Cevilia

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action?⁩ ⁨⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry to break this to you, but you’re gay, because it’s absolutely OK to lie to officials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action?⁩ ⁨⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Emigrate.
  2. Emigrate.
  3. Emigrate.
  4. Emigrate.
  5. Emigrate.

  /half-joking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could I order a package without my parents finding it?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say no too. I don’t fully know your situation, but based on what information you’ve provided, I worry you’re blindly following a guide without thinking through the possible end game. If that’s true, I worry that you’re going to get caught and you’re going to get in a hell of a lot of trouble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason there aren't more women on panel shows is we're less willing to put up with being dicked about on set for two hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hollywood pays better than panel shows. Panel shows run thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, per episode. Movies can run into tens or hundreds of millions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A broken clock is right twice a day, but a wrong clock is just wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Solution: break all clocks.

  /joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally got a Gensis (Megadrive) after years of wanting one!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Phantasy Star IV is probably the best RPG of its generation IMHO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, probably my wife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason there aren't more women on panel shows is we're less willing to put up with being dicked about on set for two hours⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A game show played by a panel, usually of comedians, where the game is merely a pretext for the entertainment along the way. Usually there’s no prize or a token prize at the end. Very cheap TV. Perhaps the most popular panel show at the moment is QI.

• The reason there aren't more women on panel shows is we're less willing to put up with being dicked about on set for two hours
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shipping costs will no longer exist if teleportation is invented.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless the teleporters cost money to run?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s more nuanced than that, and it really depends on the level of education.

  Making kids memorise things also teaches them the process of learning a thing. Testing them on facts, dates, and formulas has value because it tests whether they’re able to learn those facts, dates, and formulas.

  In high school maths, I had to learn formulas. When I was applying to university, the admissions test came with a formula booklet. It was assumed I knew how to learn formulas, they were testing whether I’d learned how to look up the correct formula, and apply it. They weren’t just testing my mathematical ability, they were simultaneously testing my reference skills. I only really appreciated that when I was much older.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨offline e-mails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you’ve downloaded all your emails, if you go to Tools > Export, you can back up your entire profile there.

  I’d recommend you set up archiving first (I have it archive to year then year-month, but what works for you may differ), then Ctrl+A to select all your messages and click the Archive button. This’ll make the archive a bit more manageable.

  Then you simply take the backup to another machine and do Tools > Import. All your messages will be imported, and you’ll have a well-organised history complete with full-text search on both machines. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no. The correct place to start is with A Klingon Challenge. The only way to get sucked into the universe is interactively!

  /j

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Something something, Mass Grave.

  Also, if you specifically want Windows, get Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC edition. It’s Windows 11 minus the crapware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's an FPGA handheld that looks perfect for playing GBA, but it's still in the crowdfunding phase⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the candid reply.

  I utterly despise that it’s hard to tell the difference now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's an FPGA handheld that looks perfect for playing GBA, but it's still in the crowdfunding phase⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone else detect the faint smell of GPT in this post, or am I just jumping at shadows again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My relocation story isn’t nearly so dramatic as others. I only moved two counties across. But I did it for love. I met someone I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, and I moved to live with her. I work retail for a supermarket chain, my job exists pretty much everywhere, I was even able to get an internal transfer. Her job only exists in one place. So, living closer to her work was pretty much a no-brainer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you're a child, cake for dinner feels great. When you're an adult, cake for dinner feels bad.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I respectfully disagree. Cake for dinner is one of the perks of being an adult. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh.

  Well, at least I can say I didn’t buy new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably? I dunno.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I drive an EV and my electricity’s 100% renewable.

  Your move. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody tell them about the cishet ally flag which is almost exactly this… ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the intersex-inclusive progress pride flag, which adds designs to the left that explicitly include three under-represented groups (BIPOC, trans+, and intersex).

  I once had someone, in earnest, complain at me that if we kept adding chevrons, the flag would have to get wider, and showed me an image that was like 1000 pixels by 20.

  And then got mad at me when I asked if I could have that as a scarf :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no good way to answer a request beginning with "do you mind if I......."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One word: Don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick I use is: I am here to exchange time for money. Whatever happens during that time, I really don’t care. The company tells me what to do during those hours and I do it to the best of my ability. Someone complains at me? I don’t care. Someone makes me do extra work? I don’t care. Someone’s having fun behind the trash compactor for the fourth time this month? I don’t care. A customer attacks me because we’re out of a particular single beer can, even though we have it in different sizes and multipacks? …ok, that one was fucking hilarious in retrospect and I’ve dined out on that story for a decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨would you visit an authoritarian country if you had the chance to live there up to 4 weeks for free even if you believe multiparty democracy to be something non negotiable?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  as long as I live in China

  Just something to consider: Are you sure they’ll let you leave?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most people don't have boxes of USB flash drives sitting around⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I have one of those too, but I suspect that’s more common even amongst non-computer users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most people don't have boxes of USB flash drives sitting around⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people aren’t heavy computer users like the average Lemmy user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most people don't have boxes of USB flash drives sitting around⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do know they have limited write cycles, right? Not getting at you or anything. Just checking. I’ve had a handful flip over to read-only mode over the years, would hate for that to happen to anyone else unexpectedly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most people don't have boxes of USB flash drives sitting around⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak for anyone else, but for me, I throw them away as they break, and I’m not planning to replace them. I just find them incredibly handy as a means of quick and easy data transfer without pissing around with network shares.