Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Conservative people are the moist toxic and aggressive people for no reason 1 hour ago:
Yeah, conservatives like to randomly plug phrases of propaganda like unfunny inside jokes. Depending on my relationship with them I do one of the following.
- Ignore if I’m not that close. Maybe roll my eyes a bit.
- Push back on it if we’re in the context of world events/news/politics.
- If we’re close enough, re-direct the culture war bullshit interjections with interjections of class war. If your friend sees it fit to just randomly call society lazy, you can also randomly call the upper capitalist class lazy government-teat sucking hoarders.
- Comment on An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off 11 hours ago:
If it’s any consolation, I’ve got you lot.
But I dunno, it just feels like a bunch of us just want to be told what to think, what to be happy about and what to be angry about, while ignoring the real harms and injustices being perpetuated.
The one thing I hope people will come to realize is that to overcome the giants, we must stop relying on them. Rebuilding the functions they controlled from the ground up, starting from the common folk around you.
- Comment on Will getting my drivers liscense renewed mess with my employer checking my driving record? 3 days ago:
Get it renewed now if you have time. Unless you’re super broke there’s no reason to wait.
You’re far enough through the process that something like your license expiry date not matching the record you submitted wouldn’t be a hassle, and even if it was, looking at the date they can immediately see the reason why without even needing to ask you.
- Comment on Microsoft refund problem 3 days ago:
Buy on credit card? Initiate a dispute on the transaction with the credit card company. Reason is “Goods not received”, have Roblox account screenshot showing history of debits/credits, purchase receipt, and email correspondence saved as evidence, attach it if requested. Usually you’ll get your momey back without much hassle.
Buy on debit card? Contact your bank and start a similar process but it will be more difficult. Microsoft gift card? Register a complaint with your consumer financial protection organization, depending on your country.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 5 days ago:
Would anon want to be with someone full-time that they had to keep silent about their harmless hobbies?
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Petition to UK Relaunched 5 days ago:
It’s good, he’s the originator, but the reach in Europe is not that great and there have only been a few multilingual channels that have picked it up.
- Comment on Can I pay someone to add a specific feature to an open source app? 1 week ago:
Yeah you can if the license doesn’t expressly forbid modification, a FOSS program you can fork, pay someone to hack in a feature and build a modified version for you. If someone is familiar with it and it would be a quick edit and build you might be able to get it done for under 50CAD. If not then it will be a couple hundred dollars of work at least.
Just remember to follow the requirements of the program license. If it requires that you make the source also available than just add the modified files to a public git repo somewhere.
- Comment on So many options, such excitement 1 week ago:
Thank you for the reminder to drink water.
- Comment on Murphy's law 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s what it means when it is said in the “you’re so naughty” sort of way.
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 2 weeks ago:
Not to worry then, OnlyBogans is for you! Sign up today and make fuck all!
- Comment on Murphy's law 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise pulls in $1 billion worldwide 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if we are going to get Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie: The Game.
If we ever do, then someone needs to mod in first trailer Sonic in.
- Comment on Do people still call each other at midnight on NYE? 2 weeks ago:
I used to call some relatives but the list I had dwindled then the last people became too hard of hearing to call.
- Comment on Anon visits America 2 weeks ago:
Your diet does make a real difference, more than you credit for in your reply. In university I had pizza almost every day for a month, I gained 15 lbs (7 kg) and had a way flabbier stomach. I stopped doing that and tried to eat healthier, incorporating salad with my meals, and in just about a week I started noticing it going away, and I was back to where I was before in 3 months.
It wouldn’t surprise me too much to see how a body would react noticeably to a drastic change from a sedentary, highly processed carbohydrate diet and lifestyle to an active, more balanced one. Everyone’s body is different of course so it won’t always be the case, but to me the OP’s claims seem far from impossible. Japan still has its share of oily foodstuff, but the average portion is tiny compared to the US.
- Comment on This message will not go away unless I agree to their spyware. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah TD headquartered in Toronto has a big US subsidiary. The branches in Canada are called TD Canada Trust, the app right now is called the TD (Canada) app so is a little different.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 2 weeks ago:
Hey you bring up a good point. I consider it innovative because they are trying to develop a non-Microsoft owned IP story/lore behind the Stormgate characters, even if in terms of game mechanics they are trying to achieve “Starcraft 2 with a new coat of paint and business model”.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 3 weeks ago:
Beyond All Reason (open source with FOSS engine), Stormgate (proprietary but made by ex-SC2 devs) are separate attempts at what I would call innovating the RTS genre.
