JRaccoon

joined 1 year ago
[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

Nokia E71 with the full QWERTY keyboard. Loved it, even though the keys were too small to comfortable use. I guess technically speaking that's still a smartphone so before that I had some Samsung flip phone, can't remember the exact model

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

Good luck, because last time they tried to replace the Start menu with a new UI went so well..

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A robot vacuum. Just a cheap no-brand one and it's by no means perfect but does actually help with day-to-day cleaning. Meaning I can get away manually vacuuming way less often.

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

Seems to be a cut-down version from the Direct, so nothing new in this one.

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

They recently added it as a experimental feature and it has been working fairly well, at least for Java. As far as I recall, each user needs to activate it themselves via settings. Far from optimal but better than nothing.

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just gave F-Zero 99 a go. It's surprisingly fun and polished for a "free" game

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber

This was the book that got me to stop hating books.

I didn't like reading as a child or teenager until I was forced to read this one for a mandatory book report in high school and really, really liked it. I don't know why, I don't even remember that much about the book, but it got me interested in science fiction and reading in general.

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That's the part I don't get at all. How come is not having any credit history a bad indicator? If anything, it should tell that the person is financially stable to afford things without needing credit.

Where I live (and I think in other European countries too, with exceptions) it works other way around. Having a clean credit record is a good thing and only if you neglect your payments you get negative marks on your record. Having any negative marks generally prevents you from taking any new loans or financing (a good thing!) but negative marks will be cleared after debts have been paid off and some time has passed.

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 year ago (14 children)

The expectation of everyone having a credit card as soon as they can get one and paying everything with credit to somehow "build" credit. Sounds such a great way to get people into financial trouble at a young age.

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That was fun! Kinda hit the wall at the youtube link rule. Couldn't find a way to search YT videos by exact length, so you either need to get super lucky and find one randomly or upload such a video yourself. Then you better hope the video URL does not contain any roman numerals... All while keeping Paul fed (but not overfed!)

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I use Megalodon. It's a fork of the official Android app but with the missing features (like hashtag following) added.

But as others have mentioned, the official web app is great too and works as PWA

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

The quest log tends to remind me of my ticket backlog at work.

Yes, absolutely this. New quests/tickets just keep coming faster than you can complete them..

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