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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Hoping someone might be able to help me out with this info, I’ve tried looking and can’t find a solid answer.

    When you use the “Save and close group” feature of tab groups, do they

    1. Stay forever, no matter if you close Firefox, restart your pc, not used that group in months etc.

    2. Allow an unlimited, or at least a high number, of saved and closed tab groups.

    I mainly ask because it specifically puts closed and saved tab groups in a section called “recent tab groups” which sounds suspiciously temporary.




  • I mean, there’s a lot of things you can do for free that we pay people for. They’ve put together a device that is preloaded with a ton of information. To do this yourself would probably take most people a week or 2, at best a weekend if you worked hard and had pre-existing knowledge and a fast connection. Maybe longer depending how they modified the raspberry pi, though you don’t necessarily need it to do everything they made it do.

    You’d pay in this range for someone to clean your house for a few hours. You can also do that free. It’s the convenience you’re paying for.


  • Would most people notice that? Would they say something if they did? If this particular warranty is mileage based, I’d keep my mouth shut if mine was abnormally low. It’s not like it’s something that affects the functioning of the car, and has other potential advantages like higher resale value.

    And even if you said something, who is going to report on it? This is news because it’s gone to court. You’re not going to try to take them to court for it being low. At best you’ll just try to get it fixed.

    I’m not saying this isn’t something they would do, I just don’t necessarily think we’d definitely see reports of it being low, even if it was happening.

    If they were actually doing this, and actually being smart about it though, they’d have it go over at a rate of say, 30% of cars, and under at a rate of like 10% of cars so they’d still come out on top but actually have it seem to be randomly faulty.





  • Kids mess with those ants when they’re 5 and are fine. Sure it hurts but not really different to a bee.

    The only one I’d say the average Australian has above average exposure to is jellyfish, assuming they go to the beach even semi regularly. But I mean, they just float around, they aren’t coming for you on the attack.

    Spiders there’s only 2-3 anyone actually worries about, they’re rarely seen and even more rarely bite anyone. Same for snakes. You also won’t die even if you do get bit unless you can’t make it to a hospital/contact help for a very long time.

    Crocodiles are barely a concern outside select areas (eg think whether the average American would be concerned about alligators at all).

    Kangaroos can theoretically attack but generally want to keep to themselves. But also to give you an idea how much of a non issue they are there are zoos that don’t even have them in pens, they just roam around with the people.

    Edit: one thing I probably didn’t make clear, the average Australian probably does see a high amount of spiders, what I meant is the average Australian doesn’t typically see the actually dangerous spiders. I’ve seen them maybe 2-3 times in almost 40 years.


  • Do games count? I got scammed on runescape out of a 50mil item which was a lot at the time (this was sometime around 2003-2005). 50-100 hours of time for me to get it at an estimate. It was a stupid mistake that I thought I was smart enough to avoid, with what I now recognise as classic signs of a scam (slightly too good to be true, moving goal posts, slightly odd but not entirely unreasonable requests, time sensitive).

    But I can tell you I’m glad I got scammed young on a game, because it was a good lesson with very low actual harm (only time lost realistically) and made me WAY more wary of things.









  • “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” -Seneca

    When we complain about not having enough time, we think of ourselves as being passively allocated an insufficient resource. But maybe the problem isn’t that life is too short, but that we waste much of the time we’re given.

    I think this is relevant in these modern times more than ever. How much of our time goes to mindless scrolling, worrying about things beyond our control, or pursuing goals that don’t truly align with our values? We should be thinking about the difference between being busy and spending time meaningfully.

    And that’s not to say all time spent should be something “productive”. Leisure time can be meaningful. But I think it’s worth even thinking about that. Are you truly happy with how you choose to spend your leisure time when you watch 100 short videos you probably won’t even remember? Or when you sit there getting angry or depressed about article after article after article? I think it’s worth thinking about.