I am getting real tired of having to reconsider my approach and choice of personal projects constantly due to tech industry hypes ruining a subject or a community...
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I am getting real tired of having to reconsider my approach and choice of personal projects constantly due to tech industry hypes ruining a subject or a community... -
Just had the repairpeople from the local electronics store over to look at my broken washing machine, and it's such a breath of fresh air to deal with *competent* repairpeople...@riley So apparently the reason it's a problem specifically with rice, is that there's a protective thing around the sensor to prevent stuff sticking to it, an indent - but rice grains are small enough that they can still get in there (and other food particles are not, or dissolve much more easily)
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Just had the repairpeople from the local electronics store over to look at my broken washing machine, and it's such a breath of fresh air to deal with *competent* repairpeople...(The problem in that case was that modern dishwashers apparently tend to have optical sensors that get confused by swollen bits of rice getting stuck in front of the sensor, and so rice is the one thing you really need to make sure you remove from plates before putting them in)
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Just had the repairpeople from the local electronics store over to look at my broken washing machine, and it's such a breath of fresh air to deal with *competent* repairpeople...And this is not an exception, this time I paid them out of pocket to fix a machine I bought elsewhere, but previously I've called up their repairfolks for a warranty call on something purchased there, and it was just as good.
Show up, look at machine, test a few things, establish problem without even opening up the machine based on a deep knowledge of how it works internally, fix it and provide recommendations on how to reduce the chance of failure in the future. Done.
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Just had the repairpeople from the local electronics store over to look at my broken washing machine, and it's such a breath of fresh air to deal with *competent* repairpeople...Just had the repairpeople from the local electronics store over to look at my broken washing machine, and it's such a breath of fresh air to deal with *competent* repairpeople...
I can see why this is one of the few electronics stores in the country that's doing well financially
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Yes, there are definitely people who are assholes in response to paywalled links.Yes, there are definitely people who are assholes in response to paywalled links.
But do also please be mindful that paywalls, at sufficient scale (which they are reaching), significantly contribute to the wealth divide - those who can afford to access information, versus those who cannot.
(Paywall bypasses do not work reliably and are not *really* a solution to this.)
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The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff.@hailey In situations like these, I always think about how many people like to talk of the "social contract", and how that mysteriously only ever gets invoked to place obligations on individuals, and never on states or corporations (as evidenced here once again).
Like, people aren't outright pirating because cultural interests are supposed to be balanced by legal exceptions. And leaving aside whether that has ever actually been balanced, if publishers now decide to object to that balance... well.