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- Comment on What's the deal with using phonetic symbols here on Lemmy? 1 day ago:
Some people have typing quirks I guess. Harmless form of self-expression.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 2 days ago:
Well, yeah. I’m a cis woman who takes oestrogen because they removed my ovaries; I do so for gendered reasons, there’s a reason why I don’t take testosterone instead which would be an equally valid way of replacing my missing hormones from a physiological perspective. I also shave my face for gendered reasons, because people are a lot more judgemental about women having facial hair than men. Cis men who are born with penises but lose them get phalloplasty. And so on.
- Comment on How do I move out of the USA with little to no money? 5 days ago:
Dollars are worth a disproportionate amount compared to currencies in the global south. “Little to no money” in the US is a decent amount of money in other parts of the world. If you’re trying to leave the US rather than enter it, you’re at the relative advantage to most immigrants.
As for more specific advice, it really depends on where you want to move to. If you are a US citizen, your passport will take you almost anywhere in the world.
- Comment on when doing laundry... while switching it over from washer to dryer...you find a sock on the floor that didn't get washed. If you put it in the dryer with the wet laundry will it come out clean? 1 week ago:
No.
Just put it back into your dirty laundry basket and wash it the next time you do a load. It’s just a sock.
- Comment on Was there ever a well-documented, widely accepted to be *false*, accusation of genocide? 1 week ago:
White genocide?
- Comment on What are you doing for digital estate planning? 2 weeks ago:
There are contingency plans for all my digital responsibilities (ie things other people rely upon that need someone to maintain them). For everything else, ie digital assets that only I use, I don’t care what happens to them when I die, on account of being dead and unable to care about anything.
- Comment on Why do a lot of frozen salmon thawing instructions say to remove the salmon from the individual wrappers before thawing? 4 weeks ago:
Note: this is not food safety advice. If you think food has botulism I would recommend throwing it out instead of cooking it and hoping you got it hot enough.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 4 weeks ago:
I guess it depends on the types of activists you know. I’d give you an invite myself but I think invites are tied to the inviter so I can’t really do so without linking my riseup and my lemmy.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 4 weeks ago:
If you’re politically active you can get an invite from one of your comrades. If that’s not something you can do, you probably don’t need it.
+1 for riseup though, they’re sound and have used their email service for years. disroot is a good alternative that is open to public registration.
- Comment on What exactly is the security of direct messages on lemmy? Does anyone actually use matrix? 4 weeks ago:
I use Matrix for a lot of my chatting to friends. It works fine. Bit janky, but I don’t mind.
The disclaimer you’re seeing just means that DMs are not e2ee, so the server admins of the sending/receiving servers can read the message. You could use DMs to exchange details for chatting on an e2ee platform if this is a concern.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 1 month ago:
Most people with a degree don’t do a job directlly related to their degree, and most people I know who work in an IT or CS related field aren’t university-educated. Go to uni because you want to learn and are interested in your field, not with the express goal of a career. If you wouldn’t go to uni if you knew you’d end up doing something else as a career, then that degree probably isn’t the choice for you, because it sounds like you’re not interested in the education itself, just the job resulting from it.
- Comment on Is it just the norm now-a-days for grocery stores to have lots of stuff on the shelves that's past the best-by date? 1 month ago:
old stuff needs to be pulled to the front, and new stuff needs to be put behind it
As an aside, my “not unethical but does feel a bit like you’re cheating other people” life tip is to rummage around at the back of the shelf/in the bottom crate of a stack of crates for the freshest food. Don’t feel too bad about it especially in a high-turnover shop. They were going to sell the most recent-dated stock anyway, just to somebody who’s not you.
- Comment on Would an LLM AI model trained wholly on consenting open source projects with a license requiring all derivative works be open source licensed still be problematic? 1 month ago:
I think the “copyright” shit is the biggest non-issue with LLMs. Abolish intellectual property. If you put a piece of software out there, you shouldn’t be able to stop anyone else from using it for the public good.
