Demonmariner

joined 1 year ago
[–] Demonmariner 1 points 7 months ago

Totally agree. For-profit platforms won't exist if they can't generate revenue, either from ads or subscriptions. If I use a commercial offering I expect to pay for it.

If you use the platform and sidestep paying, you're just foisting the expense off on paying customers.

[–] Demonmariner 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like Jabra.

[–] Demonmariner 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Precise time came to humanity with the railroad. Until then no one cared very much about whether it was 11:35 PM or "around midnight" or "way past bedtime." Train timetables were the first thing that made minutes matter to the general public.

Mariners cared about time and preferred to be as precise as possible, but did pretty well telling local time by the stars. Finding longitude was a problem until good clocks came aling though.

[–] Demonmariner 26 points 10 months ago

We do, it's called Universal Coordinated Time. The time is now 00:37 UTC, or 16:37 Pacific Daylight Savings Time.

[–] Demonmariner 3 points 10 months ago

My mother has been dead for many years, so now I can safely say that she was an awful cook. I still can barely eat vegetables.

[–] Demonmariner 1 points 10 months ago

It's not on a browser as such. I use the Google News app on my phone. I can't believe it would block anything at all.

[–] Demonmariner 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The ad blocker fight is getting really strange. I don't use a blocker, but this morning I couldn't read an article on google news without disabling my ad blocker which I don't have.

[–] Demonmariner 2 points 11 months ago

Rheostats are two wire devices, think of them as current controlling. Potentiometers are three wire devices, typically used as voltage dividers. They are not the same.

[–] Demonmariner 4 points 11 months ago

I'm going to be a challenge. Please be patient with me, and with each other.

[–] Demonmariner 7 points 11 months ago

What's wicked about her? Sounds like a pretty good offer, either way.

[–] Demonmariner 2 points 1 year ago

I got a complete set of dishes, settin for six, from grocery rewards as recently as the early 2000's. It was from Safeway I think. Not long after that they did cookware, and I got a few pieces before they stopped the program.

I eventually gave away the dishes, but still have the cookware. It's pretty good stuff.

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