[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

Here 's one more. I wear glasses for my bad eyesight. I have sunglasses that have the same value of correction. Sometimes, in the summer, when I'm out and I don't think I'll go inside anywhere, I leave my normal glasses are home.

So then, when you stop unexpected for groceries, you look like a douchebag with your sun glasses on, but you can't really take them off because you don't see shit without them.

[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

I was outside on concrete with grass on the side of it and forgot to put the hand brake in. I step off, just to see the truck roll into the grass with the back wheel. Luckily the concrete the truck was on was high enough to stop the truck when one wheel was on the grass.

The truck was stuck now. Driving forward didn't work, pulling did not work. In the end we pushed a piece of pipe under it with hammers on both sides and that was enough to lift the back of the truck high enough that I could drive it forward again.

Still sucked though. I never forgot the hand brake again. Also did not get fired, that is never really an option for employers here.

[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

That is a really good one. Because you can't stop it, but a comfortable temperature is always comfortable.

[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

My knees. I am past 30, and my knees somehow don't want to bend anymore.

On the other hand the older I get, the smarter I get about life. Do some physical activity on a regular basis, keep some long term goals in mind, don't let your emotional state depend on external factors.

Find balance in your life and know your limits and you will be all right.

[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Well, I do believe there are used for it. But it is very annoying when Microsoft keeps throwing it into my face time after time. I don't want it, I don't need it, and yet it will always automatically start after an update. For that bullshit alone I already hate it so much I will never use it.

One of the many reasons I'm on Linux now.

[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

Well, how is the system supposed to know that you want the crack to do something to that executable? The anti virus just sees something is happening and flags it. It does not see a difference.

[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I understand why you ask this question, but really the fastest way to learn is to decide what you want the computer to do and start looking for that.

One thing will lead to another and you'll learn lots of things that way, while you're immediately using it.

Tutorials and courses can work, but usually it works best if you use whatever you are learning.

So come up with an idea for a program, and start building. There will be mistakes, anger, frustration and cursing involved, but you will learn a lot.

First at the lower level, and later on you will probably start wondering how to structure it all. And then you'll learn about that too.

My point? Just dive in, fall on your face a couple of times and you'll learn a lot in a short time.

[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

A good employer would listen to your complaint. Then talk to the other guy. But he will not get fired over one incident.

It may get added to his personal file. If the list of complaints gets to big, some training may follow.

In my country it is very difficult to fire somebody for something like this. Only after repeated incidents, extra training and multiple chances to improve over a longer period of time would they stand a chance.

That does however require other people to report those incidents. So go ahead and report it because it clearly makes you very uncomfortable and it is very unprofessional from the other guy.

[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

I would recommend finding something interesting to do, stimulating your mind instead of dulling it.

Challenge yourself, find the spot where you are just a little uncomfortable with what you are doing to stimulate personal growth.

[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

I was installing Ubuntu for the first time on my laptop. My laptop had two hardisks, an SSD with Windows and a drive that I could switch out for a CD-rom drive by hand.

I decided to install Linux on the second drive. So I install, reboot, and Grub loads up...and tells me it cannot find the drive.

I eventually find the command fwsetup, which lets me boot into the BIOS again. Of course I don't know what is going on, zo I just reboot and now it loads my Windows installation on the SSD.

So at least that is intact. I reboot again, and I'm stuck in the Grub bootloader again. The second drive just would not load properly to boot from it. Very annoying. I tried everything I could think of, everything I found on the Internet, it just would not boot the Linux drive.

In the end I just split my SSD and installed Linux next to Windows. I did split the second disk too, so my home directory is on the second disk and now everything works.

However, it's a Toshiba laptop that gave me lots of trouble before with installing Windows before. I have decided that this is how it will run and I'm not messing with it again. The panic when I feel I broke it again is just not worth it.

[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

It's make or break time. Either she gets into a program to quit and actually quits, or you leave. Even if you love that person.

My experience is that you will be tempted to help them, but by helping you keep enabling their addiction. Not only that, but costs you a lot of energy to do this too. It's not a balanced relation and the abuse will not stop, it will only get worse. It will cost you a lot, and it's much better to take your loss now and leave.

So protect yourself, stand your ground. She either quits completely with your support or she loses you.

Good luck. I have seen some of what an alcohol addiction can do, and I absolutely do not wish it to happen on anyone else, but in particular the victims of the alcoholic.

[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

It's useless and I don't want to use it and never will use it.

I have been looking for ways to turn the channels tab invisible or at least shift it all the way to the right so I have my calls and messages next to each other again.

If they continue the shittification of Whatsapp I may just leave. Especially if Whatsapp is forced to also communicate with other messengers like Signal or Telegram. That would seal the deal for me.

The only reason I even am using a Facebook product is that too much family and friends are using it. As soon as I can get out, I will.

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