- Fitted sheet must have label on bottom right seam
- Salted butter wrapping text must be red. Unsalted blue.
LEDs on electronics need either a maximum brightness or an adjustable brightness. I have taken to covering the LEDs on charger bricks with Sharpie/tape (often multiple layers of tape) to dampen the brightness because I cannot function with these damn things at night.
My trick is printer paper! 1 layer suffices for most LEDs, but the most intense ones need 2.
I need to try that. Thanks for the tip!
Same, all my electronics look like abominations of electric tape, it’s the only way I can have them not light up my room at night.
Did you try just shutting off the current?
Right. Gonna do that with the humidifier
That I need
To make my room bearable during drought season
Or the split AC.
That I also need
To make my room bearable during summer.
Can you see how that would be a problem?
People who make electric devices are putting blinding blue LEDs in a million places they do not and will never belong.
Connected to this: Bluetooth headphones do not need, and never needed, a flashing LED while they’re in use. I would regulate this harshly.
They should flash when they are first turned on, so you can tell that they turned on. That helps diagnose connection issues versus power issues. After that, though, darkness please.
And the fast blink while pairing can stay too. That’s a good use of the LED imho.
Laptop keyboard layouts. There is no reason they should be so different.
Specifically, those laptops that have full-sized left and right arrows, but half-sized up and down arrows - those earn 1 week of jail time for the CEO per unit sold.
While we’re at it, the power button must be in the same place on all laptops.
I wholeheartedly agree. But unfortunately my regulated standardized keyboard would probably be very unpopular, especially in the US.
ANSI keyboard no more. ISO keyboards only.
Caps Lock has no use beyond writing angry replies in the YouTube comment section, so Caps Lock will be replaced by Compose.
Adding a power button, or anything similar such as suspend, in a place where it might be pushed by accident is highly illegal.
Oh, and all keyboards will be US Dvorak from now on. Sure, you can change the layout in software, but the lettering on the keys remain dvorak.
And 50% of all keyboards sold will have to have a penguin instead of a windows logo on the menu key.
Caps lock is stuck in what is a great place for a modifier. Specifically ctrl. Compose can be somewhere to the right.
I prefer to keep ctrl where they are. But if you insist on moving left ctrl to caps Lock, that means that bottom left is available for compose.
Compose is best to have on the left side, as the first key struck immediately after it is usually one of the characters on the right. Plus, historically, keyboards that actually had a dedicated compose key had it in the left. Where shift is now, I think.
I’m very much fine with that, too. I just think it was on the right on Sun keyboards. Either way, not the most common key but infinitely more useful than a caps lock.
It has some niche use®s. I for one use it daily - My preferred keyboard layout is US Dvorak, but as a noggie I sometimes need to type æøåÆØÅ, so I use compose for those, as well as the occasional trademark, copyright, degrees, etc.
Adding a copilot button to a laptop, 10 years jail
no trial
Makes it so hard to use console command history
I just want every keyboard to have a home and end button (I’m a coder, and my current keyboard doesn’t have them, and I have to set a binding in every. single. thing.)
The Sims 2 had wonderful keyboard shortcuts for toggling walls and jumping between floors via Home and End and Page up and Page Down respectively and this was carried through to The Sims 4
Fast lane is for passing only
But that’s already regulated.
It’s never enforced in the US and it’s incredibly frustrating
While I understand this, are you referring to freeways only?
Or do you include any street with a > 30 mph speed limit regardless if I need to be in the left lane for the stoplight in 1.5miles?
It’s almost always safer to sit in that lane when it’s busier than changing lanes
everlast minuteFreeways
Tell that to the civil engineers who designed spaghetti bowls full of splits and left-exits and ignored surface street routes and mass transit so even when the freeways are moving at the speed limit there is enough traffic that there is no guarantee there will be enough space to move over at the perfect time.
This is a lovely enough idea for actual intercity travel, and it only takes a couple of clueless asses to make that frustrating, but I see people who think it’s actually realistic in populated areas and I shake my head.
Already is, just that nobody enforce this.
Ok, but if you are still tailgating me in the right lane because I’m doing the speed limit, I’m allowed to deploy James Bond style gadgets from my car at you.
Dishwashers and dish sets have complimenting standards. E.g.
Dishwasher rack is set A.
