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).

Could one argue that a monolithic kernel such as the Linux kernel also goes against that principle?

I wonder how universal that phenomenon is across different cultures.

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.

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

Orthography is hygiene for written thoughts.

The Hands Resist It!

TIL banana is a berry! 🤯

You can also make your own ketchup.

But store-bought tomatoes are nearly tasteless…

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.

There’s a webcomic about a world where almost no one sleeps anymore thanks to a new drug. And they work 16 hours a day.

Oh, I didn’t notice any with an adblock. Sorry about that!

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

Clickbait headline for a boring article 😪

The coolest name.

@675 is the best!

Placebo effect is one of the greatest mysteries of all time. I believe figuring it out will greatly affect our lives for the better.

Those were fair points TBH.