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What game changing item*s can you buy for $100 or less?
  • My EDC is a Spyderco Para 3, but IMHO Kershaw is a great budget brand. I really like the Iridium, but the finish is a bit too delicate for my taste because I keep my knife in the same pocket with my keys.

  • What game changing item*s can you buy for $100 or less?
  • There are other kinds of monitors that come pretty close, but definitely not for under $100. For example, the Nebula display on some Asus laptops, or the Nixeus NX-EDG34S (which is no longer available, but I assume there are equally good monitors available using the same tech).

  • An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications
  • You've described the reasons why aliens that see in the radio spectrum would never evolve in the first place. Aliens from a particularly cool star might have their vision attuned to infrared, but no place that's warm enough to have liquid water would be cold enough to make radio waves more useful than infrared.

  • Announcements on the train should refer to "port / starboard side" instead of "left / right in the direction of travel", when pointing to the exits.
  • I suspect most people think port and starboard are just synonyms for left and right. I did for a very long time. And you also have to consider non-native speakers who might not know the nautical terms at all.

    The trains where I live say "on my right" and "on my left". It sounds a little weird hearing an automated voice speaking in the first person, but it's concise and gets the message across to people who won't know nautical terms.

  • Bug: Incorrect markdown rendering

    I've mainly seen this with superscript notation not being recognized, but I assume there are other differences between Lemmy markdown and what Boost uses.

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    Is Reddit even trying anymore?

    I'm trying not to read too much into the fact that Reddit is down right now, but I've noticed pages have been increasingly slow to load lately, and I get a lot of messages about server errors even just voting on comments. It seems like they're barely even keeping the lights on. Anyone else notice the same thing?

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    What's the least shady political organization I can donate to in the US?

    I still get tons of political calls, texts, and emails from donations I made around 2016 and 2020. Is there any organization I can use to donate money that won't harass me in the future or sell my data to someone else who will?

    (I got a text soliciting a political donation while I was typing this question!)

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    Gboard: Why do I get "didn't" when I swipe "don't"?

    When I swipe "don't" in Gboard, at least 30% of the time it decides I mean "didn't". I just tested it, and the accuracy was shockingly bad. I'd understand if the strokes were very similar, but "didn't" has a whole extra stroke in it compared to "don't". WTF, Google?

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    How is Reddit's current mobile site so bad?

    When you try to edit a Reddit comment in their mobile web app, it deletes all line breaks from your comment so you have to remember to manually put them back before submitting.

    The other big issue I have is that when you type in and edited comment, it will omit spaces between words at random. JFC, there's no reason to use anything but a vanilla HTML input element (because only markdown formatting is supported), but they somehow fucked up basic text input anyway!

    My last little gripe is that nothing in the interface tells you that markdown is supported, which is extra dumb because the desktop interface tries so hard to hide the fact that markdown even exists.

    (And yes, there are a host of other annoyances, but I'm trying to limit my criticisms to things that can only be explained by incompetence.)

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