FYI: You’re just posting thumbnail images without the article links to go along with them.

Checks out, at least in my case.

I self-host my email and pretty much every other cloud service I’d otherwise be using. My Gmail account is literally a spam catcher address, so everything there and elsewhere I haven’t already deleted is 100% crap.

hackaday.com mostly.

Everything else is “big tech adds [anti-feature], shoves AI more places no one asked for”.

Not just France. Saying that in the US, too.

Yep. It’s for an outdoor weather node on a metal pole, so damage would be fairly minimal if it had a bad day. It’s also only charging at like 200 mAh (max) since it’s got only a small 1W solar panel hooked to the charge controller. The only other concern would be summertime temperature, but I worry about that regardless of the cell.

Yeah, and my newer powerbanks all do PowerDelivery for 5, 9, 12, and 20 V.

I’m assuming watt-hours would be universal for them all (watts are watts, as the saying goes).

I may be re-thinking my morals for things like that here soon. My legitimate career relies heavily on federal grant money, and my skills aren’t rare enough to hope France will adopt me. Maybe I’ll start a meme coin or something lol.

That’s true, but this one came from a known (local) vendor. I took it back, and they were happy to refund it. Since they were gonna toss it, I asked if I could keep it (it works well enough to power an ESP32).

I’ve thought about selling out my morals, but realized I could never live with myself.

I guess they could still lie about watt-hours, but buying anything based off of the reported mAh capacity is a crapshoot.

Ended up with a clearly fake 18650 in my collection. Weighs way less than an older 2200 mAh one but it’s label says 9900 mAh. Again, it’s an 18650.

The culprit:

It’s been a long-running thing for blogspam to appear here. Usually admins will step in at some point and squash the accounts, but any time I see anything.blogspot.com as a post URL, I look at the account history and see if that’s all they’re posting. 9.9 times out of 10, that’s all they’re posting, and I ban them with content removal. Same for other sites that pop up out of nowhere that get spread from a brand new account.

I have no idea what the objective is (SEO, ad views, etc), but it’s been a thing as long as I’ve been on Lemmy.

Thanks for the list: some of those I had yet to ban.

I flat-out refuse to do business with any that requires I use an app. I won’t even scan a QR code for a restaurant menu; that’s my cue to go eat elsewhere.

You did it “undecideds” and “both sides” people: You saved Palestine! /s