artemisia

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[–] artemisia@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Native bluetooth trackpad would be nice too.

[–] artemisia@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All I will say is: wait till it encounters a Scottish accent. Sigh

[–] artemisia@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yup. I'm gutted I won't be able to see the shiny film but full solidarity with the workers.

[–] artemisia@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

All the more reason for them to be transparent, name the problem, remove the affected stock from sale, set up some kind of recovery and/or compensation service, and write off the loss. Otherwise "SanDisk" will mean "you have shit on your shoe" forever. In the storage space a brand has to mean "safe" or its dead.

Maybe they are still finding the edges of the problem. Maybe.

[–] artemisia@beehaw.org 41 points 1 year ago

Welcome to your self-wiping stock price WD.

[–] artemisia@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Surely they need to be completely transparent at this point to avoid the Ratners effect? I am certainly never buying SanDisk / Western Digital labelled storage ever again and I will be researching carefully next time I need storage to make sure I don't buy relabelled stuff.

I currently have SanDisk microSD cards in my DSLR so I will have to think about getting a different manufacturers card in there and saving to both in parallel just in case. I might just bin the sandisk card just to be sure, though. Their name is in the gutter already - do they realise that?

[–] artemisia@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really hope Elon starts complaining about his baby being deadnamed in the media.

[–] artemisia@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only government department that actually listens to us when we pick up the phone.

[–] artemisia@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Also don't feel like you have to tie yourself down to your family. My mum turned out to be an utter shit so I was delighted to be free of that surname choice anyway, and my dad had passed away years before I came out as trans and, while he had a kind heart, who knows how he would have reacted to the news? Don't be afraid to forge your own path. Don't feel like you have to associate your new name - first name or surname - with your assigned-at-birth names, even if your current relationship with your family is good.

[–] artemisia@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Well, I knew from a story my mum told me ages ago my dad wanted us all to have biblical names, which is weird because he wasn't religious in the traditional sense at all. He must have just liked the idea? And sure enough my assigned-at-birth name as well as my sisters names were from the bible. I wrote a list of female names from the bible that I could remember as a way of honouring my dad's memory and one just popped out at me.

I had already picked my mums maiden name as my last name because I was changing that too, because my original last name had a glottal thing in it that always annoyed me and sort of tripped me up? And when I put them together it was so obviously ... me.

Speaking to other trans and non-binary people that seems to happen a fair amount, but don't worry if it doesn't. Names grow on you especially with use. As it happens I got married, changed my last name and added a middle name, and I prefer this version a lot more so who knows.

[–] artemisia@beehaw.org 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dilution will kill Reddit. Wait until the AI scraping gets into a feedback loop with AI posting.

[–] artemisia@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Loads of love. There's always ASCII art.

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