I think 1 is more than enough despite the size of the polycule and keeps the counter looking tidy. What do you think?

Craigslist Forums look like this, I like the style, oddly

I alwayse check this before downloading apps because i dont want apps to spy on me. And what i noticed in practise is that usualy payd apps offten dont collect any data and even if they do its less data than free apps.

So obviusly they collect that data to sell it and to make money that way. And if you think only big companies for advertising buy that data you are wrong.

Gowermants, secret organizacions and milioners who want to control your life is bying that data the most.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36766269

I know lemmy is titled to the left, so most probable answer is going to be no, managers are our enemy, but hear me out.

I always thought like this: I'm there to work and earn money, not to make friends, not to fake a friendship with any manager. If they fire me, no manager is going to ask me how I'm holding up or what my plans for the future are. What may look like a friendship is all fake.

There is, however, a manager where I work at that everybody agrees she is friendly and goes the extra mile to help employees. When I say everybody I mean that literally, none of the coworkers I asked said anything remotely bad about this person. At my company there are other managers everybody agrees are narcissistic morons and everyone hates them.

I had an argument with this manager everyone likes and after thinking about it, it was mostly my fault we raised our voices. She raised her voice first but because I wasn't listening to her because she triggered me.

I feel bad about it and I can't believe I'm writing this, but I'd like to have a private conversation with her to apologize and explain why she triggered me. She also does typical things any manager does that I find very unfair that I want to explain so she maybe stops it.

Is being honest and having such a conversation a stupid idea?

🔪Take another stab at it 🔪

I'm fine immediately after showering, but it's a mini-snowstorm if I go through my hair in the morning having showered the night before. Been that way for years, but far better than it was back when I used "anti-dandruff" shampoos that just made it worse. Hair is short, doesn't feel oily or only slightly. Happens across a variety of shampoos I've tried, though I'll admit I haven't looked beyond the 3-in-1 body wash shampoo combos. Sorry if this is a bit unappealing. Anyone else have a sort of "baseline" amount of dandruff? Or found a solution to this?

Forgot Chariots of Fire is kind of similar

I cant think of any "real" examples but i love that scene in 2.5 Men with Holand Taylor as Evelyn (their mother) and Charlie's new mommy doppleganger GF.

GF

Its ok, you can borrow some of my makeup

Evelyn

Oh dear, I would but I'm allergic to drug store brand...

There was a flurry of them but that was just a single fun if not particularky sublte one

I once took a staff member to the side for being half an hour late back from break, at the time we had a 2 hour break period and that would also be when you’d get food and what not. So anyway I ask the staff member for the reason they was late back and they said “sorry McDonald’s told me to wait in a bay for my order” I said to them that we had a 2 hour break period and they said they went within the last half hour to get their food and that they ordered 3 cheese burgers, large fries and 5 McFlurrys.

To better clarify, I've been reading how EA is close to selling itself to the Saudis and probably other firms. And I've read some select comments who've said that they're boycotting EA, been boycotting EA and getting pissy still over what EA has done to their IPs in the past.

And this isn't the Fediverse, this is just what I've gathered outside it in observation.

All I can think is, is how pointless it is to get mad at something you've already written off as dead to you. This is applicable to so many things, you'll see that pattern. If something is dead to you and you enjoy what has been still to this day, why waste your energy getting pissed at still at the thing that ruined it?

I think it is just wasting time and energy myself. I try and don't get pissy at things I've already long resolved myself. Eh, whatever, I'll enjoy something when it was great to have enjoyed it before whatever enshittification that thing has undergone. Doesn't hurt me any.

Hi all,

I recently found out that as a part of my job I get access to a small gym in the building. I think it has your basic cardio equipment and some other stuff for building muscle (but small enough I don't think there is equipment to do stuff like dead-lifts or whatever in there).

I don't know anything about working out really, but I could stand to lose some fat, which draws my attention to the treadmill that they have. I am not so concerned about building muscle and everything that involves.

I have mostly neglected going to gyms for 3 reasons.

