My friend is trying to save the bulb because it's not been designed to be replaced, you have to disassemble a corner of the car (Opel Corsa).
Tehdastehdas
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my conspiracy theory is that HP just kills mice that are alive for too long
HP is that kind of company.
My right-out-of-warranty Logitech M590 mouse lost its pairing to its USB-receiver upon booting up Windows after using the mouse in Linux for weeks out-of-warranty. I bought another one, and that too did the same the first time I booted up Windows after the warranty had expired.
Finally I searched the issue, and it's normal. I had to install a non-default Logitech software in Windows and re-pair the apparently broken mice to their receivers. Both mice work again, except the older one's left button is acting up a bit.
A non-asshole company would have notified me "Your mouse receiver needs an update that requires re-pairing the connection manually. Do you want to continue the update?". And why the hell would a mouse receiver need an update when the warranty ends?
Obviously the purpose is to make the mouse appear broken with plausible deniability and bluff the customer into buying a new mouse.
Ghosts of Mars by John Carpenter
Set on a colonized Mars in the 22nd century, the film follows a squad of police officers and a convicted criminal who fight against the residents of a mining colony who have been possessed by the ghosts of the planet's original inhabitants.
Ghosts of Mars received mostly negative reviews and was a box office bomb, earning $14 million against a $28 million production budget.
Ghosts of Mars has received a cult following since its release, with critics praising the action sequences, soundtrack and blending of genres.
I recently installed /e/OS on my phone. It's based on Lineage OS, which is based on AOSP.
Battery lasts a week in sparse use.
Its main feature is privacy. Tracker blocker pictured:
Blu-ray is way better. I checked.
Plain lemmy.world . Now all work, so the issue was a fluke.
That works.
I see this one, but not the other one. Web interface, Firefox, Linux.
Most cameras have native 4:3 aspect ratio. You may want to check the settings and crop later if needed.
To my knowledge, Samsung started this by calling “local display shaped” aspect ratio as “full”. To find the native one without reading the specs, hold the camera still and see which setting includes the most view.
Aluminium conducts better per weight. Copper per volume.
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How much of your money is invested in evil corporations? Some advice for ethical investing
(lemmy.world)
I was horrified by the contents of one of my Finnish mutual funds when I looked into it after years of disinterest: USA is overweighted, and I hate some of those companies I've ended up owning.
I'm especially disgusted by UnitedHealth Group Inc - the health insurance company whose mass murderer CEO got shot recently, sparking nationwide cheers.
As a passive investor, you'll forget your money into the wrong hands when the bank won't remind you of developments in the political situation.
Ålandsbanken promises:
"socially sustainable"
You may assume your bank is civilised, but you should have a closer look. I'm a customer of S-bank in Finland. In this case, the fund ended up under a different bank twice due to buyouts, and the management of the fund ended up in a Canadian bank branch in the UK.
My other bank didn't recommend selling my Russian investment when Putin's reign had started going overdue after his full term as a president. Luckily I was awake and sold everything.
Investments drift out of balance over time. Within mutual funds, there are limits, but the funds grow at different rates. You should re-balance your diversification once in a while to avoid excessive country risk.
I don't know if fund managers are bribed to distort the balance within the fund's limits for the benefit of a third party.
My fund is managed by that guy. I sold everything. Will reinvest in Europe.
How should you invest?
Profit comes with risk.
high risk, high reward (on average)
Don't take more risk than you can carry. For example, if you'll surely need at least 100% of your money back in a few years, don't put all of that money into stock (shares), because they are unpredictable in the short term.
In the stock market, even the duration of a "short term" is unpredictable. For example, if you invested in Japan right before the 1980s bubble burst, you would have had to wait 20 years to recover from the crash.
Japan bubble peak 1990
Owning your house is an undiversified, unhedged investment in real estate. What if there’s a bubble about to burst? What if the house is hit by a disaster that insurance won’t cover? If I owned a house, I’d probably take some debt and buy foreign shares not related to house prices.
Easiest way to invest safely:
Hire a fiduciary to craft a passive (cheap) investment strategy suited to your needs. My bank offers free advice for crafting a strategy.
(Don't buy actively managed funds with costly fees - it's a waste of money, except in a few special cases. The bank will happily sell you an expensive service.)
