lurch
@lurch@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What's the solution to QR code phishing? 3 hours ago:
Mine has a setting for it.
- Comment on Anon listens to the radio 4 hours ago:
I haven’t listened to radio in >10 years, but back in the day they had a bunch of pre-recorded station ID messages like this in Germany, France and some African countries.
- Comment on If it can get past the low ink warning, that is 1 day ago:
Also maybe select the correct paper format. If the footer doesn’t fit. It may be set to A4 in the browser/driver but the printer has Letter size paper, which is 18mm shorter.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 2 days ago:
I’m pretty sure some people enjoy being sexist/racist and some even get off of watching people being sexist/racist. However, there are people in both groups who also understand it’s a problem and stand against it, except with consent in private.
- Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 4 days ago:
I disagree. New smartphones may have a few bettee specs, but are overall worse than older models.
For example, they are getting bigger and bigger and can’t be operated one handed any more, even with Androids one-handed mode, because the zoom makes everything tiny.
Newer phones become hotter, batteries more likely to turn into spicy pillows.
More bloatware preinstalled, like AI stuff or “AR Emoji” etc.
The camera notches are growing too, even though most people would be fine with notchless cameras.
They are getting heavier and thicker too. In 2015 we had 5.1mm 98g phones. Not even a notch. It all went downhill from there.
And don’t even get me started on the prices.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 weeks ago:
first of all, progressive men don’t imply them being effeminate.
secondly, you should be aware that “women” refers to a group of about 4 billion people. that means, if what you say is false for only 1% you’re wronging 40 million people. (but what you wrote is probably false for a much higher percentage. just like men, women can like different and multiple types at the same time and their preference can even change over time)
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 weeks ago:
it is not the only way, but sex sells and that’s also what the nazis do: on one hand they have indoctrinated women cosplay the lucky trad wife and on the other hand they imply men can just keep women like pets if they’re rich or alternatively at some point get a girl pregnant, guilt trip her into not aborting, then basically ruin her carreer and force them into a marriage they can’t ever get out of. that’s what fascists present to boys on youtube, tiktok and other media to win them over. they also have other talking points, but this is one propaganda vector.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 weeks ago:
they don’t even have to date them. dating them and publicly showing the dates off (like in tiktok videos etc) helps and counters misogynists like the Tates or ppl claiming girls only date rich guys etc, but just hanging with boys and making clear they are leftist and like being around leftist boys will sway lots of boys. talking politics also helps.
i remember in my teens there were multiple girls doing this and it helped a lot. there was this punk girl and she would hang with like four boys and play them punk music, make them tea and hand out mixtapes and flyers for protests. another was a girl scout and met boy scouts on scout camps and they were following her around like creeps, but she invited groups of them to activities after the camp and got them to go to peace protests and help at cummunity events. if a cute girl asks a boy to help her hand out flyers for a good cause at the town fair most can’t resist. and many girls have no idea how cute they are. they see stupid ads with supermodels and compare themselves with them, but there’s a very wide range of what boys like and they’re very likely in it, for most boys, even if they think they’re ugly.
- Comment on Was my ex really sorry/guilty? 2 weeks ago:
It was all an act. When told you that it was your fault, the mask came a bit off. This is where you should ghost him and also consider reporting him. This is not okay.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
the exploding has nothing to do with this throttling tho.
- Comment on be 400 pound fat fuck 3 weeks ago:
acshually depends if you’re walking against or with the spin of the earth but whatever
- Comment on What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany 3 weeks ago:
i know this from my grandma (other grandma didn’t even want to talk about it): it started out okayish, but soon things became super strict. lots of propaganda films. nazi stuff crept into everything. school etc… books got burned. different opinions forbidden. no free speech. misogyny. disabled ppl were killed. ppl were afraid to be suspected of anything. trials weren’t fair, if you even got one. the nazis printed money and inflation started to suck. many businesses were nationalised. slave workers were being used, taking peoples jobs.
then the war started. every familiy lost someone. bombs were dropped on cities. ppl had to go into bunkers often. (my grandma barely made it once and shrapnell hurt her hand.) at peak wartime men had to have 8 kids to not be conscripted as cannon fodder. ppl became even more poor than before the war, because many male workers were gone. brutal inflation. kids stepped on mines while playing. at that point the last idiot knew hitler was a loony, but almost nobody dared say anything, because it meant very likely torture and death.
