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Concave1142 @lemmy.world
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Those without A/C, what are your tips to stay cool during the summer?
  • I practice this same thermal battery idea as well with an extra tip of having a couple of fans on timers (sun up to sun down) that sit on the floor and blow the cold air up. It makes a significant difference, especially if you can sit a fan where the cold air from the AC falls to the ground.

  • My laptop hinge just ripped its screws right out.
  • I gave it a very short search back when it broke last year. I went with the cheapest way to get it back up and running which was just convert it to a desktop. She never goes anywhere with a laptop in the first place so there was no need to make it portable again.

    She's retired and just used it to surf the web. A Chromebook would work perfectly for her if she was not dead set of having Excel for her recipes and bill tracking.

  • My laptop hinge just ripped its screws right out.
  • This happened on a decent spec'd HP laptop I bought my mom a couple years back. No easy way to repair without ordering new hinges that were impossible to find and the PC repair shop quoted over $500 repair on a $700 laptop when it was new.

    Now she just leaves the laptop open in the 180 degree position with the laptop being held into a stand & bungie cord strapped to it to prevent it from falling foward. It is now a desktop PC and no longer a laptop.

  • This impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees
  • A new textile—made of plastic and silver nanowires—does just that, and can keep its wearers as much as 16 degrees cooler than other fabrics.

    Yea, that's a no for me. I'm doing my best to no longer use synthetic materials in my clothing.

  • Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI
  • I work in the telecom industry in a call center environment. I just saw an addon for the platform we use with this exact capability. I laughed, rolled my eyes & shared it with peers for them to laugh.

    I would personally never recommend implementing something that can change the voice of the caller. Without having researched the product at all I will just say I cannot recommend any company install this capability. My primary reason for concern would be if legal proceedings have to go forward, what would stop either side from saying it was AI generated voice and not the actual caller? (Yes, for all I know the call recording may be stored raw.)

  • Ep 522: To The Podcast (Voyager Series Retrospective)
  • I will definitely give it another try. I've been slowly rewatching TNG over the past year and want to get the wife in to watching Voyager and DS9 when I get to those as she's never watched either. I'm so excited for her to be one of the daily 10,000 every episode!