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Preflight_Tomato

@ Preflight_Tomato @lemm.ee

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  • US Postal Service electric trucks are finally here and drivers love them

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  • I bet it’s this exactly. Cars get more efficient metrics on highway vs city start and stop. If the vehicle ONLY starts and stops it must be terrible, even if these have regen brakes.

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    Search Risk – How Google Almost Killed Proton Mail

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  • Fair. I just learned about and like PeerTube so far (activitypub federated video hosting), but it's has even more infantile adoption than Lemmy does. I don't know that anyone I follow on youtube posts there, and if they do I don't know how to find them.

  • For My Local Town it’s Almost Exactly 55% to 45% cop Funding to Everything Else. What’s Yours?

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  • 38% or ~160 million here.

  • Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills

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  • I think the panic around analog clocks comes from the scenario where you have to explain what clockwise and counterclockwise is. I have personally seen someone eventually removed from a workgroup because they couldn't understand it.

    Not that analog clocks matter, but that was an easy way to teach direction in cylindrical coordinates. What can we use now for that?

  • Billboard

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  • Blue spray paint…

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  • +1 for syncthing.

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  • Always get the version of the gadget with replaceable batteries unless you want a brick in 3-10 years. Additionally, prefer 18650, AA, AAA batteries, and keep some rechargeable ones around.

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  • It's not the biggest, but it still is a concern, and is exceedingly easily mitigated.

  • Use a password manager

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  • It at least used to be adaptive because at one point it went to 500$ for me, then changed back down a couple months later.

  • Use a password manager

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  • For privacy.com:

    • great for anyone in the USA
    • don’t worry about difficult subscription cancellations again, just turn that one’s dedicated card off
    • I have personally blown past the daily spend limit of 250$ without issue, idk if that limit is real. The 1000$/mo may be though I've never hit that.
    • I’ve used privacy.com for everything from Amazon to car insurance to gym memberships.

    On credit freezes:

    • a freeze means that your consumer report will not be shared, which means applications for credit in your name will be denied
    • all USA consumer reporting agencies (data brokers) are legally required to freeze sharing of your reports for free upon your request
    • you can temporarily unfreeze when you get a new credit card, apply for rental property, etc.
    • don’t let them upsell it or try to direct you to another page with similar language, it is free
    • credit monitoring products need to request your report to see if any new accounts have opened. Don’t monitor it, prevent it by freezing the reports
    • freezes are required for any data broker, not just credit. This includes LexisNexis (job history), and presumably the ones that do rental and vehicle ownership history though i don’t know their names.

  • Use a password manager

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  • My favorite was the password set screen allowing up to 64 characters, but login fails if the password is over 32 chars.

  • Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities

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  • The choice paralysis is real. I chose lemm.ee because it was easy to type into the address bar, and I've stuck around because the admin seems pretty level-headed.

  • Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities

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  • Idk if you can transfer likes comments and posts, but you can go to your old account from a new one and star everything with the new account pretty easily. So that at least can transfer.

  • Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot

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  • Beside the point, but this data visualization is misleadingly bad.

    Eyes first draw to the heading, which primes us to think temperature. Then we see the graph, where the unlabeled Y axis is assumed to be average night temperature. Finally, we read the subheading and it says that the Y axis is not temperature, but counts of days over a certain temperature.

    I think that this metric is more useful than “avg. overnight temp.”, but please label axes.

    Also, it would help to rephrase the subheading to use “80” since that’s obviously the cutoff. I spent a moment wondering what was special about 79F.

    And now I see that this was made by the NYT. I guess they’re pumping out charts (maybe automatically) and thinking more about making them pretty than legible.

  • I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces

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  • What was the book?

  • Is Storing Torrent Files or Magnet Links a Good Idea?

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  • Ok, that's what I'll do. Thanks so much for the info! 😁

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  • Welcome! Check out the communities list for some topics you may be interested in.

    And if you see an inactive community you like, make a post/comment! Be the growth!

  • What has he done to deserve this?

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  • The world if metric began in base 12:

  • What has he done to deserve this?

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  • I have a friend who argues that "it's just as good, there's no difference really". Then we go camping and have to do a unit conversion on how much water to boil and it takes 2 minutes and a phone calculator.