If you’re at least a 4/10 woman or an 8/10 man, they are pretty effective. For the rest of us, not so much.

The same way anyone else for whom English is a second or third language function in society.

And, since we don’t own or use any Haier appliances, we aren’t subject to their TOS.

You’re no more stuck with Windows than a Mac user is stuck on a Mac.

No. I predict we would revert to the status quo of 20-100 years ago, with very affordable state-run schools providing excellent education, and high price private schools catering to the rich. Cheap schools got expensive because we allowed the for-profit student loan industry to run wild.

Most people who “self host” things are still doing it on a server somewhere outside their home. Could be a VPS, a cloud instance, colocated bare metal, …

If something is not for sale, I have no qualms about pirating it. Disney vault, abandonware, obsolete versions, etc.

There are cheap household gadgets that rotate a can or bottle in a [salt] ice water bath to chill it rapidly. https://www.amazon.com/Chill-Matic-Automatic-Beverage-Chiller/dp/B0148K37K2?th=1 etc

Also more expensive ones with better temperature control for wine bottles.

I used Mattermost for a community project, but had trouble getting people to install/use/learn yet another client.

upset that it needs you to login to a specific server before it will let you stream music from other unrelated servers

FTFY

The ointment for my overnight dry eyes is half petroleum jelly half mineral oil. I can and have used Vaseline (which is almost entirely petroleum jelly) in a pinch.

Now you have me wondering if there’s any combination of paths that would have them all pass through that alignment and continue on their way after slingshotting around each other. And, if not, how many bodies could do that.

Sure, but they also align with some of the planets on opposite sides of the sun, and the difference there outweighs the difference when they are lined up on the same side.

fluid includes both liquids and gasses.

If you loan someone $20 and never see them again, it was probably worth it.

(I propose replacing $20 with one day of your wages/salary, to keep up with your life situation and inflation)

Using a “laundry basket with a search robot” IS inherently a worse way to store data than a “file system with hierarchy”.

Nested folders are reliable and predictable.

Tagging is also a good option.

Relying on search that is likely to fail in predictable ways is an awful way to do anything serious. And therein lies the problem… These people have mostly never done serious work with a computer before, that other people rely on. As soon as someone else stands to lose money or fail a class because you can’t find a file, the distinction will come into sharp focus.

https://www.pcgamer.com/students-dont-know-what-files-and-folders-are-professors-say/

Students don’t know what files and folders are, professors say A whole generation has grown up with powerful search functions, and don’t think about computers the same way.

Apparently this has become a widespread problem in colleges starting in the last decade.

I wasn’t referring to managing. I was referring to posting, as a user. If you haven’t done that either, that doesn’t mean you can’t find all the discussions and decisions and rules and policies people came up with over the last four decades.

It could be implemented on both the server and the client, with the client trusting the server most of the time and spot checking occasionally to keep the server honest.

The origins of upvotes and downvotes are already revealed on objects on Lemmy and most other fediverse platforms. However, this is not an absolute requirement; there are cryptographic solutions that allow verifying vote aggregation without identifying vote origins, but they are mathematically expensive.