dantheclamman

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"it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

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Scapegoat (en.wikipedia.org)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Apparently, the chargers will be updated to become dumb terminals that just charge automatically when plugged in, but for many end users, the main reason they went with Juicebox (which was bought by Enel) was that Enel would handle user accounts and billing. I work at an organization where we charge employees at a discounted rate, and the chargers are open to the public to use as well if they install the app and input their payment info. We're going to have to close down public access if we can't find a solution. A couple companies are saying they might be able to take over. Would have been nice to have more than a couple weeks to figure this out!

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Thalweg (en.wikipedia.org)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I used the Notes quite a bit and thought it was a mistake to get rid of it. People pay for notes and tasks related sync services, so it could have been a revenue source. I also miss Firefox Panorama

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Small beer (en.wikipedia.org)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Mint is lame. I would be down for pistachio

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Deckle edge (en.wikipedia.org)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago

How is it clickbait?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

There are some times that readers may be frustrated by an item not being put to use later in the story, such as a red herring in a mystery. But like you noted, the real world is full of red herrings, so it can be used to great artistic effect!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

They said they'd open source Pocket and they didn't. In fact, they've simply allowed it to rot and just removed features. So here I think the skepticism is warranted.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They invented the word. Colonial folks moved in. I'm gonna let Nahuatl speakers tell me what's right. It's not pedantry. It's not irrelevant. You're not going to change my mind. Deal with it!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I learned the correct way from some stumbling on some Nahuatl speakers. Why would you 'disagree' that it's pronounced the way I mentioned? I didn't say the other way was incorrect (though I thought most people would be interested to hear the original way)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I agree that X is enemy territory now, but in a world where billionaires can buy up all the major means of communication, it doesn't feel like enough to just close up our accounts and move on. They can follow us wherever our accounts go and buy platforms out from under us. Lemmy and Mastodon are slightly better as open decentralized platforms, but they still could be attacked by Musk if he had the initiative to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It's all so underhanded and exhausting to keep track of whether we're getting ripped off

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