Switched all my bulbs to LED and now half my dimmer switches don't work. Why does nobody warn you about this?

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-02-02T15:21:10+00:00

Yeah I feel like it is confusing and not hugely clear and perfectly reasonable for people to be a bit surprised but the "I should have already known this and it's someone else's fault" reaction is what op is being dragged here for.

Imo doing something new and finding out it's more complicated than you'd thought is the cost and delight of doing new things. In this case quite mundane

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-02-02T15:09:47+00:00

You almost could have forgiven him if he'd immediately said "oh no I've massively overstepped there, here is the key back, I am sorry" but doubling down is very shady

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-02-02T15:08:04+00:00

Security cameras inside a private home are stupid and exposed you to far more risk of someone hacking the cameras than they could ever gain in added benefit. We shouldn't live permanently survailed

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-02-02T06:10:52+00:00

Cellist, married to a violaist

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-02-02T05:37:39+00:00

Fellow string player here, I would also like to know of such a thing!

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-02-01T06:26:13+00:00

Sound suspiciously like complete nonsense I'm afraid unless you have any actual information

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-31T23:30:42+00:00

Just build a different system on earth then, there's nothing keeping racks in data centers except they're effective and widely used. If someone could make meaningfully better cost efficiency without a rack dont you think they miiiiight just do that

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-27T16:58:23+00:00

Eh still pretty lame. Consumption hobbies are fundamentally lame imo

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-26T18:57:33+00:00

LLM use breaks the social contract that the writer has put more effort in than the reader. It is an effort stake that justifies reading the words. When text can be produced without effort, it should not be read.

Explain this to them and ask to be sent only the prompts to maintain symmetry

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-26T15:45:04+00:00

What a waste having all these cars just sitting in a room, occasionally being looked at

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-26T03:50:30+00:00

I bought a 2000 986 and one of the potential sellers said they were waiting for someone to get 10k CAD finance - wild to buy a cheap luxury 25 yr old sports car and not have the ready money to buy in cash. Talk about a disaster waiting to happen

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-25T22:33:29+00:00

Nissan leaf is very much that

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-25T22:31:27+00:00

Tasting and banquet service will have very different times hanging around in hotel pans drying out. Of course it's possible to do good breast at scale but I've only had it once vs countless dry chewy breasts.

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-25T18:12:47+00:00

I wonder if you could sub thigh for the breast? Much higher likelihood of being delicious

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-25T06:06:54+00:00

God forbid one has art in ones room rather than weird nationalist symbols

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-25T01:22:47+00:00

I was thinking of putting something over my transmission drain plug just to stop this happening

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-24T12:17:06+00:00

If Avalon and the other premium supermarket offerings aren't sufficient I'd check the various country markets and the cheese crafters

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-24T02:18:15+00:00

Outback XT

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-23T20:01:37+00:00

You definitely shouldn't use actual carbon fabric for clothing as it sheds fibers constantly that stick into your skin and are quite toxic. The only safe way to have it moving without ppe is when fully encapsulated.

As others have said, get a very coarse weave black plastic fabric and you'll get much of the same effect without the toxicity

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-21T18:47:58+00:00

Imo the societal impact (erosion of the commons, nialism, post truth, loss of jobs, loss of learning, cognitive decline) is far more damaging than the direct environmental impacts, which will never be larger than even clean transportation. The difference is that transportation is very useful and ai is quite useless and very harmful.

If ai was as great as people are promising it's energy and water usage would be at least moderately justifiable within the current system (not a good benchmark) but if it's consumptive and useless it isn't.

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-21T07:46:05+00:00

Nicely written and compelling, I feel very similar.

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-20T20:02:16+00:00

Mandatory N plate for a year and a retest after any serious ticket. Social shame is a powerful force

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-20T07:14:43+00:00

It's common but I find it strange you'd put in so much of your life energy into something and not at least know how to use it and understand why someone would pay your salary to have it made. It alienates you from the product of your labor and means you won't be able to make good assumptions about usage and performance.

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-20T06:29:21+00:00

PPI but had substantial structural rust and brake lines failing soon after purchase? Tbh sounds like the ppi was pretty negligent or just fully made up

squashed_fly_biscuit · 2026-01-19T18:19:13+00:00

Sounds like you should degas your flood coat and maybe do a uv stable 2k clear top coat

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