azimir
@azimir@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Amazon stopped supporting your Kindle, now what? 6 days ago:
Please send your old Kindle to me. I just use them with a USB cable to transfer ebooks. I’ll gladly set them up with a few thousand public domain books and give them to kids or local schools.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 6 days ago:
These stupid vehicles and ones that are noisy for the sake of being noisy have one root element: attention. They’re designed to force you to pay attention to the owner. Admittedly it’s for negative attention, but still it’s a cry for help.
Too many people grow up where the only attention they can get is negative. Since humans crave any attention, they’ll seek it any way they know how. We’d rather get positive attention, but if you don’t have a source or tools to get it you’ll go negative in desperation.
I hate that these vehicles are designed to hurt people and they’re often on the road because the owner doesn’t know how to get attention any other way.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 6 days ago:
If he buys a longer truck, then maybe his dad will hug him just once.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 6 days ago:
Why does he keep coming back?
- Comment on Sick days 2 months ago:
Switzerland doesn’t play when it comes to trains:
- Comment on Sick days 2 months ago:
If there’s nothing else, Germany can complain about Deutsche Bahn! I have a long commute to work (my employer ist sehr schlect in some ways), so I’ve spent many months playing “will it, won’t it” on RE train delays. I even had one vanish on the app after it claimed to pass through my station. Geistbahn!
The dumb part is that I started visiting Germany back in 1995. The trains ran much better. Nich so viel Störungen oder unregelmaßig dingen. Good memories only cover over so many cracks, though.
It’ll only take about 20 years of big investment to rebuild the train network after so many decades of underinvestment by conservative governments. No worries, any day now.
- Comment on Sick days 2 months ago:
I kept seeing discussions about the way things generally work in Europe, the rights people have, and the cultural appreciation for people’s health and I finally said “fuck it! Let’s move to Europe”. I’d been visiting for decades off and on, so we made it permanent.
It only took three years of applying for jobs, saving, and finally getting all of our family needs in order, but we did it. If you can, give it a look.
- Comment on Sick days 2 months ago:
Mülltrennung ist seht wichtig! Wir wissen das, aber die Gelbetonne ist komisch.
Unsere Wohnung hat kein nachbar jetzt. Es ist ein neues bau, und die Vermieter ist Meiter suchen. Ruhezeit ist sind die besten teil von Deutschland!
- Comment on Sick days 2 months ago:
Bingo! Yeah, it’s bad there.
- Comment on Sick days 2 months ago:
I had my first real sickness for time off since I moved to Germany. I had a call with a doctor, they pushed a sick note into the digital health system, and my company noted it as paid time off.
Modern civilization in a developed nation rocks.
Now if we could just get the paperwork to die down a bit… Oh, and find a way to get the trains on time!
- Comment on Sick days 2 months ago:
Undeveloped societies can be like that. It’s often places that don’t have many rights for the citizens and are worse off in wealth then the pre French Revolution France. Basically peasants with smart phones given this day and age.
- Comment on Overbearing datetime pickers 2 months ago:
Vertical spinning wheels to pick the hours suck donkey balls. WTF is up with those? You want to set it to 9 pm, so we get to spin the hour wheel up and down until we hit 9, then it always defaults to the current minute, so you get to spin it up and up and up and up until you get to 00 minutes, overshoot to 05, and then dial it back down.
There’s WAY better solutions for this available. Why use the ones invented 25 years ago?
- Comment on The shrinkflation 3 months ago:
Cocktails. Just need some bottles.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Let’s see the coats. That sounds like a blast, especially for your doggo buddy.
- Comment on Welcome to the FPS vibe shift: At the end of 2025, it's clear that casual shooters are back in a big way. 4 months ago:
Those early days (Quake, UT, CS). Grab a gun and go. No real levels, buying hats, or special equipment on the richest can afford.
Yeah, I’d get thrashes by good players, but not because they have different equipment or loyalty/grind/pay-to-play items. A level playing field where getting murdered was just. Those were good days.
