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[–] doc@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This is so close to being right. You want your drain hose to have a high loop before it connects with the drain pipe. This site has more info and clear pictures.

https://homeinspectiongeeks.com/what-is-a-dishwasher-high-loop-and-why-do-you-need-one/

[–] doc@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

So, not surge pricing but slump pricing. I agree the marketing value, but I think the urge to offset the revenue reduction by raising the "standard" or non-discounted price will prove irresistible to the bean counters.

[–] doc@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The customer is the shareholder. The consumer is a means to an end. Same as it ever was.

[–] doc@kbin.social 118 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Ain't nobody going to talk about that guy in the thumbnail eating a CD while wearing that hat? Stock photos are weird.

[–] doc@kbin.social 15 points 7 months ago

It finally just came up. Posting here from it now.

The admin last posted almost 2 weeks ago saying he was having a minor surgical procedure and hadn't publicly posted since. Hopefully he's okay and fixed this himself, but he's still silent at the moment.

[–] doc@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

I always want my gallery app to rotate. I never want my email app to rotate. Auto-auto-rotate remembers the last rotation setting for every app I use and will turn it on or off for me. After a day of normal use I literally haven't had to touch the system rotate setting once. It's fully automatic and took zero effort. Having to change the setting manually is more of a hassle than this.

[–] doc@kbin.social 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Auto-auto-rotate. Remember your rotation setting by app. Why that isn't built in I don't know.

[–] doc@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago

For all the reasons others have already stated, what you want is a Kill A Watt instead of a multimeter or another thing to buy. Plug this thing into the wall and then plug your appliances etc into the meter and leave it for a week. I will record total power draw over the duration so you can see exactly how much power is being used under normal operating conditions. With a little bit of math you can compare kilowatt hours consumed with your power company costs and figure out how much money it cost to use TV's etc per hour.

https://www.p3international.com/products/p4400.html

[–] doc@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

From experience: sodium percarbonate. This is the active ingredient in oxy-clean powders and can be purchased online. In it's pure form it's commonly used as a sterilizing cleaner for brewing and bottling equipment. I've been using it in laundry for 10 years.

[–] doc@kbin.social 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I find it's the opposite: engines are so biased toward new content that older but still useful (or crucial) results are buried. I feel like an archeologist some days, carefully digging through the strata to find ancient hidden treasure.

[–] doc@kbin.social 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I'm hanging on to my sub $1000 beater. Late 90s Civic with 240k miles and no clear coat still has better mpg than our newish CRV.

[–] doc@kbin.social 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Different brother. There's Aldi Sud and Aldi Nord (I think that's right), who have common family history but are now separate companies. One operates the US chain called Aldi and the other owns TJ's.

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