I’m sure it does nothing, but every time DPD/other fucks up a delivery by failing to even ring the bell and says “we missed you”, I call up their customer service and waste their time complaining about the small amount of time allowed per package delivery.

I ask for drivers to be allowed more time. It’s not entirely their fault (but some seemingly have no situational awareness).

I think this is one of those things that seems like it should be easy to automate, but actually has lots of hidden complexity.

They probably don’t use this to scan commonly available books, because for those you can just cut the spine off the book and scan the pages in a regular scanner.

This is likely used for books that need to be preserved and can’t be damaged during the scanning process.

How do you make a machine that will always turn exactly one page and never tear a page, while adapting for different page sizes and thicknesses, and avoiding the static charge that can make pages stick together? All for less money than it costs to pay people to operate this machine.

Link for the lazy: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/11495463

Okay so in reality you don’t complete the entire frame before starting anything else. It may be 90% complete after initial sorting and flipping of pieces, so there are gaps in the border through which you can move finished portions.

Additionally, I would typically keep most of the unsorted pieces outside the frame and then build portions inside the frame.

The “normal” way of starting a puzzle is to start with the edges. You can find the edge pieces easier due to the flat side, which makes it a good place to start when you have many pieces.

You have to spread all the pieces out when you get them out of the box, so it makes sense to separate out the edge pieces while you’re spreading and flipping pieces.

Cultists obsessed with their leader’s face?

When I had Plex play trailers, it was only ever before movies, with trailers for movies. Seeing it every time you watch an episode of a show is too much.

It already does this. I frequently get ads for other shows when starting a show on Prime video. I can barely accept the existing ads.

Same here. While mine is connected, I have no reason to use it with newer consoles in the same cabinet.

Ah yeah, I’ve never used the GUI for long enough to care how it looks, and no snap in CLI.

Good to know if my company forces my work laptop to windows 11! (I will not use an OS without a side taskbar)

Can you expand on that? I’ve never used Linux as a daily driver, interacting with Ubuntu systems via SSH.

Maybe it is! If something is so over-inflated that it bursts, it would probably look deflated…

What size do you estimate they are? Tennis ball sized?

The deflated snowman fits the scene so well!

Are you implying that bowl cuts weren’t cringe 20 years ago? The top will at least be in style when they are wearing it.

The privacy concerns are not that Meta will read your messages (because they can’t, as you mention), but the metadata they can read such as your details and who you contact.

“So, Facebook can track who sends WhatsApp messages, when, to whom, from which location (if a user allows), etc - but not the content itself,” Rykov says “This creates a privacy concern for people who want full anonymity. These people should consider using more privacy-enhancing apps like Signal, Threema, Wire instead.”

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/a-cheat-sheet-for-whatsapp-privacy/

WhatsApp became the dominant messaging platform in Europe before Facebook bought them. Most people are locked in to it because change is hard and they don’t care that much about privacy.

Now throw them all in the trash 😌

Out of all the different ways Americans pronounce words differently, hearing sodder is the only one that makes me cringe.

50k should be enough to get a mortgage and buy a house. Enough to buy a house outright would obviously be better.