tamal3
@tamal3@lemmy.world
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 week ago:
Novice question: I think I am understanding that Aurora is a way of accessing the Google store without actually installing the Google Play Store, but is there a software package that it comes with? Is it MicroG? I am a little lost with how these relate to each other.
I installed Lineage and MindtheGapps on my Pixel 3a yesterday, but I’m interested in alternatives before I commit to this setup. It seemed like the easiest route given my lack of know-how, but my hope had been to de-Google gracefully and I don’t know if that’s possible with system-level Google still installed on my phone.
- Comment on Aging is fun 2 weeks ago:
Drink it earlier in the day, not all after dinner. I drink a full glass of water when my alarm goes off in the morning, and keep a bottle with me almost always. Add some sliced cucumber or other flavor to convince yourself to take sips throughout the day.
- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 2 weeks ago:
He deleted it! The post is still around, but all the associated comments are gone. Does anybody know if it was all archived?
- Comment on What are your approaches to donating? 2 weeks ago:
Volunteer firefighters (USA), those guys do important work and do not get tax money.
- Comment on The end of humanity will come about through people's apathy. 2 weeks ago:
Trying to catch a baby duck is like trying to hold water, or happiness, in your hands. They seem to be Schrodingers ducks for how rapidly and unexpectedly they move.
And an adult duck? They sometimes pet you back! I kept ducks for a while and one would regularly preen my fingers as though they were feathers.
Ducks can be happiness.
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 2 weeks ago:
OHIO!!
- Comment on The end of humanity will come about through people's apathy. 2 weeks ago:
Oh no! Let’s not, please.
I think I’m over the apathy… It was actually sadness and overwhelm that I wasn’t processing. I’m back.
- Comment on The end of humanity will come about through people's apathy. 2 weeks ago:
I just had a third package stolen out of my mailbox in a month. I don’t usually feel this way, but your post speaks to me. Can I move to another country yet?
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 3 weeks ago:
Like kei cars … Kei rockets!!!
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 3 weeks ago:
Meaning they aren’t somehow making money off whatever you’re protesting…
- Comment on "Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be" 💔🥀💔🥀 3 weeks ago:
Citizenship question: my grandfather’s parents were born in Ireland. My grandfather, who didn’t know he had been adopted until much later in life (by a Jewish woman), became an Irish citizen in his 50s and had dual citizenship until his death.
As a desperate American… can I get Irish citizenship through my grandfather, a naturalized Irish citizen who was not born in Ireland?? I can (understandably) not find an answer to this on the Irish citizenship website.
Sincerely, an American who spent 12 hours protesting at a No Kings rally yesterday
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Also realize that there are different places you might feel comfortable driving. For example, I try to avoid driving through large towns and cities as much as I can. I’d rather someone else drive. There’s just too much going on while watching for cars, traffic cues, as well as pedestrians.
On the flip side, my brother hit another car on his very first driving lesson and never drove again! He’s happily living in a city with public transportation :-) just make sure you’re able to get around without relying on others.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
They deleted it! That was absolutely meant for posterity
- Comment on kiwis! 4 weeks ago:
Are you thinking of dodos? Both have short repetition in their name, but those guys are gone.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 5 weeks ago:
But New Hampshire and dumpster have a p…!!
- Comment on well... 5 weeks ago:
Chocobo?
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 5 weeks ago:
What were you driving cerca 2018? That’s amazing
- Comment on Little miracles 1 month ago:
I mean, the Israelis are committing genocide. How is that not the ultimate irony right now? What a sad world we live in, and what a sad species we are.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 month ago:
Didn’t some articles have the pocket icon, and some were without? I remember trying it a number of years ago and being completely flummoxed by not being able to save things I wanted to read. Though it could have been user error.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
Yes, but for a kid who is new to the country and who is taking a 3-4 hour test in English, a paper dictionary is an impediment. I’m not saying it should be illegal, but I know we can do better by these kids. (Honestly, my preference is for a newcomer with limited English to not even take this test at all their first year, but that’s not my choice.)
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
I didn’t say 20 years, I said 20 devices.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
Yes but the process of obtaining the information is significantly more difficult. We can, you know, reuse the same 20 translation devices for years, and all kids have a laptop… I feel like you’re focused on the wrong thing.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
My point is that it’s a somewhat outdated skill, and these kids have enough to figure out without the encumbrance of a paper dictionary. Most of my kids have never used one before, and yes, I can show them how to use it, but it’s not a functional testing accommodation. Testing accommodations should not include learning skills that are only tangentially related, especially not when there is a reasonable alternative.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
There are good teachers, and there are good methods for writing essays. Did anyone ever give you a graphic organizer to plan an essay? You should know how to put an essay together after coming up with an organized outline, and you should never write an essay from beginning to end without planning it out first in some way or another.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
Maybe, but are there other things we can focus on? For example, as an ESL teacher, why do my newcomers only get a word to word paper dictionary on end of grade exams? I’m pretty sure the state of North Carolina just hates children? There’s literally no reason for this. Give them a digital dictionary.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
Wait wait, can this be where we get “a load of Bologna (baloney)” from? Or is that because no one knows what’s actually in bologna…
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
Unpopular opinion:
I am a public school teacher and I support public schools, but there have been a lot of issues with our education system for a long time. Talk to any kid with ADHD who had to sit through 12 years, and they are indicative of a larger problem. Our idea of school now is as a place that teaches kids to behave and mostly follow rote instruction. Wouldn’t it be so much better if we were teaching kids to be creative thinkers, work well in groups, problem solve, and think critically about the information they’re getting? We know that’s what school should be, but maybe now we will be forced to go there. Yes, there will be issues like learned helplessness and certain skills being difficult to teach, but it’s kind of exciting too.
Though it’s also possible that public schools will close and only the wealthy kids will be well-educated… can we not, please?
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
Fuck YES (says a middle school teacher)
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
Many middle schoolers I work with have an ear bud in at all times, and as an ESL teacher my population of kids really needs to practice processing spoken English without that as a distraction. Hell, that applies to every kid… This isn’t an issue of somebody listening to music in the hallway or while studying, this is during class, during lecture, during group work, while writing essays, while reading…
- Comment on Verizon is charging extra to limit spam calls and texts: Scam calls and texts have surged, yet Verizon continues to charge customers extra for essential protections. 1 month ago:
There’s lots i hate about having a Pixel, but the spam protection isn’t one of them