You absolutely should not feel bad about doing this. Ever.

If anything, you should talk about it and share your experience, because your experience could help some of those who work manual intensive jobs and are still struggling to get raises of their own.

Remember: If the company isn’t able to fairly compensate its workers, it doesn’t get to have workers. That’s how supply and demand works.

My phone is my wallet. It goes in my inside pocket where people aren’t going to be able to pick it. I’ve played Skyrim. I know how pickpocketing works. /joke

There is a small, but growing, number of retailers that have decided to apply this worldwide. Perhaps GOG is the most noteworthy. Look at anything that’s discounted there and you’ll see their “usual” price, as well as the lowest price they sold it for in the last 30 days before the current discount started. It’s a good rule, makes me more inclined to feel I’m actually getting a good deal, wish more places would do it

I am extremely disappointed by this.

I thought we were free of such toxicity here.

Oh no. I won’t be part of The Zuck’s EEE plan. How terrible. /sarcasm

According to the National Safety Council there are “too few deaths to calculate odds”. (source). So, I’m pretty sure we can call the probability of two extremely-rare events happening independently in succession as near to nothing as makes no odds.

Also, modern combined units (sometimes called CVDRs) are built to withstand multiple impacts, and their storage medium is solid state. It is highly likely that, in the event of this near-impossible scenario, the recorder could be recovered again.

I know I’m not the target of this question but I can’t imagine tipping a hairdresser.

The HVAC industry is working on that.

*** The Dalai Lama has entered the chat.

Your local public library is a great resource for this, if you have one. Most public libraries host classes, and even those that don’t will know of community colleges that do. :)

There is a known strategy called EEE (Embrace, extend, and extinguish).

First, they embrace the open web. Millions of people who never would’ve joined the Fediverse (and, probably, don’t even know what the Fediverse is) flock to Threads and start to interact with us.

Then, they extend the open web, adding features to Threads that aren’t compatible with our servers. People on Threads don’t understand what’s wrong with our server (even though it’s Threads that’s the source of incompatibility).

Finally, they decide they’re “having trouble maintaining compatibility with third party servers” and start to break off from us, leaving us with no way to interact with our new friends. Unless, of course, we make a free Threads account…

Google Talk is perhaps the most relevant example of this. Here’s more details.

Please don’t make a new coin specifically for Lemmy. We’re doing just fine without one, thanks.

I’m good with “people” but lemmings seems to be the preferred option.

Thanks, TIL :)

That’s not stupidity though, that’s malice, which is a whole different tub of bananas.

I have long believed that the only stupid question is the one that hasn’t been asked.

I feel it’s better to ask the question (and feel stupid for a few minutes) than to remain stupid for the rest of my life. :)

I nominate this post for Stupid Question That Wasn’t Actually Stupid Of The Week

The throwaway email providers I personally use are:

• If I want to receive ongoing messages and have the ability to reset passwords etc: DuckDuckGo
• If I don’t care what happens after the first email: Yopmail

Correct.

In theory, copyright law would protect you.

In practice, this isn’t always enforced across countries’ borders.

If you don’t want what you type online to be saved for posterity, don’t type it in the first place.

Unfortunately you would need some kind of electronics in the middle. You can get USB “bridged” or “networking” cables, but they aren’t regular USB cables.

However, the electronics could be a smartphone if you have one. Transfer the files from your old laptop to the phone, then to your new laptop.

Ultimately, networking would be the easiest and fastest way to do it. If you’re on Windows, you could use a program such as FastCopy to verify the files on the receiving end.