I’m going to say all LG laundry stuff must not be created equal. We have two washing machines at work and they both break every month . The only tech I can think of that’s worse are HP printers.

I fix ours (not my job, but it’s a good mental break from regular work), I start a new job next month and my boss asked what he should do about them.

Wait until they break and get something else, they’re not worth fixing. It’ll be cheaper and less downtime to buy something good.

Reddit made that change where if you blocked someone they couldn’t reply to you in a thread.

That was quickly weaponized so that you could ‘win’ an argument. Someone could write something and your reply would not appear, so it looked like you realized you were wrong.

We should not care so much about ourselves and care more about the world

Jackass has a private bunker in New Zealand for when shit hits the fan

Meanwhile back at the ranch

Malware-ridden apps made it into Google’s Play Store, scored 19 million downloads

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/apps_android_malware/

The same but with Yanet García

Good, this bullshit has never made a compelling argument

In its defence, Google argued that since it was not based in Uganda and had no physical presence in the country, it was not obliged to register with the PDPO, and the rules on cross-border transfers of personal data did not apply to it. However, the regulator rejected this argument, determining that Google is a local data controller since it collects data from users in Uganda and decides how that data is processed.

By 10am on Friday, data suggested an extra 66,000 internet users in the UK had begun using the dark web.

“People should be aware that children and adults who use [certain software] to bypass age checks will not benefit from the wider protections offered by our online safety rules.”

Genius

Yes, it was in vitro. Still interesting, and I would imagine will lead to further study.

As I said in the other comment the sugar alcohols are generally benign, I had not read anything to the contrary before.

Read the study abstract in one of the other comments here, it’s based on a single serving of soda. Seems kinda bad, which is interesting because the sugar alcohols are generally benign. They’re non nutritive but most don’t cause any problems except stomach upset in some people. I find they have an off taste, many people do not though.

Edit: can brewing yeasts feed on it? Or are you using it to adjust sweetness level? My brewing experience is limited, I have only used wild yeasts and a few of the Safale strains

Newsweek isn’t great. It’s a sugar alcohol, Erythritol

You already don’t have a good vibe from him, and life goals sound incompatible. If he made one sexual innuendo and you didn’t respond to it, then he continued doing so he doesn’t respect your boundaries.

Hard pass

The lack of documentation is a huge problem, if you opened up an old tube amp to fix it there was often a full schematic taped to the cover. Solid state amps often had component values stenciled right on the board.

The level of technical knowledge needed to repair things has increased, while general technical knowledge has decreased. People aren’t reading Popular Mechanics from the 1950’s where “build a hovercraft from an old lawnmower” the building one.

Parts are also a huge problem. Where previously a car alternator, for example, was three discrete parts, alternator-rectifier–voltage regulator, that is now a single assembly. If one of those parts goes bad you need to replace the whole thing, unless you have used parts you can pull from. For some things the assembly is NLA, no longer available.

As for why it’s cheaper that comes down to manufacturers wanting to sell you a new one, not wanting to have to spend money on repair stock sitting somewhere, and possibly not having access to it themselves since very few manufacturers actually produce a complete product on their own.

For something simple like a Bluetooth speaker, the power supply comes from one company, the Bluetooth module and amplifier from another, the driver, a display board, the housing, someone designs it and puts that all together. If any one of those chains fails you may not be able to source the part to fix something.

There are usually workarounds to this but unless you are doing it yourself it will be cost prohibitive

Example: friend rented a house with a new stove, gas top, electric oven. Two months later the oven stopped working, motherboard was NFG (no fucking good), it was also NLA. So the landlord bought a new stove. The old one could have been made to work, but the complete functionally would not have been there. If my friend owned this I would have said ‘I can make it work, but you will be missing these features’.

Define “some” money. If your needs are actually basic, roof over your head, food, like that, then there are many places you can go.

There are quite a few dryland crops. The rice usually used for Risotto, in this case Arborio, is not one of them.

I’m pretty sure that even if you grew Arborio as a dryland that you couldn’t sell it as Arborio because of DOP. Which would change its flavor, probably its starch balance, and decrease its price.

And use for tortillas and savory pie crust.

When my grandma had “too much” of it she would mix it with seeds and put it out for the woodpeckers in winter

Did you download this, or was it an automatic update?

Some people have said it was an automatic update, and it then changed their settings

The article does not say that.

This article states That

National guidelines, introduced in January 2024, recommend banning smartphones from classrooms

There is a quote that seems to reference students not having their phones between classes, though it is not said whether they are prohibited or do not have access to them.

in the breaks between the lessons, students would be on their phones and now they’re forced to talk …

Focus is the end goal in the classroom, otherwise why bother going? They are not prohibited from using smartphones in their life, only in class.

Honestly what ‘software restrictions’? You were a kid, I was too, most of us were. What’s the first thing you do when you’re told you can’t do something? You find a way around it.

what did you learn in school today little Timmy?

i learned to drop tables tunnel into a VPN so I could watch Reels in class