ForgotAboutDre

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[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Too long in the dryer and they cook. Think of dryered flowers, they go brittle and scratchy when they’ve been dried. When those same flowers are fresh their petals are soft.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fabric softener is a scam. It just coats your clothes in plastic. It will lead to rougher clothes over time.

Your likely over drying your clothes and causing them to be harder and coarser than they need to. Your then compensating with fabric softener.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pop OS is the same machine as the Ubuntu but with RGB.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not all patents are good. But a patent system is good. It could be better but the general concept is not flawed like the person I was responding to suggests.

The physical object isn’t what is patented in this case. It is the method to create the object that has a patent. One that can’t be reversed engineered as it isn’t part of the final product. You could only reverse engineer it if the process was not novel or not obvious to anyone knowledgeable in the field. If both of these conditions are true then the patent should not have been granted.

Patents are not inherently bad. This is a bad patent. Patent laws don’t have to be changed, because this patent shouldn’t have been granted. The issue is ineffective patent reviews, not patents. Getting rid of patents is not a good idea. If you think it is you probably don’t have a good enough grasp on what a patent is.

You can make something if you figure out how they did it because it was obvious. In this case the patent isn’t valid. If you have to develop a solution then the patent is probably valid. The patent is a reward for developing and sharing the solution publically.

If you still don’t grasp why patents are useful. It may be helpful to think of it like open source software. The patent is the code base that is freely accessible to everyone. This preserves the knowledge and lets others build on it. However, to incentivise people to make their code open source you provide protections that stop others from selling the same code you developed.

The incentive mechanism is why far more businesses produce patents than produce open source code.

If you remove patents businesses stop funding internal r and d overnight. It increase the risk and reduces the reward.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The patent system explicitly provides free access to knowledge. The patent is the knowledge that would be kept secret otherwise.

You would still have monopolies, except things like the ingredients to medicines would be unknown.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Patents do provide some value. If there were no patents than companies would make their technological development a a secret and not share the work with the world.

The patent systems exchanges knowledge and technology development for a temporary monopoly on the technology. It means a company can publish the ingredients to medicines, methods of manufacturing etc. if they didn’t have the patent system they would keep these secret and if a business folded this knowledge would be lost.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Probably better to make those submitting false patents pay a large fine.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They are at fault. If everyone that didn’t refuse join because of such reasons didn’t join there would be no one to do the shotting and the dragging.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

RS, not the same breath but the pricing is usually good.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The Wii u was better (when the game developer used it correctly), it was a separate screen that showed different content. It was more like a DS.

Some of the games in Nintendo land were excellent local multiplayer games that will never get replicated again. They made great use of the second screen concepts.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Whenever you get a new router or move somewhere, change the WiFi access point name and password. Set it to the same line you used previously. That way all your devices will connect to it without changing anything.

Use a new unique name and password. Never keep the one that is printed on the back of the router. You can make the password easier to share by making it a few words and numbers. Still very strong, but much easier to say aloud to someone.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They also produce much more meat. They also eat indigestible (to humans) food. Cows stomachs can eat and gain calories from grass in a way humans or dogs can’t, for dogs and humans grass is fibre and doesn’t provide many calories.

Cows are great in this case for food security, ground that would struggle to produce much grains or vegetables can still produce grass. If you feed your cows a lot of grains the food security aspect is nullified. Even feeding dogs grains for a country like North Korea that struggles with food security is not a rational unless the dogs provide a benefit like guard dogs etc. During World War Two many people in UK cities killed their dogs when rationing was put in place (not to eat) purely because it was suggested the pets would consume food that could have been human food.

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