ApathyTree

@ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TOR asking to run snowflake to help Iranians with internet access⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I spent the time between when I posted and when you replied looking into various things related to tor, legality, and snowflake more specifically, as well as a bit after your reply since you gave me a couple extra things to look into… (like if there’s a risk of running alongside self-host software like Plex and jellyfin, I didn’t find anything about it so I sort of assume it’s fine…?)…

  I didn’t see anything overly bad other than if you yourself use toe, maybe, so took the plunge and… have had a whole two connections already, so yay, I’m a snowflake!

  I feel slightly better about myself, like when I started using boinc. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TOR asking to run snowflake to help Iranians with internet access⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m willing to do this but frankly tor intimidates me big time. I don’t know anything about it other than……. Yep that’s it.

  I read through the mastodon post, and the project page, and cumulatively I didn’t get any answers.

  I assume this is a dark web node sort of thing? Is it safe for me to run the browser extension, like I’m not putting a target on myself or anything? If yes to question 1, but no to question 2, what does put a target?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is always what my YouTube homepage looks like because I only access it in ghostery browser, using a ghost tab by default (like incognito/private/inprivate, but because ghostery, also blocks tracking, cookies, etc.)

  I typically completely close the browser between links (it’s my default link handling browser for Lemmy), so it gets reset frequently enough to have nothing on home if I actually navigate there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure, the cringe of the office is unbearable, and I have no idea who you named… other than knowing they were in the show…? I tried so hard to try to like it that sucks so hard to have people all like “no but give it time!” …bitch… I did give it time… I even tried the UK version and it’s the exact same thing with different people.

  Same with always sunny (sans UK version, I doubt that exists… it wouldn’t translate…)… I can’t get past the first impression, the gang gets racist… like ok, this clearly has nothing for me…?

  Maybe it does, but I’ll never honestly be able to get past the start to know (other than memes, I know many of those bits)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  More that you can’t, but hey, sure! Whatever makes you happy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that shit.

  That’s exactly it, and where I stopped because omfg who does that…???

  Nobody with normal human motivations, that’s who.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow if that’s what you took from that… that says a lot about you…

  Sorry I don’t like your pet fantasy…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lights out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It took me the entire amount of time I spent looking at this before replying to realize this device is a kickboard to learn swimming…

  I’m way too old for this meme.

  I struggled with those kickboards and only really learned to swim pretending to be a mermaid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the same problem with stuff. Can you, um… anti-suggest?

  Like suggest things I should avoid that hit those same tropes that made bb unwatchable for me…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk man, as a science communicator, I watched it and thought it sucked. I know enough about any science field to explain to laypeople, but not enough to properly engage experts usually.

  It’s not a bad show per se, but it’s a bad show, imho, as far as normal human motivations are concerned. Who gets their shit handled and still risks their whole family’s shit? Like maybe it’s just me but that’s stupid and hard to believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zelda Tears of the Kingdom - it finally got me!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the sky islands were meant to be more of a problem-solving adventure, like how to get to certain places that are quite far, but the crafting system was so complicated/poorly implemented, imho, that it made them into a giant pain in the ass.

  I ended up just making a platform hot air balloon (three balloons, three pieces of wood, and a fire weapon to light them), and using that for vertical… was the only thing I could get working consistently that didn’t cost a lot of batteries and flame spitters and shit. That plus the gust ability when you’ve reached as high as the game lets you… helps a lot…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aging is fun⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My chipmunk bladder would like to have a word with your claim that the trips slow down over time…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if they let the dog drive himself home⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  lol he swapped seats and everything, that’s great! Not the drunk driving, ofc, but to be a fly on the wall for that stop, woof!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Melancholy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Melancholy, misanthrope, and asocial were game changers for me. Learned them young, use them frequently even now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak male form⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a genuine photograph of six men in striped bathing suits in the early 1900s. However, we’ve found no evidence to support the claim that it was taken at a beauty contest. 

  The earliest internet postings of the photo we could find came in articles concerning the early days of swimsuit fashion. In 2012, Angus Trumble, the Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra, provided a little more information about the photograph’s origins.

  In a brief anecdote, Trumble wrote that the photo was originally available as a postcard captioned “Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910,” which translates roughly to “men made more beautiful by stripes. Central Europe around 1910.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have used this you are immune to all disease.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a bar near me that still had one of these things until quite recently, and yeah it was always on the ground and gross and stuff. I just used a napkin the few times I went there.

  But then they had a fire and got rid of them. Now they have a freestanding roll of paper towel that’s always wet and falling on the floor which is much better…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some secrets are kept better hidden than others⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A prior owner of my house was a mason. I know this because I get his union stuff (I’ve lived here for 15 years; at this point it’s not my problem).

