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dan1101 @ dan1101 @lemmy.world
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What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there?

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  • I've always had the impression that I got better service when my house/vehicle/whatever looked decent. Gotta make it look like you give a damn if you want service people to care.

    • Which systems or games you always fawned over when you were younger?

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  • ColecoVision with their perfect-looking Donkey Kong, and later Neo-Geo with the same graphics on the very expensive home console as the arcade games.

    • Ever regret selling a console? This one is my regret.

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  • I still have all mine. But I never play them. I mess with emulators though.

    • I have now.

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  • I have no idea what you are talking about

    • YSK that if you have an air conditioner you should turn it on before you need it.

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  • Today I Learned, don't run a house AC when it's cold.

    • The world’s largest democracy is collapsing before our eyes

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  • The politicians and corporations think it's too hard to get their agendas implemented with the will of the people in the way.

    • YSK that if you have an air conditioner you should turn it on before you need it.

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  • Most machinery lasts longer when you run it every month or so at least. For an AC unit there is lubricant in the refrigerant, so circulating the refrigerant once in a while keeps the seals in good condition. It would also keep the moving parts of things like fans from corroding and seizing up.

    For vehicles, running the them occasionally circulates the fluids like oil and antifreeze. The oil keeps the moving parts of the engine coated and doesn't allow things like condensation to rust the internal parts.

    • YSK that if you have an air conditioner you should turn it on before you need it.

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  • I think it's generally good policy to run ACs every month or so.

    • ELI5: Why haven’t we fully explored the pyramids yet?

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    • Won't let me use someone else's (free) rewards card? No problem, i'll make you sign me up for another card!

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  • The fake information reminds me of the last time I went to the grocery store. The cashier said to the woman in front of me something like "Thank you Mrs. Smith" so I assumed she was a regular and the cashier knew her. When I checked out I fished out my rewards card and the cashier scanned it and said "Thank you Mr. Richards, have a nice day." I almost said "Thanks but who is Richards?" But then I remembered I am Richards, that is the fake name I filled out years ago but no one has ever used it (and are they supposed to?)

    • Every time spez speaks, I want to interact less and less with reddit

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  • Which is most outrageous because Reddit made the API that allows that and supported it with third party developers. It's like inviting a bunch of people to a party and then complaining after they've been there for a couple hours, "What are you people doing here?" And it was a potluck party, the guests brought a lot of the food.

    • Which Lemmy instance is this?

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  • I actually ran a moderately active (like 20,000 hits a day) small business site from a laptop for a couple years. Of course one of the first thing I did was put a "SERVER DO NOT SHUT DOWN" sticker on it, and set the power settings so closing the lid did not shut down or sleep the computer. It was a Dell 7000 series with 16GB IIRC, it did great.

    • What is an underrated feature to look for when buying a house?

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  • I've got a vent pipe boot with exposed nails, I put silicone caulk on them but what is the proper repair?

    • Lemmy - Why did you leave Reddit?

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  • It's apparent that the Reddit CEO doesn't appreciate that most of their content is produced by users and moderated by unpaid mods. I fully think Reddit deserves to be paid for API usage somehow, but stubbornly asking 24 cents per 1000 requests is ridiculous.