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[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

I care about other people’s kids. I want them housed, fed, clothed, etc.

I want my tax dollars to improve other’s lives so they have what they need to be self-actualized human beings.

I won’t let them get hurt at the playground if I can help it.

I watch them when they cross the street to make sure they do it safely.

Oh geeze, yeah, I hope that what I wrote didn't come off as “not caring” about the wellbeing of other people's children, because that's absolutely not what I meant!

What I mean is that most people don't get excited about when someone else's child just spoke their first word, or took their first step. They really don't, because it's not a milestone that impacts that person's life in any meaningful way.

When someone sends you baby picture after baby picture, or their kid's school trip photos... nobody actually "cares" about those things. It occupies no space in their head past that brief moment they were told about it. That's what I mean.

If those things make you happy, there's nothing wrong with that, either!

Do cute kids put a smile on my face? Of course. But do I care that an acquaintance's child now uses the potty? Not. At. All.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago

Some flashlights I own have a lockout feature to prevent this from happening accidentally.

The one bike light that doesn't have this lockout mode, or the ability to disconnect the battery by unscrewing the cap, burned through a dry bag I had it in...

Still a good light, but I had to tape a metal ring over the on/off button, so this never happens again.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago

I don't mind a long-click to turn off/on, and a short click to move between SOLID modes (high/low). But for the love of Christ and all the saints, any strobe mode should be a special key combination (i.e. double click).

Flashlights that have you moving through multiple strobe modes before you can get to a different brightness level, or before you reach "off" are infuriating.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

Some are absurdly bad in this regard!

"Oh, you want to reduce the brightness? Scroll through 7 modes, including 4 epileptic seizure-inducing strobe modes, before you can get to low brightness mode."

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 8 points 13 hours ago

Very, very, VERY few people actually care about other people's kids. And that interest only goes up slightly when they are related to the child.

Nothing wrong with you feeling that way.

As for vacations, life events, etc., I'm interested in knowing what goes on in my friend's lives... that's kind of what having a friend is about.

BUT... I'm interested in hearing about these things face to face. I couldn't care less if they're just social media spam about what they did with their spouse. That's one reason why I stopped using social media.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago

They will choose to stop if it doesn't make them money. 😀

But yes, not allowing them to do this in the first place would be a very reasonable thing to fight for.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago

Floccus is actually just a sync tool, it can also sync with Linkwarden in the latest version.

No way! I just uninstalled Linkwarden because it wasn't working well on too many websites (i.e. it would capture cookie popups or "choose your country" rather than the page I wanted).

Glad to see some cool updates and integration, though.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 19 points 21 hours ago

Everyone should enter these stores dressed up like it's Payday (the video game) until they stop with this facial recognition nonsense.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago

CIBC, my dude 😉

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

I self-host https://floccus.org/

If you've got a browser that supports plugins, then you can use the floccus add-in. But for Android, I use the floccus app since it's just easier.

Floccus is primarily a bookmarking service, but if you want to save articles for viewing later Linkwarden might be a better fit.

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... and they use YouTube to host their informational videos.

"Please allow us to interrupt your research with intrusive targeted ads, so you can have a superior browsing experience." 🤡

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I wonder how many cyclists it took to cause all that traffic. /s

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 week ago

"Prefer"... when you're young, you've got time to burn online without distractions.

Then you get married, have kids, work a demanding job, and you don't get time for uninterrupted online play.

Eventually, correspondence chess is the only gaming you have time for! /s

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submitted 1 month ago by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

In my persistence to fit Linux in my life, I'm curious if some "must have" Windows software will work better if I just ran a Windows VM within Linux.

None of the software I need to work is needed to work continuously. They are basically programs that I fire up when needed, for a few minutes, then exited.

Wine will install them, but not run them, so I'm hoping a VM is the answer as I'm not interested in dual-booting to run a few Windows programs occasionally.

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Also, "identical" has a different meaning here.

There's a special place in hell for the monster who dreamed up this captcha!

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submitted 2 months ago by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to c/birding@lemmy.world

Port Perry, Ontario Aug 2024

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When I want something cheap, I usually hit Aliexpress (website). As I was looking at the Aliexpress app page on the Google Play Store to check its privacy details, TEMU came up as a recommended app.

