One thing Amazon is better at (at least here in Germany) is free shipping. But seeing how that is a least partially responsible for creating a cutthroat delivery market, where companies contract out delivery work to barely self-employed drivers for barely any money, paying for shipping doesn’t seem like a bad idea (even though I know the drivers won’t really see any of that money in the end)

There’s an archive of books belonging to a certain anna, which has not failed me yet.

Incidentally, Aurora Store is unable to find this particular app.

The problem is the combination of AOC and nonconsentual explicit AI content. Overly broad rules might make that fall under satire, which is why caution is advised when devising such rules.

Just imagine being a artist, doing furry because you love it or maybe just because it pays your bills. And then someone from HBO contacts you about commissioning a picture of John Oliver as a horny otter in skintight jorts.

It’s Microsoft. For some insane reason, excel formulas are localized. E.g. German Excel uses “SUMME()” instead of “SUM()”.

It’s insanely annoying because it sport of makes it more difficult to ask for help (I.e. only Germans might know what SVERWEIS does). And if you manage to find a solution in English, you need to translate it.

There’s a slight difference in that “Ostsee” is the common name. If the German chancellor decides to call it “Deutsche See” tomorrow, the name would continue to be “Ostsee”, because that’s how language usually works.

“Gulf of America” is just a dictator’s wish of a common name. The people of OpenStreetMap decided to use the tag “official_name:en_US” for that reason, while keeping “Gulf of Mexico” for the commonly used “name:en-US”.

I would go one step further and require all companies to provide an email address that must be clearly listed on a “contact” page, including a PGP public key to allow for encryption if desired.

If they want people to use their chat bot, the chat bot just needs to actually be good.

You can literally sort issues by last activity if you want to proritize based on that. There’s no reason to autoclose issues.

Preventing people from stealing toothbrushes is just evil. Nobody chooses to be in a situation where they even think about stealing a freaking toothbrush.

Assuming both of those people use exactly the same infrastructure (which they do), yes.

The person with the higher usage will still pay more in total because the connection fee is just a base price, you’re still paying per kWh (which is forwarded to the companies running the power stations)

Still has no equivalent replacement with regards to price and size though.

You connect power there.

This device literally does exactly this, coming from a USB C connector.

Let’s not pretend they’re not doing that as well.

There’s already docking stations for laptops that use two USB C connectors for exactly this reason.

I don’t have HVAC, so I’m just using it to see when the air at my desk is getting stale so I remember to open the window. I mostly use homeassistant for the configuration, although I might also set up a notification at some point (I only got my sensor 2 days ago)

Very nice.

It’s missing CO2, but those are expensive so that’s understandable. If you need one of those, I think https://www.airgradient.com/ is a great choice.

And said state has both an interest in the stability of the currency as well as tools to influence it that are not available to everyone.

I’ve never even considered weighing spices. They’re usually given in teaspoons or just as “a pinch” even if the rest of the recipe uses grams and milliliters.

Cars being online has some tangible benefits in that they can transmit location data to emergency services, especially if the driver is unresponsive. Might save someone from dying in a ditch in the middle of nowhere.

Arguably, some of the data collected while driving is also very useful for maintenance and development (e.g. if a lot of vehicles start having a similar issue after X miles).

That said, this data should be limited in scope and use (e.g. must not be sold, especially not to insurance companies), as well as anonymized as much as possible. Which is currently not the case, and that definitely needs regulation.