agegamon

And a heavy duty three pack nonetheless! I didn't realize packing factored into so many genders. Learn something new every day!

Look on the bright side: I bet a fair number of folks like me didn't know about this and now it's on my front burner to-do list to check it out! Thanks for the good work.

Greenshot is so handy. I've successfully converted several of my coworkers to using it. Some of our corpo contract IT folks are secretly pissed about it because unlike us they aren't allowed to use open source software (LOL) so they have to put up with windows snipping tool

Startup times getting down below 20s definitely helps with this. I haven't had a machine that took over 30s for a few years now... even my phone isn't that slow.

Was recently asked to look at a laptop because it was "running slower than normal" and "takes a long time to resume from sleep." Hmm, ok. It's only a few years old, probably just bloateare.

I powered it on and immediately got served an early-2000s size dose of 10+ minute startup time. This laptop from only a few years ago still came with a spinny disk drive... Ugh. Didn't even bother trying to optimize it. It's getting cloned up to an SSD before I even try to work on it.

Honestly I'm shocked at the number of people that stayed on twitter. Like... just why? It's zero effort to leave and minimal effort to find another platform.

I realize many people choose not to care who owns the companies that make their stuff. And to be fair, sometimes it's actually worse to throw away the product than keep using it despite the associated image. I still daily drive my Tesla model 3 that I bought in 2019. Throwing away a car creates a shitload of waste, versus just continuing to drive it. I'd never buy another tesla, which solves that issue.

But unlike throwing out a car or even throwing out something with actual value like youtube, ditching Twitter as far as I see has no downside.

Whenever I see "Culture War" in a title I know it's going to involve a shit take from selfish regressive pricks.

People are so incredibly fucking selfish.

They want them because they're being lazy/cheap. No, seriously. They're called widowmaker cords for a reason, but inevitably some muppet with two plugs and some wire will come up with the brilliant idea that one of these will work for.

One really sneaky and dangerous place these get made are generator backfeed cheater cables for houses. You see them in RVs, Xmas lights etc too, but generator backfeeds are super dangerous because they're also juggling two potential power sources. A backfeed is where a house/building is disconnected from the grid just by flipping off the main panel breaker, then it's "backfed" by a generator going into another breaker in the panel. Usually, without any type of safety interlock to keep the mains voltage off when the generator is on, or vice versa.

Afaik, this is illegal per housing code almost everywhere that I've seen, but still every now and then some yahoo thinks "wait, if I make a two-ended cable and put a receptacle on the house, I can remove the generator easily without any of the expensive safety crap!" And then grabs a live male plug when they fuck up and didn't shut off the generator or mains voltage...

Electrified double-sided dildo sex, no less!

Seconded. Learned this the hard way. Even using a microfiber to scrub it on won't help because bkf has grit/grit-like stuff in it that can wear down and flake off the coating.

Photo for reference (sorry, reddit link): https://www.reddit.com/r/recycling/comments/1dg9gnm/is_this_true/

Fun trivia in case you didn't know: that's a domino's advertisement printed on their pizza box in which the box claims to "dream of being another box." It's actually horrible for the recycling stream. Essentially every legitimate recycler explicitly states that grease- and cheese-contaminated cardboard is not allowed to be recycled because it degrades the quality of the recycled product and causes messes at recycling facilities.

So basically, this dream is a manufactured corporate lie and belongs exactly where we see it.

(Well alright fine, if you need good news, the good news is that in some areas while they still don't belong in recycling bins, pizza boxes can go in your green bin compost. Although this is heavily dependent on where you live and what type of compost stream is used there. Don't assume it's ok to recycle or compost without checking, and never trust the packaging labels!)

For those unaware: -196°C (-320°F) is the approximate boiling point of liquid nitrogen. Call it creative marketing I guess!

And yes I used to do lots of charpy impact testing hence that knowledge is engraved in my brain forever. DBTT gaaang