ASCIIansi

joined 2 years ago
[–] ASCIIansi 1 points 2 years ago

A lot of tech companies have secondary offices in other larger cities where some of their developers prefer to live. Often those people will work from home, but the corporate apparatus likes to have a small amount of offices and support staff locally. They don't need any of that... but they seem to think they do.

[–] ASCIIansi 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Truly. Most web search engines, including google, are mostly useless these days if you don't already have a good idea where to look or it is a very common search.

You use to be able to click down a bunch of pages till what you were looking for turns up. But now after you go down a few pages it just starts repeating and it is all mostly big tech sites.

[–] ASCIIansi 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

$100 is a far cry from what I would call "budget"

[–] ASCIIansi 1 points 2 years ago

I bought a Kyocera brand of this model over a decade ago and I still use it often as my only coffee grinder. Simple and functional design. Easy to adjust courseness with a simple nut on a screw. Not much here to break other than the rim of the glass jar when I have hit it with the ceramic burr. But the jars are the standard canning jar size and are easy to replace or swap with something bigger.

I spent almost $30 on mine back in the day. But Kyocera is a japanese company. Looks like the product has been cloned by several chinese companies now and is going for almost half what I paid. Of course the quality could be lower than mine, but it is a really simple design, so I don't think I'd worry about it. If I needed another, I'd buy one of these off brand versions.

Also.. I've made grind for everything from french press, cold brew and super fine for espresso with this grinder. I started with a fancy electric one which died in a few years, but never replaced it because spending a couple minutes grinding manually helps wake you up as well.

[–] ASCIIansi 3 points 2 years ago

important gmail account

lol..... irony..

[–] ASCIIansi 1 points 2 years ago

but its open source... there isn't much they can do other than beat their hands on their chest and make noise. ... which will not work.

[–] ASCIIansi 1 points 2 years ago

Reddit wants to destroy the mods? Then reddit should see what a world without mods on the internet actually looks like… Especially before the IPO

To be fair... reddit was originally designed to be self-moderated by the users.. and it use to work really well. It would be a miracle if they moved back to that model and I would no doubt switch back to them from lemmy if they did. Those were the hey days of reddit and the internet as a whole.

[–] ASCIIansi 1 points 2 years ago

They've been running away from their culture of free speech since 2008. The only direction they have ever moved has been in the opposite direction.

[–] ASCIIansi 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I expect most of the "popular" subs (like the one you mentioned) aren't ones I have ever been aware of or cared to be aware of.

[–] ASCIIansi 2 points 2 years ago

Its not the loss of moderators, its the loss of content. If reddit hadn't changed their original self moderation model this couldn't happen. Or at least, not like this.

Moderators are not responsible for making content, they just moderate a sub where others create content. Originally users moderated content on their own.

Pretty funny how reddit's move to authoritarianism has worked against them this time.

[–] ASCIIansi 1 points 2 years ago

Perhaps... but once a certain amount of people left DIGG for reddit back in the day, the whole thing quickly fell apart. I mean, yea, DIGG still exists and I assume there are people who still use it, but I've never met one since I left it about 15 years ago.

Its not like the API issue is the only reason, much less the main reason people want to leave reddit. A lot of people have been wanting to do it for a long time now, it is only that there haven't been any other options with a crowd big enough to hold a conversation beyond only a few people. There is a big chance that that is now changing.

[–] ASCIIansi 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aloe. The easiest. Can forget to water it for weeks. Doesn't need a large amount of light. And it is a useful crop.

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