lurch
@lurch@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on [deleted] 16 hours ago:
I don’t think that’s the assumption. This sounds like someone planted in their head that there’s a shortage of everything and Americans can’t get things because foreigners do. The thing about studying abroad is, that Americans do it in other countries too. It’s an international exchange. If Harvard stopped taking foreign students, they would indeed study in other countries and less Americans could study in those countries as a result, keeping the total number the same.
- Comment on WTF is this ad in my recording app 1 day ago:
Could be they appropriated it, but it’s actually the X-Men symbol from their costumes at least in lots of comics and animated TV showd. See in this poster, for example: sportsposterwarehouse.com/…/the-uncanny-x-men-mar…
- Comment on Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped 3 days ago:
lol, they’ll just paint them in gangsta ninja colors 😄
- Comment on Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped 3 days ago:
You can’t ban all useful things that can also be used as weapons. It’s too many. New ones are invented as you read this. You gonna forbid baseball bats? Bricks? Tree branches? Tools? This can’t work.
You gotta draw the line at things that have been created to be used as a weapon.
- Comment on take me back 😭 4 days ago:
idk the Spartans are often credited with being peak minimalist , even tho they didn’t call it minimalist and they were around from like 900 BC
- Comment on How can open source projects get acquired by third parties? 4 days ago:
if it’s tied to a domain name, that domain can be acquired.
the code that is open source stays like that, but if they get all original authors on board, they can release a new version that is not open source; basically a closed source fork.
this is because the original authors can re-release their intellectual property under different licenses as much as they want, but then it’s out there with multiple licenses and people can choose which version they want to use as long as they respect the license that comes with that version.
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 1 week ago:
no, it’s not weird. you gotta stay open minded.
- Comment on Anon describes currency 1 week ago:
they used to back it with gold, didn’t they? gues nixon ran out while the printing press went brrrrr
- Comment on Me too 1 week ago:
thus might sound crazy, but you know, you can just make or order signs. weird, i know. just sayan
- Comment on If someone is bullied to suicide/threatened to death, and they actually attempt something like that or die, will the person who told them to do so get charged? 1 week ago:
I think this is the one case where you should use hanged instead of hung, but I’m not a native speaker, so not 100% sure.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 1 week ago:
I loved DVD-RAM. I could just mount them in Linux and copy backups on it. They are even reusable, like you could just delete a super old backup and put a new one on it. I think I stopped using them, because of capacity.
- Comment on NO TO AI 2 weeks ago:
So you’re saying it’ll take us down with it.
- Comment on Hopping out of the shower, realizing I forgot to bring a towel 2 weeks ago:
I would color code and distribute them next time I buy new ones.
- Comment on Hopping out of the shower, realizing I forgot to bring a towel 2 weeks ago:
Bathroom cupboard is normal, except in shared bathrooms like in boarding schools, military or gyms.
- Comment on Whenever a beast is shown on screen 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re mixing up territorial disputes between predators and hunting of prey. For example, in Alien humans are mostly the prey and in those cases the aliens are very quiet. They make noises when being attacked though.
It is like that in many movies. When a predator is disturbed by another predator or large animal/object like a human or a human in a car, it may decide to make noise in order to defend it’s territory without having to risk injury.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
hyprland has useful features for a tiling compositor, like a special container you can toggle that goes in front of your workspace and is easy to customise and set up.
However, i think wayfire, even though much harder to set up (it needs a proper config and some helper apps or it’s just empty and you can’t even launch anything), has cooler effects and has a simple tiling plugin.
Also Gnome/mutter with the Forge extension is better than both, because you can optionally use just the mouse to drag windows at the title bar and drop them in a tiling frame of your choice. This is very helpful when your left hand is full of cheeto dust etc… Gnome also has the extensions Burn My Windows, Focus, Desktop Cube and Dash to Panel
which get you cool effects as well. It also has a Tweaks tool and the extension Just Perfection, which give you additional customization options. Gnome is very easy to set up and usable OOTB, even though not fine tuned. Also it is still backwards compatible to X11, in case you need that one app that looks crap in wayland (looking at you, Java)
- Comment on I don't know who The Rizzler is and Im not interested. 3 weeks ago:
to be fair, it doesn’t have many sections at all, so this checks out 😄
- Comment on I don't know who The Rizzler is and Im not interested. 3 weeks ago:
Rizzle me this, rizzle me that, who’s afraid of the big, Gronk bat?
