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Որբունի
Որբունի @ vorpuni @jlai.lu
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  • My oven is a piece of shit that has unreliable temperature control and manages to have hot spots even with the fan on. I bought it new and I don't think it will die any time soon. Joke is I paid a lot more than for my previous oven and it's the worst piece of shit I've ever had, a miniature countertop oven I had way back that was old as balls gave more consistent results.

  • I think a straight razor would only be cheaper at scale, if you shave half the town in one go every few days. They're fun but they're obsolete for a reason: time isn't free and the upkeep is so much work!

  • How do you deal with the contorsions needed to shave on the side your good hand doesn't flex well towards? I have an actual straight razor that I seldom use because it works really well and I don't usually cut myself, but it's really annoying to get everywhere on myself with it. I don't trust using my other hand whereas with a safety razor if I need to I can without peeling half my face off.

  • The Swedish authorities have been known to mess with the reproductive rights of minorities, didn't Denmark also meddle in extremely unethical bullshit? Is your comment an obvious reference I'm missing?

  • If you're coding with them you can already try small ones, unless you need bigger than A4 size for each it isn't insanely expensive.

  • Fuel turned to varnish and is only good for smelling bad and being a pollutant.

  • Missed opportunity to recreate the Nintendo DS layout but bigger and absurd.

  • You can. It's illegal in your country. Just like breaking down your door without a warrant.

  • Aren't the impacts painful? I've used small hammers that were all steel and they weren't there for violence unless you like waking up the tendinitis demon.

  • It's not the entire country that stops working but there's indeed a significant reduction. If you don't have children you'd have to be crazy to take time off work during the school holidays in summer (and also like the heat if you're going somewhere in France because nowhere has mild temperatures anymore).

    The legal minimum for full time jobs is 5 weeks but most people have more since they have jobs where you get extra rest time since you work more than 35h/week. Some affluent French people go skiing 2-3 times a year for a week or two each time and then also take two weeks off in summer, all paid.

    I used to have 56 paid days off (that's 11 weeks because Saturday and Sunday didn't count) each year because I worked a lot more than the legally mandated hours and I had advantageous time credit for showing up early and leaving late and 4 days extra because I never took time off during school holidays (incentive to keep the shifts fully staffed). The pay was shit but at least I could go on trips all the time. I did end up getting a lot of those days paid instead because I didn't have enough money to travel all the time and I couldn't be bothered to stay home.

    With this much time off our productivity was still very good, everything was timed and we always went above 100% of targets and long-term projects always done early.

    Blue collar work in the USA looks like a scam in comparison: working the same job I would have had less purchasing power (sure the numbers entering your bank account are higher, but the health insurance alone cancels it out), more working hours and a lot less paid leave.

  • Mine turns off in the dark so that may help. I based my remarks off the manual. Good to know they're pessimistic.

  • It's not that inconvenient considering how shitty the Signal desktop experience is: it's slow, bloated and has moody sync.

  • SimpleX is anonymous and works well.

  • The plain old digital ones with solar + radio time syncing are the best tool watches on the market in my opinion : set and forget, it even does DST automatically. The only limitation is you have to be outside during the day with the watch exposed a few hours a month or cheat with other light sources.

  • I thought sheriffs had authority to get rid of federal agents and/or shoot them.

  • The richest people don't care about the war, if groceries go up 25% that barely makes a dent. You won't see the people who are actually suffering from this being tourists.

  • The carefully curated library on the tracker is a lot of effort that can be destroyed very quickly as evidenced by the fact it has happened before, yet people still use private trackers.