You could also just pour that into the rinse aid dispenser…

That dishwasher runs perfectly fine without connecting to an app. Been using it that way for half a year.

People are so obsessed for nonsense features. Just set normal mode, auto air, start. Done. You know when it finished because the red light shining on the floor turns off, it beeps at you, and auto air opens the door so it can dry faster.

Guess what? You just had a machine wash dishes for you and you didn’t even hear it running the whole time.

Check the trash filter occasionally, which is a physical part you can pull out from the bottom and wash in the sink. Clean the gaskets occasionally to keep a clean seal like any dishwasher.

I will probably open it up at some point and see if I can damage/remove the radio so it can’t ever connect to anything.

It’s a dishwasher, it doesn’t have to massage your plates’ backs. Nothingburger rant.

If I had you and you allowed me to pay you so I don’t have to learn every home repair and maintenance task myself, I’d hand over my life savings. Slight exaggeration, but not by much.

I am learning enough skills that I could eventually quit my day job and become a contractor tho…

It’d be a pity if their homeowners insurance company received a date-stamped photo of their actions.

…just a pity.

I’ve quite literally drank Flint water. Not for a humble brag (far from it) but I really hate that they became some kind of trope. They have needed help for decades and could have recovered faster if America ever cared about people. Good people there. Shitty America management. It’s like they keep them down for the Internet points.

As for municipal water. Stop by Altoona, Iowa sometime and drink their water. It’s just so terrible. Ground water full of stuff they can’t filter at scale. I don’t hate them for it, it’s what they can suck out of the ground, for maybe a few more years before it becomes brine.

It is hard to produce drinking water that is safe, and also tastes good. Is my global point.

Personal filters can improve that. Otherwise, buying water just leads us to a human future that is by far the worst reality we could ever impose upon ourselves.

Edit: TL;DR: bad tasting municipal water isn’t a conspiracy. It’s just the reality you have to work with at the time.

Have drank tap water across the US for decades. Some municipalities are crappier than others, but a fridge filter tank takes care of those places.

How about drinking water from the tap? Much cheaper, not wasting cans, and healthy. If you live in a community with bad tap water, write a letter to your local water board, and buy a filtration tank you can put in your fridge.

If you must really have flavor, buy some of the powdered dehydrated lime or orange powder packets.

Have you seen the web lately?

They likely have an algo running to do this just like how they offer random coupons to entice you to buy items in your cart, and all the other tricks around shipping manipulation.

Had a friend’s dead parent receive a text from the ambulance service asking how they did.

KPM surveys need to go away forever.

Some of the models have access to the Internet, and it can process information very fast. As long as it is neutral, it can be “trusted” as far as, it is trying. So you can send it off on a journey to scrape web pages for you and speed a search 30fold. If you’ve used it long enough to know the difference between the hallucinations and mistakes, it can accelerate your work, your learning, your research. You know it’s just regurgitating the Internet and you lens appropriately. You can ask about disparate products and have a table generated to fix the disparate values in their specs. You can have it search large datasets and find errors without having to scroll for 30 minutes. It can regurgitate general learning (that you cross-reference to be sure) and accelerate said learning.

Yes, there is no intelligence to it (neural nets are digital neurons, per se, but that doesn’t mean intelligence), but it is a query-response system that has advantages versus using the current enshittified Internet directly.

Now that it is obviously biased and tainted, no form of it can be trusted. That’s the difference.

https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Great-Value-Smooth-Peanut-Butter/6000197838147

It’s palm oil with some peanuts.

Walmart unit price is completely broken in general. They also have glitches in the “did you forget to add?” page where it will show an item as a sale price, but when you add it, you’ll see total price increase by sale price, and a few seconds later, a second price increase to the normal price. Re-checking the cart will show the item as not on sale. There are some other real weird glitches with that e-commerce platform. A rat’s nest of bugs that might not be intentionally nefarious, but also could be.

ChatGPT is already speaking highly of the EO policy statements being put into place, starting on inauguration day. It can no longer be trusted.

Local communications being reduced to social media posts is the sign to just dissolve the community, it’s over.

Did you know that your newspaper is owned by an Alabama retirement fund?

They own CNHI, which owns that paper.

And public utilities commissions just exist so people can think they have a voice while their meetings are just a big circlejerk.

Municipal power is so the way to go, much like everything else, especially because home town service will be run by home town people that care. You think PG&E or Verizon or Comcast cares about your town? Nope.

That region of Indiana is close enough to the Great Lakes that they do affect the weather there.

And yet, only 22% voted for him… hmmmmmmm…

22%ish actually. The actual percentage of US population that voted for this. (And maybe a few percent more for those that didn’t vote.)