DakRalter

DakRalter , 20 hours ago

Most of the big names in the flerf community are grifters, for sure. But many of the people who follow them are genuine believers. I have a relative who’s a die-hard flerfer.

Sheeps and Neeps was a small time flerfer who literally died because his conspiracy theory beliefs about cancer treatment, and there was that guy who went up in a rocket and came down in pieces. So some of them really do believe it. In my relative’s case, he went through a lot of trauma, flerfers give him a sense of belonging and something to hold onto.

DakRalter , 20 hours ago

Props to Ranty, too.

DakRalter , 20 hours ago

Strangely, I got my letter saying my “postal vote forms will arrive soon” two days after I received the postal vote forms. I got confused for a moment there!

DakRalter , 8 days ago

Never mind that, Windows 10 did an update a couple of days ago, and now my dual boot screen has gone. I literally can’t start my Linux Mint anymore, it boots straight to Windows :(

There is a way to get it back with the command line, but my computer nerd days are over.

askubuntu.com/…/dual-boot-with-windows-10-broken-…

I’m assuming that command needs to be edited to whatever my setup is, I have no idea.

DakRalter , 7 days ago

My Linux is on a separate hard drive.

DakRalter , 7 days ago

I have no idea how to do this, but I’ll keep looking for a tutorial. Luckily I only use my Linux for storing my music. I wish I could have got my art software to work on Linux, they just don’t seem to want to cooperate. My WiFi adaptor also only wants to work about half the time, too.

DakRalter , 6 days ago

https://thelemmy.club/pictrs/image/a7185f5c-3078-4d42-8be6-4ec9ea3648b0.jpeg

I found an old picture of what my boot screen used to look like. If I wanted to do it via bcedit, what would my command line be? Sorry for being so clueless, I’m just really scared I’ll brick my PC completely.

DakRalter , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Thanks. It was actually F12, I managed to catch it for the split second it showed; for some reason it doesn’t always show the commands when I switch it on.

This is what I got.

https://thelemmy.club/pictrs/image/3545dd09-b801-4b29-ad21-2b8dc8b3e64b.jpeg

I selected Ubuntu and I got my choice back again. I hope i don’t have to do this every time I boot though.

Thank you for being so patient with me.

DakRalter , 21 days ago

My fella found this talk useful. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gnSEbLX94TkHe used to smoke the mild stuff (low THC), but it’s the cigarettes he’s been struggling with. He’s on his third attempt, but after using the technique (TL;DW: your brain doesn’t understand negative commands, replace it with a positive command. Instead of “I need a joint”, try “I need air” or “I need clarity” or whatever feeling you’re aiming for) he’s feeling a lot more positive that he’ll stick with it this time. I tried to get him to read the Allen Carr stuff, but he’s not much of a reader. Other people swear by it though. It’s available on a certain library beginning with z if you want to give it a taster. Also learning a new skill can give you the same dopamine hit that your addiction does, so take up a hobby, learn a language, etc.

Good luck!

DakRalter , 1 month ago

Same, I tried ecosia too, only to get the same error.

DakRalter , 1 month ago

My nephew has moss growing out of his bike saddle.

DakRalter , 1 month ago

I’m 39 and my hips are already gone and I have trigger thumb.

DakRalter , 1 month ago

My old Lenovo tablet has the USB port upside down on the plug, and consequently, the micro USB also plugs into the tablet upside down. And for some reason, stupid thing always breaks the little notches on the micro USB, so you have to position everything in a way so that it won’t slide out while charging.

DakRalter , 1 month ago

I just had a colleague mock me (good naturedly) the other day for having an android phone. I just laughed and said, I’m no fan of Google but at least I can install what I want on here. That was the end of it, haha.

DakRalter , 2 months ago

The company I work for insists on almost every damn bit of stock arriving in delivery to be wrapped in a plastic bag. I’ve complained to management, they just laugh. Apparently I can’t have any contact details for head office (not surprising since I’m not even allowed to contact HR directly and have to talk to them via a store manager). That’s like 1000+ items coming in twice a week where almost all of it is individually wrapped in a bag.

Not only is it a pointless waste of plastic, but it doubles how long it takes to clear the stock as I have to take everything out of the bag (which is sealed both ends a lot of the time) instead of just putting it straight onto the shelves. I’m almost tempted to set up a twitter account so I can @ them. Almost, but not quite.

My previous employer did the same thing, but at least we had a way to talk to head office and a bunch of us complained so they did remove most of the plastic and started to use a band of paper to hold stock together, or a paper wrapper to protect delicate stuff. They went bust though.

DakRalter , 2 months ago

Yes. I rarely print documents, but as a hobby arts and crafter, I do print of lot of stuff for my projects. Screw inkjets, but they do have a really high resolution in photo mode, which is the only reason I haven’t ditched my nightmare printer for a laser yet.

DakRalter , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

you read well SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, whaaaat is this guy taking

Social IDs sounds like social media usernames, we don’t do “social security” numbers here, we call it national insurance numbers. They probably want contact details to spam with advertising. Edit: looking at the rest of the messages, that is exactly what they were asking for.

I saw your other post, if you’re gonna take a cash in hand job, then expect it to be dodgy.

DakRalter , 3 months ago

My sisters and I would play snap with the Argos catalogue on a regular basis. Then we’d get into squabbles because “I was gonna snap that one!” “That’s not fair, I snapped it first!”

