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Not to be tin foil hat, and I have no idea what I'm saying, but something just felt unnatural and wrong about microwaves, so years ago started using a toaster oven and I use it now over microwave and oven as well for toasting and baking everything. Please tell me how I'm doing it wrong my mind is open.
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These are bad analogies. I can block ads on the net and still use chrome. I can choose whether ads bother me or not. I can choose if I want/agree to be tracked. My choice doesn't hurt anyone. You want to fight the ads - take on the ad networks. Provide an alternative. Without an alternative it's just a cardboard sign with some text.
If you emit CO2, you are hurting everyone else. If you participate in a web browser monoculture, you allow one company to own the web, therefore hurting everyone else. Please don't absolve yourself of the harm you are causing those of us that don't want to be under Google's thumb.
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The kind of review you're looking for is what Consumer Reports is, (or at least used to be, as I'm not sure of the current state of things,) famous for. Because it's a paid subscription, and all of the items they review are actually purchased from retail suppliers who have no knowledge that Consumer Reports is the buyer, they can take their time and do very thorough comparisons incorporating tests of real world usabi…
For those who don’t want to pay, many libraries allow free digital access to Consumer Reports.
For those who wish Consumer Reports didn't have the money to buy the products they test and depended on advertising and payola inevitably gaming the reviews instead...
Arguably advertising destroyed the microwave ... and everything else.
Shaving Is Too Expensive: https://www.johnwhiles.com/posts/shaving
Your Stuff Is Actually Worse Now: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23529587/consumer-goods-qualit...
Your Sweaters Are Garbage: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/10/sweat...
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My microwave has "sensor" modes for cooking various things but you don't have any control over the temperature it targets.
Yup, that's a humidity sensor. It's entirely useless in my experience -- the steam generated by food tells you that something is cooking to some degree, but you're still just as likely to wind up with rubbery overcooked hot spots while half of your item is still frozen.
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The internet doesn't have to be commercialized. Content like this would exist just fine without profits. "Adverts exist because we refuse to pay for every service" No, adverts exist largely because of poor quality content that ranks high in google and does everything possible to give readers the least amount of information in the slowest way possible. I would gladly pay to visit websites that shared a common ethical…
Content like that will exist, and have existed before. But large scale operations will not. Search engines, LLMs, social networks. They need a lot of money to run at scale. LLMs charge a subscription. Kagi is doing search engine which is paid (and not bad). If they all started charging pretty soon we'll be paying through the nose for everything. Ads offset that. I pay Spotify, Amazon, OpenAI, Netflix, Diskey, and I'm…
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Content like that will exist, and have existed before. But large scale operations will not. Search engines, LLMs, social networks. They need a lot of money to run at scale. LLMs charge a subscription. Kagi is doing search engine which is paid (and not bad). If they all started charging pretty soon we'll be paying through the nose for everything. Ads offset that. I pay Spotify, Amazon, OpenAI, Netflix, Diskey, and I'm…
Google doesn't need to exist. Google exists primarily to serve ads and websites with ads. Google is actively harming the internet by existing, not enhancing anything.
I'm not an advanced or regular microwave user (try keeping a straight face while talking like that about microwaves lol, but I use it maybe once or twice a month averaged over the year) but frankly I don't see any performance issue with my cheap microwave compared to what one could expect from a microwave. Put food in, wait 4-5 minutes, food comes out hot. What infuriates me are vacuum cleaners. To make them more "ec…
The Sebo E3 is 1200 watts and has a 10 year warranty. Built like LEGO, every part is serviceable too. Miele and Lindhaus are also good.
Yes I have a Miele which is decent but not as good as my previous one from before the regulation (also a Miele that died through no fault of its own).
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Google doesn't need to exist. Google exists primarily to serve ads and websites with ads. Google is actively harming the internet by existing, not enhancing anything.
Ok. When you have statements that are based in reality and not some pseudo utopian ideological dogma state of mind I'll be happy to discuss them.