user224

@user224@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein puts my morality into perspective⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But who are you tipping, really.

  In the US, there is such thing as “tipped minimum wage”. So, federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour, but the employer may pay as little as $2,13/hour themselves if the worker makes up the rest with tips.

  Most extreme in Delaware. Minimum wage is $15/hour, but minimum tipped wage is just $2.23, so up to $12.77/hour in tips can just be a discount to the employer.
  Why do you think tips are being pushed so much in the US? Chart per jurisdiction: www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/…/tipped

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What might you think of these Odds? featuring ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, not easy situation, but “odds” don’t matter.

  Wait the required time before getting a test (it won’t detect it too early), then take a test. I don’t know how long that’s for each STI. If you suspect you may have some STI, abstain from sex and blood donations, and contact people you’ve had sex with recently. Embarrassing but responsible. If you’ve recently donated blood, contact the donation center ASAP and explain the situation.

  Lastly, don’t trust LLMs’ output. They have no idea what they’re doing, it’s just text prediction on steroids. Always ask it for sources and check those if regular search engine doesn’t work. Especially not for medical questions for fucks sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t.

  I have no fucking idea. I just finished HS, still don’t know. So I’ll go to college. Something in IT, I didn’t even check the specifics or subjects until I was already accepted and signed up. All I know is the program is regarded as one of the hardest, described by past students as “Vietnam war”, with one of the first recommendations to pass being “Get a therapist.”

  I’ll probably get kicked out after 1st semester due to math. I am not good at it, and it’s apparently quite hard there, though not the worst either.
  Hopefully not. I don’t know what else to do.

  Now, if my future paycheck wasn’t a problem (i.e. not living in capitalist society), I’d know precisely what I’d want to do, and I known so since 1st year of HS. I wouldn’t even need college.
  Step 1 is getting a driver’s license (just for regular cars), probably just due to bureaucracy. Step 2, sign up for train driver’s course at ZSSK. The course itself is 6 months, then 720 hours of practice and after finishing the state exam, you finally become an actual train driver. So around a year.
  But it isn’t paid so well.

  In IT, preferably something around wireless telecommunications and networking. The faculty I’ll be going to apparently has their 2G, 3G and 4G networks students can play around with (from their website). But when I asked about it on open doors day I was met with “We have that? Maybe.”
  Asking about telecommunications, I got ping ponged between 2 faculties of the same university. Students from faculty of electrical engineering told me that if somewhere it’s something offered on faculty of informatics. Staff of faculty of informatics told me it’s most likely to be found on faculty of electrical engineering.

  So I don’t fucking know what I am getting myself into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy has a problem⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where does the data come from? I don’t think Lemmy stores such kind of data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want this on a t-shirt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Rather Unihertz. They basically have just the unusual phones.

  Currently I have Ulefone Armor 24, but I’d want something like Oukitel WP100 Titan. Even larger and crazier.

  Look at that 33Ah thing:
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  Almost brick size now. It’s so ridiculous I want it. After all, what I have now isn’t far from if, it’s just that this is even bigger.

  3.6cm (1.4 inch) thick, 877g (1.93lbs) heavy.

  But somehow it still can’t fit a headphone jack and MicroSD card slot, so that’s a no for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨let's use PIN pad to complete transaction together⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just place something aside until it shuts up. Missing items just require the right pressure with my fingers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Must be lvl 11 genius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My Clever:
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you get less horny the more days of no fap?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the easiest way to get your own wikipedia page without committing a crime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Write it yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on location.

  It’s like this in US: files.catbox.moe/at3ijo.png

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How it was explained to me in Slovakia is that even number goes on the grave.

  Which sucks, because I like even numbers and dislike odd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My IP is 127.69.69.69

  Take that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they block VPNs, they just use Cloudflare which often ends up being shitty. I iust tried 2 servers from Mullvad, and it works fine.
  But I think it kept blocking me when I used Lifecell SIM card, like many other websites behind Cloudflare.

  At this point if I see CF page I iust leave. It’s not worth waiting to see if the captcha let’s you in (most likely not).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry if this is a stupid question, but did you still pay for the call itself, or was this fully free?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is lemmy.sdf.org running poorly for anyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been like this since they mentioned DDoS.

  Based on bboard search, April 1st 2025.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone has different preferences.

