Phones also have cr@ppy mics -- you have to be near one, practically talking at it for it to receive your voice. This is by design -- you want it to reject background noice. OTOH, home speakers/spy boxes are omnidirectinal.
Does it work without the Appidy-App, or can you configure it through the good 'ol Web interface as well. Everything requiring an app is annoying.
BTW - not a fan of extending wifi over wifi -- most homes are wired for cable, and MoCA seems to work better. Especially if you're a cord-cutter who's not using the cable for TV anymore.
It's remarkable difficult to plan shopping long-term -- the amount you eat and what you eat on a given day varies due to hunger, whether you went out, etc. Living in the city with a grocery store in walking distance, you don't HAVE to think and plan. Planning is boring.
Define "low status." The poor typically have a higher fertility rate than the rich and famous, which speaks to the amount of sex "low status" people get vs "high status."
I doubt anyone on/. is truly "low status" -- maybe just afraid to date. Give you a project... go on a dating site, to a supermarket, or on Facebook. Ask 100 women of your basic age group on a date. At least one, probably more like 10, will say yes.
Most people have higher limits than you'd think. "If I'm not doing anything wrong, why should I care about privacy?" The mating cry of the millennial sheep.
Let me explain this: if I want fresh blueberries, I don't need them some time in the next 48 hours. I need them now, so I can have them for breakfast tomorrow. Since there will be at least one such purchase per week, might as well go to the store and buy the rest.
Also, I can pay good, old-fashioned, cold, hard cash in the store. Not have my shopping habits sliced, diced, tracked, and otherwise microscopically examined by marketeering pieces of trash.
Immediate gratification. I don't have to worry when the package was delivered, where the hell they left it, if the food is fresh or not. And a little random human interaction never killed anyone.
I just stop at the pharmacy and/or the grocery store on the walk home from the train once a week. Who needs to buy mundane stuff online if they don't live in BFE?
Depends on the climate where you live and your access to other modes of transport. Motorcycle could easily be an only vehicle somewhere like San Diego.
Honestly, I'd trust the Chinese more than Google, Apple, or M$. At least the Chinese don't have an interest in cooperating with Western spy agencies and American mega-corps like Amazon.
vs Chrome and Edge? Firefox doesn't try to annoy you or nudge you into using any one product, it's fast, configurable, and doesn't ask you to "stink" with their "clown."
Yelp/GMaps has MORE of an audience when talking about (say) a specific restaurant than a journalist. Especially since multiple people with bad experiences can post poor reviews.
Journalists are often reluctant to give bad press to businesses, since it will influence their ability to review other businesses, and maybe even open them to lawsuits.
As far as lying -- if you're describing a true situation with a back story slightly changed to get around a review site's rules, so be it. If it saves a customer or two from food poisoning, you've done a public service.
Agreed. Ex-employees should be more creative about their bad reviews.
Write them from the POV of a customer. "I took the wrong door into the kitchen while looking for the bathroom, and saw them putting spoiled, stinky meat into the soup..."
As far as OSHA and health inspectors, they can be slow to act. Journalists? Yeah. But what's wrong with citizens pointing out corruption on their own? You shouldn't need to work for the mainstream media to be able to make a difference.
(1) You don't care, having switched professions entirely (2) The employer is doing something dangerous to the public -- e.g. a restaurant selling food that isn't fresh (3) You were treated badly (denied vacation time, asked to work much longer hours than contractually obligated) and want to warn other potential employees.
Employers aren't your betters that you should cringe and bow before them, thanking them for every mistreatment. They're subject to and deserving of criticism, same as any other entity.
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Yep, that's how I get to work most of the time, either that or a bicycle.
Phones also have cr@ppy mics -- you have to be near one, practically talking at it for it to receive your voice. This is by design -- you want it to reject background noice. OTOH, home speakers/spy boxes are omnidirectinal.
Does it work without the Appidy-App, or can you configure it through the good 'ol Web interface as well. Everything requiring an app is annoying. BTW - not a fan of extending wifi over wifi -- most homes are wired for cable, and MoCA seems to work better. Especially if you're a cord-cutter who's not using the cable for TV anymore.
