BigDanishGuy
@BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 weeks ago:
The messages weren’t pushed to you? You got a notification and then had to request the actual message? That would be even more stupid, as it’s using twice the bandwidth.
- Comment on It's time to let go 2 weeks ago:
That or, and this is far more likely, I missed that I already had a half lemon when I needed one.
- Comment on It's time to let go 2 weeks ago:
But only the oldest one, right? Not two newer half lemons
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 weeks ago:
You had to pay to receive? wtf.gif
So some rando could ruin you by sending a bazillion SMS messages?
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I drop the equivalent of 16€ and I get 60GB data and unlimited calls and SMS with my Danish provider. Having to pay for SMS is purely corporate greed.
- Comment on Refrigerator leaking black liquid? 2 weeks ago:
The leaked fluid, how does it smell? Do you live alone?
I don’t live alone, and I would be freaking out too initially, and then much later remember that I have kids who frequent the fridge.
- Comment on The numbers dont lie... and they spell disaster for you 4 weeks ago:
First off, 9gag? Really? Are we getting that desperate?
Secondly, what kind of wonky-ass way is that to define a circle? “since you can’t do $sqrt{-1}$ we’ll just let that limit the graphing, so let’s just do that fucking twice to make a circle”
What happened to the easy to read oneliner $r^2=(x−a)^2+(y−b)^2$?
- Comment on humility 5 weeks ago:
sometimes a happy teacher. I mean don’t over do it.
I will still fail you, if you hand in a paper with no other text than “I have no idea what’s going on”. Don’t try to be a comic either by using one liners in every single paragraph.
But make an honest attempt, and put in single one line like that twitter post, and yes it will result in an amused teacher.
- Comment on Who created MELFS and who hurt them? 1 month ago:
I may be a simpleton, but I’ve always thought that MELF was just old school SMD, where the shape hadn’t evolved yet from the though hole package.
My thought was based on all the old junk I’ve repaired, where the older it was the more likely MELF seemed to be.
I haven’t designed with MELF before, but wouldn’t it make sense for assembly operations to add a MELF fee?
- Comment on Google is blocking RCS on rooted Android devices 2 months ago:
I use it. I enabled RCS as the primary protocol since too many time critical SMS messages got too delayed.
Just as a matter of curiosity, how do you get rid of RCS specifically?
- Comment on Brick-Interleaved Layers 2 months ago:
it would be a cull circle.
I don’t care what you say, I ain’t moving in that circle with you!
- Comment on Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription 2 months ago:
You guys read the articles? I just read the comments. Scrolling to here I’ve learned that:
- The founder of userbenchmark apparently started the site to allegedly manipulate stocks. Specifically Intel and AMD stocks.
- There’s other sites than my goto sites from passmark.
- Some lemmings actually read the articles abd
- The website isn’t really getting paywalled.
- Comment on What kind of a gift can you give your teacher out of respect, but that doesn’t get mistaken for romance? 2 months ago:
Speaking as a teacher here: do not buy any teacher anything, as in NOTHING.
I would be super weirded out if a student gave me something.
We had a student of more years than most, present the teacher’s lounge with a chocolate basket once, and everyone thought it was strange. So presenting a teacher with a personal gift would be even stranger.
But if you insist on getting her a gift, perfume would be up there with lingerie and jewelry … WTF dude?
what should you do? how about you decide what it is that you want to say. Like “you did so and so, that meant a lot for me because of so and so”.
- Figure out what to say
- make sure you don’t spend more than 30 or 45 seconds to say it.
- Comment on What kind of a gift can you give your teacher out of respect, but that doesn’t get mistaken for romance? 2 months ago:
Fellow teacher here, I concur. I’ve never gotten a physical gift from a student, and I don’t think I’d be comfortable with it.
A card would be weird too, but better by several powers of magnitude than an actual gift. And perfume? WTF my dude?
- Comment on Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software 2 months ago:
LOL was about to implement esxi, on a rather beefy surplus server, to run all my students’ PCs on since win 11 won’t boot on their hardware from 24h2… Guess my students won’t get to use VMware and the purchase approval I just got for a few workstation pro licenses wasn’t needed.
Proxmox for baremetal hypervisor, or? I’ve got a bunch of windows server licenses as well, I think some for hyper-v server as well. What would you implement?
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 2 months ago:
Be me
Teach intro to it-support/devops Course is relatively cheap for the school, as we only use the stuff that the IT dept has obsoleted
Currently getting 4th gen core i7 machines Life is good, every student has a few i7 machines for clients (win 10) and windows server Microsoft announces end of life for win 10 Hate win 11, but if we must MFW Microsoft announces the requirement of CPUs 4 gens newer than the newest machines we’re receiving. And I now have to tell my boss that the otherwise cheap course, with not enough students otherwise, will need an investment of at least 18 new desktop machinesAnybody hiring?
- Comment on This may just not be the best packaging idea... 2 months ago:
As I recall, the joke was getting old in the late 90s on slashdot
- Comment on Apple moves away from iTunes on PC with new Windows apps 2 months ago:
Hell, Apple Music has a better Android UX than YouTube Music does.
