Or like the game instead of the credit card collection form.

There are actually quite a lot of DRM free games on Steam, BTW.

State communication should not travel over private channels that can arbitrarily limit accessibility to that State’s communications.

• The grass is always greener in the hand.
• You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t look it in its mouth.
• We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.
• Caught with his pants in the cookie jar.

Tray-less microwaves have a spinning metal “stirring fan” below a plastic floor you set your food upon to mix the bounce path the microwaves take. Since they expose fewer moving parts to the end user they are easier to clean and more resilient making them a good option for commercial / high volume settings.

A microwave works by bouncing microwaves around the interior. Since the shape of the container doesn’t change neither will the path that the bounced waves take. This can lead to hotspots in what you’re reheating.

To mitigate this you have a few options:

• move the food around in the container so that different parts pass through different hotspots over time (this is what a tray does)
• interrupt the microwave path via a “stirrer fan” that sits below the microwave floor (this is what tray-less units use)

Both approaches redistribute the hotspots to maximize even heating. The efficacy of either approach will come down to the specific design of either unit, but a tray-less unit can be easier to clean, and with fewer moving parts exposed to end users can be a good option for commercial/high user count settings.

Each design accomplishes the same task of relatively even heating with few hotspots.

100%

It’s the only way I open the start menu. There is no faster way to get to what I want than Superkey and typing.

PS I have all my OSes set up similarly. OSx has spotlight, my GNOME and KDE are configured to launch searchable menus on Super, and my mobile launcher is set up to search when I swipe up.

It gives a false sense of security to beginner programmers and doesn’t offer a more tailored solution that a more practiced programmer might create. This can lead to a reduction in code quality and can introduce bugs and security holes over time. If you don’t know the syntax of a language how do you know it didn’t offer you something dangerous? I have copilot at work and the only thing I actually accept its suggestions for now are writing log statements and populating argument lists. While those both still require review they are generally faster than me typing them out. Most of the rest of what it gives me is undesired: it’s either too verbose, too hard to read, or just does something else entirely.

After Israel bombed an UNRWA School, BTW. Since the headline went out of its way to obfuscate that.

There are VoIP options, sure, but not the actual phone bands.

Except the actual phone part.

Your car should not be in the same cost area (or more) of your annual salary.

Cool! Yet another way to have Google loop the same 20 songs tangentially related to the artist I searched for without actually playing the artist I searched for.

You’re conflating your personal experience as being generally common. You may have benefit from these, but they are not a back to school necessity or even consideration for “every parent.” For the vast majority of people these are unnecessary.

On a dimmer set to 10% all of these bulbs will be more efficient than the RGB ones you linked because they will not have to run a computer and WiFi/BT hotspot in perpetuity. They will simply be on for 10% of the time. You could also probably get some red tinted films to place over the light fixtures.

You literally linked a music sync RGB bulb. Do you really expect your college student you’re sending away to not use the party mode? They aren’t just gonna sit in their room with a 10% power red light. Well maybe your kid will, but that isn’t an “every college student” kinda thing. Not everyone has sensitive eyes and for most people these are luxuries.

All these options are about half as much and still dimmable.

• https://www.walmart.com/ip/GE-LED-Light-Bulbs-10-Watt-60-Watt-Equivalent-Soft-White-Standard-Bulb-Shape-Medium-Base-Dimmable-4-Pack/55322542?classType=REGULAR&athbdg=L1103&from=/search
• https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/solhetta-led-bulb-e26-800-lumen-dimmable-globe-opal-70530119/
• https://www.homedepot.com/p/EcoSmart-60-Watt-Equivalent-A19-Dimmable-Energy-Star-LED-Light-Bulb-Soft-White-4-Pack-A810SS-Q1D-01/206047134

P.S. you can edit your comments. No need to double reply.

Unless your tap water has dangerous chemicals in it you’ll save money just drinking that. It may taste different because you’re used to a different balance, but drinking it for a week or so will lead to you getting used to it and saving money.

Dimmable white led bulbs are at least half the cost of addressable RGB bulbs. I’m not sure the “10% of light output means it uses 10% of the nominal wattage” idea holds true as some of that energy is going into running a microprocessor and wireless bridge. Using a traditional dimmer switch with white LEDs will actually use less power over time.

You’ve listed luxuries. You may want filtered water and a party mode on tap, but being luxuries they are definitionally unnecessary.

This seems unnecessary.

Hmm, they got 1 out before they killed him this time. I suppose that’s an improvement.