It's remarkable difficult to plan shopping long-term -- the amount you eat and what you eat on a given day varies due to hunger, whether you went out, etc. Living in the city with a grocery store in walking distance, you don't HAVE to think and plan. Planning is boring.
It's called a brain, with a memory. Some of us were born with one.
Couldn't someone on the same IP or subnet have searched for gallium recently?
Define "low status." The poor typically have a higher fertility rate than the rich and famous, which speaks to the amount of sex "low status" people get vs "high status."
I doubt anyone on /. is truly "low status" -- maybe just afraid to date. Give you a project ... go on a dating site, to a supermarket, or on Facebook. Ask 100 women of your basic age group on a date. At least one, probably more like 10, will say yes.
Most people have higher limits than you'd think. "If I'm not doing anything wrong, why should I care about privacy?" The mating cry of the millennial sheep.
Figure out how to emulate the device in software -- then you don't even need to buy it to feed Amazon disinformation. :)
Let me explain this: if I want fresh blueberries, I don't need them some time in the next 48 hours. I need them now, so I can have them for breakfast tomorrow. Since there will be at least one such purchase per week, might as well go to the store and buy the rest.
Also, I can pay good, old-fashioned, cold, hard cash in the store. Not have my shopping habits sliced, diced, tracked, and otherwise microscopically examined by marketeering pieces of trash.
Immediate gratification. I don't have to worry when the package was delivered, where the hell they left it, if the food is fresh or not. And a little random human interaction never killed anyone.
IDK - I like my sex partners to smell of human pheromones, not plastic and/or rubber...
I just stop at the pharmacy and/or the grocery store on the walk home from the train once a week. Who needs to buy mundane stuff online if they don't live in BFE?
Why do I need ads for toothpaste? Toothpaste exists. I know it exists. I'll buy the cheapest brand that's FDA and ADA approved, ideally without SLS.
I have a whiteboard for (a), a cheap linux laptop for (b)
Depends on the climate where you live and your access to other modes of transport. Motorcycle could easily be an only vehicle somewhere like San Diego.
Not if you don't sign the donor card...
Wear proper gear, don't be a coward, and you'll be fine. Actually, I'd love to have an electric motorbike.
Do they toss in a free coward card with that comment? Motorcycles are awesome.
Honestly, I'd trust the Chinese more than Google, Apple, or M$. At least the Chinese don't have an interest in cooperating with Western spy agencies and American mega-corps like Amazon.
vs Chrome and Edge? Firefox doesn't try to annoy you or nudge you into using any one product, it's fast, configurable, and doesn't ask you to "stink" with their "clown."
Also: Opera.
Yelp/GMaps has MORE of an audience when talking about (say) a specific restaurant than a journalist. Especially since multiple people with bad experiences can post poor reviews. Journalists are often reluctant to give bad press to businesses, since it will influence their ability to review other businesses, and maybe even open them to lawsuits. As far as lying -- if you're describing a true situation with a back story slightly changed to get around a review site's rules, so be it. If it saves a customer or two from food poisoning, you've done a public service.
Agreed. Ex-employees should be more creative about their bad reviews.
Write them from the POV of a customer. "I took the wrong door into the kitchen while looking for the bathroom, and saw them putting spoiled, stinky meat into the soup..."
As far as OSHA and health inspectors, they can be slow to act. Journalists? Yeah. But what's wrong with citizens pointing out corruption on their own? You shouldn't need to work for the mainstream media to be able to make a difference.
(1) You don't care, having switched professions entirely
(2) The employer is doing something dangerous to the public -- e.g. a restaurant selling food that isn't fresh
(3) You were treated badly (denied vacation time, asked to work much longer hours than contractually obligated) and want to warn other potential employees.
Employers aren't your betters that you should cringe and bow before them, thanking them for every mistreatment. They're subject to and deserving of criticism, same as any other entity.
We used to have a War Department, before WW2. After WW2, it switched to the more politically correct name.