Nath

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If by "savvy", you mean flubbing your location to somewhere in the developing world where that's the price point, I refuse to do that. I have no issue pretending to be in say, Germany and taking up a 75% off deal. But I won't put myself somewhere where the regular $10-$15 price point is genuinely out of range of the locals.

If too many people fake their location to these places, the Googles and Steams of the world will stop giving those nations lower prices. I won't have my own selfishness take something away from thousands of people.

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

The problems with hydrogen have never been with using it as a fuel source. The first problem is storage/transport of the fuel and the second is what happens to a vehicle with a hydrogen fuel tank when it's ruptured in an accident?

I can see a train making sense - a lot more space for storage and cooling, plus the risk of an accident is very low. But I haven't seen anything about these issues being addressed in motor vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (18 children)

$10 a month to have basically every song ever and never have to worry about YouTube ads. Yes, I use it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've had acceptable support for the pixel phone. I forget what went wrong, but I had a problem with one of my pixels, needed repair and they replaced it when it was just shy of two years old.

It sucked, because I had to send it to Hong Kong from Australia, and they then promptly sent me a replacement. But I was 5 days without a phone.

With Apple support, they have local presence and I've had same-day repair.

I have no intention of shifting away from Google. Their cloud service is great. I pay for it and my only complaint is there are stricter privacy policies on gsuite accounts that mean some Google services are incompatible. Which is a very clear endorsement of the old adage 'if you aren't paying for the service, you're the product'.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We're not putting 500g tyres on our bikes, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There was a time where getting the products off the shelves was the job of a clerk at the desk. You'd walk into the store, give the clerk your list and they'd get all the things and put them into a bag for you.

Policies and practices evolve.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The technology exists. It isn't that difficult to implement facial tracking on security cameras and maintain a file on shoplifters. Even across multiple stores.

I can't answer your question, but it is certainly plausible.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What? Baking is super easy. Follow the instructions. That's all there is to it.

Recipe calls for 250g of sugar? Put in 250g. Not 260 (close enough). Follow the instructions. Works every time.

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

Ya, he's learned his lesson. Sync for Lemmy is 🇦🇺$25.

I'll probably still pay it, he is asking about tools for mods and that's the killer feature I need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ooh! I was going to say that I haven't watched any of these shows, nor even heard of half of them. But, I've probably got common ground with you if you give me a similar list of books/series.

Have just finished the Mortal Instruments series, which apparently was turned into a TV show called "Shadow Hunters". No idea if it was any good, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

In this case, they literally had to. The name "maccas" is so ubiquitous in Australia they needed to trademark it and start using it. Otherwise, some genius could have opened a burger joint called "Maccas" and been completely fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The comment from @resolved3874 just above this implies this would be a pathway to sadness.

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