[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 13 points 16 hours ago

but 10 to 20 years ago, I knew plenty of liberal college-educated suburban soccer moms who believed in that shit.

And now they're probably Trump voters.

It's the crunchy to alt right pipeline and unfortunately it's real.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

Wait, do people shut down their computers when they're done using them?

I know I did on the desktop PC we had at home when I was a kid... But now the desktop doubles as a homeserver (and does that more than it does gaming lately) and the laptop just goes to sleep rather than shutting it down.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Great source of protein though. Just need to be more careful and creative

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

I got a knock last night. I had to apologize and say there's no candy - I don't live in the US. We have our own similar traditions on St. Martin's day and St. Catherine's day. The article for the latter even describes it: Wiki, though for either day you can click on the Estonian Wikipedia article to get a more complete description.

I suppose in the coming years I'll have to start stocking candy for Halloween too because I don't really want to disappoint a bunch of kids. Though to be fair, I don't think they did much trick or treating anyway, they mostly just opened their bag and asked for candy - so it felt kinda lazy. When I was a kid, I remember groups of kids would come knock on our door for either Mardipäev or Kadripäev and they'd usually have something like a song or dance prepared, or at least told us riddles.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

£20 should still get you a meal of some kind until the credit cards and cash machines are back, hopefully within a few hours or next day at the latest.

Can't really say I even have that much on me most of the time though - perhaps I should change that, keep a minimum of like €50 that's only touched in an emergency or something. Swedbank has had several outages in the last few months here in Estonia and it affects many stores' payment terminals too.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 19 points 2 days ago

Hmm, but did they say the last version of Windows, or the last version of Windows you're going to buy? And if it's the latter, is the upgrade to Windows 11 free? If yes, then technically it's still correct.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

You was wolf

You were wolf

I think were sounds better in 2nd person personally, if you use was it just sounds like you're trying to imitate slang

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

Fortunately, you can read through the source code of SearxNG and even modify it - provided that you also publish the modified version to your users if you host it publicly.

You can run your own instance, public or private. Or you can use a public instance.

Internally, it uses other search engines, rather than crawling the entire web and indexing everything.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago

"We'll try anything as long as it fits in our exact worldview and doesn't inconvenience us in any way whatsoever"

Meanwhile remote-first companies are saving money on office space and can use that to hire more people, while also immediately being greener than a company with commuters that have to worship the concrete temple.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, but Elon's self-driving cars aren't self-driving, nor are they necessarily as safe a good driver.

There are people out there who shouldn't be able to drive, and in sane countries many of them don't manage to get their licenses. But in the US for an example, apparently you can't get anywhere without a car, so until the public transit situation is solved, drivers licenses need to be given out like candy :/ Exception being some cities with awesome public transit. The only one I've been to is NYC, where most people don't really need to drive. I'd say the transit there is better than in my country.

And the worst part is that even once real SDCs exist and can be bought, not everyone can afford them. Or maybe they'll be more like Uber or Bolt in that you hail one from an app and it picks you up - but then people in rural areas are still fucked without being able to drive themselves.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

They also continued to export grain outside of the union. Which, you know, is actually one of the things a dictatorship could be good for - force food to stay in the country if there's a scarcity. But they opted not to.

And to add to Stalin's stupidity here - if soviet leadership hadn't chosen to do this, they would've had a whole lot of extra soldiers to send to the meat grinder in WWII. Hell, maybe the nazis wouldn't have nearly taken Stalingrad.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 51 points 5 days ago

Love the TL;DR on this one

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by boonhet@lemm.ee to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

I think many of us have noticed the trend that modern tech just... Doesn't make things better. There's little to be excited about, because anything even remotely innovative is going to be filled with tracking, ads, etc.

Let's say you had a bored software engineer or 2 at your disposal and the goal was to improve something you do often, by creating an application or website that isn't owned and enshittified by a megacorp looking to extract maximum short term value - what would your project be? Is it something you'd be willing to pay for, maybe with a free tier available?

The reason I'm asking is that I'm a software engineer and in the current hard-ass market, while I'm lucky enough to have a stable job, I know that experience alone isn't cutting it anymore in the recruitment process. You need to be able to show side projects too. Plus I have an unemployed software engineer friend who also has no interesting projects to show. So if we make any money out of it, that's awesome. If we don't, it's just something for our github accounts. Probably the latter.

PS: Yes, I know this is not a tech community - I want ideas from regular, non-techy people too.

PPS: This doesn't have to be something in your personal life, it could also be something that would help you at work if you had it.

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submitted 7 months ago by boonhet@lemm.ee to c/adhd@lemmy.world

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the issue of making excuses for everything. I don't just mean excusing your unfinished chores by saying "I have ADHD", I mean excuses and fabrications in general - at work, you might say you're nearly finished with a project, but really you're halfway done at best, at home you might say you couldn't start the dishwasher because of how angry your pregnant wife was at you for choosing the wrong program on the washing machine, so you were scared to start the dishwasher - fully ignoring the fact that you were supposed to start the dishwasher BEFORE even being confronted about the washing machine. The last one is a stupid example, but it happened an hour ago and it's a pattern I hate about myself.

If you've had a similar issue and identified it, what has helped you improve yourself? I may never be perfect to the point I'll get everything done that I need to, but I'd like to at least stop making stupid excuses that just bring up fights that could've been avoided.

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