varyingExpertise
@varyingExpertise@feddit.org
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 2 weeks ago:
“Goddamnit Margret, don’t ask, someone was wrong on the Internet.”
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 3 weeks ago:
That said, if you see a baby in a burning building, tons of people may yell at you not to go into the building.
I get your analogy, but allow me to go off on this tangent: I’m an actual volunteer firefighter and my experience is, that people in stressful, one-off-situations they were not trained for are absolute idiots and require clear directions in easy, short wording and segmentation of large todos into small, directly assigned tasks which you need to have them repeat to you, verbatim.
They will feel treated like imbeciles because that’s what they are in that moment and there is no space, time or energy to work around that until whatever crisis is dealt with.
Having been the responsible person in these kinds of situations actually broke my desire to be liked by everyone and instead set targets and see to it that we reach them with with as good of an outcome as possible.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 3 weeks ago:
And stop trying to get everyone to like you.You don’t even like everyone.
The first part has been my mantra for years now, luckily, but I like how the second part gives an obvious, concise reason and I’ll add that to my stash of advice for other people. Thank you :)
- Comment on It hurts. 5 weeks ago:
I have marked all homes that belong to one street in one color. The address is Town, Road, House number. So, Hünsborn, Steimelstraße 32, for example.
- Comment on It hurts. 5 weeks ago:
You would not thrive in one of our small towns.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The right soup at the right time: Very.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 months ago:
Well… Are you?
- Comment on Find what you like and stick with it 2 months ago:
That sounds easily avoidable.
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 2 months ago:
It must be frustrating to think of oneself as king of the knowledge hill, only to be reminded by life all the time that, well, no. Of course they lash out.
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 4 months ago:
Hm. My refrigerator I bought 18 years ago from a no name brand has a fan that moves air internally when the door is closed.
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 4 months ago:
What kind of low tech refrigerator has that kind of uneven temperature distribution?
- Comment on Feynman rules 5 months ago:
You missed a Warhammer 40k reference.
- Comment on CNC 6 months ago:
Well, usually all parties taking party in a Command and Conquer match have consented to do so but what happens then usually involves quite a bit of non-consent.
- Comment on It is only half greentext, though amusing 6 months ago:
Yep, there’s keeping work and private life separate and then there’s making it a personality trait und looking down on people who don’t.
People are social animals, being smug about actively rejecting social interactions is unlikely to elicit positive reactions, but with some people it occasionally feels like they’re getting confirmation for whatever from that situation.
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 8 months ago:
I have one right now, with external air supply and a heat exchanger that feeds the heat from the exhaust into my heat buffer for warm water and the heated floors in the rest of the house.
I have my own bit of forest just like basically everyone else in the village, there is no reason to not make use of the scraps that fall off of that during the year.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 8 months ago:
3h in a room with her might put you over your annual allowed radiation limit though.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 10 months ago:
“Kraneberger” - “Château Tap” in German.
- 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? 10 months ago:
If you just want a local network with DHCP and WPA to do whatever, no uplink is necessary.
- Comment on So close! 11 months ago:
It’s just interaction bait.
- Comment on *hands to an undergrad* 1 year ago:
Never again having trouble figuring out the exact welding wire needed for all the gathered materials in a project seems like an excellent perk for a lifetime as well.
- Comment on The Tesla Backlash Is Biblical 1 year ago:
Yep. It’s just back to where it was before the election and hovering around there, I’m not seeing any kind of “crash” beyond that. I mean, I wouldn’t care as long as that company belongs to that man, but, let’s at least be somewhat fact based.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 1 year ago:
Use an inverter-controlled one and you’ll be fine. Our emergency communications shelter runs off one of those just fine, with a cheap offline UPS in there.
Yes, those that control frequency using the engine rpm aren’t that great for most switching power supplies.
- Comment on Anon tries to download videos from youtube 1 year ago:
EDM mixes, downloaded as audio only, split by YouTube chapters, thumbnail embedded as cover and the single parts named by the chapter names, 5/5. I usually do an extra step where I embed fideo name and file name splits as Album, Artist and Track and then they’re good to go into my Jellyfin instance.
- Comment on I need this framed in every room so I don't make that mistake again 1 year ago:
Neighbors’ dog that you’re taking care of for the week¹ works as well.
¹_No actual neighbors’ dog required_
- Comment on I never realized this 1 year ago:
Yeah, that’s what people do here in Germany.
- Comment on I never realized this 1 year ago:
So, just do what a few couples in my circle of friends did and use her last name after marriage?
- Comment on It's fire... Maybe concerning but fire still 1 year ago:
I don’t think they like to be talked to that directly.
