janus2

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[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 9 months ago

I've encountered some sentiments that they're bad simply because they're trendy

air fryers are just a rebranding of convection ovens, which are awesome. I don't care what it's called, cooking with circulated hot air is really useful

[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago

i majored in pipetting ๐Ÿ’€

[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago

my go-to is "net-twerk"

[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

to be fair engaging in biowarfare is just about all that mold does

[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

It was that VoLTE wasn't supported for that particular model of phone. VoLTE is very much the norm here although I'm unsure if every phone uses it now. My flip phone probably doesn't, but it's hard to tell with how stripped down its manufacturer-customized Android is.

[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I held onto my Sony XZ2c for months after calls stopped working on it after the US 3G shutdown. I got a flip phone for making calls.

The worst part? The XZ2c has VoLTE calling capability, but all the US phone companies refuse to support it on their networks.

Now I'm begrudgingly using a OnePlus 6 and praying that I don't drop the massive thing >:[

Basically, even if we want to use aging tech we're held hostage by telecom companies, who obviously would prefer to rope people into new devices on credit plans. ARGH

[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 10 months ago

i mean compared to your average porn it's award-winning lol

[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 10 months ago

it brings me genuine glee to see a Technology a Connections link replied to a Climate Town link like those are two of my favorite things

[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago

Mainly that they adopt popular writing and editing conventions and do them well, so that they're genuinely captivating in addition to being educational, thus making the info more accessible

[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

That's the first book I ever encountered with an ending that made me angry.

[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

i wonder how much of the Empathy for Cute Animals but Not Humans effect is due to not many people having bad experiences with cute animals but plenty of bad experiences with humans

I, however, have the unique privilege of having had a sister who owned a deranged rabbit that she let roam the house. I once woke up from a nap to it biting me hard enough to draw blood. That thing was a furry asshole.

What little unrepressed memories of Watership Down I have seem to corroborate that rabbits are surprisingly violent...

[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I also had a low thyroid stimulating hormone test result after several weeks of biweekly donations

If I hadn't found a job a few weeks later I would be in a really, really bad place. I got lucky.

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Why helicopter? (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

I'm in Brooklyn and these pig choppers are ominous

 

All the times I've tried working with it, it seems to stick to everything EXCEPT itself. Regular seasoned sushi vinegar as well as sushi vinegar-xanthan gum pastes of varying viscosity didn't work. :/

 

Think "you wake up in the woods naked," Dr. Stone-style tech reset. How could humans acquire a 1-gram weight, a centimeter ruler, an HH:MM:SS timekeeping device, etc. starting with natural resources?

My best guess was something involving calibrating a mercury thermometer (after spending years developing glassblowing and finding mercury, lol) using boiling water at sea level to mark 100 ยฐ C and then maybe Fahrenheit's dumb ice ammonium chloride brine to mark -17.7778 ยฐ C, then figuring out how far apart they should be in millimeters on the thermometer (er, somehow). I can already think of several confounding variables with that though, most notably atmospheric pressure.

I feel like the most important thing to get would be a length measurement since you can then get a 1 gram mass from a cubic centimeter of distilled water.

That's as far as I got with this thought experiment before deciding to ask the internet. I actually asked on Reddit a while back but never got any responses.

 
 

Invidious link: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=AbJrslGZx2g

kkclue's channel also has some other 00's-tastic videos on DDR, Webkinz, and 2nd-gen Tamagotchi.

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