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When I knew my income was going to be destroyed I prepared by stopping all my outgoing subscriptions immediately. Changed phone plan to bare minimum etc. traded our car in for electric which cut our fuel bill from £100pm to £15. Finally I’m slowly selling my stuff, but I’m now at the stage where I have a 10 yr old laptop, 8yr old phone and something is going to break soon. Fun times.

JK Rowling hate-tweeting

A turd floating down a river?

Extended family “IT Guy” here. Have replaced 30ish laptops batteries. The cheap ones on Amazon/eBay you have a ~30% chance of them being DOA, and 99% chance of them being dead within a year.

“Brands” like Duracell GreenCell I’ve had better luck with but I’ve been sent batteries from GreenCell which only lasted a year because they were sitting on a shelf for 3 years before they were sent to me.

OEM batteries tend to last longer than the originals as most BIOSs from Dell, Lenovo etc. now include battery optimisation which extends the life of cells.

It all come down to what you need, and how much you value your time compared to money. My personal stuff I always go OEM as I rarely replace my laptops. Current one from 2015 is still going strong. If you are willing to put up with returns and rapid replacements a £20 cheapie can look good when the OEM is £100

EDIT: Sorry just re-read your question. The OEM at 75% health is dead already. The cheap no-name ones are probably just random used cells thrown together.

You’d probably be better off with the no-name but for this use case just get the cheapest thing with a 1year warranty and cross your fingers.

I went back through your posts to find out where you were based… and I have discovered that there are in fact many stupid questions 😀…

This may be different in the US as your distances are a little larger… but we charge at home overnight and have never needed to charge anywhere else. Every morning we have 250miles available and 1200miles a month costs us ~$30 in electricity.

You may be able to get a prepaid debit card and use that on public charging stations for long journeys or emergencies.

That was really informative - so much so you should watch it… but if you really can’t; there are 6 types of data broker and these services only target 1 and in that one they only manage to remove ~1.5% of that data in 6 months of membership.

Sorry I should have clarified; the notifications on replies are when I reply to someone else’s post. If I start a new thread I just notice I don’t get any replies or notifications. My posts are just removed completely, I’d say it happens to around 50% of my comments on YT. I suspect I’ve been mass-reported by right wing bots, and my account is now marked for extra censorship in some way.

When I post something about Musk/Tesla it posts successfully, I get replies to the thread, and I can see my post, but if I view the same thread without being logged in, my reply is missing.

Has anyone else noticed any slightly negative comment on YouTube regarding Musk/Tesla gets immediately shadow banned?

Still in warranty or less than 3 years old? I saw the Reddit post on this issue, might still be worth asking, they may have developed a hardware of software fix, and if not they may allow you to switch model.

That noise is the heads being cleaned, which needs to happen on all inkjet printers. It may be that your one was simply broken. I bet if you call Brother and ask for some advice they will help you.

Called brother about this and talked through the issues raised by Rossmann, they convinced me enough to buy 3 printers from them this month.

Which printer and why? I just bought three L8690CDW Colour laser printers for me and my family after calling Brother who were happy to talk me thought my concerns, they informed me that this model does not have chipped cartridges so it’s ineligible for their cartridge subscription program and they also can’t tell if the cartridge is genuine or not. They don’t care if you use 3rd party toner.

Don’t worry Apple is just paying a team of Indian linguists to listen to all your conversations and translate them in real time.

Seriously tho, fuck songs and radio adverts with sirens in them.

I’ve just been making a wardrobe in an alcove where in the space of 1200mm they have managed to be out by 40mm (1.5 inches in 4ft for our American folks) Trying to be within 1-2mm and deciding on referencing a side wall that’s curved but making the room “more square”, and having a variable depth wardrobe or making something that looks right but that I know is a parallelogram. Either way a future guy with a tape measure will ask “what idiot built this?”

Can we start with all Trump and Musk assets?

Y’all need to overthrow your corrupt dictatorship government before it fully takes over the media and military command.

What is the most private way to register a domain? Considering switching from hotmail to a Raspberry PI (postfix) mail server.

OP is the same name as the author. OP posts only articles from this site with very low effort copy/paste titles. OP seems to run the site which is 90% adverts and probably AI generated summaries of genuine articles, and uses social media to drive clicks. Sad really, and just populates Lemmy with low effort content.