How so? I went from Android to iPhone and one of the biggest reasons I kept it was the lack of consumer-hostile intrusive bullshit that seems to be everywhere on Google and Samsung products.

That’s… not how cookies work. They’re only accessible by the website that set them, and unless Lemmy starts embedding reddit content into its pages, there’s zero way for Reddit to know that you’re here.

Fair enough. I shouldn’t be posting within 30 minutes of waking up anyway…

The problem is that people read a few things on the internet, think they’re now suddenly domain experts, and do it anyway.

That would immediately blow the fuse in the lights and/or start a fire if the two strands were on different circuits that happened to be on different electrical phases.

While I wouldn’t doubt that some people are stupid enough to do that, it’s actually summer that it’s done the most for because of storms and power outages, and people learn that backfeeding is a thing (that you shouldn’t do unless you absolutely know what you’re doing).

Well at that point all you need to do is cut a normal extension cord and strip the ends. Maybe add a switch or a button for extra safety.

In my jurisdiction, backfeeding your house from a receptacle is very illegal. Transfer switches and interlock kits exist for a reason.

For anyone wondering exactly why it’s a bad idea: Power from your generator can, if your house isn’t isolated from the grid, travel back into the utility lines and backward through the big transformer at the utility pole (so now it’s a few thousand volts again) and give an unsuspecting linesman a nasty surprise. People have died from this. It is a bad idea.

Wouldn’t Google’s crawlers respect robots.txt though? Is it naive to assume that anything would?

Well, here in California we’ve decided that most stores are mandated to provide “reusable” plastic shopping bags (at a cost of $0.10 each) which are more durable and made of a thicker plastic.

I don’t know a single person that treats them as any less disposable than the thin plastic bags they replaced. There is little to no information or infrastructure supporting recycling them.

I’m just glad the stores around here give paper bags if you ask for them.

You uhhh… you doing ok there bud? Need a snack or something? Seems like you could use a break from the internet for a bit.

I’m going to guess that I’m in the minority here and say that I daily a long bed Ford F-250. It’s big, it’s long, and it’s just generally unwieldy. Yes there are benefits to backing into a parking spot like better visibility and blah blah blah but for me it’s actually more about just being able to get in and out of the parking spot. Especially in narrow parking lot aisles. Backing into a spot takes less room, because, idk, geometry. Similar to why a forklift steers with its rear wheels and that makes it more maneuverable (albeit less stable).

Though there is also the benefit of the tailgate and bed of the vehicle being less accessible and therefore less likely for someone to just walk off with something, if there’s anything back there. My mom had the tailgate stolen off her Toyota once back in the 90s. I assume she pulled forward into the parking spot.

But I do have a big, stupid, oversized vehicle with blind spots and I can’t park normally!

I also had a Mini Cooper that I would back into parking spots for the reasons outlined in many other comments here… because “normal” isn’t always better.

I think that’s what the US government is trying to do.

I can at times; particularly when stressed. It used to be a nearly constant thing, but that’s since improved with stress management, therapy, and diet changes. Seriously, people underestimate how strongly stress and anxiety can affect you physically.

As a US citizen, I sometimes realize how lucky I am to be living here, even with the political climate. I acknowledge that I have less agency than many that are wealthier than I am, but I’m still better off than many who live in other areas or don’t have the support system that I do. Particularly when considering people of similar status in other countries.

It does feel somewhat precarious, because it seems like the agency that I do have could largely disappear in short notice at the whim of the government or economy… but I’m trying to enjoy it while I can, and live life to the best of my ability without fretting too much.

Personally, I’d hate to have anywhere near the agency of the “top 100” people, because I don’t want the kind of responsibilities that come with that. I’m fine with my meager existence as a tradesperson, keeping to myself and my community.

All of the lock screen backgrounds and wallpapers on my devices are photos I’ve taken at various times with my (not-phone) camera.

To be honest, I don’t know how much I trust younger people either with all the plastic in our brains.

Fiat currency like the US dollar is just as intrinsically worthless. It has value only because people accept that it does, they trade with it, and it has legal status as tender “for all debts, public and private”.

People trade bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for goods all the time, without converting it to USD or anything first. I mean, yeah, usually the thing they’re buying is drugs or something but it’s the same as handing your local dealer a $20 bill.

Torrenting can be faster than normal downloads. A file server with a fast connection that’s not overloaded can easily be faster than a P2P download that doesn’t have very many peers, or the peers all have slow connections. There’s no fixed percentage speed boost that you get, because sometimes you don’t.

That said, for things like Linux ISOs or archives of stuff that people just keep seeding forever but aren’t hosted on fast file servers (if at all), it’s great and typically the bottleneck is your own connection.

I recently went to Sonic, didn’t use the app, and ended up with norovirus for free.