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- Comment on is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital? 3 days ago:
‘I’ve worked here for a year already. It should be clear by now that I’m not a talkative person. This is a question I don’t want to answer. And I hope that you respect that.’
This won’t be taken well at all and sounds incredibly assholish.
‘that I don’t talk doesn’t mean I hate you, it means I have nothing to say’ < I find it ludicrous even having to explain this.
Still kinda rude IMO
‘I don’t see what that has to do with the job’
Depending on the situation could also be rude.
‘I don’t talk about religion, politics or my private life with coworkers and I hope you respect that’
Yes, this is good. Firm and clear.
‘all right, I need time to unwind, which means today I’ll spend my pause somewhere else.’ and proceed to eat alone somewhere else. And if they pester yet again: ‘leave me alone’
How about just “Sorry, I don’t feel like talking right now.” except you say that every time like a broken record. They’ll move on eventually since you never have anything to add.
- Comment on Disable windows updates 1 week ago:
Win11 was forcibly installed on my coworker’s computers. This happened more than once. …microsoft.com/…/why-is-my-windows-10-pro-system-…
What if you needed to use a VPN between May 1 and May 14? pcworld.com/…/microsofts-newest-windows-update-br…
I guess I hallucinated my computer restarting by itself on multiple occasions due to Microsoft updates, even after I disabled the services, before I nuked every sign of it from the registry and the reboots suddenly stopped. Crazy. superuser.com/…/windows-updates-forcibly-rebootin…
Copilot appeared with regular updates on my sister’s computer, unprompted. …microsoft.com/…/a4fce101-b9e8-4d10-9c15-1f835000…
There were easy to find examples of everything that I said, some of them happened to myself, my family, or my coworkers. If you’re going to be blatantly wrong and easily disproved then maybe you shouldn’t go on after all.
- Comment on Disable windows updates 1 week ago:
Eeyup, same exact situation here. I leave my work computer overnight reencoding video pretty frequently, and would lose so much productivity due to restarts I didn’t ask for.
- Comment on Disable windows updates 1 week ago:
To run as System and prevent permission issues from wagging its finger at you and saying “nuh uh”. Yes obviously you can open Services the normal way if it wasn’t windows update BS
- Comment on Disable windows updates 1 week ago:
Download and install sysinternals suite: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/…/sysinternals-suite
then run:
psexec -i -s services.msc
and disable Windows Update, Update Orchestrator, and WaaSmedic if it’s there.
Alternatively, do the same psexec but regedit instead of services, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services, find those same services I listed above, change the Start value to 4 to disable. I went to the next step and neutered all the registry entries for each of those services to make sure they stayed dead.
- Comment on Disable windows updates 1 week ago:
What do you have against windows updates?
Forced windows 11 upgrades, breaking VPNs, breaking recovery partitions, intentionally targeting and breaking the win10 start menu for win11, installing unwanted software, enabling ads, adding additional telemetry, adding half baked AI nonsense that nobody asked for, restarting without a prompt and losing progress or canceling a running program… Should I keep going?
- Comment on How can I create an alter ego for publishing stories? 1 month ago:
Similarly, I was reading about a music artist and it said on their bio that nobody knows who they are or their real name… They have concerts and make millions from sales, surely someone somewhere has to put their name down to send money to them?
Before you tell me about crypto, that’s not how the real world works
- Comment on [Troubleshooting] Clog Guy is back, and things have completely ceased making sense. 1 month ago:
Buy a new printer and cremate the old one, preferably with an exorcist supervising
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 1 month ago:
“The term “Web3” was coined in 2014 by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood, and the idea gained interest in 2021 from cryptocurrency enthusiasts, large technology companies, and venture capital firms.”
They tells me everything that I need to know.
- Comment on If you have a bank account or a car, you can never use all your money or all your fuel. If you spend all your money or use all your fuel, you will be fucked. 1 month ago:
Understood, it was a semantics issue.
I’ve finally gotten out of hitting single digits every month, and it’s nice to finally not have to micromanage the order my bills are paid to not overdraft
- Comment on If you have a bank account or a car, you can never use all your money or all your fuel. If you spend all your money or use all your fuel, you will be fucked. 1 month ago:
Do you mean “and” instead of “or”?
If you have money but no gas, just buy gas. If you don’t have money but have gas, then you’re just the average American.
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 1 month ago:
I personally like Thunder. Jerboa felt too limited for me.
- Comment on Very Specific Object: Redesigned brackets for SmartyKat brand Paw Perch Cat Shelf 1 month ago:
Wow what a major oversight on the company’s part. How is it possible that every single one of the dozens of people who put this product to market all coincidentally don’t have windowsills? Like they must have had to go out of their way to find a house that would work for the box art.
Your model is elegant and brilliant. Awesome!
- Comment on The more air conditions in an area the hotter becomes around it. In turn increasing the demand for AC. Talk about infinite money glitch. 2 months ago:
That’s legitimately how heat pumps work, except without decreasing entropy unfortunately
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 2 months ago:
“sir this is a picture of a cat, why are you bringing the middle east into it”
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 2 months ago:
The sad part is that can actually be seen as discriminatory
- Comment on I doubt future generations will have “basement dwellers” because none of us can afford to own basements. 2 months ago:
I saw one on a movie once, he worked for a financial company and killed a guy with an axe
- Comment on Why does my printer suck so much? 3 months ago:
You might have lost the lottery. I’ve printed 5 spools of parts with my work’s Ender 3 Pro without having to adjust the bed level after I first set it, and that doesn’t even have auto leveling.
Make sure your bed is clean, and make sure your gantry and frame is square when you assembled it
- Comment on Hi so i am trying some shit for fun like summoning any kind of entities. 4 months ago:
PRAISE DALE
- Comment on What is a good, healthy, unhurtful, socially positive way to express anger? 4 months ago:
Metalworking? Pounding a piece of steel with a hammer for an hour or two sounds like a great way to blow off some steam
- Comment on Anti-doom-and-gloom post 4 months ago:
Just like all other subjects in life, you’ll be a lot happier if you stay away from news and tabloids
- Comment on Rant: Cura did the one thing a slicer shouldn't do 4 months ago:
I think if you have a project saved, you can open it up and it’ll prompt you to override the current settings. From there you can save them and backup
- Comment on How do I learn about DIY modern electronics? 4 months ago:
Bigclivedotcom is the GOAT. I also recommend Ben Heck and Voidstarlab for electronic project ideas/edutainment
- Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization. 4 months ago:
Comfortable as in “you have a heated living space, food on the table, and security.” Don’t be dense.
- Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization. 4 months ago:
No, if you’re lucky, clever enough, overwork yourself, or manipulate others you can live a somewhat comfortable life. Those methods don’t require taking a life.
- Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization. 4 months ago:
Capitalism may hold us back in some regards but really helps in others.
The majority of people would likely be feudal peasants, working under a warmonger family that owns the sustaining land by force. No upward mobility except through bloodshed.
- Comment on Any 'creation' of information (pictures, books, code, etc) is just pruning the huge space of possible information to leave just the information you want. 4 months ago:
A good portion of any paper is citing references
- Comment on Would telescopic LCD screens be possible? 5 months ago:
I think your limiting factor would be bezels, so there would be a small gap between the screens. Plus this would be a mechanical nightmare to make cheap and durable
- Comment on Which is less religious: Xmas or Christmas? 5 months ago:
… But why? Just let people enjoy things
- Comment on Spirituality? 5 months ago:
I think your shower water was replaced with THC extract