owenfromcanada

@owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, but consider the following scenario: you’re returning from the grocery store with a bag of bachelor chow and a twelve pack of Low Brau, and you need to press the elevator button. With the stick, you’d need to set one of them down first. The Finglonger, on the other hand, has no such drawback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We finally moved in!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I normally don’t go for two-tone cabinets, but you’ve brought this together really well–the vent area wood tying in with the countertops is great, and the colors all compliment each other well. I’m hoping to redo my kitchen soon, and if mine ends up half as nice as this, I’ll be content. Great work, enjoy it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raising a toddler away from home⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey fellow dad, that’s a tough spot to be in. Especially tough for a toddler, because a month or two feels a lot longer to them than it does to us adults.

  A few things you can try, though:

  • Try to maintain regular routines and “rituals”, especially ones that you can replicate from home.
  • Send messages (either digitally or through snail mail) to her friends and school. Include pictures of where you’re staying or other fun things you’re doing. If it’s appropriate, you could ask her friends’ parents or teachers to send messages back.
  • Talk about the things you’ll do when you get back home. Encourage her to draw pictures of things that she misses and talk about them. It might seem counter-intuitive to focus on those things, but it’s better to talk about them to allow her to process all her emotions.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of gameplay do you have in mind? I’m guessing a puzzle-type game (like a room escape), but you could honestly do a number of different things (tower defense? Platformer?).

  I think the answer to your original question largely depends on this. Did you have anything else in mind about the experience?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Bionic Girl” Debuts New Wireless Hands That Even Work When Detached From the Main Prosthetic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s one other advantage to wireless here: a bionic prosthetic is moving a lot, and that’s not great for wire harnesses or connectors. Going wireless potentially allows for greater range of movement (or at least removes the engineering challenge of making it durable long term).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Bionic Girl” Debuts New Wireless Hands That Even Work When Detached From the Main Prosthetic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, if she has any tech-savvy siblings, this would introduce a whole new level of “why are you hitting yourself”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women often take initiative on the food finding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Women tend to eat smaller portions

  [citation needed]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best place to search for actual news about a keyword and get results that are actually timely and date order descending?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A search engine from 2012? Not sure these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On average, humans have more bones in their neck than giraffes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh good point. Though there’s only around 120,000 giraffes in the world, not sure what the probabilities are that any are trying to swallow a gerbil at any given time (and probably a more localized time window, given they’re less spread out).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On average, humans have more bones in their neck than giraffes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right! Corrected

• On average, humans have more bones in their neck than giraffes
  Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨8⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point in getting married?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some rights can be similar, but you’ll always have to declare the other person as your legal whatever. Marriage says to the state that this person is my default for pretty much everything–power of attorney, medical stuff, property ownership, etc. So if I get in an accident and fall unconscious, my wife doesn’t have to fight the hospital staff to see me.

  Depending on your country, there are other bonds that have the same legal binding as marriage.

  In addition, if we’re honest, there are some “soft” benefits as well. My wife changed her name when we got married, and having the same last name (and our kids having the same last name) avoids a lot of complexity with things like traveling (especially because our daughter is a different skin color than the rest of us). Marriage didn’t explicitly grant us that privilege, but there are a lot of societal norms that come with it that have proven beneficial.

  I’m not trying to claim that any of this is how it should be necessarily, but if you’re asking about practical reasons why, those are some of them. If you want the practical benefits without the cost, it’s (relatively) cheap to go to the courthouse or Vegas. Hell, you can get a friend to perform the ceremony for free, all you pay is for the marriage license. But if you’re otherwise not interested in marriage and those benefits don’t appeal (or whatever other reason), just stay dating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setting up a private network in shared apartment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an expert, but any time I’ve needed to do this, I set up my own router as a client to the parent router, and I set my router (client) as the DMZ in the parent router. Effectively you end up with two routers that are both (more or less) connected directly to the internet, without the two networks messing with each other. It’s also minimally invasive to the parent router (even old stock firmware has always had a DMZ option).

  The tricky part then is using the wireless connection as your “WAN port,” rather than a physical one. In which case, as long as you can install OpenWRT on it, you should be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha nope

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live a few miles from the border and cross at least weekly. You could generally get away with this for a handful of things, especially if you’re smart about it (dispose of all packaging and tags, have an otherwise legit reason for a short visit, etc).

  But if they question you, and they determine you’re intentionally lying about it, you can expect to pay additional fines and lose several hours of your life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vaccines are antivirus updates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still a showerthought

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: I want a law for PC games to be offered in physical versions again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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