Easy way to invest somewhat ethically:
Put your money into ESG-compliant or highly EU SFDR-rated index funds (with really cheap fees) that don't invest in countries, industries, and companies you disapprove of.
(In some cases, switching between funds in the same bank allows you to avoid paying taxes from your previous winnings in the fund you want to get rid of, because the sell/buy -action is interpreted as an internal move.)
More ethical easy way to invest:
If the “responsible” ESG-labeled funds are too lax for your thirst for good, find a tailored fund / bespoke portfolio where you can set tighter criteria for ethical behaviour.
Do it yourself the right way:
Buy shares of companies you approve of - the most ethical companies trying to stay clean in a dirty economy. Makers of wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, cable, bicycles, electric vehicles (trains and trams!), sustainable forestry, etc.
It's easy nowadays through many banks’ websites. Upkeep cost can be minimal.
A lazy strategy:
Store your money in various low risk financial instruments.
Once in every ~5 years, invest part of your savings in a diversified portfolio of 30 companies (and other high risk financial instruments) in at least 10 countries on at least 2 continents in at least 3 unrelated industries, and forget for 5 years.
Be sure to diversify in time by buying at different times to avoid accidentally investing everything on top of a global bubble.
If you’re feeling extra active, maybe prefer to buy in a depression and sell on a bubble, but you can't predict the future any better than all the other investors trying to outsmart you. Price/earnings ratio measures investor optimism that bubbles are made of.
Between investment sprees, save into a regular savings account.
Types of risk relevant in diversification and hedging:
If all your investments are subject to the same type of risk, they could crash at the same time.
Avoid participating in disaster capitalism with a moral hazard where companies doing disaster recovery cause disasters to pump up their share value.
If you think a company isn’t enriched by you buying previously issued, pre-owned, existing shares from someone else on the market, you're wrong, because the company sees the increased demand on the market and issues more shares, making more money from investors after you. Same as when you buy a stolen item, the thief reacts to increased demand by stealing another one.
If you think donating to charities is more ethical than investing, I somewhat disagree: it's good, but it's also unsustainable. You can grow more charity power by growing money in benefit corporations that are effectively profit-seeking charities. Example: Mozilla.
I think crypto money is a waste of computation that could be used for something productive, like protein folding. That said, Wikipedia: Proof of stake # Energy consumption:
In 2021, a study by the University of London found that in general the energy consumption of the proof-of-work based Bitcoin was about a thousand times higher than that of the highest consuming proof-of-stake system ... Ethereum's switch to proof-of-stake was estimated to have cut its energy use by 99%.
(This post was originally in You Should Know. It was justly deleted for pushing an agenda, which is banned there. Thanks for all the comments that led me to write the above investment guide.)
Kauan omistamani rahaston painotus näyttää järkyttävältä, kun katson sitä ensimmäistä kertaa vuosiin. Erityisesti pistää silmään UnitedHealth Group Inc, jonka kirjoituspöytämurhaaja-toimitusjohtaja tuli ammutuksi äskettäin, ja kansa hurrasi.
Passiivisena sijoittajana omat rahat unohtuvat vääriin käsiin, kun pankki ei muistuttele maailmanpoliittisen tilanteen muuttumisesta.
"Ålandsbankenin vastuullisen sijoittamisen periaatteet"
Tämä rahasto perityi S-Pankille sen ostaessa pankkeja, jotka olivat ostaneet pankkeja. Rahaston hoitajaksi päätyi kanadalaisen pankin sivukonttori UK:ssa.
Toinen pankkini ei suositellut Venäjä-rahaston myyntiä Putinin kauden mentyä pitkäksi. Onneksi tajusin myydä osuuteni silloin.
Sijoitukset ajautuvat epätasapainoon ajan mittaan. Rahastojen sisällä on rajat epätasapainolle, mutta rahastot kasvavat epätahtiin. Välillä kannattaa tasapainottaa hajautus vaihtamalla rahasto-osuuksia sopivasti, ettei maariski kasva sietämättömäksi.
En tiedä lahjotaanko rahastonhoitajia painotuksen vääntämiseksi sääntöjen puitteissa tiettyyn laitaan ulkopuolisen tahon eduksi.
