Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- 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 22 hours ago:
Your new desk:
- Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 3 days ago:
100 psi = 100 pirsent.
- Comment on Every time I search a windows error 4 days 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 days 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? 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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.
- Comment on Is there anything Lemmy has more/better content for than Reddit and other mainstream sites? 1 week ago:
Unpopular opinions get super-duper downvoted here but don’t “disappear” as often as on Reddit (not including rule-breaking submissions).
I enjoy talking with the local and Lemmyverse regulars and also with most users. Reddit is so big you get lost in the 10000 comments, however many bots are copying top comments from a past repost you wouldn’t know. Lemmy is a good size now, if anything it should grow out instead of up (revitalizing more niche communities).
Topic niches served well by Lemmy: Linux, being upset at capitalism, Startrek, LBGTQ-friendly crowds on blahaj and beehaw, pcgaming, buying local and quality products (there are fewer suggestions but your average reply is better in quality than Reddit), Woodworking, DIY offgrid living (solarpunk), and a bunch more.
- Comment on What are examples of things that would get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances of Lemmy? 1 week ago:
It was whitepeopletwitter, 1.5 years ago. My comment was removed for something not in the sidebar rules, then or now.
- Comment on What are examples of things that would get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances of Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Linking other communities (vs. subreddit equivalents). For some reason on my last year of reddit some subs started adding rules against mentioning any r/ s. It’s almost universally encouraged here to spread knowledge and grow small communities.
- Comment on Why Running the Government Like a Business Would Be a Disaster 1 week ago:
What a shame that half of American voters elected a harbinger of disaster and terrible ideas.
- Comment on The greatest ban of them all 2 weeks ago:
You may not be able to unsee it ever again…
- Comment on Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension? 3 weeks ago:
Right. Often times when something is banned, it is usually banned “until further notice” hence permanent or indeterminate length, but not always. It’s the qualifier that will specify whether a ban is temporary or not.
The Prohibition Era was a time when alcohol was banned indefinitely, until it was repealed. Campfire bans generally are only during the season when the risk of fire is high or are disallowed during specific times of day, and those have been around for a while. Being grounded is a ban on going anywhere until a kid meets their parents’ wishes or after a certain time. Temporary parking restrictions for a special event or snow clearing have been around pre-internet and those are called parking bans. It’s not the ban itself that means permanent, even if there were a lot more uses of it meaning “until further notice”, than for a specific length. You could say that the usage of ban qualified with a specific time expiry is more common now than it did before, but I would argue it did exist in the past. Why that is, I could only guess.
- Comment on Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension? 3 weeks ago:
Ban just means you are not allowed to do something. You can add a qualifier to note how long it is but on its own, there is no implied timeframe. A permanent ban means it will not be lifted after a certain period of time.
A suspension means that you stop doing something but you could expect to restart. In most contexts this is on a temporary basis, but you can specify an “indefinite suspension”, which practically is the same as a permanent ban, but perhaps connotating greater chance to appeal it or some conditions that may occur at an indeterminate point that would lift the suspension.
- Comment on I've had the same laptop for seven years. Don't know much about them besides buy a Toshiba. Is this Hp Essential Laptop a good deal? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I've had the same laptop for seven years. Don't know much about them besides buy a Toshiba. Is this Hp Essential Laptop a good deal? 3 weeks ago:
Example from Amazon - a ChromeOS laptop
Example from OfficeDepot - a Windows “AI-enabled” laptop
Anyway if you go with any hp I recommend you cut out all the useless crapware that comes with it.
- Comment on I've had the same laptop for seven years. Don't know much about them besides buy a Toshiba. Is this Hp Essential Laptop a good deal? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a barebones one (hence the “Essential”), if your Toshiba laptop was a good spec, that one might honestly be better, if it was slow then this might be an upgrade. All depends on what you need out of a laptop.
Screen is 1366x768 so it will be hard to do much multitasking at all and you can’t view 1080p HD video at full resolution.
For the price in USD? I think it’s not good value. A used corporate surplus laptop would be far better. ~$200 would be a good value price for this spec.
- Comment on relaxing bird songs 3 weeks ago:
Makes me wonder, whether birds would want to go to an opera, to view dramatic re-enacments by actor birds of brooding season.
- Comment on Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term? 3 weeks ago:
If you want the extremely brief version of the history, Canada was kind of a thing but not officially until 1867, with the British North America Act, making it officially a country but still a Dominion of the United Kingdom.
In 1949, the Supreme Court of Canada disconnected itself from the British one.
In 1982 the Constitution Act formally removed the power of British Parliament to override the Canadian Parliament, enacted a Constitution and more or less fully established Canada as independent from the UK, in every matter except specific ones relating to the Head of State and the Crown. The Crown’s powers are vested in the Governor General and Lieutenant Governors, and they play very important, but mostly ceremonial roles today.
- Comment on i fixed Chile issue 3 weeks ago:
The Saddam Hussein Memorial Galicia-Labrador Bridge
- Comment on Map of Eastern Europe and Western Europe 3 weeks ago:
I hear West Norweden is a nice place to visit.
- Comment on Oedipus pasta 4 weeks ago:
Lol. I read it has “mama’s fried rice from childhood”. Perhaps “making fried rice” is a euphemism in Chinese, at least when the translator interpreted it?
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
Right now my mind is at, “it very well could be, but time will tell”.
Had Trump had the right people in places to make certain decisions, it could have very well ended in 2020 just as much. Well the world did change in a big way near the end of his term, with COVID, how he botched it and how he gave corporate handout after corporate handout which caused the inflation that Biden is being blamed for.
I’ve been still grasping for ways that the US still can be saved, which there are many, but they hinge on
1A. Trump going back on many of his worst promises and not doing them, because reneging is his thing, or
1B. Trump and his team being too incompetent to enact his agenda, or
1C. The backlash to Trump’s unpopular moves creates disobedience within government, military and writ large, preventing him from enacting his agenda, and
- Democracy not being rigged during his tenure, avoiding where elections become just as meaningful as Russia’s or China’s during the 4 years.
- Comment on Trump Promises Clean Water. Will He Clean Up ‘Forever Chemicals’? Public health advocates worry that Donald Trump could unravel federal clean water efforts, including restrictions on lead pipes & PFAS 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure you can get ‘clean water’ by mixing in some ‘clean coal’ dust in.
