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 @bhawthorne Same here. I wanted to know what type of battery my car's remote key takes. I got article after article (all of them long and repetitive) and none of them told me what kind of battery I needed. Together, AI and Google are destroying the web. 21 comments
@maccruiskeen @bhawthorne Well, of course I could open it up to see what kind of battery is in there. That's kind of obvious, isn't it? The reason I haven't is that in my experience these things are fiddly and apt to self-disassemble. I'd rather not open it up and put it back together again, drive to the hardware store, and then repeat the process when I get home. Nor do I want to leave it disassembled while I go on my shopping trip. The point is, it shouldn't be hard to find out. But it is. @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne Sorry, I guess I didn’t account for the ‘remote is badly made junk’ factor. @maccruiskeen @bhawthorne LOL! Well, this one might be well-made, but the one I had on my previous car (a Mazda) tended to fall to pieces while it was being opened, and was very hard to put back together again. I don't want to take that risk with the key on my new car.  @maccruiskeen @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne Yeah that's actually an interesting link.  @maccruiskeen @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne “Couldn’t you just…” Woosh, buddy. This convo went right over your head. But congrats on being a superior human to those of us who use the internet. @Greengordon @maccruiskeen @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne This is the kind of comment that reminds me that Mastodon has just as much negativity as any other social media platform. @therionofthebeast @Greengordon @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne hey, it’s not my fault his remote is a piece of junk. @maccruiskeen @Greengordon @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne I meant the guy responding to you, not you. I thought your question was reasonable (I had the same question in mind) and did not deserve the condescending response you got. @Greengordon @maccruiskeen @bhawthorne LOL! We’ve all done that at one time or another, and we all deserve a little forgiveness for our occasional clumsiness.  @Greengordon @maccruiskeen @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne If you don’t have the time, money and space to fill up a skyscraper with 20000 tons of dead trees in reference material you’re a bad human being and you fail at life. @Salty @Greengordon @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne Well, I don't have a skyscraper full of dead trees so I guess I fail too. @maccruiskeen @Greengordon @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne Same, sir. Same. We’re all failures here. @maccruiskeen @Greengordon @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne oh wait a rabbit well this is embarrassing @redroverpi4 @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne that the internet is awash in unreliable junk and it’s getting worse, and hard to find anything good? @maccruiskeen @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne That you have workarounds makes the destruction of the Web --- which once held the promise to contain all/most/a lot of the knowledge of humankind --- less real? For me it's on par with the burning of library in Alexandria. A wanton act of destruction. @bodhipaksa @bhawthorne but both of you know that the right answer is hidden in a 12 minute YouTube video, don't you? |
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@bodhipaksa @bhawthorne Couldn't you just open up the remote and look? Most battery powered devices are marked with what they need.
For cookbooks, I have a whole bookcase full of them and never rely on internet recipes if I don't have to. I'd rather just go out and get another cookbook.