Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 3 days ago:
Stealing is quite a different crime from rape. If people are stealing, remove their need or desire to steal rather than locking them up and putting them in a position where everyone they know is a criminal. It’s a cycle that’s hard to break and we should be more careful about who we thoughtlessly throw in jail.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 3 days ago:
Can I argue that increasing punishment generally doesn’t decrease crime long term, only short term. The change we need is to address the root cause not to increase the size of the stick.
- Comment on It's Fun For The Whole Family 4 days ago:
Hmm I haven’t seen this option before.
I definitely make use of controlling which apps buzz, and the priority setting which makes them go bz, bzzz, bz bz, etc. I don’t know where I get this trait from (it doesn’t seem to be a generational thing) but I feel it’s rude to have a phone’s volume on when others are around.
Being in a room with a bunch of people all watching things on their phones with thr volume on annoys me to no end. I feel bad even having it ding when others are around.
- Comment on It's Fun For The Whole Family 5 days ago:
Do different apps have different notification sounds? I’m a vibrate only person but I thought a notification sound was a notification sound, not some custom ring tone.
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 1 week ago:
They have definitely had third iterations of things, but have they called them 3?
I mean there are at least 5 half-life games, they just called the third one 1 and the fourth 2 and the fifth wasn’t numbered.
- Comment on Aeroplane 1 week ago:
If it has autopilot and autobrakes, surely all those other buttons aren’t needed?
- Comment on Anon gets his life in order 1 week ago:
Yeah buy the advertisers don’t want to be associated with that language so he’s gotta censor it.
- Comment on How far you've fallen 2 weeks ago:
PC - fans blasting, groaning under the workload Me - not even using it
Checks processes, steam web helper using 100% of CPU.
- Comment on Microsoft in damage control over Copilot bundling bungle 2 weeks ago:
I was similar. I have had a self-hosted Nextcloud for years but had a OneDrive family subscription that I had a bunch of family on. When I got this notice I still had 6 months before renewal, so cancelled and made a plan to move everyone across to Nextcloud. That was completed some time ago, no complaints from anyone.
- Comment on Microsoft in damage control over Copilot bundling bungle 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad to hear something it happening. It was discussed all over lemmy what a shitty thing it was that they were doing.
Basically they told everyone that the annual cost of the subscription was going up significantly, and shortly after they announced that the subscription was getting Copilot included. Then if you went to cancel, they offered you the old price without Copilot.
Plus it was a dumb Copilot offering because if you were on the family subscription only the main person would even get access to it, not the other 5.
- Comment on Sounds about right 3 weeks ago:
The first line says the boss lives across the street
- Comment on Are you sure there aren't any ... ?? 3 weeks ago:
- Is it like anything else I might be familiar with to help me understand better? (Note: almost 70 so may need old references.)
Reddit was mentioned, but that explains the format of this site, that people post stuff and people can upvote stuff they like to make it more visible to others.
But I haven’t (so far) seen anyone mention something similar to answer the question as to why there are so many different sites here. People from lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, lemmy.nz, and others are all participating here, all on their own sites but all somehow connected.
The old (and still well used) equivalent here is email. Email is a federated service, it’s not hosted by one company, anyone can operate an email server and jn fact it’s very common. Emails look perhaps like dave@gmail.com or dave@company.com or dave@something.com. the part after the @ tells your email provider how to reach the server of the person you are emailing. You’ll notice user names can look similar to an email address, but have an @ at the beginning to identify them as separate from email addresses.
But yes, as others have mentioned, lemmy.world is the largest lemmy website, run by some people called the Fedihosting Foundation. Anyone can sign up there, and anyone can create a community there. It seems very unlikely there is an official relationship between Lemmy.world and Perchance.
- Comment on It's good to have goals. 3 weeks ago:
He wants to be the guy getting paid to put stuff in the microwave.
- Comment on Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program 4 weeks ago:
Oh shit it is, and is owned by a Microsoft subsidiary that owns all sorts of games on GOG. Elder scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Quake, Dishonored, and more. GOG would be screwed if they pissed them off enough to get all those series taken off!
