Make sure the new switches are rated for “led dimmers” too and you should be fine then.

Don’t just buy the cheapest dimmers or you’ll be buying them and installing them a second time.

If it’s an old house going to led fixtures can have issues.

Back in the day it was fine to let a little juice trickle past a closed switch (light switch off)

Because what little went thru, wasn’t enough to turn on an incandescent bulb.

But it’s enough to turn on a led dimmly.

So there’s a decent chance if you install a light like in your link, it will always produce light. Then you have to change out the switches and all types of other stuff.

Especially in a rental, you don’t want to open that can of worms. Just use a conventional fixture.

I always forget there was a real historical figure and assume Greensleeves is Gull’s little sister from those old Magic books.

Not sure how well they hold up, but like 25 years ago Arena and the Greensleeves trilogy seemed like the best books ever.

Yeah, dome level would do it.

Probably even be enough to have one inside on the windowsill.

Rodents have an insane sense of smell, and they hate peppermint because the smell is so strong. So it would probably be enough to keep them from going in there.

If it gets enough light/sun that plants grow, put a peppermint plant out there.

Rodents hate the smell.

If nothing grows there. You could spray peppermint every month, or hook up some kind of rope/ladder for them to get out. If you go the “escape route” way tho, they’re gonna live in there having babies and you won’t be able to open the window or they get into the building.

Might be better to put a finer mesh over the chicken wire.

Yeah, the basement is going to be colder…

You can circulate the air if you want to balance it out, but the basement is going to get colder again.

If you’re talking about saving energy:

At about 3pm circulate the air. That’s a little before your AC is going to start experiencing it’s highest workload.

At around 6pm or when ever, stop.

Try it for a couple of days with just a fan. If it’s a noticeable difference and you like it, you can get a vent installed that pushes up from the basement, and another somewhere else that just goes straight to the basement. You can put the fan/blower on a timer. I’d recommend one of those “smart plug” things, they work as a timer and you can also controll locally from your phone.

But if you’re circulating air 24/7, it’s just making your AC cool even more air.

So you just want to use it to dump a bunch of cold air when you need it most, and then let it naturally cool down the rest of the nigh/day.

Whether or not this adds up to more than negligible benefits for energy use…

I have zero idea.

But it’s essentially just an inefficient heat pump. The theory behind it is sound.

Vinegar

Anything with hard water, just soak with vinegar.

You can even fill a ziplock bag and tie it on a faucet.

If your water is really hard, pour vinegar into that little tube in your toilet too, the jets get clogged easily and that flushes them out and prevents them from blocking up. If they are blocked, the vinegar will eventually open them up if you don’t regularly.

Obviously water softener if you don’t have one, but depending what your waters like you may have to do more.

I think in the USA’s case it will be much like South Africa, where there’s still tremendous resentment against Afrikaners even though they are an even smaller minority and no longer form government.

One example was more than enough, I get it

It’s an averaged-out view of what “the internet” thinks, with extra massaging to make sure it isn’t too offensive.

There multiple fundamental mistakes with that…

Would explaining them be more productive?

Sure, but I don’t get paid for this.

You want to be productive, take the time to explain all the ways their wrong. You don’t have time for that?

Let everyone else at least know it’s wrong.

But what you just did was completely pointless

You could have just told us you don’t know, we didn’t need an example

Who cares what AI thinks?

Like, what’s the point of the screenshot?

I have this one cousin who’s a total fuck up and didn’t graduate 7the grade, he stopped by to get some meth money and I decided to ask him about the future!

That’s what you’re doing.

No one cares AI said something dumb, and you caring makes it seem like you actually believe AI is anything more than a chatbot.

Bruh…

Socialism is economic policy…

The economic policy of those countries is socialism.

They are also democracies.

Like if I asked what kind of car you had you could say “Honda” or “a red Honda”.

Their not two different answers because one included unrelated information.

If someone asks what kind of government they have, “democratic socialism” would be correct, because only giving one of the main axises wouldn’t tell the full story.

But since we’re talking economic systems, the democratic part is superfluous

Yeah, that’s what’s going to get you.

Maybe if you loaned/rented them, but not many would go thru that hassle.

And you’d need your own locked down ecosystem they can’t crack.

On top of all that, I’m pretty sure even libraries got sued over doing this.

I remeber someone once tried to stream physical blu rays online to people for a small fee. And that didn’t work out legally either.

but if the customer wants to get the physical version of his book, I have to take back his digital version.

I mean, how can they “give back” a digital file?

Because countries that call themselves communist are just dictators lying about it…

I mean, you’re asking about two separate political axis: economy, and control.

Look at the Nordic countries and even most Western Europeans and you’ll see socialist countries that aren’t authoritarian.

Theres not a single communist country tho. So when you talk like there are, people assume you have no clue what you’re talking about about.

Like, what countries do you think are communist?

A short trimmed beard you have to do the neck and maybe cheekbones, it’s a lot of upkeep.

I think lots of guys had that type of beard pre-covid, then let it grow out. Once it’s long enough you don’t have to do the neck because it’s hidden by the rest of your beard.

And some guys never have to do cheeks because it grows in good.

Like how 20 years ago it was cool for teenagers and 20 somethings to have goatees. It took me a while to realize most were doing it because they couldn’t grow a full beard.

There’s a lot of variation in facial hair, including where it grows and how thick.

Some people’s skin also can’t handle daily trauma from razors.

Pili multigemini…

I might have fucked up the order, but it means “multiple twin hairs”. Like, where just one hair should grow out of your skin, you have multiples.

If you let it just grow, you’re fine. But if you shave it’s very easy for it to be ingrown because the “hole” the hairs come thru was only meant for one hair.

When I was in the military and had to shave every day it was horrible. I don’t know if shaving makes more grow, but I’d have stubble thicker than mechanical pencil lead, and when I’d pluck it I’d find out it was 3-5 hairs attached to the same “root”. One of those becoming ingrown is a huge hassle.

With a beard, it’ll just shed normally or come out when I comb it. The problem is when you shave and the hair bunch has to keep pushing thru the skin over and over.

Obviously not, but considering you’re having difficulty understanding basic rules that exist on every form of social media, there was probably a good reason for the first one.

Lemmy is the easiest to get away with it, but you keep making similar versions of the same username and immediately talking about how you’re evading bans.

Like, it’s hard to believe you’re really not able to understand this, which would leave trolling as the only explanation for your behavior

Do you not know what “ban evasion” is?

You get banned, and immediately make a new account named very similar to make posts about how you were banned in the places your banned…

Yeah, but the problem is people take it literally when it’s just an update of the analogy for Plato’s cave…

You’re taking it even more literally and saying if it’s not a direct match, it’s not a simulation.

Madden is a football simulation, even though it’s not the same as real life football

It’s not that your thinking deeper than the analogy, it’s the analogy soaring over your head while you claim it doesn’t exist because you’re looking at the ground