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Rentlar

@ Rentlar @lemmy.ca

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  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • Many files copied to an external disk are cached, and not written immediately unless you run the "sync" command.

    So when you press the "eject" icon, on most frontends a notification will tell you not to unplug it right away, once the write is complete it will send a "it is safe to remove the drive" message. This can take a couple minutes if you are writing a big file to a slow drive.

  • This happened during the Azure outage and its status page said "Good" with a red X right underneath it so I figured I'd make this LOL

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  • Situation Normal:

  • Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?

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  • Yes, and in some places especially small towns, it is for some people, since it's the main hangout spot (3rd place) in town.

    Though I don't think young people do that as much, "regulars" tend to mean 1-3 times a week. My university had a bar that had a "ritual" where Friday afternoons it would be a completely full house.

  • What are your preferred alternatives to Amazon?

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  • So Amazon bad, Costco good?

    The two companies are super different in their corporate practices, to their customers, to their suppliers, and to their employees. There is a material difference despite them both being American multinationals. I'm also buying local Canadian foods from them. Grocery chains in Canada are an oligopoly as well, so just moving to Loblaws, for example, would only be a marginal improvement in my view. It's important to have some nuance in this discussion, and I'm changing my habits a bit at a time.

    Yes it is has been difficult to replace it all. I review once every few months what I'm subscribed to and whether it's worth it. (Airline gift cards alone offset the cost of membership for me). It's also been tough to keep track of if a Canadian brand got bought by the US in the last few years, or if a US brand produces stuff at a Canadian factory. I'm not perfect, but I don't think I'm the only Canadian who evaluates their consumption choices and look for alterantives where available. That's the whole point for me being transparent about where I still am tied to US companies in my last comment, so thank you for raising it.

  • What are your preferred alternatives to Amazon?

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  • Yeah I love New York, LA, Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Portland and all the other wonderful cities and natural icons of the USA, but the problem is to get there I'd have to go through the Trump gestapo's border control. Trump and his cronies have been saying they don't need Canadians, so we're respectfully showing what happens when we you take us for granted.

    Oh and yeah, Americans are welcome to visit us anytime. We'll provide you with our hospitality as usual.

  • What would you do to help a terminally online person?

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  • Yeah. It's tough, probably the only other thing you could do is lead by example.

  • What are your preferred alternatives to Amazon?

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  • I've not ordered anything from Amazon since September last year... cancelled Prime in 2025 to boycott USA. [email protected]

    Small electronic components, random plastic doodads, SD cards - Aliexpress, Amazon sells the same stuff at a markup, so all I need is a tiny bit of patience to replace my biggest Amazon spend category. In Vancouver there's no competition outside of Lee's, but in Toronto I go to Sayal Electronics.

    Computer equipment - Memory Express (your local PC parts chain).

    Big purchases - from manufacturers' website or brick and mortar retail.

    Groceries - From the grocery store. Costco for local cucumbers, milk and cereal, and the local grocery store for BC grown other food

    Books - Indigo, or the random roadside book shop on Vancouver Island or one of the many bookstores. Or, the public library. Digital books: the high seas. Audio books: plenty of digital storefronts online.

    Are there categories I'm forgetting Amazon is used for?

  • What would you do to help a terminally online person?

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  • Well just ask what their plans are over the next year, if there's anything new they wanted to try, even just like a pet project not even a job.

    Lazy is a label people paint others or themselves with. It's not an innate character trait, it can be gained or lost.

    Little nudges and brainstorming are fine but I don't think anyone wants someone else's vision of their life pushed on to them. What's more valuable is if you could support them with things they've expressed they want to do.

  • In Sonic the Hedgehog 1/2/3, what did you call this powerup?

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  • I heard this perfectly in my head to the theme tune.

  • Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?

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  • Welcome back, I've been here the whole time and currently it seems a bit more toxic and hostile than when RIF shut down, I feel there are a couple more contrarians now than before but it hasn't been a steady decline. There has always been the odd jerk and troll on this site. I would say the time Lemmy was most wholesome when [email protected] flooded the front page with black cats, it was such a cute problem for us to have. Anyone else remember that?

    Like others I'd say it's cyclical month to month. This year there's daily doom in the news with US politics. If you want to avoid that then block [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and other news and politics if it fills up with Trump posts. 2024 was a lot more hopeful and I think that reflected in the average user's demeanor even if there was bothsidesism, Gaza stuff, Ukraine stuff and Trumpism stuff. You'll be informed of important developments as Trump stuff leaks out on occasion but you don't need to be constantly engaged. Also if you do curate your All/Local feed then maybe some new communities sprung up that need pruning to fit your desired vibe.

