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- Comment on Petrichor 1 day ago:
Diff smell.
I call this ‘outside’ smell and you can smell it on a clear day.
- Comment on Why is the word "expat" a thing? 1 week ago:
Immigration is permanent residence. You can move somewhere not permanently, like on a temporary work visa - that is an expat.
Generally an expat from the US does not renounce their US citizenship despite the tax implications due to the need/desire to return home. The US is one of the few countries that will tax a US citizen anywhere in the world, which I think leads to the increased use of the word expat.
Another reason expat applies generally is because US/UK/Canada have a lot of treaty agreements with other countries, so a Canadian citizenship will essentially allow you into many countries more easily than those coming from a third world country. People from third world countries have to go through a more intensive visa process for temporary residence.
- Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there. 1 week ago:
You’re not supposed to intrinsically have your sense of direction in a new place. Some people can do that but assuming you’re not paying full attention on your way to a new location it’s actually normal and expected to have to get your bearings which means taking a moment to orient yourself and figure out what direction is what. And then it’s easy to forget (let’s say you step into a store) until you build a sense of landmarks. Also the more dense a location the harder it is because it’s more complex.
- Comment on Suddenly firefox on ios shows ads on homescreen 1 month ago:
Either Fennec or Mull. f-droid.org/en/…/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/
Firefox stripped of its playstore requirements and telementry gives you fennec.
Fennec + arkenfox user.js installed = Mull.
- Comment on Lantern Fly 2 months ago:
These guys are late this year… Seen like 5 adults up to today and then suddenly I saw 50±
- Comment on My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers. 2 months ago:
Mulatto butts!
- Comment on The Blair Witch Project producer says new Blu-ray release will finally present the film as it was always meant to look 3 months ago:
I feel for them that their movie was butchered even for the theater and then butchered again how I watched it which was on VHS or maybe dvd.
I’m not sure if the motion was why this movie was terrible though.
- Comment on Uhhhh...King? 3 months ago:
the way he holds that iron too
- Comment on Does voting for Biden change anything if I live in a deep red area of my state? (Ohio) 4 months ago:
Getting you to feel like your vote is meaningless is how they win.
- Comment on 🐕 good boy 4 months ago:
Wow core memory unlocked
- Comment on It’s official: No Nintendo console has lasted as long as Switch without being replaced 4 months ago:
It’s no mistake that the NES/SNES were held onto for a long time. Literally some of the most popular consoles ever…much like the switch.
Switch lite and OLED version to extend it’s life and people ate that up. New buyers buying for the first time, old buyers re-buying the same console basically. Big Brain stuff.
- Comment on It's real 5 months ago:
Gen Z to me. But I think a lot of gen z terms have a root in things millennials did online in gaming circles and online forums. So it’s not “new” but more colloquial in their vocab where in my gen it was “nerd” talk
- Comment on I'm breakin' rocks in the hot sun 5 months ago:
Wear sunglasses at night
- Comment on Montrealer who dumped water on unhoused man's face issues public apology. 6 months ago:
We live in a society that teaches us to value others based on their ability to work. So naturally people think homeless are intrinsically humans with less value then themselves.
Once you’ve been taught you’re better then others really it’s really all downhill from there.
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 6 months ago:
If the LIBRARIAN doesn’t understand this as a service the library offers - then they don’t offer it - or if you think they’re wrong you need to have an adult conversation that they do and that it should be ok. It’s weird to just assume you can go around sticking your cat5e into other peoples ethernet ports like that.
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 6 months ago:
It’s kind of all that matters though. We don’t need to trust her - we need her acceptance of the act for which she is the gatekeeper of. If we don’t have it - trust over what she said is irrelevant since we don’t even have the basic trust over the act.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price 6 months ago:
Pi power consumption is going up too. And x86 keeps coming down. Idle power draw the pi wins you’d get 2x longer idle. But under load if you compared the workoutput to wattage I bet it’s pretty close.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price 6 months ago:
Yep, that’s what ‘generally’ and ‘niche’ means. The n100 doesnt have hyper threading so isnt subject to that kind of attack - btw the same attack that AMD has been subject to to many times over and over. Not sure what’s good on ARM curiosity - still interested to know.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price 6 months ago:
There’s gotta be a bunch of niche cases why a pi is better - but generally…not.
What usecase is arm based linux and bsd all that important? Outside of arm dev - probably not much.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price 6 months ago:
At the ever increasing cost of the pi and how limiting it is, the n100 is a no brainer.
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 6 months ago:
The reality despite what you or i might do, is that 99% of people don’t carry around an ethernet or hardwire in when there is available wifi.
The library might be public, but it’s still a good idea to communicate your intent or obtain permission prior to using their network in away they might deem to be unexpected.
“Do you have ethernet?” is actually a common library question and the response from whoever works the front desk will likely tell you everything you need to know.
- Comment on Those were the days 6 months ago:
Contextually I’m saying it’s a diaper. This is a guy who doesn’t love getting out of his chair.
- Comment on Those were the days 6 months ago:
Phones didn’t have UFS/USB storage like today. So usually you were using a proprietary cable and software to move files over.
- Comment on 卄乇ㄥㄥ ㄚ乇卂卄 7 months ago:
Would love this without the text and possibly the distortion
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 7 months ago:
A blog of another website’s report on what reddit users wrote.
Nice.
- Comment on Looks 7 months ago:
I mean for hundreds of years we thought brains of black people were physically structured differently. Humanity has been guessing at what’s right and has been critically incorrect through out most of history.
- Comment on Let's throw back to the 80s. 8 months ago:
As someone born in the 80’s… Where wasn’t the ashtray! They were embedded into everything!
- Comment on Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick departs in just a few days 11 months ago:
Imagine getting paid that much to ruin everything you touch.
- Comment on Radiatori 1 year ago:
It’s made with potato, but also flour, egg, water… Then boiled in water…Like all pasta.
- Comment on Control Ultimate Edition on Steam | 75% off - 9,99€ 1 year ago:
Probably one of the best games I ever played. I came for the visuals because I finally got an RTX card and stayed for the halflife vibes.
It’s the closest thing I’ve played to OG halflife. You get that similar feel of isolation and heroism, a lot of WTF is going on, some weird entity that is omnipresent, great gun play and action, and is almost entirely indoors. Story is more robust like HL2 evolved the genre.