In all the examples listed in the response, the inviter must explicitly be the owner of the house:

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65991/why-do-vampires-have-to-be-invited-in

Although that just leaves us with the question about who is considered the owner. I’m a renter, so would that be me, or my landlord?

Fun fact: In German, this boils down to which translation of “owner” is used. I’m the “Besitzer” of my apartment (I possess it), but not the “Eigentümer” (I cannot sell it).

Deleting accounts doesn’t mean the company deletes your data. Even under GDPR (Everyone else is completely SOL here, I believe), they can keep if it is required for their business, unless you explicitly demand a full deletion.

+1 for Home Assistant

I have it running on a Pi 5 (although a Pi 4 is more then enough), with a 15€ USB ZigBee antenna from AliExpress (to connect IKEA devices).

The best thing about it is that it seamlessly integrates all devices with each other, so you can use cheap ZigBee buttons to control your Philipps Hue lightbulbs, for example.

Of you press up/down right after left/right the window will be a quarter of the screen instead of half.

On Windows 11, you can also just drag towards the top, and it’ll give you different snapping options.

Sure, but despite all the crypto bros assurances to the contrary, the only real-world applications for it is buying drugs, paying ransoms and getting scammed. Which means that any non-zero amount of energy is too much energy.

Yeah, Pixel 4A only gets that one update that mutually breaks the battery management.

Tbh, that would have been extremely simple to come back from: Fire his ass. The issue is that they didn’t.

(Inb4 someone says they cannot fire him for some legal or contract reason: That is a major red flag in and of itself)

Yeah, I hate it when people don’t use the simple shortcut Win+Ctrl+Shift+Alt+L to open LinkedIn!

I’ve noticed Chinese people doing this often. I assume that it’s to do with Chinese keyboard layouts.

I still cannot use special characters in filenames, 40 years of Windows OSes in.

That’s a good thing IMO. The benefits of using special characters in this specific case are slim, but the repercussions for every single programming language that ever touches file or folder names (i.e. basically all of them) are pretty big.

Like seriously, I’d wager that entire companies might crawl to a stop because Bernice in accounting put a “/” into some important excel file name.

Forums: great store of knowledge and friendly, helpful people. If you ask a question in discord, nobody will ever see the answer again.

The search functions in forums are notoriously terrible though (although someone will inevitably ask you to try using it), so finding anything useful relies on “outside” search engines.

And the linear thread format has been terrible since it was invented (which is probably why discord uses it). You basically need to ignore half the posts to follow the one interesting side line that might end up with a solution.

One thing Amazon is better at (at least here in Germany) is free shipping. But seeing how that is a least partially responsible for creating a cutthroat delivery market, where companies contract out delivery work to barely self-employed drivers for barely any money, paying for shipping doesn’t seem like a bad idea (even though I know the drivers won’t really see any of that money in the end)

There’s an archive of books belonging to a certain anna, which has not failed me yet.

Incidentally, Aurora Store is unable to find this particular app.

The problem is the combination of AOC and nonconsentual explicit AI content. Overly broad rules might make that fall under satire, which is why caution is advised when devising such rules.

And here I thought chains were only used for cricket and train tracks.

There’s a slight difference in that “Ostsee” is the common name. If the German chancellor decides to call it “Deutsche See” tomorrow, the name would continue to be “Ostsee”, because that’s how language usually works.

“Gulf of America” is just a dictator’s wish of a common name. The people of OpenStreetMap decided to use the tag “official_name:en_US” for that reason, while keeping “Gulf of Mexico” for the commonly used “name:en-US”.

Lemmy itself doesn’t support user tags, but some of the clients like voyager, do.

What the heck is that map projection? It’s like Mercator on steroids.

In Germany, people are very concerned about Zugluft, i.e. draft from opening multiple windows.