[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago

A related article linked inside that one that lists the most expensive keywords to buy ad space for is absolutely shocking.
Imagine paying Google over $1000 because someone visits your website.
Kinda makes me want to Google some maritime accident lawyers and who knows, MLMs and essential oil charlatans and sow a little mayhem. Although is siphoning money from scummy MLMs to scummy Google even a net bonus?

Article:
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/most-expensive-keywords-google

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

When I was <5, I was a firefighter for Halloween. Apparently my mom wanted me to stop bothering her and she told me to go fight a fire. Apparently plastic axes can break windows, at least thin ones on a greenhouse. That is what firefighters do though...

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 12 points 11 months ago

If by any chance you have tmobile, they have a coupon for free crazy bread with purchase of pizza every week, and occasionally $3 pizza's coupons.

And if you're a family all on tmobile... Whooohooooo!

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 83 points 1 year ago

The fact that phones haven't been able to to this easily/natively/what have you is wild. Similarly, the fact that you can't use old tablets as external monitors without, in my experience of quite a few, significantly buggy software that's got significant lag in the best of times, is pretty wild. Sure, the technical hurdles aren't small, but damn.

I've got a reasonably high end newish tablet (Galaxy S7+) that I can use miracast to use wirelessly as an extra PC monitor. It works quite well... if I'm near to a high quality new router. But can I just plug the tablet in and use it as a monitor with my laptop? Not remotely well.

It's been a year or two, maybe I should check for new software again.

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

By free search allowance, do you mean the one time trial of 100, the 300 per month if you're paying $5, or something else?

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

While there is a certain level of innate technical mindedness that people have.. Being willing to try to fix it, and the lessons you'll learn from either fixing it or not is huge. Regardless of outcome hopefully the experience will be somewhat fun and pay dividends in terms of being able to recognize where vacuums get bound up with clogs, hair, etc. Occasional deep cleaning will make all the vacuums in your future live longer and suck harder.

Projects that are 'either it gets fixed or tossed' are great, there's so little pressure, and so much you can learn.

Feel free to ask more specific questions if you get deep inside it and come up with them!

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

This person bought 15 mostly 2-3 bedroom apartments for an average of $2000 each, one cost roughly $150 before taxes and fees.

That's bonkers.

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://youtu.be/_DDwEjB8vVE

"Be the change you want to see in the world."
-Someone

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

That's a really well considered post, and I'm happy to see someone at the helm with such a good grasp of what it takes to manage a community. Saved and looking forward to reading more.

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I love my electric bike, and largely agree with the sentiment of this article. My bike has has saved me a fantastic amount of gas.

However, I think calling them the "most climate friendly" is reasonably accurate, but has some issues.

If you're including the human power, a regular bike is more efficient electrically, using none, but the calculation for climate friendly is much harder.
If you're not, there are more aerodynamic electrical vehicles that are more efficient, but given their rarity, I can understand why they're not included.
If you're not including human power, the other more common electrical vehicles, scooter, onewheels, etc. Are likely about the sane efficiency, but have less environmental costs to make (smaller) and can be integrated into many peoples lives easier.

It's a tricky blanket statement to make.

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

New myself, but you seem to be doing it right.
However, the link only shows the first paragraph unless you have an account, at least for Firefox on Android.

I googled paywall blockers, and this one is working for me.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffortune.com%2F2023%2F06%2F12%2Freddit-revolt-puts-ceo-steve-huffman-in-a-tough-position%2F

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