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Borger

@ Borger @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • What is the most nonsense thing someone has ever told you?

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  • Honestly, she might have the same thing I do. I don't know if it's got a name or anything, but absolutely all red wine tastes like balsamic vinegar to me, almost indistinguishably so, even when I'm sharing it with someone who's talking about how this one is "fruity" or whatever.

    I went through a short phase of thinking I was being pranked. So I'm with your sister on this one, minus the sangria bit lol.

  • Do you use a dishwasher or wash dishes by hand?

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  • I do it by hand because I rent a small 1 bedroom flat. Those don’t typically have dishwashers here.

    My last place had one though, and what an absolute godsend. I’ll definitely get one when/if I ever buy my own place.

  • Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS & COSMIC Desktop Aim For December Stable Release

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  • Finally! I’ve been on Cosmic for months. Waiting for search results to be relevant again, rather than assume I use Gnome.

  • Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company?

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  • Tasting History with Max Miller has a video on exactly this topic! Highly recommend it.

  • Do you think school uniforms are a form of authoritarianism?

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  • Not at all. On the contrary, I found them quite liberating, for 2 main reasons:

    • not having to decide what to wear every day
    • I was in a British private school, where students came from upper middle class to upper class backgrounds. A lot of the really rich students were shallow, superficial, and cruel. If we didn’t have uniforms we would have had a serious bullying problem against those who couldn’t afford to wear high end/designer brands.

    The only downside is that we had to pay for the uniforms, and they were quite expensive compared to the awful materials they were made of. I had 3 sets on rotation.

  • Any Hebrew speakers on Lemmy?

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  • Syria indeed! I haven’t been home since 2010 though.

    No need to excuse your Arabic haha, I don’t speak a lick of Hebrew (yet?), and my own Arabic is probably at the proficiency level of an 8 year old.

    I live in the UK and am very passionate about learning languages. I’m working on my 5th - Chinese.

  • Need help with VPN

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  • Ah, sorry I hadn't appreciated you were after split tunnelling... You can do this with Tailscale for services where you're connecting to a fixed IP/FQDN, which I think rules out torrenting/P2P unfortunately.

    The only way I've seen to pass a specific app's traffic through Tailscale appears to be an Android exclusive feature.

    If I'm wrong someone please correct me!

  • Need help with VPN

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  • You can absolutely use Tailscale; your host in the unrestricted country needs to be set up as an exit node (CLI argument in Linux, or a menu option in the system tray in Windows.)

    Then, your local machine needs to be set up to use that remote machine as its exit node. (tailscale up --exit-node=remote-tailnet-ip-here)

  • Any Hebrew speakers on Lemmy?

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  • Levantine Arabic speaker here. 👋🏽

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  • I break almost every stereotype from my country of origin... I'm quiet, on time (much to the dismay of people who give me a time 1hr before they actually expect me), and can't grow a thick/full beard to save my life.

    Being an engineer is pretty stereotypical, although that's true for a ton of Asians, so not awfully specific.

    I guess... speaking strictly in silly technicalities here, then the stereotype I "fit" is "terrorist" (on the basis that people where I live – the UK – are getting arrested and charged with terrorism for expressing support for Palestine/criticising the genocide.) Obviously, I'm being facetious here, but we live in an insane world.

    For context, I've lived my whole life as a 'displaced person' / immigrant without a permanent home, so I don't feel that there is one place that has particularly shaped me or my personality.

    Any guesses for where I'm "originally" from?

    Edit: I'd actually never heard that stereotype about Filipinas! The only one I know (applies to all genders) is that you guys are incredible singers. :)

  • You guys have any conversation starters to offer a poor lemming?

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  • I don't feel like I can give you literal conversation starters that aren't super boring or generic (like chats about the weather), without way more context than is possible to obtain at this stage.

    But, one thing that did help me strike conversations and eventually friendships with people, was just hanging around campus doing stuff that piqued other people's interest.

    A couple of times it was me playing on my Nintendo 3DS between lectures, and once someone even came up to me to compliment my Sony Discman.

    Other times it might be something as simple as there not being any empty tables in the cafeteria, so you ask to sit with someone. If they're not clearly busy or studying, you might start by asking what course they do, how they're finding it, etc. These are all fairly passive approaches though, and that's possibly related to my extreme introversion.

    A slightly more active suggestion – take advantage of group assignments! (As much as I hate them.) Make plans to meet up. Get a few hours of work done together then hang out with a few beers or a soda or whatever. Win-win.

  • nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore

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  • Oh yeah. There’s no doubt that modern web tech stacks are inefficient slop - patchwork built upon patchwork.

    However, JS has been included in every major browser for well over a decade. It’s industry standard at this point, so I found the position of expecting commercial services to be backwards compatible with a 1998 browser setup a little odd.

    What do you think about WebGL apps?

  • nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore

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  • i, as a user, should be able to switch off javascript and have the site work exactly as it does with javascript turned on

    Not agreeing or disagreeing, but why?

  • What are some blogs you still read?

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  • Tyvm!

  • What are some blogs you still read?

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  • Thank you!

  • What are some blogs you still read?

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  • Thanks!

  • What are some blogs you still read?

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  • My instance does replace slurs with ‘removed’ though

  • What are some blogs you still read?

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  • This shows up as fiddlrts.removed on my Lemmy instance. Does the top level domain coincidentally include a slur? :p

  • Is it bad that I'm not graduating on time?

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  • Nothing to worry about whatsoever. My high school cohort and I ended up all over the world - some in countries with 3 year programmes, others in countries with 4 year programmes, others who dropped out or changed fields and started over.

    I promise you that it does not matter. What matters is that you achieve your own goal of getting a bachelor’s, at your pace. :)

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