That’s a pretty low bar to jump.
- Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly? 2 months ago:
Hmm I guess you’re right… I hadn’t thought of it that way before.
I think I describe the behavior more than the age group, but I still see what you’re saying.
- Comment on How do I learn about DIY modern electronics? 2 months ago:
Get a copy of Practical Electronics for Inventors by Scherz and Monk.
Best book I bought in university, and one of maybe 4 I still refer to +10years later.
- Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly? 2 months ago:
I liked rainbow too. But it would seem that some of the other commenters have a strong issue with “rainbow people” as it have been used dismissive towards them.
A one size fits all label seems impossible to find for this diverse group of fellow humans.
- Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly? 2 months ago:
Last time I did was today, but that was in a teasing funny setting, and to a person I hold a great deal of respect for.
I wouldn’t in a discussion, I hate name calling, it’s counter productive. But in my mind…
- Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly? 2 months ago:
Copy that, is it the rainbow or the people part? Because “people” was just a placeholder to avoid having this thread pop up if someone googles my future message.
I like your portmanteau, but I think that my target audience is either without the English literacy level to decode it, or with just enough to recognize it as “LGBT sheeple”.
While realizing that I will never find the perfect term that will convey my message, while not rubbing someone the wrong way, I will continue my search.
- Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly? 2 months ago:
First off, thank you for chiming in. I feel that most of my IRL input has been from gen z, and I appreciate your input for both the diversity it brings, as well as the insights. That said, I will never ever be able to use the d-word, it feels almost as wrong as using racial slur.
“Queer” has been suggested a couple of times. But I feel like it’s aggressive towards the wrong group.
How would you feel about the term “rainbow friends”?
So to you, thank you for coming out as an ally,
That made me feel weird. I’m not looking for thanks, I’m just trying to be true to myself and be a decent person towards my fellow people.
and I hope you do so loudly and daily.
Whenever I get the chance :-)
It can take courage.
It may have originally, but not 1% as much courage as the kids who have come out to me as trans when they saw an ally, or the courage you showed when you came out as lesbian. I’m a CISHET white man, I’m as safe as I can be. The kids OTH need a safe space to question themselves, and will do my best to provide that space for them.
- Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly? 2 months ago:
What about “rainbow people”? I kinda like it, the letters can quickly become unmarketable cringe while still not include everyone.
- Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly? 2 months ago:
honestly, it’d just be nice if we didn’t have to label people at all.
Hear hear!
To be totally honest, that’s somewhat my sentiment for wanting to do something. Some other commenter thanked me for my attitude … I feel weird about that, because I think of it as respectful common decency towards my fellow humans.
I really like the rainbow word though, it’s not as gringe as the letter combinations, not as potentially offensive as some of the words rainbow folks self apply, and it still get the meaning across while being inclusive of all.
- Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly? 2 months ago:
I’m not looking to fight anyone here. I’m sorry if I came across way. I want to stop my boomer coworkers from hurting LGTBQ people in our organization, and if that resolves in me debating my coworkers then that’s a fight I’m not gonna back down from… #imactuallynotverybadassjustextremelytired
- Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly? 2 months ago:
I get where you’re coming from, but what about the wide swath of people in this post, who are not covered by the term? Like aromantics and asexuals?
begging for right wingers to make a joke out of it
Who’s to say I’m not kinda looking for it? Come at me, I’m angry, I sorta want a fight. I can hold my own in a debate, and if I can get you to expose your obsolete and inhumane views by attacking me, then YOU are the one who’s outed.
- Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly? 2 months ago:
It seems that people disagree with you, based on your votes. I don’t get it, I am an outsider, I’m going to stay an outsider. No matter how many black friends I had, I would never consider using the N-word either, because I’m not black, I’m not a member of the community, and I don’t know how it is to live your life under those circumstances.
So as OP I can honestly say that I’m not really considering “queer”. One thing, as I’ve already ranted above, is that an English context its history is in a derogatory usage, and shaking that past is difficult, and impossible for me to comfortably pull off. But in a Danish context the word makes no sense. “Trans” and the various permutations of the letters are used in Danish, but “queer” never has been. I believe the closest word would be “bøsse”, but that is strictly used to describe homosexual men.
- Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly? 2 months ago:
tldr: I want to come off as a little aggressive - not enough to start a fight necessarily, but enough to catch coworkers attention. In the meantime the pride colors are already flying in a prominent position.
I see what you mean about the hostility. But to be honest, I’m aiming at being a bit aggressive. The people I want to influence are so used to hear soft messages, that they pay no attention if you don’t force a slight edge in their faces. Besides, I’m done seeing trans kids, who have done nothing wrong, be met with dead sexing by boomers who are so frigging well aware of the kid’s gender identity. It’s like that episode of Fawlty Towers, except it’s actually happening in front of you and instead of being funny it’s incredibly cringy and you start to feel sorry for the kid.