indomara
@indomara@lemmy.world
- Comment on Terrifying reality of what airport security could actually see through an X-ray machine 2 weeks ago:
Clickbait article with images from 10 years ago, scanners now show generic body shaped images with the area to search highlighted.
- Comment on Despite Microsoft's push, Windows 11 and Edge see decreases in user share 1 month ago:
Yup. I got a new laptop with win11 and dutifully tried to get used to it. I ended up installing win10 pro by the next day, and even that I modify to behave a bit more like I expect. Maybe we are just old?
- Comment on A generation of renters are staring down poverty in retirement unless something drastic changes 1 month ago:
Maybe see if there is someone you can connect with in your local foster caring community. Most foster parents are long term and take many children temporarily through the years. Perhaps you could give your house to a younger fostering couple that rents currently, or put it into a trust to be used as a group home?
If you are near a hospital or cancer center, you could leave the house to be used as a place for families to stay near sick or dying loved ones.
Either way, its a beautiful thought you have, I hope you find a way to make it happen. <3
- Comment on Inside the quota-driven culture that boosted police searches from 88 to 550 a day 2 months ago:
Does anyone know the law regarding interactions with police in Australia?
I have a teenage daughter, she is a typical nerdy red headed girl into reading and such, so unlikely to be profiled for a search, but shit happens.
She also has Autism, and doesn’t do super well with new situations under pressure. Usually we need to talk about what will happen and what we are likely to do beforehand and she’s fine.
Can she refuse to be searched by police? Can she ask to be taken to the station to be searched by a female officer? What happens if she says no to them searching her bag or pockets?
- Comment on Does portable bluetooth speaker with USB input exist? 2 months ago:
I won’t claim to be an audiophile by any means, but it sounds ok to me!
- Comment on Does portable bluetooth speaker with USB input exist? 2 months ago:
- Comment on A Woman Was Arrested For A DUI. Turns Out She Was Having A Stroke 2 months ago:
I don’t know exactly what your wife is sensitive to, but I had a similar reaction to drugs that shouldn’t have done a thing to me. No one in my life has ever told me about pharmacogenetic testing, the ONLY reason I ever heard about it is because my new GP used to be a pharmacist.
I tell everyone about it now. You know all those friends who spent a year or two trialing different mental health meds to find one that worked? What if they could just get this test and immediately knock off any that they won’t react to and be forewarned about any they might be sensitive to? It’s amazing!
- Comment on A Woman Was Arrested For A DUI. Turns Out She Was Having A Stroke 2 months ago:
Going to chime in where I wasn’t asked here just to give you a new avenue - look up pharmacogenetic testing. It’s expensive, but one blood test and they can tell you which medications you rapidly metabolize or don’t metabolize at all - I found out a common OTC acid reflux med can make me really ill. I also rapidly metabolize certain anti depressants, which explained why I was completely out of it on 1/4 tablet. It also let me know which ones are safe. Your wife might be a rapid metabolizer of some of these meds and not even know it!
- Comment on Your 4G phone could be impacted by 3G shutdowns this year. Here's what to know 2 months ago:
Yes, most of the pre-paid carriers I have checked have more expensive 5g plans. I am with aldi mobile which does.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 2 months ago:
I still don’t understand how these are allowed. One is not allowed to let a Tesla drive without being 100% in control and ready to take the wheel at all times, but these cars are allowed to drive around autonomously?
If I am driving my car, and I hit a pedestrian, they have legal recourse against me. What happens when it was an AI or a company or a car?
- Comment on My jaw hit the floor when I watched an AI master one of the world's toughest physical games in just six hours 3 months ago:
It did learn to use shortcuts to skip parts of the maze, and had to be told not to. Super interesting!
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 3 months ago:
Have you tried imagus, hoverzoom or thumbnail zoom? It has changed the way I internet. Hover your mouse over almost any image, video, or gif and it automatically opens and shows the full size. I have been using imagus on firefox for ages and quite like it. It doesn’t work with some websites or apps, and probably wouldn’t work with an installed app, but should work for one of the rss web apps?
Please disregard if this is a silly suggestion, I have always been curious about rss feeds, but have never actually used one.
- Comment on Watchdog failed to act on contamination risk despite ‘damning’ asbestos findings 3 months ago:
Lol it doesn’t, as someone else pointed out. I somehow submitted a comment on the wrong post! :)
- Comment on Dude almost lost his life 3 months ago:
Wow that made me recoil in horror and awkwardness. Image
- Comment on Watchdog failed to act on contamination risk despite ‘damning’ asbestos findings 3 months ago:
Whoah, you are right, how in the heck did that happen?? o_o
- Comment on Watchdog failed to act on contamination risk despite ‘damning’ asbestos findings 3 months ago:
What the fuck. Why on earth were people without permanent residency or citizenship allowed to foster children, and worse allowed to remove them from the country?
- Comment on *ducks and runs* 3 months ago:
Indeed not! Australia has some interesting ones not yet classified, if you come across an occlupanid in your daily life that has not yet been classified and catalogued, you can contact HORG and send them in. :)
- Comment on *ducks and runs* 3 months ago:
Aren’t humans great sometimes? :)
- Comment on *ducks and runs* 3 months ago:
This, is an occlupanid. To read further about the fascinating research on these, see the “Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group” (HORG) website. www.horg.com/horg/
- Comment on Windows 11 and local accounts 8 months ago:
Heh, I made the mistake of connecting to the internet, which removes the option for a local account. Even after quitting the setup and restarting the machine, it would skip the wifi question and ask for a Microsoft account.
I ended up using hotkeys to open console and using a command to disable the wifi adaptor, then another to reboot the machine.
After that it suddenly allowed a local account.
Whereupon I learned that there was no way to force it to use the dedicated GPU, win11 only allows you to enable it per program. Otherwise it decides when you need it.
I have installed win10 for now, but the writing is on the wall. When win10 is no longer supported we will finally make the switch to Linux.
- Comment on Need suggestions for storage expansion (ideally with raid) 9 months ago:
Same, everything we have purchased from them has been high quality.
- Comment on Need suggestions for storage expansion (ideally with raid) 9 months ago:
To add simple storage you could go with something like this: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BQ6SHNP1?
I was blown away at the cool design (the case and cover are the heatsink, you install it with a thermal paste pad inside - how cool is that?!) and how inexpensive 1TB m2 cards are now.
If you want expandable storage, then maybe a NAS?
Husband set up one a year or so ago and it has been really cool. Easy to back up and access anything on it.