when the US troops arrived, it was a big relief. finally ppl could speak their mind again. women flocked to the US troops, because there had been a general lack of men. many women were young widows, too. my grandma was very young, so nobody actually told her, but she suspected women wearing multiple US wrist watches were paid like that by US troops for sex.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
back then you were also able to obtain foreign news via radio or some foreign newspapers. on airports and big train stations you could usually get foreign newspapers and magazines. also, it was expected of reporters to be as objectuve as possible most of the time. the shit fox and others pull nowadays was absolutely faux pas until like the 70s and was less bad until like mid 90s.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery To Split Into Two Companies, Streaming & Studios And Global Networks 4 weeks ago:
rip tv
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
idk why you have that feeling, but maybe it helps to remember all this info was available too, but it took longer to get it. for example, you got the news only via radio, tv and newspaper and had to keep track of time to watch it or go buy a newspaper with news from yesterday. you could get media from the library or shops, like record stores etc… you could buy maps in certain places and there were usually public maps in towns. to message someone you had multiple options, for example telegraph them. many homes had compact encyclopedia describing most known things in short. if your home didn’t have this, you could ask neighbours or check with schools or libraries.
maybe that feeling is projected impatience. maybe it’s frustration with how slow and complicated things were.
- Comment on I hate Samsung and their dumb software design choices, and this is one of them. Why do I need a SIM card to enable a hotspot whereas every other phone works without one? 4 weeks ago:
An antenna can absolutely send and receive at the same time. It’s called duplex .
- Comment on “Production” to describe multiplication? 4 weeks ago:
It’s also used in German. AFAIK this kind of math wording is latin based.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
it could mean many things, for example, it could be a troll, a shared account, a person with some weird mental disorder/illness and/or a notorious liar.
- Comment on The latest updates 4 weeks ago:
all it would have taken them is ask themselves “would i want my face to be touched by some rando?”
- Comment on why do some people put a space before a question mark or exclamation point? 4 weeks ago:
i do this when the word(s) before the punctuation should be easy to copy+paste, like “did you install figlet ?” so they don’t accidentally get the qyestikn mark into the copied text
- Comment on why do some people put a space before a question mark or exclamation point? 4 weeks ago:
i do this when writing in a hurry on my phone
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 4 weeks ago:
old games animations were sometimes made frame by frame. like the guy who drew the character pixel by pixel was like “and in the next frame of this attack the sword will be here”
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 4 weeks ago:
i didn’t try bamboo yet, but the wood handles of the ones i tried a few years ago, wasn’t as smooth as plastic, especially when wet. this made my lips move with it, making it difficult to keep the foam in the mouth and can hurt.
the bristles were from pigs/boars. they started out hard, but became increasingly soft while brushing. that was a bit annoying, but managable. it’s unfortunate they’re not vegan tho.
in my region i couldn’t get bamboo ones with soft bristles, which i need, yet. that’s why i couldn’t try them yet. i saw some labelled “hard” a the store tho. gonna keep an eye on that
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 4 weeks ago:
i suspect that area is visible for the cashier and the little camera dome under the ceiling in the background
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 4 weeks ago:
there’s so much that can replace it. tinfoil with or without cardboard, waxed paper or cellophane, wood for throwaway utensils, etc…
i suspect the biggest problem is toothbrushes. the ones made from animal hair and wood are barely usable and we have 8 billion people grinding plastic against their teeth multiple times each day and rinsing the particles out with water. this can’t be good.
- Comment on Anon gets banned for having Nothing 4 weeks ago:
classic lemmy
- Comment on Anon gets banned for having Nothing 4 weeks ago:
but then the story anon made up doesn’t makevsense any more 🙄
- Comment on Do people confuse your nationality? 5 weeks ago:
ppl sometimes ask where i’m from, assuming i’m not native. i use the opportunity to fool them a bit, by pointing in the direction of my birthplace and say “from over there”. they assume i misunderstood and rephrase and i can reveal that i really was born just a few kilometers in that direction. i really enjoy doing that, because i think its absolutely irrelevant and inadequate to ask. foreigners will reveal where they’re from when they’re ready. some ppl didn’t come for fun and being reminded of their origins can trigger bad/sad memories they’re not ready to handle.
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 5 weeks ago:
I think you should consider your mom is very hurt right now and my be overreacting by pulling you into the fight because of that. However, a cheater isn’t a good role model and neither is the destroyer of marriages. She got that right.
IMO you should suggest a compromise, like staying with him, but berating him and his mistress from time to time and should also be transparent about it, so they know it’s due punishment and a compromise for not leaving him.
- Comment on Realistically 5 weeks ago:
