It seems obvious to me too, but the internet is full of people missing simple information like this who don’t realize it until someone points it out to them.

It will reduce their durability, but… Turn them inside out and tumble them with something small and hard.

As in, you wear a different pair each day and wash them all once a week? Or you have one pair that you wear for seven days between washings?

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead Battle for Wesnoth OpenTTD Doom

Finding women for whom my appearance isn’t a dealbreaker. I have moderate to serious rosacea and acne on my face. That filters out 90%+ of women before we even speak to each other.

Instant messaging.

20 years ago, there were half a dozen competing major platforms (AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, etc), like today.

The difference is that you had your choice of half a dozen clients that could each talk to ALL of the platforms. Adium, Trillian, Kopete, etc.

Today’s kids have no idea what we lost to the god of profit.

If you’re at least a 4/10 woman or an 8/10 man, they are pretty effective. For the rest of us, not so much.

Who runs their email servers? You can outsource fediverse server hosting too…

Yes. It’s been disappearing since before I was born in the 80s, and is mostly gone now.

The same way anyone else for whom English is a second or third language function in society.

And, since we don’t own or use any Haier appliances, we aren’t subject to their TOS.

No. I predict we would revert to the status quo of 20-100 years ago, with very affordable state-run schools providing excellent education, and high price private schools catering to the rich. Cheap schools got expensive because we allowed the for-profit student loan industry to run wild.

If something is not for sale, I have no qualms about pirating it. Disney vault, abandonware, obsolete versions, etc.

There are cheap household gadgets that rotate a can or bottle in a [salt] ice water bath to chill it rapidly. https://www.amazon.com/Chill-Matic-Automatic-Beverage-Chiller/dp/B0148K37K2?th=1 etc

Also more expensive ones with better temperature control for wine bottles.

https://www.pcgamer.com/students-dont-know-what-files-and-folders-are-professors-say/

Students don’t know what files and folders are, professors say A whole generation has grown up with powerful search functions, and don’t think about computers the same way.

Apparently this has become a widespread problem in colleges starting in the last decade.

It could be implemented on both the server and the client, with the client trusting the server most of the time and spot checking occasionally to keep the server honest.

The origins of upvotes and downvotes are already revealed on objects on Lemmy and most other fediverse platforms. However, this is not an absolute requirement; there are cryptographic solutions that allow verifying vote aggregation without identifying vote origins, but they are mathematically expensive.

Web of trust is the solution. Show me vote totals that only count people I trust, 90% of people they trust, 81% of people they trust, etc. (0.9 multiplier should be configurable if possible!)