DakRalter , 4 months ago

https://thelemmy.club/pictrs/image/af0017e2-cc56-417b-af00-8006a6c9e4ef.png

DakRalter , 4 months ago

My old Lenovo tablet’s charging plug has the port upside down, also the tablet itself has the micro USB upside down because of this, so my cable always had to do a little twist when I wanted to charge any other micro USB devices with it.

When I got my USB-C phone, I just swapped the plugs around.

DakRalter , 4 months ago

Give me the Necropolis, or give me death!

DakRalter , 4 months ago

Hey, that’s my family history! How did you get that?

DakRalter , 4 months ago

Why are union subs so high in the US? As a part time worker I pay under a tenner a month, but even as a full time worker, I’d be paying £16.

DakRalter , 4 months ago

Getting a workplace unionised is an uphill battle here too. Unless your company already has an officially recognised union, no one wants to join. I tell them it’s £9.65 a month and they’re like, yeah forget it.

What bothers me about where I work is as a bike technician, we actually have the same job title and pay as the till staff who do no skilled work at all. And on top of that, we also have to cover for them (for instance, even though I work in the bike section, I was forced to do car seat training even though the auto section till staff should be the ones doing it). So we’re doing skilled work, plus their work and we get the same pay. But no one is interested. They’ll grumble and groan, but actually doing something about it is too much to ask.

DakRalter , 4 months ago

I’ve only just got a computer that can play games from 2005 onwards (no kidding my netbook could handle sims 2 at the most). I’ve also started playing Witcher 3 (got the complete collection for £8) and just bought a controller the other day. I don’t care about fancy cutting edge graphics; good storyline and gaming experience is what matters.

DakRalter , 5 months ago

Michael Fabricant is feeling left out.

DakRalter , 5 months ago

Power button has rescue rights. I had to use the power button after Windows forced an update on Friday and my tower just sat there powered on but doing nothing for an hour, no signal to the monitor. Now I feel bad, it was probably just high on drugs.

Linux mint, I just type sudo apt update and I’m done.

DakRalter , 5 months ago

Did that, computer temporarily died.

DakRalter , 5 months ago

I tried to clean my inkjet, and instead of just cleaning the one colour that was clogged, I thought I may as well flush all of them and now I’ve completely killed my black printhead.

I was like, screw inkjets then, I’ll buy a laser, but apparently they have a much lower dpi and I’m mostly going to be printing artwork and photo quality and now I don’t know what to do.

The laser I was looking at is 600x2440 dpi. But my current dead inkjet has 5760x1440 which is a massive difference. I print things for miniature houses so the high res is important. What do I do? I hate inkjets because of the clog.

DakRalter , 6 months ago

https://thelemmy.club/pictrs/image/ffc130f8-9972-4df9-8b4e-5d104031d1bd.jpeg

DakRalter , 7 months ago

Monday is the third day of my shift and a short one too.

DakRalter , 8 months ago

I have a pack of vegan babybel in the fridge.

nervously awaits downvotes

According to my non-dairy-allergic friend, they taste pretty much the same as the cow juice version.

DakRalter , 8 months ago

Is it? I’ve not knowingly consumed anything from Nestlé in 20 years.

Edit: I have a bland palate and having a dairy allergy helps. I’m also incredibly stubborn!

DakRalter , 8 months ago

I met Monica Lewinsky in London once. I didn’t recognise her until she paid with a card without a signature and I had to ask for photo ID and I was like ohhhhhhhh.

DakRalter , 8 months ago

I have a new (second hand) computer that can play fancy games, but…

https://thelemmy.club/pictrs/image/4bc80a30-6d74-47cf-97c8-0213f5eb9a13.jpeg

Unfortunately I trigger the refresh accidentally which counts as a loss. Stupid inability to disable gestures.

DakRalter , 8 months ago

!murderedbywords

DakRalter OP , 9 months ago

Yeah, I had a moment like that today when I asked him if he was doing okay and realised I was probably just reminding him.

DakRalter OP , 9 months ago

Thank you!

DakRalter OP , 9 months ago

Thanks! I just sent him a copy!

DakRalter OP , 9 months ago

I sent him a copy! Thanks!

DakRalter OP , 9 months ago

I’m forcing him to play baseball with me some day haha!

DakRalter , 9 months ago

I was supposed to try out Baldur’s Gate 3 today, but I never got round to it. I’ll have to save it for next week.

DakRalter , 9 months ago

I think I already installed it (still new to steam, I only got the game because someone bought it for me). But thanks for the heads up. I’ll check tonight after work to be sure it’s ready for Monday!

DakRalter , 9 months ago

By the way, did you mean install or download? The download took 4 hours, but installing it only took about 10 mins and most of that was updating my graphics drivers.

DakRalter , 9 months ago

We used to use that word in year 4 back in the 90s. The teachers didn’t mind, and surprisingly even my super strict parents weren’t bothered by it. It’s pretty mild. I wouldn’t let a younger kid use it, but it’s okay to hear imo.

What was the context you used it in?

DakRalter , 9 months ago

Hang on, I think I get joke!

DakRalter , 9 months ago

I did consider it, but most of my posts are in a private sub anyway. I guess I’m holding on to the slim hope that one day spez will feck off and someone sane will be put in charge. I do miss that sub, a lot of cool people there. Unfortunately I don’t think a single one signed up to lemmy, but I tried.