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Cake day: July 8th, 2023
  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•sponsor ruleEnglish
    10·
    28 days ago

    I tried Nord VPN and realized three things: 1: The “limited time specials” they boast are completely misleading. You pay more per month than what they make it sound like in their sponsored messages. 2: They try to automatically renew your subscription and charge your credit card for a significantly higher price with the hope that you wouldn’t notice. 3: Unsubscribing is made to be a frustrating pain in the ass. You have to talk to their sales representatives and they will make you argue for it. And then you’ll have to do it all over again because even though they said they cancelled your subscription it won’t be because " technical problems".

    VPNs rely entirely on trust and Nord has proven to be completely untrustworthy.

    I use Mullvad now and it uses none of those deceiving tactics to lock you into an expensive contact. It also goes long ways to keep you anonymous and has periodic audits to prove they don’t collect your data.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•All Freeze and no Time makes Lasagna a dull dinner
    262·
    1 month ago

    Pro tip: microwaves used in ovens have a wavelength of roughly 12 cm. This means that every 12 cm in the microwave oven there is a “node”, a spot where there is no heating happening. This is why most microwave ovens have a turn table so your food moves around in that field of waves so it somewhat gets heated equally. The problem with turntables however is that what is at the center will remain at the same spot. This is why the center of the food remains cold. It sat in our near a node.

    So the solution to alleviate the cold spot problem is to put your plate as far off center on the turntable as possible while allowing it to still spin and then shift it of to the opposite side of the turntable halfway through.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Robot rules
    9·
    1 month ago

    Costco and Loblaws in my area. Costco is even more annoying because it yells instructions on how to use the machine at you at every step. Every time. The moment you approach the machine it yells at you to scan your membership card. Then it yells at you to scan your items. Then it yells at you to put it in the bag area. Then it yells at you to use the PIN pad. Then it yells at you to thank you for shopping at Costco.

    I’m wondering how many people got kicked out of the store already for snapping and yelling back at the machine to STFU.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Robot rules
    35·
    1 month ago

    One thing that has been annoying me lately are self checkout machines. They play the same pre-recorded message every time you’re done using them. Some pointless message in the lines of “Thank you for using self checkout” or “Thanks for shopping with us”. You’ve heard it a dozen times already from the surrounding machines by the time you complete your transaction and then it yells it at you. I feel terrible for the employee who has to stand there all day and have this stupid 3 second recording be the soundtrack of their day. I only have to listen to it for five minutes every week and I hate it already. This message must be playing in their nightmares at night.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•More Perfect [rUle]nion being based on YouTube
    20·
    1 month ago

    Of course. It is an effective way to always have a huge basin of people desperate for work which you can then brutally underpay and exploit. And here’s the fun part: If you underpay them enough they won’t even be able to pursue better working conditions!

    The US never moved on from their slave based economy mentality. They just replaced black people with poor people (who also happen to be overrepresentatingly black).