goatmeal

joined 1 year ago
[–] goatmeal@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago

Don't have a solution, just want to say I feel ya! Wisconsin here - below 0 first thing I do when I get in is make coffee and just hold the mug for like 5 minutes

[–] goatmeal@midwest.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I use the $5 plan. Basically for any time I’m searching for something I already know where to look (weather, sports scores, particular website) I use ddg or brave (or bookmarks). When I’m looking for more nuanced things like programming questions, recipes, reviews, etc. I use Kagi. Works pretty well with bangs in Firefox.

To answer your question: I hate ads so it’s worth it to me to have no sponsored crap in searches where there is something to sell

[–] goatmeal@midwest.social 13 points 2 weeks ago

It's a productivity technique where you set a timer for some amount of time and work until that timer ends, then you take a break and repeat

[–] goatmeal@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Let’s go one step further and make them a gig worker so CVS doesn’t have to pay them for downtime and instead we get to tip

[–] goatmeal@midwest.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

Sometimes for work trips I’ll user uber in a vanadium web browser. I think they also have a number you can call to order one. Primarily for old people but works well in this case.

Using uber is its own question but you got to find the most private set up that works for you. Anything is better than nothing.

[–] goatmeal@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Assuming the company running the service and doing the verification is acting in good faith (big leap here, I get it) couldn’t you verify an identity, store a piece of static information about that person (DL, SSN even tho that sucks) in a hash so that no one else could use that identity to create an account and then issue an account ID with no link to identity marker?

This would allow you to verify users, prevent people from using an ID that was already used, prevent you from being able to link an account to an identity, and prevent you from being able to easily return a list of everyone identified on the service. Best you could do is respond to an individual query on whether that person has verified with your service.

I think it could work technically, but I agree that in practice the US would use its power to make you conduct surveillance without alerting customers, or maybe enact some KYC type requirements for internet usage. This would likely be a first or skipped step on the way to that.

 
[–] goatmeal@midwest.social 19 points 1 month ago

Wtf kind of article is this. This is sponsored content for Apple Vacations. Their name is mentioned four times in the article and they paid for this survey to show that Americans need more vacation

[–] goatmeal@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

The stuff in the video makes sense, but what I can never understand is how we choose reference. Like if the space ship is the reference, wouldn’t everything else be moving at the speed of light and therefore slow down instead? Is it safe to assume some universal fixed point that’s everything else is moving around?

[–] goatmeal@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

I’ve been trying to get my gf to give it up all year but she wont give up watching the bachelor live.

FYI you can split it with other households in your local TV area (with the 4k unlimited stream add on) so after the price rise each house I’m with will be paying $31/month.

[–] goatmeal@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago

GLP-1s work by making unhealthy food feel more sickening, causing people to eat and drink less

[–] goatmeal@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago

This pic is awesome.

Visited my friend this year who lived in Utrecht and he said this library is his favorite place to go to the bathroom for free

[–] goatmeal@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

Just curious, do we get these breakdowns from exit polling or some other source?

 

Made my gf a keyboard for her birthday and she's enjoying it, but is missing light up indicator when caps lock is on. I know this key sucks and I disabled it on mine but she uses it a lot for her job.

The keyset I got her is completely opaque so you can't really see the caps light unless you're right above the keyboard looking at the edges of the caps key.

I took some spare keys of the same shape and drilled holes right above the indicator light and it shines through pretty well, but want to fill it with something clear to make it look nicer/diffract the light a bit. Does anyone have any recommendations? Was thinking about using polyurethane caused I've used it for random other things and seems like it could work.

Thanks!

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