I have a piezoelectric doorbell.

The bell part plugs directly into a wall socket. The button part is completely wireless and batteryless and is affixed near my front door.

Been working like clockwork for a decade to let me know when someone is at the door and I’m home.

If I’m not home, the postman or delivery driver leaves a note to go to the collection center for my package. If it’s a small package not requiring signature, they just leave it at the door or in the mailbox if it fits. None of that changes with a camera.

Why overcomplicate life.

Counterpoint: this is just some random blogger and you don’t need to follow any of their advice.

I like it. Lots of buzzwords that warn me off the article.

Like a brightly coloured bug - message received little guy, I will not touch you.

I’m willing to bet it’s option B. Bet someone in management decided it would be best to cheap the fuck out now and then beg forgiveness later, and sell it as increasing security, than ask permission from the beginning.

No, measles is cross-species - many apes and monkeys are susceptible to it. Scientists believe it originally mutated from the rinderpest virus which is originally carried by ruminants (cows, ox, buffalo, many others) around 6th century BCE.

That’s even less consumer friendly. If you purchase a game and it turns out to be shovelware that barely works and has a bunch of gamed reviews on the store page? Oh too bad sap, you got conned this is non-refundable.

Consumers had to fight for games that do refundable, I don’t think we should be quick to consider loopholes.

Fraunhofer IIS and Fraunhofer ISE are part of the same organization.

They are different institutes in the same Fraunhofer Society.

Yep staggering manufacturing dates is a good suggestion. I do it but it does make purchasing during sales periods to get good prices harder. Better than losing multiple drives at once, but RAID needs a backup anyway and nobody should skip that step.

I would absolutely not use refurbs personally. As part of the refurb process they wipe the SMART data which means you have zero power-on hours listed, zero errors, rewrite-count, etc - absolutely no idea what their previous life was.

Hey it’s those guys that invented MP3s.

Rat (glad that was labelled) appears to have inbuilt zipper for accessing organs - not actually necessary to access his fourth testical tho, that one perches at the edge of his ball-pouch. I like the one label that just says ‘dck’.

Yep everything seems in order here. Thanks AI.

Halo 3 was peak.

I know some don’t like it because of some choices they creative team made that weren’t exact to the lore of the games, but I’ve been enjoying the Halo TV series. Had some moments that reminded me of the campaign and game series highlights. I’d say it’s worth a watch if you’re a fan - don’t be put off by the initial backlash.

Great work, without reading what it was I thought it may be a still from a Ninjago movie/series at first.

Reason is not justification, I excuse nothing - just pointing our it’s much wider than the US.

What you’re failing to include in your calculations is how cheap political sway is to buy worldwide. You don’t need to be the wealthiest nation in the world to place several $50k political donations per year to the two major parties and some of their key politicians, and keep a lobbying firm in the nation’s capital well-funded to wines and dines key politicians and journalists.

Manufacturing consent is financially trivial for Israel, they’ve been practicing it for 50 years and the machine is institutionalized.

Myopic US take. The Israel lobby is all through the western world and has pushed almost every government into the corner of accepting this racist genocidal war lest they be labelled anti-Semitic.

Today, you learned that not everyone on the Internet is from the USA or Canada.

Ive not heard of this - were you on the standard Google OS? I wonder if that makes any difference.

I’ve been on custom ROM (CalyxOS) for most of the phone’s life.

Before anyone rushes to replace their phones my Pixel 5 is nearly 5 years old, still on original battery (would be on at least 1200 cycles) and is presently sitting at 92% and claiming 1 day 11hrs remaining. Off the charger since 9:45 this morning and used for streaming music to my car while I was driving earlier. It still easily holds over 24 hours charge in my usage, so if I forget to charge it at night it’s usually around 40% in the morning and I can plug it in sometime in the morning to top up. Perfectly useable after almost 5 years, and this is pretty normal for Pixels in my experience.

Love the new EU measurement standards but per other people’s comments above they do not seem to mandate strict third-party testing, but rather rely on manufacturers submitting their results and adhering to the set test standards. This has not worked out well in the past, it should be mandatory third-party.

Cannot wait to see the return of user-replaceable batteries (thank you again, EU).

No I’m saying you’re not allowed to be drinking alcohol while you drive. Which you are in Mississippi.

USA freedom warriors ™ on Reddit say ‘that’s fine because they still have to be under the legal limit’. Unable to fathom that the idea of normalizing drinking alcohol while you drive encourages irresponsible behaviour amongst other negatives, beyond just staying under the BAC limit.