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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My tin-foil-hat conspiracy theory is that ISPs switch peoples' Internet off intermittently to see if anyone notices and save on bandwidth. And they only switch it back on when you call in to tech support.

The number of times I've had Internet issues, restarted my modem and router and have it not fix the problem, but when I restart them when I'm on the phone with tech support and it magically fixes the problem just makes me so damn suspicious...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I think it's generally because glass bottles can let light hit the beer, and hops are photosensitive (light-struck beer will have a skunky aroma and taste). Brown bottles are the best at blocking light. Clear and green bottles are pretty bad. Cans obviously block all light.

I think most of the time, brown bottles are just fine, but the judges probably have a bit of bias here on their preferences.

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

I've been using a moonlander for a couple years now. I love it, but I've been toying with the idea of building my own with a trackball in the thumb cluster

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I moved to porkbun after Google domains shut down, very happy with the service so far.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

It's a fake screenshot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Automotive software is a regulated industry. No government is going to let John Doe off the street flash custom firmware onto a car and allow it on the road.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's free if you stay within the data limit. For anyone interested in self-hosting, immich is getting pretty mature these days.

https://immich.app/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'll take this opportunity to plug Crandall Office Furniture, since I learned about them in a similar reddit thread a couple of years ago. My girlfriend was looking for a new office chair because all the cheap ones she's tried have destroyed her back. We got her a refurbished Leap v2 for about $600, compared to the $1200+ it would be new. She absolutely loves the chair and has had significantly fewer issues with her back. And you'd never know the chair was used, they do an excellent job refinishing everything. Highly recommend, I'll be going with them when I need a new office chair.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Cut-resistant gloves are a must for a mandolin!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

It's "cost neutral" in the sense that the company still pays the same $X to run the office regardless of how many people are in the office. But if it costs $1000/day to heat your office in the winter and only 50% of your employees are working in the office any given day, you're wasting $500 worth of heating that day.

Looking at it from an overhead perspective, let's say I have 1000 employees and my heat costs $1000/day. When all my employees are in, it costs $1/employee/day to heat my office. If only half my employees are in, it costs me $2/employee/day. My overhead per employee just doubled.

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

Yes, but the costs of those things are mostly fixed. If, say, 20% of the workforce goes into the office because they enjoy working there, then you pay the full cost of cleaning, lights, toilet paper, paper cups, and heating and AC for the entire building, even though it's not at capacity.

Source: My company is hybrid, but a handful of people decide to go in every day, including three people from my team.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (20 children)

And if you only have street parking?

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