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[–] doc@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

For all the reasons others have already stated, what you want is a Kill A Watt instead of a multimeter or another thing to buy. Plug this thing into the wall and then plug your appliances etc into the meter and leave it for a week. I will record total power draw over the duration so you can see exactly how much power is being used under normal operating conditions. With a little bit of math you can compare kilowatt hours consumed with your power company costs and figure out how much money it cost to use TV's etc per hour.

https://www.p3international.com/products/p4400.html

[–] doc@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

From experience: sodium percarbonate. This is the active ingredient in oxy-clean powders and can be purchased online. In it's pure form it's commonly used as a sterilizing cleaner for brewing and bottling equipment. I've been using it in laundry for 10 years.

[–] doc@kbin.social 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I'm hanging on to my sub $1000 beater. Late 90s Civic with 240k miles and no clear coat still has better mpg than our newish CRV.

[–] doc@kbin.social 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Different brother. There's Aldi Sud and Aldi Nord (I think that's right), who have common family history but are now separate companies. One operates the US chain called Aldi and the other owns TJ's.

[–] doc@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Got a new C920 on Windows like six months ago. Plug and play, zero software or config on two computers. Is there a specific model you're thinking of?

[–] doc@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

My local started this months ago. At self checkout they ask to see the photo on the back of your membership card to verify you're the same person. No secondary ID, and not sure what the point of that would be anyway. Counterfeit member cards?

[–] doc@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] doc@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to miss these wacky thumbnail mismatches once kbin gets that fixed.

[–] doc@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Adobe and Microsoft PDF printers retain some information. If you run it through ghostscript you'll get only the PostScript output. You can use a free utility like cutepdf to make it easy. Just install the latest gs release after installing cutepdf instead of the download they provide.

[–] doc@kbin.social 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

They're doing more than riding on apples services for free. They had to build and run a notification relay server to make this work.

Same thing that's been in the news about Apple sharing info with police. The content of the messages are ETE encrypted but notifications of who is talking to who is not

[–] doc@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Simpsons has become so... tame. Among other words that rhyme, such as dart, cart, and e-art.

[–] doc@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I didn't realize the LED was no longer ubiquitous! I rely on mine, and I take it a step further with missed notification reminder for a repeating audio tone every few minutes. I don't like having to stare at my phone all day long looking for work messages.

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