@mbrubeck Same brand as the one I"m looking at https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/wireless-thermometer-with-clock-1422471p.html
Realizing my parents had one of those growing up, but that it involved a wall mount which I can't do in my apartment.
As a plural system whose primary computer has 4 GB of RAM, an Nvidia NVS 3100M graphics card, and 1280x800 screen resolution, we very much want people to understand and respect the popularity of low-end machines.
Especially web designers. Please, /please/ make your websites work on 720p monitors - this is ridiculous.
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I feel like the Steam Hardware & Software Survey - https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey - is a really good, like, resource for people wondering what kinds of computers are in active use.
Something that the infosec people will probably be unhappy to see: 2% of users are on Windows 7, an OS which Microsoft stopped offering support for two years ago.
Also, 5% of users have 4 GB of RAM or less, 1% have less than 1 GB of VRAM, and 7% of users have fewer than 800 pixels of vertical resolution on their monitors.
malls, accessibility
However it has been pointed out that malls are some of them most physically accessible spaces in the world. There is a reason mall walkers and the elderly love them: perfectly flat floors, no weather, clean, no cars, elevators and escalators everywhere
malls, urban design, sexism
Listening to a CBC Spark podcast on accessible design and it's interesting all the discussion of malls.
Malls where originally not SUPPOSED to be for cars. They were supposed to be community hubs, but typically the land around them was turned into parking lots and single family homes.
But also, there is a sexist component to why malls are ignored and considered bad, since they where viewed as a place for women to spend their money, and this but as important as male spaces
@starkatt When you get back, do you have recommendations? I've bought supplies based on your recommendations before and damn do they always work well
question for people work with jewelry, I've got a necklace I adore but I've had it since high school it, if not earlier and the court is falling apart.
What would be the right search term for a new cord kind of like this? Are there any brands that I should be using, or is it just kind of interchangeable?
I mean, imagine you're a teenager fixing Grandma's computer over Thanksgiving, and you find a directory of all these "XXX" files...
FLATPIG.XXX
STASHKITTY.XXX
TRASHPANDA.XXX
POKEBALL.XXX
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Further concepts:
> A public dole of one kind of baked good and we change which every month (the bread month is pretty useful, the tarte tatin month a bit weirder).
> Making it mandatory for landlords to provide pets to people who want them.
> Mandating that no city can sell more than one book in any given trilogy, making people do Grand Quests to get the whole set.
> Properly weird public architecture. Not just fancy and gold, like Planescape mixed with Escher. Especially for public offices.
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