okamiueru @ okamiueru @lemmy.world

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Are you thinking about daylight savings time? I'd agree there, but timezones absolutely make sense, and we've always used some version of it. "See you at noon" has a sort of built in timezone, as does sunrise and sunset. We (all human societies) relate hours to the day in a similar, albeit more regular way. If you did away with timezones, you'd replace a minor inconvenience with a monstrous one. Everyone uses what, GMT? Naah

Some years ago ago, I was a happy subscriber to Google Music. But, they added it to the graveyard, and instead grafted on some music playing functionality to YouTube and called it YouTube Music. So, I went back to Spotify.

Then I started paying for YouTube Premium Lite. It wasn't unreasonably expensive, although it was a bit annoying I couldn't just have "YouTube" in the household, like with Netflix. So if wife would cast a video to the TV, it would play with ads.

It was about a year ago, when Google starting cracking down on adblockers, that they also removed an option to pay for the service. I think YouTube Premium Lite wasn't a thing in the US (correct me if I'm wrong), but they removed YT Premium Lite, and the only option left was a twice as expensive YouTube Premium bundle that included YouTube Music.

Tldr: fucked up Google Music, then removed an option to pay for YouTube premium, leaving a fairly expensive alternative with the pile of shit they replaced Google music with. It'll be a rough time if they manage to force ads. I won't pay for it, out of principle.

Aha. For the desktop, I just use FreeTube that has those built in. Downside is not having the same interaction with the YouTube account to keep track of what you've seen.

For the mobile device I used a modded version of the official app that also does them.

For the TV I have a custom android app that I share a YouTube URI to, and it sends it to the home server, downloads the video with yt-dlp and makes it available on jellyfin.

For some reason, having extensions on the browser just creeps me out. They have permissions to do so much, and know so much.

What makes you think they are referring to Wine in that particular case, and not the emulation of the kernel level anticheat on userland? It's also arguably not an entirely correct use of the word there either, but it's fine.

Pesto contains pine nuts. Not sure if that helps or answers anything tho.

Which ones?

What do you do for nuts and bolts? Isn't that stuff harder to get?

Joke aside, scales on earth measure force and show mass on the assumption of the gravitational pull on earth. On a moon colony, you'd use measuring scales with a different value for the gravitational pull, and get the same values for mass as on earth.

Edit: Also, if anyone finds this stuff interesting to think about. You can measure mass without any force of gravity, but having the measuring device accelerate (e.g. shake) the stuff you want to measure. From "F=ma", knowing F and a, you get m.

One of the best shower thoughts I've heard.

Is how you describe it an indication of an actual problem? I don't know of anyone who thinks that any one improvement needs to solve the whole thing, in order to be worth it.

The whole premise is baffling. I'm not disagreeing with you here, but... is anyone?

I do have some experience. What you are talking about are all internal hurdles, and what I was referring to as the hard problem to solve.

Incurring an expense in order to compensate for a service rendered, which is what the company would need to do in this case, is not difficult.

If you deal with amounts that need special consideration, there are people who do this for you for money. I believe that the correct approach is to show up, and sequentially slide individual banknotes from a densely packed stack in their general direction.

There are two common types of laser printers. Those that have special paper that react to heat, such as receipt printers, would fit the description.

The other laser printers.. Hm, I don't think your description is accurate either. It's more that the laser electrically charges ink particles so that they jump on to a separate roller that gets rolled on to the paper.

I'm no expert though.

All of the other things you mention can be solved with money. In terms of the things that are easy and hard, this very much the former.

The real hard part here is whomever in charge of making the actual decision, to expense a pittance.

What are you trying to say?

Failing that hard to not know what is, and isn't knowable, is a good reason to not give a single f about what they think

Last I used Ubuntu, removing snap was a one time thing that took 5 minutes, of which 4 of them was looking for my notes from the time before.

I ditched Ubuntu, but it wasn't because of snap. Maybe this has changed in the last 3 years?

If A/B describe separate bus lanes, then A1, B1, A2, B2 make sense. If A/B describe your paired RAM, then A1, A2, B1, B2 make sense.

Only valid rule is to RTFM

In the EU, it sort of isn't.

Takes a long time to write a proper response for all the GDPR stuff. The responses surprisingly don't change all that much whether or not I do, so I might as well save me the trouble.