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viking , 22 hours ago

Reads link they'll soon be folding, and take their parent company to the grave in the process.

viking , 23 hours ago

Half of his videos could have been an excel sheet. He's a funny guy with a captivating personality, but most of his videos are not exactly a necessity.

viking , 22 hours ago

I can't wait to see the site formerly known as Twitter to go out of business.

viking , 22 hours ago

The concept is doable for sure, but I'd reconsider the draining issue. The volume of a hot tub is quite something, and if you're using any kind of soap or other chemicals, you've got a potential environmental challenge on hand. Even if you only use biodegradable stuff, that doesn't mean that plants will rejoice being smothered with soapy water.

For the heater you'll need something with a decent wattage to get it up to temp in short enough time, so make sure you're not overloading the circuit. Those outlets in some shed are often not the best.

Propane/butane would work as well, but in that case you'll need to take care of proper ventilation as well. Or just leave the door open.

viking , 21 hours ago

Not the OP, but I for once can't. She's not sexualized in any way.

viking , 1 day ago

I'm in my 40s now and never liked children, even when I was one myself. So to me the decision not to procreate came very natural and has never changed. I was so certain that I never wanted any kids that I got myself sterilized when I was 25 or 26, don't remember exactly. Just to be certain I couldn't be trapped by some oopsie. Didn't regret that step for a second.

viking , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

I think that deciding not to have kids is not a selfish act. Having kids just to have a fallback when old and frail on the other hand side is very much so.

viking , 1 day ago

Right, I get what you mean, and I agree. No matter how you put it, nothing is ever entirely selfless.

viking , 1 day ago

That cup is awesome (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

viking , 2 days ago

The one on feddit.uk is also great.

viking , 5 days ago

I have a Surface Notebook 2 and for the life of me can't get Ubuntu (or Xubuntu in my case) to work with it. No matter which installation style I use, either it crashes during the installation or never boots into the bootloader. Eventually I installed some custom Arch, but I hate it.

viking , 5 days ago

Yeah I'll try eventually, but I got another Laptop running Xubuntu just fine, so I just don't really use the Surface at all. It's more of a last resort for the time being, and for that, any OS will do.

viking , 7 days ago

We had something like that in Germany, if you opted out of military service, you had to do civil service instead, i.e. you had to work in an institution that provided some benefit to the general public.

Most of those jobs were healthcare related, such as working in a hospital, as ambulance driver, kindergarten teacher, assisted living helper etc., or working in a supervisory rule for a company that employed people with disabilities to make sure they don't get injured in the workplace.

Both my brother and I did it (they later scraped military service, and the civil service as a consequence), and it was really amazing. He went to work in a food factory where people with mental disabilities were employed to sort raw ingredients (think removing debris and washing fruit and vegetables for juice, yoghurt & pickling), I worked as a nurse in a hospital.

Gave both of us a good twist for our careers, he moved on to study education for people with disabilities and now works as a special ed teacher for an integrative school, I went on to work in the development aid sector all across Africa and Central Asia for years.

viking , 6 days ago

Overworked healthcare staff since nobody can realistically replace the cheap labor coming from a government program, plus an understaffed military (180k personnel instead of 203k as per the budget).

viking , 7 days ago

The cylinder is called a starter, if you google for "halogen lamp starter" you'll find those. Essentially they charge up and then release a spark that ignites the gas inside the actual bulb. They are very inexpensive, so I'd start from there. Doesn't hurt to have a spare anyway.

If you unscrew it, the correct wattage should be written on the bottom between the prongs, just make sure you get one with the same rating so it works with your bulb. Feel free to post a picture of it and I can help search for one.

The prongs itself should be standardized, but the length of the starter may vary, so check if you can still close the lamp.

viking , 8 days ago

They are indeed the registrar. Would have expected more.

viking , 8 days ago

The thing is that gen.xyz is the registrar itself, i.e. the highest authority for this tld. If they blacklist domains, you're screwed.

viking , 8 days ago

You can just switch it off.

viking , 9 days ago

I wouldn't say FOSS is inherently leftist, but it's certainly not a capitalist approach.

And Lemmy has been developed by two outspoken Marxists, so the earliest adopters before the larger waves of reddit exilees had a similar mindset.

Add to the fact that most of the oldest and therefore largest communities are hosted on lemmy.ml, which is run by the original devs, and features moderators who by and large also share a similar mindset (and suppress critical comments quite a bit), and you've got a lefty echo chamber going, that's spilling into the newer communities on neutral instances, giving the whole platform a left touch.

viking , 9 days ago

The number has been in use in Europe for decades. If they didn't know it then, they sure do by now already.

viking , 10 days ago

I live in China. Trust me, you don't want to have those homes in the US. The house I live in has been completed in 2016 and I'm the first tenant, moved in in 2018, and it's got more issues than my dad's house from 1965. Houses here are built as cheaply as possible, skimping on building materials, safety, plumbing, insulation, wiring, etc.

The pricing bubble is just a joke on top. The actual value of the real estate here should be about 20-25% of what it is in reality - for example if I were to buy the house I'm renting right now, I'd break even after 114 years. Not taking any repairs or interest into account.

viking , 8 days ago

Oh true, my dad's house that I used to compare the ones in China to is in Germany.

viking , 11 days ago

Three including this one, but the other two were just created on other instances before I settled for one I actually liked. So they are more like dormant accounts I log into every other month or so, I don't actively use them.

viking , 11 days ago

Macau never had the same autonomy as HK. They saw themselves as a part of China colonized by Portugal, whereas Hong Kong was proudly independent and part of the British Empire.