Rahastoni hoitaja on kuka lie. Myin pois. Sijoitan Eurooppaan.
Sama englanniksi, ja lisäksi sijoitusneuvoja: https://feddit.uk/post/24222258
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Share EU where? By sharing there, you submit to shadow ban while giving credence to propaganda.
(lemmy.world)
Black box feed shaping is sneaky propaganda, making undesirable messages effectively unseen. We shouldn't submit to it, or give credence to it.
European citizens' media feeds in the control of a hostile country enables the slow, strategic destruction of Europe by trillions of unnoticeable manipulations.
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Every time Windows updates itself, my Linux disappears. Actually, it's just hidden, only the boot menu was overwritten. You need a computer maintenance technician to make a new boot menu. I use a USB stick with a live Linux with automatic boot repair tools.
Recently, Windows has become resistant to Boot Repair Disk. Now I have to open computer firmware by tapping "Esc" right after power-up, then select "Boot options", then "Linux".
EU must ban all US-made smart products for its own safety. All closed-source software and electronics that can be used for strategic manipulation and sabotage -- Google, Apple, Amazon, all of it.
We have functional, clunky open-source software that could easily be fitted for any purpose with the money we waste propping up foreign monopolies sabotaging us. Europe has taken a huge risk. I suspect bribery.
The destruction of OkCupid by Match Group looks like a politically motivated attack against the minorities and intellectual power users who used to flock there.
OkCupid used to be the best place to match diverse people.
They crowdsourced thousands of multiple choice questions from which you built your search filter:
- Which answers you accept
- How important each is to you
- Your answer for the other side of the match equation
- Voluntary explanation
The match results were factored into friendship, dating, and sex. "Friendship" contained ethics and communication style, so it also worked for business partnerships.
Then Match Group bought it.
For a while they let it be, but then they:
- Removed the factoring - no more looking for friends or sex, only complete packages
- Removed search - no more finding the best matches anywhere on the planet, now you just swipe like Tinder
- Removed keyword search - no more finding niche interests not included in the questions, like "furry"
- Removed the search filter - now everything has to be the same to match: both of you must have or not have tattoos for example, never mind what you like - two of my likes went from 99% and 95% to 50% match
- Deleted the voluntary explanations without warning, so no one could back theirs up
- Deleted ~95% of the match questions without warning
- Deleted all message histories
- Deleted all accumulated likes, which were the best matching people around the world with maximal couple/friend/sex partner potential except, for example, location for now. They broke the profile links, so bookmarks became useless.
- They delete likes without permission, without notification
- They delete matches (mutual likes) if they haven't been messaging in a while, as if that meant they're not a match - no, they have a temporary problem, such as life situation
- They block previously matched people that have been clicked "pass" on without notifying either party about the blocking. People have appeared on my block list (well hidden under "settings") even when I wasn't using the site.
- They show profile sections in the wrong order, so those written as a continuum won't make sense. After liking and reopening the profile, the sections will be shown in the correct order.
- They police inconvenient statements in the users' introductions as the political situation evolves - the day after the mass murderer healthcare insurance CEO got shot, the section in my profile containing (for months) "fuck the healthcare system - make a better one" was deleted without sending me a copy to edit
Plausibly deniable attack: "It's just business."
It cheats you in through a back door, looking like an ad-covered kiosk. The main entrance is on the other side.
In stalls, there are two screens playing ads, sound coming from the one you're facing.
Toilet paper brands advertise on dispensers, all brands owned by the same conglomerate.
Softest toilet paper has printed portraits of the toilet company's political enemies.
Facial recognition measures usage, you pay at exit.
Exiting after 5 minutes is expensive, but a monthly plan is cheaper.
The whole wash was estimated 72 minutes when it started.
It weighs the clothes by inertia in the beginning, I didn't overload, and the water (hot and cold) comes in fast through thick pipes, so there's no excuse for this.
How dumb must the program be to estimate one minute left in the beginning of the rinse cycle with two rinses and a spin cycle to go?
The building and presumably the machine were made 2018, and the maintenance log on the side says many repairs have been made since, so the software must have been updated many times already.
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For the minority of situations he thinks the blinker is actually needed.