Borger

@Borger@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emotional abuse of children by immigrant parents probably contributes a lot to to why the kids hate their ancestral language.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, this is super relatable.

  I have a very complicated relationship with my heritage. (I come from a Middle Eastern country.)

  As a teen I would stay up at night wishing I was white (because my white friends’ parents were OK with me being queer. They showed me a kind of love my life was so sorely lacking in.)

  Whenever I’d come home I’d have to put the proverbial mask back on, but no matter what, I couldn’t work my way out of being a disappointment to the family. I felt like a prisoner in my own house and I knew other people had it different.

  My mother also used to throw my medication (antidepressants) away because “chemicals bad” and it’ll “ruin [my] brain”, essentially. And so I’d deal with withdrawal too.

  I was victimised by a combination of difficult life circumstances, and (really, mostly) a rigid, conservative, and intolerant culture.

  As an adult now, my feelings about this are not so black and white; I am proud of where I’m from. But I do feel for younger me. And I’m still damaged from my childhood. Always will be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tasting History with Max Miller has a video on exactly this topic! Highly recommend it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help with VPN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, sorry I hadn’t appreciated you were after split tunnelling… You can do this with Tailscale for services where you’re connecting to a fixed IP/FQDN, which I think rules out torrenting/P2P unfortunately.

  The only way I’ve seen to pass a specific app’s traffic through Tailscale appears to be an Android exclusive feature.

  If I’m wrong someone please correct me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help with VPN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can absolutely use Tailscale; your host in the unrestricted country needs to be set up as an exit node (CLI argument in Linux, or a menu option in the system tray in Windows.)

  Then, your local machine needs to be set up to use that remote machine as its exit node. (tailscale up --exit-node=remote-tailnet-ip-here)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the UK government proposed to increase tax by 1% and make trains free would you be in favour?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you only referring to the national rail network, or also local services like tube/metro/etc?

  If it’s all inclusive, yes, absolutely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disturbingly similar to my employer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why some people go full grey hair in their 30s?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so relatable that it hurts, actually.