How to read this Landis & Gyr electric meter? (beehaw.org)
My provider keeps screwing me with estimated readings in excess of $400+, when my actual usage has been consistently under $200/mo. Granted they do credit the average when they actually take a real reading, I’m not a loan company and I’m getting frustrated overpaying.
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Any interesting things , tips , tricks or test like the fact :-you can see if a remote is working using your phones camera. ? (lemmy.ml)
because working remotes ir lights will be visible in camera even though humans can’t see it ....
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Idea for niche communities
There isn’t enough people on Lemmy to have niche communities finding someone interested in threads for example here is like finding a grain(Though niche communities like spec evo in for pages I own probably could take take off If I put enough effort into it) in the sand people will follow niche sub lemmings and they will...
I don't know how to deal with what to me is a thin skinned and gossip coworker.
She is a good coworker, meaning she knows her duties and has ample experience....
How do scammers overtake a youtube account with 2fa enabled
Saw a video of a youtuber that got his account overtaken which has 2fa enabled (not sure which method but I’m thinking sms). He says he didn’t get phished, downloaded anything and his session cookies weren’t stolen and I believe him. The only clue is that he received a sms otp from google but was invalid when he inputted...
Do you have a Heat Pump in a cold climate?
Looking to get some anecdotal experiences from someone living in a cold climate using a heat pump as their main source of heat.
What's your favorite Biopunk centered movie?
What's a song that really expresses or imparts a skill or important truth to internalize
Little Black Sandals - Sia...
Is there any Lemmy mobile app without infinite scroll? EDIT: Nevermind, just found out that Voyager does it.
I kinda like not having an infinite scroll (just like the web u.i does), feels less addictive.
How come nobody ever DMs me? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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What is a decision or action you made, despite it being clearly stupid?
What is everyone's cross platform frontend framework of choice
I have been experimenting with react native as I heard it’s one of the good ones, and so far it is not a particularly enjoyable experience. Lots of irritating things like no global styling, lots of ugly, hard to read properties on tags, etc...
What is it with `traitors` and `disloyalty` 🤔
Can I safely throw away old smartphones?
I’ve been cleaning up my home office and found 2 pretty old smartphones in a box, around 10 years old I’d say. I don’t have any old chargers to check if they still work so I’m unsure what sort of data is on there, if any, or if they still charge up even....
Followup: Have you pranked someone for halloween yet or plan to? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I have once again succeeded with a prank, tho shorter than I wanted.
Does Bing Chat give reliable answers to math and physics questions? If not is it possible to make it more reliable?
I realize and understand the criticisms of ChatGPT and I have personally seem how bad it can be. Once I asked to count the number of days till a random date giving the present date and it failed miserably, again and again. Trust me! I get the criticism. But, what about Bing Chat Bot?...
Any way to group communities across difference instances together ?
Lets say I want to ask Lemmitors a question. There might an AskLemmy community at my home server so I can ask there. But there might be a much larger AskLemmy community on a server elsewhere. Is there a way to ensure that people who subscribe to AskLemmy on the other server could also see my post on AskLemmy on my home server ?
Community block lists
With all the noise on lemmy, spam, and political content I have no interest in, the thought occurred to have blocklists similar to adblock lists. Has anyone looked into this before, is it already a thing? Any thoughts on that?
Is there a push to make product containers re-usable?
I’m looking at an empty bottle of Valentina hot sauce. It has a flip top cap but is not twist off and seems to be press fitted on in some way - ideally there would be a way to easily remove it and re-purpose the container or at least clean it out for recycling....
So how are instances defederated? (lemmyf.uk)
Is it done by majority vote or does one instance have more control than others cough cough lemmy world cough if so then this is not really federated is it and with each instance we now have basically upgraded mod power to admin power so one more question is each instance independently monetized?
Shows like house of cards but showing realpolitik in CCP/Chinese Congress like House of Cards for the US
This is an elaboration on my previous question regarding depictions of single party communist political systems but I am particularly interested in China and how things work in their seat of power....
What do you use to reduce images before posting?
I’m using imagepipe from fdroid, into webp format, keeping aspect ratio. Most of my posts don’t need high res imagery anyway, just something to get the message across. What do you use?
How to summarize a scanned PDF document by AI?
Don’t have ChatGPT...
Your best friend - why are they your best friend? What is it that they are doing that you feel like at home with them?
And, how did you get to know them? And how long did it take for you to think of them as your best friend?