The LLMs can also be EXTREMELY useful, if used correctly.

Instead of replacing customer service workers, use the speech processing to highlight keywords on the service workers PC, so they can quickly find the right internal wiki page? Atlassian Intelligence works pretty neat in that way, a Help desk ticket already has some keywords highlighted and when you click on it, it shows an AI summary of what this means from resources in the Atlassian account. Helps inexperienced people to quickly get up to speed and it’s only helping, not replacing.

1. Powder is still cheaper. Just less cheap for you since you probably don’t use your dishwasher that much, but it’s cheaper
2. The dissolved material is still waste material, the waste is just in the sewage and not in your bin
3. I just add this point because of the formatting
4. This is subjective, but I think it’s slightly less work. You either have to make sure your hands are dry to not dissolve the wrapper or you have to throw away the wrapper. Either way it’s not a lot of difference

Neither. The dryer either collects the water or it is connected to the sewage and dumps the collected water.

I read that it’s an American thing. Americans have dryer vents in the house that need to be regularly cleaned or they are a fire risk, while the rest of the world has a dryer lint compartment in the dryer, that also needs to be regularly cleaned or it’s a fire risk. FYI so that nobody gets butthurt: I don’t think either of this solution is better or worse, they are just different. This is no “muuuh America Bad Europe Good” comment.

Notable exception: dry/wash combos, they just rinse out the dryer lint with the next wash cycle

Edit: And both make sense respectively. Since in the US you mostly build with drywall, it’s cheap and easy to add a vent for the dryer. In other parts of the world where they build concrete walls, it’s not so easy, so if you choose to move your dryer room in the future it would be a pain in the ass when the dryer needs to be connected to a vent. So it’s much more useful to collect the lint and water in the dryer than to vent it out of your building

One of the most useful videos on YouTube that EVERYONE in the world should watch.

1. The money saved. I bought a pack of tablets for 10$ a month, now its 15$ a year for the powder. That’s 6.300$ saved in a lifetime
2. The amount of waste reduced since there is no individual packaging of the tablets
3. The dishes are cleaner than ever
4. NO downsides. It’s less work to pour some powder than it is to grab a tablet. Well at least almost no downside: It’s hard to find powder, there are like 15 different tablets in the supermarket and maybe 1 package of powder.

Still, this video improved my dishwasher-life soooo much.

since you don’t have another phone, I think the risk is too high to repair it. It’s the best option for sure (for the planet and for your wallet), but if it breaks you don’t have a phone at all.

That being said, if you want to learn how to repair phones, you can live with loosing the money for the screen and if you can live without a phone for some days in the worst case, I think you should still go for it. It’s a great skill for the future.

here in Germany the self-checkouts mostly have a cash machine so you can pay cash without a person there