We took my in-laws back to my father-in-law’s hometown on the west coast of France last year and it was kind of wild to have it not be dark out until 10 pm. A lot of times we didn’t have dinner until 8:30 or 9 because it didn’t feel that late.

They last tried DST “year-round” starting in January 1974 and people quickly hated it, with support dropping from 79% before it started to 42% three months in. Morning accidents increased and schoolchildren were injured or killed.

I don’t necessarily love the idea of the sun starting to rise as early as 4am in the summer, but I think if we’re going to stay with one we might as well stick to standard time year-round. We’d still have light past 8 PM where I live and it would mean activities better for the dark could start earlier. I see places wanting to take advantage of the warm weather for things like outdoor movies but they can’t start until after 9.

I only recently learned that in the US not every state has annual inspection requirements. In fact it’s a minority of states, only 14, and it looks like the inspection requirements have been reduced in recent years, such as some states exempting new vehicles for a certain amount of time or only requiring inspections for commercial vehicles. Both states I’ve lived in had annual inspections and I just assumed it was a thing everywhere.

I remember similar guidelines being taught when I was in driver’s ed in the US, but I don’t know if there were strict laws around it. If there are laws I would guess it is a state-by-state thing.

Loaded French fries?

This was something I realized when we drive to my wife’s parents. It’s 2,000 km each way from our house in the US to where they are in rural Quebec, Canada and we usually drive it twice a year. The charging times sound long, but even with our petrol car most of our stops end up being between 15 to 30 minutes anyways between fueling the car, taking the dog to grass, taking turns going to the toilet so the dog isn’t alone in the car, getting food and giving me a chance to eat so I’m not trying to drive and eat at the same time.

I think the real challenge of electric range anxiety is that it still takes planning, at least in some parts of the US. There are areas on our route where it might be 100 kilometers to the next fast charger, and there’s no guarantee that all of them will be working or compatible with a car’s fastest charging speeds. We don’t really have to think about where we’ll get gasoline; there’s pretty much always a station, often several, within the next few miles. Usually if we’re waiting to stop for fuel it’s because we’re looking for the best price, looking for a place that might have decent toilets, and/or might have an appealing food option along with the gasoline. That’s all manageable in electric but might need some advanced planning, and many American drivers aren’t used to doing that kind of route planning in advance anymore.

How many cars in Europe can drive 1,000 km without stopping anyways? The only ones I can think of offhand are large American pickup trucks intended for towing large trailers long distances. I wouldn’t expect to see them in Europe.

Rarely; I think the last time was a live CD to try Linux on an older computer

I feel like it would need to be some relatively early show that has maintained a degree of popularity. Maybe an early cartoon that was seen as appropriate kid’s programming, like The Flintstones or The Jetsons.

So this is the strategy of putting 4 houses on your properties in Monopoly and never upgrading them to hotels because that way there are no houses for your opponents to buy

I feel like it’s less of a band and more of a performance group, though

No, I never had the patience to figure it out. I think I’ve seen a video or two with solution algorithms but did not have access to a cube to try them and don’t really remember the ways now.

For all the people reading the headline and not the article, toilet-maker Toto uses its ceramics expertise to supply products used in silicon wafer production. They’ve been in the industry since the 1980s but with the AI boom non-toilet manufacturing has become over 40% of their operating income.

This is some sort of health/beauty product? It’s not a product I have a lot of familiarity with, but it sounds like you’re on the right path starting with smaller shops, especially if you can position it as artisanal.

With smaller shops they likely won’t have a dedicated buyer position, so you will probably want to speak with a manager or owner. Normally these are busy people so they won’t want you dropping in without an appointment. Try to schedule something in advance by phone or email. If you do walk in lead with asking for an appointment, but be ready to sell yourself and your product on the spot. Practice your “elevator pitch” to try to spark interest right away.

I’d suggest you should try calling places and setting yourself up some sales trips, making appointments to see people that are at least relatively near each other. Don’t schedule too many so that you aren’t rushed to get from one to the next. You don’t want to be late, but you also don’t want to rush a visit that’s going well and end it early to get to your next one; your customers should feel that you value them and that they’re not less important than someone else. It could mean a lot of down time between calls, but you can use that to find more customers, take care of correspondence, etc.

Definitely bring lots of samples, both for the buyers and potentially that they could offer to clients. If your product won’t deteriorate when sitting in a vehicle you could bring stock with you but I don’t think most stores would expect you to supply them immediately. It might look sketchy or less professional if you’re pulling retail product out of your car’s trunk, but maybe not if this is artisanal, or it’s just a small supply for them to trial you as a product line.

Is your suggested retail price high enough that you can sell to them at a wholesale discount and still make a sustainable profit yourself? My background is electronics, and the rule of thumb I’ve typically seen for consumer electronics is the product needs to cost 3 or 4 times the bill of materials (BOM). The BOM should include your labor costs to actually make the product, but the markup lets you cover the rest of your costs like R&D, marketing, shipping, administration, etc. When I was at a consumer electronics company we would typically sell to our retail channel at a 20-30% discount off our MSRP, depending on volume. Rarely we’d sell at 40% to large customers, but below that we’d start to risk profitability except on high volume products. When you’re meeting with retailers, they’re going to want to know what profit they can make, and they’ll have an idea of what they think they can sell your product for, which might not be your MSRP.

Good luck!

Most Linux distributions offer a “live CD” experience (does not actually have to be on a CD nowadays; you can use a USB drive). Basically when the computer turns on you tell it to boot off the USB drive instead of the drive in the computer. That way you can try it out on your computer before installing it and see if it works out of the box for you with its defaults. It will probably be a little slower running off a USB drive. I don’t think you can typically install additional programs or save things to the computer (someone more experienced might chime in), but you can try doing basic things like using the web browser or word processor.

But copy is Command+C on macOS and iOS, not Ctrl+C. Maybe in the Classic Mac OS days, but I doubt they would’ve made such a significant change moving to OS X.

IIRC when it was implemented in the first place, it seemed like lemmy.world had actually been contacted by some stakeholder with a DMCA-style request, even though the community was not actually originating on lemmy.world. Explaining how federation worked to lawyers didn’t matter much and with .world at the time becoming one of the larger and more visible instances that seemed like the best way to avoid the headaches. Initially they defederated with dbzer0 entirely before developing a way to block just the community.

!retrogaming@lemmy.world

Despite an internal investigation that exonerated McClain, Worden continued to promote the false claims to news outlets and hired a media consultant to amplify them. She also publicly released her former spouse’s personal information.

Huh, I wonder why there were problems in that marriage?

I hate this, +1

I’ve worked a number of jobs in TV, most behind the scenes. I’ve long said most of those jobs people at home wouldn’t know exist unless I make a mistake. That does not mean they were simple jobs.

Many people do not understand the amount of work that goes into other jobs they have never done, nor do they understand what makes someone good at that job.