from 0.01-0.05 ppm.

I also had a good Sea of Stars cry. Totally worth playing. It sounds like DLC for it will drop in 2025 too.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're extra lucky, it'll still be running on the original included demo toner cartridge.

I feel Musk is an experiment testing what would happen if you gave an Internet troll of middling intelligence billions of dollars.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Idaho, the South of the North. I now live in Washington, where that kind of shit doesn't fly.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

No, you're fine! I didn't specify. I lived with it for so long, it didn't even occur to me to outline the process.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We had to fix it or arrange to have it fixed, then the landlord would verify it was fixed to their satisfaction. The landlord was otherwise hands off until it exceeded the cost limit. This was the norm for the area.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago (7 children)

They provide maintenance free housing...

Keep in mind this isn't always the case. Landlords where I used to live are increasingly requiring tenants to pay for some maintenance costs. A past landlord had us pay for anything $300 or less.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I had the same thought. Most people I encounter online and in person are not great at summarizing information regardless of the context.

For example: those who don't summarize the content of a conversation and instead poorly and inaccurately act out the entire encounter, "word by word ". Ughhhhh.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

I also use Nova Launcher and had no idea you could do that! Thanks for letting me know.

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