tiredofsametab

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Canadian-American software developer living in Japan since 2015. Into gardening, DIY, permaculture, etc.

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tiredofsametab,

None of the communities I actually need ever migrated here; most people just did not care. I still go to reddit for things relating to Japanese residency topics, finances, etc. as it is the only place I know of. I only visit those subs, though.

There are also people like me who post like one thing a year (though I comment much more).

tiredofsametab,

Never touched it. The bait-and-switch with some of the products they offered and then the trainwreck of the actual game at launch ruined it for me. I actually unsubscribed from ESO, which I was paying monthly for at the time, because of how shady Bethesda looked.

tiredofsametab,

I'm sure there's a country you can pay off with all your capital. Why don't y'all go there and show us what you can do.

(I tried to read the article but get a big 404 overlay as soon as I try to scroll. I have no adblockers, so I guess wired just hates Firefox's privacy settings)

tiredofsametab,

Continue living in not America. Continue, as an overseas voter, to vote for things I believe in. Do everything I can to get ranked choice to be a thing everywhere and otherwise eliminate the firat-past-the-post bullshit that exists today

tiredofsametab,

Yes. The first-past-the-post and weird two-party thing going on in the US is awful and needs to be gone. There are potentially other solutions, but ranked-choice voting seems to be a good start. There are whole rabbitholes about the electoral college, proportional representation, and other things to get into, but my coffee hasn't kicked in yet this morning.

tiredofsametab,

Yep. In Japan we all use LINE with a small fraction of (largely Western foreigners) using whatsapp. Korea has kakaotalk with some (also?) using LINE. I'm not sure what's most popular in Chinese circles these days; WeChat, maybe?

tiredofsametab,

Can you give us better lists of games that fall into both your good and bad categories?

My hot-take answer was going to be that it's all nostalgia and there haven't really been any good ones (at least that I ever was aware of). Given your edit on nostalgia, maybe it's not nostalgia for an individual game or games, but rather a a time and a style?

tiredofsametab,

Some dilute tritium dumped in another portion of the ocean is not going to do this.

tiredofsametab,

Former gen-x here (I was gen-x when millennial used to mean people who graduate high school on/after the start of the millennia, but they moved x back to 1980 leaving me in a weird place). I think the main difference in younger people today is that their technological savvy is more in mobile devices since they are so powerful and so connected that they don't really need PCs for anything. I first noticed this living in Japan because they had very useful, high-tech hand-helds very early on. As such, I worked with many around my age who could barely even use something like Excel and had no computer troubleshooting experience. It seems to me like many of gen-z or possibly alpha don't have the PC side, but are very good with mobile.

tiredofsametab,

Weird. Lots of purchasers in Japan. All have Japanese-looking names, but who knows if some of those are real.

tiredofsametab,

In many ways yes. Japan has its own brand of racial superiority which is why I just found it a bit weird they're going for nazi shit. It could also just be that they heard and liked a song, but I kinda doubt that this is the case.

tiredofsametab,

I miss not having social media and news that, at least generally, tried to be actual news and not 'JusT ASkinG QUeStioNs' and disingenuous bullshit. It was a wild ride being on social media almost since its birth, but I think it generally was a huge mistake. Things should have stopped at IRC and UseNet.

tiredofsametab,

My microwave has a sensor that one sets for a temperature (as opposed to inputting a time), and it generally works pretty well. Definitely, it works better for some foods than others, but the worst case is I have to give it a stir and one more go-round.

tiredofsametab,

People aren't not having kids here because of university. Fix work-life balance and daycare access in the bigger cities if you want more kids. Better, try to incentivize spreading out from Tokyo and revive the old towns out there. Edit: also, stagnant wages and inflation

tiredofsametab,

16, counting this one that I'm about to close.

tiredofsametab,

Petrified fern (unless I gave it to my niece. Hrm, I don't remember)

tiredofsametab,

I stopped at 2.5e and did recently start learning a bit about pathfinder.

tiredofsametab,

Whose feet are to my left and why are you teleporting me to them?

tiredofsametab,

Good. In my wife's day, she had to wear skirts even in awful weather (she grew up in an area in northern Tohoku where they got enough snow to have heated streets in some places) and had to change before entering school or risk getting in trouble. She wasn't allowed to wear tights or leggings under her skirt. Now, at least from the couple of younger people I've seen and talked to, around here some (all?) school at least let all students wear slacks these days. There's definitely pressure that some young women feel to wear skirts even if they don't want to (not just based on gender identity, but pressure to fit in with the group, etc.) but that's probably another topic.

tiredofsametab,

They don't have Washlets (bidet seats) so they're all a fail from me :P

Though 100% on closing the lid.

tiredofsametab,

16:30 here, right at the end of my last meeting of the day here in ~ one hour :/

tiredofsametab,

Both things can be true, but Vermont doesn't have a giant "We're a high-tech place!" image harped upon constantly that can feel like false advertising.

tiredofsametab,

Live in Japan. Plenty of things are quite broken :/

tiredofsametab,

A/B testing clean, minimalist, modern designs common in the West against modern Japanese designs always shows better results for the Japanese designs amongst Japanese consumers. I don't think they're going to cater to the 2.5% of foreign residents and others that might use Japanese sites (though I often wish they would)

tiredofsametab,

As someone who filled out multiple copies of the same contract by hand to buy a house recently, which had to be stamped with my seal and not signed, AHHHHHHHHHHghgghhg. On average, I only have to fax something once every several years. NTT, the main telecoms provider, STILL requires that you fax paperwork to get internet (at least for NTT East as of two years ago).

