Rentlar

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Rentlar,

Banned of the Master Bans Most Important Ban of Extreme Bans to the MAX!

Shrinkflation hits IKEA Family by removing 5% discount (i.imgur.com)

IKEA Family is a membership program, like grocery store memberships. The only real feature of the program was their 5% discount. But now, they are getting rid of it to focus on “New Lower Price offers”. I’m not holding my breath that their prices are going to come down anytime soon....

Rentlar,

Now it’s called Bill.

Rentlar,

How come we find out this about Mike Johnson before his finances/bank account?

Rentlar,

Seconding the chip. If a dog is lost then any dog owner doesn’t need to look for someone who knows someone who owns the dog.

Rentlar,

Screw all notions of modern time… return to Japanese Time

Daylight and Nighttime, each divided into 6 periods, varying in length based on the season and labelled in order of 6, 5, 4, 9, 8, 7. Longer workdays when the sun is out, shorter workdays when it’s dark!

Rentlar,

たのしさ∞

I N F I N I T E F U N

セガ•エンタープライゼス

Rentlar,

Governments in free, democratic countries are not supposed to spy on you without a probable suspicion of wrongdoing. Government agencies around the world get around that by “purchasing information” collected by private firms and use it to gain probable suspicion whenever they feel like.

Rentlar,

A close family member had an ASUS netbook… it was real great til it caught fire at the display power hinge…

Rentlar,

That’s a sweet looking Lenovo lawn you have there!

Rentlar,

Might be called the Butterfly effect, idk, but the token move definitely brewed up a blizzard of conservative snowflakes.

Rentlar,

Sometimes you just want the drunk more than the drink, so you don’t care if it tastes anywhere between piss and a Sharpie.

Rentlar,

Yep. Even some local lagers have been disappointing to me… your standard options are way better in Europe than anywhere here vis-a-vis. Just like Canadian healthcare, us Canucks can say at least we’re slightly better with our beers than the US.

Don’t count on my word for taste of beer though, stuff enough hops in it and I’m a happy camper…

Rentlar,

When it’s unclear I’ll say 7 in the evening, or 7 in the morning, 7pm, 7am. 7 at night, supper at 7, whichever one isn’t pitch dark. There are many ways to go about it.

Rentlar,

Carrots with a proper flared base?

Rentlar,

NYEH HEH HEH!

https://c.tenor.com/mk48WZAiTZ0AAAAC/tenor.gif

Rentlar,

“Yeah! Why aren’t dems meeting halfway between Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy???”

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If we had proper public supports for people between jobs, students and immigrants looking to find a way to live and/or not get kicked out of the country, this wouldn’t be a problem.

The whole job hunt feels like a rat race, it’s practically common recruiter advice to apply for stuff that you don’t qualify for on paper, send out as many applications as possible and take every chance you can get. So I can see how people can apply these ideas to participate in spaces where they aren’t encouraged to apply.

This is compounded by the pressure put on people to even live without income for short periods of time.

I’d say I’m privileged, yet it took me a year of looking to land something in my field. I had money saved up and enough supports to keep costs at a minimum, I’m aware I’m lucky I was even able to be in this circumstance.

We need smart and capable women, trans and nb people in the workforce, and we need resources to overcome the barriers they face. I’m just saying that it’s not easy, even without such barriers and also with comforts that are not afforded to many.

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I think I figured it out… only rarely you’d get immediate interviews, but the idea is you get LinkedIn contacts to chat with later and industry insight, and something to tell recruiters/hiring managers that you did, but you dress it up in a way that shows you look for opportunity like “I met members of [industry/company] at a recruiting conference in [town]”. I found industry conferences to be more useful than jobfairs in this respect, but those can be a little to a lot expensive.

Otherwise it’s pretty much just being told to scan QR codes, business cards and maybe getting a couple plastic cups and pens.

All in all I say job hunting is such an awful game.

Rentlar,

Layoffs are what caused the long queues to begin with. Event organization and operation makes it seem closer to an average American Black Friday event than a job conference.

Rentlar,

it’s a feature for employers

You’re absolutely right about that.

Rentlar,

Well, companies can’t hire you if you don’t apply. Do your best and make them all tell you no, rather than expecting it and not trying.

Just know that it’s often not your fault your application didn’t make it through. It’s half an exhausting lottery. I’ve had pristinely written CV and letter with family and career counselors editing it not get anything, and applications where I found spelling mistakes after were interested in interviewing. Companies tend to have hiring seasons where if you apply at a consistent pace, you’ll get no answers some months and many answers at other times.

Even recruiting itself is a hellscape, you see corps getting recruiters, laying them off because “they don’t need em anymore”, then all of sudden they need more staff but way more than the recruiters they have can handle.

Rentlar,

Welcome. Glad to have you here!

Rentlar,

Well I know I have no expectation of privacy here, but I’d rather open source LLMs train on my words along with proprietary ones, than some company hoarding information and selling it to each other.

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Redreader was my favourite app… I ended up giving it up for Lemmy fully in July anyway.

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fark.com

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That’s an EPIC move by Larian.

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Steam is a legitimate value add for sellers and buyers/users, that justifies its 30% cut. Other than free games, Epic has a seemingly easy-to-integrate online networking system, that’s about it. Steam has a modding platform, broadcasting, remote “parsec”-like controller emulator, Linux support, content sharing, forums and a developer news feed. That’s quite a lot.

