curbstickle
@curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 1 day ago:
It might not be as good a brag down at the country club
That depends on if you’re buying new or you have a classic roadster.
- Comment on Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet. 6 days ago:
I see you’ve met my moron of an uncle. Who is in his late 50’s.
- Comment on Websites: Then vs Now 6 days ago:
Yeah, definitely subjective, but to me the early days of the web were before HTML 2 - so up to 1995.
And yeah, so many tables for a long time… Mostly because it was a bit messy to work with and had limitations, not to mention browser support requirements and a pretty fast moving sets of specs…
It was fun though.
- Comment on Websites: Then vs Now 6 days ago:
divs were added in the late 90’s… that is not what I’d call early internet
- Comment on How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?! 2 weeks ago:
The obsession is because that’s the news friendly way of answering with “racism”.
- Comment on Five flavors 🤤 4 weeks ago:
A series I personally love listening to while working out. Especially the 80s pop covers.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 5 weeks ago:
Active subscriber count should be the more active one, but I agree.
Ideally we’d have native multi a communities right now, so I could see all of my subscribed Linux communities in my Linux multi, all of my subscribed ttrpg in the ttrpg multi, etc.
Definitely an improvement that could be in place. I think letting the user combine the groups to see would be best, because then you can group how you’d like. Having multiple communities with similar topics is no different than reddit, but reddit has multis.
- Comment on My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels 5 weeks ago:
One of the rare situations where that specific mustache can make me laugh!
- Comment on My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels 5 weeks ago:
I remember seeing your toaster progress pretty recently!
Congrats!
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 5 weeks ago:
Same as reddit when it was new.
I’d actually say Lemmy feels larger over the same timeframe, but that’s just sticking my thumb up in the air sort of measurement.
The problem with growth is that too much, and it ends up trolls and bots making up the majority, and too little growth means it withers on the vines.
With federation (and the ability to defederate), I think the ideal ground can be found. We’ll see though!
- Comment on Anon finally touches grass 1 month ago:
No, it was Godwin for internet memes.
If you mean image macros, sure. That’s a subset of what a meme is.
- Comment on Anon finally touches grass 1 month ago:
The original idea of a meme came from Dawkins in the 70’s, and “Internet Meme” from Godwin in the early 90’s, talking about message boards, usenet, listservs, etc.
4chan did not start the concept, no. Lolcats came from 4chan, iirc. But internet memes predate the existence of 4chan.
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, I am. Too much capsaicin messes with digestion (slows it down), and causes more stomach acid.
So with my gastrointestinal system’s hatred of my body (including food allergies which wreak havoc on me), I am at the top tier of too damn white to get to enjoy the heat anymore. So, I guess thanks for a new pepper I can check out!
- Comment on Bungie will compensate an artist after its Destiny 2 Nerf blaster ripped off their work 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago:
What part of my comment makes it appear as if I wasn’t aware?
- Comment on How is Open Source developed paid? 2 months 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 months 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 months 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. 2 months 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.
