Bo7a
@Bo7a@lemmy.ca
Yup. I'm Bo7a.
- Comment on Living in a forest without any technology also works, since you will have no internet access anyways. 3 weeks ago:
There is still some nice, decently priced, forest land in Canada if you are OK with no services and 4 months of wet snow!
-Source: Living in the forest for the last few years. Mainly off-grid, but with a net connection to keep my job.
- Comment on Is there any gadget that helps find, kill or repel mosquitoes? 4 weeks ago:
Just be careful where you use it. The active chemical is VERY dangerous to aquatic and amphibian life, and can cause serious problems in cats. Dogs don’t seem to be impacted though.
- Comment on 400,000 species 1 month ago:
I grok what you are saying. I just don’t feel that way. To me, music is too subjective to expect anyone to like anything, even if I think it is the bee’s knees.
Maybe it helps that I have always had fairly ‘out there’ musical tastes so I am never shocked when someone doesn’t like something that I do.
- Comment on 400,000 species 1 month ago:
Nah. I’m 46 and have never liked them.
You can appreciate and respect that somebody did something innovative while still not liking that innovative thing.
- Comment on It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now 2 months ago:
This kind of bullshit generalization leads me to believe this conversation wouldn’t go very far. I’ll stop here. Cheers.
- Comment on It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now 2 months ago:
I would argue they are. My reasoning for this argument would be pointing at the history of the working class.
What is your reasoning for saying they are not?
- Comment on Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode 3 months ago:
You can. That is how I use it.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 4 months ago:
And getting worse.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 5 months ago:
I don’t think I was confusing the defed from blocking, I was confused about what you meant. Thanks for the clarification.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 5 months ago:
I will still see the comments from threads users on lemmy. Just not the post from threads.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 5 months ago:
Like I said, I don’t care what others do. But for me the correct answer is to not interact with users from that platform.
When I start seeing threads users in .world lemmy comment sections I will block .world.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 5 months ago:
Mt pleasure. TMYK!
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 5 months ago:
I’m not comfortable with assuming the dregs of Facebook will leave Lemmy alone. I’ll stick to instances that have defederated and I’ll actively block instances that don’t.
I’m not out here trying to stop you from being on federated instances or anyone else. But I will not personally support instances that allow that monster into the ecosystem.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 5 months ago:
Fair. But I’m on lemmy for discussion I don’t want threads’ bobbleheaded userbase fucking up every discussion thread on lemmy. So I will stay on instances that have de-federated that shithole and urge other instances to do the same.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 5 months ago:
Not quite the same result. Blocking the instance stops you seeing their posts, but not the comments coming from their users.
- Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies 5 months ago:
I will cherish that day!
It will probably happen if this capitalist wet-dream mellows a bit and government is incentivized to provide their own internet infra regardless of profit. But I am 45 and will probably be long decomposed by then.
But in the near-term - I can’t see any land-based ISP covering where I live.
The cost to run 15km of lines to town, when even power poles don’t exist, just to service me and the one other nutter who decided to live up here would be prohibitive even for govt funded public internet.
- Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies 5 months ago:
That starlink solves the remaining piece of missing infra that a normal person needs, regardless of the choice to live in a city or not. Even if the CEO is a blight on our species.
- Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies 5 months ago:
But I can build my own power and water infra. And I have. I can’t build my own connection to the internet, which I need to have in order to make money to do the rest of what it takes to live.
- Comment on Release notes of an open source app. Someone pretty mad at Canonical for Snap 5 months ago:
phr34ky: Windows doesn’t have a software repo you: Here is a non-windows software repo
Are you drunk?
- Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies 5 months ago:
I would not be able to live where I am without starlink. There isn’t even cell signal for 14 km…
- Comment on It isn't the louder it is, the more vacuum pump is applied? 5 months ago:
It is funny how this works out. Up North in Soviet Canuckistan the guys driving f-series trucks are mostly all around 65 years old, have no lift, do 10 under the speed limit, and the box is beat to shit from being used as a truck.
The Dodge Ram and Chevy Crowd are the 25-40 crowd with cheap beer on their breath, and revving for nothing, while not having a lick of dust on their shitmobile.
- Comment on Be amazed by the uses of Tech... 5 months ago:
You might be bumfuck-nowhere-adjacent. But if you have DSL, fiber, or cable, you are not in bumfuck nowhere.
-Sent through my solar powered starlink connection from actual bumfuck nowhere. Where power lines don’t even exist.
- Comment on What is "FUD"? 5 months ago:
It may help if you think of it like any old-timey slang. You don’t use it more than once a year, but when IBM/MS/ORACLE/CISCO were using those tactics against open source in the earlier days of the public internet - It was used a lot.
With lemmy being somewhat skewed towards the technically-minded, and older crowd, it is something we used as a general word often enough that to a lot of us it is just another word, and not an obscure abbreviation/initialism.
- Comment on Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show 5 months ago:
My perspective might be skewed because I always have a contract, even when I am an internal FTE. But my circumstance is not necessarily ‘normal’ since I live in Canada but work in the US/EU far more often than at home.
- Comment on Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show 5 months ago:
That sucks. I would not have signed it as-is and asked for a revision.
I know that speaks to my privilege as much as anything else. But I am at the stage of my life where going back to an office is a non-starter for me, and I am confident that I would find another offer quickly after declining the contract with that kind of wording.
- Comment on Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show 5 months ago:
I’ve been in and out of these types of contracts for the last 20 years. If a position is remote then it is marked as remote in the contract. Even with the United States horrible worker protection laws, they still can’t unilaterally change a contract.
- Comment on Tesla Model X Owner Has Had Enough Of Minimalism, Adds Physical Buttons 6 months ago:
Always good advice!
- Comment on Tesla Model X Owner Has Had Enough Of Minimalism, Adds Physical Buttons 6 months ago:
This hits so close to home. I have had multiple experiences where phone-starers pull up so close to my bike while they are not paying attention that my wife could slap their hoods, and once I had a guy pull so close behind at a red light that his bumper was UNDER my rear fender.
- Comment on Little (fun)guy trapped by root 7 months ago:
Root removed!
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