What makes me stick with them is that they don’t preclude Steam and other gaming users from using alternatives but simply compete with their own well-made system… plenty of games have their own cross-platform mod-launchers that aren’t workshop for example. Steamworks DRM isn’t required and Steam networking services for multiplayer aren’t mandatory either.

That said, itch and GoG are great alternatives where they have games available. I’d just like GoG to provide better Linux support.

Rentlar,

Thanks to AI, I guess Michael Jackson isn’t dead after all…

Rentlar,

Blender 2.79 and earlier was super-unintuitive. 2.8 gave it a fresh coat of paint it’s easier and more featureful with each version (Now 3.6, 2.8 was years ago!)

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That’s hilarious… by “below the fold” do you mean anything outside the message preview, example:

Smith, John

Re: Discussion with Client A

Hi Mike, I wanted to hear your thoughts on…

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I liked some of them. I still wonder how many were Amazon’s random relabeled crap like AIUEO.

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Thanks Steve Ballmer.

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Yeah, I was visiting Seattle at a tram stop, I could hear an ad from a gas pump going off from halfway across the street… obnoxious af.

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What @dack said for your first game that is a great resource. If you wanted an overview of how the godot engine works later you can start from the Intro

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If I were on a court or jury, I would rule that repeatedly showing an annoying pop up until you press Agree, doesn’t count as actual acceptance of the terms, I don’t care what the rules are but fuck that practice.

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In North America, large dumpsters for apartments and companies have a colour that is just the company colour, such as Green for WM, GFL, Blue for Waste Connections, Republic, other companies can be Red, Brown, White, Cyan, Orange, Yellow or other colours.

The use is typically denoted by a sticker, sign or by spray painted letters.

For residential curbside bins, blue is typical, but some do it differently if it’s separated further into glass, plastic containers and paper/cardboard products. The colours schemes between recyclables and organics is not consistent and varies from city to city.

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I blocked a lot of those communities. But there is a lot of hentai out there, hence why you see a lot of hentai appear from hentai dedicated communities.

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I don’t vape, but when I received a depleted disposable vape from a roommate, I opened it up to find the battery was perfectly rechargeable. Such a waste and it is quite hazardous too to dispose in regular trash.

Rentlar,

Your comment was on the top for me, Lemmy’s default “hot” sorting brings fresh takes to the front, so don’t worry too much about your answers always getting buried.

Rentlar,

A tick can install an allergy to red meat for you.

I Tried Reddit Again and it Sucks Now

I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it’s hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the...

Rentlar,

Interesting to hear your experience. It took me 3.5 months to fully remove myself from Reddit. (March to July):

  • I started just poking around Lemmy while using Reddit
  • to occasional commenting and posting on Lemmy
  • to using them about equal time
  • then making a final few posts and comments in the protest weeks and helping people migrate
  • then I was only upvoting
  • then I made a final goodbye post on my Reddit page
  • then I stopped voting but still looking around Reddit and the playplace.
  • then when that was over, I uninstalled my favourite RedReader app and stopped using it altogether

I’m not one who likes to go cold turkey, but when once I commit to boycotting something I stick to it until my condition is met. In those final days I came across many Reddit users who were like “if you hate Reddit that much why are you still using iiiiiit?”, that was annoying but that’s behind me now and there is no condition for me to go back to it.

Rentlar,

Are you thinking of beehaw.org?

Rentlar,

I’m going to make the argument against trains for everything, despite being a huge fanatic for trains.

Trains are the most efficient transport method per tonne-km over land, yes. However from certain operational standpoints trains can make less sense than existing solutions.

When distance between stops for heavy rail becomes too short, you lose quite a bit of efficiency. Trains themselves aren’t a one-size fits all solution as there are various types that each need their own form of investment (which is a lot $), when roads are compatible with both personal transport and large trucks with little investment by the transporter (govt pays for road maintenance).

Rail companies right now are chasing profits and neglecting operational improvements. In the US, hauling a long, LONG, old and slow train loaded with bulk aggregate, oil, grain, chemicals is more profitable than aiming for JIT capability that is more feasible with trucks. A complete change in societal incentives is necessary to bring back the usefulness of railway in all types of transport. Second, the North American way of railroad companies owning the tracks dissuades a lot of innovation and new firms from entering the market, unlike the “open road” where there are many competing OTR freight companies. None of the Big Six would like my idea of a nationally controlled rail/track system.

Rentlar,

Yes you’ve got a point. Part of this was an exercise to argue against something I really love and passionate about for the sake of “Change my Mind”.

But that’s part of the thing. If an organization paid for unlimited free air passenger and freight transport system, converting to better alternatives (on monetary cost, the environment and other bases) would be difficult to convince from people and logistics companies alike. If left alone, this sort of system would be unlikely to change until some devastating consequence made it unfeasible to switch at that point anyway. And in such a universe maybe we’d see more blimps in the sky.

So either road has to be regulated fairly and costs that were externalized get properly accounted for and renumerated, or railroad track has to be managed nationally, and provide fair access to communities large and small, in order for rail and wheeled vehicles to be on equal footing. Neither of these things I would expect to happen naturally, it must come from an organized effort somewhere.

Rentlar,

Aw it’s Clefford the three-eyed dog!

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It is through Murena, but it is sold out for now.

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Making an “ouch” device or basic heater is something I could do.

Even a battery I could make a simple alumium air battery cell. Or lemon battery. But I’d be viewed like a sorcerer asking for foreign ingredients like salt, aluminum, copper and zinc.

Rentlar,

Still better than how that alien logo’d Lemmy clone handled third-party clients.

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