[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 3 months ago

What the fuck? Like 20 comments and not one of you? Sigh. Fine.

Gimme all your money! This is a stick up!

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 4 months ago

That's like asking why people celebrate holidays.

That's all it is. It's a holiday that's just for teens.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 4 months ago

The insurance companies want it that way, though. That's the sneaky bit.

Insurance companies are legally required to pay out 85% of all money they take in back to their insured. That leaves them with 15% to cover payroll and rent and profit and all the other shit.

So by having medical expenditures stupidly expensive, they get to charge higher premiums, which means the 15% they get to keep every year is a much larger amount of money. Why have 15% of $1,000,000 when you can have 15% of $100,000,000?

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 5 months ago

You generally don't buy a business and then figure all of that out. You figure it all out and then buy the business. IGN already would have 100% known the managerial setup at these companies.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No one in the US will dive into major production of such things without a more guaranteed long term tariff. Not something that may go away within 5 years time. Also, there isn't a snowballs chance in hell the US will be a world leader in solar production. We might dominate the US market.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 8 months ago

It'll like it again if It doesn't eat for a day.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 8 months ago

I will give someone a hundred internet points if they can find one single picture of a black guy in trumps gold sneakers out in public.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 8 months ago

It's the dumbest setup possible with how android handles saved files, and even worse by all the hoops to put files or look at files from specific folders on your phone due to all the permissions crap.

But the easiest way to find where something was saved is to open up "Files" which is "Files by Google" to be exact. It will whatever file you saved or modified right there in the "recent" section at the top so you can look at whatever goofball place it was actually saved to.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 10 months ago

It sort of explains it, if you already know how RF charging works. It's still pretty new tech, but has been around for a bit.

"RF wireless charging is a type of uncoupled wireless charging in which an antenna embedded in an electronic device can pick up low level radio frequency waves from external sources and convert the waves' energy to direct current (DC) voltage."

So knowing that and the article referencing about wireless light switches already being a thing, but being battery powered, it seems that it's a standard wireless light switch that has just been modified with an rf wireless charging receiver that will charge a small battery or some capacitors to run the light switch.

IMO, until you're using rf to power more than just light switches, you're wasting a lot more electricity than it's worth, compared to changing out batteries in your light switches once every like 5 years. If RF gets standardized completely and it starts helping to power a whole mess of things like your smart watches, phones, air tags, clocks, etc then it will be pretty sweet.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 11 months ago

The benefits of having decent people running a privately owned company is pretty astounding. Once you go public and have a board that legally has and wants to make as much money as possible, it seems like things are sure to go to shit.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 year ago

You default to 240 because your internet sucks or you need to change the default setting. I get 720 all the time and could go higher if I wanted. I never see 240.

This is a you issue and not an app issue.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 year ago

No one was wondering. Did that somehow make the fact that they tried to get a cola raise that was previously and deliberately blocked before not true? Does it make it not true that the Republicans tried to VERY quickly force a vote on the bill, even though they had said all new bills would get 72 hours to review first?

Who the fuck cares where the article is coming from? It didn't lie and it's easily verifiable information.

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