Rentlar

joined 2 years ago
[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

For my best friends, there were years when I don't get them a Christmas or birthday gift, but I have just got them something I think they needed at some random point when I saw them, and was like, "here, your birthday/Christmas gift, whatever".

I do think you should do your chores, but I get it that it's not easy as that. As a former roommate who did the most cleaning up after all four others, this would bring far more joy to me than receiving a gift in return for me giving one. It might make you feel a little less miserable to get something done.

If your roommates are really expecting money or something in return for the gift, in my eyes (tax law is a different matter), that's a sale or a trade, not a gift. It is and should be out of generosity, and whatever you get or give should be in that spirit rather than obligation imo. If you feel shame and feel obliged but need ideas, why don't you order a nice meal for everyone, booking a spot at a restautant for whoever's schedules align or you have it delivered to your place for them as the gift? Alternatively, gift cards for a place you knkw they like to go is a super simple option.

Listen, it's not the end of the world if you can't get a gift for Christmas in time. No need to move out over it. Work is hard enough. Don't put yourself through more unhealthy stress just because of capitalistic cultural brainwashing to get you to spend money.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

Just this week: The Settings app on my work Windows computer had a completely non-functional search feature. The other thing I was trying to set "Choose what happens when you close the laptop lid", I have still not been able to find it outside of manually going to Windows 7-era control panel.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago

^rob's dead btw this is his just-as-corrupt brother doug^

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

Canada's overweight populist buffoon takes on America's overweight populist buffoon.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 33 points 9 hours ago

Yeah from that video and the one later he seems to know his stuff. Using "put yourself in Luigi's position" is the perfect answer to avoid leaking sensitive info about your discussions with your client that the media are constantly prodding for, while still evoking sympathy for the defendant.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 41 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah I remember before he was saying the total equivalent of "Project2025 is just a coffee boy, nothing to do with me."

Now, which anyone absolutely could have predicted: "Oh, but how convenient it is to have a database of stooges who were vetted to suck up to me! Might as well use it!"

Media sane-washed the fuck out of Project2025 which everyone with two braincells unwashed by propaganda to put together, knew this was the plan all along.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 13 hours ago

Why do drones fly in V shape formations? So that drug smuggling can blend in with the feds /s

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 16 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

When companies post ghost jobs, it is to pretend everything is going peachy, instill desperation and exhaustion in workers to hide their own desperation. Then they wonder why it's so hard to find someone new when the employee they counted on but didn't pay appropriately leaves.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 15 hours ago

I don't need people to remember me, personally by name or what I looked like, but I would be happy if others would be positively affected by whatever I manage to accomplish in this life.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 78 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

faced delays in obtaining Australian visas after being asked to complete to complete a 13-page document typically required for military personnel involved in war

Well, they were involved in war, no matter how much lipstick this article wants to put on the pig.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

Sorry to hear you were going through all that. Take it easy and at a comfortable place.

Just remember that one of the biggest reasons lemm.ee became such a cool place to hang out online is because of you, and that's not going to go away just because you're reducing your involvement. Thank you.

Ella take it easy too, even if you've got big shoes to fill I'm sure you'll do great!

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I think overall it's not a bad suggestion, and yes Photon looks very sleek, and I have even contributed a language translation for it.

However, my main concern is: what would happen if the main dev loses interest and drops support of the interface? Lemmy backend may add a new feature that either breaks Photon, or Photon can't make use of it until updated. If the development of this frontend could be more integrated with the Lemmy project team and funded, I would be less concerned.

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Mastodon Follow Packs (mastodonmigration.wordpress.com)
 

A popular feature of BlueSky that really gets new users' feeds going is their Starter Packs.

Mastodon Migration Blog is replicating this good idea for the Fediverse with follow packs. These are csv files that can be downloaded and imported into Mastodon to follow a bunch of users around a topic.

 

People think vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is nice. But is he... too nice? From his dangerously folksy upbringing, to the National Guard, to teaching America's future enemies in China, Tim Walz's "nice" act isn't fooling anyone. This is the Dailyshowography of Tim Walz.

 

Hey everyone, just a reminder in case you hadn't seen it or forgot from months ago, the Canadian official e-petition is at this link as part of the Stopkillinggames.com campaign. Maybe we can get some clarity from our government on what our rights as consumers are when buying access to video games.

Signature collection ends at 9:30am ET/6:30am PT on Thursday 5 Sept 2024.

 

L'enquête par ISDE Canada sera ouverte jusqu'au 26 septembre 2024.

Les Canadiens peuvent envoyer leurs commentaires à l’adresse suivante : https://form.simplesurvey.com/f/s/RTR?lang=FR

 

Some Lemmy user at one point had asked about a "multi-paste" feature, if there was a way to use keyboard shortcuts to display multiple clipboard items and copy/paste them out at will (this user mentioned similar to RTS games they like to play). ~~If someone can find that post, can you notify them and direct them here, please? I'm having trouble locating it but I recollect that it was within the last 3 months.~~ Edit: I found the post!

Somehow this was stuck in my mind when I accidentally pressed a keyboard shortcut, that showed my last 5 copied items. This isn't exactly what the user was looking for but I thought I'd publicize it here.

If you use Fcitx (because you need multi-language input) from the fcitx5 packages, then you may already have installed the clipboard add-on. You can use fcitx with just one keyboard layout. By default, it's activated by Ctrl+semicolon and shows the 5 last entries, but the number can be configured.

 

The edition is called: "Take The A Train 9 Version 5.0 Final Edition Complete Pack DX+"

Train Construction Pack Steam Page

Unfortunately, the ridiculously titled combo pack's Steam page appears to be region locked to Japan, the DVD version is also Japan/Japanese only.

 
 

Taken at Vancouver, BC in June 2024

 

The contest from last month had established five finalists:

The first row is the new logo that will be used going forward and in version 1.0 of the program!

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