AoE2 DE by Microsoft is tried, true and super popular still but many aspects are still from the original game 20 years ago.
The Starcraft 2 engine is amazing but now under Microsoft ownership, I was hopeful initially but it looks as though it will continue to be left to rot. If only they could give it a Halo makeover using the same engine that would be awesome.
- Comment on AT&T's CTO tells his US team there won't be 'one-for-one seating' upon the return to 5 days in office — read the memo 4 weeks ago:
Your new desk:
- Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats 4 weeks ago:
I’m guessing that they have limited seats and are trying to make sure no one has to stand on the train by limiting the number of reservations, even if which seat to sit in is not assigned. In Japan, bullet trains and some express services require extra payment with your ticket, for either non-reserved or reserved class.
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 4 weeks ago:
Look at their address and their warehouse, look at the website of the brands of products they sell and find their address. Are they Canadian or are they just a reseller of the same stuff coming from overseas?
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 4 weeks ago:
When I want a cheap plastic thingy, or cheap hardware and electronics to play around with, I get it off aliexpress. It’s virtually the same stuff as amazon just for the patient. Most of that stuff is made in China already even if I get it from an online or local brick and mortar retailer, so it seems more direct to me, avoiding needless retransportation, warehousing and waste.
When I want a quality thing I buy it from a local shop, especially when I need to see it or compare before buying. I can often find a Canadian online retailer too with just a bit of sleuthing.
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 4 weeks ago:
I’d only let it slide if the person was trying to sleep and it wasn’t busy. Even then, I would at least expect socks, though I suspect theirs became drenched.
- Comment on About to turn the car to a flying car 4 weeks ago:
100 psi = 100 pirsent.
- Comment on Every time I search a windows error 4 weeks ago:
I wrote about it on my other account a year ago: lemmy.world/comment/5005611
Hi, Micro$oft Community Advisor Alicia here!
I’m sorry to hear that your software occasionally crashes. Trying some of these steps may help you:
- Go to Windows Update and search for the latest drivers
- Run ‘sfc /scannow’ in command prompt
- Reinstall Windows
Please mark my post as “Answer” if this helped you solve your problem! Thank you!
- Comment on how do you separate your clothes and linens to avoid fabric degradation and bleeding? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t separate colours, only new clothes I put in with towels, sheets or clothes that I wouldn’t care if colour bled.
I never wash with hot water, only warm or cold. Low heat dry and cold water washing is really the best effort-for-performance to get your clothes to last, you can hang dry some of them but I personally can’t be arsed.
- Comment on I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help? 5 weeks ago:
Clean install without the HP bloat, backup the important stuff elsewhere first.
Another thing: Are you subscribed to a bajillion mods? That is the case for me. My CoD Black Ops 3 is 30GB, with DLC is 90GB, after Steam workshop mods is 377 GB.
- Comment on How was trying to get a job different THEN vs NOW 5 weeks ago:
When companies post ghost jobs, it is to pretend everything is going peachy, instill desperation and exhaustion in workers to hide their own desperation. Then they wonder why it’s so hard to find someone new when the employee they counted on but didn’t pay appropriately leaves.
- Comment on Admin team update 5 weeks ago:
Sorry to hear you were going through all that. Take it easy and at a comfortable place.
Just remember that one of the biggest reasons lemm.ee became such a cool place to hang out online is because of you, and that’s not going to go away just because you’re reducing your involvement. Thank you.
Ella take it easy too, even if you’ve got big shoes to fill I’m sure you’ll do great!
- Comment on That ability is on cooldown 5 weeks ago:
Corporate Media as an RTS player spamming the “cover up class war” button:
Not enough PR materials!
Not enough PR materials!
Not enough PR materials!
- Comment on Is there anything Lemmy has more/better content for than Reddit and other mainstream sites? 5 weeks ago:
When I was on reddit, I got into a habit at some point of replying to standalone comments with just a handful of votes to start conversations and make people feel seen. It appears I’ve still retained that.
