Yep. I’m stuck driving cars from the mid-2000s at the latest because it’s a deal-breaker for me.

I’d love to have an electric car, but because they’re all newer than that (except for some really rare compliance/fleet-only cars from the '90s with NiMH batteries, like the Ford Ranger and first-gen RAV4), I’d have to convert an ICE car to electric myself.

Do you have individual switches for each plug socket / outlet wired next to the door?

No, the rooms I’ve seen wired with lamp circuits would typically have one switch next to the entrance with several outlets wired together to it in the same circuit, along with another circuit of several unswitched outlets. Flipping that one switch would turn all the lamps on at once.

(More rarely, there might be two lamp circuits in a room, with two switches controlling two groups of outlets. I think my parents’ formal living room might be like that, but we barely used it and I haven’t lived there for 20 years, so I can’t quite remember.)

and one of the two entrance doors would have to be chosen. You’d then have to walk to that door every time you wanted to turn something off.

Nah, that’s what three-way switches are for: you can have a switch at each entrance that controls the same group of outlets.

1. Okay, that makes sense.
2. Wait, your lamps use a different plug? That seems needlessly limiting/inconvenient.

Or literally any centralized social media.

What does separating sandwich ingredients have to do with Susie’s hunting skills?

the safety shutters over the positive and negative terminals that only open when the ground pin (which is longer than the others on the plug) is inserted up top is brilliant

The US is catching up in that regard, at least, with tamper-resistant (TR) outlets being mandated by the NEC since 2008.

I like the EU and US two prong cables ( 🔌?) where the prongs are parallel to the cable, but not the cables with the orthogonal prongs.

Non-grounded plugs aren’t that great, though, and once you add the third prong the plug gets much less flat. Compare:

Maybe Italy and Chile have the best idea in terms of slim grounded plugs, although the lack of polarity might be a problem?

Also, IMO right-angle plugs are often better than straight ones because you can put furniture closer up against them and do so without stressing the cable.

The real question is why did the UK decide that on the outlet itself is the best place for that switch, as opposed to e.g. in the US where outlets are sometimes wired to a switch located next to the door to the room?

and plenty of use cases perform fine by anonymising their data

Short of aggregating it to get rid of the individual records completely, “anonymizing data” isn’t actually a thing.

Does !infuriatingasfuck@lemmy.world exist yet? If not, you should create it so that there’s a proper place for these actually infuriating things to be.

Doesn’t matter; SCOTUS is controlled by “unitary executive theory” nutjobs now. The FCC can do whatever Trump wants it to do; no more, no less.

It’s as if plutocrats worldwide are teeing up fake wins to help Trump solidify his power because they see an opportunity to kill off liberalism once and for all.

And people like you don’t get that the worsening of all those problems will only accelerate under Trump’s corrupt plutocracy.

They say Biden had a part in the ban, though he said publicly he would not enforce it - what matters there, that AP doesn’t mention, is that the republicans hello humanitarian aide to Ukraine hostage back in April, saying they’d block unless the rock you ban was passed. Laying the groundwork for this hollow attempt to “blame Biden” and position trunk as a solution (to a problem he instigated and that republican think tanks engineered).

You’re making an important point here, but it’s somewhat undermined by the fact that your rogue auto[in]correct needs to be taken out behind the barn and shot.

(I assume 5 year olds know what Instagram is)

ELInot5 what Instagram is?

Seriously, I’ve never understood the point of it.

In the same way that Elon Musk created Tesla’s cars and SpaceX’s rockets, yes.

Al Gore didn’t take the lead in creating the Internet for people to be insufferable.

I dunno man, it seems pretty in-character to me! 🤓

Those sound like comments on a different topic, specifically the story about Paris’ improvements in air quality lately (because they built bike infrastructure and partially banned cars). I had to remove nearly identical comments in the !fuckcars@lemmy.world thread on it, for the same reason.

that also includes Tim Berners-Lee

You mean that traitorous piece of shit who sold us out to DRM on the Web?

After watching that video I ran across Cardinal, which is apparently a wrapper around VCV Rack that adds back the ability to be run as a plugin that VCV itself locks behind the “Pro” subscription. It can also run straight from your browser, so that’s how I’ve been trying it out so far.