Now, my wife has used TEMU in the past, but since she often can't find her way around things, I downplayed her negative experience as "user error". That said, I went to the TEMU website and started looking around.

I found something that was a reasonable price, but then get this message saying I could get this item free through the app... sigh. OK. I sign up with my usual fake/random credentials and add this "free" item to my cart.

A spinning prize wheel comes up. Hey, I can get THREE free items now! Sweet. I spend the next 3 hours looking for stuff I can actually use, doom-scrolling through everything from women's underwear to t-shirts with assault rifle print. Literally something for everyone. LOL

Then I select my third "free" item, and another spinning prize wheel comes up. "100% off the next $35". Ok.

I didn't need more stuff, but hey, 100% off sounds like more free stuff!

I spend another hour looking, keeping an eye on the amount "saved" (apparently $600+, for stuff that is sold on Aliexpress for maybe $25).

When I finally get to check out, I get another spinning prize wheel. "100% off $100"!! Goddamn, I'm on a roll here. How do these guys make any money?!!

More time looking... I must have spent well over 4 hours on their app. Time to check out.

$67? Huh? What about 100% off and all that nonsense? Enter your phone number*

  • You must agree to get promotional texts, or you can't check out... hmm, maybe my wife wasn't wrong.

In any case, there was no way to actually get anything "free". I deleted the app, deleted my account, and will never touch this scam ever again.

Do people actually end up getting anything from Temu? I thought AliExpress was bad, but the experience is 1000x better.

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submitted 2 months ago by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to c/birding@lemmy.world

I heard this guy chirping very loudly and spotted him enjoying a meal. It's rate that I'm able to see them eating this close, since they usually carry their catch away 😂

Near Darlington Park in Ontario.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world

My current trackball has lost its smoothness and feels "sticky" no matter how well, or often I clean it.

So, I'm looking for a trackball (thumb controlled) with the following features:

  • Bluetooth wireless with support for at least two connections (for laptop and PC media station).
  • Uses AA or AAA batteries.
  • Uses bearings.
  • Set at a tilt/ergo angle.
  • Repairability is also important, but not a total dealbreaker if the mouse is high-enough quality.

So far, most that I've found will lack one of those features, but I'd really like to have all of them, if possible.

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who offered tips on getting my current trackball working better. Today, trying to roll the ball left became very difficult, like it didn't want to move. I took it out, looked at the little white ball (bearing?) supports that the ball should be rolling on, and noticed that the left-most one was almost pushed in, and flush with the cup that the ball sits in. The other two are higher up, so the ball can "float" on those, but not this other one. The manufacturer is already sending a replacement mouse, so it should work better, but I'd still like to find my unicorn 😄

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Amazon Prime Days ran on July 16th and 17th (at least here, in Canada).

This price jump happened a day before and ended two days later, but this item was "on sale" during those two Prime Days.

I've been seeing this scam far too often, especially with food items. Why isn't this illegal yet?

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I'll start by saying that I really love Tube Archivist. It works flawlessly in doing what it does (archiving YouTube videos), and the UI and UX are great.

However, no matter what browser I use (Edge, FF, Opera, Samsung mobile, FF mobile, etc...), I run into issues where the video will play, but the interface freezes... I can't do anything on the screen until I refresh.

I don't have it set to any strange codecs, so videos are in vp9. But I also tried a few different codecs to see if the quality/size could be better optimized, and had the same issues with freezing UI then.

If I run the videos through Jellyfin, they work fine. It's only through the TA web interface where things lock up.

Is this normal? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this working better?

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I've tried a few jellyfin plugins that are supposed to sync metadata and thumbnails from tube archivist, but it's just not working right.

I can see some thumbnails, but then the titles are just random gibberish. Or the titles somewhat work, but no thumbnails.

Any secret I'm missing?

Both are running in docker containers on a synology nas.

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So, I've had a Raspberry Pi 4 sitting brand new in a box for a few years, and decided to install BirdNetPi on it yesterday.

It's working like a champ, but because BirdNetPi needed a legacy version of Raspian, it's got old software on it.

Is there any way to update the software (i.e. RealVNC) without updating the OS? There is no built-in software updater, and I seem to very easily break Linux every time I make an attempt to use it. LOL

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Should I also tip the delivery driver, and the person who made the product?

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