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- Comment on Bungie will compensate an artist after its Destiny 2 Nerf blaster ripped off their work 5 days ago:
The rip off
bungiestore.com/bungie-rewards-nerf-ace-of-spades…
The original design that was ripped off: www.deviantart.com/…/Ace-of-Spades-573764211
And the tweet:
- Comment on [Answer to yesterday's question] The number of active users on lemmy-join is now back to normal 1 week ago:
Here’s my tip - subscribe to a bunch of things of interest, and set your subscribed feed to top for the day. You’ll likely see a bunch of interesting posts.
Then browse all, top for 6 hours, and you’ll see some wide variety (except for days following a debate like today, that’d going to skew political heavily for obvious reasons).
You’ll find new and interesting communities to subscribe to, and make your subscribed feed all the better.
Personally I have different accounts for different interests, and for a few of them I rarely leave the subscribed/top for the day. They are more focused, and without a good multi-community feature that’s universal, its the next best thing.
Hope you enjoy it here!
- Comment on TIL I can restore games on Steam, which I removed years ago 1 week ago:
Honestly don’t remember the names, its been… Quite a while. I’ll have to open and check.
Iirc it was also some I stored as gifts that became unknown or something, and I wasn’t able to send them.
- Comment on TIL I can restore games on Steam, which I removed years ago 1 week ago:
The bigger issue to me are games that were removed from steam and I can no longer get.
Which is why I don’t bother buying on steam anymore. If I’m buying, its DRM-free only.
- Comment on What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades 1 week ago:
I spent $10 at the door to see Deftones (mid 90s or so?), a friends band was opening for them.
I want to point out, this was after adrenaline, so they weren’t an unknown here - they were headlining. Now its about $200 for the same venue (just checked).
$10 in 1995 is $20 today for inflation. That $200 ticket would be $100 in 1995. There is no way I would have paid $100 in 1995 to see my friends OK band, even opening for the Deftones.
I think you’re absolutely right. I don’t know that I will ever even be in a realistic position to take my daughter to go see Taylor Swift without it being a huge birthday present or something.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 1 week ago:
I can tell you its done in the tristate area.
Maybe its a Georgia thing.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 1 week ago:
If it doesn’t cover the expected area of concern? No
If you dont know the cause of the issue? No
If you know the issue, and just need to check the state of the esophagus or something? Sure.
Its done for specific reasons, just like an endoscopy is done for specific reasons. When it comes down to it though, it only does a small part of what an endoscopy can do, and with a generic “acid reflux”, its not going to give enough information to diagnose. Its a way to assess symptoms, not a way to diagnose a gastrointestinal problem.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 1 week ago:
My doctors have been incredible, at least those I’ve had for the past 4 years or so. Including my gastro.
They take the time to talk to me, they remember who I am, and my gastro is even a direct recommendation from my primary doctor (my gastro is his gastro).
I’ve been going to gastroenterologists for literally decades, the one I got a couple years ago is the first to finally find the issue, and I’ve been reflux free. I doubt he’d do a transnasal either - its more limited in scope (hah!), you’re only getting part of what an endoscopy can do. That’s why its not transnasal endoscopy, its transnasal esophagoscopy.
And that’s probably why. Why they wouldn’t just say that, I don’t know. There are lots of places that will do transnasal esophagoscopy throughout the US, so it isn’t a procedure that’d just “not done here” or anything, its not as popular in general because its just not as thorough of a procedure.
I hope you find a doctor in the future that takes the time to explain things though.
- Comment on Finally got some programming socks 2 weeks ago:
Ah, not an issue I’ve had to deal with so unfortunately no help there. Most of the time I’m accessing over ssh anyway (with occasional -X, none of those systems are using Wayland yet).
- Comment on Finally got some programming socks 2 weeks ago:
krfb?
- Comment on I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta! 2 weeks ago:
This seems super fun! I’d definitely check it out
- Comment on if you're not going to let me do this microsoft then let me turn off auto restart all together. 2 weeks ago:
Of the options… Flatpaks are, IMO, the best.
