folkrav
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- Comment on how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres? 1 month ago:
I have 0 merit in this. I just… can. I always could, apparently. My parents organized dance competitions when I was a baby; they used to make me sleep in the DJ’s booth as it was the quietest-ish place in the venue. I slept through all of those like a (literal) baby. I don’t know why or how.
- Comment on how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres? 1 month ago:
This was a life changer for me. I had an AHI of 69. For those not familiar, AHI means Apnea-Hypopnea Index, which is an average count of “events” per hour. An event is either a complete blockage of respiration for 10s or more, or a drop of 30% or more in blood oxygen level.
I went from sleeping 10-12h and not feeling rested ever, a literal zombie, to sleeping 7-8h regularly and feeling good.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 1 month ago:
Most of what differentiates a distro from another is one of:
- package manager
- default packages/configurations (including the desktop environment)
- init system
The rest well… it’s Linux.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 month ago:
There’s an episode of Behind the Bastards touching on the subject - “How Conservatism Won”.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 months ago:
Oh I don’t think I’m particularly old, statistically speaking I’ve got about the same amount or a bit more left to go… We just all have those moments that make you realize time flies, don’t we?
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 months ago:
My first non-prepaid plan must have been around 2006-2007, with a slide phone and the very minimum plan I could get which was, IIRC, 50 minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, and exactly zero text messages included, no caller ID nor voicemail 😂 First time I had a data plan was in late 2011, when I got my first smartphone (Galaxy SII), and that was definitely less than 1GB/month…
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 months ago:
As far as I could understand, North American carriers charged through the nose for mobile data for the longest time, but usually bundled SMS with some plans in some form, be it a set number of messages, or unlimited nights/weekends (oof, I don’t feel younger typing that one out). In most of the rest of the world, data became cheaper faster, but SMS was/is still expensive. This, combined with iPhone’s popularity in NA making people use iMessage, led to a lot of people just sticking to the defaults and use SMS on one side of the Atlantic, while the rest used WhatsApp or similar.
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 2 months ago:
You don’t have to look too far, honestly. It’s advertising/marketing driven, most of the time. They have a brand and image to maintain, and anything that slightly deviates from it tends to get shut down really quickly. The extremists I was talking about are the ones driving that uproar you mentioned. Most people don’t give enough of a flying fuck to do anything about any of it past the Facebook argument they’ll get into anyway.
These changes do tend to be driven by younger generations, that’s just how it is… I remember Gen Xers complaining about us Millenials wanting to change the world and being very difficult to manage, when we were joining the workforce lol
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 2 months ago:
1984 supposes it’s coming from big government and social structures. Seems like a lot of people just aren’t watching what big corporations are doing cause it’s getting at least just as creepy…
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 2 months ago:
Oh come on. Extremists gonna extreme. Some will try to make a bunch of words offensive, the others will keep fighting for their right to use these words. The vast majority of the rest of people will just keep living their lives and just use whatever’s the most appropriate word at a given time with the language evolving. It used not to be considered really offensive to insult people with gay slurs when I was in high school. Languages evolve with their times, and that’s perfectly fine.
- Comment on There is someone who's the first and oldest member of gen Z, and they have absolutely no clue that's the case. 2 months ago:
Funny, my father was born to what was considered pretty old parents, for the time. But grandma in particular really wasn’t very representative of the Silent Generation lol
- Comment on There is someone who's the first and oldest member of gen Z, and they have absolutely no clue that's the case. 2 months ago:
IMHO, when taken simply as a group of people who have experienced a common set of cultural/societal defining events in their formative years, it’s a pretty useful generalization. For example I have no trouble believing literally born with the internet has had a significantly different effect on Zoomers than it had on us Millenials who learned to use it at the same time as our parents.
- Comment on There is someone who's the first and oldest member of gen Z, and they have absolutely no clue that's the case. 2 months ago:
I honestly don’t think that’s the case. Generational divides aren’t that strongly defined that they have a specific cutoff date and time. Some people who were born after said cutoff are better described by the previous generation, and vice-versa. For example, if you go strictly by date of birth, by most definitions of the term, my father is a (very late) boomer, but his life experience is much more similar to what defined Gen X’ers.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 3 months ago:
I was kind of adding on top of it. Didn’t think I needed to say it either, but here we are lol.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 3 months ago:
Hot take: “thoughts and prayers” and “doing nothing” are the exact same thing
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 3 months ago:
Gotta appreciate how I Googled that phrase, clicked on the first YouTube link, and the very first comment was along the lines of “US conservatives reacting to mass shootings”
- Comment on Playing Super Mario World with my sister. 3 months ago:
My wife introduced my 6yo to the “old” Mario games on the Switch virtual SNES. He actually launches them instead of the other Mario games we own pretty often. It’s always hilarious to me to hear that old chip tune lol
- Comment on Actually instagram like social media's are a healing for life. The pills to forget many of the problems. 3 months ago:
Yes, and no. You don’t want to only do this with all your problems, all the time, but avoidance is a perfectly valid coping/self-protection mechanism, and we shouldn’t be afraid of using it like any other tool to help us go through hardship. Sometimes, purposefully choosing to face things later, but taking that time to prepare, heal, and be better equipped to face your problems, can absolutely be the better choice.