  My separate debit card and transport card won’t discharge or just stop working as likely as a phone. It also won’t be suddenly affected by bugs, nor will it get slower. Nor do I get Google also tracking every single payment as well.

  The only disadvantage is compatibility. So many things, and now even some shops use contactless-only terminals, while I got contactless or magnetic payments blocked. Only chip + PIN.
  But anyway, the shop that had to downgrade to contactless only due to increased fees on regular old terminal also started asking people to pay in cash instead, again, due to the fees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Faggot”, slur used for homosexual men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking of BTTF trilogy, I bought that (used) on DVDs for £2.48. £4.98 with shipping to Slovakia. 3 discs + 1 bonus. Unfortunately, I don’t know what else to use to import DVDs from UK other than Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And without Discogs I am screwed. They’re PayPal only now, and PayPal shadow-banned me. I used to be able to pay on like 10th attempt with a different virtual debit card tried each time over 2 days, but now it doesn’t even decline me. It just straight sends me to “We’re sorry…” page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it? I usually see them priced around similar to DVDs, that is like €3 - 15. Though I don’t recall if new. Certainly so for the upper part, I only want to spend like €5 for used ones.
  I like Momox for used and Rarewaves for new discs.

  Well, unless… the price you mentioned seems right for UHD BluRay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have brushed in New York and Philadelphia this week!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard choice to make⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  living alone can be mentally exhausting

  How?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NO fish pics

  Are you referring to fishing or phishing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think civilization is probably just ending after these last few generations, frankly

  Someone’s probably trying to stop that already, in a way. Low(er) sentences for rape and abortion bans. Maybe will be followed by something else, like decreasing age of consent. Or banning things like hysterectomy, salpingectomy, vasectomy.
  All the good solutions /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Germans skip to ich_iel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had luck with VNC, although it’s still worse than RDP. There’s also some RDP implementations on Linux that are apparently better, but VNC works well enough for me.
  But there’s no sound, I don’t know if RDP has that. I’ve used VLC for sound forwarding. I also tried PulseAudio TCP module, but that didn’t quite work. With VLC I can do lossy compression.

  What I wish would work better is X11 forwarding. That could be so awesome, just having the remote windows local-like. But from what I can find, in the past, programs used X11’s drwaing features which would save a lot of bandwidth, while now they just draw pixel by pixel.

  To give you some idea, I’ve tried it on LAN with gigabit ethernet, ping below 1ms. It would saturate the port and still be kinda slow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also found it OK-ish, at least after my usual disabling of BITS and SuperFetch (SysMain now, I think), and disabling auto-updates, I think in gpedit.msc, and using the provided BypassNRO.cmd to create local account.

  Alright, maybe not that OK, but after the initial setup it ran fine even on officially unsupported computer made in 2007. Just had to modify the installer by merging W11 image into W10 installer.

  Anyway, the Windows store or whatever isn’t that used, and I got tired of updating every random program coming from .exe files. But similarly I don’t like the large hops in versions like Windows 10 -> 11, or similarly with Linux Mint, so I went with Arch.

  Anyway, I’ll be a smaller minority. I most liked Windows 8.1. It was really well optimized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this could rather be related to power saving if the screen is locked.

  I prefer to use a dedicated internet radio app. VLC also works if you obtain the direct stream (check online or play around with element inspector).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Voyager

  Have you replied to the wrong person?

  If you were replying to me, the WebUI is best optimized for landscape use, and I don’t like using my phone in portrait mode much, especially if I want to type.
  Plus I get tabs. The Android multitasking is unreliable, and switching is inconvenient. There’s no desktop-like panel, and background apps often die if more of them are open at once.
  Lastly, embeds. Apps usually only work with images with regular URL, the WebUI works with Images, Video, Audio also in base64 data tag for tiny images, and images can be made into buttons.

  Let me give you examples:

  This is the Bulgarian Radio 1 stream: Image
  Probably broken in most Lemmy apps.

  And here’s a button, but in base64 so it’s directly in the comment, since it is pretty small:
  Probably also broken in some apps.

  These are edge cases, but an advantage too. If I wasn’t lazy, I could use animated bullets and lines like on the old web, but in Lemmy comments.
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  Welcome to this example comment

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  Make sure to:

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