ThisIsNotHim

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[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can, but plugging thumb drives into work machines is not always kosher

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

One of the uses of notepad was also that it's installed by default, and was a place you could be assured wouldn't mess with your text. No formatting, no weird characters you didn't ask for.

Notepad++ is great, but you can't be assured it's installed on any arbitrary Windows machine.

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

America's test kitchen has done that, although I can't find one that addresses all the bits of misinformation.

This one is pretty ok, but doesn't address all things, and doesn't specifically call out the myths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUComSZbZ7o

Notably missing is tomatoes/highly acidic foods. IIRC, it's fine if the duration is short (about 15 minutes). Shakshuka and quick tomato sauces should be fine, but don't make Grandma's all-day tomato sauce. Regardless, for these contexts I'd still grab stainless if that's an option, but mostly for ease of use/cleaning

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

The problem is the mnemonic everyone uses doesn't use rotational motion. Maybe we need an actual rotational motion mnemonic. Maybe "clockwise screw wise" would work

I could never remember how screws worked until physics and the right hand rule.

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

That's a sensible way to do it. You've got a built in asymmetry to map it to.

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

It's somewhat bizarre to me that the settings menu isn't just a reskinned control panel that either launches the new or old items depending on what they've finished so far.

I can't imagine what they've done is easier than rewriting control panel items in full one by one.

You can do a halfway decent job of modernizing just by having an "advanced" toggle that shows the more arcane/less used settings.

I understand the desire to race towards a minimum viable product and get the core functionality into the glossy new thing, but they already had a minimum viable product in the control panel.

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What elements that you consider core to the genre is it missing?

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

Hot take means something else here. In common usage usually only the first half applies, that is, "piece of deliberately provocative commentary"

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 months ago

It's a motorized wheelchair that takes up twice the space and is way more expensive to build.

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Maybe folks just like symmetry.

If your comments are going to gum up the thread with a segment that they don't think will have any effect, what's a few more to match?

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You've moved away from the part which specifies long-haul trucking. To my understanding this is an area where trains are a reasonable solution.

Last mile coverage we also have room for improvement with much smaller vehicles, like bikes.

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

It's a good feature, and probably makes sense to default to on. But I know I'll find it more distracting than useful, so I'll turn it off.

Large tooltips on mouseover are usually distracting. Facicons, text, and additional windows do enough to remind me what my tabs are.

New features often aren't helpful to each and every user, but as long as I can turn off the ones that are actively unhelpful to me, I'm perfectly happy to see them.

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