• They are usually out of my way
• I don't usually have the time
• I don't want to spend what they charge

All three of these are now non-factors now that I have found out I have access to this one.

I would be using it twice a week as that is how often I am actually at the location.

So my question is, since it's not really something I have ever looked at - if I want to lose a bunch of fat, what do I do? I can try to diet first off, and I am glad to take suggestions on what worked for other people in that regard, but more so I just don't know how long or how fast I should run, what equipment is good for this otherwise, or really anything about using a gym.

Please note that the facility is self-serve and has no staff - they just have cleaners come in each day to clean it, the rest is up to you. I do not have the money to spend on something like a personal trainer, and the location doesn't offer such things as well given its self-serve nature.

Thank you.

-I'm on a Discord server composed with people i know since a dozen years. Despite some heavy drama, this is the most perennial community i've ever frequented. We care heavily for eachother and they know some thing i never told to my own mother. We were first on a discussion forum then moved to discord when the site linked to the forum died.

-My sister's friends. She is so close to them that they all became mine.

cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/3524630

former bed side nurse here on sick leave till the end of the month. I should start my new job away from patients with normal working hours on October 1st.

I feel drained, even though I eat and sleep well, the best I've slept in months, my circadian rhythm is that of a normal human being, I can cook, go shopping, I even play some hobbies now.

Nobody yells at me or makes passive aggressive or backhanded remarks for me to hear.

The 1st. of October is a week away and I don't believe I'll be a fully functioning human being by then, most probably I'll ask for a 2 week sick leave extension.

what worked for you to go back to your normal self?

Why or why not?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36712344

there is somebody really annoying I have to see most days who doesn't know what boundaries are: always physically too close, always asking prying questions.

because at this point I have nothing to lose, next time he starts his spiel I'm going to start doing really ridiculous stuff, so maybe now he starts avoiding me. Think of:

answering his questions, but only using the syllable la, like lalala lalalalala lalalalalalala... pointing fingers and opening and closing my eyes.

gesticulating and waving my arms like I was possessed by the demon while barking like a dog.

describing in great detail how I like to have sex with several kinds of animals.

problem is, I laugh very easily when I do silly stuff like this and if I burst out laughing while doing it to him, he will think I was doing it to amuse him and keep approaching me.

so, how do I train not to laugh while doing really silly stuff?

I have a lot of tar and disk image backups, as well as raw photos, that I want to squeeze onto a hard drive for long term offline archival, but I want to make the most of the drive's capacity so I want to compress them at the highest ratio supported by standard tools. I've zeroed out the free space in my disk images so I can save the entire image while only having it take up as much space as there are actual files on them, and raw images in my experience can have their size reduced by a third or even half with max compression (and I would assume it's lossless since file level compression can regenerate the original file in its entirety?)

I've heard horror stories of compressed files being made completely unextractable by a single corrupted bit but I don't know how much a risk that still is in 2025, though since I plan to leave the hard drive unplugged for long periods, I want the best chance of recovery if something does go wrong.

I also want the files to be extractable with just the Linux/Unix standard binutils since this is my disaster recovery plan and I want to be able to work with it through a Linux live image without installing any extra packages when my server dies, hence I'm only looking at gz, xz, or bz2.

So out of the three, which is generally considered more stable and corruption resistant when the compression ratio is turned all the way up? Do any of them have the ability to recover from a bit flip or at the very least detect with certainty whether the data is corrupted or not when extracting? Additionally, should I be generating separate checksum files for the original data or do the compressed formats include checksumming themselves?

I'm not in architecture yet, but I think it would always be a dream of mine to design a university campus

Preferably non-fiction about creative tools etc

You can also check out the comments from a similar post I made around 2 years ago: https://lemmy.ca/post/10958482

Looking for the Foursides, Goldenrods, whatever village or town or city you remembered from video games and that can be thoroughly explored and that are considered "big"

Kinda funny but I remember how vast Minniopolis seemed in The Urbz Sims in the City for GBA and DS and I saw a map this year that looked so tiny, amazing how big it felt at the time