A quick check in on the Xiaomi 14, and while this is an awesome camera, it turns out I TOO have issues with condensation and the lens fogging up. Has YOUR Xiaomi suffered similar issues? Has Xiaomi fixed or exchanged your phone?
When I complain about a product, your answer to just stop using it stinks, very badly.
Once in a while, I run into problems with this or that product. Sometimes, when I cannot find a solution, I post my issue to the fediverse, hoping someone will have the answer.
A lot of people don’t respond. This is entirely fine.
Some people respond with their own problem. That’s also fine.
Some people respond that they swear never to use the product in question again. Yes, this is entirely fine, too. I’m in favor of you making the decision to not use this product again.
However, some people come to tell me that I should not use the product I’m using. This is it. This is the entirety of their response. They don’t suggest something else, they just shit on the product.
How is this at all useful?
You’ve not solved my problem. In fact, you’ve compounded my problem. You say not to use the product I’m using. Okay. What is the alternative? Ah, well, you did not say, did you? You’re leaving me with the task of having to find the alternative. Your answer stinks.
Once in a while someone come up with an alternative. At least this person is trying to be useful. It is entirely fine to toss an alternative at me, if it is done humbly. That is, if it is done with the understanding that your choice may not be adequate for me. This is fine.
What is definitely not fine is those asshats who insist that I should their own favored product without any inkling that maybe their product is not fine for me. I’ve been on this planet long enough to know that when someone says just use this instead, it is likely that I’m going to run into problems, if not a downright dead end. Your answer stinks.
You want examples?
“WordPress stinks! Just use write.as.”
I tried write.as. It stank, even more than WordPress. I’m not a fan of WordPress, but it gets the job done.
“Chrome stinks! Just use Firefox.”
I actually did the move. Firefox is my primary browser now. However, I forgot how many sites won’t work with Firefox. Yes, I know that this is something that shouldn’t happen in 2024, but here we are. I cannot use any teleconferencing software with Firefox reliably. (Jitsi might work, but I haven’t tried it with many people, so I don’t really know.)
I’ll also add that I most likely have spent time considering the flaws you found in the product I’m using. I’ve most likely also spent time considering alternatives and found them lacking. I especially love it when someone shoves in my face an alternative I’ve already rejected.
You’re not informing me about anything I did not already know. If your answer is among those I declared to be stinking above, your answer stinks too. Even if I don’t tell you to your face. Your answer stinks.
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This Mike Patton as Britney Spears Thing Proves AI Must Be Stopped
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didnt stop to think if they should...
@leonivek Yes yesterday was something going on with both, the page and the app as well, but only for a while, half of the hour or so.
Today looks like is down again. Since circa the hour I can't see anything there except for the spinning circle and tons of "empty" posts, without the pictures, text etc.
No idea what they are doing? There's no informations nowhere about some problems.
Problematizations in Assisted Dying Discourse: Testing the “What's the Problem Represented to Be?” (WPR) Method for Critical Health Communication Research
Wendy Pringle, Front. Commun., 2019
"WPR is generative for critical health researchers because it shares the goal of challenging implicit and explicit causality and correlation within discourse. "
So earlier this evening, my partner got a notification that a #package had been delivered to our #CanadaPost#community#mailbox -- i.e. in a separate delivery from the usual mail during the day.
I went out to check, and indeed they had left the #key for package compartment "2B" in our box.
With the key snapped off right at the base of the big plastic "gas station bathroom key attached to a cinderblock" fob...
Yes. The inspector had previously told me they had loads of #problems from that guy, but of course very little could be done about it - #public#sector#unions in this country essentially make it #impossible to fire or even discipline their members, no matter how egregious, incompetent, or even malicious they are in the performance of their duties.
Of course, the bad apples are the exception, not the rule - but they ruin things for everyone.
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said in a newly released interview he was “prejudiced against” for being a “rich, White billionaire” when he was arrested for driving while intoxicated in 2014.
Any other #programmers that can help me find motivation? At work it’s easier to set and achieve goals in a siloed environment. At home there’s too many options and idk what to do. Game design really intrigues me but I lack artistic creativity #coding#python
Do you have an #itch to #scratch? Most of my personal #projects (some publicly released, some not) come from wanting to solve my problems, my way. As you go about your usual life, take note of things that make you think "that's something a computer could do for me" or "it would be easier if...". I know this is kind of trite advice.
I've found it's difficult to make progress on #problems that I think I should want to work on, rather than things I actually want to work on.
Two problems in the expert evaluation of grant applications seem insurmountable to 🇩🇪 scientists: 1) difficulties in choosing between equally acceptable proposals, and 🥁 2) nepotism. Crossed out, sorry 🤐 - "illegal problems due to networks".
Got a replacement blower #ECM#motor from northamericahvac.com - had to order from the States. Installed it, and ... furnace was still throwing an #error code meaning "incorrect #signal from ECM motor" once, then "no signal from ECM motor" forever after.
After double-checking, I saw the part number on the box didn't match what I'd ordered - but that turned out to be a red herring. The box number was for the unprogrammed motor.
If you live in the UK, and you are an omg.lol’er, and you’re using Mastodon at social.lol, and you are on the data network not WiFi, and you haven’t switched off adult content blocking, you can’t use Ivory or the web app.
I'm going to have a bit of a #tech#rant (less charitable people might say #whine) here. If you just want jokes and cute bunny pictures, feel free to skip this one.
Object of my #ire this week? #Furnaces. I'm not even going to rant about their main control boards; most of that's been said better than I could say it, by others with more knowledge than I.
As you might have #guessed, the motor in my other furnace #failed last week.
I've removed it from the furnace and #tested it, and just like the first one, the motor itself checks out fine - no #electrical or #mechanical#problems at all.
The #electronics in it have failed. And only a few months after the other one. It's almost like they're #designed to #fail; otherwise, how could you make a ton of #money by #charging#monopoly prices for what is otherwise a #generic 1/2 HP motor?
Is every moment lived by an artist an instance of their art? Is every moment lived by any human an instance of their humanity? Where, when and how are these lines drawn? "Work friends" or "real friends"? #art#poetry#problems
First, the #categorization of #political views along a single left-right #axis is almost #useless. This has long been known, and alternatives exist that present a much more accurate picture, but the traditional #media is #addicted to "#left this" and "#right that" and is lazy, so they'll probably never get better.
If you think we can solve every problem, if only we had the correct government program, or civilian association supporting it, or work hard enough, or if we #redistribute#resources#logically, etc, then you fall at the top end of this scale.
#kdrama#problems : #OneSpringNight is having evil cliffhangers so I stayed up way too late watching half the next episode ( I think I'm on 14!) I've found the OST interesting, but there are hints ( and I really don't want any spoilers thank you) that all is not going well. I mean it isn't anyway. Although generally the resolution of stories is a happy ending.
So I stayed up even later thinking about the music, and now having a quiet morning at work.
Wayland usage has overtaken X11 (lemmy.world)
Source: linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server...