- Comment on boys will be boys 3 weeks ago:
blush -> red cheeks -> ember-ass-ed
coincidence? 😄
- Comment on Totes me 3 weeks ago:
I only hate drama, if it happens to me 😅
- Comment on Fighting the OS security as a geek 4 weeks ago:
The fact you even have this option proves OPs point.
- Comment on Are there extensions that turn every comment on your posts into hate comments? 4 weeks ago:
hahaha, this is like posting on 4chan.org/b/ (it got hacked recently tho. not sure if it’s still down or safe to visit)
- Comment on I will eat these nachos myself. 4 weeks ago:
maybe they did notice, but what are you supposed to do? it’s working better than advertised. throw away perfectly good mushrooms? idk
- Comment on Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK 5 weeks ago:
I can just upload gifs like an image with Jerboa. Some other clients don’t work, because it becomes a jpg for some reason.
- Comment on How important is it that cans are clean when i put them in the recycling. 5 weeks ago:
In theory you don’t need to clean them at all, because they will hose them down at tge recycling plant and also some residue will incinerate when they melt them.
However, until it’s colkected, dirty trash will attract rats and insects and it will smell disgusting, especially in summers. I would recommend cleaning it a bit, if you can.
- Comment on How do I make Lemmy feel less dead? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s a lot of pists like “Version X of program Y has been released” or other usekess tech stuff, but that’s just like 20 users. Once you have blocked them, the good stuff is easier to find.
- Comment on How do I make Lemmy feel less dead? 5 weeks ago:
The All feed seems to have hundreds of posts throughout the day. I also have a lot of communities blocked, just because I’m not interested in them. There’s still coming a lot of other stuff through. Lemmy is just amazing with lots if content.
- Comment on How do I make Lemmy feel less dead? 5 weeks ago:
I browse the All feed sorted by New and just block/filter everything I’m not interested in. There’s always new stuff.
This is my post title filter in the Eternity app:
Orban,Trump,Vance,Elon,Musk,NATO,Scholz,Merz,Habeck,AOC,Thunberg,Tunberg,Greta,Mr. Beast,MrBeast,Bitcoin,Putin,Russia,Kremlin,AfD,Grünen,Gaza,Israel,Palestine,Democrat,Republican,Surpreme,Abortion,Taliban,China,Chinese,Harris,Biden,Genocide,Tory,Brexit,Google,Microsoft,Windows,Apple,iPhone,Android,OpenAI,ChatGPT,Lora,intel,nvidia,arch,mint,ubuntu,framework,raspberry,pihole,pipewire,linux,bezos,amazon,fairphone,Europeans,Brics,leyen,swift,immigrant,Santis,California,Youtube,Montag, Laberfaden,G’sudert wird,Bluesky,Twitter,Montagslaberfaden,blsky,bluesky,isglitch.com,Gaetz,Kulturfreitag,Jimmy Carter,Boebert,Pokemon,Pokémon,Dunkelflaute,tar pit,Teergrube,Microplastic,Flatpak,Steam,tarpits,DeepSeek,Taylor Greene,Climate Change,CVE-,Vulnerability,data breach,ransom,DOGE,lemmyvision,Unser Song für Lemmy,reddit,Reddit,MTG,Guten Morgen,Netanyahu
- Comment on How long before I can sleep on my memory foam mattress? 1 month ago:
AFAIK it’s done when it reaches the final height and isn’t bent any more (assuming it came vacuum shrinked and rolled up)
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand mirrors 1 month ago:
I don’t even mind. I was just curious. After writing my comment, I thought about how it would be cool to check pic checksums and show a repost counter.