- Comment on Popcorn Ceiling Removal 4 months ago:
Many of them done from the 1960’s to the 1980’s in the US will have asbestos. It’s fine as long as it stays behind the paint, but cutting/drilling into it is very dangerous.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 5 months ago:
Because we’ve seen 30 years of the Web? Because streets used to be (and some sill are) nothing but a place to put up billboards and ads? Because corporations are led by psychopaths and they care absolutely nothing about your well-being or personal health in your home?
OF COURSE if they can put an ad in your kitchen they’ll by all means put an ad in your kitchen. It’s literally the goal of giving out brochures and pamphlets of ads: to make you take the ads into your home. Why are there brand names on everything? It’s advertising all the way down. Giving them an Internet-connecting screen they control in your kitchen is just asking for ads to be displayed in your private space.
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 5 months ago:
During the era it wasn’t rare to upgrade components on the motherboard and ISA/PCI bus cards. We’d had some relatively stable CPU socket standards and you’d do things like change out CPU and ram for upgrades.
Was this a stupid marketing gimmick? Oh yeah. Was it unreasonable to talk about upgrading a system at home? Not really. We did do it for a while.
- Comment on Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 5 months ago:
With so many bikes it’s going to make it impossible for cars to go through quickly! reeeeee!
- Comment on Trump suggests Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis was a cover-up 5 months ago:
But they were put in there 14 years ago after they were left alone with him at his mansion.
- Comment on This is incredibly stupid 5 months ago:
The city I just left is almost through that entire arc. How did you guess the history of a city you’ve probably never looked at!?!
The latest wave of city council leadership is actively trying to build out more public transit and it’s amazing just how horrible people can be when you ask them to make a tiny percentage of the roads (often 3+ lanes wide in the city core) have a bike lane or even a few blocks of bus priority lane so the busses can arrive on time during rush hour.
At the same time it’s in the top 5 most dangerous cities for pedestrians in our state, but the mutilation of fellow city dwellers is okay as long as people can drive fast through downtown to get to the big box store 20+ miles away. Strangely, the City Council’s old members keep yelling about how the city downtown is dying because we added a few bike lanes and therefore people don’t want to be there since it’s harder to drive (but only during major rush hours).
- Comment on Why Everything At Airports Is So Expensive - Business Insider 7 months ago:
Because it’s an artificial monopoly with a captive audience? Because the government demands all kinds of extra overheads with sometimes dubious need beyond justifying government agency work?
It’s not a huge mystery.
- Comment on The Corporate Logo That Broke the Internet - Why are people freaking out about Cracker Barrel ? 8 months ago:
It’s just more right wing media distraction from The List not being released and keeping us from noticing encroaching fascism across the US.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 9 months ago:
“a lot more people everywhere live paycheck to paycheck as migrant workers than you probably think”
The percentage of Americans living paycheck to paycheck is insanity. I haven’t seen Canada’s numbers, but the US is barely surviving.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 9 months ago:
Brilliant! Let’s also plan on self driving cars to increase total throughput and completely block out pedestrians on the street so the cars can go zoom zoom… Until induced demand locks it all up again.
- Comment on Senator Josh Becker, who represents Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Mountain View, says he opposes a bill allowing multistory apartment buildings near transit stations. 10 months ago:
It’s also California: the weather is usually really good. Maybe this “Becker” should add an amendment that requires bike roads to be built instead of parking spots.
I assume he’s against being proactive in problem solving, though.
- Comment on Romance scammers are now in the fediverse 1 year ago:
It’s what the Internet is for, anyway:
- Comment on Mildly McInfuriating 1 year ago:
They can surge all they like. Our family just stopped buying from them (and most fast food places).
It’s not a time saver to sit in a drive thru instead of making something for meals at home.
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 1 year ago:
If you’re a professor with a doctorate in Germany, the official way to refer to you is Professor Doctor [last name]. If you hold two doctorates it’s Professor Doctor Doctor.
Professor is also a serious and registered title in Germany. You can’t just start a school and start handing out professorships without oversight and approval.
- Comment on Citation Ascension 1 year ago:
It’s all about biblatex. I only write using Word/docx if they force me to for publication, otherwise I use LaTeX for typesetting. It’s vastly superior for serious publications, especially technical ones.
I use JabRef for managing my citation databases.