Dishes (plates, bowls, tupperware, etc.) Would advertise as “fitting rack sizes A,B, & D!”
Check out this person with their “matching dishes”! Well, aren’t you fancy?
Ceiling fans should all have physical controls. Shitty 4 button remotes that don’t even work half the time don’t cut it.
I would make the written English language 100% phonetic.
I would make SI mandatory in the US.
I would make one night a week a “have dinner with the neighbors” day.
Edit: I would make bidet toilets mandatory. Dry toilets to become illegal like cars without back-up cameras or asbestos insulation.
Tipping, the default tipping options should be displayed next to the price of the item.
Hard disagree. Tipping should be abolished and restaurants forced to pay a living wage should be the only regulation around tipping.
Lol, I’m not saying this is the ultimate solution. I’m answering the question. I also think tipping should be abolished.
How about we just make tipping rounding and pay people a living wage? You know in Europe, eating out is not more expensive than it is in the US and they don’t beg for tips. It’s such bullshit here
I’m not from North America but I live in Canada now. I find tipping is ridiculous. But if I’m going to be forced to tip it should be made clear to me before the transaction starts. I’m not saying this is the best solution. Tipping should obviously be abolished but I’m just answering this question.
You are basically never forced to tip. I’ve seen some places auto add tip for huge parties, but it was known upfront. Otherwise it’s always a skippable option.
I hate tipping as much as the next guy but it really doesn’t bother me that the option exists, just hit 0 and move on if you feel like they shouldn’t get a tip. (Ex. Fast food)
You’re down playing the social and anchoring forces. For instance, you’re in a long line and you’re prompted to pay, the no tip or tip less than the default options is always more difficult. These default options are used by employers as a way to under pay staff. If these default options were made clear before the purchase there would be a pressure for businesses to reduce or remove those options. As it stands, the default options is a strong anchor.
I disagree. Hardest I’ve ever seen to not tip is click “other amount”, press 0, you’re done.
Your argument about a livable wage would have made sense years ago when there was a separate wage for tipped workers. Everyone in Canada get paid at least minimum wage now.
E-bike legislation. Here in BC Canada, you’re limited to 500W motor and 32KPH. while I have no problem with the speed limit, I think they should allow up to at least 1000w motors. Heavier individuals such as myself would crush a 500w motor.
Packaging should be made to be reusable. Glass jars must have easily removable labels, plastic wrap would only be allowed for sterile equipment, otherwise you have to use paper and other biodegradable materials. Branding would have to be completely removable too. Basically, packaging would remain a product of the state, and would be completely controlled. Corporations would have to pay packaging tax to subsidize control of this.
The top speed of cars is limited to the highest speed limit in the country they’re certified for.
For emergencies, there’s a covered switch on the dash which disables the limit, calls 911 and transmits your position to them.I want all counties to come together and agree what sounds we use for animals.
All bags of pet food must be self sealing.
All bags of pet food must be self sealing.
Your wish is granted. All pet food bags now have integrated AI to help with SmartSeal self sealing.
A finger on the monkey’s paw curls.
Lmao, I worded that wrong. Like, they should all have a way to seal them shut again. Most of them you just open, I want a little ziploc top or something
The one I buy has a Ziploc but it’s very shittily attached to the inside of the bag. So sometimes it breaks off and then both sides of the Ziploc are stuck to one wall of the bag and it becomes useless.
The cat food I get has the plastic Velcro at the top. It’s pretty handy.
I have a food container myself since almost all of my cat’s food (that she’ll eat anyway) come in those bags that have to be clamped or tied in sole way. 😔
My cats eat through the bag of any pet food in the house, unless I put it somewhere so completely unreachable its difficult for me and impossible for my wife to get to it. We just use a couple of old coolers to store theirs and the dogs food.
Our cat food bag gets emptied into a big old tupperware. Cat can look, but can not touch.
under my brutal dictatorship, laptop power buttons may not be a key on the keyboard. It must be a separate button elsewhere on the chassis.
Emergency brakes should be a handle that pulls a mechanical cable that directly actuates the rear brakes. Simple and reliable, like you would want in an emergency.
There’s literally no difference between salted and unsalted butter
Stickers put on products by manufacturers or retailers must either be on the product packaging or be made with the material that leaves no residue behind when peeled off.
