Love it! Reddit was unusable to me with its crazy mods, so I mostly lurked. I also personally find lemmings to be more welcoming than redditors.

And I like to be somewhere closer to the start of the journey we’re all making here on Lemmy even though it’s been years since it was released. We’re still early (but for real, unlike with creepto).

Well, something like this.

Remote work threatens the status quo.

I suppose it’s not that unclear if you compare the revenue of all other industries combined to the revenue of the advertising industry. The ratio is pretty large and every type of industry buys ads, so it trickles down from everywhere.

I really cannot understand why advertising is such a huge business. Where does all the money spent on advertising really come from?

It’s so that the machine elves have some time to hide!

On a serious note, I found this explanation here:

Washing machines must have some way in which you can lock the door closing mechanism when the machine is started up and then unlock them with a certain delay (normally two minutes) after the current has switched off via the program or on/off switch, in order to ensure that the door cannot be opened while some of the components are still rotating initially (in particular the motor and the drum of the spin-dryer).

Washing machines have a bi-metal strip inside the door lock which is heated by PTC Heater (resister) when live and neutral are activated on to the pcts it heats up and bends the bi-metal strip which then moves the arm to activate the common terminal and push a pin into the closed door to lock it in place. Once this has happened (usually a second or so see video) the power then can flow through to the common wire, and therefore on to the rest of the machine allowing it to start.

It was a metaphor for personal hygiene.

Weren’t we all supposed to become “prompt engineers”?

For a second or two I thought that you didn’t even get any actual ink. I had seen a post about multi-function printers refusing to scan if you’re out of ink, and I thought perhaps you could buy a card with an unlock code for such situations (hence “instant ink”). That’s not too unbelievable these days though, is it?

Orthography is hygiene for written thoughts.

The Hands Resist It!

Yeah, right.

I would say since faking most Lemmy interactions isn’t profitable, there’s no point in using chatbots to generate content for it apart from, perhaps, some sort of a social experiment, but your exposure to such experiments would likely be minimal.

Of course, you should always beware of astroturfing when, for example, looking at product recommendations, but I don’t think we’re there yet in terms of numbers to be a target.

Ironically I haven’t yet read any of the books in the trilogy, but I plan to do it soonish.

At least they don’t use this crap in the medical field. Oh wait…

The coolest name.

British Cycling is sponsored by oil company Shell.

— Reuters

British Cycling is the Host partner of the championship, according to the official website of the championship (linked to at the UCI website, “Organizer website” section), and its partner is Shell UK (announcement).

Someone pointed it out in the comments before, but it’s neatly summarized now 😝

Absolutely disgusting.

Only instance admins can configure it (including turning it off for all their users).

“Look at you, hacker…” 😅