I still avoid them whenever humanly possible.
- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 2 weeks ago:
What part of my comment makes it appear as if I wasn’t aware?
- Comment on How is Open Source developed paid? 2 weeks ago:
Had someone buy me a dinner once
Or maybe they just repurposed the gift card, I don’t know. But I enoyed the dinner all the same!
- Comment on if you're not going to let me do this microsoft then let me turn off auto restart all together. 2 weeks ago:
… Yes. But only on one machine.
Mostly its stable (all of my servers, an editing machine, etc) but I’ll do silly things when I need to try something, like image a drive, change the sources to testing/unstable, do what I need to do to test, then reimage.
And recently started running EndeavourOS then Arch because I honestly spend too much time in Debian and felt like poking around at other solutions again, which I do every several years or so.
- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 2 weeks ago:
He did.
As well as get a pay raise, a guarantee of additional raises, PTO, additional sick days, and convertible days.
Pretending nothing was done undercuts the issue, and spreads misinformation about what actually happened.
- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 3 weeks ago:
I’m not remotely surprised, and I didn’t support him pushing to stop the strike either.
That doesn’t mean I think its OK to leave out what he did do to exagerrate a position.
- Comment on if you're not going to let me do this microsoft then let me turn off auto restart all together. 3 weeks ago:
Just to mention also, I’ve been running Debian for much longer than I care to think about (since my teen years, I’m now in my 40s), with config file requirements that make arch look like lazy mode by comparison.
If you have to use something, flatpak wins, but personally I’d lean away from any of it as much as possible. The Debian stable repos are stable, so what’s in there will work. Add flatpak to KDE Discover by installing plasma-discover-backend-flatpak to get that option in there.
But snaps should be strictly off limits. For everyone, tbh.
- Comment on I installed linux, and men in suits burst into my room to give me some socks and a skirt. 3 weeks ago:
Its buggy because its a dev distro of the latest in KDE, it will basically never not be buggy.
KDE on Debian, Arch, Fedora, pretty much whatever else will be stable.
- Comment on if you're not going to let me do this microsoft then let me turn off auto restart all together. 3 weeks ago:
Don’t use snaps.
Seriously.
- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 3 weeks ago:
Dude, I’m not interested in the internet pissing match where you try and “gotcha”. I’ve repeatedly explained my position, why I believe that, and why the context is important.
As I said. Enjoy your day, we are done.
- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 3 weeks ago:
Not the words I used actually.
And as mentioned, already answered repeatedly. Enjoy your day.
- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 3 weeks ago:
I have explained it numerous times already, why repeat myself?
- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 3 weeks ago:
Cool story.
- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 3 weeks ago:
You can certainly make that call for yourself. I disagree.
- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 3 weeks ago:
You could read the many, many other comments in the same thread.
- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 3 weeks ago:
OK.
- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 3 weeks ago:
I agree, but leaving it out is still lying about what actually happened.
- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 3 weeks ago:
IMO, at best its misleading. LOTS of straight up copied text from Wikipedia (just link to the section), making it appear as if there wasn’t anything else after that.
Just because he followed up on his promise doesn’t make him progressive, but ignoring it entirely is just playing games to play pretend that he did nothing but force an outcome.
To me, that’s just as bad as saying Trump is pro-labor because he said so one time, and ignoring all the other crap he did. Such as restricting the ability for union reps to advocate (federal workers), revoking a DOE contract (and their rights and protections stripped), putting union busting lawyers on the NLRB, opposing federal minimum wage increase, and I’m going to stop because he’s so damn depressing.
- Comment on UPS drivers won “historic heat protections.” They say the company hasn't lived up to that promise. 3 weeks ago:
And does any of that impact the ability to tell the whole truth, rather than partial?
When you exclude important details, you’re doing your argument a disservice through misinformation. This has nothing to do with my opinion on Biden, which is not a positive one, but my opinion on intentionally leaving out important details. Which, to me, is no better than just flat out lying.