I'm pretty decent with tech. I definitely know to turn things off and on again, check wifi connection, etc. I'm good with troubleshooting and such, but the IT person at my work who I interact with most treats me like I'm SO DUMB. But I try to remind myself that there are probably so many people who don't know where the power button is on any of their devices lol.

An example: I get logged out of an account on my computer, so I go to reset my password. The password reset requires an account number that I don't have

Message to IT: hey, I need to reset my password for this program, can you send me the account number for it?

IT: on the main login page, beneath the password bar, there should be a link that says "forgot password?" Click that and you should be able to reset it

Me: 😑 explains that if you click on that link it requires you to enter account number to reset it

IT: oh

I had experience with mastodon several years ago and so when I moved over here from Reddit I was excited to try and find an instance that resonated with me but alas, the only niche ones are like, furry instances, porn instances, and tech instances. Bummed that there haven't been more that have themes.

Definitely distraught over the whole ordeal. I don't know if I'll be able to recover

Oh my god, what is the juice? This....is magnificent. I'm so hungry lol

I definitely make a makeshift sling out of a towel to hold my cat while I was cooking once, it was a hit. This is so rad

There is, an old friend of mine posted a ridiculous video about it on instagram....sure, there MAY be side effects to using sunscreen (not sunblock) that have turned up inconclusive in studies, but it has been proven that sunscreen and sunblock are VERY effective against skin cancer.

It's just like the "covid vaccines can have an extremely small possility of side effects so I'd rather get long covid and DIE!!"

If you use the Connect app for lemmy, it allows instance blocking

My Android phone fucking blows. The one I had prior was great but I lost it. I hate the constant alerts from the apps I can't delete, I can't take up close photos anymore without it looking like shit and not focusing, the screen will flip horizontal at random times when it's got the lock screen option turned on. I don't want a Google phone, though.

Anyone have opinions on the OnePlus phones?

Seriously 😭😭 my grocery bill for two people went up from 80 dollars a week to 130 practically overnight. Houses doubled in price in like 3 years in the town I live in. They also raised the cap on rent to 14 percent here. I only bring home 27k a year with 6 years of experience in a field that nobody cares about (social services).

Hey I probably wouldn't know this if I wasn't heavily left leaning with an interest in learning about anarchism/communism along with having a pretty radical community that I've participated in. Mainstream politics, no matter how balanced they are, give no nuance at ALL. I searched for "antifa origins" and it took 3 pages of the search for me to even start scraping past US propaganda about the movement. In order to even find this source, I had to search for "antifa origins it's going down" because "it's going down" is a very radical leftist publication that I figure would have a countering narrative...All that to find a Smithsonian article lol.

Antifa did not originate in the United States and has been a decentralized movement for a century, with roots in Italy, Germany and Spain

Not only is it popular with cis women, but like the entire queer community. Also, it looks so insanely hyper stylized that I think that appeals to a lot of people who are into cinema that may not otherwise watch it. I really want to see it on a microdose of acid tbh