Using cash is great (except for my airline miles account), but one of the biggest banks in Japan is notorious for outages. ATMs here also, until very recently, had business days and hours. That's finally mostly gone, at least. They can still run out of money at the year-end holiday season as everyone is home with family and they're not always restocked in some locations, but more ATMs also helped to solve this. The problem with things transitioning to electronic payment is also those payment processors take a cut. We have all kinds of payment apps here, but many small businesses I know hate using it. The ones I know that use it most generally have larger foreign customer bases (anecdotal to business owners I know; may not be generally true in all of Tokyo/Japan).

tiredofsametab,

Fax machines are definitely being phased out.

NTT East, at least as of a little over two years ago, hard requires a fax to set up internet still. It's infuriating.

tiredofsametab,

Old SMS had some pretty crappy character limits so they went with the option that didn't is basically how I see it. Now, LINE is king. I've only used text with like two people ever in Japan.

tiredofsametab,

I don't know what the prices here in Japan were without looking it up. I'll try to remember to ask my wife when she gets home.

tiredofsametab,

Yep. Having worked in the industry for a long time, including trying to transition to EMR and such, I get this. In Japan, one of the reason fax machines are still important that is not often talked about is that they generally have a bank of pre-programmed numbers. This is seen as a way to reduce the chance of exposing PII to others by accident. This is not wrong, but the same could be implemented for other systems such as email (or the host of EDI that exist). I literally just had a training that said we should not even send a fax ourselves, but have someone observe that we hit the correct pre-programmed button for it.

tiredofsametab,

Some flip-phone from Sprint, though I can't even recall the name now. It had the ability to play text-based games and even snake! I think I was carrying a Palm Pilot near the end of that. It was an upgrade from the first brick I kept in my car for emergencies only. In 2004ish, I upgraded to a Siemens SX66 (Windows-based smartphone) and ditched the Palm Pilot. I continued to use Windows phones (I think I ended with an HTC Hero or something similar), until finally being convinced by borrowing a friend's old iPhone to get one of those. Was on iPhone from 3gs until 6plus. I made the jump to Android when Pixel 6 Pro came out, and that's what I still have today.

tiredofsametab,

Japan is YYYY-MM-DD, but when we talk about dates where a year is unneeded, we just cut it off which leaves it in the US standard format of MM-DD, much to the annoyance of non-US foreigners living here.

tiredofsametab,

Solid black on all my devices.

tiredofsametab,

170 degrees

Are you using a pressure cooker? Or a wizard maybe?

tiredofsametab,

Oh, that would make sense. My brain just didn't make the leap there for some reason.

tiredofsametab,

Ideally, to save bandwidth on both sides, the server would only want to serve you the JS and CSS you need. I'm not sure how frequently that optimization is made, however.

tiredofsametab,

I haven't done UI work in years so I'm not sure how they do it these days.

tiredofsametab,

Japan has traditional iron kettles (that are stupidly expensive) and they're often mentioned by doctors for use in people who have iron deficiency here. That or iron pans. They even make an iron ball to put in normal kettles and such, but that weirds me out a bit.

Americans are explaining why they don't say 'you're welcome' in customer service settings after foreigners complained that 'mmhmm' comes off as rude (www.insider.com)

I was watching a video from two years ago about different social norms and this showed up. Found someone questioning the same eight years ago on reddit (when it seemed less normalized). It feels so weird not being aware of this shift, even as a foreigner.

tiredofsametab,

Huh, I didn't even know this as someone born and raised in the US. I do say "no problem" or "no worries" a lot more than "you're welcome" these days, but I do tend to use the latter in more formal situations. I do think an "mmhmm" might strike me as cold or condescending. Then again, I've been out of the country for the better part of a decade now.

tiredofsametab, (edited )

I did, too, until my early 40s when it caused a wicket wicked ear infection. Tiny pieces of cotton, like threads, eventually built up over time. I ended up with a fungal ear infection that had me in pain and dizzy for weeks. I was very close to having my eardrum burst. Never again. It was really hard to break the habit of using qtips, but it's fine now; ears are self-cleaning.

tiredofsametab,

Reddit (only subs related to living in Japan since those didn't migrate here), kbin/lemmy, fark (though I almost never comment anymore), and an old-fashioned forum/bulletin board (more stuff related to living in Japan).

Edit: and I guess YouTube? 99% of the time, I'm watching from my TV which doesn't have comments or anything.

tiredofsametab,

I'd love to take a slow (presumably more environmentally friendly) flight like that. Limited vacation time is the only issue.

tiredofsametab,

Entire movie needs to be with this guy from my childhood. I shall accept nothing less.

tiredofsametab,

七 is for amateurs. 柒 is where it's at.

tiredofsametab,

I think so. That's what I meant to search for, anyway.

tiredofsametab,

I don't think he can be in a relationship with god. Assuming protestant, and often evangelical, there's a trinity of which Jesus is part and whom they consider too woke

tiredofsametab,

This post spurred me to see if Rift were still a thing; apparently it is! I got in quite early when it was still unfinished and played it well after launch. They ended up doing a pretty big overhaul at some point and that's roughly when I got out as I didn't want to have to figure things out again. I may pick it back up. I have no idea what the playerbase (or the actual game these days) is like, though.

tiredofsametab,

Compounds which are not inorganic.

tiredofsametab,

In my opinion, licensed adult is not the same as professional instructor

Oh, definitely. I just added that in case anyone reading thought it meant they could just start driving on their own or something.

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