dan

@dan@upvote.au

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally just vibing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t understand the three month discounts lol. Seems like a bunch of insurance plans have it. With my insurance, you can either get one month, or three months’ worth for the exact same price as one month, so I’m not sure why anyone would ever get refills monthly.

  I’m very thankful that my employers covers almost all the cost of my (and my wife’s) insurance. My wife is self-employed so it’d be pretty expensive if she needed to get her own health insurance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally just vibing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, nice! Keep it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally just vibing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah that sucks. I didn’t know that. My wife uses Zepbound and thankfully our insurance covers it so it’s only $10/month.

  We’re Aussies living in the USA, and GLP-1 meds aren’t covered by Australia’s public health care system yet, so right now it’s actually cheaper in the USA than in Australia. In Australia, medications covered by the public health care system (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) are a maximum of $S25 for most people, and $7.70 for low-income families.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally just vibing⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to give myself glp1 drugs, but i didn’t want to pay $1000 for a dose, so i want to buy it overseas. Illegal.

  I’m not sure of the efficacy of the pills vs the injections, but in the USA you can get Wegovy pills for $149/month now, which AFAIK is roughly the same price as other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no mirrors here⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  please sir may I have a few more pixels?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨False Fronts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In suburban areas of the US and Canada, mixed use buildings are generally not allowed.

  Mixed use meaning retail space one the ground level with apartments/ condos above.

  Really? I’ve seen plenty of “luxury” apartment buildings with an overpriced fancy grocery store on the bottom floor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do they allow it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  !dadjokes@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨463 games, probably only played 1/10th of them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss playable demos, where you could play part of a game to see if you like it. I played so many shareware games and demo CDs when I was young.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once worked in a team that had both an Aaron and an Erin, and it was confusing for the Americans since they pronounce both names very similarly (in Australia we pronounce them differently). I think Aaron ended up being referred to as “A A Ron”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I’m glad my TV has some inputs on the side. When wall mounting it, I ran HDMI cables for all the inputs on the back, to avoid having to go back there again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨relatable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve been in bed for 45 minutes and haven’t been able to fall asleep, you should get up and do something boring/uninteresting until you get tired. If you stay in bed, you’ll associate being in bed with not sleeping, and it’ll just get worse.

  If it happens a lot, it’s worth considering CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia) and getting a sleep study done (to see if you have sleep apnea).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this accurate, Canadians?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not your buddy, friend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quality TV⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You shouldn’t wrap potatoes in foil when baking them. It makes them soggy. If you want to keep them warm then wrap them in foil after cooking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sorry it has to be like this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are some real late 2000s hinges on l the laptop in the photo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes! All the wheels turn! It’s nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why so many American shopping carts have back wheels that don’t turn. It’s weird. All four wheels turn on Australian shopping carts (or “trolleys” as we call them) so you have full 360 degree motion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst day of the year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I occasionally work on some dare/time libraries we use at work, so I’m going to add this meme to the code base.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst day of the year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if the other country is in the opposite hemisphere, they’re adjusting the clock the other way. Daylight saving just started in California, but it ends next month in Victoria, Australia. The two states are either 17, 18, or 19 hours different depending on the time of year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MemeID: 421856901⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of all the shitposts in the world, this is certainly one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which wiki software to host⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mediawiki does have a WYSIWYG editor, but it’s a separate extension: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor

  The benefit of Mediawiki is that anyone that’s edited Wikipedia before will know how to use it. It’s a pretty heavy piece of software though, and the learning curve is relatively high if you’ve never hosted it before.

  I used Dokuwiki at my previous job, maybe 15 years ago. It worked well. It doesn’t need a database as it stores all wiki pages as plain text files on disk. I don’t know if it has a WYSIWYG editor though. I’ve never used it on a public-facing site so I’m not sure how authentication works (at my previous job, we hooked it up to Active Directory for auth).

  BookStack and wiki.js are two newer ones that have good reviews, but I don’t have any experience with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The duality of search engines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They have a free trial account that lets you do 100 searches. It’s worth trying out at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The duality of search engines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried Kagi?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s essentially how the Roman calendar was named for six out of the 10 months:

  • Martius: (Mars)
  • Aprilis: (from aperire, “to open”)
  • Maius: (Maia, goddess)
  • Junius: (Juno, goddess)
  • Quintilis: (Fifth)
  • Sextilis: (Sixth)
  • September: (Seventh)
  • October: (Eighth)
  • November: (Ninth)
  • December: (Tenth)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While we’re changing the calendar, can we rename September through December so they’re not off by two?

  Septem, Octo, Novem and Decem are the Latin words for 7, 8, 9 and 10 respectively, but they’re actually the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th months of the year. This is because the calendar was originally only 10 months, but Julius Caesar added two new months without renaming the last four.

  Maybe the oldest tech debt in existence - the calendar was changed in 45 BC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Sunday is part of the weekend, not the weekstart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Practically everyone should know SI. It’s the international system of units - the standard system of measurement used in most of the world. It includes base units for time (seconds), distance (meters), mass (kilograms), electric current (amps), temperature (Kelvin), amount of a substance (mole) and intensity of light (candela), plus a bunch of units derived from these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new quest appears...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you get a Zigbee smart switch (or smart bulb) and a Zigbee remote, you can pair the switch/bulb and remote directly so it works like you said, while still retaining the ability to control the light using Home Assistant (eg automatically turn it on or off based on something).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungee jumping⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, the ol’ switcheroo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Parking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The way a lot of students solve this in Australia, at least in Melbourne where I’m from, is by taking the train (or a tram) to university. The university I went to was adjacent to a train station.

  Students from low-income families and that are independent get money from the government which can be used for anything, including public transport passes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone have a favorite NAS (for normies)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ohh… I forgot about this. If they’re still doing that then I wouldn’t recommend them.

  For less tech-savvy users, I usually recommend some off-the-shelf hardware, so they have someone else to go to in case of issues with either the hardware or the standard built-in software.

  Synology used to be the best for that, but maybe not any more. A lot of brands have gotten into NAS hardware over the last year or two so I’m not sure what’s the best now!