A basic mechanical keyboard will last 20+ years and will be a nice typing experience for all those years. I’m old enough to have seen mechanical keyboards go for 20 or more years under heavy use and plenty of non-mechanical keyboards going bad after 5 years or so with similar use. It’s a great purchase.
Do people really buy pans for just eggs though? I’ve always used my regular pans for cooking eggs and if I’m storing them in my home I’d want them to cook more than just eggs.
Normal cleaning of toilet/bathroom areas deal with that kind of thing. It’s not like I’m pissing in the kitchen.
I’m really surprised by this, as someone in the “never” category I honestly didn’t realise there were men who sat down (obviously aside from physical disabilities), or that it would be a cultural thing. I’ve never thought about it.
In fact sometimes if I go for a “number two”, I will take it in two parts, pee standing up then sit down for the second part, or vice-versa. It’s just more comfortable like that.
Page load: The biggest and I mean biggest reason someone leaves a page is page load speed. If you’re deep in researching some information, regardless of your internet speed or if the fault is on the user side and your page load is over 3 seconds, you will leave the site. Loading only 1/4 of the page helps with this along with other tricks like caching at the CDN and lazy loading.
The thing that always bothers me about this is that I’ve been using the internet since 90s dial-up, and even 90s dial-up never had a “page load speed” problem when loading text-based articles. An extremely conservative estimate is that modern broadband speeds are 1000x what they were then so “page load speed” is entirely about the design of the website, and it seems that mostly the excuse is “we want to spy on people”. Am I wrong? Otherwise why not write an HTML page that would be just as compatible with Geocities as it would now?
In hindsight I should have done.
lol?
Yeah, you need to put a bit more effort into that trolling of yours.
You don’t seem to be a very nice person…
I wouldn’t go that far, there’s not a snobbishness associated with Essex people that I imagine there is with Beverly Hills (though I’ve never been to Beverly Hills). There is classism in the stereotype but people from Essex are generally looked down upon, not (so much) the other way round.
An Essex girl is involved in a car crash and is trapped and bleeding. The paramedics soon arrive on the scene.
Medic: “I’m a paramedic and I’m going to ask you some questions. OK?”
Girl: “OK”
Medic: “what’s your name?”
Girl: “Sharon”
Medic: “OK Sharon, is this your car?”
Sharon: “yes”
Medic: “where are you bleeding from?”
Sharon: “Romford, mate.”
(I was born in Essex so I think I’m allowed to tell these :p)
I would say Essex is stereotyped as being relatively affluent but lacking class, and is often a source of jokes.
I tried to find a succinct explanation but couldn’t so if you want a long read
I’m having a bit of a moan, I wouldn’t want anyone to make a decision like that purely on my account, you should make your own decision. Maybe feddit.uk will turn out fine, I hope it does, I’m just explaining why I don’t use it. lemmy.zip seems to be a responsibly run instance with similar federation policies to feddit.uk
He came back just to make other people admins and then disappeared again, which also raises questions over the ownership of the instance. It’s best security practice to have users with minimal necessary powers so if someone’s not admining they shouldn’t have admin powers since that increases the attack surface. Also the way the contingency plans were aborted the second he lifted a finger with no explanation or apology sort of rubbed me up the wrong way.
He still holds admin powers, which people might easily dismiss but I’ve had experience in past times with rogue former admins causing serious problems - you never leave inactive users with admin powers no matter how trustworthy they seem.
Daniel Johnston - Cold Hard World
What I listen to when I’m depressed and want to be, not the best song to lift you out of it.
I would be there but I was only put off by the fact that they’ve got an inactive admin which is usually a security flaw.
I think technically he’s trying to join our sites.
Unironically this; open web standards giving users freedom to decide who they interact with, as opposed to a closed service where the only choice is to like it or leave.
Reminds me of this Mitchell & Webb sketch (warning for strong language)