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Cake day: January 10th, 2024

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  • I haven’t paid much attention, but I had some myCharge units I bought at Costco last year get recalled. I suspect a lot of these have cheap batteries from suppliers that don’t put much effort into consistent quality. That’s “okay” with alkaline batteries where the worst that happens is they leak and maybe ruin the device they were in. Have poor quality with a lithium battery and you get a fire or even explosion. I suspect with Anker or some of the other brand names at least you’ll actually get a recall if there’s a problem. A lot of the other no-name, fly-by-night brands on Amazon or elsewhere probably don’t even give you that.






  • If it’s simply because the image hasn’t loaded the text often displays in a box in place of the image. If the person is visually impaired their screen reader can read the text out loud or display it in their Braille device.

    In the old days web browsers would often display the alt text as a “tool tip” or little message that would appear on top of the image if you left your mouse over it, but this functionality was changed to the “title” attribute since the alt text is primarily for accessibility purposes and should be descriptive, not pointing out some feature in the image or making jokes.




  • jqubed@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3100: Alert Sound
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    5 days ago

    They were bought and basically no longer exist. Hot Topic was going to buy them but then GameStop came in with a higher offer. For a while they launched ThinkGeek retail stores in shopping malls but eventually shut them all down and now they basically only exist as some tchotchkes in GameStop stores. Even the website just seems to redirect to the main GameStop page now, not their “store” within the GameStop webstore.




  • It’s very helpful. One note, at least in the edition I had, they use endnotes instead of footnotes, so they’re at the back of the book. It’s not quite as helpful unless you use one or two bookmarks to keep your place as you go back and forth. The book itself is riveting, though, and just about every chapter ends on a cliffhanger (since it was originally serialized a chapter at a time in a newspaper) that makes you want to keep reading.