Phen

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[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 2 days ago

Greentext knows its green stuff.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 2 days ago

In the early century I've seen companies bundle an entire pc (with case and all) inside their own products just to avoid dealing with windows CE.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 days ago

So he's saying one day it may make sense to get one? Great sales pitch.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Top headline will be about some new word the young generation is using. The smaller pieces will say stuff like "are you morally opposed to murder? That may cost you your job! 12 out the 14 companies in America say they wouldn't hire someone with antique puritane views"

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 days ago

And people would also track down and document what race people used to be before the change happened so that they could keep on hating too.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 4 days ago

If I say "it's here" she'll run towards any window to bark.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 4 days ago

It became mandatory for all new products in 2011, so a few years after that most people were used to it, though there's many people still using adapters to this day.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 5 days ago

Oh I didn't know that! Gonna have to take a trip through some old photos one of these days.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Would be fun if steam hid those from anyone who used those specific payment processors while still showing them to people who used alternative options - and then people started to disable those processors due to it.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You know what? I just realized I haven't actually tried to open a webp file in years. I'm just so used to cancelling the save dialog and taking a screenshot instead when I see a webp extension, I didn't even consider it might actually be supported now.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 5 days ago (4 children)

He's probably no longer there, the pic is quite old and Google has updated a lot of its street view stuff over the years. Unless this is some place where 2012 was the first time that google decided to map - in that case it may be pretty low on the priority list for updating.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Type N might not be the best but it was like a gift from heavens here in Brazil. We had no standard before it so most outlets would take one or two unsafe options; most houses would not ground their outlets, people would yank out the ground pin from plugs to make them fit; washing machines would often come with a completely different plug that some houses would just have a different outlet for, while others would use adapters. And so many other issues.

Nowadays you don't even need to see what you're doing because you can just stick your hand into outlets to feel where it is and insert the plug blindly without any risk.

 

Anything exciting going on in your field of work this year? Or breakthroughs in science, new technologies developed, things like that.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Phen@lemmy.eco.br to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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