JohnEdwa @ JohnEdwa @sopuli.xyz

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Heh, itse taas ängin vastaavaan ramppiin koivunhalot väliin varmistamaan ettei auto varmasti liiku siitä mihinkään, ja tämä oli keskellä kesää tasaisella, kuivalla asfaltilla :p

En käy saunassa jos sähkö on kallista ja ostin vessaan maton ettei tartte pitää lattialämmitystä kauhean kovalla, sitä enempää en jaksa vaivautua miettimään kun helmikuun sähkölaskulla oli hintaa huimat 7.26€.

Suosittelen mittaamaan ja laskemaan paljonko oikeasti laitteet kuluttaa sähköä, ja lopettaa stressaamasta niistä joilla ei oikeasti ole väliä kun hintaa tulee pari euroa vuodessa.

Honey being one of them, it did start as a simple addon that gathered and automatically tried coupon codes for you. It did exactly what people expected it to do.

But obviously once you start getting hundreds of millions in venture capital funds, and eventually sell yourself to Paypal for 4 billion, it's clear that isn't all you are doing any more.

I did assume in the end that it stole all my shopping data, and probably bunch of browsing history in general, which is why I had it installed in a separate browser, but I didn't expect it to be doing affiliate hacking and blackmailing partner deals for the coupons.

It has a mozilla telemetry component, but that doesn't mean that it's necessarily reporting to mozilla - which wouldn't make much sense anyway - nor that it actually functions at all. Most telemetry components in Firefox can't simply be deleted because it causes stuff to break, so they are replaced with stubs that don't actually do anything.

That would require starting a database with the purpose of cataloguing every single part number in every single device that exists, which while technically possible, is rather unfeasible without extensive manufacturer cooperation.
What iFixit is doing is the other way around, they are telling what device a certain part number they carry fits in - as in their example, what Lenovo laptop that specific battery is compatible with. That's a problem multiple orders of magnitude smaller in scope.

In a perfect world though that information would be available in the repair manual and schematic that came with your device, as they usually did a few decades back. Alas, that's something that's never going to happen again because it hurts profit margins.

Oh yeah, even a tiny increase in bulk price is a fantastic excuse to bump the profit margins for corporations, I'm not even pretending that wouldn't happen in real life. Just look at the US egg prices and the massively increased profits of the companies selling them.

As for what's the upper limit on the price increase in the long run, that's quite hard to estimate, because the more expensive coffee becomes, the more options there will be for growing it in sub-optimal conditions. At some point, somewhere, growing coffee in a greenhouse becomes profitable to do.
Is that at $10/kg, $30/kg? $100? Over 9000? I don't have a clue.

But for quite a lot of people the coffee they currently drink is so ridiculously overpriced that even an absolutely massive increase wouldn't have to mean they actually need to stop drinking coffee - to make a latte at home that was expensive as the one from Starbucks, the coffee itself could cost $350/kg - 15 grams of it would be $5.25, plus the milk. It would just completely kill coffee shops as a concept.

TBH, getting banned from a sub for something that got downvoted there as well just means you said something in the wrong place to the wrong people. That exact same thing can (and does) happen in Lemmy too.

My only permaban in my 10 year Reddit history is for explaining someone making a reference to the MLP cum jar meme, and in hindsight, I did deserve that, even if someone did specifically ask what it meant.

Exactly. And all of those stay the exact same price even if raw coffee price increases, meaning the price of a ready made cup of coffee hardly changes as the actual raw bulk coffee is only 1/60th of the total price of a starbucks latte.

IANAL, but the way the federation by necessity copies your posts and information to every instance there is and to be able to do that it all needs to be under a licence that allows it to happen, those blurbs almost certainly are legally entirely meaningless. The only thing I can think of is claiming a non-commercial use violations, but that could put every instance that runs on donations under fire as well.

Except we are nowhere near a situation like that. Articles like this don't tell the actual prices because they are so small people might start questioning why they pay so much for coffee.

The poll had a median forecast for arabica prices at the end of 2025 of $2.95 per pound, a drop of 30% from Wednesday's close and a loss of 6% from end-2024.

$3 per pound - $6 per kilo. Or to put it in another way, 4.8 cents per shot of espresso, two of which go in a 16 oz Starbucks latte that costs you $5.75, which would be enough money to buy 120 shots worth of bulk arabica.

If that goes up by 7% or 70% or 700%, the cost of that latte should hardly change.

Disk rot usually happens when air gets in contact with the reflective coating and oxidises it. With CD's, it's actually the top side you need to be worried about, as it's right there under a thin lacquer coating. Any ding to that can expose the layer or just literally chip off a chunk of data.

At least on DVD's it's sandwiched inside the disk, so usually the only reason is a manufacturing error, and not really something the user can cause.

Sideloading (is supposed to) mean just transferring files between local devices, as in, you aren't uploading or downloading them, you are going sideways. E.g you download a song to your pc, then sideload it to your mp3 player.

That's also where it comes to installing phone apps, as you transfer the app file to the phone yourself. Being "outside" or "going around" the official method just happens to be another way to interpret the meaning of "side" in the word.

And mentally retarded replaced idiot, moron and imbecile as the medical term when they became insults. It has since been replaced by intellectually disabled for the same reason.

It's the euphemism treadmill, it never ends.

Only if mandatory rear lights come back as well. Having them animate in the direction they are going to turn is very helpful when the car has no other rear lights whatsoever.

Which are really easy to use when you have to indicate you are going to leave the next exit on a roundabout, btw. Just gotta take your eyes off the road to hunt where they've moved to, take your hand off the wheel, and boop the capacitive touch button. Easy!

So easy that Norway is banning the use of Teslas for driving schools.

Also it accelerates the design-to-manufacture cycle of a new model - just slap a huge touch screen on it and start building the car, and hope the software is ready in time. If not, well, just ship it as is and patch it later.

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Anywhere from 35C to 75C depending on what you are making. 50C is just about right for most vegetables and mushrooms.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-11-20/paypal-is-buying-price-compare-tool-honey-for-4-billion

https://fortune.com/2019/11/21/paypal-honey-acquisition-worth-4-billion/

https://uniquebusinessmodels.substack.com/p/33-how-does-honey-acq-by-paypal-for

Those better sources for you?