  He installed a huge fireplace and hearth… on top of 2 layers of old hardwood flooring… so when I ripped that out, I made the hearth unstable. Yay! It’s also an absolutely massive radiant structure, and everyone is shocked that it’s… designed for a small pellet stove.

  It’s both well done, and not well done at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHAT A WAY TO DIE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That synopsis both answers and raises more questions than I knew I had…

  Thanks, I think… 😜

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHAT A WAY TO DIE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk if asking is a good move considering the subject matter here, but what’s with the fish? Is this supposed to be partially underwater? I don’t see a water line anywhere…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop redirecting them. Make it cost them.

  Tell your neighbors to file an “it arrived late” or “it didn’t arrive” complaint. Get two and send one back. Their fault for being shit companies.

  If something is delivered to you by mistake, it’s not your responsibility to fix the mistake, you just got free stuff.

  If it goes through USPS, it might be a federal offense to open stuff delivered via USPS, but is that true of third party parcel delivery? Almost certainly not, because USPS is a government org and those third party shit delivery companies aren’t…

  So now any package that’s delivered to me by anyone other than USPS… it’s mine now, and I open it to see if I want whatever trash my neighbors are buying.

  I used to try to fix the problem… but then I realized it’s NOT MY PROBLEM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the cutoff distance when you point and say [thing] is "here" or [thing] is "there"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In some English dialects, we have a middle distance indicator for those sort of… ambiguous distances.

  We have:

  This here

  That there

  And we have “just over there”.

  If someone said the third option, you’d know it wasn’t far by the use of “just”, but also not close enough to count as here, even if it’s not technically formal language.

  Some dialects also have an additional category to indicate things so far you can’t see them, like “over yonder”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*fliiiinnnnnggg*.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you know that in old English, Þ þ was a thorn, which was pronounced “th” like the word the. In Middle English, the shape of the thorn got, well, sloppy, because people are lazy as shit, and eventually took on the shape Y.

  Thus, when you see a sign in “old English” (actually Middle English at best) that says ye olde shoppe, you should read it boringly as “the old shop”.

  Off I go to ruin more days!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stuff like this is why I have a rule with my friends, because we are all varying levels of broke at various times.

  Whomever suggests going out (typically no more than 3 people) must be fully prepared to cover the costs of everyone being invited. They usually don’t have to do so, but it ensures that nobody feels awkward because they can’t afford to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wanna Ride This Bussy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment is the closest I’ve come to understanding the problem, can you be more explicit about why bussy is a thing?

  Is it because pussy? But the bum? I’m so confused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Material scientist wet dream⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just curious, have you watched the show with the same name as your account?

  I guess it’s for kids to help them deal with trauma. I downloaded it due to super high ratings, but I haven’t watched it yet (and might not; I don’t have or want kids, but I like having good stuff for friends with them)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazing.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I moved into my last apartment, my entire storage area was full of bags of cans.

  They belonged to a neighbor, who was using my empty storage because his was full, I found out 2 weeks later when he came ripping up to my door demanding to know what I did with his money.

  When I found out he meant the cans, I laughed, told him I threw out his trash for him, and told him if he ever darkened my door again I’d call the cops.

  They weren’t even crushed. His own storage was probably plenty if he’d be less lazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd choose 4 tbh⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  5,6,9 only ones that really make a big difference in the grand scheme of things.

  Being super strong would mean you’d likely end up doing a lot of physical activity for yourself and others, but it would also mean that your resting metabolism is significantly higher than baseline which handily takes care of the fat/weight problem.

  Being taller would be fine I guess but, and I say this as a woman in the bottom 25% in height, it wouldn’t actually make any substantial difference in life, beyond being able to touch the floor in a standard chair.

  Having a lot of money takes care of shopping without stopping it, As well as the followers thing (rich people are often famous, and if not they can dump some money into something to make them famous if they want) and I feel being happy over-rides forgetting your ex, cuz you wouldn’t feel bad about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So which one?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some days, to avoid disturbing my sleeping cats, I sleep sideways across the head of my bed curled around them. Those days I swim in a sea of pillows.

  So I guess d?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's it. That's the joke.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had my uterus inflated with saline for an ultrasound screening before an ablation. It wasn’t a lot of liquid, but it was an absolute screaming amount of pain, and they said it wouldn’t hurt… I knew it would because I’ve had several iud insertions but they refused when I requested something, anything at all, for the pain…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grieve with me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have these for all my chargeable things. Bought like 4 packs with multiple port types, so I have tons of extra cables in case some die. They are great for game controllers, phones, tablets, rechargeable keyboards, and all sorts of other shit. All you need is multiple ends, and you can use the same cables for everything. It’s glorious if you have a mix of port types.