For example, my wife and I have learned very rough news a couple of weeks back. It has long term implications, and requires a lot of research on our part. It’s however very emotionally taxing to do so. We therefore are taking in the info as piecemeal as I can, and completely avoid the subject the rest of the time. It so far has kept us sane in a situation that triggered my panic attacks for the first time in a decade when I first learned about it.
- Comment on What happens when two people with hyphenated last names get married? Do they hyphenate all four names and in what order? 3 months ago:
That should be child abuse lol
- Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good 3 months ago:
I shortly used lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works before settling on lemmy.ca as well
- Comment on Are Instacart tipping reccomendations insane or am I being miserly? 4 months ago:
When I was a kid, a “normal” tip was 15%. I remember cause it’s equivalent to our sales tax lol. Somehow the expectation became 18-20% in the last couple years. I guess tipped jobs being often minimum wage doesn’t help?
- Comment on Are Instacart tipping reccomendations insane or am I being miserly? 4 months ago:
Doing your part would be stopping to frequent places that have employees that are tipped. Most of these employees can’t make a living off the base salary. You’re not passing the message you think you may be - the only person you’re penalizing is the employee. The business got your money regardless, why would they pay their employees better?
Hell, around here, minimum wage for tip jobs is a couple bucks lower than regular minimum wage, so not tipping means making those employees pay taxes on tips you didn’t give them lol
- Comment on Proxmox Ubuntu VM has "graphical" console 5 months ago:
I have a feeling you’re talking about the TTY. You can’t use the mouse cause there’s no graphical interface to begin with. You’re in “pure” console mode. It’s probably why fonts look weird too. It’s probably just not running at your monitor’s native resolution.
As other people said though, it’s pretty much expected. Servers are more or less expected to run “headless”. You’d typically SSH in rather than plug a monitor directly in the machine.
- Comment on What is wage theft exactly? 5 months ago:
Retail truly is hell. A previous employer chopped off our time after closing, regardless of how much time it took to close the place. In the two years and some I spent there, including 9 months full time, they must have saved hundreds of hours in unpaid wages just in the 3 stores I worked at. That was a major chain, mind you…
Rest assured that when I was closing at 9PM by myself, by 9:01 I had signed off on the day’s deposit, and by 9:02 I was out of there.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 5 months ago:
I never really saw no ice as a cost saving thing, just as a “my drink won’t taste like water in 5 minutes” thing.
- Comment on Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? 5 months ago:
Maybe it’s an English second language thing, or just how I expressed myself, but yes, I was referring to the first. Our technological capabilities are obviously on a whole other level. Electricity + transistors basically transformed the world. Plus the massive population growth.
- Comment on Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? 5 months ago:
It’s incredibly easy to fall into the trap of seeing modern societies as more advanced. There’s no reason to think they weren’t just as intelligent and resourceful as we are today. They just lived a long time ago. If history can teach us one thing, it’s that nobody rules the world forever, as advanced a civilization can be.
- Comment on Why can't code be uncompiled? 5 months ago:
At a very low level, yes, everything is 1s and 0s. However, virtually nobody deals with binary anymore. Programming languages are abstractions over abstractions over abstractions not to have to deal with typing binary.
The point of programming languages is for humans to be able to read it and make sense out of it. It’s a way to represent in a kind of intermediate language that’s halfway between something humans can read and computers can interpret.
Say the game’s programmer wants to handle moving your character right on pressing the right arrow key. They might write some function called “handleRightArrow()”, which does whatever. Then your compiler will turn this to some instructions - read stuff in RAM at address XYZ, copy it over, etc. The original code with readable names, comments, documentation, proper organization, it’s gone. Once you decompile, it’s gonna be random function/variable names, compiler might have rewritten some parts of the implementation as automatic optimizations, unlined some functions, etc. The human readable meaning of the code is lost. It does the same thing as the original code, but it isn’t the original code either.
- Comment on Selfhosting Overleaf 6 months ago:
A Docker Compose is literally just a bunch of Docker commands in yaml format. It’s IMHO much harder to mess around with a file format you fundamentally don’t understand.
- Comment on YSK that if your turn signal is blinking unusually fast (like 3 or more times a second), it generally means you have a bulb out. 6 months ago:
Here it’s the pickup trucks