Thank you, you really didn’t have to. That cupcake is truly the icing and it’s almost too much! I’ll give you this giant egg of unknown origin: 🥚 in return, as long as you promise to use it for baking and making some more of those cupcakes for whoever else needs or deserves one within the next few days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds and 999999 bananoseconds 🍌

I want a free cookie emoji!

I didn’t ask an LLM, no, I asked Wikipedia:

The mean month-length in the Gregorian calendar is 30.436875 days.

Edit: but since I already knew a year is 365.2425 I could, of course, have divided that by the 12 months of a year to get that number.

So,

1041 ÷ 30.436875 ≈ 34 months and…

0.2019343313 × 30.436875 ≈ 6 days and…

0.146249999987 × 24 ≈ 3 hours and…

0.509999999688 × 60 ≈ 30 minutes and…

0.59999998128 × 60 ≈ 35 seconds and…

0.9999988768 × 1000 ≈ 999 milliseconds and

0.9999988768 × 1000000 ≈ 999999 nanoseconds

34 months + 6d 3h 30m 35s 999ms 999999 ns (or we could call it 36s…)

Edit: 34 months is better known as 2 years and 10 months.

Or really, fuck it 3 y

Seems about right! But really, it often seems pretty useful to me, since it removes a lot of unnecessary information thoughout a content feed or thread, though I usually still want to be able to see the exact date and time when tapping or hovering over the value for further context.

Edit: However, the lemmy client I use, Eternity, shows the entire date and time for each comment instead of the age of it, and I’m fine with that too, but unsure what I actually prefer…

The lemmy app on my phone does basic calculator functions.

Which client and how?

You forgot doing the years, which is a bit trickier if we take into account the leap years.

According to the Gregorian calendar, every fourth year is a leap year unless it’s divisible by 100 – except those divisible by 400 which are leap years anyway. Hence, the average length of one year (over 400 years) must be:

365 + 1⁄4 − 1⁄100 + 1⁄400 = 365.2425 days

So,

1041 / 365.2425 ≈ 2.85 years

Or 2 years and…

0.850161194275 × 365.2425 ≈ 310 days and…

0.514999999987 × 24 ≈ 12 hours and…

0.359999999688 × 60 ≈ 21 minutes and…

0.59999998128 × 60 ≈ 36 seconds

1041 days is just about 2y 310d 12h 21m 36s

Wtf, how did we go from 1041 whole days to fractions of a day? Damn leap years!

Had we not been accounting for them, we would have had 2 years and…

0.852054794521 × 365 = 311.000000000165 days

Or simply 2y 311d if we just ignore that tiny rounding error or use fewer decimals.

Attach some dangling USB modem with a data SIM, or just keep a mobile router with a data SIM in your backpack, for 3G/4G/5G data connectivity over WiFi. Then, use some VoIP provider if you actually need a phone number as well.

Everytime is hammer time

Buying and owning something like a house on a piece of land, though, is very different to paying for a service with artificially limited monthly usage, a short limited lifetime and probably no repairability once it for some reason “stops working”.

However, in this specific case of a house, you will probably still be forced by some state or another to continuously pay property taxes etc while owning it, but blame them for that – it’s not the house or the property’s fault. They’ll also take a cut whenever you buy your bread (unless your friend is a baker) and every single time you pay your monthly/quarterly/lifetime subscription to some ISP.

Let’s not dig much deeper than this, though, since this is turning into a yet another discussion about rulers, taxes etc, which is interesting enough, surely, but I’d rather discuss it with someone else, to be honest. All I wanted was to let you know that you surely have an IP address if you’re connected to the internet, even without paying extra for a static one, in case you didn’t know that. Now we’re here, and your lifetime subscription to my limited comments service is just about to expire…

yall were being obtuse about my point that one needs to “pay rent” for an internet connection

No, it was obviously clear to most of us the whole time that you can pay an ISP to get internet connection, and that that necessarily includes some kind of IP address since the service wouldn’t work without it. Once you have subscribed to a provider’s service, some offer a static IP as a paid add-on.

SIMO Solis Lite Mobile WLAN Router - 100$ one time purchase price. And they claim: Includes 1GB of free global data volume per month, for the lifetime of the device

I’m not sure what you’re on about now. You’re still paying rent (though up-front instead of monthly or quarterly), and some IP address is still necessarily included within the price. How is that different to you, other than the fact that you don’t know when it expires?

That’s what it seems like to me as well, and I just tried to be helpful and informative, not argue with them about how something that’s necessarily included by default is obviously contained in the price…

Of course you have to pay for internet service to get the included defaults necessary for it to work. Just like you get a bowl/container when ordering hot soup from a restaurant, and just like a phone number is usually included in the price of telephone service – except that a dynamic IP is somewhat analogous to sharing that phone number, or that bowl of soup, with other customers.

My point is that a static IP is often a paid add-on while the dynamic IP is the included default, since you wouldn’t be able to use the internet service without some sort of IP address anyway.

I believe you only need to pay for a static IP. A dynamic IP would be the default option included, and should just work with a dynamic DNS service AFAIK. With a static IP, a dynamic DNS service should not be necessary.

I couldn’t have done it without you.

This isn’t a comment, it’s negative feedback.

Yeah, unlike a human that understands a customer saying “one pizzaburger, that’s all”, the app doesn’t understand the situation that the order is complete, but rather just keeps on asking more obviously unwanted cringey questions like “buy two, you’ll save a few cents on the second one?” or “what will you drink with that?” or “is that a big menu?”…

Are you rhyming on purpose? Let me just edit that last line a bit to make it work even better:

They have the best lettuce and cheese,

and their breakfast beats McD’s.

The Hash browns are actually hash browns

instead of the thin $2.50 ones sold at the clown’s.

Do you mean pin as in creating a shortcut to the webapp on the homescreen/launcher?

Looking forward to the infinitely scalable quantum AI blockchain cloud virtualization E2E P2P VPN micro-services!

I suggest spitting to lose weight