Is it a ‘thank you for prepping my room’ or ‘please clean my room today’? If you tip post cleaning, it’s likely going to someone else the next day. Many hotels now only do housekeeping on demand. How do employees feel about this - do they miss the tips or are they happy for a less stressful workday?...
I wouldn’t dare defile Douglas Adam’s memory by not mentioning that you should keep a towel with you at all times, but my second contender is a surprisingly short three-parter:...
Someone told me that if you keep your gaze fixed and imagine a completely black circle right above someone’s head, what you are actually doing is telepathy… so far I haven’t researched more about it but I have noticed that some strange things happen when I do that, I see spirals and the vision looks different, could...
I see it referenced constantly here, not quite as much on Reddit. I know what it means, but just wondering why such the popularity over on this side of the fence?
My mother’s laptop has been running as fast as a turtle on a snail going uphill for a long time now. Everything has been done to it, including formatting it and installing another, less cumbersome OS, but nothing improves. I have an HHD available, I have done some tests and it does work....
I second this. Grap a cheap 256GB SSD, use that HDD as external storage device. Your mother will hug you tighter for this :)
Background:
Been using my laptop for 6 years to this point, and thought it was the installed programs and content size that slowed my laptop.
Then I heard somewhere that SSD have gotten cheaper. So I gathered the courage to look on my local stores, and found Lexar NS100 1TB for $72.
After swapping the HDD with this SSD, installed nixos on it, laptop went from taking 2 and a half minutes to start to 15 seconds! And it was consistent every time.
Not only that, but opening apps (libre office suite) went from taking 30 seconds to just 3!
SSD gave a new breath to my somewhat old laptop.
PS: RAM is just as important, And it’s often overlooked. Anything less that 8GB nowadays is not recommended (browsers have been known to use more RAM than expected. To me, tab suspenders where not an option, since to revisit the suspended tab means the browser had to load the page all over again, few seconds delay) 16GB is the sweet spot IMO.
In Electronics world? Bipolar junction Transistors. Easily.
This led into having portable devices we have today.
Back then people used vacuum tubes for switching and amplification; of which were very expensive to run (used a lot of power when idle, while having a very short lifespan of less than 48 hrs).
I mean, vacuum tubes where phenomenal when they came, allowed first long distance calls in 1915.
Look at my phone now, fits on my hands, and has billions of transistors!
Post script: lately I’ve been thinking, what if we remove cell towers as middle men? Because nowadays privacy is somewhat dead. People have been using radio frequency for walkie-talkies even before 1st generation communication (1G) was a thing.
What's your most unpopular opinion about music ?
For me : Trippie Redd’s “!” Is actually a great album
Do you leave a tip for housekeeping if you're only staying one night in a hotel?
Is it a ‘thank you for prepping my room’ or ‘please clean my room today’? If you tip post cleaning, it’s likely going to someone else the next day. Many hotels now only do housekeeping on demand. How do employees feel about this - do they miss the tips or are they happy for a less stressful workday?...
What's the best wax-on-wax-off-style advice you've heard that you can attest as being helpful in certain situations?
What's the most embarrassing thing about you?
If you had to give one piece of advice that is pretty much universally applicable, what would it be?
I wouldn’t dare defile Douglas Adam’s memory by not mentioning that you should keep a towel with you at all times, but my second contender is a surprisingly short three-parter:...
Can you name any objectively unique human creations or thoughts that were not derived/inspired from another source?
This is intended as a very abstract philosophical question....
What do you think about this?
Someone told me that if you keep your gaze fixed and imagine a completely black circle right above someone’s head, what you are actually doing is telepathy… so far I haven’t researched more about it but I have noticed that some strange things happen when I do that, I see spirals and the vision looks different, could...
What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?
My (20F) colleague (60sF) is a workplace bully, what do I do?
This is a job at a casual dining establishment. My colleague is driving me nuts but there seems to be no recourse for it. UK btw...
Why are 80% of the elements metallic? I get that they ARE, but WHY?
What is your favorite 100% non political "just nice music" music artist?
I’ll start. System of a Down....
Why is Lemmy obsessed with the word "enshittification"?
I see it referenced constantly here, not quite as much on Reddit. I know what it means, but just wondering why such the popularity over on this side of the fence?
Can a damaged hard drive slow down a computer?
My mother’s laptop has been running as fast as a turtle on a snail going uphill for a long time now. Everything has been done to it, including formatting it and installing another, less cumbersome OS, but nothing improves. I have an HHD available, I have done some tests and it does work....
What would your last words be?
To date, what do you think is the greatest invention or discovery and why?
Mine is the computer. I continue to be amazed at what we can do with them.