I mean if we used 12 numerals it could be good, but we don’t, so…

Good! Here your kilo of sea-level water, use it wisely.

Most of the stuff you interact with daily is much more easily measured in feet and inches vs meters and centimeters

Hard disagree. The centimeter is the best measurement there is for everyday stuff, you can easily express both round values or weird ones, and don’t need to switch between two scales as you do with feet and inches (and the stupid fact that there’s 12 inches in a feet, wtf). Meters are for distances.

(this ignores decimeters, but I’ve literally never seen anyone use decimeters in my entire life)

BECAUSE THE METRIC SYSTEM IS DECIMAL AND YOU DON’T NEED STUPID CHANGES BETWEEN UNITS, MOST PEOPLE JUST SAY TEN CENTIMETERS!

Celsius is more objective, but when dealing with the standard sorts of temperatures humans are generally concerned with, Fahrenheit gives you more granularity within that range.

If you’re measuring ambient temperature, 99% of the time being more precise than 1°C is pointless, in a room you may have more variance than that from a corner to another, same goes for outside. For things where you need better precision you sure as hell wouldn’t be using the imperial system, and you could instead take advantage of this neat trick called DECIMALS.

Edit: addendum for everyday convenience: buying shit at the supermarket. The label expresses price per kilo but the packaging is in grams? You don’t even need to think about it. Drinks? They can even mix litres and kilos, no problem, the difference would be below negligible.
Here in Italy we usually ask for meat cuts in “etti”, aka hecto grams aka 100grams, so I look at a cut, I see it’s 35€/kg, I ask for 3 etti, immediately know it’ll be 10.5€ (ALSO BECAUSE SALES TAX IS INCLUDED ON THE LABEL FFS)

Oh, you!

Eh lesser evil and all that

The old internet is dead, the new one struggles to be born. Now is the time of enshittification.

Because my files are mine

Storage? Traffic is the real cost

I need a good CAD for designing my 3d printers that isn’t cloud based. I appreciate FreeCAD, but it’s not ready yet.

Eh, a striking dash of sincerity from him

Well, this sure is an useless comment

John 4,16 is actually : "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. "

But on the box the reference is actually 3,16:
"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. "

And John 14,6:
“Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

lol in Italy children would die from heatstroke if we did that

Stuff should work correctly out of the box.

That’s why Windows isn’t ready for mass adoption

Modern installations are supposed to have overcurrent and ground fault protection on all branches, so the fuse is somewhat useless and you have an extra protection against electrocution.

Most European receptacles only accept a plug if both prongs are pressed in at the same time, so children can’t get electrocuted without being exceptionally clever

This bullshit never ends

Unfortunately the biggest polluters don’t fall under Catholic influence anyway

I became a full-on programmer after joining Lemmy. Coincidence?

But to do that you’d have to cut her in half

It’s pretty much in line with right to repair and similar initiatives as well, everything that’s sold should be made to maximize longevity and use, while the last ~50 years have seen a focus on making people spend as much as possible, with products that are made to be replaced as frequently as users will tolerate.

For the same reason we need regulate all the IoT crap that’s been proliferating all over.