xaxl

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[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Only reason to choose Authy over anything else tbh. This just basically killed the product.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Personally I down voted once I read that somehow one of these laptops are on par with a high end gaming PC which is simply not true at all.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Err with his daughter or did his daughter go to the island too? Both are fucked up though.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Exactly this, it's basically GTA5 private servers with fully customised game mechanics and strict rules around conduct where you're playing a character in a realistic setting, like an actor of sorts. It's big money for the people who run these servers too, especially NoPixel which is the most popular streamer server and difficult to get whitelisted on.

Rule breaks, for example not fearing for your life and acting appropriately when in a dangerous situation are potentially risking a ban. There is a full set of laws and police, judges, lawyers and a whole court and prison system modded into to deal with criminals with players roleplaying all of these roles. There's a hospital, ambulances, doctors and you have to get someone else to call 911 to have a paramedic drive out and rescue you if you die.

It's honestly impressive how much and well modders have modded GTA5 over the years. If you wanna try it yourself download the FiveM client and there are hundreds of servers you can join and play on.

Be warned though, just like older games with private servers (like old Battlefield/CS ect games) you are ultimately at the mercy of whoever the admins who run them are and sometimes these can be interesting individuals. Rockstar recently bought out the FiveM platform but they have no real control over what these private individuals do short of banning the whole server from the platform which rarely happens.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu is fine as a gateway drug imo. It hasn't made the best decisions over time though, but I appreciate it's contribution regardless.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

They'll still wonder why they're paying you though sadly.

 
[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Most people have to try really hard it fit into the world, even those who don't have Autism. What you see especially online is their highlight reel, what they don't show you is all the stress and effort it takes them to fit in and keep up with everybody else.

The good part is that once you're aware of the above it's easier to just do your own thing instead of trying to fit whatever you perceive as supposedly normal.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That kid is now known as the kid who got Roblox banned among their group of friends, not a nice thing to known for. This will be seen as a punishment by them regardless of how you frame it especially once the other kids at their school become aware of it.

Ouch. Good luck navigating this one as your kids get older.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seems inefficient, one should just integrate ChatGPT into Bash to automatically check these things.

You said 'ls' but did you really mean 'ls -la'? Imma go ahead and just give you the output from 'cat /dev/urandom' anyway.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Several local (but national chain brand) furniture stores.

So many reasons. One had better quality furniture on display than what they sold by a long way. Another tried to give me not one but two firm mattresses instead of medium and lie to me about them. Yet another got caught out blatantly lieing to my face about delivery times and procedures.

All of them had great customer service right until the point that they had our money and then completely treated us like garbage afterwards.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Profit for their mates and fellow shareholders, not profit for the country either.

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Exactly what's about to happen to employment services in Australia too. They spend more money chasing a hand full of people who don't want to work than just continuing to pay them the pittance they exist on and have people apply to be the CEO of huge corporations who dropped out of high school in order to make their quotas. Government just announced an inquiry with the aim to reinstate control over it.

 

Posts to videos on Imgur just show up as weird sweaty soccer balls in the app, rather than showing a preview of the video itself.

For example.

 
 

I don't know if I'm just doing something wrong but I built my family tree and the website seems to have barely any information about my family at all. I found out more just checking out our national archives then what I found on this website. It's maybe worth noting that I'm not in the US and it does appear to be somewhat US-centric.

The best it could find was a couple of enrollment records for voting and a single immigrant notification in an old newspaper. It didn't find these either by itself, I had to manually go though the search system to find it. The OCR didn't even get the spelling of the name correct.

I'm not sure what I expected but it was definitely better than this, especially for all the pay walls they throw up.

 

I'm not getting images previews nor images themselves when I browse Lemmy using the RSS feed functionality. Other websites work fine, it just seems I'm having a problem with Lemmy. Instead, I just get a link and I can click that to be taken directly to the image on pictrs. It makes browsing Lemmy using an RSS client a sub-optimal experience sadly.

Does Lemmy support images or preview images in it's RSS feeds and if so what is the magic to enable it in my RSS client?

 

I have a loved one recovering from opioid addiction currently and they went to their appointment today only to be informed going forward it'll be $380 per session (used to be free). This applies to everyone except health care card holders.

It appears that they've privatised the pharmacy system behind it. Before, the medications for the treatment were dispensed by the hospital. Now they are dispensed by the nearby chemist to whom you directly pay your money.

Some people need this treatment as frequently as weekly. I guess it's back to the drugs again for most of them or more likely even more people choking up the emergency rooms and mental health system when they can't afford to be treated. Absolutely shocked that this has flown so far under the radar.

Edit: Did some more digging, looks like it might be the federal government cutting funding. Rip NSW too. Up to 17 addiction treatment centers are at risk of closing their doors too.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/opioid-treatment-funding-budget/102426466

 

You might not be aware but Lemmy has RSS built into it. I just noticed myself so I wanted to check out the current state of RSS clients and well, nothing seems to be quite what I'm after.

What RSS clients out there are worth looking at? I notice several have self-hosted server solutions which is interesting. I don't care if it's free, open source, paid or whatever though, I just want a good experience.

 
 
 
 
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