tiredofsametab
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Reddit -> Beehaw until I decided I didn't like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn't like are better now) -> kbin.social (died) -> kbin.run (died) -> fedia.
Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
I met one really drunk Russian guy years ago, but the bar was so loud everyone basically had to yell so I can't really count it
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
Sure. The post asked specifically about Americans and, perhaps by virtue of living in East Asia, I haven't run into that many loud Europeans lately.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
Americans are mostly super loud. You can hear them from forever away like they're competing to be the loudest in any space. ~ someone originally from the US that had this pointed out to me.
- Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button. 2 weeks ago:
Firefox mobile. Input the homepage URL into the address bar from this post. Went, scrolled the page a bit, and hit back. Came straight back here
- Comment on Pizza is a tomato pie. 2 weeks ago:
That's just a fancy way of saying a tomato smoothie on bread/pastry
- Comment on Facts to share at dinner #1: Shagreen 2 weeks ago:
I use wasabi grinding paper all the time!
- Comment on People that go commando have pee and poo on their pants 2 weeks ago:
I would be more worried about sweat, I think.
Then again, I don't even fart unless I'm sat on a toilet
- Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day 2 weeks ago:
Some cultures considered sunset to be the end of the day and beginning of the next one. That seems good to me in a sense but very unwieldy for modern 24-hour time. The year also started when life began to return and planting could start.
- Comment on I Program on the Subway 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like a better use of that person's time might be doing requirements/design work on the subway. Probably less obnoxious to the people around as well.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 2 weeks ago:
I didn't qualify as a kid (which is interesting because one of the things I was considering was moving to Montreal for university which would probably have lead to a very different life than I have now), but the law changes allowed me to later claim citizenship (under the 2009 change, IIRC). There is (or at least was when I did) a fair amount of documentation to write and provide about all your relatives so be ready for that.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 2 weeks ago:
I'd argue that Japan has historically done pretty well at the first. I don't find the healthcare system here perfect, but I have many elderly in-laws who get great care. There's probably going to be a decline in quality and/or availability as the issues persist, though.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 3 weeks ago:
Get all my games working and, more importantly, my video editing software. I had the video editing software working, updated the OS, and it broke. This is not something that has happened to me under Windows, as much as I dislike it. I work two jobs and have home maintenance; I don't have time to sit and troubleshoot and manually tweak things. Solve that and I will be on linux full time.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 3 weeks ago:
I have two citizenships and permanent residency in a third country, so that seems unlikely. In the spirit of the question, though, immediately start drilling language and learning customs. If they have IT jobs, particularly in English, I'm already ready to work. I also have my own small farm so experience there as well. I've worked in many industries in my life, so I can jump into many things.
The kicker is probably the legal side and then finding housing which just requires doing whatever is needed. I assume I have whatever assets I had, my phone, etc.
- Comment on Do rich people in landlocked countries have yachts? 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely. They just take planes (and/or sometimes helicopters) to them.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 3 weeks ago:
We already do in colloquial Japanese.
- Comment on Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown 3 weeks ago:
I'm a US citizen and my wife is not. My grandparents are not long for this world. If one of them pass, I will be going to the US alone because I am terrified my wife, who speaks little English, will end up in some ICE camp. It's horrifying and heartbreaking.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the advice; I'll check into that. It's probably 6 meters at most if I run the cable behind things. My keyboard and mouse might work but it might be tight depending upon which version of bluetooth their dongles run (I don't have bluetooth on the motherboard).
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 4 weeks ago:
I haven't gotten this yet. Not sure if my TV is too old (2017 IIRC) or because I'm in Japan. I plan to just move my current PC into the living room when I can afford to upgrade but RAM prices just went nuts and video cards are still very expensive here (relative to wages but also because PC gaming is a niche hobby). I hate it.
- Comment on Tokyo Gas to steer more than half of overseas investments to US in next 3 years, CEO says 4 weeks ago:
Gross. Glad they're not my provider anymore (they do both gas and electricity)
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 5 weeks ago:
I follow some game dev and programming YouTube channels. I remember seeing someone make one and it being weird (and basically unplayable IMO), but I can't recall which channel it was
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
No, but rockets were a thing
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 1 month ago:
- an absence of quick-time events (I hate those things in cut-scenes, parry systems, etc.)
- a mode that allows the player to destroy the environment, NPCs, etc. including, when on, making the game unable to be completed potentially. I think having that be a toggle will still allow people to relive older RPGs where you could easily ruin your life without knowing for hours.
- Off-the-wall weapons. I think Blood 2 had a few and even halflife 2
- Counting beyond 2, speaking of the above.
- Comment on When you get right down to it, cereal is just cold breakfast soup 1 month ago:
I recently found out gluten was a source of trouble (probably coeliac but not confirmed just yet), so none anymore. However, for the first 30ish years of my life: cereal in a bowl with a spoon. Cinnamon Toast Crunch as an adult treat, other boring health cereals (some kinda bran thing, I think a Special K one at some point, etc.), and Alphabits a lot as a kid. Also sometimes Cheerios, Frosted Flakes, and others depending upon what we could afford. I would just have some normal beverage alongside it but I don't remember feeling particularly compelled to drink more.
- Comment on When you get right down to it, cereal is just cold breakfast soup 1 month ago:
No it isn't; I do make soup out of my cereal like other weirdos.
I tried milk on cereal twice, puked both times. I just always ate dry cereal.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 1 month ago:
I'm only somewhat worse since early 2000s Windows phones were kinda trash and I broke my first iPhone. But after that, I run them until they start having trouble doing common things. I went from an iPhone 6 to a Pixel 6 which I still am using fine.
- Comment on Burger King now selling "Mystery" menus 1 month ago:
I can't remember BK doing anything too crazy over here. Currently, the special thing is just a garlic sauce/topping, it appears.
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 1 month ago:
Assume that this is an apocalyptic Jew before rabbinic judaeism. That should frame thinks a bit better. The problem, at least as I understand it, is people doing commerce, particularly for a profit, in a sacred space. I do t think the money was the problem in and of itself, but rather the execution and motive. In another story, biblical Jesus tells someone of wealth and power that what he needs to do is give all of that up and he was quite miffed (in a very tldr telling)
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 1 month ago:
For cases where it sounds like another letter, why not just use that one?
Which the other one? Within English itself, the same letter can be pronounced a number of ways. It's like when people want to "fix" English spelling, they always assume it's going to be their dialect that wins.
- Comment on green salad fingers 2 months ago:
Maybe hematite? I seem to remember saying that about hematite when I was young and the whole neopagan and new age stuff had a moment.
- Comment on Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound 2 months ago:
I always thought people talking about seeing things that weren't there was metaphore. It blew my mind to find out it was literal.