- Comment on Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program 4 weeks ago:
Ah that’s cool, 15 year copyright sounds good to me.
- Comment on Living his best life. 4 weeks ago:
Maybe the committee doesn’t like calling people and is hoping they won’t answer.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 4 weeks ago:
Fixed now?
- Comment on Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program 4 weeks ago:
So you post a selfie on Lemmy and the next thing you know, you’re the key subject in a new Facebook ad?
I think we need some level of IP laws, but current copyright periods are way too long.
- Comment on Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program 4 weeks ago:
Is it possible they got an ultimatum by an important company they work with?
E.g. imagine the damage Bethesda could do to GOG by refusing to allow their games on GOG any more.
- Comment on Anon uses GOG 4 weeks ago:
New app idea - do this, but with the person’s own photo library!
- Comment on Taxes and nature 5 weeks ago:
Wikipedia briefly covers this on the page about Noah, and also talks about a story about Deucalion:
The story of Noah in the Pentateuch is similar to the flood narrative in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, composed around 1800 BC, where a hero builds an ark to survive a divinely sent flood. Scholars suggest that the biblical account was influenced by earlier Mesopotamian traditions, with notable parallels in plot elements and structure. Comparisons are also drawn between Noah and the Greek hero Deucalion, who, like Noah, is warned of a flood, builds an ark, and sends a bird to check on the flood’s aftermath.
- Comment on Taxes and nature 5 weeks ago:
Also, did all the babies that God drowned go to heaven?
Also you have no idea how happy to hear that Noah, his wife, and his three sons weren’t the only ones on board the ark. The wives of his sons were apparently there as well, otherwise that could have got awkward.
- Comment on Then and Now 5 weeks ago:
I find the more I eat of sugary or fatty food the more I can handle. My body seems to get used to it. So I’m guessing how people do it is they slowly increase over time without noticing.
Hell, maybe they do feel like shit all the time but don’t associate it with their diet.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 5 weeks ago:
Yeah you’d have to set some criteria for the list! Does any amount count or do you set a minimum that eliminates many spices? And if you do, then you’re counting things on one person’s list that aren’t on someone else’s.
People probably eat 1000 foods in a year if we have no minimum amount!
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 5 weeks ago:
I’m tempted to start a list. Sure, the majority of our food will be a handful of staples, but I feel like the average person from a rich country must eat quite a variety between seasonal variations of the food they eat at home, eating out, eating at a friends place, fast food, slow food, etc.
If I wrote a list, I think I would find over 100 different plants in the last year. If I have take out dumplings, I’d probably be eating onion, garlic, a couple of kinds of cabbage, soy sauce, sesame oil, pepper, carrot, ginger, maybe more.
It might be a shorter list without the flavourings but I still think I’d hit 100.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 5 weeks ago:
Do people (in general) really only eat 100 different plants? I feel like that number must be too low. Surely if you listed out all the plant foods that people consider “normal”, there would easily be more than 100.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
Heaps of servings in the dish, but only one meal haha.
I once read it can be hard to put as much salt in your home cooked meals as what you get in fast food or processed food. And if you’re shaking the salt on top, it may be negligible no matter how much you put on.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
Well aware that excessive salt can be unhealthy 😅. I don’t even track what I eat too closely. I might make a big dish of lasagne, maybe the meat has 3 or 4 teaspoons of salt, then the pasta has some, the sauce has some, I might also throw in some soy sauce, the cheese has some, etc. Then out of this giant dish, I serve up one scoop, throw on some tomato sauce that has salt in it, and serve alongside vegetables that have their own salt content depending on how they were cooked.
I honestly have no idea if I eat 2, 5, or 15 teaspoons of salt a day 😆
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
I’d be curious to know how much salt you actually end up eating. It’s all fine to say no more than 5 grams, but how do you go about working out how much you actually had?
E.g. I cook pasta with heaps of salt in the water, salty like the sea, but the vast majority of the salt goes down the drain when the pasta is strained.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
Who told you she over salted it, the people making the bland food? 😅
