It makes me feel a little better about myself seeing the New York Times communication department make a typo in a post
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Tends to get truculent about movies, music, the Oxford comma, and politics
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raef@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•[China Technology] I drove the cheap Chinese cars that are illegal in the USA. Now I know why [36:49 | MAR 10 2025 | Rich Rebuilds]English3·8 days agoI wonder if that’s due to the body distorting
What shows were you watching? I can only think of the Exorcist and Psycho, but those are kind of unique falls. All the others I can think of were comedy pratfalls and definitely not fatal.
raef@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandalEnglish11·8 days agoThey only owned up after lying and obfuscating for years. California said they work with manufacturers when they are out of compliance, but brought their lawsuit because VW wouldn’t cooperate
raef@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to EuropeEnglish1·1 month agoThat’s what I meant, the device is directly next to the heat source. It’s never going to be accurate. And you can tell in the way people use the two systems. In Germany, people don’t think about our check the temperature of the room or what the dial is set at, just, I’m cold, turn it up. In the US, the room is set to a specific temperature and just left alone except for day/night, home/away.
But, anyway, the comment was about how they wouldn’t work for Nest, and that’s true. You’d need a third party solution. It would be hard to sell these and then say, hey, by the way, you can’t use it until you go out and buy something from someone else and install it
raef@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to EuropeEnglish2·1 month agoI haven’t been in many private houses in the Netherlands. I could only speak to Germany
raef@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to EuropeEnglish81·1 month agoYes, but they are not electronic and they don’t reflect the temperature of the room like a wall thermostat does.
raef@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to EuropeEnglish151·1 month agoTBF, over 15* in Germany I’ve only seen a couple of actual thermostats. The vast, vast majority use a valve on each radiator. There are electronic solutions for the radiators, but sticking a Nest on the wall is going to do nothing for someone unless the customer installs specific hardware that the Nest would have to support
*edit : years
You could use a different file manager. And there’s a few places I would look for files : downloads, pictures, etc, or in a folder named for the app under one of those places