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[–] qupada@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

The only one I got close on was I never had a chequebook of my own, but did on a couple of occasions use bank cheques for mail-ordered things.

Presuming we're counting that, big fat goose egg.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I got one with crypto addresses for "donations" for the first time today. That seems to be a new addition, messages from 2, 3, and 5 weeks ago didn't have them.

I have also received some "alternate" versions from pseudo-random usernames (ones not on your chart) from the sh.itjust.works instance. Mostly the same copy as always, but delivered entirely in an image rather than image+text. Thought that was interesting.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Rubbish trucks are a good example of this, often being drivable from either side (at least where I am). That allows the driver to better see their colleagues and bins on the roadside while driving in the suburbs, but switch to the regular position for driving to and from a landfill site.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Batteries are great for forklifts too, for exactly this reason.

For the same lifting capacity, a battery forklift is roughly half a metre shorter than a comparable LPG/Propane or Petrol/Diesel model, which really helps with the turning radius.

Also there's the whole "frequently driven indoors" aspect for forklifts.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Assuming you're not talking about this article's 7.68TB drive and not the mentioned 61.44TB one, actually far less than you'd think.

Solidigm's equivalent (https://www.solidigm.com/products/data-center/d7/ps1010.html) goes for between $1000 and $1500 USD for the same 7.68TB capacity: https://www.serversupply.com/SSD/NVMe/7.68TB/SOLIDIGM/SB5PH27X076T001_394195.htm

(And performs similarly, 14.5GB/s R / 10GB/s W, vs 14.6/11 for the one in the article).

[–] qupada@fedia.io 13 points 5 days ago

Reticulated gas is charged by the kWh here in New Zealand. The meter may well be calibrated in m³ (I don't have gas at home, so I don't know for sure) but all pricing is energy, not volume.

For bonus points, if instead you buy your gas in cylinders - a pair of 45kg (~100lb) cylinders is a common installation for houses without piped gas - those are sold simply by the unit. The best conversion for that I can find is one energy retailer describing one 45kg cylinder as 2200MJ (611kWh).

I expect this is one of those things that is overall horribly inconsistent depending on where you live.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Not that long ago in New Zealand we had a lot of the same.

In Christchurch (which is a sprawling, flat, and low-lying city), the combination of smog from widespread wood fireplaces plus old sodium street lights, when driving in from the outskirts at night you'd see a grotty orange-pink cloud hanging low over the city.

https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/archives/star/prints/1992-1995/ccl-cs-4765

It's improved a lot, partly due to policy, although a fair bit due to the city being extensively damaged by an earthquake, and fireplaces (which had their brick chimneys destroyed) being replaced by heat pumps.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

Fully committing to the bit, their cafe sells penis-shaped waffles: https://www.phallus.is/phallic-cafe

[–] qupada@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Comparing the amount of noise my laptop's CPU fans make between the two of them when doing moderately intensive tasks like screen sharing a 4K display, Zoom is measurably worse.

Possibly the one time that Microsoft's inexplicable inability to make their own software run well on their own OS has somehow not manifested.

Don't get me wrong, it is still death-by-a-thousand-cuts terrible, but the most current iteration of Teams is not the worst in its field... at this one specific thing.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

If you're happy to accept at least another non-American suggestion, this sauce from here in New Zealand is very much Tabasco-esque (being a thin-textured, barrel-aged sauce made with chilis and vinegar), but in my opinion tastes a lot better due to containing a higher proportion of chilis.

https://www.kaitaiafire.com/collections/sauce/products/kaitaia-fire

Best of luck in your hunt for the perfect EU-made sauce, I hope we can help out in the meantime :)

[–] qupada@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

As people have said, already happening:

https://www.dmarge.com/cars/tesla-owners-rebrand-backlash

And it's not fooling anyone

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