“military grade” sounds way cooler to idiots than “commercial grade”

Relatable

Now, I know one of the reasons Piefed exists and has had success is down to how people don’t like the political views of the main Lemmy devs.

That said, I’ve gotta be honest, the personal opinions of the Piefed dev seem to have a much more tangible impact on the software than the other guys. This is definitely not the first instance of subjective default post filtering being built into the software.

Given the demographics of the fediverse I’m surprised this kind of clandestine moderation hasn’t had more of a pushback.

Sadly they don’t seem to trade in the UK and a bit of a Google has led me to believe it’s quite a niche thing here!

Gap in the market there for someone I reckon, though maybe we have smaller freezers on average here or something that means it’s less likely to succeed.

At any rate, I know I’d definitely keep a soup in the freezer for an easy meal if I could readily get them

(Yes I realise there’s nothing stopping me putting a fridge soup in the freezer, maybe I do that)

Huh, I’ve never heard of frozen soup you can buy

In the UK it’s either tinned (basically Heinz or Baxter’s, people don’t really buy Campbell’s here) or increasingly more likely a fridge soup from a plastic tub or a carton.

I pretty much always go for the fridge soups these days, but (probably due to nostalgia) some days all you want is a tin of Heinz tomato soup

We want happy paintings, if you want sad things… I’m about to go on a happy little spree

I was about to say, this sounds like market collusion

Wouldn’t the free-market capitalist thing for them to do in this situation be to take the knowledge their competitors can’t compete with them and use it to squeeze them out of business?

Literally if they do anything else with this information it feels like it has to be pretty textbook collision

And in an instant, the last remaining remnants of value you could get from humble bundles are gone.

I don’t see how game bundles like that aren’t going to just end up half slop

Kinda

In a normal transaction without a phone you use a plastic card issued by MasterCard/Visa/Amex (or a local processor). The processing company charges a merchant a small percentage fee on that transaction to the business. In some places they might add that processing fee to the bill, but that’s illegal in my country nowadays.

When you add Google/Apple into the mix, they’re importantly not replacing anyone, they’re just adding themselves in to basically just replace the “plastic” part with “virtual” in what I said before. So the payment processor still takes the same fees they always have, it’s just a phone talking to the card reader rather than a chip in a card.

So how do they make money? I believe Apple just charges the bank a small percentage, which I imagine they reconcile out of the payment processor fees. Google, on the other hand, I think offers it to banks for free, because as is tradition, they’re more interested in the data.

That last one briefly was John Pork, should have stopped there

Why is it somehow so much worse that this is a train?

Like it’s feral behaviour wherever you are, but somehow very slightly more expected this was on a plane IMO

I know it’s a total cliché, but I’m so glad I was lucky enough to exit the dating world in the early 2010s

Shit seems baad

What about a combination heater/lamp where the lamp part is just incandescence

I’ll take 2 wood and a wool if you’ve got it

What? Without the ham? Eughh

I mean the shark is clearly midway through transforming into this level’s boss

Hope you healed up, OP

Good luck!

I’m not sure I understand where you’re coming from, let me just clear up where I’m coming from in case I’m confusing things:

Obviously most users won’t have a laptop that can draw 240W

Though additionally, laptops that are able to draw 240W do exist today (there’s even some that come with 360W barrel jack chargers now IIRC). Yes, they’re for enthusiasts or professionals, but they still exist, so unless the spec prevented it*, they should be included in consideration too IMO

Given this is legislation that applies with a pretty broad stroke, I was making the point it’s kinda arbitrary to stop applying it at 100W.

*Another commenter made the very good point though, that the 240W standard is simply too new to be part of this legislation. So kinda satisfied with that answer

I’d guess a high percentage of the people with laptops that can draw that much power

Seems kinda arbitrary when the spec goes up to 240W