toddestan

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[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I avoid buying from Amazon as much as possible, but good luck doing anything online and avoiding AWS.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Some rope lights would be a nice touch.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're thinking of a swamp cooler. In some places they work great, in other places they're next to useless.

Air conditioners are called that because they "condition" the air by not just cooling but also by reducing the humidity.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That 1990's McDonald's picture is the specific restaurant that was across the entrance from the Dallas Zoo, hence the animal theme. While it's now remodeled and much more dull, it still looked like the picture up until just a few years ago. In any case, it's not typical of what a McDonald's has ever looked like.

As someone born around the same time as you, I do remember when the typical McDonald's had a bright red roof with the yellow lights, which the 2000's pic is a toned-down version of.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

My experience with iOS devices is mostly non-jailbroken devices, where the file system is not accessible.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Computers like the Commodore 64 and TRS-80 weren't that expensive.

Granted, the original IBM PC was pricy, but it was also targeted at business users.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

It works out for Dvorak.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The other problem with moving manufacturing due to tariffs is that tariffs can always be changed, whereas moving manufacturing is a longer term investment that can cost millions, if not billions when it comes to things like chip fabs. No one wants to make an investment like that, only to have their investment suddenly become worthless because some politician decided to change how the tariffs work.

Trump's idiotic and constant flip-flopping on these tariffs have completely destroyed any chance of them actually accomplishing anything (not that they really had a great chance of that in the first place, but anyway...), because no one is going to move a factory to the US when Trump can and will change his mind based upon a whim or whoever is whispering in his ear that moment.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Depending on what they are doing, it can be a form of sea-lioning.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

To be fair to Kamala, she hasn't announced that she's running in 2028. Neither has AOC for that matter. This is just some pollster polling against some names that people might have heard of.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember being annoyed when PS2 suddenly was a gaming console and not a line of personal computers from IBM.

Yes, I know it's PS2 vs. PS/2 when written out, but no one ever says PS-slash-2 when speaking.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's not like people have a lot of choice. George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney are also neoliberals.

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