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It pains me to think that people nowadays need to be reminded that many cloud services were/are originally available locally, for unlimited use. Amazon's whole
by tomc1985 10y ago
It pains me to think that people nowadays need to be reminded that many cloud services were/are originally available locally, for unlimited use. Amazon's whole services model seems to revolve around converting on-prem services into cloud offerings, even.
Modern computing is just like the chemicals industry now. You can clean your whole house with just a few simple ingredients (only one is a product -- water, citrus, baking soda, vinegar, mud, and bleach), but how many of us actually know that? Instead we go to the store and pick up Windex, Drain-o, and everything else, because we paid more attention to advertisements and marketing droids than the world around us.
The damage that modern technology has done to human resourcefulness makes me weep
- vanattab 10y agoOk you peaked my interest. How do I clean with mud? Are you simply using a "Sandy mud" as an abrasive?
- Lxr 10y agoSorry to be that guy, but I thought you might want to know: it's "piqued" my interest.
- yosamino 10y agoYou could wash your hair with clay : http://www.mommypotamus.com/how-to-wash-your-hair-with-clay/ http://www.mommypotamus.com/how-to-wash-your-hair-with-clay/
- tomc1985 10y agoYeah, it's an excellent abrasive for cleaning stainless steel. Sometimes works as a pumice-type scrub too. (Make sure your dirt is clean :)
- dotancohen 10y agoI really want to believe you. Can you give some examples of cleaning products' replacements, or link to some more information?
- nothrabannosir 10y agoVinegar: against: fungi (mould), calcium deposits; shaving brush, bathroom, washing machine / dishwasher once every dozen washes. Baking soda: against: bacteria. Mouthwash (halitosis), dishwasher (rank smells), shoes (quarter teaspoon, against smelly feet), ... basically everything. Bleach: poisonous so be careful (no toothbrushes :)). Mortal killing death to everything. Essentially, if something is so far gone you recoil, bleach will overcome. Great if you're Dexter. Lemon: fish and other foody oils. Bad smell in your skin / hair. CSI episode had a girl showering with lemon juice because she smelled like corpse. I believe them. These are the rules of thumb of house cleaning. Nonsensical aside: Acid + baking soda = fizzy, I don't know if they cancel each other out :p
- bigethan 10y agoBleach: can clear clogged / slow drains (it'll dissolve hair after ~15min)
- emmelaich 10y agoRegarding your nonsensical aside: try the recipe for Swedish Lemon Angels. http://nowiknow.com/swedish-lemon-angels/ http://nowiknow.com/swedish-lemon-angels/
- peckrob 10y agoOn lemons: if you have a dirty microwave, put half a lemon in a glass of water and microwave for a few minutes. Then wipe down the inside of the microwave with no effort. After that, cut the lemon up and put the lemon down the disposal. Run it for a few seconds. Bam, no more bad smells from the disposal. Two for one!
- majewsky 10y agoI was confused by the second paragraph until I remembered that Americans put shredders into their kitchen sinks for whatever reason.
- tomc1985 10y ago
- dotancohen 10y agoI really want to believe you. Can you give some examples of cleaning products' replacements, or link to some more information?
- Perihelion 10y agoValid point, but there are other things to consider. The reason I buy Windex is because it saves me time. Instead of buying vinegar, lemons, and rubbing alcohol and mixing them together with water every time I want to clean a something, I just grab the Windex/Lysol/etc. Likewise, I can spend time messing around with getting configs for various things in order, or I can one click deploy something to Heroku/AWS/DO/etc and not have to worry about it too much. It all depends on what's valuable to you.
- kpil 10y agoI'd say that you can use the washing up liquid 'Fairy' (Dawn?) for almost all cleaning related tasks. An exception is getting rid of limescale, where you need an acid. Citric acid works fine and does not smell. If you have a wooden floor, a specially made detergent with a wax component is probably also a good idea. I also have a machine with a private git repo that I keep some shit in - mostly half made things like an dead ant stack simulator, a non-working robot simulator controlled by a un-evolved neural network, a few heuristic Sudoku solvers, a really advanced configuration-management tool that might have worked at one point, and 20 years of random junk like that. It actually also contains a GPU based Smith-Waterman algorithm using Aparapi that I think actually works and could possibly be moved to github without too much embarrassment. Maybe I should do that...
- notliketherest 10y agoWe could also all go back to wearing grass skirts and writing each other messages on tree bark with rocks and spending 18 hours a day foraging for food, 7 days a week 365 days a year. Technology and modern conveniences free us to a better life.
- yosamino 10y agoThat's not quite the point though. All that foraging that you describe comes with the advantage of being self-reliant and completely in charge of your life. While in that life you have to be in charge, you also get to be in charge. The point is not to throw all of technology out the window, but to recognize that some technologies have made certain areas of our lives so easy, that we maybe overindulge in them, and stopped learning how to be self-reliant any more. I like to call it "over-civilization". It's been an issue since someone first stuck a stick in a hole to get out a grub, but just because it's old, it doesn't mean it's not valid anymore.