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  • Step 2 has never been very clear to me and this diagram doesn’t seem to explain it either.

    • Do you touch the tip of the solder to the iron, the pin, or the pad?

    • Do you push the tip of the solder down into the pad, draw it up along the pin, or pull it away as it melts?

    • Why does the solder sometimes flow onto the iron instead of staying on the pad?



  • It might be a good feature for the elderly as long as it’s local and optionally enabled (especially if it can be enabled only for unknown callers).

    Yes, I understand you would never really know if it’s not always enabled. But then again, you currently don’t know if anything similar isn’t already enabled.

    For other users, again potentially useful if it’s opt in. However, many people (myself included) simply don’t answer the phone anymore unless it’s a caller we already know. I use Google’s call screening feature for any other caller not in my contact list already, and I would estimate about 1 in 20 or 5% of such calls I receive aren’t spam (marketing or fraud). Of those non-spam calls, the majority are appointment reminders I don’t need.

    So would I turn this feature on? No, I don’t have a need. Could it be beneficial for the elderly? Yes, but probably not implemented in a way where it would actually be effective.





  • I use an app called Recipe Keeper. It’s amazing because I just share the page to the app, it extracts the recipe without any nonsense, and now I have a copy for later if I want to reuse it. I literally never bother scrolling recipe pages because of how terrible they all are, and I decide in the app if the recipe is one I want to keep.

    It also bypasses paywalls and registration requirements for many sites because the recipe data is still on the page for crawlers even if it’s not rendered for a normal visitor.



  • elrik@lemmy.worldtoCool Guides@lemmy.caA guide to Single Payer Healthcare
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    7 months ago

    I’m all for single payer in the US but this diagram is a bit misleading.

    • There’s still a program receiving government funding (e.g. Medicare).
    • There’s still admin and billing (for the government program).

    What I assume you’re really gutting are profits and shareholders for insurance companies. (Good, because healthcare in my opinion should not be a profit driven business in any respect.)

    What I fear, however, is who is in power at any given time might change the care you receive if such a system isn’t setup with safeguards and ironclad mandates.

    For instance, Republicans would absolutely attempt, through legislation, executive order, and the courts, to implement an effective federal ban on abortion or healthcare for trans and LGBTQ groups by changing how/if a single payer system would cover these services.

    I would also be worried about the public availability of coverage data such that lists of frequent providers for these services are easily obtained and become a tool for harassment by religious zealots.

    Or, imagine an anti-vaxxer put in charge of the program during the next pandemic.

    How do other countries deal with these issues? Or, have politics become so broken in the US that this is a somewhat uniquely American problem?