So the situation there is just the same as it is in HK right now, it just didn't bother the people a whole lot. Their entire business model as a country was catering to the Chinese society anyway, and on that end, nothing changed.

viking , 11 days ago

The world is burning, start more fires!

Great idea.

viking , 14 days ago

I've used plenty of free ones, but don't think I ever paid for a physical map.

viking , 14 days ago

You can easily moderate communities on remote instances, all you need to do is leave a comment there, and then the existing moderator has a "make moderator" in the context menu below your username.

This can't currently be done through any app, only in the web front-end.

In case the community is de facto unmoderated, you'd have to contact the admins of the instance. Or alternatively, create a community with the same name on your home instance and leave a comment in that community informing them and hope some will follow.

viking , 16 days ago

It's a tankie shitshow that I've personally blocked because you can't have unbiased discussions.

Their users are overwhelmingly shitposters or actually believe what they say, which is downright scary. Of all the users I've blocked, half of them are from there (the rest about 50:50 between lemmygrad and hexbear).

viking , 15 days ago

All of it, the "eat the rich" comments are a general leftist-trope that you find on all instances. It was really more like "Russia and China are doing everything right" comments that got a lot of negative feedback that the mods removed and stuff like this, and all across communities.

Often the discussions started rather harmlessly on something broadly political, then you'd have a bunch of people of the "fuck corporates" movement chiming in, and then it derailed real quick into an outright "blame the west for everything" bashing.

viking , 16 days ago

Tankies gonna tank. Just block their shit instance and move on with your life.

viking , 19 days ago

Thin crust Italian style pizza, topped with tomato sauce, walnuts, thinly sliced Italian ham, and a mix of gorgonzola and mozzarella chunks. Heaven.

viking , 15 days ago

Enjoy the trip! Where are you headed, if you don't mind me asking?

viking , 15 days ago

Ah excellent, hope you're having a blast!

viking , 20 days ago

Greetings from China! I'm not much of a poster though, so admittedly my interactions are by and large restricted to comments.

I'm always browsing Lemmy by /new though (with a well curated block, ban and keyword filter), and the Australians are quite active during those times.

viking , 20 days ago

I don't think there are any actual Chinese communities, at least I'm not active in any. And I'm not actively following anything from Australia either really. I've come to terms with the fact that there's fairly little stuff posted on Lemmy in general, so browsing all (instead of subscriptions) and sorting by new is how I find stuff.

viking , 20 days ago

Reads like thinly veiled advertising for the services offered by the website this article comes from. I doubt it's anywhere close to a representative sample.

viking , 21 days ago

Can't be bothered, tiktok is cancer, and I don't need an alternative.

viking , 21 days ago

Reddit is dead and buried, what's left are bots and teenagers. Those yappy discordians now run the show, most of us 10+ reddit veterans either came to lemmy, or gave up on "the internet". I'm pretty sure you're not the only one who considered reddit to be the internet at that point.

Most power users, myself included, spent 5+ hours per day there, at times more so than at their paid careers. Especially the mods (I've been moderating 6 subs, two of which had over 1M and 5M users).

I do miss some of those communities. I don't miss modding. Leaving reddit showed me what ungodly amounts of time I sunk into that platform, now that I had to fill other means to close the gap. With Lemmy it's 20-30 min a day, often spread out over 5+ sessions since there's not much to say or see that takes me more than 5 min at a time.

I've stayed on some of the moderator discord channels since those are fine folks, and chat with them in the off-topic rooms. Which shows me that reddit has gone off the deep end once and for all. With many decent folks leaving, ads and bots exploding all over the place, only the die hard shitposters and radical opinion leaders stuck around. They might not have had a digg moment, but are going the way of tumblr, which is arguably worse.

What I'm trying to say is that while Lemmy isn't the arch we wanted it to be, going back isn't possible either since the harbor burned down.

Personally, I've started a PhD just about a year ago at the time I left, and it does plenty of filling the gap in my daily calendar...

viking , 21 days ago

Faculty of Business, and I'm doing it on Clinical Trial Protocol Development since I work in the medical device industry.

viking , 23 days ago

What happened to old.reddit? I haven't been back in a few months, but that was the last option that wasn't a total pain in the ass.

viking , 24 days ago

I've just bought some HEPA filters and ziptied them to one of those square fans. Works like a charm.

viking , 24 days ago

Sounds like adblock territory to me.

viking , 25 days ago

When I played Superhot. It's a slow motion shooter where enemies and bullets only move in real time when the player is moving.

I only played it a few minutes at a time, but each time I looked up from my desktop I was surprised that stuff was in motion even though I wasn't.

Very weird effect and it set in each time I played.

viking , 25 days ago

Just back home after a 2 week trip to Europe, got a ton of work and a nasty jetlag. So yeah, could be better right now.

viking , 25 days ago

Thanks! And actually I'm European, so for me it was more of a visit back home, just don't really call it that since I moved away almost 19 years ago now.

But yeah it was fun as always, just a bit exhausting.

viking , 26 days ago

Ignorance is a bliss.

viking , 25 days ago

Any examples? I live in China and even the worst shoebox on wheels has a touch screen and built-in always online capabilities.

viking , 28 days ago

You can't pick a naked man's pocket.