The issues I take with what’s being called “AI” right now is the volume of slop people have to drudge through. It particularly makes it hard to look for new software as there’s so many vibe-coded projects getting published then abandoned. It’s the aggressive and obnoxious marketing campaign that insists I pay for your shitty SaaS LLM, that I don’t get to keep or run on my own machine, that I’m supposed to use for all sorts of tasks where I don’t want a non-deterministic probabilistic machine (people use LLMs to do number-crunching?? you’re using a machine designed to do math, interfacing with the one part of it that can’t do math!). And it’s the ridiculous computing power people are using to do activities that do not require anywhere near that amount of power if they just do things the normal way. I could not care less about “copyright”. Nobody should be able to own a codebase anyway.
- Comment on Lemmy or Piefed? 1 month ago:
The Piefed devs are gigalibs who hard-code in their politics, blocking left-wing instances in the server software itself rather than letting instance admins configure that sort of stuff. Even if you agree with their politics, consider if you want to be using software that actively forbids users from interacting with conflicting politics even if the user wants to. If you agree with the principles of free software, then that doesn’t seem to respect user freedom to me.
- Comment on Lemmy or Piefed? 1 month ago:
It doesn’t mean Marxist-Leninist. It’s a coincidence. The Lemmy devs said they started using the domain because .ml domains were free.
- Comment on Name of a Japanese vegetable dish? 1 month ago:
Not an answer to what your dish is as others have already answered that, but it would help to know what food you do like as a picky eater, to suggest vegetable dishes that you would like. Going along with the Japanese theme, you could try vegetable tempura as a tasty way to get veggies. East Asia has a lot of yummy ways to eat vegetables. Stir fried, included in noodle dishes, kimchi, etc.
- Comment on How do you people read books? 1 month ago:
Do you actually want to read them, firstly? I can read “hard” books just fine when they’re on a topic I’m genuinely interested in and I actually want to read the book. But if I force myself to read a “hard” book on something I don’t care about, it’ll be painful.
I always highlight and annotate non-fiction with any thoughts/comments/etc, and if it’s a work I expect to find particularly valuable, I also take separate notes. Usually these are digital notes in the note-taking app of my choice (currently Notesnook), but for some books I get a physical notebook. It also helps motivate me if I get some nice highlighters and pens and take pretty notes.
- Comment on A Linux Version of Windows 11 1 month ago:
Windows isn’t the only problem. The amount of bloated proprietary spyware the average user uses is also a problem, aside from just the bloated proprietary spyware OS. Most people switching over to Linux will also replace any proprietary software they were using before, with FOSS, which is a good thing. For most people, switching out the OS itself is the biggest step, not replacing user software.
- Comment on A Linux Version of Windows 11 1 month ago:
RAM matters for a VM, to give the VM enough memory to run the OS. Wine is not a VM though, so you only need a “normal” amount of RAM to run a Windows program through Wine, ie whatever the recommended amount of memory is for Office. Not all programs work well through wine though; Office might not. I don’t know why you’d need to run MS Office specifically though when LibreOffice exists. Do you have a specific use case?
- Comment on A Linux Version of Windows 11 1 month ago:
I mean… “Linux”, the kernel, has a different API to “Windows”, so by definition, no, those are two different APIs a program would have to call. I suppose it’s probably hypothetically possible to fork the Linux kernel to add support for Windows APIs, but I don’t know why anyone would want to do that when Wine and, failing that, VMs exist.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Your problem is defining “sex” as “being penetrated”. I am a woman, and do not enjoy being penetrated, and still enjoy sex. I’ve only put menstrual cups and a speculum up there before but I found it painful and difficult, like trying to push the cup up against a brick wall. I know women who have this problem and want to receive penetrative sex do vaginal dilation, but I’m not interested in that, so I don’t bother.
If you like the idea of being penetrated, you might want to try seeing a gynaecologist about vaginismus. But this isn’t inherently a problem if you don’t actually want to use your vagina during sex. You might prefer giving over receiving, or you might only want clitoral stimulation.
