randint

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is that a 35-digit PIN or a 35-character password?

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

I know, that's awful. I also turn it off. But that's actually different than the new feature mentioned in this post. This has existed for years already (I think)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

hell desk

Brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

sigh another US-only service. it seemed like such a great deal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I see... that sounds terrible tbh

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (10 children)

obligatory: https://qntm.org/abolish

Before I read this article, I also thought it would be a great idea to get rid of timezones entirely and just use UTC for everything. To quote from the link, (please forgive me for being lazy and not formatting it correctly)

Abolishing time zones brings many benefits, I hope. It also:

  • causes the question "What time is it there?" to be useless/unanswerable
  • necessitates significant changes to the way in which normal people talk about time
  • convolutes timetables, where present
  • means "days" (of the week) are no longer the same as "days"
  • complicates both secular and religious law
  • is a staggering inconvenience for a minimum of five billion people
  • makes it near-impossible to reason about time in other parts of the world
  • does not mean everybody gets up at the same time, goes to work at the same time, or goes to bed at the same time
  • is not simpler.

As long as humans live in more than one part of the world, solar time is always going to be subjective. Abolishing time zones only exacerbates this problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

A very basic phone plan from one of the top three ISPs where I live (Taiwan). Comes with 3 GB of data a month. (I'm on Wi-Fi most of the time.) Costs ~$6.1 a month. No 5G connection, only 4G. ~22 cents per minute of calltime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

My bill was $38 last month.

Did you mean that this was a lot or dirt cheap? Sounds quite expensive to me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (12 children)

same here. bought one 2 months ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No kidding. However I did sort of forget what the conversation was about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I recogize you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's a bit... shorter than I expected, but thanks

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