    Also: If you see a crapton of comments on a post with low votes then you know best to turn and run from the thread where most of the comments are.

  • What laundry care symbols really mean

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  • Any symbol = warm wash and short trip through hell.

  • Whats the deal with tesla theorizing we can transmit electricity through the air? Are we too dumb to figure it out or is it an exaggeration?

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  • Do languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis?

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  • Japanese has no uppercase/lowercase. Italics (oblique type) is generally unused as a standard. Bolding can be used but uncommon in most writing. Underlining is commonly used for emphasis. Quotation marks are sometimes used to emphasize in the way "air quotes" would be. It's rather antiquated but dots or Japanese commas above or beside (in vertical writing) can be used where italics might be used in English.

    Sans-serif and serif have their equivalents in CJK langauges - in Japanese they are called Gothic and Mincho type respectively. With Gothic every line maintains the same width. Mincho uses the traditional standard where line widths vary according to each stroke, the rules are derived from how it was written by brush. Calligraphic writing takes this to an extreme and is more of an art-form on special paper, depending on your intent you can follow the traditional rules or be a bit more creative.

  • What was your craziest psychedelic experience?

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  • I've tried a few substances but none that were too far out.

    My roommates peer pressured me into taking way too much weed one night after dabbling in it lightly a handful of times before. I then quickly found myself lying in bed. Somehow, abstract art made sense to me there in the ensuing moment of contemplation. I was seeing it form in my head, splotches, lines and colours and space, it all clicked together. I felt changed the next day. Of course it wore off after, but that experience gave me a new appreciation for the depth of art that seems simple and meaningless on the surface. Like I had an idea of where it came from.

  • Great games you would recommend from before 1990?

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    • Atari Paperboy (there were various ports but the arcade version is the best one IMO). It's fun, unique with no real successor (more are like Frogger).
    • Ghosts n Goblins, the 1985 original (there are modern instalments but I think the original is just as fun, just hard af for a filthy casual like me).

  • Do you spend more time on lemmy than you did on reddit?

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  • I do feel bad for the few users that have found some niche lemmy communities and asked a genuine question, only to get no replies. If it were in my sphere of knowledge I would answer them.

  • Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes

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  • They raised money to dig a hole to then fill it in again, for similar reasons.

  • Seeing lemmy all over Google search results gives me hope

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  • I mean it's interesting that it has surpassed Kilmister as the top result in some regions/contexts and is definitely more numerous.

  • how did you make the switch from reddit to lemmy.. i'm trying to myself but struggling to ngl

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  • Slowly, over the course of 3 months.

    I stopped posting, then stopped commenting, then logged in every other day, then deleted Redreader and stopped going regularly.

    I joined Lemmy in March 2023 on my six-year Reddit cakeday, API-calypse happened in June, swore never to write a word on Reddit again in July and I've since kept that vow. Now that I'm fully weaned off, maybe next year I'll break it specifically to invite people to Lemmy [email protected]

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    It’s Time to Oppose the New San Francisco Policing Ballot Measure

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2023/11/its-time-oppose-new-san-francisco-policing-ballot-measure
  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    ROCKSMITH 2014 LEAVING STORES - Ubisoft

    www.ubisoft.com /en-us/game/rocksmith/plus/news-updates/2aWHQHdEaMlORjQqmJwzmg/rocksmith-2014-leaving-stores
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The original rule

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Devs Announce FaceIT Anticheat for BattleBit will be compatible with Linux, Steam Deck

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Devs Announce Faceit Anticheat for BattleBit will be compatible with Linux, Steam Deck

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    ACE Hits Hundreds of Pirate Streaming Sites By Shutting Down 2Embed - TorrentFreak

    torrentfreak.com /ace-hits-hundreds-of-pirate-streaming-sites-by-shutting-down-2embed-230704/
  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    Jerboa v36 fork with 0.17.x Lemmy account support

    github.com /ShinyLuxray/jerboa/releases
  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    For anyone having trouble logging into Lemmy 0.17.x servers

    github.com /ShinyLuxray/jerboa/releases/tag/0.0.34-plus.hotfix1
  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    My Jerboa Fork with a couple patches

    github.com /ShinyLuxray/jerboa/releases/
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    A simple checklist app for android

    github.com /ShinyLuxray/Taskmo
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    An explosive new lawsuit claims TikTok's owner built a 'backdoor' that allowed the CCP to access US user data

    archive.is /ap3on