Gay people (including us lesbians) have the concept of being a top (wanting to give penetrative sex) or a bottom (wanting to receive penetrative sex). I think it would improve straight people’s sex lives to have the same thing tbh. I think some straight women probably are tops and some straight men probably are bottoms even though they’re interested in the opposite sex. If you like the idea of fucking a man with a strap-on over getting penetrated yourself, give it a go :) And if you just don’t like the idea of sex at all, you’re under no obligation to have it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They have a near on monopoly, and even if end consumers start switching to Linux, businesses are going to be much harder to sway. They simply don’t need to care about software quality when they have massive guaranteed business customers.
- Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 2 months ago:
Initially used by Black USAmericans to mean “aware of the racist reality we live in”. Then racists started mocking Black people for saying it and using it as a slur against social movements. Now people mostly treat it as a meme word meaning vaguely left-wing, but in a funny way.
- Comment on If you need a portable reader, is there any reason to choose an e-reader over your phone? 2 months ago:
Lack of distraction, easier on the eyes, larger screen, much easier to read if it’s sunny out.
I like to use it as an extra screen for when I’m taking notes on a pdf/ebook on my laptop, so I don’t need to dedicate half my laptop screen to the book. And like I said, it’s a bigger screen than my smartphone.
- Comment on Non-stick pans? 2 months ago:
As the other commenter said, only Teflon permanently loses its non-stickiness. After seasoning your cast iron or carbon steel pan (carbon steel addresses your wife’s problem of heaviness, and it’s basically the same substance as cast iron), make sure the pan is hot before adding your food. I’ve cooked eggs, fish, veg, all sorts of commonly sticky foods in well seasoned hot cast iron and not had problems. I only get sticking problems when the pan is not hot enough. For seasoning, I wash, dry by heating on the stove, add a little bit of oil, spread it thinly with a paper towel, put it upside down in the oven with a tray beneath to catch any drippings, and let my oven run on max temperature for about an hour. I’ve only had to do that I think twice over the several years I’ve had my cast iron pan though; the seasoning should maintain and heal itself just by cooking with it. The same applies to carbon steel if that’s what you get, btw.
My only exception is tofu, which I have literally never managed to fry without sticking except on Teflon. I think it’s because of the moisture of tofu. I don’t press my tofu tbf, out of laziness, but perhaps I’ll have to once my Teflon pan gives out.
- Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 2 months ago:
I used to have lots of flies and noticed one summer when I put tin foil in the windows to cool my house down, I stopped finding flies inside completely. Maybe because it made my house dark, they didn’t want to come in anymore? Idk, but I’ve been gloriously fly-free ever since. You’ve mentioned you have a basement—do you find fewer flies there? I suspect they might avoid dark places.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I use HeliBoard. It’s fine, but I don’t have any special use-cases/needs; I just wanted a normal keyboard, which HeliBoard is fine at. If you have anything specific you need, I’m not sure if HB does it.
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 2 months ago:
That’s the one I was referring to! It was (still is, I think, by skimming the website) hosted by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. I went to it a while ago and found it useful, so can recommend. It’s quite highly regarded by the trade unionists I know.
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 2 months ago:
Have you read any books or done any trainings on workplace organising? Most unions provide free training for members who want to organise. I’d leave a book rec too but the main books I’ve read on the matter are by IRL comrades and I don’t really want to dox myself on here.
It’s about having the right strategy and knowing how to have these conversations with coworkers. Most people trying to organise a workplace come up against the same barriers. The biggest piece of advice I’d give is focus on active listening—what problems does this person have and care about in their workplace? Don’t impose your own problems/the issues you care about most onto them—what’s important to them may be different to what’s important to you. Find out what they care about, and get them thinking about what might happen if we used our collective power to do something about it. But organising strategy can’t be summed up in a Lemmy comment. I do suggest you look into doing a course/workshop/reading a book. You mentioned being in Europe; I think the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung ran online organising workshops for Europeans iirc, not sure if they still do.
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s Linux-specific. There’s a lot of dickheads in society. If you create a community around a particular topic or hobby, then most likely you’ll get people there feeling arrogant/superior about their skills in that hobby/topic/etc and wanting to gatekeep it. It happens for a lot of things.